senator mitt romney who treated, quote, unprecedented, historic corruption, an american president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president. and that there says it all, folks. nbc news has learned that some administration officials, including attorney general william barr and chief of staff mark meadows advised trump against commuting stone's sentence. that advice obviously fell on deaf ears and lends more credence to the belief that trump will do what trump wants to do and anyone else be damned. nonetheless, as former special counsel robert mueller writes in a new op-ed in "the washington post," stone remains a convicted felon and rightly so, end quote. as the nation doigests the latet controversy and watches the coronavirus cases rise, trump played golf. and after his round on the

links, in which he wasn't wearing a mask, during a visit to walter reed medical center, trump donned a medical mask in front of cameras for the first time after almost half a year. maybe he got the message. or maybe not. maybe it's got more to do with the growing number of americans who disapprove of his handling of the epidemic. as more people suffer from the disease, it's harder to believe it's a hoax, as he has said. cases have skyrocketed. trump says it hasn't translated into more deaths. that's a lie. some states have seen their deaths rise to record levels. california had a 29% increase in covid-19-related deaths in one week. florida, up 35%. texas saw a 106% increase in

deaths. so forget the nonsense that you're hearing from people that this is some kind of weird new covid that doesn't result in deaths. south carolina, meanwhile, has confirmed the state's first death of a child under the age of 5 from covid-19. >> you have to protect the kids, make sure they have their masks on and follow the protocols. >> people aren't taking it serious. i'm walking out and i see at least ten people going in and they don't have masks on. >> meanwhile, in arizona, the city morgue in phoenix is so full that officials have called in refrigerated trailers to help store the bodies. joining me now, an emergency medicine physician in phoenix, arizona, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the university of arizona college of medicine. doctor, you and i spoke a few weeks ago. you were very concerned about the direction things were taking in arizona. and everything you worried about and predicted has come to pass. here is the thing, though, doctor, we were watching this

happen in the northeast, 2 1/2 to 3 months ago. it's fascinating to me that this happening again in different parts of the country, it's as if we didn't learn anything during february and march and april. >> you're exactly right, ali. i'm no soothsayer. we've seen this in other states, in other countries. as a comparison, i grew up in chicago, i now live in phoenix. if you look at the way the two states handled it, illinois versus arizona, it's a marked difference. anybody who grew up in those two states and knows anything about sports will understand this reference, that covid is what we thought it was. it is what we thought it was. everybody was telling us about it, we were given all the information. the disease is called corona, so you can crown the disease, covid is what we thought it was, and we let it off the hook. now people are dying. >> one of the points you make, you're an emergency medicine

physician, you are actually trained for anything that comes through that door. the problem you've got here is capacity, right? the problem you've got in arizona, the problem you've got in texas, is capacity. you can't build extra beds overnight, you can't do more of this stuff. it's a numbers game here. we're trying to flatten the curve so people like you can treat not only covid patients but accidents still happen, people still have heart attacks, people still come to the emergency ward for other things, but the emergency wards are full. >> that's exactly right. i think there's a big misconception of emergency medicine, the way people treat the e.r. sometimes as like we're super gods or something. i'm flattered, but we don't have magic, we're not wizards. there's only so many hospital beds, there's only so many resources. diseases, heart disease, sickle cell, they're all still there. imagine how hard it is to treat those patients if there aren't beds. you can't build a hospital overnight. you can't hire staff overnight. even if you have the

preposterous idea that covid isn't dangerous, i don't know how you can have that idea when even professional athletes are getting sick. if your loved ones develops an abdominal infection, how can we care for them if the hospitals are full? we have to make tough decisions. that's what i want the american people to understand. >> one of the things we've been talking to people like you who work in emergency medicine or icus over the last few months is the tough decisions you have to make, the triage decisions you have to make, the discussions you have to have with families of people who are dying, and then you go out in arizona and see people on the fourth of july, people who are talking to this being a civil liberties issue, not wearing a mask. that's a hard conversation for me to have because i think it's silly to not wear a mask and social distance. but for you it must be devastating. >> extremely demoralizing.

