majority and possibly trump's chances in kansas. as our friend rachel says, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back right here tomorrow night. i know where i will be. i'll see you tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern. "first look" is up next. president trump claims the coronavirus is down. the virus is spreading. new york governor andrew cuomo lashes out at the president and the administration's response to the pandemic calling it, quotes, the worst government blunder in modern history. good tuesday morning,

everybody. it is august 4th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. let's start with the coronavirus. so despite the number of cases here in the united states climbing and the death toll growing, the president is continuing to paint a rosy picture of this pandemic. right now infections are surging in some midwestern states that did not previously have high case rates. over the past week, missouri, montana, and oklahoma have seen a large increase in the percentage of case numbers and there are new warning signs in new jersey. a state that appeared to have flattened its curve, nbc news is showing the cases have spiked 175% in the last two weeks, but the president claiming yesterday that the u.s. is starting to see declining signs. >> we're beginning to see evidence of significant progress. i have to add that the virus is

rece receding. in hot spots across the south and west, we've seen slow improvements from their recent weekly peaks. we must focus on the flare-ups where new cases have risen including georgia, mississippi, texas, oklahoma, and missouri. i think you're going to find they're very soon going to be under control. >> so the president's message there stands in stark contrast to what his own health experts are saying. as a reminder, i want to play foryou what dr. deborah birx said just the day before those remarks from the president. >> what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal urban arias. for those in the rural areas, you are not immune or protected from this virus. that's why we keep say nothing matter where you live in america, you need to wear a mask and socially distance.

>> so the president also continued to in cyst yesterds i hydro hydroxychloroquine is effective even though his own health experts say otherwise. >> it has tremendous support but it's politically toxic because i supported it. if i would have said do not use hydroxychloroquine under any circumstance, they would have come out and said it was a great thing. many doctors have come out and said it works. >> dr. fauci said it doesn't work. >> i don't agree. i like him. i get along with him great. but hi department want to ban people coming in from china, but i overrode him and did the right thing. he said masks don't work a short while ago.

he's not bad person. i like him. but we disagree on things. >> all right. so just to be clear here, dr. anthony fauci, he has repeatedly dismissed hydroxychloroquine calling it ineffective in treating the virus, and on sunday admiral brett giroir said we need to move on from hydroxychloroquine. also, in discussing the threat of coronavirus spread, the president pointed to significant flare-ups overseas. >> we're doing very well with the vaccines and therapeutics. flare-ups in spain, germany, france, australia, japan, and also as you probably heard, in hong kong, they've had some very serious flare-ups. japan has gone -- yeah, a lot of -- six-fold flare-up.

that's a lot. but they'll get it under control. >> all right. i want to take a closer look here and fact-check the president a bit. as you see here, the united states recorded far more deaths on august 1st than any of the other countries mentioned there by the president. the president's re-election campaign sends an email to supporters urging them to wear face masks in public saying to do so is, quote, patriotic. he's demeaned the use of masks against him as political. an email sent under the president's name entight ld patriots wear face masks reads in part this. we're all in this together, and while i know there has been some confusion surrounding the usage of face masks, i think it's something we should all try to do when we are not able to be socially distanced from others. it continues. i don't love wearing them

either. masks may be goorksd they can be okay. or they may be great. they can possibly help us get back to our american way of life that so many of us routefully cherished before we were so terribly impacted by -- and he uses these words -- the china virus. jackie manning, thank you for joining us, getting up so early this morning. we appreciate it. i'm not sure where to start. we covered a lot in the first six minutes or so, but let's talk about hydroxychloroquine because this president continues to insist on hydroxychloroquine when we've had study after study after study saying not only is it ineffective, it can actually be harmful and kill folks if they have certain conditions. what do you make of it?

