i'm talking to the control room right now and we're doing what we can to get that posted online on twitter as soon as we can just so we can circulate that news that the ambassador just made. we'll do our best to get that up as quickly as we can and be back with more tomorrow. the president is once again claiming the coronavirus will just go away. also facebook and twitter remove a comment by the president making a false claim that children are almost immune to the virus. and on capitol hill, the white house is putting the pressure on democrats, hinting that the president may soon step in if no deal is reached. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, august 6th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. let's start with the

coronavirus. the u.s. averaging more than a thousand daily deaths from the virus for a tenth straight day yesterday. in addition to more than 51,000 new cases. this is coming as announcements from the "associated press" that testing is down by 3.6% over the past two weeks. 22 states saw the decline, according to the report. that includes places like alabama, mississippi, and iowa, indicating, quote, where the percentage of positive tests is high and continuing to climb. meanwhile the president can continues to claim the virus will just disappear. >> the country's in very good

shape, and we're set to rock and roll. >> this authentic's going away. it will go away like things go away. >> it will go away like things go away, absolutely. no question in my mind, it will go away. please, go ahead. frankly, sooner rather than later. >> all right. so white house negotiators, they're pressuring democrats to bend on their demands for the next coronavirus relief bill or else the president is going to step in. republicans prepare to walk away and rely on an executive action if an agreement is not reached by tomorrow. >> by friday if we haven't made significant progress and we're just too far apart, the president's prepared to take executive action. >> if congress can't get it done, the president of the united states will. >> so we've got two democratic sources who are telling msnbc

news that white house negotiators, they've offered to extend the eviction moratorium and shell out $400 more per week in unemployment insurance through december. that is up, but democrats say they're not take anything less than reinstating the $600 payments, which expired in july. >> many families are concerned about being evicted. tens of millions of people who are on unemployment insurance, they have to come to an agreement that meets the needs of the american people. >> i feel optimistic that there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but how long that tunnel is remains to be seen. >> all right. let's talk 20 for a moment and mail-in voting. so democratic congressman peterson talks about policies put in place by a top donor.

they've caused mail-in delays, prescriptions, absentee ballots in days-long backlogs. the "washington post" say mail carriers were instructed to leave mail behind if they're running late. a lot of workers have been told to leave it for the afternoon. the measures have alarmed and frustrated postal workers who are already facing christmastime levels of package volumes in some areas due to the increase, of course, of online shopping during this pandemic. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer telling the head of the postal service, they're essential

ingredients of a new coronavirus relief bill in the new year when millions of americans are planning to vote by mail. and a top senate republican pushed back against president trump's unsubstantiated claims that mail-in voting leads to fraud. he says, mail-in voting has been used in a lot of places for a long time. i don't want to discourage. we want to ensure people it works and it's is cure and if they vote that way, lit count. joining me now, associate editor for politico, anita kumar. thanks for joining us this morning. good to see you. let's talk through this relief bill and the negotiations that are going on. at this point a lot of americans were hoping something would get passed because they're no longer seeing that $600 addition to

their unemployment paychecks. what is the latest? where are we, and what is the likelihood that something could pass tomorrow? >> it does not seem likely anything will pass tomorrow, and i think the senate is already prepared to stay in next week. they had thought they would be gone. this would be the start of their august recess. it looks like they would be here next week. you hit on a couple of big points, the postal service and how much would be going to them. you mentioned the unemployment benefits, which have really been the problem from the beginning, this disagreement on what that extension should be. as you mentioned, democrats are not budging from their $600 a week, which is the status quo. actually it's not the stat us quo, but it was. you mentioned the third thing that's tying them up as well, which is a huge chunk of money that democrats would like to go to state and local governments that really need this money.

