geoff: i don't think so. it is more about, what is the multiplier effect from a natural realized investment point of view, but also a sentiment point of view? there is where europe could actually be in good stead because if the result is more than savings, channeled into the south and actually lifting productivity, it lifts growth to something that is actually longer term sustainable and positive. then i think the return is better. tom: i want you to be an engineer right now. you're in the netherlands and you are not happy. dr. know got some comfort but not too much. you are going to provide direct stimulus to italy. you're telling me it is going to have a multiplier effect. what is it going to go into in italy? gondolas in venice? geoff: we know that italy does -- is looking at infrastructure improvements over the last few years, and there have been instances where that has proven to be necessary. if you are a dutch engineer, you should be submitting your bids, your rfp's, saying how you can deliver the best

i want to get right to nbc's geoff bennett for the briefing, dr. lipi roy, msnbc medical contributor and so is kimberly atkins from boston's npr news station. dr. roy, let me start with you. this breaking news out of new york city. you're based in new york city. the mayor there talking about how they are going to reopen schools. this is what mayor de blasio said just a few minutes ago. >> for the vast majority of kids and the vast majority of schools, you'll be going to school in the classroom two days a week or three days a week, depending on the week. we understand some families will choose the opinion lynn option. we'll be ready. >> these mandatory face coverin coverings. is this a potential blueprint for others states? >> this is a key issue. school is really important. you're still in the midst of a pandemic. here in new york state, as you know, craig, things from an infectious disease standpoint have improved credibly. we have far, far fewer cases and hospitalizations and deaths, thankfully. the cdc has rolled out guidelines for safe reopenin

correspondent geoff bennett and chuck rosenberg, senior fbi top official. welcome to you both. chuck, first to you. let me talk about this commutation. what makes this different? what got mueller so concerned that he would break his silence? >> i'm so glad bob mueller spoke out as a man of tremendous dignity and integrity. for him to speak out, andrea, is what's so unusual. he didn't say anything we haven't said before. we've read his report, know what roger stone did, but what really irked mueller and really causes me so much pain is the fact that roger stone could be a witness against the president. so here the president is using his enormous power of pardon and commutation in order to reward a witness who remained silent, refused to give testimony about the president's miscontact. that is what's so troubling. we've had bad pardons before. president clinton's pardon of mark rich was ebusiness moll and a monumental misjudgment, but this is different, because stone

nbc's geoff bennett is at the white house for us. geoff, the president has been somewhat vocal in his criticism of the cdc, other health experts as well. he's making claims like more testing means more cases. take us through this change and take us through the concerns about the change. >> reporter: i'll explain this because this can be confusing to people who aren't familiar with how this process works. the takeaway here is the trump administration is changing the way hospitals report covid-19 patient information. now, until today hospitals were ordered to send all of that information that really provides a full picture of how the pandemic is progressing, broken down by region, by age, by gender, by race, hospitals had to send all that information to the cdc. well, as of today, the administration is changing that. the administration is telling these hospitals, telling them to bypass the cdc directly and instead to send all that information to a database that the administration, the department of health and human services will contro

geoff bennett for us there at black lives matter plaza.thank you, sir. >>> still with me, maya wiley, former u.s. assistant attorney for the southern district of new york and also, of course, a nationally renowned racial justice leader, and professor. again, i continue to be struck by the number of people who despite the near 100-degree heat in our nation's capital's hopping out of their cars to get one glimpse, one last glimpse of the late congressman to snap that one last picture on their phone as well as he makes his way to first the martin luther king jr. memorial there. how should he be remembered, professor, whi wiley what shoul congressman lewis' legacy be? >> you know, i thought senator booker said something so important about him being john lewis, being radical in love, and that part of the just giant that he was for justice was that. it was a loving justice. but it was also a radical justice, and we should remember that as we're talking about black lives matter, as we're hearing older generations kind of scolding younger people f