>> yeah, and i think that top line is what, you know, i want to lead with and emphasize, that there are no signs. additional studies came out that didn't show any connection, but the president has continued to latch on to hydroxychloroquine. it's, you know, sort of in place of masks. it's taken the place in this culture war, what he's used to tout to his defenders, that anything he tries do immediately becomes criticized if he latches onto it. that's what he's saying. i talked to aides and officials last week about this who told me, you know, that they believed that the president was still holding onto this because it represented a glimmer of hope, a

glimpse of positive news throughout the pandemic when there hasn't been in. that being said, that doesn't change the actual science behind the drug, which isb5 that it's t proven to be helpful in curing covid-19. >> can we go with that glimmer of hope here because it seems more than a glimmer of hope, this rosy picture of what we're talking about with regard to this pandemic. when you look at the numbers, it tells a true story when you have 150,000 people dying from this pandemic just in the last four or five months. i think the big question is in painting this, quote/unquote, rosy outlook, is it clouding his judgment on how to respond to this crisis, and is he making it all about november? >> yeah. it's not just clouding his judgment. he's willingly ignoringing tingt

that 152,000 are dead. it's hitting the midwestern states. it's hitting the rural as well as suburban areas. we have to be embracing it. the president obviously did not like those comments over the weekend an for the first time he attacks dr. birx who, you know, has received some negative views and criticisms amongst critical health experts for enabling and facilitating the president's overly sunny take on the pandemic previously and has lead to the president's miss guide and poor decision-making process this. weekend when dr. birx offered some blunt talk, you know, to cnn in response to house speaker nancy pelosi's criticism, the president was not happy about that, dismissed her comments, called her pathetic, and then went to a white house briefing

yesterday and said the exact opposite of what dr. birx had recommended. recommended that the school should be open and the country was doing fine. he continued to hang onto this argument he's been making that the u.s. is doing better than it's been doing in other countries, but we also know that's not accurate as well and numerous other countries have kept their coronavirus, number of cases and deaths below the u.s. numbers per capita. so i think it's really important to fact-check this president every step along the way because as you have pointed out, he is really clinging to this rosy outlook in order to present, you know, a country that really suspect what he says it is, going into the november election. he wants this virus behind him, but it's not. >> it definitely is not. by the way, we're going to get into that exchange about speaker pelosi later in the show. "washington post" jackie

alemany, thank you. we'll get into that more in a bit. we're getting the clearest picture yet of what led up to this police body camera footage that's been leaked. a warning, some of the images are disturbing. nbc's gabe gutierrez has more. >> let me see your hands. let me see your hands. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> reporter: seconds after rookie police officer thomas lane approaches george floyd's vehicle, he's already gone his vehicle. >> put your hand up. these body camera videos were viewed in person by nbc news last month but had not been distributed publicly. the "daily mail".com said it received this. >> please don't shoot me. >> floyd sons as he tells the officer he's been shot before. for the first time the video shows how a call about a fake $20 bill escalated into an

encounter that would ignite global outrage. they got him out of the car and struggled to get him to the patrol car. >> please. >> stay with me. >> i'm not that kind of guy, man. >> floyd pleads with the officers. saying he has anxiety and that he just recovered from covid-19. >> please, please. my wrist. my wrist, man. my wrist. >> prosecutors have charged the officer who then knelt on floyd's neck with second-degree murder and manslaughter. the other three officers are accused of aiding and abetting him. >> that was nbc's gabe gutierrez

reporting. the minneapolis police department so far has no comment on the body camera videos, neither do the attorneys for three of the four ex-officers. the as you see there, george floyd pleading with the officers for mercy. still ahead, everybody, the fight for president trump's tax rurns ramping up. the manhattan district attorney's office is looking for possible bank and insurance fraud. also hurricane isaias made landfall over north carolina overnight iechlts since been downgraded to a tropical storm. we'll tell you where it's headed, and we'll have a check of your weather coming up. d we'k of your weather coming up. at t-mobile, we have a plan built just for customers 55 and up.

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suggested they may be he argues the latest attempt to stop the subpoenas for the eight years of his financial documents is a delaying tactic and it should be dismissed. the prosecutor carrie dunn said it rests on the false premise that the grand jury's investigation leads to hush money payment in 2016. dunn goes on by saying undisputed assertion in earlier court filings that prosecutors say document possible criminal conduct at the trump organization. the president was asked for a reaction to the broader investigation at the coronavirus briefing. >> this is just a continuation of the witch hunt. it's democrat stuff. they failed with mueller. they failed with everything. they failed with congress. they failed at every stage of

