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with each other until we figure a way out of this. but 51 years ago tonight, it was different. that is our monday broadcast as we start yet another new week together thank you so very much for being here with us on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night after rereatedly dismissing the rise in coronavirus cases, the president appears to look at strategy the president is also making a push for face masks after mixed messaging. he says it's patriotic to wear one. also the early results of a vaccine being created by the university of oxford, that it's safe and shows signs of
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producing a reverse response good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, july 21st i'm yasmin vossoughian we've got a lot to get through this morning the president says he will resume his daily briefings on the coronavirus today. >> well, we had very successful briefings. i was doing them, and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television there's never been anything like that, so i think we'll start that probably starting tomorrow. i'll do it at 5:00 like we were doing. we had a good slot a lot of people were watching, and that's a good thing. >> so it's been nearly three months since he took part in a coronavirus task force briefing. they began to fade away after he
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suggested on april 23rd that disinfectant and uv light could be used inside of the body to treat the virus it was the culmination of two months in which the president consistently downplayed the virus, snapped at reporters, and touted an unproven drug that the fda has now warned against the republicans grew frustrated, worrying about losing the senate this headline read this. the election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president's erratic new briefings have the gop worried about a democratic takeover the decision to restart the briefings is the result of the white house's internal polling that showed his administration's response to the pandemic was not breaking through the official said there was a sense the president needed to be leading a more public effort the a.p.'s jonathan lemire reported that kellyanne conway
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was among those pushing the president to keep doing them so after months of mixed messaging over whether he supports the use of masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the president is now out with a new endorsement for face coverings he tweeted a photo of himself yesterday wearing a mask writing this we are united in our effort to defeat the invishable china virus, and many people say it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you can't socially distance there is nobody more patriotic than me, your favorite president. trump's tweet comes more than three months after the cdc recommended wearing masks in public settings. you may recall back in may the president retweeted a post by fox news political analyst brit hume appearing to make fun of joe biden for wearing a mask
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and last night just hours after posting that tweet, they met in washington for a fund-raiser apparently without a face covering video was posted on instagram by madison cawthorn apparently showing him and others in a semicrowded hallway at the trump international hotel. many men, assumed to be secret service, are wearing masks meanwhile surgeon general jerome adams went on fox news. >> i'm begging you please understand we're not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face covering we're not trying to take away your ability to go to restaurants at 50% we're saying if we do these things, we can open and stay open we can get back to schools,
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worship, and jobs. we can do this. >> all right let's talk some solution here. there is another promising result on the coronavirus vaccine front as the clinical trial generated a strong immune response the first results of the study released just yesterday found that the vaccine produced antibodies and killer t cells that could fight infection for at least two months. the trial also found neutralizing antibodies in patients which are key in gaining protection against the virus. the trial included 1,000 participants between the ages of 18 and 55 a and pnd produced no serious side effects just fatigue and headaches phase 3 will launch in a couple of weeks let's get into this now. kimberly leonard kimberly, good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us
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really appreciate it let's talk about this race for a covid vaccine. you have top drugmakers setting -- they're likely going to testify today before the house to discuss their latest research development. what are lawmakers hoping to hear >> well, they're hoping to hear how it's going they're hoping to hear what some of the results are but they're also using it to peg some of the companies on big questions that they have such as how much are you going to be charging for this vaccine? are you going to be profiting off of it? how will you make sure that distribution happens so that hundreds of millions of people get access to the vaccine? how should we decide who gets the vaccine first? these are all burning questions the house is going to be asking as they're faced with some of the biggest most advanced companies when it comes to developing a coronavirus vaccine. >> can you clarify a bit of what -- i just talked about this oxford university astrazeneca
