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Florida residents tested yesterday: 91,539 Daily positivity rate for new cases: 14.46% The positivity rate is calculated by the state by using the total number of people tested for the virus and the total number of people who have tested positive. Health officials have said the positivity rate should stay at or below 5% to ensure a large enough group of the population is being tested. Deaths in long-term care facilities Total: 9,387

0 no radio people were invited. >> jon: noah, there is an msnbc contributor, michael eric dicen, who labeled eric holder the moses of our time. we've got a lot of religious references in the hour thus far. how does he get away with that statement? he's talking about the right wing effort to smear the attorney general. >> he's a law giver. he's the equivalent of handing down the laws from on high. yeah, it was a very stream of thought and consciousness kind of effort to exonerate eric holder and make him some sort of a victim here. and it was very handled handed and relatively correctly lampoon...

Were shocked, really shocked, to hear the president make this remark. >> ultimately, i'm confident that the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. >> jonathan tully is a law professor at a university. how are you, sir? >> good. how you doing? >> good wech. we saw senator grassley tweet this weekend that american people are not as stupid as the president -- his word -- but he says conservatives are not accustomed on being on the defensive. they have long experi...

cautiously optimistic this will lead to an arrest. for more, we turn to kerry sanders who is in sanford. good afternoon. does this decision to cancel the grand jury mean the special prosecutor may have come to a clear decision on how to proceed with this case? >> reporter: i think so. and it is a gutsy move. had she gone to the grand jury, she would have political cover. while the special prosecutor was pointed by the governor, essentially she is an elected official in duval county, in jacksonville, where she is a state attorney. one-third of that communal is african-american so she ...

prosecutor may have come to a clear decision on how to proceed with this case? >> reporter: i think so. and it is a gutsy move. had she gone to the grand jury, she would have political cover. while the special prosecutor was pointed by the governor, essentially she is an elected official in duval county, in jacksonville, where she is a state attorney. one-third of that communal is african-american so she must have that in the back of her mind even though prosecutors are supposed to divorce themselves of the external politics of an event taking place. taking on this on her own indicat...