good day, everyone, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we have breaking news regarding the president this hour. defending federal law enforcement after a dramatic night of clashes with protesters in the heart of portland, oregon kgw reports officers used tear gas to disperse protesters and today the mayor said federal troops are escalating the violence it all comes as the attorney general for the state of oregon is suing federal agencies for

violating civil rights of protesters let's go to erin mclaughlin from downtown portland. the scene of what, now, 52 straight nights of protests, erin, wow. >> reporter: and last night a flash point was the federal courthouse i'm out here right now you could see on the ground this is a security barrier that was previously set up just yesterday surrounding the courthouse, meant to repel protests but became a target. protesters by the thousands, around 2,500 out, people of different ages of different political agendas out here to have their say and to confront federal agents which is another flash point in this conflict unmarked federal agents and they are not welcome. and president trump speaking out

on fox on sunday take a listen to what he had to say. >> if you look at what has gone on in portland, those are anarchist. if we didn't take a stand in portland, we've arrested many of these leaders, if we didn't take that stand, right now you would have a problem like -- they were going to lose portland >> reporter: now the mayor of portland this morning was very critical of the president's position he wants these federal agents out. he actually said they're making the situation worse. that, yes, there have been some six weeks straight of protests here in portland, but the presence of federal agents has drawn more protesters into the situation, the situation prior to last night was sort of dwindling. some 50 out on a given now and now we're seeing some 2,500 protesters you could see behind me police are here outside of the courthouse assessing the damage and the situation. this is a city bracing for the possibility of more violence

going forward. alex. >> good bet take make it 53 tonight. thank you very much. we'll be speaking with clint watts this hour, he is a national security analyst about anything that erin was outlining there. and more breaking news, the president once again threatening to withhold funding from schools if they don't open in the fall and as more officials impose face mask mandates, president trump is vowing to do the opposite >> i want people to have a certain freedom. and i don't believe in that, no. and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody wore a mask everything disappears everybody said don't wear a mask and now all of a sudden everybody has to wear a mask and masks cause problems too with that said, i'm a believer in masks i think masks are good but i leave it up to the governors. i do say this, schools have to open young people have to go to school and there is problems when you don't go to school and there is going to be a funding

problem, when they don't open the schools, we're not going to open them and give them money if they are not going to school. >> josh, we listened to p this wide-ranging interview and the president was addressing issues that led to racial tensions and election and a whole lot more. >> reporter: a whole lot of controversial issues the president refusing to say whether he finds the confederate flag to be offensive, defending those who embrace the flag saying they're not thinking about racism, they're proud of the history of the south the president also saying when it comes to the military effectively banning confederate flags on bases, i don't care what the military thinks, that is an exact quote from president trump saying that he's the decider. we also see in the same interview the president really doubling down on his tough law and order stance trying to change the conversation to joe biden and what donald trump said is joe biden's support for defunding

the police and abolishing the police the white house just in the last few minutes following that up with what it said is a list the statements from bidens and others backing that up the biden campaign pointing out that joe biden does not support abolishing or defunding the police bhu talked about moving resources elsewhere. but it is the comments about the election results causing some consternation for his political opponents. the president just like in 2016 being cagey about whether he'll accept the results of the election if it doesn't go his way. take listen. >> i'm not a good loser. i don't like to lose i don't lose too often i don't like to -- >> are you gracious? >> you don't know until you see. it depends i think mail-in voting is going to rig the election, i really do. >> can you give a direct answer, you will accept the election >> i have to see look, i have to see. no, i'm not going to say yes and i didn't last time either.