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vaccine that's heading into phase 3 now. they talk about a two-month immunity why only two months? >> well, it's what they're able to calculate so far. there is still a lot of questions around immunity for the coronavirus. we don't know yet if people who've gotten the coronavirus before can get it again. we don't know how long they're immune and so there are still a lot of questions even as we continue to look for a vaccine >> all right let's quickly talk about the president's tweet and his mixed messaging shall we say on masks. what's he looking to achieve here with this new endorsement for face coverings why the about-face >> well, it does seem as though some of the pollings and conversations with top aides is coming through we know that americans are, you know, generally following the guidelines they're supposed to
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they're wearing masks. they see it as a way to protect from the krooecoronavirus. there have been prominent studies from a hair salon that showed two stylists who became infected did a lot of haircuts and no one got the virus the president is trying to get through as a sign of strength and patriotism and you heard it from the surgeon general too he said, look, don't see this as an infringement on your freedoms you need to see this as a root of getting to place where we can reopen the economy again. >> all right kimberly leonard, thank you. stay close i ool going to talk to you in just a little bit. the new york yankees will meet in the nation's capitol while there'll be no fans
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allowed inside, the nation's top disease expert dr. anthony fauci will throw out the first pitch a statement from the nationals reads this dr. fauci has been a true champion throughout the covid pandemic and his career. so it's only fitting we honor him by allowing him to throw out the first pitch. the teachers union takes on legal action against governor ron desantis in his push to reopen schools amid coronavirus cases. >> and michael cohen is suing attorney general bill barr we'll have a look at that and those stories and a check of your weather when we come back to build unlimited right.
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desantis monday amid a record-breaking rise in coronavirus cases. the suit accuses the governor and other state officials of violating florida's constitution that requires the state to provide a, quote, safe, secure, and high-quality public school system the florida education association and a lot of individuals teaching in miami-dade county are asking the court to keep state officials from, quote, unconstitutionally forcing millions of public school students and employees to report to unsafe schools fea president fedrick ingram telling the "miami herald" this. we should be preparing our lesson plans but unfortunately reopening of the state of florida has been reckless. danny cevallos, good to see you on this tuesday morning. this seems like a slam-dunk to me, does it not, because this
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suit cites the state's constitution as a reason. >> it is true that florida's constitution requires that schools be operating safely, and i use that in quotes because after all the state cannot possibly be the gary an tore of all safety at its own schools, and because we're in a moment in our nation's history where we're not exactly sure what is the perfectly safe thing to do, the governor may have an argument that he is operating -- he's planning to operate schools safely but it doesn't seem to -- it doesn't seem to match the studies and everything we know right now, which is that putting a bunch of people in the same place may not be safe. and also the separate argument is that the emergency order here may unconstitutionally take power away from local school boards. >> is there a danger, danny, that the demands for online instruction while closed and
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protective measures when schools, in fact, do reopen as you were just referencing with regard to the governor's possible plans for this, that they may endanger the success of this suit? >> that is certainly possible. the challenge here is findinga system that works safely or with the maximum safety because, after all, as i've said, florida schools cannot guarantee safety, and the very design of school, unless it's administered online, is to put a bunch of children in a building together in close quarters so the challenge for florida and for every school system in the country is how to continue schooling with the minimum risk both physical risk and legal risk for the schools and right now we're balancing -- we're trying to figure out what the safest way to do this is, and there's always the argument that it can be made more safe.