you know, stressful shifts happen all the time, it's emergency medicine, this is what we signed up demoralizing, we spend our days trying to save lives and we go out and see people putting themselves at risk. there are plenty of rights that are restricted so as not to cause harm to others. when an ambulance goes by, we all pull over to the side, we don't say this ambulance can't tell me to be on the side of this road. it's not like that in every other country. and you can imagine how ironic my mom tells me that a country with such a good social fabric in some cases can be so bad about wearing a masks. it's so easy to do. the experts tell us this, we have great data for it. distance yourself from people. but if you have to be around

them, wear a mask, it's so easy, and it's demoralizing and appalling that people won't do it. >> doctor, your work is prepared the by those of us in the country who know we depend on people who staff our hospitals and emergency rooms and icus. thank you for your good work. let's stay in arizona where governor doug ducey insists that a stay-at-home order is not needed, nor is a statewide mask mandate. he reduced the seating capacity in restaurants. joining me now is the mayor of tucson, arizona, regina romero. how are you and your city doing? >> we're very concerned. we're seeing more than 300 cases of covid-19 per day. back when the stay-at-home order was still in place, we were

looking at cases, 24 cases a day. we' we were at a plateau. now we see our icu beds in hospitals at capacity. on july 5 we had no beds at all in pima county. the city of tucson sits in pima county. we're a region of a million people. sometimes we vary from 5 to 20 icu beds. and we're at a crisis. we're very concerned. >> you've been very outspoken, you and i talked a couple of weeks ago and you've been very outspoken. as the doctor just said, we know what the basics are, we've been through this in other parts of the country, we know that social distancing and wearing masks limits the spread of this disease. why is your governor not doing this? >> i really believe that governor ducey is playing

politics with this crisis. following the cues of donald trump, and putting people's lives at risk. every day that governor ducey waits on calling for a statewide mask mandate, we are losing lives. every single day that governor ducey waits, we see an additional 3,000 cases in arizona. we see our icus in hospitals overwhelmed. it's irresponsible. and what we're asking him, this past week, other mayors and i sent a letter to governor ducey asking him for a statewide mandate for masks, asking him for additional testing and contact tracing and isolation opportunities, and asking him to take additional steps to step back on the reopening of arizona and close hair salons,

barbershops and other places with high transmission possibilities. and he refuses to do that. so we're concerned and we need additional help. we can't do patchwork work here in arizona. we need statewide action. >> mayor, thank you for continuing to join me to have this important conversation. our thoughts are with you and the people of arizona. mayor regina romero of tucson, arizona. the president's own attorney general advised him against commuting roger stone's prison sentence. next, eric squawalwell's though as a member of the house judiciary committee. judiciary committee. sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance.

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roger stone was treated horribly. roger stone was treated very unfairly. roger stone was brought into this witch hunt, this whole political witch hunt, and the

mueller scam, it's a scam. roger stone was not treated properly. so i'm very happy with what i did. >> well, at least he's predictable. roger stone was treated unfairly? not so, says his prosecutor, robert mueller, not by a long shot. the former special counsel of the russia investigation wrote an extremely rare op-ed published in "the washington post" yesterday. he writes, quote, stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. he remains a convicted felon and rightly so. mueller continues, we made every decision in stone's case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law in accordance with the rule of law. the women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. claims to the contrary are false, end quote. another oddity this weekend. some republican lawmakers actually spoke out against trump's clemency for stone. in a statement released yesterday, pennsylvania senator

pat toomey called the commutation a mistake. mitt romney who comes for trump more than any other republican, referred to the move as unprecedented and historic corruption. get this, even attorney general bill barr, one of trump's biggest cronies who carries water for the president, thought it was a terrible idea. an official tells nbc news that the ag actually advised the president against commuting stone's sentence. and on thursday, before the commutation, barr had this to say. >> i think the prosecution was righteous, and i think the sentence that the judge ultimately gave was fair. >> the prosecution was righteous, the sentence was fair. joining me now, representative eric swalwell of california. he sits on the house intelligence and judiciary committees, he was a 2020 presidential candidate, and he has a very organized kitchen, my

kitchen never looks like that. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. even the conservatives, the republicans are saying you shouldn't have done this. why do you think it happened? >> good morning, ali. actually it was a republican committee that he lied to. i was on the democratic side of that investigation. but we were in the minority, and the republicans called roger stone to congress where he lied about having advance knowledge of wikileaks. talk is cheap, ali. senators are speaking up, but most of those senators except romney voted to acquit the president when he participated in the same type of conduct in the ukraine event. so it's really a question for the voters now, do we want to have a country of a rule of law, or do we want a rule by mob bosses. and i think at the end of the day, the american people, from flynn to roger stone to the special treatment that the president continues to give his friends, will see the president pay a price for this at the