they had almost a trillion dollars for this, and the republicans didn't have anything. now, the republicans have said they'd give some money for that, but you've seen the president over the past few days say he's calling that bailout money, and he doesn't want to give it to state and local leaders. he's primarily lumping them in and saying they're democrats. but they're democrats and republican leader as well. so that's a sticking point that also needs to be resolved. >> can we talk about john thune here? talk about the significance for me about his break with the president on mail-in ballots? there's a point -- we talked about the fact the president may be likely alienated a lot of voters, a lot of his base supporters, by talking about mail-in balloting and how he feels it's fraud elementary,

although, there's nothing to back up the president's claim. now you have john thune saying the mail-in ballot is a sound way to vote and move forward. does it signal more support from the republicans voting by mail and will we see more of this in the future? >> i do see it as significant. the president and the white house know that, and they've been hearing for weeks from members of congress, state and local leaders that are republican, that this rhetoric from the president is not helpful. what was significant is that john thune said it publicly. the white house does know where the republicans stand, but that he came out and said that publicly to reporters is something. it's not something you see from him usually either. he's not the one that we're going to go to that's going break with the president. there is worry in the republican party. as you said, this is going to hurt them. it's not just about the

president. they do think the president's rhetoric is hurting republican voters, that republican voters are going to be worried the mail-in ballots won't count. they won't vote and they'll sit it out, and that can have repercussions in so many races across the country. >> it certainly can. anima kumar, thank you. stay close. still ahead, everybody. the president's bank getting subpoenaed by new york prosecutors. what it means for the fate over the president's tax returns. also later, new details about the upcoming democratic national convention as the dnc further scales back plans. those stories. and then a check on your weather when we come back. ur weather when we come back. find your keys.

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the manhattan district attorney battling the president in court over the release of his tax returns and now what's leading into a wide-ranging criminal investigation. cy vance subpoenaed records from deutsche bank last year. according to "the new york times," the bank supplied the d.a.'s office with detailed records and financial statement. the subpoena to deutsche bank sought documents on various things of president trump and materials that might point to upon fraud, according to two people briefed on the subpoena's contents. the president and his company have repeatedly denied wrongdoing and repeatedly have tried to have other subpoenas dismissed as well. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. this is interesting. talk to me how the compliance with the subpoena helped the case that is still in court --

or does it help with the case? >> it does. as deutsche bank provides documents to the prosecutor, keep in mind those documents will remain secret. anything brought in by the grand jury remains highly secret, and so that will inform prosecutors about the scope of their investigation. this really acts as two different data points for comparison. the documents from deutsche bank show what trump puffed up or may have puffed up to the bank to say, hey, i have all this money, loan me more money, whereas, tax returns on the mazur side may provide a true picture of what his finances actually were and possibly show a disparity between what he told banks for purposes of loans, which would be a higher numb presumably, and what he actually had in the form of his tax returns. that's independent of any individual problems with his tax return. >> what does this tell us about the new york investigation,

about the breadth of the new york investigation. >> we got a hint as to the breadth of the new york investigation earlier this week in the court file big the prosecutors where they essentially told trump, look, you're the one saying it's limited to hush money payments to women. we're not saying that. if you want an idea of how broad the scope of our investigation is, you can look at news reports, and we will neither confirm or deny it, but it's pretty broad. it's an interesting way to say, hey, don't ask us, just go look at what the media is saying. as broad as you can j imagine, that's how broad the investigation is. it had to be a chilling moment but not an unexpected moment for trump's legal team. >> danny, stand by me because i want you to weigh in on this next one. the justice department probe into why the federal law enforcement opened the 2016 investigation into russian

interference might be coming to an end with the interview of a key witness. a source close to the investigation telling msnbc that john durham, the prosecutor that bill barr appointed to head this investigation has requested antiner view with former cia agent john brennan. in december he focused attention, renewing his records, emails, and call los angeles. brennan who has questioned the probe has details yet to be determined. testifying last month, the attorney general made clear he will release durham's investigation before the election if, in fact, it is completed. so, danny, my question is can brennan drag out this interview to prolong this investigation, and do you think durham is likely to wrap it up with or without him?

