impact on the trump campaign. here are the facts as we know them at this hour. today florida officials are opening two new federally-funded testing sites in hard-hit areas as miami police officers begin to enforce fines for residents refusing to wear masks in public. in an about-face, president trump is canceling the jacksonville republican national convention, conceding to the reality of the pandemic surge in the city. and the cdc's latest report on reopening schools includes broad guidance to disinfect surfaces, practice good hygiene and socially distance students. i'll be joined by house speaker nancy pelosi for the latest on the political stalemate on virus relief legislation as the mortgage protection plan runs out, as well as president trump's new pitch to cancel fair housing rules to attract what he calls endure indisuburban house. joining me now, msnbc

correspondent kristen welker, pbs news' yamiche alcindor, and the author of "which country has the world's best health care." kristen, the trump administration is now going full speed ahead on opening schools while pumping the brakes on the republican national convention, at least the public big rally in jacksonville. jacksonville is no longer a starter. where will he give the speech? >> more mixed messaging, as you point out. it was a remarkable retreat for president trump to announce he's canceling the portion of the republican national convention that was expected to take place in jacksonville. they're working on the details, andrea. the fact that there is so much back and forth means there's still a lot that's up in the air. president trump had been quite critical of democrats for saying they were going to hold a virtual convention several weeks ago. then he decided to pull his convention from north carolina, move it to jacksonville because

officials in north carolina wanted it to be a scaled-back event, and now acknowledging the reality after conversations with his aides that it would just be too dangerous to try to hold it in jacksonville. i'm told that decision was reached in part because of the surging cases in florida, also because you had the sheriff there saying he could not guarantee that they could keep that event safe, and also because of the raw poll numbers which show that president trump right now is trailing joe biden. it would just be too much of a political risk. so all of those questions about what happens next, where will this president hold the event, still up in the air. will they be able to deliver the type of pomp and pageantry that the president relies upon? but andrea, the bottom line, this is the fullest acknowledgement yet that the virus ultimately is determining the decisionmaking here behind the scenes. and president trump is facing that reality right now.

as it relates to schools, he acknowledges yesterday that he wants schools to reopen full steam ahead but then saying he realizes not everyone school will be able to open. it was pretty stark, andrea. >> and dr. fauci apparently just told our colleague and present bob costa at "the washington post" that he's glad the president is going out at these briefings and saying important things, i'm paraphrasing here. he was there with dr. deborah birx, yesterday for the first time having a health official at his side, for the first time since april in those briefings but she didn't say anything. >> that's right. these briefings have been very different in nature for that very reason, trandrea, you're absolutely right. this is president trump at the podium by himself. now, he has been very clear that he has been consulting with his top doctors. but the strategy here is to have the president out front after weeks of having him really try to turn the page on this entire

crisis and realizing that that just wasn't working and it wasn't matching the reality of the situation. the fact that you have the crisis surging in various different states. what is notable, andrea, in addition to the stagecraft that you mentioned, president trump aiming to keep these briefings to within a half hour, more concise. he's trying to make them more on-message as well. >> yamiche, we've seen three days of the president trying to project some level of empathy and concern, and showing that he's taking the pandemic seriously, after poll numbers show that he is being really hurt in a number of polls on his leadership on the pandemic. is this a real pivot, and does this mean there's going to be a national plan at some point for testing and all the rest of the issues that have been really plaguing the white house for six months now? >> that, andrea, is the real critical question, is this a real pivot or is this the president for a week or so being

able to stay on message and being able to go out front and not have these long kind of off-the-cuff instincts type of conversation where he kind of floats things that are not true and kind of offers all sorts of explanations for things that just don't seem to be palatable. in this case, the president, having come out for 30 minutes for the last three days, he's said thing he's done, when he's not reading from his notes, is continue to spread misinformation. he says it's going to get worse before it gets better, then when he's not looking at his notes, he says this is going to disappear. the evidence is that this will not disappear. medical experts say the united states is the only industrial country that is having the time we're having with this virus. it doesn't mean the virus isn't completely impacting other states but in the united states we still have not got testing down, we still have not gotten a national plan for masks, we