>> >> reporter: and as we've been speaking we have new reaction just in from the biden campaign to the comments from president trump. biden campaign spokesperson andrew baits telling me the american people will decide this election and the united states government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the white house. again, that is right from the biden campaign responding to those comments from president trump. alex. >> got it. i don't know why my reaction i want to go rrr thank you. appreciate that. to other headlines on the coronavirus pandemic new cases topping a quarter million for the first time yesterday. the u.s. also set a new record adding more than 78,000 cases in a day. dr. fauci said younger americans are part of the reason that we're seeing a spike in cases. fauci told web md saturday there are steps that we can take to get the country back on track. >> close the bars. everybody wear a mask.

physical distancing. no crowds. wash your hands. and i agree completely with bob redfield, the cdc director, when he said if we do that, we could turn this around we could turn it around. >> and this was the scene in miami beach last night as the 8:00 p.m. curfew took effect in south beach. police clearing the streets. this is as officials report another 12,000 new cases statewide there. and new york city getting ready to enter phase four of reopening tomorrow some outdoor venues will reopen but indoor dining will still be banned and gyms will remain closed joining me now is dr. neil gandhi, from houston methodist hospital good to see you again. thank you for joining me given how busy you are these days. but you heard the president doubting the usefulness of masks to a degree. what is your reaction? >> good afternoon, alex, thank you for having me on again

this is disheartening information that we're hearing once again we know masks are safe we know masks are effective. what we've seen here has been a little bit of annin coherent national response and we're seeing rising cases throughout multiple states and especially here in houston as well. we know that masks are simple, masks are cheap. masks are easy and quite effective as well. for us to really have a lock of a national playbook as we try to tackle this international pandemic, it is worrisome to say the least. >> do you think that a federal mandate would help a lot i've noted many times this virus does not respect the geographical lines between new york and new jersey or texas and any other state there next to it, i mean it is just oklahoma, it is remarkable so do you think that had we had a federal mandate from the outset we would have been in a better position today than we are in now >> whether we had a mandate or even strong guidance, all of

those things would have been extremely helpful. you've kind of hit the nail on the head there we are the united states of america. but unfortunately we're seeing states fighting states, states enacting travel bans from other regions. we know that it is the summertime and people are moving around what we're seeing is kind of happ hazard mask wearing and folks not following the guidelines and a lack of trust of government leaders on multip multiple levels. this is an increase in cases. >> what is going on in texas give me monan update there. >> our icu's do remain at quite high capacity levels hospitalizations have remained at high and troubling levels what we find more concerning is just testing i think that testing both test rates have been extremely high in their positivity levels and also some folks have reported some trouble i think getting

access to tests. we have no national infrastructure right now for coronavirus testing. it is very much a patch work between different localities and different municipalities and regions and some of our patients have gotten tests and waiting days even up until about a week to get results and we know that is not effective to get ahead of this. >> some places it is a couple of weeks to get results and that is unacceptable what about the remdesivir? are you seeing a shortage of that i know in florida they are what about specifically houston, do you see the same problem and give me the success you've had with remdesivir. >> speaking with icu colleagues i think remdesivir is a promising treatment. has been exciting and we know that it helped many individuals and many of our sickest patients what we're seeing is a little bit of a nationwide shortage and that is going back to not having a very coherent and nationwide playbook whether it is on

medication, masking, or testing and we have different hospitals at times fighting against each other for the same doses for the same medication and that is what you're seeing right now. so if we don't have a coherent game plan i think we'll just keep running into the same problems and the same issues. >> how do you feel about the reopening of schools and what is the threshold that needs to be crosses before you're krooem with schools open. >> we want schools and society to be open we want businesses and restaurants and place to be ready for us to come back and enjoy things before we get into school opening, we need to meet certain thresholds we need to make sure we have some virus containment which we don't have and we need to have some general consensus on agreements with masking. if we had an individual who wants to go out and drive drunk or someone who wanted to speed through a school zone, we would say, no, stop, we won't allow that however we do allow

individuals to walk around without masks and we do allow individuals to not follow the rules. so i think as we have a very much an individual kind of based approach to this, it is going to be difficult for us to open schools and a lot of challenges will remain. i think it is also problematic that other industries, we've seen some success, right we see professional athletes go back and we've prioritized that. it would be nice from a federal and state level if we said we're going to prioritize the schools. it is important to get kids back and we're going to do it safely with testing. >> i aimagine the relation between drunk driving and the mask you have to draw the parallels to things like that. let me ask you about the mayor of houston who proposed a two-week shutdown tweeting if we can't shut down then at least step back to phase one to reassess the coronavirus response do you think that would be