>> time is of the essence here. we are just literally weeks away from an election, so any delay that anyone can do could potentially affect the outcome of the election. so it's certainly possible that any kind of balking or foot dragging by anyone in this investigation could slow or delay the release of the results, but in this case, the interesting thing about this investigation is that it hasn't sought interviews with former director of the fbi, andrew mccabe or jim comey, so it may be that this investigation will wrap up without talking to a lot of people, and that could include former director brennan of the cia. so it's hard to say how deep they're going to look into this because this investigation is important if they really want to get to the bottom of the genesis of the counterintelligence investigation that led to the mueller investigation. and so it's hard to say because

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welcome back, everybody. as coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket across this country, new york city is taking new measures to make sure cases remain new. yesterday mayor bill de blasio announced new checkpoints in new york city. >> we will have new key entry points in new york city. travelers will be given information about the

quarantine. they'll be reminded it's required, not optional. they'll be reminded it's a violation of the state law. it comes with penalties. fines can be as high as $10,000. so this is serious stuff, and it's time for everyone to realize it. if we're going hold at this level of health and safety of this city, we have to deal with the fact that the quarantine must be applied consistently to anyone who's traveled. so this checkpoint is going to be a new important piece of that. >> all right. so roughly 20% of all new cases in new york city are from people who have arrived from out of state. the city's sheriff's office will be coordinating this total effort. so public school students in chicago will now begin the academic year remotely next month. mayor lori lightfoot with the

chief executives made this announcement yesterday. they're the only school system in the country that will try to offer in-school classes this fall. the decision came from teachers and parents as concerns over the pandemic are growing. chicago has seen the number of confirmed cases go up in the last couple of weeks with 188,000 infections and almost 8,000 people dieing. >> all right. let's switch gears for a moment and get a first look on your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill. good to see you. >> good morning to you, yasmin. the number of people that were impacted by this last tropical storm was obviously all up and down the eastern seaboard. at one point we had 3.5 million people without power. the power company has been working hard. 1 million are in new jersey and

new york alone. for today, we still have weather concerns in this region. mostly the southern portions of new jersey down to the mid-atlantic. we have more tropical moisture sliding up the coast and flash flood watches in effect. we see a good line of thunderstorms that went through baltimore. it crossed chesapeake, about to head to maryland. 15 million people are in this flash flood watch for today. we're going to have downpours today and tomorrow. rainfall totals, the highest amounts are pos in virginia, maryland, southern new jersey. we could see locally up to 3 inches. this is on top of the 3 to 4 inches some areas got. new york city, you're pretty dry. it's mostly philadelphia southward down to virginia, portions of north carolina. south carolina could see storms too. on friday, that's when the rainfall will move northward,

especially later in the day. for today's forecast, we're very hot from texas all the way through the rockies. 96 in salt lake city, 90 in denver. if you want beautiful weather, enjoy it in the great lakes and throughout the ohio valley. as we head through friday, we'll see showers and storms from new york to boston and then we're starting to warm it up in the middle of the country. yasmin, we're kind of quiet as far as the tropical storms go. we've got a ways to go still, but nothing brewing right now. >> fingers crossed things stay that way. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, facebook and twitter remove a misleading viral post by the president on his campaign. and also giving his upcoming convention speed from the white house, leaving a top republican wondering, is that even legal? we're back in a moment. [indistinct radio chatter]

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with another false claim from the president who inaccurately suggested yesterday that children are, quote, almost immune to the coronavirus. so he first made the comment in an interview with fox news and then was later pressed about it at the white house briefing. watch this. >> if you look at children, children are almost -- and i would almost say definitely but almost immune from this disease. so few, they've got stronger, hard to believe -- i don't know how you feel about it, but they

have much stronger immune systems somehow than we do for this, and they do. they don't have a problem. they just don't have a problem. >> you said children are virtually immune from covid-19, but children have contracted this virus. >> i'm talking about from getting very sick. if you look at children, they're able to throw it off very easily. some, they don't. with news, they have problems with things and other things, but for whatever reason, the china virus, children handle it very well. they may get it, but it doesn't have much of an impact on them. and if you look at the numbers of -- in terms of mortality, fatali fatality, the numbers for children under a certain age, meaning young, their immune systems are very, very strong. they're very powerful, and they seem to be able to handle it very well. >> let's not forget the inflammatory disease many