geoff bennett at ebenezer baptist church. geoff, thank you. we can also tell you that after the service ends, somewhere between an hour and a half and two hours after that, congressman john lewis will be buried at southview cemetery. there's expected to be a three volley salute. a bugler will play "taps." let's listen now to the bells that geoff just mentioned. [ bell tolls ] [ bell tolls ] [ bell tolls ] [ bell tolls ] [ bell tolls ] [ bell tolls ]. >> amen. we thank god for that moment. and now, pastor warnock and the family will enter the sanctuary. >> shall we stand? i am the resurrection and the light, said the lord. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again. whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. for i know that my redeemer lives and that he shall stand with me at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh will i see god. i shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold at not another. behold i show you a mystery. we shall not all sleep, but w

>> geoff bennett for us in washington, thank you. >>> as the coronavirus pushes hospitals to the brink erns are seeing a dramatic drop in patients seeking emergency help he's tom costello. >> reporter: it happens every 40 seconds, someone somewhere in the u.s. has a heart attack, while 90 people suffer a stroke every hour. yet the number of non-coronavirus e.r. visits dropped off a cliff as the pandemic swept the ountry, down a stunning 42% as many people simply avoided the e.r. >> we kissed and to say good-bye and he said i love you, and then he went down. >> reporter: concerned about covid exposure her husband domonic was reluctant to go to the e.r. when he finally agreed, he collapsed and died of a heart attack as paramedics were at the house. >> nationwide, 23% drop in heart attack cases through may, a 20% drop in strokes and a 10% drop in diabetic emergencies. >> if you're having a heart attack, if you're having a stroke, you absolutely need to seek care and our emergency departments are safe. >> reporter: hospital protocols in place are designed to isolate covid cases from other

geoff, that is the point. isn't it? something richard nixon never did, something know other president in recent history has done, which is to use the, complete the total constitutional power to pardon or commute to protect someone who actually was convicted of lying about his contacts with the president. >> it's a great point that you make, andrea. what's interesting is that ahead of this friday night announcement, roger stone told a journalist that president trump conveyed to him, at least roger stone thought that president trump knew he was under enormous pressure for stone to turn on him. i'll tell you, though. our reporting is that from multiple white house sources, that there were several white house officials who opposed president trump granting roger stone clemency. i'm told there were also a number of white house officials who explicitly advised president trump against it, in the words of one white house official, the president was told, it was a big mistake. yet the president close to do this in his own telling

our geoff bennett has late details. >> reporter: president trump tonight distancing himself from his top adviser peter navarro who wrote a scathing takedown of dr. anthony fauci. >> well, he made a statement representing himself. he shouldn't be doing odat relationship with anthony. >> reporter: navarro who doesn't have a health background wrote an op-ed published in usa today questioning fauci's expertise. dr. anthony fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything i have interacted with him on a white house spokesperson today said the op-ed didn't go through normal white house clearance processes but there's little doubt navarro's broadside reflects the president's own frustration with fauci. >> dr. fauci's a nice man but he's made a lot of mistakes. >> reporter: the warning conflicting with the president's push to reopen the country. navarro's criticism is the most direct result on fauci's credibility to date. sustained white house effort to sideline him. a top trump aide posting a cartoon mocking fauci. the white house providing a document t

we begin right now with nbc's geoff bennett. geoff, good morning. >> reporter: peter, good morning.igure of the civil rights movement and long-time u.s. congressman. he was revered by so many for his decades-long embodiment for the fight for civil rights. congressman john lewis was often called the conscience of congress, known as the moral leader who commanded respect from democrats and republicans. seen as one of the last unifying forces in national politics. lewis was one of ten children born to share croppers in rural alabama in 1940. he grew up on his family's farm and attended segregated public schools. lewis said he was inspired as a young boy by the activism surrounding the montgomery busboy cot and sermons by the martin luther king jr. that he heard on the radio. >> as the spirit moves us to, we have the right to march at night, any time we want to march. >> reporter: all of it, spurring him to become part of the civil rights movement. organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in nashville, tennessee in 1961, joining in the freedom rides, which challenge

