Bit of fiction. The president was noting the fact that the vast majority of americans who contract coronavirus will come out on the other side of this. Of course he takes this very seriously. Of course no one wants to see anyone in this country contract covid, which is why the administration has fought hard to make sure thats not the case with our historic response effort. Nbc news, among other news organizations, reporting the Trump Administration will begin new messaging soon on the coronavirus. They plan to tell americans they simply need to learn to live with the virus. And the Washington Post adds this bit of reporting. Quote, white house officials hope americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day. Today dr. Fauci said the current spike in infections is a serious situation that needs to be addressed. We are still knee deep in the first wave of this, and i would say this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline, francis, that really never got down to where we wanted to go. If you look at the graphs from europe, the European Union as an entity, it went up and then came down to baseline. Now theyre having little blips as you might expect as they try to reopen. We went up, never came down to baseline, and now were surging back up. So its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. All this as weve learned this coronavirus has once again come close to the president. Top Trump Campaign fundraising official Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for coronavirus right before the president s event at Mount Rushmore on friday. Guilfoyle is the girlfriend of donald trump jr. The New York Times reports they did not travel aboard air force one to the event and were indeed planning to drive home from south dakota to the east coast. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has also tested positive for coronavirus. Her husband and one of their four children are also positive. The mayor said in a tweet today she has no symptoms, told our own joy reid tonight the news came as a surprise. Leaves me for a loss of words because i think it speaks to how contagious this virus is. And weve taken all of the precautions you can possibly take. We wear a mask. Were very thoughtful about washing our hands. I have no idea when and where we were exposed. And there is growing concern tonight among experts about how contagious this virus really is. The New York Times was the first to report that experts are calling on the World Health Organization to change its guidance on airborne transmission. The times tells it this way. The World Health Organization has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets that once expelled by infected people in coughs and sneezes, fall quickly to the floor. But in an open letter to the w. H. O. , 239 scientists in 32 countries have outlined the evidence showing that smaller particles can infect people and are calling for the agency to revise its recommendations. Meanwhile, the spike in cases isnt stopping the president from moving ahead with campaign rallies. He will hold an outdoor rally in portsmouth, New Hampshire, on saturday. The region went heavily for him in 2016. The campaigns announcement said attendees will be provided with a face mask and are strongly encouraged to wear it. And we were reminded about this today. This moment during the president s now famous tour of the cdc. It was exactly four months ago today. Anybody right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyre there. They have the tests. The tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. But anybody that needs a test can have a test. Theyre all set. They have them out there. But as of right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test thats the important thing. He said it four times. Its been four months. It wasnt true then. Its still not true tonight. Here for our leadoff discussion on another busy monday as we start a new workweek, jill colvin, White House Reporter for the associated press. Philip rucker, pulitzer prizewinning White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post who along with his coauthor, post colleague carol leonnig, wrote the bestselling book a very stable genius. And dr. Nahid bhadelia, an Infectious Diseases physician, medical director of the special pathogens unit up at the b. U. School of medicine in boston. She worked along with the w. H. O. During the west african ebola epidemic and for good reason is one of our medical contributors. Good evening and welcome to you all. Doc, id like to begin with you. Where do you view us as a nation tonight in the arc of this coronavirus, and what is the Public Health effect of hearing the president say, wrongly, that 99 of cases are harmless . [ inaudible ]. I thought sorry about that. Yeah, weve been hearing there we go. You were muted. Look at that. Six months into the pandemic, i still havent managed that. What we have accomplished, though, is that what were hearing is the death rates are very low, and thats true. You know, lets focus on the fact that those are pretty low, and weve done some good advances in the last few months. We have figured out a medication that can decrease the duration of hospitalization, one that can decrease mortality rates. Weve figured out how to take better care of these patients. So hopefully for any patient that gets sick, the mortality will be lower now than it was in may. But pandemic math is not like the stock market. You