children have developed after contracting the coronavirus or testing positive for the antibody from the coronavirus. some have also subsequently died. just yesterday facebook removed a video post from the president's personal page that featured those claims about children being immune. this video quote, quote, removes false claims that a group of people is immune from covid, which is a violation around our policies about harmless covid misinformation. twitter also removed posts. this is the first time facebook has taken such action against trump for posting false claims about covid-19. in an email statement the trump campaign accused facebook of flagrant bias, writing part, social media are, quote, not the arbiters of truth. president trump announced he may deliver his acceptance

speech later this month from the white house. raising the possibility on fox news yesterday morning and defending his plan at a news conference later in the day. >> there are reports you're possibly considering giving your acceptance speech from the white house lawn. what's the latest you'll be doing for the convention. >> we're thinking about it. there are a lot of people moving about, law enforcement-wise, the secret service is fantastic, but it's a big deal. we're thinking about doing it from the white house because there's no movement, it's easy, it's a beautiful seth. some a great great, great people have made speeches and i'll probably do it from the white house. >> there's a question whether it's legal given the hatch act. >> the republican john thune? okay. well, it is legal.

there is no hatch act. we receive a tremendous amount in terms of security, traveling. >> you heard it mentioned there. the president has received bipartisan criticism over his plan to deliver his speech from the white house. as you saw from that clip, representative john thune raising the question of legality, telling reporters, i assume that's not something you can do. i assume there are some hat check issues. house speaker nancy pelosi completely rejecting the idea. >> it's very wrong. again, when we're in the capitol of the united states under the dome, we have limited ability to reference anything political, and if the f-- for the presiden

to once again say he's going politicize it should be rejected right out of hand. >> all right. so meanwhile white house chief of staff mark meadows telling cnn yesterday he does not expect there to be an address from the oval office but said it would be, quote, appropriate for president trump to give his acceptance speech from the east wing because it is considering the private residence. also, the democratic national committee announced yesterday former vice president joe biden will not be traveling to milwaukee to formally accept the party's 2020 presidential nomination. he'll instead do so virtually from his home in delaware. all other schedules speakers including biden's running mate will be included. the move is in response to the coronavirus pandemic. in a statement, the chair said, quote, we put the health and safety of the american people first and we continue making adjustments to our plans in order to protect lives. the convention will still take

plaus august 17th through the 20th with two hours of scheduled programming every night. biden's acceptance will take place on that last day. joining me once again white house correspondent and editor for politico, anita kumar. so, anita, let's start here with the president wanting to deliver his convention speech from the white house where the president feels like there's nothing wrong with that, and the hatch act does not apply to him, according to him. and then you have mark meadows essentially saying the east wing is actually a viable option because it is the private residence. talk us through this. >> yeah. i mean the president is right that the hatch act does not apply to the president or vice president, but what he has said is he cannot give his speech on television without a lot of white house aides hip him in

delivering that speech. it's about white house officials engaged in a lot of political activities and they still would be white house officials engaged in political activities. i saw people right away saying this would be a violation of the hatch act. i'll just remind you, there have been other accusations that white house aides have been engaged the hatch act. the independent office that looks into hatch acts says one of president's top advisers kellyanne conway violated the afternoon act and should be fired. so it's an issue that the president does not care about because he didn't act last time. he hasn't acted in the past. it's not something that's a priority for him. >> so let's talk biden as well because there was some major news yesterday in that regard about his address. and the fact that he will not be traveling to milwaukee anymore and instead be delivering his