and a target as he becomes more blunt about what we face and the response our geoff bennett is at the white house >> reporter: tonight dr. anthony fauci under fire from within, the nation's top infectious disease expert targeted by a white house effort to discredit him and his dire warnings about the coronavirus crisis the white house official on sunday sent nbc news and other outlets a list of fauci's past statements on the virus. said to be inaccurate. the memo resembling a campaign opposition research document. some of fauci's comments taken out of context. others accurate based on what was known about the virus at the time it's a stunning broadside against the career civil servant who's advised six presidents and was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. president trump today downplaying the rift. >> i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. i've had for a long time, right from the beginning. i find him to be a very nice person i don't always agree with him. >> reporter: fauci no longer briefs the president and hasn't spoken to him in more than a month in recent week fa

geoff bennett at ebenezer baptist church. geoff, thank you.can also tell you that after the service ends, somewhere between an hour and a half and two hours after that, congressman john lewis will be buried at southview cemetery. there's expected to be a three volley salute. a bugler will play "taps." let's listen now to the bells that geoff just mentioned.

our geoff bennett tonight on a day o powerful tributes. >> reporter: the nation's capital pausing to pay respect to the civil rights giant and longtime georgia congressman. his funeral procession passing by notable washington landmarks that carry personal significance, pausing at the martin luther king jr. memorial, dr. king inspired lewis' early activism, and at the lincoln memorial where lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 march on washington. >> we're tired of being beaten by policeman. we're tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again. and then you holler be patient. how long can we be patient? >> reporter: his motorcade also driving down the newly minted black lives matter plaza where last month lewis made his final public appearance in support. >> what does congressman lewis' legacy mean to you >> as a southerner, the wife of a black man in america, and as the mom of interracial kids it's important for me to be here and also for us to accept that torch and to say we're here to continue to do the work. >> i value sacrifice, and struggle, and i feel li

jose >> geoff bennett in washington, thank you. >>> now to the coronaviruspandemic, the world health organization is reporting a new daily record increase in cases. more than a quarter million just as more states reported record highs. sam brock is in the hard hit state of florida with late details. >> reporter: tonight for a nation reeling from a covid crisis, small signs of hope. >> i'm really rooting for this vaccine and i -- it has helped me cope. because i really -- i see an end. >> reporter: heather wiley recently completed phase one of a vaccine trial that's now moved to the next step it's assistance that can't come soon enough as states across the country continue racking up records numbers, in florida more than 10,300 new cases saturday, further swelling a surge of 93,000 infections in just over a week. hospitals have been hammered. >> busier than we've ever been, sicker than we've ever been. >> reporter: at least one south florida health care system tells our miami station wtvj they're about to run out of a critical treatment, remdesivir. >> we are all running very short on

thank you, geoff. nbc's geoff bennett joining us from the would jushgs continue our conversation now with jennifer rubin, opinion righter for "washington post" and msnbc contributor. one of her new pieces focuses on joe biden's response to the unemployment numbers is helping him in polls. >>> also with us, eugene daniel, a national political reporter for politico. good to have you both with us this morning. jennifer, start with you and those poll numbers. for the longest time an easy bracki i bragging point for the president. the economy. the pandemic struck and polls favor him over joe biden on the economy. where does all of that put us now? >> i think he's in a desperate position, and it seems as though he's not even trying right now. because when you look at polls, not only is biden substantially ahead, but he's over 50% in many of these polls. that means in order to win, trump has to win back those voters. but he's not winning back anyone. he is basically playing to that core group of voters who th