helpful? >> listen, i think our mayors are working around the clock, they are trying to do what they can do best for a very large population the city of houston has nearly 4 million peep and it is important for us to get ahead of this. if we could just get back to some of the basics, i think if everyone would distance and if folks would mask and we have access to testing then we could jump ahead to the other phases i think what the mayor is suggesting is what we all agree on, is that a lot of our initial platform just isn't there yet. we don't really have the access to testing and kind of folks following all of the guidelines that are at a high level to contain that and that is worrisome. we had some teams come from in new york city to help with expanded testing so thank you to all of those individuals and some of the u.s. military helping at one of the hospitals as well. >> yeah. doctor neil gandhi, from houston methodist hospital, thanks for joining me again stay safe and healthy and get

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we're back with breaking news as part of a wide-ranging interview today, the president addressed the spike in violence across this country. when asked to explain the rise in crime in cities like chicago and new york, this is what he said >> they're democrat-run cities and their liberally or stupidly run. >> liberal democrats have been running cities in this country for ecades. >> poorly. >> why is it so bad right now. >> they ran them poorly and it is always bad and now it is totally out of control because they wan to defund the police. >> joining me now is new york congressman gregory meeks on the foreign affairs committee. what is your response to the president? >> you know what, it just gives

more credence to what his niece said in her book about the mentality of this man. there is just something fundamentally wrong and she did it from a technical point of view and i think if you talk to anybody who has any training, they may come up with the same assessment it is just illogical and it doesn't make sense. and he's a habitual liar so i don't know what else you could say about him. we need to make sure he's no longer the president of the united states after january of 2021. >> he was taking aim at your home town, new york city, mayor de blasio saying things were poor for quite sometime and because of the issues they want to defund the police and the intention being that they have yet to do so, so how does that equate to the rise in crime? >> it does not and if he would just do what he is -- should be doing and should be advocating to do right now, what is happening in new york and is going to happen in some

of the southern republican states also is municipalities and states are hemorrhaging because of all of the money that they have to spend because of the coronavirus. we've got a significant amount of money that is in the heroes act to make sure that we reimburse the cities and states all of the money they have to put out at that time if we have those dollars and some of the cuts that is taken place throughout all of the major cities and all of the major states, then, in fact, we could make sure that all, whether it is policing or education or whether it is health care, all of those needs are needing to be taken care of. by not passing the heroes act, that is waiting for a vote in the senate and hopefully then the president should be advocating for that because that is good governance and i think he's going to see more and more, all of the red states, because all of the states in trouble because of the coronavirus right now, they are primarily governed

by republicans so those states are poorly ran >> i have to tell you, you're in lockstep with what gwen moore told me from wisconsin last hour but to the battle in portland, oregon where anonymous militarized federal agents have been squaring off with protesters as you watch what is unfolding, what is your opinion and do you think it is a abuse of power. >> my reaction is this the united states of america this is the same kind of thing that i guess this president wants to go along with his good friends as he says, vladimir putin and russia, something that you would think would take place there. or kim jong-un in north korea. something that would take place there. this is how they govern and operate and i hoped we moved past that. i heard the mayor of portland talk long ago how they have put things under control and what

happened by doing this, it is escalating, it is throwing fire on the fuel. so we look at some of the pictures and what is going on, we would be very critical when we saw these tapes as we have in the past take place in russia and north korea and now this president wants to be just like his two friends, i guess and thut people on the same kind of -- >> to that end, as you see federal officers, we don't know who they are or where they come from and they only have the word "police" and putting people in unmarked cars. is there something that congress could do to stop this particular practice >> well, i think that what we need to do is number one use our bully pulpit and go to the american people and show these pictures as far as the house of representatives we continue to pass laws just like we passed