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>> hey, danny. stay with me i've got another suit i want to talk to you about. the merv civil liberties union and the president's former personal attorney michael cohen, claiming cohen was returned to custody last week as retaliation for writing a book about the president. it's a 21-page lawsuit and it's arguing that cohen was returned to prison after being released on home confinement due to the coronavirus because he made public his intention to publish a manuscript about the president before the november election it is alleging that cohen's first amendment rights were violated, naping attorney general bill barr as well, the federal bureau of prisons, and the warden in the prison where cohen is confined. he was told by the corrections officers to sign an agreement not to communicate with media or to publish a book as a condition of his release
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this suit is saying they made an unconstitutional demand and cohen and his lawyers sought clarification on and limitation on the prohibition on speaking only to see him locked up. it discourages -- sorry, encourages writing books while behind bars. so what does that do for this case >> all right it makes the bureau prisons or b.o.p. look galactically incompetent if these accusations are true this rings very true of the kind of thing that the b.o.p. does, so at best, it's b.o.p. and incompetence at worst, it's sinister up the chain of command if you go up the chain of command of the g.o.p., you land
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at the attorney general's office and the president's dsk. it's pretty shocking if true that cohen came in and signed this agreement it had this weird language that isn't normally in a home assignment he asked questions instead of checking with the chain of command, they didn't tell him and they took him back into custody if they are true, it doesn't look good for the b.o.p. but after all it's an institution designed to be unpleasant and to be punished. so whoever expected good customer service. >> danny cevallos, as always, thank you. appreciate. it joe biden puts pressure on some of the top allies. we're back in a moment ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion,♪
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welcome back among those actively attempting to interfere in the 2020 elections, joe biden published at length the following statement. it represents an assault on the american people and their constitutional right to vote that is why today i'm putting the kremlin and other foreign governments on notice. if elected i will treat foreign interference in our election as an adversarial act i have no desire to escalate tensions but if any foreign power recklessly chooses to interfere, i will not hesitate to respond as president to impose substantial and lasting costs. also two of trump's key allies sailed they would not accept the outcome of the 2020 election if he were to choose. >> democrats are trying to mess
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with the election. they're in 30-some-odd cases they want to feel sheer wu'll feel confident i think the president is right to put democrats on notice they need to run a fir and safe election so we all have confidence in the results. >> it makes a whole lot of sense after the polls close and the election's called, you're going to want to take a good hard look at exactly what happened. >> all right let's switch gears here and get a first look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins good morning, bill. >> good morning. we're watching this heatwave we have something brewing in the tropics and veer storms. let's show you, first off, the area of concern in kansas. we have minor flash floodings that happened overnight but not too horrible later on today, the large area in green is the dividing line.
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that's where we're going to see thunderstorms later. maybe severe storms in denver. now, tomorrow that boundary sets up right over the top of the mid-atlantic region and we have 40 million people at risk of severe storms. this isn't for today for wednesday afternoon and wednesday evening. new york city, baltimore, philadelphia, d.c. not really concerned about tornadoes. as far as the heat goes, yesterday was 99 in washington, d.c. we were one degree away from 100. we haven't done that in four years. it's going to be very hot and humid in the mid-atlantic region, but not as humid as yesterday. 96 today compared to 99. charlotte, 105 if you want a little bit of belief, it's beautiful in des moines, chicago, all the way through areas of new england and the northeast. as we head through tomorrow, we get the thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon, but before that
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happens, very humid, very warm look at raleigh, feeling like 100. cleveland looks great. boston looks good. the relief from the heat ends saturday and sunday. a lot of 90s across the board, yasmin when we come back, i'll give you an update on the covid numbers and talk a little about the hurricane season looks like we have some areas to watch coming up next week. >> all right thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, senate republicans are working on the next coronavirus relief bill, but they don't seem to be on the same page as the president as to what should be included. also the sheriff of jacksonville, florida, issues warnings about the upcoming election we'll be back in a moment. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again.
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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian we're going to begin this half hour as the president complicates negotiations between the white house and senate republicans over the next coronavirus relief bill. he's demanding a payroll tax cut and funding for testing be reduce order nixed completely. the requests have already sparked pushback from a lot of key republican allies as oval office discussions began yesterday. $1 trillion is expected to be put aside for new programs in the gop legislation. states would also get money for schools, which would be explicitly tied to if they reopen in the fall two people with knowledge of the
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talks telling the "washington post" the bill will omit new aid for cities and states that democrats have been calling for in their own proposed $3 trillion aid package treasury secretary steve mnuchin and white house chief of staff mark meadows will meet with top democrats today to begin bipartisan talks and as coronavirus cases spark across florida, the outbreak has caught up with the residents at one of america's biggest retirement communities there since the beginning of july, hospital admissions over a sprawling 120,000 in central florida has quadrupled as of last week, more than 1,100 covid cases were reported in and around the sprawling retirement community. the villages had initially seemed to escape the worst of the virus and at one time been a point of pride for governor ron desantis who back in april brushed off concerns about the
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risk at the retirement community. >> that's why you go to a place like the villages. there were articles written saying the villages were going to crash and burn and all this stuff. they have a 2.5% infection rate. we tested and none were found to have the virus >> so by early july the infection rate at the villages had jumped to 9% and as the trump administration presses forward with the republican national convention in florida, the sheriff of jacksonville says as of right now he cannot provide security for the event. sheriff mike williams telling politico this. we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we're going to keep that event and the community safe, and that quote has been -- what has been proposed in my opinion is not achievable right now from a law enforcement standpoint, from a security standpoint.