address from his home, his acceptance speech from his home in delaware. how do you think voters are going to receive this? what do you think went into the decision-making here, and what type of message is the campaign hoping to send, especially in comparison to what we've been seeing from the president? >> well, i think you just mentioned what's key. i mean joe biden's team came out and said, look, we believe in the science, we believe this would be dangerous to travel to milwaukee and have an audience. the mayor there has said you couldn't have very many people there. so he's trying to show he's taking the pandemic seriously. he's doing what everybody -- what health officials want him do, which is stay put, not have large gatherings, and he's really trying to show a contrast to president trump who up until really recently was pushing to have a republican convention with so many people without social distancing some of he's

really trying to contrast that with president trump. >> all right. anita kumar, thank you as always. good to see you this morning. still ahead, everybody. contradicting accounts as the president continues to sow doubt about tuesday's massive explosion in beirut being an accident. your "first look" at "morning joe" is back in a moment. in a t (neighbor) whatcha working on... (burke) just an app. it's called signal from farmers, and it could save you up to

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welcome back. after calling the massive explosion in lebanon an attack t president applied more measured remarks. >> whatever happened is terrible, but they don't know what it is. nobody knows yet. at this moment they're looking. how can you say accident? somebody left some terrible explosive-type devices and things around perhaps.

perhaps it was that. perhaps it was an attack. i don't think anybody can say right now. we're looking into it very strongly. right now you have some people think it was an attack and some people that think it wasn't. >> not necessarily saying he was backtracking there. meanwhile defense secretary mark esper contra digging the president's earlier comments saying most believe the beirut explosion was, in fact, an accident. so saudi arabia is making an effort to produce fuel with the help of china. that's according to classified analysis circulated as reported by "the new york times." officials are scrutinizing whether the development of saudi arabia's nuclear program could put the oil-rich kingdom on the path of developing nuclear weapons. earlier this week "the wall street journal" reports officials are helping china

extract. the site has not been publicly disclosed and has caused concern among u.s. and allied officials. for its part, they categorically deny building that, but acknowledged the country is working with china on uranium exploration. all right. let's switch gears once again and get a check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins. and, bill, i know you've been tracking the covid numbers for us, and once again, the numbers are startling throughout the country. >> yeah. they're interesting, too, because things are changing a little bit. so let's get into first where we are, big picture. today, at least on the big site i'm following, we'll ooh hit

high numbers. we're seeing things going down slightly. you notice how quickly we added the last million. we hit 1 million in april. june 7th was 2 million. then a month to get to 3 million. then it only took 16 days to go from 3 million to 4 million and 17 days to go from 4 million to 5 million. interesting to say the least. here's where we are seven-day average. we're at 58,000. the peak in july was 69,000. so we've come off this recent crest and jumped by 11,000. i added a new measure, the president at walter reed with a picture of him wearing a mask that. was july 11th. that was just about when we approached the crest. i'll let the public officials argue and explain why we've come off that recent crest. they can explain why that

occurred and why we're coming off this latest peak. yesterday we had 1 r,319 deaths. it's flat, not going up, not going down. obviously that's a number we want immediately to go down. as far as the forecast concerns go, we mentioned earlier, we have the heavy rain around baltimore heading toward philadelphia, southern portions of maryland. watch out for that. we'll have additional storms this afternoon. as far as the weekend forecast, friday the storms hit down through the mid-atlantic region. saturday we see hot and humid conditions spreading through the southern half of the country and we have a nice sunday for you from the great lakes to areas of the northeast. yeah. it's interesting. it's interesting how we're seeing, yasmin, with the covid cases. we had the april crest and july crest, new cases. why we're coming down now, is it

because more people are wearing masks? we'll ask the public health experts to try to explain that. >> and we are still expecting a wave 2. we are part of wave 1, but we expect it to come back in the fall when the flu season hits. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, a stalemate. the president signals his support for a federal bailout for the airline industry. the stories driving your business day coming up. e storier business day coming up ♪ here's your iced coffee! ♪