dont get to sell out in a high market the way you do with the stock market because you have to watch the rest of the numbers. And heres what they say. Hospitalizations are up as you mentioned, and cases are up in all these states. And not only that, but in six states youre now seeing reversal and actually increase in the daily death rates as well. That reflects that we are looking in the long term a situation where we will be extending our Health Care Systems more. And at the current state of many of the states that are affected, at the current level of disease, were already seeing a lot of these Health Care Systems affected. We cant plan on todays numbers. We have to project on tomorrows numbers, and what were seeing already coming down the pike. The impact of the president saying that this is no big deal and that 99 of the people are not affected is people let their guard down. And by doing that, we ensure that were going to get even higher numbers down the road. Let me also remind you that if 1 of america is severely affected with this disease, thats 3 million people. Thats not something small. Phil rucker, the white house, according to your reporting, hoping the nation will grow numb to the death toll, hoping to roll out a new kind of p. R. Offensive that we need to learn how to live with it. Part of the genesis of this, i know, was a kind of friend of the court memo that Chris Christie wrote to donald trump. The president liked it, had it distributed around his circle in the west wing. A couple of points here. You can learn to live with it if youre not dead and not afraid of getting it, number one. Number two, what will that message look like in Donald Trumps hands, and frankly how will it differ from his everyday utterances on this . Well, brian, im not sure its going to differ that much from what weve seen so far from the president , who is going about his own political life, holding these rallies, traveling, going to events, trying to get the economy reopened without a whole lot of concern about the coronavirus. He, as you noted a few minutes ago, is going to be going to New Hampshire this weekend for another rally where i guess masks are going to be distributed but not required. And so thats an example of trying to live with it. We also saw from the president today he wrote in all caps on twitter that schools ought to reopen in the fall. Thats a decision that a lot of municipalities and local and state governments are grappling with at this very hour over the next few weeks to decide whether they can decide whether they can open their schools for the fall semester, which would begin in only a month or two. So the president s encouraging that. He wants to see this country back and reopened even though the coronavirus cases are spiking, even though people are dying, even though all the doctors say that the United States is the only country that cant get control of it because were moving too quickly to reopen and getting back to normal. Indeed for all those folks who missed that day in physics class, schools are locally governed in this country, and the president of the United States cant declare them open or closed. Jill colvin, knowing the news media will keep tabs on figures as we did in tulsa, what real steps are white house personnel taking to make sure New Hampshire is not a superspreader event . Handing out masks, recommending them is one thing. Real practice, as no one needs to remind you, having covered these things, is quite another. Yeah. I think we have to acknowledge the fact that they are Going Forward with another rally so quickly as an indication that they are, you know, trying to press forward, trying to let this impact the campaign as little as it practically can. But this rally is also going to look really different from the tulsa rally. Trumps staff, his aides, his campaign do not want a repeat performance of what they had two weeks ago when the president was enraged and furious about the turnout. So instead of doing this rally inside, its going to be held at an airport, in an airport hangar so it will be more outside. Instead of just handing out masks and leaving it to that, this time theyre encouraging people to wear them. Theres been an acknowledgement from the campaign that if they dont make the audience feel comfortable and feel at least a little bit more safe attending these events, then theyre not going to show up, and the president s going to be staring out at another half empty venue, and thats not something that they want to happen. At the same time, you know, weve got the Vice President who is intending to resume his campaign activities. Youre going to see him back on the trail doing his bus tours, doing dinerstyle events. They want to continue to press forward as much as they can. Doctor, because you raised this figuring of the fatality rate and because the following reasoning is being used in the proreopening argument across this country, i want to play for you now some of Kayleigh Mcenany this afternoon, and on the other side ask you to factcheck and explain it. The president isnt downplaying the severity of the virus. What the president s noting is that at the height of this pandemic, we were at 2,500 deaths per day. We are now at a place where on july 4th, there were 254. Thats a tenfold decrease in mortality. On july 5th, 209 individuals, down 23 from last sunday and the lowest sunday since march 28th. So, doctor, first of all, she made two points there. The president is downplaying the virus, but go to her math, please. So first of all, the numbers that Kayleigh Mcenany is reporting are weekend numbers, and traditionally those numbers reflect underreporting because we havent yet seen the reporting from the weekend. The trouble, though, is not the current number. What were seeing is hospitalizations generally are followed by deaths. From a cdc surveillance from the end of may, what we know is of the people that were diagnosed, 14 get hospitalized. 