ballot box. >> you said something interesting, you had an interesting tweet, lindsey graham had tweeted, he was one of the republicans who, surprisingly to some people, not so surprisingly given the way lindsey graham has conducted himself in the last few years, he tweeted, in my view it would be justified if president trump decided to commute roger stone's prison sentence. mr. stone is in his 70s and this was a nonviolent first time offense. you find that a little contradictory. >> yeah, ali, that's preferential treatment that i don't recall senator graham ever giving to a black defendant. certainly in our country, black defendants have spent disproportionately more time in prison for the same crimes committed by white defendants. and i've never seen the senator tweet about that. and by the way, we shouldn't ignore that roger stone's sentence was already essentially commuted when the department of justice intervened and overruled its own prosecutors. we had the stone prosecutors testify to the judiciary committee that they were seeking

a range of seven to nine years, and justice department, led by barr, came in and cut that in half. so again, this is a commutation on top of the commutation. >> i want to play for you some matters, there was a supreme court ruling having to do with president trump's taxes. it's hard to keep up with all this stuff, with all the news that's happening. i want to play for you and our viewers a bit of a history of president trump talking about his taxes. let's talk about what happened this week. >> if i decide to run for office, i'll produce my tax returns. i don't mind releasing. i'm under a routine audit and it will be released and as soon as the audit is finished, it will be released. >> reporter: will you release your tax returns to prove what you're saying about no deals with russia? >> i'm not releasing my tax returns because i'm under audit. you know, the only one who cares about my tax returns is

reporters. if i'm under audit, i won't do it. if i'm not under audit, i will do it. >> let me note something, the taxes are under audit, he said he would released them when they are no longer under audit. >> we of course have never had any confirmation from anyone that the president's taxes are under audit. and it's possibly it could have been, but audits don't typically last -- he started talking about it in 2014, audits don't last that long. the supreme court ruled he can't be shielded from courts who rule that he has to produce his taxes. >> he can't say, as long as the sun sets in the west, i'm not giving up my tax. there's no innocent explanation for saying you'll do something and then you won't, especially as we learn he lied to the american people and through his aides had them lie about his

business dealings with the russians. again, he's impeached forever, ali, for putting his personal interests above the country's interests and our election integrity. so this is really now a question for the american people. and again, i think most people think no one's above the law, we should all have to play by the same rules. >> congressman, you feel very strongly about this in your work as a congressman. you ran for president. what do democrats do about this right now? we're 114 days away from the election. donald trump seems to be trailing joe biden even in swing states. the president's popularity is hitting lows, his disapproval rating is hitting lows. what do you do about these immediate problems right now? the roger stone stuff and the taxes, should congress be aggressive about this or should they just be looking to get donald trump out of here as soon as possible? >> absolutely, we have to check this president all the way to the end of this term. but i also think when we talk to

the voters, we need to be straight with them and tell the 62 million people who voted for donald trump, you may have voted for him because he promised he would not be a typically politician and he promised to come in and drain the swamp but he's doing exactly the opposite, helping his friends, punishing his enemies, engaging in this type of cronyism, that's flooding the swamp. and that's exactly what he said other people were doing before him. turns out the other people before him actually were good at governing, and he's filling the swamp and is really bad at governing. i think that's the message we need to take to the voters this election day. >> congressman, good to see you again, thank you for joining us so early this morning. congressman eric swalwell of california is a member of the intelligence and judiciary committees. next, congresswoman barbara lee, on a mission to confront the legacy of slavery.

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we're really only at the beginning of our racial reckoning here in the united states. the anger at law enforcement and other unequal systems in our society continues. some cities like los angeles have already started taking concrete action like cutting the police department budget by $150 million. the decision, however, sparked outrage throughout police ranks, prompting a police-organized protest. meanwhile, congresswoman barbara lee is keeping the race conversation going, even putting together a new resolution. "the san francisco chronicle" reports the proposal would form a nonpartisan group of experts to confront the legacy of slavery and racism in the united states and to propose ways forward. joining me now, democratic congresswoman barbara lee. she represents california's 13th

congressional district and is a member of the congressional black caucus. congresswoman lee, thank you for joining me again. you and lots of people in america know what the legacy of slavery is. we know what the unequal representation looks like. we know what the distinctions between black family household wealth and white family household wealth is, and the disparities in education and the disrespect in the law. what is to be learned from this commission? >> thank you so much, ali, thank you for having me, and good morning. what is so important is, yes, we know, but we don't really know. when you see and understand systemic racism and its historical roots, then you begin to become aware of what needs to be done to correct it. having said that, let me say, these conversations about race that yourself and others are conducting are extremely, extremely important. i've been pushing for this for decades. and we must now go beyond conversations. and that's why i'm so pleased