the game. >> joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning. good to see you this morning. >> good morning. >> talk to me about this. is the judge likely to find the subpoena overbroad? >> no, he's likely to find the opposite, i guess, which is underbroad. the trump argument here is the grand jury subpoenas are overbroad because the investigation, they say, was always about hush money payments to women and that's it. it's limited to that. and vance's response is essentially, no, you're the only one saying that. we never said it's limited to michael cohen. it might be much broader than that. and all that stuff you've been seeing, yeah, take a look at that, and that is -- you can say that's the scope of our subpoena. you have to understand that grand jury subpoenas enjoy a

presumption of validity. so the burden is really on the trump team to quash the subpoenas or strike them down. a court is going to give deference to grand jury subpoena in a case like this. >> so two things here. are they not required to basically be forthcoming about exactly what it is that they are investigating? and what happens if cy vance wins? is it finally over and the documents go to the grand jury? >> they're definitely not required to because that's the entire purpose of grand jury investigations. they're secret. they're conducted in secret. no defense attorneys are allowed in the room. people are not allowed to talk about what they did in the grand jury room. so if the entire purpose of grand jury investigations are secrecy so other people are not hurt by the information, then it makes sense that prosecutors

don't routinely have to disclose what their purpose is in convening. and if the trump team loses in theory, they can resume their tactic of appealing, appealing, appealing, and they've lost at virtually every level. so if they did appeal, i don't know how much more clock they can run out with any court that's passed thon issue. they may pass on it much faster than they did before. >> just quickly, do you feel like there's going to be resolution on this before november? >> i think there may be, but november is so soon, and knowing how slow the courts t s typical move, this is no typical case. and like i said, most of the issues have been ruled upon. this may be the rare case where the court can expedite a final

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with the president criticizing white house l coordinator dr. deborah birx on twitter yesterday for saying the pandemic was extraordinarily widespread as she put it. in a tweet the president wrote in part this. so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr.

deborah birx going after her because she's too positive on combatting the china virus including vaccines and the therapeut therapeutics. in oert to counter that, she took the bait and hit us. pathetic. >> you said dr. birx was taking bait from speaker pelosi. what did you mean by that? >> i think we're doing very well, and i think that we have done as well as any nation. i told dr. birx i think we're doing very well. she was in my office a little while ago. she's a person i have a lot of respect for. >> so the nation's top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci came to, by's defense yesterday agreeing the u.s. is in a new phase as he put it in the pandemic in which the virus is now spreading uncontrolled in some states by asymptomatic people. >> what dr. birx was referring

to was the prevalence now in the united states as a nation, particularly in some of the states that are having surging of infection is what's called inherent community spread. it's much more difficult to get your arms around that and contain it. it's insidious. there are people who are spreading it who have no symptoms at all. that's what she meant by a different phase of where we're going right now because it isn't easily identifiable who these spreaders are. >> all right. let's talk 2020 for a moment. so the "washington post" is reporting that the president's attacks on mail balloting are discouraging his own supporters from embracing it, prompting concern that the strategy is threatening gop prospects in november. it's showing a growing divide

between democrats and republicans about the security of voting by mail. republicans claim they are far less likely to trust the process in november. as a result, state and local republicans across the country fear they're falling behind in getting voters to actually sign up for absentee voting, which is expecting to be key for this year's election. now, some republican officials have tried to draw a distinction between, quote/unquote, absentee ballots which trump claims are secure and mail-in ballots which he has repeatedly attacked. the terms are used interchangeably. the reports show that rnc chairwoman mcdaniel have warned the president that his rhetoric is complicating republican turnout efforts. meanwhile the-7 president has threatened legal action against nevada after the state passed a bill to expand mail-in voting and left the door open on a

potential executive action to counter mail-in voting. >> they're using covid to try and get the mail-in ballots. now, absentee ballots are great. absentee ballots, after they request them, they go through a process. they get them. but the universal mail-in ballots have turned out to be a disaster. what nevada has been doing, you have to look at what they've done. you can have two ballots. it's harvesting. so you can take thousands of ballots, put them together, dump them on somebody's desk after a certain period of time. they have something where if you vote t vote can count up to seven days later. if the vote is going to count seven days later, if it depends on the one state like nevada, that would mean you can't have -- supposing it's down to one state. it could be. it's a great state. but supposing it's down to one state. that means you have to wait

seven days. but they won't have it there. again, absentee is great. it works. like in florida, it really works. but universal mail-in ballots is going to be a great embarrassment to our country. >> we have a right do it. we haven't got therein yet. we'll see what happens. we will be suing in nevada, and that's already been taken care of. >> hmm. having to wait on one state. that's interesting. i think we've heard that before. so a quick fact-check here. by the way, there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the united states according to numerous investigations and studies at nearly all election proceedings there on a state-by-state basis or enshrined in the constitution. and according to the ap vote, there's no precedent to try to curtail mail-in ballots by executive order. johning inin inin ining me aga