the george floyd new policing bill to try to make sure that we don't have federal officers or anyone else policing in the manner that they did but again, we have a city and -- it is waiting in the senate to be passed that could deal with these kind of things that is why i keep saying to my constituents that this november, we say it often, but this november is probably the most important election of our lifetime so we could go back to being america. we see some of these incidents that i'm looking on the screen right now and it is really reminiscent of my late great john lewis and when we saw the policing walking across that bridge something is just -- policing could not continue or happen in a manner that is going on in portland now and in the manner that it has gone on in many of our cities for years and decades. >> so today on the calendar, july 19th, we're getting close to the end of the month. that is where expanded unemployment benefits as well as an eviction freeze set to

expire do you have any confidence that an agreement of some kind could be made to extend these benefits >> we've been working very hard. i know speaker pelosi has been focused on this. she said that we have to get it done we're ready to sit down and talk and try to work with senator mcconnell. but they've got to come to the table and we have to make sure that we take care of average everyday americans you keep hearing the republicans and the president talking about just taking care of the business community, but there can be no businesses if we don't take care of the workers and so we've got to pass an extensive -- of unemployment and stimulus bill and protecting individuals that are being evicted from their homes and their apartments these are things that not are

affecting not just democrats but all americans that are in great danger and i think that we should start to hear republican governors talking about this because it is going to affect every state in the nation because of what is going on in this country and the virus until we could get a vaccine so i'm hopeful that some of the senators, because this is going to affect them in their election will come to their right mind and sit down and put pressure on mcconnell to negotiate and make sure that we get something passed and get it passed in an expeditious manner. >> thank you for making time for us on a sunday. remembering an icon of the civil rights movement. dr. martin luther king's daughter is going to talk to me about the lasting legacy of congressman john lewis

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new tributes for georgia congressman and civil rights icon john lewis. members of congress reflecting

on his life and his work and the impact he had on them. >> he said to me, karen, would you please just call me john and i said, no, mr. lewis, i'm never going to call you john you are just an icon the nation lost an icon and the house lost the most respected member of the house of representatives an the black caucus lost a member of the family. >> it feels like a part of america died on friday john lewis was larger than life. i don't think i've ever really met anybody like him >> congressional leaders according to the new york times are considering have him lie in state at the capitol even though the building is closed to the public because of the pandemic let's go to priscilla thompson from atlanta where the locals are paying tribute to their congressman. i got to say, i'm still loving that one sign that you showed me that 4-year-old boy who said, john lewis, we've got this

that is awesome. but what is going on there right now? >> reporter: i mean, a large crowd gathered here. the heat nor the pandemic has stopped people from coming out and so many of the personal stories an you talked about that 4-year-old boy earlier and i'm here with some ladies who met john lewis when they were 7 and 9 years old. kendall, talk about how you met john lewis and what that was like. >> we got to meet him in his office and he was such a kind and loving person and just amazing stories to tell us and told us about his chicken collection and just such a nice person and i'm i got to meet him. >> and zion, you were there to spend a couple of hours with him but he invited you to spend a couple of days and shadow him in washington, right? >> yes so that was a big deal for us because the fact that he took time out of his day to come and talk to us and then later we go to go into the congressional

floor in the capitol with him and make a vote where he showed us his card his most prized possession that meant a lot to us and now we could understand now that we're older and see how that reacts with everybody else as well and so i appreciate it. >> and zara, you had the experience when you were young and now you're older and you see the outpouring of love and support for him here today what goes through your mind when you see that and why was it important for you to be here today. >> it is great to see the love and support and it is important to be here because it is a reminder and remembrance that we should always continue to fight for what is right and just fight until we get those rights. >> and that is the message, alex, that i've hearing from so many young people out here and parents. it is time for those people to pick up the mantle to continue on john lewis's legacy and life. >> speaks very well of those three that they have a reference

and appreciatation for a man thank you. john lewis often credited dr. martin luther king jr. stfo sparking his love and would stand side-by-side with him for the civil rights movement including the march on washington and on selma, two marches. joining me now to reflect on the legacy of john lewis is dr. king's daughter and ceo of the king center bernice king thank you so much for being here i'm curious, about the earliest memorial you have of the man i know you referred to him as uncle john. >> yes in our family we refer to in the movement as aunt and uncle and he was certainly one of those. a couple of memories my mother when she started the king center, she wanted to ensure that people understand the work of nonviolence went