that congresswoman jackson lee, for example, has introduced hr 40 calling for reparations. congressman al green calling for the establishment of a department of restitution. my commission really is a commission that in many ways follows 40-some countries in the world who after horrific genocides, crimes against humanity, have established these commissions to reckon with the historical context in which the current inequities are occurring. we want to look at the generational impacts of slavery right to today as we witness it in the disparities as it relates to the deaths and rates of transmission of covid-19, the wage gap, the wealth gap, our mass incarceration rates, the

entire system that has systemic racism in its dna in this country. >> so obviously the point of the commission will be to have experts and take testimony and come up with good ideas. and you probably don't want to undercut that work by presupposing what the outcome would be. but when you list all those things, wealth gap, wage disparity, unequal treatment in the law, is there some sense of what success looks like for you? look, i'm an economics guy, i see a one to ten wealth gap and i think, maybe success would bridge that wealth gap, or education, or wages. is there some way that you think this gets fixed? >> certainly. but we have to -- it's not going to get fixed until the underlying issues of systemic racism is addressed. that's why we have to have this day of reckoning, a truth-telling moment in this country so we can build that public support to go through the healing process and then have

the public support to deconstruct these systems. and ali, there's so many systems that have to be shattered. when you look at our prison industrial complex, when you look at the educational achievement gap and the lack of investment in our communities and housing, gentrification, when you look at all of these issues, we know we have to dismantle the systems that have allowed systemic racism to continue. this commission would examine all of those and build public support to dismantle these policies and programs and build for a new way based on justice and racial equity. and we can't wait until the commission does its work. i mean, at the local level, in 35 communities, our community activists have held these racial healing and transformation commissions and are doing wonderful work at the local level around the country. so what we want to do is have a national commission that does this at the federal level.

>> let me ask you about -- let me take an example like the truth and reconciliation commission in south africa, a good example because apartheid went on for a long time. basically people would come before that commission and admit -- there was a truth-telling, they said "i did this." and that was the birth of the concept of reconciliation, because they were able to admit what they did wrong. here in america we have a different problem in that there are a whole bunch of people who say, i didn't cause my problem, it might have been my ancestors or maybe i'm a recent immigrant, it's somebody else's fault. how do we convince people that it doesn't have to be their fault to be their responsibility to fix it? >> sure. this is not about personal responsibility, ali. this is about a system of government which allowed the continuation of the enslavement of africans for over 250 years. what we're talking about is looking at the system of government and coming forward, and those ancestors, myself included, how has this impacted

our families and our children, how has this system of segregation and jim crow and the black codes, i mean, come on, racial sdmimdiscrimination in housing, you couldn't even file a lawsuit for discrimination in housing until 1968. i couldn't go to public schools because i was black. my mother almost died having me when i was being born because they wouldn't admit her into the hospital. and so when you look at the system, then these laws have not been unpacked. these chains of slavery have not been totally broken. so we have to have this reckoning. we have to have people come forward and talk about how this system and how the policies and the priorities of this government have led to generational impacts which resulted in, for example, the horrific murder of mr. floyd, which have resulted in the terrible, horrible rates of death in the african-american,

which have resulted in native americans having their land being stolen. there are many legs of this, we have to deconstruct it all and have a public reckoning, a public record, so the public understands and we have the support to begin to dismantle the old ways and these old systems based on injustice and racial inequity. >> i think a lot of healing can come out of this for everybody, not just african-americans. congresswoman, thank you for doing this and thank you for joining me this morning. >> thank you. >> thanks, congresswoman. joe biden has released a detailed economic plan. has president trump done his homework? we'll dive into both their economic plans, or maybe not, when we come back. me back. needles.