still have not had real leadership when it comes to face coverings and the mandating of that. so what the president has been doing is really trying to stay on message and trying to turn a corner. but i think it's too early to say that he's completely changed. i think the other thing to note, yesterday, as kristen said, was really a remarkable understanding on his part that things are not going to just be put in the rearview here repomi. he had been fighting for weeks and weeks with health officials who said there cannot be a big convention in florida. when florida started hitting these record highs of deaths, it became clear he could not ignore the obvious and as a result you saw the remarkable treat. but this shows the president is still slow to come to the understanding of just how bad things are when it comes to this virus when you have other people around him sounding the alarm, he's kind of last at the table. you saw that yesterday when he changed the convention. >> and it all is so ironic because the starts and stops

have of course hurt the economy. we're now seeing the economy turning down, again, with a rise in the unemployment claims yesterday, the first time claims. zeke emanuel, let's talk about these hotspots which are a real concern, dr. fauci talked about that with bob costa. let me play that. >> in the states that have been trying to open, particularly the southern states which have gotten into trouble, i would say the first thing is, you don't necessarily have to go all the way back to a complete shutdown. but you certainly have to call a pause and maybe even a backing up a bit. what my advice would be, time out, and maybe go back to a prior checkpoint. >> what do you think of that, dr. emanuel? >> yeah. the fact that the president says it's going to get worse before it gets better, remember, that was a phrase we were hearing in march. we're really right back in

march. there have been a few advances, but, you know, we've wasted the last 4 1/2 months. it is very, very depressing. i do think we need to dial back. we need to dial back indoor gyms, we need to dial back indoor restaurants, indoor bars, indoor beauty parlors, massage parcel parlors. we need to get back to essentials. we need to mandate face masks. we know these public health can work. we've seen it in other countries, in new york, connecticut, new jersey, and rhode island. we have to do this nationwide, collectively. we've realized you can't do something in new york, let florida do whatever it wants. the virus travels. so we have to actually do our part all together, collectively. and, you know, the president is recognizing that biology trumps political rhetoric. it will do it every day of the week.

>> do you think there is a plateau, as the white house is claiming, and dr. birx was indicating today, a plateau in some of these hotspots, is it beginning to level off? >> i don't think so. i've given you a graph that suggests overinterpreting the data, she seems to -- if the reports are right, she seems to want to overinterpret the data for the positive message. >> we're showing the graph now. >> it looks like it's going up, it goes down for a few days and then back up. it's too early to tell. i only counted eight states where over the last two weeks it seems to have plateaued or decreased. i would be very surprised if we're seeing a sustained plateau. whether we are or not, we're going to have to keep with this for four, six, eight more weeks. and that's the type frame people need to keep in mind.

if we say, we've reached a plateau, we've eased up, that's the mistake. we did that last time, and then we just didn't go all the way down to the baseline like european countries and canada. we need to stick with this. we need a president who understands, we're in this for the next six to eight weeks, and that's really the important thing. >> that has implications for schools that are already going to be opening in some parts of the country in the next month. thank you very much, dr. zeke emanuel, thank you, kristen welker and yamiche alcindor as well. dr. zeke is the author of "which country has the world's best health care" and the co-host of the podcast "making the call." speaking of dr. fauci last night, he took a brief break from his day job to take the mound and throw out the first pitch at nats park here in washington. he spoke to "the washington post's" robert costa about that moment this morning.

