Just when you think you cant be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the attorney general of the district of new york was stunning and then his comeback, you cant fire me was even more stunning and ultimately Jeffrey Bermans win as i think you have clearly described in your hour is really its just kind of indescribely important. Who knows what donald trump and bill y william barr were up to and tried to accomplish. Exactly. What was that about . How do we get to the bottom of what that was about . Was the integrity of an individual investigation or multiple investigations at stake, and will they continue to be at stake . I think once they have i mean, they got away with doing this, with decapitating and taking control of the u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. , removing the independence of that office entirely. They are clearly making a go for it in new york. I dont think this will be their one swipe at it. But boy did they botch their first shot at it. And it was so desperate with just what might be just months left in this administration. The idea that you are going to put in a new u. S. Attorney in that amount of time was ridiculous to begin with. But what were they trying to block . What were they trying to stop . What was so urgent, so immediate . What was that office up to . We may find out soon. Who knows . Nadler seemed confident that they have ways to figure this out, that this investigation is well structured and they can discern this stuff. I will say that barr didnt do himself any favors by trying to fire berman in such a way where he supposedly offered him these other bigger jobs at the Justice Department. That completely takes away any argument that Jeffrey Berman is somehow incompetent and had to beic taken out because somethi was wrong with im. It has to be about some ongoing investigations. And until they can come up with any other explanation, thats going to be the thing that investigators, congressional investigators, i think, are honed on in an almost irretrievable way. Well, my first guest tonight is a former u. S. Attorney who has investigated donald trump, congressman adam schiff is going to start us off tonight and try to figure out what was going on in that firing. Well done. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Slow the testing down, those unforgettable words will follow donald trump every day for the rest of his presidency, which because of those words, is on track to come to an end months from now according to every single president ial campaign poll, every one of them, which showed donald trump behind joe biden by double digits, some show donald trump as much as 14 points behind joe biden. Joe bidens lead widened significantly in the last couple of months because of voters reactions to the way donald trump has failed to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and then on saturday night donald trump confessed. He turned himself in. He took full responsibility for this countrys failure to improve our Testing Capacity to meet the challenge of this pandemic. They called me. They said the job youre doing, heres the bad part, when you do testing to that extent, you are going to find more people. You are going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. Slow the testing down. Tonight we will get congressman adam schiffs reaction to donald trump deciding to slow the testing down. We will get congressman schiffs response to john boltons revolutions about Donald Trumps criminal conduct as president , including asking the governor of china, as well as ukraine to help with his Reelection Campaign and Steve Schmidt will join us with what the weak turnout tells us about the Trump Campaigns prospects. You know that when Steve Schmidt speaks on tv, donald trump is listening. When donald trump tweet approval of Donald Trumps condemnation of john bolton, he replied calling him the most failed president in american history. You are incompetent and inept. You are a moral and indecent. You are losing this election. You will be defeated and repudiated. Your legacy is death, weakness and economic collapse. Donald trumps tweet did not mention that Steve Schmidt was condemning john bolton for refusing to testify to the impeachment inquiry run by adam schiff who will be our first guest tonight. We heard some of what john boltons testimony would have been if he had not denied the subpoena for his testimony. J john bolton provides an eye witness and ear witness account to exactly what the president of the United States was trying to get from the government of ukraine. He wanted a probe of joe biden in exchange for delivering the Security Assistance that was part of the congressional legislation that had been passed several years ago so that in mismind he was bargaining to get the investigation using the resources of the federal government, which i found very disturbing. He said to me directly that thats what he had in mind. Ill say again i think it was widely understood at senior levels in the government that thats exactly what his objective was. What exactly did the president say to you . He directly linked the provision of that assistance with the investigation. Last night john bolton said that the president who he served is lying. The president denied it, tweeting, i never told john bolton that the aid to ukraine was tied to investigations into democrats, including the bidens. Is the president lying . Yes, he is. And its not the first time either. That is the reason that republican senators blocked the testimony of john bolton when he finally declared his willingness to testify in the Senate Impeachment trial of President Trump