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laser focused on working families. the middle class families i came from here in scranton. not the wealthy investor class. they don't need me. working families do. now the challenge is to take these fundamental values and apply them to a new economy that we have to build in the years ahead. folks, it's not sufficient to build back. we have to build back better. that's what my plan is, to build back better. as bold, as practical, and as focused on building an economy for the future, not for the past. >> striking a more populist tone, last week in pennsylvania joe biden unveiled the first of the four pillars of his build back better economic plan, dubbed "made in all of america." it's a $700 billion plan to boost u.s. manufacturing and appears specifically designed

not to scare sevcentrists while appealing to the democratic base. it creates investments in artificial intelligence and other fields. $400 billion in procurement of american-made products and includes a strategy to boost domestic production by tightening rules on what products can be designated made in america. it's looking ahead. president trump, on the other hand, doesn't appear to have any economic plan at all, unless you think shouting "tax cuts" weeks before the election is a plan like he did right before the 2018 mid-terms, which of course failed to materialize. he doesn't even have history on his side for that one. his republican tax cuts, predictably, failed to live up to expectations even before the covid-19 pandemic. jared bernstein is a fellow at the center for budget priorities. his latest piece in "the washington post" is "the built-in biases in economic."

good to see you, thank you for being with us. i want to get some sort of evaluation of the appeal of joe biden's economic plan, particularly those parts of it about made in america. the democratic party has had a hard time figuring out where they are on international trade. there are some workers who are a little more protectionist. there are some people, wealthier democrats, who think international trade has been the best thing for us. made in america plan suggests a bit more of a protectionist agenda than joe biden has normally engaged in. >> i certainly wouldn't put it under that sort of a rubric, as much as trying to be a lot more careful, thoughtful, protective of american security and american workers through processes that make more of what we consume here in this country.

so procurement, you know, you mentioned a $400 billion procurement plan. well, i think it's important to recognize that over trump's presidency, the rate at which federal contractors have offshored jobs as more than doubled, i don't think many people know that. government contracts on trump's watch have been directly awarded to foreign companies, up 30%. even our military has become more reliant on foreign suppliers. we also saw, of course, and are seeing during the pandemic, the difficulty we've had with unstable supply chains in critical medical goods from other countries. so joe biden's plan to secure these chains and to secure america's security and economy is built on improving this procurement process. it's not built on random, broad, sweeping tariffs that don't help anybody.

it's certainly not built on protectionism. it's much more intentional and focused than that. >> here is the problem, you and i have been talking about economics for years, it's won can i, we enjoy doing it, it's not necessarily the stuff for bumper stickers, it's not necessarily the meatiest of red meat. some democrats, supporters of bernie sanders and others who are more left of joe biden, are looking for things like green new deal and medicare for all, which are more bumper-sticker-y but more meaningful for people. joe biden doesn't seem to be going there. >> well, i think the way to look at that -- it's a fair question. i think the way to look at it is to contrast the basic themes of trumpian economics, which really is more about servicing his donor class than actual economic policy, and biden. in each case, you've got biden flipping the narrative.

so in the case of trump, it's really about offshoring jobs. if you look at the tax incentives in the trump plan, massive incentives to offshore employment and production. if you look at the emphasis on the stock market and buybacks, the way the trump agenda favors wealth over work, you flip all that in biden land. instead of tax policy that incents offshoring you reverse that and try to onshore, especially with supply chains and buy american. the stock market is going up and people are falling behind, that's not success. and finally, instead of wealth over work, you flip it. it's work over wealth. and you heard that in the comments that you played earlier from the vice president. >> there is an article that has been published in "the washington post" which said that democrats are confident about what's going to happen in the

election in november, sensing a tsunami coming in november. what's your sense of it? >> i don't buy it. i'm not -- i'm an economist, not a pollster, but donald trump is certainly going to try everything he can to undermine democracy including the democratic act that's so critical to our government and society, the act of voting. so nobody is leaning that far over their skis, i can tell you that for sure. >> jared, good to see you as always. oh, go ahead. >> all the things i was just talking about, instead of offshoring, onshoring, instead of wealth over work, work over wealth, all of that clearly resonates with people and

trump's reality-show economic approach stands in stark contrast to what the vice president is offering, especially in the context of the pandemic when all the inequities, the racial inequities have been exposed. so i understand where these poll numbers are coming from. but there's no resting on laurels in this case. >> jared, good to see you, thank you for joining me. jared bernstein, former chief economist to vice president biden. georgia senator kelly loeffler who co-owns a largely african-american wnba basketball team has come out against the league's plan to support black lives matter, come out against the league's plan to support black lives matter. needless to say, the players aren't having any part of it and they're not mincing their words. >> the players in the league have expressed that she's -- there's no place in the league for her.