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bennett, nbc news, washington. >> our thanks to geoff right there. the statement came out just before midnight eastern time from his family. we knew that he had been sick and he had been in hospice care. just about seven months ago is, in fact, when he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4, so his passing coming very quickly. >> he said he would keep fighting. back in march when he stood there at the edmund pettus bridge, such a striking moment so many years later as he was in a new fight for his life, leaving such a mark on this country. lots of tributes pouring in this morning for the civil rights leader, also people reacting to the sad news. >> nbc josh letterman joining us from the white house. the president was tweeting about a number of different things or retweeting about a number of different things. was john lewis one of them? >> john lewis was not. we have not yet heard from the current president about the death of john lewis. but we are hearing from another president, barack obama, who, of course, presented the presidential me

still, though, geoff berman's out. so d.c. u.s. attorney's office, gone. geoff berman at sdny, gone. now tonight, it's the other one. it's the last one. the other u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york. now, with this guy, attorney general bill barr tried the same trick that he tried with the other two. in all three of these cases, he's offered these u.s. attorneys some sort of dubious, maybe, possible promotion slash lateral move. at least he's offered some other job in the trump administration as a sort of enticement if they would just give up the u.s. attorney's office and let barr take over those offices for himself. well, in the eastern district of new york, the u.s. attorney there, rich donoghue, decided he would accept the dubious job offer from the attorney general, the not quite promotion rather than stand up for himself and the independence of his office. bill barr initially put out word that it would be -- you know, this is no big deal. no cause for certain here, like there was so much concern expressed over the other u.s. attorney's

know before we're finished you're going to what he's going to go give me to my devil or her right geoff donald trump and saddam you're putin were 2 part documentary analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and the us and between their presidents how does their rivalry and their dangerous mutual admiration affect the rest of the world to some bullies trump and putin starts august 3rd on d w. welcome to the girl next you tube channel. a good mine of story. with exclusive insights. and a must see concerning parts culture to ensure a. place to be for curious minds. do it yourself networkers. so subscribe and don't miss out. bento for it is for me. it's for. beethoven just for him. and beethoven is for. beethoven is for every monoplane beethoven 2020. 150th anniversary here on d w. place. this is news and these are our top stories. the u.s. economy has suffered its worst quarterly contraction on record as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic government figures show g.d.p. slumped by almost 10 percent between april and june when widespread lockdowns broad business the tippit

in a much more logical and rational way it's very clear very interesting we thank you for your time geoff. thank you for turkey's highest affair has hosted muslim friday press for the 1st time in more than 80 years istanbul landmark was built 1500 years ago as a christian cathedral before becoming a mosque and then a museum 2 weeks ago president obama issued a controversial decree returning it to use as a mosque after a court an old it's museum status. or. prayers led by a president on a friday that will become unforgettable turkey thousands of muslims gather to worship for the 1st time in 86 years. oh despite the iconic buildings journey through time from orthodox christian cathedral to muslim mosque to museum. for many here and historic wrong has been righted. one john in the mode of the. we have been waiting for highest sophia to open as a mosque for decades for decades we said that the chains will break and highest here will reopen young to me that was right it remains a museum this kind of atmosphere would not have been possible it doesn't mean much for the people abroad and i think

geoff, good morning, what's the highlight?> reporter: the president using the july 4th celebration to stoke the culture wars. he made very few concessions to the usual july 4th traditions of national unity. and look, in this moment of national reckoning over racial issues, the president in his speech offered up an us versus them view of america. he said our nation is witnessing what he called a quote, merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. that's what the president said. here is a bit more of what he had to say last night. >> angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders. deface our most sacred memorials. and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. they think the american people are weak. and soft. and submissive. but, no, the american people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them. >> reporter: now, tonight the president is holding another july 4th even

geoff, thank you. >>> i want to talk about a different set of numbers.tudy released this morning reveals the coronavirus pandemic has caused the greatest health insurance losses in american history. the study done by the nonpartisan consumer advocacy group families usa finds a record 5.4 million americans have lost their health insurance coverage from february to may. i want you to look at this map. the darker the red, the higher the percentage of uninsured adults. why is this? we know that millions of americans have lost their jobs and that means they also lost their health insurance coverage. and "the new york times" points out in the 37 states that expanded medicaid under the affordable care act, 23% of laid-off workers became uninsured. the percentage was nearly double that, 43%, in the 13 states that did not expand medicaid which includes texas, florida, and north carolina, states we know right now are being hit the hardest. joining us, dr. badelia, from boston medical center and chris lu. what's your reaction to this? >> look, the numbers are stagg