>> so was that a flat curve? [ laughter ] >> it went in the wrong direction. i joked around after and said, i used to be a shortstop when i played ball as a young boy, and i thought i was supposed to be throwing to first base. >> that's a reasonable explanation, i think. he was flattening the curve. it was a rate-shortened game, the nationals would have caught up in the final innings, we always do, but the yankees are mond monstrous this year. juan soto has covid and couldn't play. there's still plenty of baseball to come this summer. coming up, adam schiff and nancy pelosi joining the program. stay with us. ning the program. stay with us

local and state officials in oregon say president trump's deployment of federal agents to portland is continuing to cause unrest. the justice department inspector general is investigating whether or not federal agents used excessive force against journalists as well as everything else they did as well as a local judge in portland. this after portland's mayor was teargassed as he joined protesters on wednesday. "the new york times" spoke to some of the protesters. >> people

reinvigorated by seeing how they're treating us. we're going to continue doing this and we're going to continue to do it peacefully. >> tear gas is banned in war and they're using it on our streets. >> joining us is house intelligence chair adam schiff. congressman, you've asked for an explanation from homeland security and now we know the inspector general, michael horwitz, from doj is investigating both there and at lafayette square across from the white house. what is going on here and do you think it's necessary for these troops to be -- these federal agents to be deployed as aggressively as they are? >> no, i don't at all. and i don't think it's appropriate. and what's more, the people in the region don't want the presence of these federal troops, these largely unmarked federal troops. they think it's only going to make it worse, that it's going to be incendiary. and we've seen evidence that people are being grabbed off the

street, hustled into unmarked vehicles by people who are not well-identified, if they're identified at all. and this includes people just peacefully protesting. this is the kind of thing you see in repressive regimes around the world, not in the united states. it's kind of why it's being done. it's being done against the wishes of these local officials by the president of the united states because he feels it's a good campaign issue for him to run on. he is more than willing to create chaos so that he can say that he's a law and order president. once again, i think that is looking out for his interests, and it is not looking out for the national interests in any way, shape, or form. >> local officials in portland say it got a lot worse, there were a couple of hundred protesters, when these camouflage wearing troops, forces, arrived it was very hard to figure out who they were, that they were using excessive force. what the house is saying is there have been protests in portland now for weeks and

weeks, and in fact in chicago, which they were also threatening to send forces to and against the mayor's wishes there, there were all these shootings and deaths the other day. so is there a legitimate need for more federal action to bolster the local officials? >> look, there are certainly places in the country that could use additional help when those local officials want it, and provided that that help is directed in ways that are useful, if that is directed, for example, against gun running operations or straw purchasers or any number of other traditional purposes for which local law enforcement works with federal law enforcement. but that's not what's going on here, and that's not the president's objective. the objective here is to have a campaign issue. and if it inflames tensions to send troops where they're not wanted, the president is more than willing to do it. and by "troops" i'm at any time

these fatigue-wearing dhs security personnel or people from border patrol. what are they doing in portland? the fact that you have to go to such extraordinary lengths to justify, under this provision or that, why these border agents can be used, shows you what an abuse of the agency it is. so it's not only going to inflame matters, but it also is undermining these agencies because ultimately, the public is not going to respect what they're doing, they're not going to trust these agencies. and when they really are needed, in natural disasters, when they're needed in terms of their real job responsibilities, they're not going to enjoy the confidence of the american people. i'm glad the inspector generals will be investigating, they really need to. >> the director of national intelligence's office issued a statement today on briefings held for the hill and for the campaigns. they say -- the statement says, today we see our adversaries

seeking to compromise the private communications of u.s. political campaigns, candidates and other political targets. our adversaries also seek to compromise our election infrastructure and we continue to monitor malicious cyber actors trying to gain access to u.s. state and federal networks including those responsible for managing elections. however, the diversity of election systems among the states, multiple checks and redundancies in those systems and post election auditing will make it extraordinarily difficult for foreign adversaries to broadly disrupt or change vote tallies without detection. i want to boil that down with you, they are talking about china, russia, and iran. the president talked about putin yesterday, there's no indication from the readout that he even raised this issue. do you have the same confidence that the dni seems to have that elections can be held safely, that the results, the tallies, can be audited, especially balls of the white house opposition to mail-in balloting and refusal to go along with the money that's been put into the house bill to -- and also a senate version,