behind the victories of the civil rights movement and so we have used to have institutes on nonviolence and i remember him participating in those over and over again he was still fairly young at that time as well. and then when i was 16 years old and his wife lillian lewis, aunt lillian, planned a sweet 16 party for me at their home and so those are some of the my early memories of him from a personal standpoint. and we all were so excited when he ran for congress, of course to represent us here in the fifth congressional district and certainly will miss his moral voice and his ability to appeal to the conscience of not just the congress but to those of us in this nation. >> what a neat thing to have your sweet 16 party in the home of uncle john and aunt lillian

that is so cool. honestly. >> that was cool. >> i bet that was. i'm sure you look at pictures of that still but tell me about the relationship between lewis and your dad, what kind of things you remember about their friendship >> well, i was not -- i was one when the -- i mean i was five months when the march on washington occurred. so i have no memories of any of that but i know my mother talked a great deal about that day and the involvement of congressman lewis as the youngest voice speaking on that day and i remember all of the conversation around his speech and whether or not he should make it as the way he wrote it and one thing people need to understand, timing is everything and i think a lot of people when they look back on that moment, the timing of that speech could have perhaps compromised some

things and i think that is why they probably encouraged him at this moment, let's not say that quite yet because they were really strategic in that movement around what they did, when they did it and how they did it but they -- he had a respect for representative lewis and the day-to-day walk across the bridge, the edmund petus bridge. and john lewis was representing -- side-by-side on the bridge that day and my father obviously was in touch with them because ambassador young went down that day as well he was not on the bridge but he was down there that day as well. so there was a mutual respect and friendship in their relationship and of course as he moved on, as my father, when my father left there was a continuing relationship with the entire king family including daddy king as well >> you know, as i mentioned earlier, lewis often spoke about

your father, how he inspired him. lewis himself inspired generations of young activists let's take a listen to what he said at a rally, the rally for life happening back in 2018. >> you're young and some of you are old like i am. but we're never too young, we're never too old to march i want to thank each and every one of you, all of the young people, all of the students, all of the teachers, all of our mothers and our fathers and our grandparents for standing up so you must never give up never give up. never give in. >> and get into some good trouble. what do you think he's going to be remembered for most. >> he's going to be remembered for good trouble but i think one of the things he must be remembered for is he was one of very few people who truly exemplified the nonviolent

methodology that my father taught and lived and they utilized during that movement. he remained true to that until he left this earth so a nonviolent warrior he was and he showed us that nonviolent resistance could even be utilized in congress, in politics and that is important he took the moral high ground and more importantly for the next generation, as he resisted the evils and the otherlies of racism and inequities, he always did it as they did in the movement with dignity and strength and not allowing themselves to become bitter in the moment, not allowing their anger to overtake them and cause them to become like the adversaries and those that they were opposing and so thank you, john lewis, for the life that you lived on, as my father said, the high plain of dignity and discipline as you faced all of the uglies mess in congress and

as youresisted the things in our society around racism and inequality and poverty thank you for your example and i'm asking as so many people have already said, i'm asking just this as president johnson did in 1968 and congress in honor of my father after his assassination, passing the fair housing act which was the civil rights act of 1968 please, members of congress, let us restore the voting rights act in honor of not just congressman lewis but c.t. vivian whoboth shared blood on alabama. on thesteps of the courthouse facing jim clark and john lewis and jose williams who faced such evil on the edmond petus bridge. >> amen to that. i want to ask you about the tweet that you posted yesterday. it was a very personal moment. you said when i visited uncle john last week so just last week.