we have a look back at his extraordinary life and times from nbc news correspondent geoff bennett. >> reporter: congressman john lewis was often called the conscience of congress, known as a moral leader who commanded respect from democrats and republicans, seen as one of the last unifying forces in national politics. lewis was one of ten children born to sharecroppers in rural alabama in 1940. he grew up on his family's farm and attended segregated public schools. lewis said he was inspired as a young boy by the activism surrounding the montgomery bus boycott and sermons by the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. which he heard on the radio. >> if the spirit moves us to, we have a right to march at night anytime we want to march. [ applause ] >> reporter: all of it spurring him to become part of the civil rights movement. organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in nashville, tennessee. in 1961, joining in the freedom rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the south. >> i was not concerned about making history. i just wanted to cha

joining me is nbc's geoff bennett outside ebenezer baptist church where the service will take place.tore for today? >> good morning. this funeral service brings an end to what's been a six-day celebration of congressman lewis' life. as you mentioned, it's happening at ebenezer baptist church which has been the center of the civil rights movement here in atlanta. it's where dr. king and his father before him preached. congressman lewis was a member he. he married his wife, the late lilian lewis, back in 1968 and today here is where he will be funeralized. when this starts, there will be tributes and congress from jennifer holiday, bebe winans, reflections from former presidents. former president bill clinton, former president george w. bush, both of them will be in attendance. they'll deliver remarks. and former president barack obama will deliver the eulogy. as you know, after congressman lewis passed, president obama put out a lengthy statement in which he said that he first met congressman lewis back in law school. obama says at the time he told lewis he was one of his heros. when

distancing enforced beginning tonight and all day tomorrow lester >> a lot of history told today, geoffennett at the capitol, thanks. >>> also breaking, a top white house official testing positive for covid-19. national security adviser robert o'brien, now the most senior administration official, diagnosed with the virus let's get more from peter alexander. >> reporter: president trump tonight for only the second time in public wearing a mask while touring a biotech center in north carolina, the visit intended to focus attention on the search for a potential vaccine, but it comes as his national security adviser robert o'brien is self-quarantining after testing positive for coronavirus. the highest ranking white house official yet to get the disease. the white house says o'brien has mild symptoms that he's now working from a secure location off site. the president today dismissing concerns about his own safety. >> i haven't seen him lately i heard he tested. yeah >> reporter: it's unclear how much contact president trump and o'brien have had in recent weeks, their last public appearance

we have a look back at his extraordinary life and times from nbc news correspondent geoff bennett. >> reporter: congressman john lupis was often called the conscience of congress, known as a morlt leader who commanded respect from democrats and republicans, seen as one of the last unifying forces in national politics. lewis was one of ten children born to sharecroppers in rural alabama in 1940. he grew up on his family's farm and attended segregated public schools. lewis said he was inspired as a young boy by the activism surrounding the montgomery bus boycott and sermons by the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. which he heard on the radio. >> if the spirit moves us to, we have a right to march at night anytime we want to march. [ applause ] >> reporter: all of it spurring him to become part of the civil rights movement. organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in nashville, tennessee. in 1961, joining in the freedom rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the south. >> i was not concerned about making history. i just wanted to cha

niece, whose book about the president was published this week we get late details on that from nbc's geoff bennett. >> reporter: tonight a stunning new accusation from president trump's niece. mary trump telling msnbc's rachelmad zbrn dor -- >> i have to press you on it a little bit just to ask if the president, if your uncle was an exception to that in your family, or if he -- if you ever heard him express either use anti semitic slurs or the "n" word or other racist slurs or other sentiments like that, do you mean this is ambient in your family or did you hear it from him too >> oh, yeah, of course i did. and i don't think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today. >> have you heard the president use the "n" word >> yeah. >> and anti semitic slurs, specifically? >> yes. >> reporter: a white house official in response tells nbc news this is a book of falsehoods, plain and simple the president doesn't use those words. in recent weeks the president has seized on divisive culture wars and relied on race baiting rhetoric to fire up his base but another new round of