to act on that bill, the klobuchar/langford bill, to have additional money for election security. >> i don't have that confidence at all. and i think that our adversaries, in particular the russians, are going to amplify the false messages that the president is putting out about, well, you can't trust absentee ballots even though that's how the president votes. the russians will look for any divide they can to sow chaos in the united states, and what better way than to amplify false information about how millions of americans cast their votes? but i want to say this also, andrea. i've been urging those in the intelligence community to level with the american people about what's going on, to bring them into the conversation so they're armed with good information about what our foreign adversaries are doing. and i have serious concerns about the statement that was just put out, serious concerns in how it gives a false sense of equivalence between what russia is doing, what china is doing, what iran is doing. it is not the same. they don't have the same

capacity. they don't have the same plans. they don't have the same intentions. and by, you know, sort of generically talking about all three, it gives a sense that all three are active in the same ways. they are not. and what's more, in the warnings that are given, they're so generic in some ways as to be meaningless. to say the russians, for example, are merely trying to denigrate those that are part of an anti-russia establishment i think is so meaningless as to be unuseful in any way. but more than that, in what it omits, that the intelligence community does know, i think it's misleading to the american people. so they're going to need to do a lot better than that if americans are going to be armed with the information they need to protect their franchise. >> i want to ask you about china, because we have closed the houston consulate, and they have responded by closing the u.s. consulate or ordering it closed in chengdu as well as the

accusation from mike pompeo, slamming china's leader president xi as totalitarian, saying the chinese people have to rise up against the communist party. the most aggressive language we have heard yet from an administration that as recently as march, the president was praising president xi for his handling of the pandemic. so what do you think is going on here, is the closure and this escalation justified, will it backfire, is it political? >> well, let me start with your last question. is it political, the answer is absolutely. as john bolton pointed out, and i have a lot of mixed views about john bolton, the president's foreign policy decisions are guided by one factor only, what's in it for donald trump. some months ago, as you point out, he was praising president xi, praising his transparency and his handling of the virus. sometime before that, as bolton points out, he was begging president xi to help his reelection campaign.

the president has now decided that getting into a confrontation with china is helpful to his reelection, it helps, he hopes, make concerns about the pandemic go away, it helps makes memories of his praise of china just a couple of months ago of their handling of the pandemic go away. that's the political goal. now, don't mistake me, china is a bad actor. they steal our intellectual property, they engage in espionage. they're guilty of a great many malign activities and they should be held to account. but this very dramatic and sudden escalation with china with all about politics. i think the american people recognize that, i think china recognizes that. ultimately what does that to to our relationship in the long term, it's hard to say. but this kind of schizophrenia, hey, china, please help my presidential campaign, and then china is the evil empire, this

hey, president xi is doing a great job, my great friend, being transparent about the virus, now he's attacked. you get whipsawed by this administration. the only determination is what they think is best for his reelection prospects. >> we have to leave it there. chairman schiff, thanks for joining us today. as coronavirus cases mount, millions of americans are facing eviction as the economic pain caused by the pandemic persists and federal protections run out. speaker nancy pelosi joins us in a few moments as we hear from those hardest hit. >> i mean, it could happen to anybody. i didn't understand, for me, that it can happen to anybody. bigger network, but a better one than ever before, with scam protection built into its core. introducing, scamshield, free from t-mobile.