i looked in his eyes and said well done. i told him that i loved him and that we are going to continue to fight. that must have been such an extraordinary moment for you to have that time with him. what did that feel like? >> it was a powerful moment. i was there with my cousin dr. angela ferris watkins who is the daughter of my father's living sister still and her daughter and a friend of mine delease and we prayed with lihim in that moment and we talked with him and prayed with him. and it was a powerful moment and i knew that day that he had served well, that he had done well, that he had fought well and fought long and now deserved his rest and so rest in peace, uncle john your legacy is very strong and we will continue what my father

started, my mother started, so many of those people in that movement and what you continue to perpetuate which is nonviolent resistance and nonviolent social change. >> bernice king, a very inspirational conversation thank you for sharing all of these details of your family and time with him. and you have an open invitation to come back and touk to me any time. >> thank you i appreciate it. tensions in portland reaching a boiling point overnight. erwhe the city mayor said federal troop are to blame as they crack down on protesters. '. but we're all going at our own speed. at enterprise, peace-of-mind starts with our complete clean pledge, curbside rentals and low-touch transactions. with so many vehicles of so many kinds, you can count on us to help you get everywhere you want to go... again. whenever you're ready, we're ready for you. enterprise.

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this breaking news to share, the mayor of portland oregon is sounding the alarm saying federal troops are escalating violence in the city tensions flaring between demonstrators and law enforcement. protesters setting the police union headquarters on fire and barricading county and federal buildings. the oregon attorney general is suing for violating the civil rights of members. they told us why this is causing so much concern. >> they are causing conflict there. they are taking people off the street who are doing more than exercising their right to peacefully protest and every single american should be afraid of this. because this is what authoritarian dictators do. >> president trump responding to the situation saying we are trying to help portland, not hurt it.

and joining me now, clint watts, a former fbi special agent could you tell me what exactly is going on here who exactly are these federal agents >> yeah, it is not really clear. it seems like there could be elements of the border patrol from department of homeland security in general. seeming to be there to protect federal profit, which they're in the rights to do but why are there guys in unmarked uniforms and vehicles and snatching people randomly off the street of portland and that is not clear. and what is interesting about this is there have been protesters in portland since the late '90s on a day-to-day basis and these protests seem to be losing steam until you see this injection of federal presence and now you're seeing it escalate right back up i was an fbi agent in portland, oregon, that is where i started out. it is not unusual to see this. and when there is a line crossed for public safety, we need to

make sure the public is safety and protect property and if people are committing crimes we need to arrest them. and i wonder if that is the goal, to provoke a conflict in a city already seeing a downturn in terms of the protests over the last six weeks. >> i don't want to get into who that would benefit and why, provoking conflict because it is getting ugly property is being destroyed left and right. but with regard to what the congresswoman said, congresswoman rice, is that what authoritarian dictators do >> yes i mean, if you look at it on a grand scale, i don't think we're on the march to authoritarianism because of this unincident we saw tactics in washington, d.c. that have never been used deployment of the u.s. military. we've seen millie come away from that action probably not

involved with it but again it comes to the point imagine you are out on the street and one individual shows up dressed in military gear, you also have out there on the streets militia groups dressed in military gear. you don't know who these people are. they are not saying who they represent and they're not saying why they're detaining you. i don't know what my response could be as a citizen if i were walking down the street and a group of people messed up in military gear tried to snatch me, i don't think i would be as peaceful and i don't understand how this would play out in court. if you got into a confrontation with four of these guys jumping out of the van, what would be the case in court? i don't even understand how the federal government thinks this is a good idea everyone should have their name on their uniform and should say who they are representing. >> 100% agree on that one. there is a memo from the dhs given to "the new york times," clint, and it reveals that federal officers deployed in portland didn't have proper training the memo reads moving forward in f this type of response is the

norm, specialized training and standardized equipment should be deployed to responding agencies. so a couple of questions here. does that seem right to you and does this not seem like the norm >> yeah, it is interesting because if it is this border security unit that is like a s.w.a.t. trained unit, they are very well twained at s.w.a.t. like techniques used for criminal gangs, illegal border crossing and drug groups and so their response is not appropriate and only a small number of individuals trained at that level the rest of the group, like the people deployed in d.c., we don't know what agency they were from or what their mission was, probably don't have training in that they're being used as an auxiliary so i think the dhs memo is right. if we are going to use this, we need to use it appropriately because if we don't we'll harm american citizens that aren't doing anything and putting those enforcers in danger becauseer