after refusing to testify in the house investigation. Republican senators were afraid that john bolton would say exactly those things. Republican Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell was obviously afraid that john bolton saying those things could lead to more republican senators than just mitt romney voting guilty in the impeachment trial. Who knows how many more . Republican senators did not cast an unprecedented vote against having any witnesses in the Senate Impeachment trial because they were confident donald trump was not guilty of the house charges. History will see the Republican Senate vote to black witnesses in the impeachment trial as an expression of Republican Senate confidence in just how guilty donald trump really was. In his masterful presentation during the senate trial, chairman adam schiff told the senate that if donald trump remained in office, he would do it again. He would violate his oath of office over and over again. He would continue to traffic in corruption, and this weekend donald trump and his attorney general william barr teamed up for what might be their single most corrupt project since the impeachment trial, the firing of the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, Jeffrey Berman. The attorney general of the United States lied to the country on friday night. That is how this story began, and it is a very important beginning. There is no other way to describe what the attorney general said. It was a lie. The attorney general put out a press release saying that President Trump intended to nominate a new u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, and the press release said, quote, i thank Jeffrey Berman, who is stepping down after two and a half years of service. And then Jeffrey Berman put out a press release saying, quote, i learned in a press release from the attorney general tonight that i was stepping down as United States attorney. I have not resigned. I have no intention of resigning my position to which i was appointed by the judges of the United StatesDistrict Court for the Southern District of new york. And with that press release, Jeffrey Berman blocked the trump barr plan to install an acting u. S. Attorney to replace Jeffrey Berman. Jeffrey bermans refusal to resir resign ruined the plan to block whatever investigation donald trump and william barr are trying to block in the manhattan u. S. Attorneys office because there is no other explanation for this move. Attorney general barr did not have the power to fire Jeffrey Berman because Jeffrey Berman was appointed by junldges. The next day after donald trump said he had absolutely nothing to do with any of this, the president then fired Jeffrey Berman. But Jeffrey Berman won the standoff in the end because Jeffrey Bermans deputy u. S. Attorney, according to standard procedure, is moving into the acting u. S. Attorney position. That is what Jeffrey Berman won in this standoff, and it is a hugely important win. The trumpbarr scheme to block the activities of the manhattan u. S. Attorney did not work because Jeffrey Berman stood up to the attorney general and the president and exposed what they were doing, and in the process, Jeffrey Berman managed to leave that important Prosecutors Office in the control of his widely respected deputy audry strauss. Our first guest tonight is a former u. S. Attorney who can help us untangle what william barr might have been trying to do this weekend. In the last hour House Judiciary Committee nadler told rachel he intends to subpoena attorney general barr to testify about the firing of Jeffrey Berman. We have begun the process, it takes a process, we have begun the process to issue that subpoena. Yes, it is very much true. We are doing that. Do you expect that attorney general barr will respect the subpoena or do you expect that he will defy it . Well, we dont know that. Subpoenas are supposed to be respected, obviously, but the corruption of the attorney general, of barr, may lead him to try to to to to to defy it. We have other we have other remedies, too, to try to force the attorney general. We can eliminate his his his office budget. There are a number of things we can do, which we will do. And chairman nadler indicated that the committee does expect to obtain testimony from now former u. S. Attorney Jeffrey Berman. Leading off our discussion tonight is congressman adam schiff of california. Hes the chairman of the house intelligence committee. Chairman schiff, thank you very much for joining us tonight. I want to begin with this u. S. Attorney situation in manmanhat. As you watched this unfold this weekend, as a former u. S. Attorney yourself, and this is a presidency that might only have months left in it, it is very strange to see any u. S. Attorney replaced in this timing on the calendar. What were you watching as this drama unfolded . Well, first, lawrence, in the interest of full disclosure, i was an assistant u. S. Attorney. I appreciate the promotion. I think youre absolutely right. This strinks to high heaven this effort to push out this independent u. S. Attorney from an office known for its independence and replace him in the last few months, the presidency, with some golfing buddy of the president s who has no prosecutorial experience. So, you know, i think whats going on is quite clear, which is theyre afraid of what this office under mr. Bermans leadership might do in terms of their criminal investigations in the months ahead. And it is part of a pattern and practice of protecting the president s friends, using the department of justice to punish his enemies. It is a political strategy, an abuse of the Justice Department