"washington post," jackie alema alemany. wouldn't it be insane if we had to wait on one state for the election results? that's happened before where we waited on one state where things had to be recounted. is there any chance at all, jackie, from your perspective that trump would actually sign an executive order to counter mail-in voting, and do you think republicans would stand for it? >> look. there is no precedent or authority for trump to curtail the practice. that's something that is established. and it's something i think that we also discussed last week when the president claimed that he could move the election day from november 3rd because of the coronavirus. that being said, it is possible that the president could sign a piece of paper to formalize his opposition to the practice, but

let's be very clear. as you just pointed out, there is no substantive difference between absentee and mail-in voting. the paper is mailed to you, and you mail the ballots back. the president has unfounded facts as we've reported the last week are hurting his own party. they're discouraging people, his own supporters. and it's causing his own local state fw op parties to actually have to device more creative ways to reach their supporters who are, you know, accepting this messaging from the president that it is a fraudulent practice. i talked with glen bulger who told me he received a survey back from a swing state which he wouldn't disclose that showed only 15% of republican voters are planning to cast their ballots by mail that were trump supporters some of the president

is putting his party in a different position. he claims he has the authority on this, but it's really unclear what he could do to curtail the practice. >> could we quickly talk about the criticism of dr. deborah birx here? we saw what happened with dr. anthony fauci and no longer appearing by the side of the president and a lot of back-and-forth between fauci and the president. what do you make now of the criticism of dr. birx and do you feel like the president is losing confidence in her? >> yes. the walls are caving in for dr. deborah birx. not only is she incurring the wrath of nancy pelosi but now the president is calling her pathetic. she was in the group closest to the white house and president who was in his favor, delivering rosy optimistic news that the president embraced, but the tides have turned. our reporting shows the

president has become increasingly frustrated with dr. birx, associates her with the failure of his administration's handling of the pandemic and she's being pushed further and further out from the inner circle of the decision process that's happening in the white house between, you know, chief of staff mark meadows and jared kushner. not only that, but her credibility is taking a big hit amongst activists and medical professionals who have worked with her throughout her three-decades-long career. >> jackie alemany with the "washington post." thank you. still ahead, governor cuomo's rebuke of the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. k at "morni" is back in a moment.

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ripped into the president's response to the coronavirus pandemic and rush to reopen the economy. >> the president of the united states said five months ago, reopen the economy, liberate the states, liberate the economy. these governors are slow walking reopening they're just plain politics. that's what they're doing. there's no reason not to reopen the economy. hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. florida jumps, texas jumps, arizona jumps. yes, we're just going to reopen the economy. that was a mistake. it was an untruth. it denied the science. denied what they're saying now. the virus will spread if you do th that. >> we're six months later, and these states still don't have testing and contact tracing. how can it be? you had six months. here in new york we had two

weeks. we were ambushed because the virus came from europe and nobody told us. these other states had six months. how did you not set up a testing operation? how did you not expand the capacity of your hospital system? how did you not locate additi additional staff? how did you not locate additional ppe? you had six months. the reason they didn't, they were listening to the president. >> this was a colossal blunder how covid was handled by the federal government. colossal blunder. shame on all of you. >> okay. still ahead, the president says he's willing to allow microsoft to buy the chinese app tiktok but only if the government gets a lot of money in the exchange. also in the hot seat over privacy concerns.