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tomorrow the temporary protection banning mortgage evictions during the pandemic is set to expire. that puts millions of americans at risk of losing their homes in the middle of a recession, a recession that may be getting worse. many state level evictions bans have already expired. we talked to a mother of two in milwaukee who are facing eviction from their home of three years. >> and i felt like i wasn't a good mom. [ crying ] that i couldn't -- that i

wasn't -- that i couldn't give them the best -- that i put myself in this situation. my daughter looks to me as her hero, because she always says that to me. but that one time i just didn't feel that way. that's because i couldn't -- every parent wants to give their kid a home. [ crying ] it felt like you just couldn't do that at the time. like, i missed the mark. i let them down. i and my kids going through the same thing, boiling water, being able to clean themselves, being able to cook. i'm sorry. [ crying ] my kids look at me like i'm everything. >> oh, my gosh.

mercedes has a place to stay for now, she got last-minute help from the county where she lives. morgan radford joins me. morgan, she did not miss the mark, our government missed the mark. this is just devastating. >> you're seeing, andrea, the toll, emotionally and otherwise, for people like mercedes, who is one of 28 million people in our country right now who are facing eviction. and experts estimate that we are actually going to see homelessness as a whole jump by 45%, that's just by the end of this summer, andrea. so you're seeing right now this almost perfect storm of really tragic factors happening all at once. not only do you have this raging pandemic that's looming in the background, but you have that $600 boost to unemployment that's set to expire this month. and then on top of that you have a federal ban on moratoriums, essentially a great period that is set to expire for certain

families in those federally-backed properties by tomorrow. then across the country you have state bans that have expired, states have said, look, we understand the pandemic has adversely affected a huge part of our population so we're making sure that you can't be evicted during this time period. well, that's no more in a lot of these states. so you're seeing more and more families just like mercedes. we've talked to the families in texas, in louisiana, and wisconsin. this is something experts we'll see more of, after an -- an avalanche, a tsunami, if you will, of evictions. >> thank you so much, morgan. house speaker nancy pelosi joins me next. now rudy's 13, and going on 3. ♪

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unemployment benefits, the additional $600 a week from the stimulus, are set to expire along with protection from evictions and a host of other desperately needed economic relief during this pandemic. house speaker nancy pelosi joins me now from the capitol. madam speaker, thank you so much. we just played an interview with mercedes gorges, she's being evicted from her house in milwaukee, she has two children, she was literally weeping on camera about letting her kids down and not even having a place to boil water for them, that they look up to her as their hero. i was overwhelmed by it. i'm sure our viewers were. and yet the democrats have yet to hear from a united republican approach on a bill. you know how long it's been since you passed legislation. but everyone is going to be

blamed. the president, the senate, and the democratic house, by americans who are just hurting as this recession gets worse. >> it's not about blame of the democratic house. we have put forth our resolution two months and nine days ago. >> no, i know. >> and also in addition to that, specifically for rent, we did a couple of weeks ago, on a monday, under the leadership of maxine waters. but regardless of how we assign blame or point fingers, the fact is, as you describe, millions, tens of millions of people are out of work. and now we've reached 4 million people infected by this virus. and the senate republicans have decided to take the weekend off. but let's get more to the family that you described. these are the people that we as democrats are in congress to fight for. these are the kitchen table concerns that are repeated

across the country. thank you for showing that story, because nothing is more eloquent or more clearly drives home the message than the personal stories. right now, we're in a situation where people will be evicted from their homes and they are starving. there's food insecurity across america. millions of children are hungry. these are kitchen table issues. out of work, out of money, how far food, out of the house. and again, there are answers to this. they are answers that have a basis of what we've done before. i for the life of me cannot understand why the republicans in congress hold it against people without, shall we say, a trust fund or something, why they can't get through this on their own. food. food stamps. we're trying to increase the level of food assistance. and they resist that. rent. now, do you understand, people

will be on the street and people are hungry. this is the united states of america. so let's find out how we can work together to go forward. we were hopeful the other day when we met with the secretary of the treasury, leader schumer and i, to talk about these issues. then within 24 or 48 hours, they were going to come back with their bill. and of course our bill, as i said, eigit's lean and mean, it exactly what we need. it sounds like a lot of money but the challenge is a big one. it took 100 days, 100 days to get to 1 million infected people in our country. it took half that time to get to 2 million. it took a quarter of that time, 27 days, to get to 3 million and it took 16 days to get to 4 million. this thing is accelerating. accelerating. why? because delay, denial,