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williams would not definitively say there was no way the event could be held, but he said he has grave doubts about it, especially in an era of highlightened protests concerning police use of force the controversy deals one of the biggest potential blows to the president's decision to hold an in-person convention during this pandemic already republicans are declining to attend the event from safety concerns over the coronavirus. and the nation's top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci responded yesterday to the president's comments describing him as alarmist. >> he's a little bit of an alarmist that's okay. >> a little bit of an alarmist >> a little bit. let me just say, dr. fauci at the beginning -- again, i have a great relationship with him. he said, don't worry about this, this will pass he was wrong dr. fauci said don't ban china
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i did. he then admitted was right. >> you make mistakes too. >> i guess everybody makes mistakes >> in an instagram live interview dr. fauci said i consider myself as a realist as opposed to an alarmist so let's get to the others joining me once again, kimberly leonard. talk with us about the view on the feud between trump and fauci or it seems like a feud when trump calls fauci an alarmist on national television in the fox interview and fauci then responded with saying he is a re realist. >> this is a lot of the back-and-forth that we've been seeing since the beginning of this pandemic where dr. anthony fauci will say one thing, the president will say another, and then you have aides within the white house who appear to undermine dr. fauci and try to make him look as though he's
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wrong at every turn. obviously there are going to be a lot of disagreements when it comes to experts getting together you have experts worrying about getting the economy back together, you have those getting chrome over the virus and perhaps that's one of the reasons why the coronavirus briefings are starting up again so they can all appear together and be on the same page with their messaging. >> tell us more about the relief bill what are some analysts predictions on where they think this final package is going to land. >> so as soon as this week, we're expecting to see the republican opening bid for the coronavirus relief package now, there are a lot of high stakes involved. there's an election and we're not through this pandemic, and there is a cliff that ends in july in which people who have been receiving a boost in unemployment won't be getting that anymore and so there's a lot of pressure
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by democrats to make sure that that unemployment boost is still in place so that we can keep the economy running. they also want to see more money for states as you mentioned earlier in this segment, those are items that are not in the current republican plan. however, there's pretty broad agreement among analysts that those will be included in the final package as a way to get to a consensus so they can get a bill to president trump's deaf snook what about more relief for small businesses any idea if that will be included in this package also the controversy over testing seeming like the president doesn't want any more money allocated toward testing but while we're in the midst of this wave 1 that is hitting the southern states, it's likely we're hitting wave 2 that's going to come back in the fall that's going to coincide with the flu season. >> right and not only that, we really don't have a handle on testing as it is now we know that people are waiting
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sometimes more than ten days for testing. and if you're waiting that long, you can really quarantine and find -- you know, rather than find out whether you're positive or not there's definitely a push even from republicans to include more testing, and even from democrats to say, don't just have testing, but have some sort of national plan to make sure that we're really getting a handle on this virus. on the paycheck protection program, which is a program created by congress to respond to the pandemic to help small businesses stay afloat and continue paying their employees, there is some discussion of adding more funding to that package or using the remaining funding because it hasn't all been allocated yet to be much more targeted to make sure it's going to certain types of businesses. >> all right "business insider's" kimberly leonard. thank you. president trump is planning to deploy federal agents to chicago and threatens to do so to other major democratic cities
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as well in an effort to decrease the violence sparked from george floyd's death. several governors and others reacted to the president's threat, calling it an election-year ploy calling it an action federal agents have caused controversy after trump sent them to portland, oregon, where they have been accused of violently attacking protesters and placing them into unmarked vans president trump said he would follow suit in other cities like philadelphia, new york, and detroit. they plan to deploy 100 federal agents to chicago this week. a speck plan on what the agents will be doing and what their limits would be have not been made public. also meanwhile the president yesterday praised the work of federal law enforcement officers in portland. >> we'll have more federal law enforcement that i can tell you. in portland, they've done a
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fantastic job. they've been there three days and they really have done a fantastic job in a short period of time, no problem. they grab them a lot of people in jail. they're leaders. these are anarchists these are not protesters people say protesters. these people are anarchists. these are people who hate our country arc weekend're not going to let it go forward and i'll tell you what the governor and the mayor and the senators out there, they're afraid of these people that's the reason they don't want us to help them they're afraid i really believe they're actually maybe even physically afraid of these people because what they're doing is incredible >> all right still ahead, congress honors the memory of late congressman john lewis with tributes from members of both parties on the house floor that scene and a look who will replace lewis on the november ballot is coming up. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.
