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Today. Thats going to do it for us. Ill see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, herachel. That old phrase sergeant at arms. Hr the arms part seems archaic. And meaningless. And then you have days like today. Those scenes, we have shown them on this show in the past. The pictures of the end of governor Gretchen Whitmers driveway with guys standing at the end of her driveway holding guns and wearing all the protrump ...

Home amid all of this. The number of hospitalizations in the state continues to decline. Governor cuomo says it is a sign that the soshl distancing measures are working. We are flattening the curve by what we are doing. If we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is purely a function of what we do day in and day out. It is not a time to get complacent. It is not a time to do anything different than we have been doing. And a leading forecast model, the white house use...

That phrase, the sergeant at arms, the arms part seeming meaningless then you have days like today. Yeah. Those scenes from, i mean, we have shown them on this show in the past, pictures of the end of govern governor Gretchen Whitmers driveway with guys standing at the end of her driveway holding guns and wearing protrump stuff and shouting about the president and telling her to drop her policies but its another thing to see them in the legislative chamber. I dont know which one feels more anti ...

For weeks the Task Force Briefing that was on the books for today was cancelled and now were expecting this News Conference to be just the president. It comes as nbc news has learned the white house is now preparing for the president to push a more optimistic message moving forward focusing on economic revival while diminishing the public presence of Top Health Officials on the White House Coronavirus task force, including dr. Debra birx and dr. Anthony fauci. Sidelining the health experts, if t...

With dignity and grace the more than 62,000 men and women we have lost. We have all seen the stories about the overwhelming number of fatalities. At one funeral home in new york 50 decomposing bodies were found on ice in four trucks including rental trucks from uhaul. The funeral director said they were put there because he had no more room in the chapel. I ran out of space, he said. Bodies are coming out of our ears. A cemetery worker in brooklyn is struggling to keep up with the onslaught of b...

Probably a lot more than that. While that is terrifying, theres breaking news at the white house this hour as well. Confirmation that the director for the centers for Disease Control and prevention, dr. Robert redfield, he is in selfquarantine after being exposed to the coronavirus. I want to get to the white house. Jeremy diamond is joining us right now. What are you hearing, first of all, about this possible exposure that is now motivating the head of the cdc to selfquarantine . Yesterday the ...

That point underscored by britains chief medical officer whos warning this could make the chance of a vaccine, in his words, much less likely. We need to be careful. We dont assume well have a vaccine for this disease as we have for, lets say, measles, which once you have it, youre protected for life. We may or may not but we need to be absolutely clear about that. And cautious optimism. Several u. S. States where they say the infection curve is flattening. Cnn has learned the u. S. Ns comfort h...

Of patients at a Va Medical Centers about the drug he has been taking, hiydroxyhydroxychl, has no benefit for coronavirus patients and the patients had a high e death rate when taking the drug. If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey they were giving it to people that are in very bad shape, they were very old. Almost dead. It was a, a trump enemy statement. That study was a phony study put out by the va. And the university of virginia. Researchers found those did not reduce the need f...

About face on masks coming after a surge of cases across the southern half of the United States from california all the way to florida. Some astounding numbers there. The numbers are also growing around the world. Total deaths have surpassed the grim milestone of half a million today, that number coming to us from Johns Hopkins university. The mississippi legislature, separately from this, voting to remove the confederate battle flag from the state flag. More on that in just a minute. But we wan...

The death of a young black man stopped by police in colorado. Well take a closer look at what happened to Elijah Mcclain. Good morning to you. Its sunday, june 28th. Im alex witt. The coronavirus pandemic. The number of confirmed cases across the globe surpassing 10 million, according to Johns Hopkins. The u. S. Set a troubling record with the highest singleday increase in cases. Nearly 46,000 new cases were reported. Florida, south carolina, georgia, nevada all setting records for new infection...