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welcome back. as coronavirus relief negotiations continue, the white house is beginning to show signs of some concession on the unemployment benefit front. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum joins us live from london on this. give us some information. we touched on this with anita

kumar earlier in the show. give us your perspective on the latest with these discussions. >> we know the democrats and trump administration discussed coronavirus aid on wednesday but white house chief of staff mark meadows said president trump will address unemployment insurance and an eviction moratorium but kperiexecutive a it's unclear if he has the power to do so. democrats have reduced their request for postal service funding. the bottom line, we don't have a deal yet and it remains to be seen whether we'll get one by the end of the week. there is one area in the economy that president trump has expressed support for and it seems to be bipartisan support. president trump said he's in favor of a plan to give $25 billion more to the struggling airline industry.

a previous aid bill provided that to airlines as long as they didn't cut jobs until october 1st. and as we've discussed, airlines have warned that 70,000 workers their jobs are at risk come october 1st when this aid expires. on the back of the news there is more support for the industries, we saw shares in airline companies soar in after hour trade yesterday. >> gold reaching record highs of $2,000 an ounce during this pandemic. >> gold has had an extraordinary run, reaching this $2,000-an-ounce milestone. but that may signal that investors are nervous about what's to come. they tend to put money in gold as a safe haven.

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. >> welcome back everybody. joining me now with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, hans nichols. good to see you. give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> it's a reported story out on just how different this election will be. you know, we think it's going to

start in 90 days, 88 days, it's actually going to start in six weeks. that gives you a sense of how intense this is going to be but also the affect of early voters. some 80 million early votes could be cast, almost twice as much as last time. in the primary season you saw 24 states and the district of columbia have half their ballots come in by mail. with that comes new variables and potential problems. you're hearing talk already of litigation around this. urge you to read the piece reported by my colleagues, really looking into just how different this year is going to be. yasmin. >> so hans, what does this mean for the famous october surprise? an issue that could put a voter over the edge a week or two before voting happens in early

november. >> it could diminish it. if so many votes are being cast starting september, the october surprise doesn't matter as much. or it moves the window of the surprise earlier. and that slides it to the left, more towards september because that's when the voting is going to start in a lot of different states. so it diminishes it slightly but more importantly it changes it. it's not just an october surprise. it's not just something proactive one of the campaigns can do or something the white house can do to shock everyone. there's an element in terms of october surprise of what other countries might do to influence the united states election. all of that becomes more diffuse with the early voting and then you have the overlay to this, the pandemic, how do you hold safe and healthy elections during a global pandemic where people aren't supposed to be so close together and we've all seen the pictures of election lines and what that means.

we don't know how that's going to influence overall voting behavior and patterns. y yasmin. >> if you're donald trump or joe biden it's going to mean more than november has before because it's going to feel like an election season over an election day in november. i know axios has a new map on the outbreak of the pandemic. what are you reporting? >> bill karins just talked about this a little bit but when you look at the axios map you see slight declines in the hot spots. seeing it steady off in places like texas, georgia, north carolina. but you're seeing it decrease significantly in florida, in california. again, these are early trends, these are early signs, but when you look at the way the virus has behaved, when you start to see the decline with the exception -- this is a big exception -- of the second wave

but you see declines on a gradual and trending basis. a glimmer of good news but so much more work to be done. >> does this have anything, hans, to do with the testing that's happening now? we have reports now that there's less testing happening across the board, down 3 to 4%. >> yeah, and that may be influenced by what's happened in florida, along the gulf states, along the eastern sea board with potential weather. there's a lot of quirkiness in the data in terms of what's happening with the testing. and it is down ever so slightly. but test positivity rate, that's a crucial me trick the w.h.o. looks at, that seems to be slowing down and it's a little bit below 8%. there you see the overall chart and that is deaths per capita. that's an important one, and the u.s. not doing so well. >> hans nichols, my friend,

thank you as always. so good to see you. i'll be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can read the newsletter, sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. >> he's having trouble reading. >> when they're gathering around -- >> how many gaffes can you make every day? >> this is the definition of -- >> he increasingly sounds like one of those bad lip reading videos you see on the internet. >> they delivered a swift and swip -- it was swift and sweeping. >> we find he has troubles getting through the words. >> france, germany, finny. >> plasma, plosma -- >>