lester >> all right, geoff bennett tonight, thank you. >>> in the midst of the pandemic and the politics, a real practical concern tonight for families, what will the school year look like as stephanie gosk reports some of the country's biggest districts are now weighing in. >> on august 18th, the first day of school in los angeles, students will be learning from home. >> the health and safety of all in the school community is not something we can compromise. >> new york city schools may not open either the governor saying it will depend on the data. >> it's not do we reopen or not? you reopen if it is safe to reopen >> reporter: for now the country's largest school district has not met the reopening requirements set by the state. and in florida's miami-dade county, nearly the same message, if the numbers don't get better. >> would be very difficult for us to reopen schools. >> reporter: while president trump continues to support reopening this fall. >> we have to open the schools, we have to get them open. and i think there's a lot of politics going along. >> reporter: the trump adminis

nbc's geoff bennett reports. >> reporter: washington's pro football team under new scrutiny this morning just days after the team officially dropped its longtime nickname widely viewed as a racist slur against native americans. now more than a dozen women who worked for the team alleging sexual harassment from top executives in an explosive report by "the washington post." among those coming forward, emily applegate who spent a year with the team as a marketing coordinator. >> nobody deserves to be degraded and treated like that. nodysrpected. and for any of us women that want to get into a career that is a male-dominated force, we shouldn't be afraid that these are the things that are going to happen. >> reporter: applegate says the comments from her boss came almost daily. >> any small issue that set him offset him off, like, times ten. and that would be when, you know, he would curse at me, he would use derogatory slurs towards me. >> reporter: 14 other women also detailed their accounts to "the post" but remains anonymous for fear of legal retribution, including some who say they sig

feel pushed you to go it is usually what he's going to be going to give up if i get more for like geoff donald trump and flooding you're putting now where to park i'm intrigued analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and the us and between the presidents how does the rivalry and the danger is mutual admiration affect the rest of the world to some bullies driven putin starts august 3rd on d w. i was issued when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room. it was hard. i even got white hair. in the german language head nelda this gives me a little push maybe 2 in truckloads of say you want to do their story. reliable information for margaret. sleep. carefully. this should be used to do good. discover who. subscribe to the documentary on. the lead. player. lead. player. this is g.w. news live from berlin germany waits for the axe to fall on the number of u.s. troops stationed here president trouble already said he wants to withdraw some 10000 troops official confirmation is expected shortly washington could be withdrawing the want. also coming up german police dig for a 2nd d

the farm is situated close to the border with togo geoff sells his chemical beans to whichever country based science. and to remember that that is the border with toll roads around a kilometer from there it's the worst this year though some december togo is bringing in one euro $0.37 a kilo gone i was paying one euro 16 friend but at the end of the month togo's prices have dropped to one euro. to. the bad event such as from going a little design to a motorbike all take a minute oh my god why are you putting it on a motorbike under there's no path there's no road or just tracks. there's no road suitable for cars and you. are sure dangerous there are lots of accidents. normally the government should have built bridges but there are no bridges the so if you're not careful you'll have an accident and you don't think you're going to fall but when you do sometimes a number of factors are about them it's about the effects. you're going to get the trip to the town on these old motorbikes can be very risky broken arms or legs are common although jeff's team hasn't suffered any fatalities hands.

but god god god with all your wife's mind uncle i'm right i'm rob and your uncle geoff might have. ok so you mean the research is pretty conclusive i mean we have a genetic marker for addiction the disposition towards addiction certainly it is a learned behavior as well so now we have 3 generations of people under the same roof who know active addiction and again that's pretty entrenched i mean how do you interrupt that cycle. dads wasted on this you know the kids are on meth where do you start to untangle that one i'm good now because i don't want to be a statistic i want to give my kids stuff that i didn't have. the whole life my dad could means money. you know my aunts and uncles came up when i was 14 i came up to ohio. my whole family were gigantic it was a perfect storm of factors we are just now peeling back the layers of trauma throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond the doctors were encouraged in some cases incentivized to overprescribe we have towns small towns here in ohio surrounding us that have been prescribed millions of pills i mean enough to sedate a small country