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line. >> huh? much of the wnba is getting ready for the upcoming kickoff of the 2020 basketball season, which will be shortened by the coronavirus. scores of players are calling for the job of atlanta by this . many are calling for the job of kelly laugh her after she said black lives matter was calling for the destruction of america. the strong trump ally who we should note was not elected but appointed this year is criticized for writing a letter to the league's commissioner. she wrote the truth is we need less not more politics in sports. in a time when polarizing politics are as divisive as ever, sports can be a unifying antidote and we should be united in removing politics from

sports. they say they should wear the american flag that's arguably as controversial. reaction throughout the league whose players who are 80% black women is swift. they tweeted in all caps enough and out. sidney colson of the chicago sky posted this. let me be clear, we don't care what you think, kelly, stop giving your bigoted opinions. the wnba is based on the principle of equal and fair treatment and we'll use our platforms to vigorously advocate for social justice. several players have announced they'll sit out this coming season to folk on promoting social justice. joining me an outspoken player on the comments, guard for the chicago sky, sidney colson. thank you for being with us. i have to say, black lives

matter, saying black lives matter, wearing it, saying say her name, wearing it, using it in a tweet, this is not a heavy lift or the things that will change society. it's easy stuff can do and i'm puzzled why loeffler has such a strong opinion on this. >> thanks for having me, first of all. >> a pleasure. >> but what our council has realized in the past days we're running into something political being used as pawns and what we're doing in the meantime is making sure that we learn a little bit about politics. make sure that i always do my job at every level to vote. but i'm not a super political person, but now we know not to act. not to mention her name, not to give her more attention. anybody who says that black lives matter is divisive or it's a political thing is -- it's

absurd to me honestly because it's a human rights statement. it's a statement of fact that black lives matter, that we're trying to -- because it's something that you're having to convince people of. so to say that it's divisive, to say it doesn't align with the league, 80% black women is -- it's insane. >> and you are -- you are famous and you are influential and you are a role model to people so the idea that people in sports -- this is going on for years. they said the same thing in the civil rights movement. they said the same things about ali muhammad. why should sports people be political but you have a bigger platform than most people in america do. >> yeah, i mean, i don't think that i'm famous, but i think that the fact that we have a platform it's important for us to use it. i can't imagine why people would think that because we play sports that we can't have an

opinion about anything else. before i'm an athlete i came i don't the world as a black girl so people see me and see my skin color and see i'm a female and that takes precedent over everything else. so of course i'm going to speak up. >> i know you don't want to say your name, give her more publicity. to the person who triggered the comments i know you said it on twitter, but what do you want her to learn from this? >> i have no interest in her learning anything. i don't care about her. what i do want people in georgia to do is go out and make sure that they vote. we had a chance to speak to raphael warnock. we are very much interested in -- he seems to be in alignment with a lot of the things that we believe. instead of people paying attention to her, make sure they go out there and vote. you see where she stands now and

make your voices heard. since she was actually elected make does not stay in the senate seat. >> thank you, sydney colson, guard for the chicago sky. good luck in the upcoming season. that does it for me. thank you for watching. join me back here next weekend. bright and early from 8:00 to 10:00 and "a.m. joy" is up next. maxine waters will tell her what she thinks of trump commuting the sentence of roger stone. she thinks of trump commuting the sentence of roger stone. i'm sorry! oh, jeez. hi. kelly clarkson. try wayfair! oh, ok. it's going to help you, with all of... this! yeah, here you go. thank you! oh, i like that one! [ laugh ] that's a lot of storage! perfect. you're welcome! i love it. how did you do all this? wayfair! speaking of dinner, what're we eating, guys?

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we see what happens when they let bars open prematurely and you saw the young adults in there in that nice little bar and they went home and they infected everybody around them. i double dog dare donald trump to sit in a class of 39 sixth graders and breathe that air without any preparation for how we're going to bring our kids back safely. >> good morning. and welcome to "a.m. joy." in a moment i'm speaking to the president of the nation's largest teachers union about president trump's push to reopen schools despite the drastic increase in covid-19 cases. there are 3.2 million cases and nearly 136,000 fatalities here in the u.s. on saturday, texas and north

carolina reported the highest single day increases in hospitalizations. in florida, where cases have been on the rise since memorial day weekend, governor ron desantis ordered public schools to reopen next month. he's among the multiple republican governors bowing to trump who's now threatening to cut off federal funding for schools if they don't reopen for potentially dangerous in person classes. this is the same donald trump who for first time during this pandemic finally wore a mask in public. he wore it during a visit with wounded soldiers at walter reed medical center. it only took him five months and 135,000 american deaths and begging and pleading from his own party and administration. but he is still fighting the science. claiming that the cdc guidelines for reopening are too strict. but the cdc director refused to give in to trump's demands to revise the guidelines. and this