5 die. And maybe thats half of that now. Hopefully weve done better. Thats still a lot of people of the number that were seeing hospitalized that are going to then follow unfortunately and may pass away. And so we are at a good point, but as dr. Fauci has said, the numbers of cases are going up. Every day were seeing this exponentially rise, and so a percentage of those will still result in deaths. And so the point is not do we have the numbers lower right now. The point is it looks like our numbers will go up and how are we adjusting our behavior and the president s recommendation that we just live with it and not change our lifestyle is going to impact all of those numbers. Phil rucker, reporting of your newspaper, this is about the ppp payments that came out. Data released monday by the Small Business administration shows that businesses own by members of congress and the law practice that represented President Trump were among the hundreds of thousands of firms that received aid from the agency. The data, which was released after weeks of pressure from Media Outlets and lawmakers, paints a picture of a haphazard first come, first served program that was not designed to evaluate the relative need of the recipients. Phil rucker, also associates of jared kushner, as we mentioned, the president s law firm. How is that fair if all of that is true . Well, what this data shows is a number of firms with connections to the Trump Administration or other power brokers in washington were able to get that federal funding much more easily than other businesses out around the country without those sort of connections. Its kind of a classic game in washington where those who have a hookup, those who have a link, a connection to the powerful in this country, in this government, can get favors from the government much more easily than others. The problem is and the reason why theres so much outcry today over this revelation is that there are a lot of businesses out there across the country who are really hurting, who either didnt receive funding from this program or didnt receive enough funding from this program to help them. And theres also not been any act by congress yet to try to do additional stimulus spending. You know, its been four, five months now since the pandemic set in, and a lot of these businesses had to scale back their operations, then lay off a lot of their workers, and there has not yet been a more recent phase of federal stimulus to help these companies. And, you know, congress is about to set off on the campaign trail here pretty soon, so they really only have a few weeks left to act. Jill colvin, the president has a busy day on social media. There were so many shiny objects, you had to wear sunglasses for most of it. Today he tweeted out his at least de facto support, not criticism, of the Confederate Flag and sports teams named the redskins and indians. Then tonight on fox news, we got this from mark meadows, the white house chief of staff. In fact, hes the only thing that stands between a mob and the American People. You know, first its the statues. Then its the businesses. Then its their homes. You know, sadly we have a loss of life, and yet this president is willing and not only willing, but has already put forth federal resources to make sure that we can restore law and order. So, jill colvin, weve established, lord knows, im not a doctor, nor am i beschloss or meacham, but i have read a lot, and i do know that the tactic of saying theyre coming for you, theyre coming for your staff, theyre coming for your family has been used throughout our history by various candidates. Yeah, and thats what youre seeing here from the white house, from the president , from his senior staff. You know, he spent the weekend as we are seeing these numbers rise across so many states of this country, as hospitals are reporting that they are getting more and more patients, potentially too many patients for them to treat, and meanwhile you had the president at a pair of july 4th events at Mount Rushmore and then at the white house, really digging in on the countrys divisions, you know, exacerbating racial concerns and these conversations that, you know, people are having across the country right now. And you saw just today talking about the Confederate Flag, talking about Bubba Wallace, suggesting that he should apologize after finding his staff found that noose in his stall. You know, again and again trying to seize on these cultural wars. And its one of these situations where a lot of people around the president who are looking at his poll numbers are trying to convince him this is not a strategy that is working for him. Its not a strategy thats going to win over undecided voters, thats going to win back suburban women, other people who may be on the fence now about his rhetoric. And yet as weve seen again today, its something the president continues to dig in on, really speaking to his base yet again. Our thanks to our starting big three