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coronavirus cases among young people in maryland are growing at an alarming rate. governor larry hogan tweeted this morning, nearly half of the new cases belong to marylanders in their 20s and 30s and the positivity rate for marylanders under 35 is over 85% higher than marylanders 35 and older well, in baltimore, new hot spots could force a second round of closures there. let's go to nbc's julia jester joining me from baltimore with the latest when is this going to be decided on, the closures, and what are they considering as they keep this in mind >> yeah, alex. so i'm here in canton, a

baltimore neighborhood where the median age is roughly 33 years old. now, ten restaurants in this area have voluntarily closed down due to concern over the spread of coronavirus. these restaurant owners are taking matters into their own hands to prevent hogan from ordering a state-wide shutdown i spoke with a manager at southern provisions who closed the bar for about a week after an employee tested positive. here's what he told me about that decision. >> we shut down voluntarily for, you know, just shy of a week i would rather shut down voluntarily for a week of our own recognizance than be forced to shut down for six months. >> so what he said was essentially we are taking our own precautions so that hogan doesn't have to step in. now, with the cases on the rise among young people, hogan has encouraged all young people who are engaging in risky behavior to go get tested

now, he said he's not planning on reshutting down the state any time soon, as about a dozen others have had to do, but he did send a letter to county leaders warning them, if cow don't enforce social distancing among your staff and patrons, then we might have to revisit this later on. now, it's worth noting that the overall positivity rate, the seven-day average, is still under 5%, but he called it a concerning trend among young people >> yeah, they certainly want to get it down to more like 1% at the very most. all right, thank you for that, julia. appreciate that in canton, in baltimore. >> election day, of course, just four months away, and the coronavirus is further dividing voters on a number of issues that includes whether or not to wear masks and reopen schools. gary was in point pleasant beach talking about this what are some of the arguments there? >> you have seen those viral videos of folks that have been in confrontations when they walk into a public location without a

mask the confrontations sometimes get violent, sometimes get physical, and so that's coming, of course, as walmart and kroger this week are requiring folks when they enter the stores anywhere in the country to wear a mask you're required to wear a mask at walmart and kroger among a number of places this is point pleasant beach, new jersey farmers market wrapping up here. we talked to voters here in this very republican county in a very democratic state about what they think about masks. here's what they had to say. >> unfortunately, i have seen around here a lot of kids don't believe in it. they think they're invincible. >> we should listen to the scientists and the doctors who do this for a living you're a reporter. i don't know how to do your job. i'm a nurse, you don't know how to do my job and that's just the way it is. a politician is not a doctor or a scientist. >> so whether you're a republican or democrat, and i talked to many of both parties out here, there was agreement. masks are important. yeah, it's hot out here.

it's uncomfortable to wear a mask, but it's certainly an important thing to do. that lines up with our polling that shows about 74% of folks always wear a mask when they're out in public, so alex, with about 100 days or so to go before the election. that's one thing folks are starting to agree on >> i gotta tell you, it's not unique to point pleasant beach in the town where i live in west chester county, i'm that person who's going down the sidewalk when it's a busy packed sidewalk, and you see kids all the time not wearing their masks, i have my mask on, usually sunglasses as well, and i just say, masks. you know, as i'm passing them. i'm becoming a mask lady, but it defies logic when they know what's at risk anyway, gary, you go ahead and you can use that line, too pass the kids and say masks. let them know. that's all it. a lot of you are glad for that as well. that's it for weekends with alex witt up next, richard lui is here

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hello, everyone. i'm richard lui. thank you for being with us on this sunday. this hour, more unrest in portland president trump now defends the arrest of protesters by unidentified federal agents. a move oregon's attorney general is now denouncing and taking to court. we're live on the ground there >> a new poll shows former vice president biden now leading president trump by double digits, just 107 days out from the election >> and the president is now at odds with the cdc. the white house tries to block billions for the cdc in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill plus, we'll head to atlanta. mourners gathering to honor georgia congressman and civil rights icon john lewis we'll start this hour for you, portland oregon, where outrage is growing >> i'm so thankful he was able to -- i was able to meet him >>