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welcome back. the ongoing debate over the tiktok ban escalates after the president said the u.s. should receive a share of the company's sales. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum joins us. what is the latest on this and good morning, by the way. >> good morning to you. this has been a fascinating story to watch develop. president has banned tiktok in the united states as a security risk. now we're looking at microsoft buying it from the chinese owners. president trump now yesterday suggesting that the u.s. treasury should be paid a, quote, substantial amount of money for facilitating a potential deal for microsoft to buy the operation from bytedance. so suggesting that the u.s. treasury deserves a finder's

fee, this kind of scenario would be without precedent. so this is certainly one to continue watching. now, elsewhere in the social media space, twitter could be facing an ftc fine of up to all it violated an agreement over user data privacy. the ftc has been investigating the company for a while now alleging twitter inproperly targeted ads at users based on information they gave for security purposes. twitter admitted they targeted users last years based on information people gave for their accounts. and twitter has been under scrutiny recently after the hacking of several high profile accounts. let's talk about the deal they're trying to make in washington. so you have the speaker, speaker pelosi, saying she doesn't see a

deal on the next coronavirus relief bill until next week. give us more what you have on th this. and also, is there any indication that folks would get back pay if they were able to extend the unemployment insurance? >> speaker pelosi saying it's unlikely we'll get a deal this week. the if we get an agreement it's likely to come next week. the key areas of the dispute remain around the extension of the jobless benefits as well as legal protection that would shield companies from liabilities if a worker becomes infected with coronavirus after reopening. and congressional leaders have come to a stand still here. they have come to a large agreement on the stimulus, checks another round of those. but on the other issues we remain divided. it'll be a long week no doubt about it and we'll watch

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welcome back, everybody. joining me now with a look at axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, the man of the hour after that interview, jonathan. and i want you to take us through it from your perspective. so give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> thank you. the one big thing is the interview that aired last night on hbo with president trump. look, there are many noteworthy

moments in this interview. it runs, i think, close to 40 minutes. but for me one of the most striking sections of the interview is when president trump whips out his own charts to try and make the case in contravention of all available evidence that the u.s. is leading the world on the coronavirus. this is a time when more than at the point the interview was filmed, more than 145,000 americans have died from the virus and 1,000 americans were dying a day. >> take a look at some of these charts -- >> i'd love to. >> we're going to look. >> let's look. >> if you look at death per -- >> it's starting to go up again. >> well, right here, the united states is lowest in numerous categories, we're lower than the world -- >> lower than the world? what does that mean? >> lower than europe. >> in what? >> take a look. >> right here.

here's case death. >> you're doing death as a portion of cases. >> i'm talking about it as a portion of the population. that's where the u.s. is bad, much less than south korea, germany, et cetera. >> you can't do that. >> the way that clip ends is him saying you can't do that. what i was doing was pointing out that when you look at death count as a proportion of population, the u.s. is in horrible shape. horrible shape. and when you compare america to other advanced countries like south korea and germany, who managed to do testing early and effective contact tracing, it's not even close. i just found this, you know, as a matter of history and this moment stunning. you have the president of the united states denying what is in

front of him, which is a death count that when you look at it and you match it up against other advanced countries, it cannot in way be described as a good outcome. but that's exactly what he's trying to do. it's applying salesmanship that works in the world of real estate and reality television to the worst pandemic in a century. >> it's ignoring fact-based -- wanting to paint a rosie picture in the country and ignoring 150,000 people that have died over the last six months. i want to get to more of this because there were so many fascinating parts of this interview because you spoke about mail-in voting here. i want to play a bit of that. >> you know, you could have a case where this election won't be decided on the evening of

november 3rd. >> what's wrong with that? >> it could be decided two months later. >> have you discussed -- >> you know why? lots of things will happen during that period of time, especially if you have tight margins, lots of things happen. >> we saw it happen in 2000 when we had to wait on election results. it's seems as if this president is really against mail-in voting because it feels it's going to hurt him in the election. >> i'll be quick here, but reporters have an obligation to explain to voters and said expectations about the election. we are in likelihood not going to know the results on election night unless it's a blow out because there's going to be a much larger volume of mail-in voting. it's a pandemic and we need to establish those facts rather than allowing other theories to fill that space. >> jonathan swan, thank you as always.

great to see you this morning and great interview. that does it for me on this tuesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. president donald j. trump is a working class president. >> i'm rich. >> this campaign is going to match his work ethic. >> i'm an ivy league, i went to ivy league college, i went to wharton school, which is the best business school in the world. >> he's a working class president -- >> i just sold an apartment for $15 million. >> it's all too much. this is -- they shutdown the campaign -- it's like, meltdown, meltdown at the core and homer simpson turns it off. when we turn it on we'll say mr. burns is working class here. it's not going to work. the campaign is trying