. >> geoff goff reporting there. >>> well, a dad wants to make everyone laugh while a classic movie thatshows a reuniting of a father and son breaks records. here's laura garcia to explain it all. >> reporter: here's something good for you this morning. a star wars movie is actually topping the box office again. it is certainly a classic. >> i am your father. ♪ >> no. it's not true. >> oh, yes, he is. the empire strikes back being screened at drive-ins across the country. according to reports, it's pulled in nearly a half a million dollars across about 200 screenings this weekend. it's the first time the movie has taken the number one spot in 23 years. it is a classic there. >>> okay. have you heard this one? what do you call a piece of meat cooked incorrectly? you call it a mis-steak. just one of several puns many of us would refer to as dad jokes. well, a new york man is trying to do something good and trying to spread a little humor during the name of bringing joy. >> we just need some positive stuff. everything's negative. we need a positive, uplifting theme and this just does it. [

nbc's geoff bennett joins us with the very latest on this. geoff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning. the fight over the team name has gone on for decades, but what's new, what's different this time is the intense pressure from big brands during this national moment of reckoning over racial issues. now fedex, the team's top sponsor which owns the naming rights to the stadium, now says the team name is offensive and it's got to go. this morning, one of the original nfl teams under mounting pressure to change its controversial name. the washington redskins, facing a new corporate and political push to scrap its name widely viewed as a racial slur against native americans. fedex, which owns the naming rights for the team's home stadium requesting that the name given to the team in 1933 become a thing of the past. in a one-sentence statement, the delivery giant writing we have communicated to the team in washington our request that they change the team name. ad week magazine reporting that investment firms and shareholders wor

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professor over in scotland and he was melted in $2014.00 today i've got the great pleasure of speaking to geoff pam oliver is wife and work force over the glass good to smita your tweets emails and your messages thank you alex we passed a fantastic response last week to understand she was featuring professor tom divine and professor john robinson with hundreds and hundreds of messages and record viewing terrorists over 3 quarters of a 1000000 on faith alone we hear 1st from tom brady who says just hope the current school leavers are better equipped with a foursome understanding of our history after tom suggested should be than they were in the 1960 s. shona dougal says very interesting points raised as to what to do or not to do with the statues and other monuments which are causing offense to many it is great listening to tom devine and al examined hardy says why not a new placatory just stating the world has evolved ethics have changed slavery is unacceptable in 2022 to sherman from johannesburg says once again humankind chose itself as the most destructive species on earth even destroying it

real person you know the bowling pin is usually what he's going to go give most of my demo work for geoff donald trump on sunday mirror now we're 2 part documentary analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and the us and between their presidents how does their little rate and their dangerous mutual admiration affect the rest of the world to some bullies trump and putin starts august 3rd on d w. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe i'm liable it's nice to be back. it's the most corrupt country in the e.u. for years bugg area has been rated last by transparency international for corruption and press freedom in the european union and many blame one man in particular prime minister boyko borisov.

geoff, back to schools for a moment.he administration planning on releasing its own set of guidelines for schools. what do you know about that? >> reporter: a senior administration official tells us the white house plans to issue its own guidelines for the reopening of schools which could be released as early as this week. we're told the white house recommendations will include some of those issued by the cdc and other ones from the american academy of pediatrics. but it risks creating more confusion with state and local officials left to figure out which to follow. savannah? >> geoff, thank you very much. dr. ashish jha joins us now. dr. jha, good morning to you. you see what's happening in florida. how do you explain it? what do you make of this record daily surge of cases there? >> good morning. thank you for having me on. the situation in florida is pretty worrisome. there were more cases yesterday in florida than all of europe yesterday. and this is obviously a situation that's getting worse. i think we know how we