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welcome back members of the u.s. house of representatives held a tribute on capitol hill for their late colleague congressman john lewis of georgia who died friday after a months-long battle with cancer. >> the world is a better place because john lewis spent his life pursuing freedom, justice opportunity, love, and peace for all of humanity. he inspired us as the conscience of the congress, and we have all been truly blessed to know, love, and share the life and legacy of this extraordinary human being. >> our nation has indeed lost a giant, and it's times like these that we must be reminded of the shoulders that we stand on, the shoulders of giants like john. >> the chair asks all those
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present in the dham ber as well as members and staff throughout the capitol and all who loved john lewis wherever you are rise in a moment of silence and remembrance of the conscience of the congress, the honorable john lewis. >> and dozens of lawmakers stood silent on the floor of the house as the chamber marked its remembrance for lewis. and state member and chair of the democratic party has been selected to take the late john lewis's place on the november ballot according to the "journal-constitution. williams is seem as a virtual lock she'll face republican stanton king in november let's switch gears once again and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins who's tracking the covid numbers for us as well once again, not a good 24 hours.
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>> we've got the bar went from 2 million to 3 million from june 7th to july 6th, so that was roughly a month we've gone from july to the third week and now we're getting another million. that's how rapidly we've ramped up the number of cases there were 3,000 less on monday from last monday and the impact of that is it brought the seven-day average down just a little bit this is kind of the first decrease we've seen since we had the big ramp-up around june 14th who knows. it would be nice if we've reached the crest of this latest peak and we can kind of slow this down. it would be even bet gore down if possible. as far as fatalities went yesterday, 546 new deaths. the seven-day average is about
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802. so we clicked up above 800 the average deaths have risen by 50 over the past week. this is the seven-day moving average. the line is kind of flat, slowly going up, nothing dramatically heading up let's talk about the weather and talk about the upcoming hurricane season we've had a little bit of a break since the last storm but now the hurricane center is watching two areas one out in the atlantic, a 40% development, and another one over florida and the cuba straits that one's go doing drift toward the gulf of mexico that, of course, gets our attention. the five-day development zone takes it to louisiana's coastline. looks like sunday into monday time frame tropical downpours in florida likely 1 to 2 inches of rain, especially areas from miami southward to the keys. another plain hot steamy day washington, d.c., these are the dog days of summer, yasmin yesterday was 99 degrees today, 96. >> all right thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody,
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welcome back the race to a coronavirus vaccine is looking that much closer as astrazeneca showed a promising result to this virus cnbc's julianna tatelbaum is joining us live from london. we got through this earlier, but talk about how the markets are reacting tothis good news? >> this was a big development yesterday. investors across the world were anxiously awaiting this early trial data from the university of oxford whose vaccine is being produced by astrazeneca.