tonight, all three of whom have tough jobs these days. Jill colvin, philip rucker, dr. Nahid bhadelia, thank you very much. Coming up for us, floridas hospitals struggling to stop the states surging coronavirus cases. Well ask a florida doctor who helped write her citys reopening rules, what do you do about now . And later, politics in black and white. A speech so very trump that one fox news host said it was the best one this president has ever given. The 11th hour is just getting under way on this backtowork monday night. This thing has been circulating for longer in our country than we initially thought kind of at the beginning of march. Had you had a broader testing criteria, you would have picked up more cases at that time. Theres no need to really be fearful about it. I mean we can talk about the different steps that individuals can take, you know, that were going to take statewide. But at the end of the day, you know, this is something thats been around for quite some time. You heard the governor, the ardent trump follower ron desantis telling floridians no one need be fearful despite the new records being set in that state daily. Miami herald points out, quote, it took three months from early march to june 22nd for florida to cross 100,000 new confirmed covid19 cases. It took less than two weeks for the state to go from 100,000 to 200,000 cases. According to miami beach mayor dan gelber, things arent looking great. We dont have a handle on it at all. I think its got a handle on us. Two weeks ago there were 60 Covid Patients on ventilators. There are 160 in our county. Two weeks ago, there were 121 patients in icu. There are now 330, which is the highest. I dont think its a good idea now to tell people this is just a sort of normal. For more, we welcome to our broadcast dr. Aileen marty, she happens to be a professor of Infectious Diseases at Florida International university down in miami. She also works with the w. H. O. And in the past has worked with teams responding to outbreaks across the globe. Doctor, i know i try to keep all of our physicians away from politics, but what do you think the governor is talking about there, that people need not be fearful and that, in effect, this has hung around longer than people thought . I cant get into his head and try and guess what hes talking about. What i can say is that the situation in miamidade is very serious, and we had several emergency meetings about what to do about how serious it is in our hospitals, and it doesnt match what you just communicated. When you go out on the streets, how does your view of reality, the people you see, the activities going on how does that differ from what you know should be the case . Oh, theres no question that there are a portion of our population that are flaunting the rules, especially among the most the young people in our communities that are having these parties and gettogethers where the disease is spreading. Theres a lack of an understanding of how serious the virus is, and it comes because we have this disconnect among some of our leaders in how theyre expressing the problem to the population, and some of our media as well. Lets talk about the young people. In many cases they are asymptomatic carriers. In many cases they are superspreaders. I need not remind you there are many multigenerational households in your state. So the governor keeps saying how young the median age is of those testing positive. Whos in the hospital, though . What age group is that generally . The in our hospitals, were seeing the largest portion of our hospitals patients are in their 30s and younger. So were not seeing a lot of older individuals coming to the hospital now. Weve more or less got a handle on what was going on in the nursing homes, of which we have the highest in our county. So first of all, you said theyre asymptomatic carriers. Theyre asymptomatic as far as they can tell. But when we do chest xrays on these people, 67 show lung damage. So they may feel great, but theyre not great. And the truth is theyre having scar tissue forming in their lungs that may have implications for their future. So even the young people, even the children, when you do films, we see the damage. These are people we dont hospitalize. Thats an important point and thank you for making it, and ill try to strike the word asymptomatic from my vocabulary where it comes up because as you point out, its not always the case. The education commissioner in florida wants to open k through 12 schools starting in august. Is that really a good idea right about now . So what came out from the state of florida to all the counties was that they wanted schools to reopen. However, in the actual document, they are allowing not just brick and mortar openings but all kinds of other creative ways of having openings, distance learning, synchronous and dyssynchronous, which jibes with what we were planning here for the miamidade Public Schools and for the universities. And also its important to know that local Health Officials and our mayor has an influence on whether or not the brick and mortar schools actually open depending on our health condition. Another good point to make. Thank you for your expertise. Thank you for your candor. Dr. Aileen marty has been our guest tonight. Coming up, how the White House Press secretary attempts to defend her boss. Not easy on a day like the one we had, and it showed. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. 