distortion. now, finally, hopefully, we will be able to get a bill that holds this in check so we can open our schools and our economy with testing, tracing, treating. we can put money in the pockets of the american people. we can honor our heroes with state and local funds. and they're missing in action. >> the president also in the last day repealed the an antisegregated housing action for the suburbs. he's being criticized as, frankly, race baiting, with a pitch to suburban women voters, a cohort he is losing in recent polls. his pitch is to, quote, suburban housewives of america. does that sound like we're going back to the 1950s? >> it sounds like condescension and disrespect, is what it does, and it also sounds like discrimination and fear baiting, he's just fearmongering. it's just a ball of his tricks that he does all the time.

bigotry, fearmongering, condescension, and distortion. but you know what? american women are smarter than that. again, the "housewives" part was interesting. i loved being a housewife when i was a housewife but i had other things as well and i had judgment. it's sort of in the same vein of mr. yoho, and i'm proud of congresswoman ocasio-cortez, as a grandmother of two young granddaughters and a mother of four during the course, i'm saying, you go, congresswoman. it's the same condescension and disrespect. >> i wanted to play a little bit of her very impactful speech yesterday. let's watch. >> what i believe is that having a daughter does not make a man decent. having a wife does not make a

decent man. treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man. and when a decent man messes up, as we all are bound to do, he tries his best and does apologize. not to save face, not to win a vote. >> it strikes me that the importance of having so many more women in the house is that there is more diversity and there was diversity, there was strength in that diversity with the other women house members backing her up, and importantly, you backing her up. >> of course. well, you know, what was clear from what she said is that what happened that day was his problem and continues to be his problem. she's not taking any insult from him in terms of any diminishment of competence that she has as to who she is.

we couldn't have been prouder. >> i want to talk about schools. you mentioned -- >> if i may say, he may have thought he had license to do that because of the language that the president has used in regard to women in the course of his life, and that is well-known to people. and perhaps accepted as something that passes for civilized in certain circles on the republican side of the aisle. >> she and you have certainly made it clear that that language is not acceptable, if it ever was, anymore. but i did want to ask you about schools because you talked about the importance of getting everything back on track and how there are these hotspots. if it's not safe now for the president to hold the republican convention in jacksonville, why is it safe to reopen schools? >> well, good question. and i would add to that, when

someone tested positive working in a cafeteria in the white house complex, they shut down the cafeteria and they tested and trace d beyond that. why wouldn't they do that for our children in the schools? the safety of our children, as i've said to you before, i'm willing to be respectful of everybody's space, but you come near our cubs, you hurt our cubs, you're dead. so just don't take any risks with america's children. and we all want them to be back in school. as a grandmother of nine, we want them to be in school, they want to be in school with their friends, their parents want them in school, their teachers want to teach them in school. but we have to have safety there, at least as much safety as in the white house cafeteria. and again, it takes money to do

that, to have the spacing. you need more space. you need more teachers. to be in school, you need to have clean ventilation. that takes resources. we have just that in our heroes act. and i think we're going to need more. and the secretary of education, what did she say, children should take risks, astronauts take risks. what are we talking about here? what world do these people live in? they don't understand that people need food, that they need unemployment insurance, that they need housing, that their children need safety in schools. >> madam speaker, thank you so much. thanks for being with us. >> thank you, my pleasure. and stay right where you are, live from home, it's colin jost, the "snl" star telling us what life is like in isolation for those trying to bring us laughter in these tough times. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. "andrea mitchl reports" on msnbc. gimme two minutes.