that bill barr has completely complicit in. And the fact that barr would lie about this is so true to form add well. And you now have the u. S. Attorney from new jersey apparently saying that barr told him also that berman had resigned when it wasnt true and he was shocked to learn that, in fact, barr had misled him. Chairman schiff, one thing i have been wondering about is this is the u. S. Attorneys office that has the Michael Cohen prosecution, has done the Michael Cohen prosecution in which donald trump is essentially an unindicted coconspirator. Hes identified in the guilty plea as the person who directed and participated in the crimes that Michael Cohen did as a conspiracy against the United States. Donald trump is in that criminal case. Presumably donald trump could be charged as a criminal defendant in that case when he is no longer president. Is there something, a new u. S. Attorney could do in that office to somehow derail what might happen in january or next year if there is a new biden appointed u. S. Attorney in that office . Yes. I mean, there are ways that they could make it more difficult for a subsequent u. S. Attorney to bring that case by grants of some form of immunity to cooperating witnesses or other actions that could be in a subsequent case, even some grant to the president. But the reality is what they may have been more concerned about is if berman stayed through the end of this term and the new president kept him in that position, they know the position of that office in terms of the president s role in the conspiracy. They know the position of the career prosecutors in that office. And this may have been an effort to try to change that dynamic before there is a change in leadership. But frankly i think probably the greater imperative was to make sure they protected the president s people between now and the end of the year, and that may have a lot to do with Rudy Giuliani or it may just have to do with the fact that berman was not a loyal trump crony the way the way he wanted to replace him with us. Apparently he wasnt out there playing golf and paradesing d d donald trump. John bolton has now, in effect, testified. Hes done it in Television Programs in promoting his book, and thats what Steve Schmidt was condemning him for, not coming forward to your inquiry and doing his constitutional duty and telling the truth about what he knew. So when we look at the republicans in the senate blocking john bolton from testifying when he finally said he was willing to testify and from those same republicans who blocked that testimony, were not hearing a great deal of shock and surprise about what john bolton has revealed, it does seem like the republicans in the senate believed that what john bolton would say is what john bolton is how publically saying, and thats the reason they blocked his testimony. If john bolton was allowed to testify in the senate trial, do you believe it would have changed the course of history and changed the course of that senate vote . Well, i think, first of all, youre absolutely right. The senators who voted against hearing from john bolton did so because they were afraid of what he would say. They knew they lacked the courage to vote to remove donald trump. Many of them had already found the evidence to be compelling, and it would be so much more difficult for them to justify, rationalize their vote to acquit donald trump if the Country First heard from john bolton. If you look at lamar alexander, he basically said i didnt need to hear from john bolton because i already believed trump guilty. He was already proved by the house guilty. Why did we need another witness to just add on to what had already been proven . You know, even though people like alexander should not have wanted to deprive the country of hearing about the president s guilty and anything else that john bolton might have had to evaluate his fitness for office, how many other votes would have been affected, i dont know. I think the bigger risk for the president was not john boltons testimony alone but the fact that john boltons testimony may have led to other witnesses and an unraveling of the trump defense. Thats what Mitch Mcconnell was most concerned about. But you are absolutely right. These senators were not trying to shield the country of john bolton because they thought he would exonerate the president. Exactly the opposite. And chairman schiff, i want to get your reaction to john bolton basically criticizing you, criticizing nancy pelosi by saying that the impeachment inquiry in the house moved too fast and that you should have slowed down and worked through the Court Process to obtain his testimony. Well, i would say a couple of things. First of all, mr. Bolton has had a very difficult time rationalizing why he had Vital Information to share during the course of our impeachment investigation and he refused, and he decided to save it for his book. Thats a very hard thing to explain, and what he is trying to do is trying to say now the house should have worked harder to find out that which john bolton was keeping secret. In other words, we should have found people who were more courageous than john bolton who might have told us what john bolton refused to. Thats a really pretty flimsy defense of his own failings. In every way, i think john bolton condemns and indicts donald trump for doing things that were in his best interest, but not the national interest. He himself showed his own guilt of doing the same thing. But, look, notwithstanding john boltons lack of patriotism and lack of courage, the allegations that he makes are very serious against the president. They are completely consistent