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. Those who want us to be ashamed of who we are are not interested in justice or in healing. Their goal is demolition. Their goal is not a better america. Their goal is to end america. So as we established earlier, after a busy weekend spent stoking culture wars, the president had a busy day for himself on twitter, including this attack on the only black driver in nascars premier bracket, and we quote. Has Bubba Wallace apologized to all those great nascar drivers and officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, and were willing to sacrifice everything for him only to find out that the whole thing was just another hoax . That and flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever. To be clear here for a second, Bubba Wallace owes an apology to no one. He did not find and never saw the object in question. It was a rope used to lower a garage door, unmistakably tied as a noose. The fbi investigated and found the rope predated this years race. Bubba wallace has singlehandedly already changed the culture of nascar and the family of drivers and teams in the sport has rallied around him. Oh, and the nascar ratings this weekend were up close to 40 over the same race last year. But these are the times we are living in, the america of the year 2020. And with us to talk about it here tonight, professor eddie glaude jr. , the chairman of the center of africanamerican studies at princeton university. Also happens to be the author of a new book begin again James Baldwins america and its urgent lessons for our own. That discussion still forthcoming tonight. Also with us is Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National committee. Former Lieutenant Governor of the great state of maryland. These days host of the Michael Steele podcast. Welcome to you both. Michael, i always try to bring you something when you come on to thank you for your presence. I know. Tonight i give you and well discuss it at the conclusion, Tucker Carlson from fox news. Fridays address at Mount Rushmore was probably the best, the single best speech donald trump has ever given. It was a roadmap for his reelection message, but more than that it was a roadmap for the country itself. Equality, decency, pride in our nation. Michael steele, your thoughts. Well, clearly we heard two different things, and i would not ascribe any of those characteristics to the speech that the president gave, and thats just the reality of it. Look, the reporting is out there about the relationship between the president and Tucker Carlson. What else do you expect Tucker Carlson to say . I mean hes in the president s ear. The president listens to him, and the president clearly is taking his advice. One report i raid said if you want to get a sense of what the president s going to say next, watch Tucker Carlson the day before. So lets discount all of that and not give it the level of energy or credence that it deserves. The reality of it is what we have right now and what we saw this past weekend was the description of two americas, the one that President Trump wants to lead and has tried to lead where men and women of color, communities are put under pressure, the economy is stagnating, and his view of it is it will get better. When your answer to coronavirus is, well, lets just move along, that should tell you about the two types of americas that donald trump has in front of him, and we know which one that hes been leading from. So i dont put too much credence in any of that, you know, highfalutin words what the speech was or wasnt. The reality is the American People have to decide what kind of country they want and what kind of man or woman they want to lead it Going Forward. Not to leave out the professor, i brought something for you too, eddie, and here is the press secretary from today, Kayleigh Mcenany. The subject, the Confederate Flag. Does he believe nascar should fly the Confederate Flag, and why dont they fly it here . The whole point of the tweet was to note the incident, the alleged hate crime that in fact was not a hate crime. What is the president s position . Does he think nascar made a mistake by banning the Confederate Flag . So he said he i spoke to him this morning about this, and he said he was not making a judgment one way or the other. Why is the president even suggesting that mr. Wallace should apologize . Well, look, the fbi as i noted concluded that this was not a hate crime, and he believes it would go a long way if bubba came out and acknowledged that as well. Professor, is not taking a stance on the Confederate Flag taking a stance on the Confederate Flag . Absolutely. As the president of the United States, you cannot choose the American Flag over the Confederate Flag. You cannot state unequivocally that the Confederate Flag, the battle flag, the stars and bars, however you want to describe whichever flag youre talking about, represents a moment of treason, is the symbol of traitors. You cant say that out loud, it actually speaks volumes about what President Trump is committed to and who hes speaking to in those moments, right . And we saw this all weekend. Michael steele, lets talk about your fellow republicans. Senator joni ernst of iowa had her chance to put some space between her and the president this weekend. Youll forgive the phrase, she chose to stand by her man. As this potentially gets worse, the people with an r after their names who are downballot from this president , do