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davis professor geoff schladow. >> it's an important indicator to us of how healthy the lake is. >> reporter it was measured last year, the clarity of the lake was about 80 feet -- that means they could see that disc 80 feet down. but consider this-- about 20 years ago, you could seet that disk 100 feet down. that's the trend that scientists are trying to reverse. but they're fighting the impacts of climate change, development around the lake, and something added to the lake in the 1960's -- a tiny invasive shrimp brought in to feed the fish. it didn't work. >> once those shrimp came in, there were suddenly no natural cleaners in the lake. >> reporter: similar challenges are facing lakes and bodies of water around the world. >> if you can't do it at tahoe, then what hope is there for all the rivers and estuaries, streams and lakes around the country that are never going to have the same degree of attention, the same level of resources? >> reporter: are you able to be hopeful, given all the pressures on the lake? >> yes. if there's a silver lining of our pandemic, i think it shows that nature

his former team mate from the 66 world cup winning squad, sir geoff hurst, has said this was "anothers the type of player and person that you need in a team to win a world cup. he was a great and loveable character and he will be greatly missed." andy swiss looks back at his life. few have blended courage and charisma quite like jack charlton. as a player, a manager and as part of english football's most famous family. bobby charlton with the corner. jack! perfect goal. charlton grew up in northumberland and after a brief spell as a miner, opted for a career in football, along with his younger brother, bobby. but while bobby's attacking flair soon made him a star, jack's defensive qualities were rather less glamorous. jack charlton. came in like a brick wall and he's hurt. he got an elbow in the face. for all his bravery, he always admitted he was no match for his brother. people try to compare us and i used to say, you shouldn't compare us. i can't play. i can stop other people playing but i can't play. bobby can play. he is a creative player. but there's a place in the game for both

the top 100 venture capitalists in the world acourting to "new york times" wiighs in on those next, geoffes formally of founders fund, will join us after this break. >>> silicon valley is split on a big question they're calling for a crack down on big tech's power. our next zeguest is a fellow venture capitalist jeff, good morning and thank you for joining us you didn't just disagree, you said that you could not disagree more strongly with those comments, tell us why. >> good to be here i very strongly disagree, the idea of breaking up the big four tech companies facebook, apple, amazon, and google i think that is a terrible idea for consumers and it doesn't solve any of the under lying problems that folks have and most importantly anti-trust. breaking up companies. it was meant to address one specific issue and that was the issue of competition and breaking the companies up it did not address that nor did they do anything anticompetitive. so i quite strongly disagreen. >> if you think it is a issue, and that is related dominance, e solution europe has been very forward thinking, very voc

. >> reporter: geoff bennett, nbc news, washington. >> from washington now to georgia. the state, of course, john lewis represented for more than 30 years. blayne alexander is in atlanta with more on the growing memorial to the civil rights icon. >> reporter: well, alex, hello to you. we are in downtown atlanta. this is the heart of congressman lewis' district. it certainly should serve as no surprise that just within hours of getting the news of his passing, we already started to see a number of tributes here. flowers, signs, posters, people leaving things. i want to pull out and show you the magazineny feud of what he meant to the people here. this is a mural that's been on the side of this building for several years. it has one simple word. hero. even before his passing, we would typically see people come here just to take pictures. it was a place people would often flock to celebrate the civil rights icon. the location of it is also very striking because it is right off the main highway, right off the downtown artery. when you drive through downtown, you see it ever

nbc news correspondent geoff bennett has the details on this. >> reporter: president trump distancing himself from his top adviser peter navarro, who wrote a scathing takedown on dr. anthony fauci. >> he made a statement representing himself. he shouldn't be doing that. no. i have a very good relationship with anthony. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, he said, but he has been wrong with everything i have interacted with him on. a white house spokesperson said the op-ed didn't go through normal white house clearance offices. but there's little doubt navarro's broad side represents president trump's own frustration with fauci. fauci's warnings about the pandemic often conflicting with the president's pressure to reopen the country. a top trump aide posted a cartoon mocking fauci. the white house provided a document to reporters aimed at damaging his reputation. fauci calls the behavior bizarre. >> i cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that. i think they realize now that was not a prudent thing to do because it's only