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let's go. >> yeah! >> it's wonderful to see my beautiful castmates on this technological approach to trying to do a live show. >> and live from zoom it's sometime between march and august! >> yeah! >> "saturday night live" upended by the pandemic as all the rest of us are and as most live comedy shows have been. the show getting creative to assemble remote skits working from home like the rest of us

with the help of some famous friends like brad pitt taking on the role of dr. fauci. >> it's going to disappear. one day it's like a miracle. it will disappear. >> a miracle would be great. who doesn't love miracles? but miracles shouldn't be plan a. >> anybody that these a test gets a test. >> when he said everyone can get a test, what he meant was almost no one. >> you can call it a germ. you can call it a flu. you can call it a virus. you can call it many different names. i'm not sure anybody even knows what it is. >> we know what it is. >> joining me now, "saturday night live" head writer and "weekend update" co-writer colin jost. his memoir is titled "a very punchable face." it's on the "new york times" best-seller list, of course. colin, let's talk about how hard it has been for you to be as isolated as everyone is working from home. how are you experiencing the

coronavirus lockdown? >> well, yeah. you miss -- for us at "snl" you miss your castmates, you know, if you don't get o'see people and you don't get to work in person. i think as comedians we would all love to be there because we have very little concern for our own health and well-being. but you have to think about other people too. you have to think about your families and people who we work with who are at risk. so you have to kind of balance that. but we're hoping to get back in the studio and be there in the fall if it's possible. >> do you think it will be possible? this is an election year, which is always of course, you know, prime time for late night -- for you at "snl" and for all the work that you do. could you get through the election and get back in the studio at 8h? >> you know, that's both a legal question i don't know and a lonlistical question i don't know yet.

but we're going to do everything we can. i mean, it would certainly be nice to be in the most normal situation there that's possible. but i don't know. we don't know how things are going to go right now. >> when you do get back, how do you tackle the other major crisis in the country besides the pandemic, which is the national reckoning over racism? how do you strike a balance? you've always done racial humor, you've pushed the edge, pushed the envelope. do you change the way you write your skits and your jokes? do you have to be more sensitive now? is it a tonal thing? >> so much of it's week to week i think -- we were obviously off in the summer. i think in the past couple years there have definitely been sketches on the show that i think were -- you know, people thought were some of the best sketches that dealt with things around race. but it's obviously -- it's

tricky and i think the summer's also been a time to listen and take time to reflect in a way that we don't always have time to do in the middle of the season. i'm curious to see what happens when we come back and how that's all dealt with. >> in your book you wrote about having trump co-host -- or host the show back in 2015 and you write that "there have been some hosts over the years who are real confederate statues of entertainment and that episode of "snl" has not aged well politically or comedically." your thoughts on that today. >> yeah, i think it's -- you know, i write about it in the book because i wanted people to have a sense of what that was like behind the scenes. just look at this clip that's playing. i mean, all these clips are so surreal when you look back. and i think it also speaks to

what he's done and how he can feel turning or even manipulative sometimes with people. and you see it. think about all the people in his administration he's gone through who have learned that lesson and are now also writing books about it. but you know, i wanted people to be able to understand what was going on while he hosted and what that week was like because it was a pretty weird week for us on a lot of levels. >> and the fact that you write about how he actually came more than justin timberlake that week, he was just there for every rehearsal. he had the time even though he's running a national campaign. >> yeah. and again, i think most people assumed in america too that it would be burned out at that point and maybe even that campaign would have been over, but instead he was fully in the middle of a campaign and somehow was also there hosting our show

every day. that's a pretty strange thing f too. >> the book is "a very punchable face." i think also your grandma -- maybe your grandma was joking about now that you've done "weekend update" who knows, you could do nbc "nightly news." >> she was definitely not joking. that is still her goal for me, is that i can transition from "weekend update" to being what she calls a real news anchor. and i look forward to that day. we'll see. >> trading places. we love it. thank you so much. thanks for being with us. and congratulations on the book being on the best-sellers list. that is great too. >> thank you very much. thanks, andrea. >> thank you. stay safe. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." and of course this sunday remembrances for civil rights icon representative john lewis beginning with a procession over the edmund pettus bridge. that begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning.

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