you expect any courage to break out between now and november, 120 days . I think thats the operative question for the moment, to sort of track not maybe right now but certainly in the next few weeks how you see any slippage, breakage between the president and u. S. Senators, congressmen and women, governors, and others as they get closer to the convention for sure, but certainly once you get into september. Look, where a lot of these folks are, theyre so tethered at this point, it is much more difficult for them to make the kind of break at this stage because they need that base turnout. Theyre going to need that turnout in their states, and they figure at some point there will be enough momentum from the president ial campaign and maybe other events that are going on that theyll make up the difference if you will. I wouldnt bet on that. I think the country is very much making up its mind a lot sooner than later in this upcoming campaign, brian. And if im a joni ernst, if im any of these folks who are on the bubble in the senate, which is now in play by the way, you have to think twice whether or not youre ready to go home for good or if you want to come back to washington and what its going to take for you to do that. Michael steele, thank you. Its a pleasure as always, and im thanking you because professor glaude has been asks to return for one more segment to discuss his work as an author and the powerful subject that man right there of his new biography. Audible is my roadtrip companion. Its kind of my quiet, alone time. Audible is a routine for me. Its like a fun night school for adults. I could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books. I never was interested in historical fiction before, but im obsessed with it now. There are a lot of like, classic and big titles that i feel like i missed out since i dont have time to read, mean i might as well listen. If i want to catch up on the news or history or learn whats going on in the world, i can download a book and listen to it. Because i listened to her story over and over again, i made the decision to go ahead and follow my own dream, which was to help other veterans. I think theres like 180 books in my, in my library now. It changes your perspective; it makes you a different person. Its true, its so true. To start your free 30day trial, just text listen17 to 500500. For a black american, for a black inhabitant in this country, that statue of liberty is simply a very bitter joke, meaning nothing to us. The unmistakable and essential James Baldwin was a lot of things. Born in harlem, died in france. Genuine intellectual, writer, author, playwright, occasional polemicist. Activist in the early socalled Gay Liberation movement, activist for civil rights. He gave us titles like go tell it on the mountain, the fire next time, notes on a native son, and if beale street could talk. Professor eddie glaude jr. Is a lot of things as well. Hes a proud morehouse man who earned a ph. D. From princeton, where his name is now on the door. He chairs the africanamerican studies department, and now he has given us a new title as the author of begin again James Baldwins america and its urgent lessons for our own. Professor, it is a pleasure to discuss this work with you, and im going to begin where we should on a night like this. What would your subject make of this time right here and right now and the three words black lives matter . The fact that we would have to say that again, the fact that my son is having to declare those three words again in the face of the countrys betrayal, you know, i think theres this line that jimmy used in the white mans guilt published in ebony, where he says, people who imagine that history flatters them are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin. So he would i think he might even be stunned, not shocked but stunned at the brazenness of it all. But the fact that another generation, brian, has to assert their worth, has to assert their value. And can you imagine in this moment someone is actually saying that for me to say black lives matter is actually to Say Something hateful. I mean just think about that formulation for a minute. So as much as america says its changing, as jimmy would say, america never really, really changes. Indeed we have a Vice President and a president unable to, unwilling to say the words publicly, a president who as you note, has connected black lives matter with the word hate. Would baldwin agree with those that say were witnessing a new certainly not a moment a new movement afoot . Well, i think, you know, i think im often hesitant to speak for him because i think his words that he wrote in his time are relevant to our own. But what i do know, what i want to say is that this current moment suggests that were on the precipice of possible change, that were at an inflection point, that november is in some ways, brian, a moral reckoning. And that what we need to do is mine the rubble and ruins of our past to kind of gather up resources to really face what the moment calls from us. And i think where baldwin always insisted that we must be mindful that as human beings we are at once miracles and disasters, that we can in fact be miraculous in how we act in the world. But we can also be dastardly, right, in our pettiness and in our cruelty. So the moment that were in is a moment of possible change, but theres no guarantee. We have to find some kind of way to muster the energy to imagine ourselves otherwise, and this is why i wrote the book, that we have to in some ways begin again, not abdicate our responsibility but step up to this moment and perhaps succeed this time in imagining america anew. What a life he led, certainly not all of it fun. But if memory serves, he hung out with both simone and sartre and angelou for good measure. I cant wait to read it. I cant wait to see it take its rightful place on the shelf of heroes behind you. There it is begin again the author professor eddie glaude jr. Good luck with it. Well talk about it some more, im quite sure. Coming up for us, another deadly threat suddenly on the rise in our cities, during our summer of discontent. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. This may well be a long, hot summer. It was a dangerous and deadly weekend in some of our cities due to gun violence. New york city alone, 64 people were shot. In the state of georgia, the governor is calling out the guard. Our report on all of it tonight from nbcs ron allen. Reporter a Holiday Weekend full of bloodshed and tears. Across the country, dozens of victims including innocent children. In atlanta, 8yearold Secoriea Turner shot and killed while riding in a car with her mother when police say for still unknown reasons, gunmen opened fire. They say black lives matter. You killed your own. Reporter tonight georgias governor declaring a state of emergency, activating up to 1,000 National Guard troops after weeks of vandalism and now gun violence. It has to stop. You cant blame this on a police officer. You cant say that we this is about criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an 8yearold baby in the car. Reporter violence erupting as the nation emerges from months of covid19 stayathome orders, struggling with economic misery and calls to defund the police. New yorks deadly weekend follows an alarming spike in crime. Police say shootings rose 130 last month. Officials blame factors including Court Closures and prisoner releases due to covid as well as what some see as an antipolice environment. But absolutely our detectives are out there each and every day working on these shootings, making arrests. Do you think things are going to get better or worse through the summer . I think its going to get worse during the summer because i see nothing thats going to reverse the trend. Reporter in chicago, 7yearold Natalie Wallace was at a july 4th celebration with family when Police Say Gunmen pulled up outside the house and opened fire, a bullet striking her forehead. Chicagos heart gets broken again. We got to be tired of this because damn it im tired of it. Reporter ron allen, nbc news, new york. And coming up for us, proof that if this july 4th felt different out there, it really was. Last thing before we go tonight, it sure seemed like there were more, shall we say, homegrown fireworks than usual on the 4th. With upwards of 80 of municipal fireworks shows canceled this year, it seemed like everybody chose to freelance. So many people took fireworks into their own hands from what we could see, we can only hope that all those hands are still attached to arms. Aerial pictures of Southern California show the stunning number of fireworks just going on in streets and backyards as far as the eye can see. Hundreds of fires were set across the state all from illegal fireworks, including a 100acre fire in santa clarita. And in case you were wondering, fireworks are measurable in our air. Its trackable across the country. The folks who measure aerosolized particulates in our air put together this graphic to show the oneday spike in washington, d. C. Every year on the 4th, and it spiked way high this year. Unofficially july 4th is also the most feared night of the calendar year in the dog community. Its bad enough that for many of us, this is thunderstorm season, but our dog friends have a lot to live through in terms of sky booms this past weekend. In one case in franklin, tennessee, a very good dog, a 3yearold Belgian Malinois named roo, alerted a family to a house fire next door that was caused by illegal fireworks. Everybody got out safely, answering on that night the eternal question whos a good dog, and clearly the answer is roo. That is our broadcast on this monday night as we stagger back to work and begin a new week. My thanks to ali velshi and Steve Kornacki for allowing me some valuable jersey shore time. Thank you so much for being here with us. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. Tonight on all in, as coronavirus cases spike across the country, state and local officials go into crisis mode. But the white house just hopes we get used to it. What the failed federal response means for if next covid hot spots. Plus, a new Campaign Similar poll. The shocking coronavirus data on Racial Disparities that had to be pried out of the Trump Administrations hands when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his allies are reportedly settling on a reelection message amid the death and misery brought on by the present pandemic. The message is, get used to it. The Washington Post reporting they hope americans will learn grow numb to the death toll to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day. They want you to grow numb, not just the death toll but also to their failure, to what you see on this chart. This national shame. The chart illustrates the fact the European Union, canada, mexico, china, japan, they all brought their cases down, but not us