to know the mechanics of the moment generally they dominate correspondent stephanie simmons was in tulsa for the rally and he told us about some of the die surprises tulsa oklahoma had 3 surprises ready surprise number one for the president of the united states who wanted to have a strong coming out of the gate with a new invigorated campaign start here in tulsa oklahoma but a lot of people were no shows a lot of trump's supporters were no shows the arena wasn't fully booked never ever were 90000 people in this arena. and outside the same picture massive no shows all over the from japan had to cancel outside stages and outside activities for the expected overflow which never materialized surprise number too many people thought that protesters here until trump protesters would be clashing with and on a large scale clashing with trump supporters that also didn't happen protests were they not existence for the most of the day and be largely peaceful absolutely peaceful minus the one or other awful with trump supporter black lives matter and to trump protesters were peaceful protest surprise

this weekend due to coronavirus increases cases increases we've all got to make sacrifices and stephanie simmons in the washington thank you. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories are making news around the world flash flooding in ivory coast's main city abidjan has killed 3 people in flooded homes and cars where this is said that water rose $150.00 centimeters inside half an hour the flooding comes just over a week after a deadly mudslide hit the country's economic capital. a british teenagers been jailed for at least 15 years for throwing a 6 year old french boy off the 10th floor of london's tate modern art gallery last year the younger boy now has to use a wheelchair and is still recovering from the assault. of course in moscow has had to down a guilty verdict and the 3 years suspended sentence on the russian film and theater director carol a set a break off he was accused of forming a criminal group an embezzling public funds for a theater project was to sort of break off says the charges are absurd police in scotland say stabbing attack in the said to of glasgow has left 6 peo

the coronavirus pandemic severely dented the president's approval ratings a d w correspondent stephanie simmons is told so welcome stephanie so how has the trump campaign responded to the questions why here in tulsa so close to the site of the greenwood massacre and why it's so close to june 13th. the official answer from the white house is that they chose tulsa and the and oklahoma because oklahoma and the governor here is doing such a great job fighting covert 19 and keeping the numbers down however though both is actually could be further from the truth because the numbers as you pointed out are through the roof in oklahoma and as well here in tulsa we're here in the greenwood district which was just described in the piece and. the people who are here we who we talked to there are anything but policed by the president's ambition to come here tomorrow and hold his rally no one up there and it's an important one the curfew which was mentioned is no more the mayor just released a statement and say it's the curfew is rescinded immediately and effective immediately all pawn request of the secret

simmons, thank you very much. boy, that's a little unnerving at this point. we'll get a full report following up tomorrow on this on "morning joe." that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> thanks, mika. i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, june 22nd. here's what's happening this morning. we're kicking off a critical week. the president's case for re-election running smack against the fears and uncertainty still shaking our nation. this week was supposed to be the point at which the president wanted to prove that he was bigger than the coronavirus. bigger than civil unrest and that his supporters would run through a brick wall to come see him. but saturday's turnout showed that so far it is not going as planned. now he will try to move fast disappointing rally in tulsa by holding a smaller campaign event in arizona tomorrow. here's the thing. those two states have something very serious in common. they are among nearly 24 states where coronavirus cases are going up. and remember, if it was just a result of more testing, the number of positives would be going down. but they're not. as i said, they're going up. it's not clear how muc

simmons, thank you very much. boy, that's a little unnerving at this point. we'll get a full report following up tomorrow on this on "morning joe." that does it for us this morning. stephanie coverage right now. >>> thanks, mika. i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, june 22nd. here's what's happening this morning. we're kicking off a critical week. the president's case for re-election running smack against the fears and uncertainty still shaking our nation. this week was supposed to be the point at which the president wanted to prove that he was bigger than the coronavirus. bigger than civil unrest and that his supporters would run through a brick wall to come see him. but saturday's turnout showed that so far it is not going as planned. now he will try to move fast disappointing rally in tulsa by holding a smaller campaign event in arizona tomorrow. here's the