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it was produced in the journal called "the lancet." it not only tolerated but produced a robust response, a two-fold response, antibodies c which researchers think are an important part of the covid-19 virus. late stage trials are under way in the uk, brazil and south africa they're set to start in the united states. and the team expects to have millions of doses of ready by the end of the year should the vaccine prove effective. here in europe a big day for policy i want to shed light what's happening here european leaders after days of marathons of talks over the weekend. they have agreed on a 750 euro
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recovery package it focused on grants for countries that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic this is a lower number than was initially touted but marks a big change in stance for the european union as the commission will move forward and undertake mass borrowing for the first time ever. so big news for europe back to you. let's talk about trader joe's which is making news right now. they're changing packaging after facing backlash over the racist look of its packaging, what more can you tell us about this >> trader joe's joins a number of other companies who have come under pressure to relabel brands that people believe to be racist there were about 2,400 people who signed a petition as of yesterday to change some of their product names, for example, trader ming, jose,
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which referred to various types of food. in response, trader joe's has said it's been working to repackage the product and will soon complete the efforts. so they'll be looking to change their product names in response to this petition cnbc's julianna tatelbaum live from london for us. thanks a than thanks julia na. on "morning joe" we'll speak to adam schiff also what to expect as the president says he will resume his daily coronavirus briefings today. "morning joe" is moments away. still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables
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big thing is wall street winners with a blue wave so axios reports on wall street traders increasingly thinking not only will there be a biden win that they've been pricing in for a couple weeks now, but they're looking at a blue wave that takes the house and the sna senate with them why does that matter this is a change in just a couple of weeks and with an all blue government, just as president obama had an all blue government when he first came in, george w. bush had an all red government when he first came in, you can do a lot. so wall street is trying to figure out where can you place the bet. with a biden blue portfolio, which is what they're calling it, who gets bumped up, so advanced technologies including ai and 5g might get additional
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investments under plans that biden might propose. and lots of building and infrastructure, including broad band and engineering and materials so everything that might come with big infrastructure spending. on the down side, wall street expects tax increases and increased pressure on big tech. >> i also know in the same vain that axios is reporting they're focussing on anti-trump television ads in key battleground states, what do you make of this tactic? >> i have an interesting map that shows that joe biden is spending very heavily on tv way out spending trump is why it matters in those big three states, the magic three states that made him president, pennsylvania, michigan,
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wisconsin, way heavier democratic spending, republicans spending slightly more heavily but nothing by the proportion in another swing state, arizona that's on tv now look at what's happening on the web, look at what's happening digitally. this is a real clue to what issues the campaign thinks works for them and move people for the first time we have data about facebook issues that the campaigns are spending on. what is the number one facebook issue for president trump? you might guess the wall no the number one issue that the trump campaign spends on on facebook is fake news. they're putting a lot of chips, literally, on this issue second is socialism. look at the real story this tells you. you look at biden digital spending what does biden thinks works for
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him on facebook. he's number one going heavily on economy, which was supposed to be trump's big issue but now looks like a liability and second, coronavirus, third health care, you can put those in one big bucket. so you can see for president trump, it's negative or defensive issues that he thinks works for him. biden on the offense on places that trump thought he was strong, suddenly vulnerable. >> mike allen, thank you i will be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can sign up at axios.signup.com that does it for me i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. >> republicans believe the press briefings may be hurting the president and the party. >> we had very successful briefings i was doing them. >> the "new york times" reports that gop lawmakers and administration officials want the president to limit his
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briefing appearances and concentrate on economic recovery and his re-election. >> we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television, television there was nothing like it. >> quote,ing from the article, mr. trump sometimes drowns out his own message says senator lindsey graham of south carolina graham told the president that a once a week show would be more effective. >> we'll give you a lot of briefings in the next week or next few weeks >> senator shelly moore of west virginia said the briefings were going off the rails a little bit and suggested he should let the health professionals guide where we're going to go. >> we'll start that probably tomorrow i'll do it at 5:00 >> jonathan lemire as you report in yor
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