with what we showed during the trial. That is that donald trump only makes decisions on the basis of whats good for him, not the country. Thats how you can understand his comments about how i asked my people to slow down the testing. Obviously deeply antagonistic to the health and interest of the American People. But he felt it was politically advantageous. Chairman adam schiff, thank you very much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. And when we come back, everything donald trump wants to be big just isnt big enough. And thats why donald trump looked defeated after performing to a shockingly small crowd for him in oklahoma saturday night. Steve schmidt will join us next to reply to, among other things, what donald trump said about Steve Schmidt on twitter this weekend. Thats next. Youre clearly someone who takes care of yourself. So when it comes to screening for colon cancer, dont wait. Because when caught early, its more treatable. Im cologuard. Im noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92 of colon cancers even in early stages. Tell me more. Its for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. False positive and negative results may occur. 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There is some question as to whether tear gas was used with some of the protesters there. We will keep an eye on the situation if anything more develops there. And last night, here is how undone donald trump was by his failed rally in tulsa, oklahoma. It was saturday night, saturday night. And i, for one, have never seen donald trump with an undone necktie, but it was a night of surprises for the Trump Campaign. Turns out there was plenty of room to social distance inside that arena in tulsa on saturday with a crowd that occupied less than onethird of the crowds capaci capacity. 6,200 people showed up for a rally in a state that donald trump won by 36 points in 2016. Senator Kamala Harriss president ial campaign announceme announcement speech in oakland, california, had four times more people than donald trump had on saturday night. Bernie Sanders Campaign routinely attracted crowd sizes triple the size of Donald Trumps saturday night crowd. Nbc news is reporting that donald trump was furious, furious about the small crowd at the rally. The nbc report says, quote, the president was fuming at his top political aids saturday, even before the rally began after his campaign revealed that six members of the advanced team on the ground in tulsa had tested positive for covid19, including secret service personnel. Trump asked those around him why the information was exposed and expressed annoyance at the coverage ahead of his mega rally was dominated by the revolution. The Trump Campaign canceled the president s scheduled appearance before an overflow crowd outside of the arena because there was no overflow crowd. What the rally will be remembered for the extraordinarily effective and efficient way in which donald trump wrote joe bidens next campaign commercial. Heres the bad part. When you do testing to that extent, you are going to find more people. You are going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. Joining our discussion now, a former republican strategist and an msnbc political analyst. Steve, look, 6,000 at a Campaign Rally is a big success for a lot of campaigns, but for the Trump Campaign which suggested a Million People wanted to attend this thing, 100,000 people might show up in and around the area, they needed a giant overflow crowd space, 6,000 was, according to everybodys reports, horribly disappointing. What does it mean to the energy, to the momentum of the Trump Campaign . You have run president ial campaigns. You have come off an event like this, and what does it tell you . It tells you that this is a campaign that has a 38 approval level and is going down, thats failing, thats losing, thats decaying, thats atrophying. We see it as the imfeeblement of donald trump from his slow shuffle down the west point ramp to his 15 minute story at this rally about that, his story about sipping water, the disjointedness of the speech, it is all collapsing. So the country has been through a calamity over these last few months and there is many more months of disaster ahead. The 120,000 dead americans, absolutely shattered american economy, 40 million human souls in this country. We have suffering and death at an epic level. We are the epicenter of coronavirus death and suffering in this country and in the world. And his leadership failure of truly historic dimensions. So the president went to tulsa. He provoked an incredibly toxic incendiary situation by scheduling it on the 99th year of the tulsa race riots on the anniversary of juneteenth and he went there and failed epically and returned to the white house as a profoundly defeated man. The American People are taking the measure of all this and theyre just saying weve had enough. Four years of this chaos is enough. The country is in a terrible and weakened state and i think the American People are looking at donald trump and saying, wow, this presidency is a disaster for our country, for our future, for our children, for our grandchildren, and thats what you saw this weekend. Steve, the president is no doubt looking at you right now since he tweeted this weekend about something you said publically. He was glad that you had negative things to say about john bolton. He did not he did not include what you were saying about bolton is that he should have testified to the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. But the president obviously follows what you say. What would you tell the president about john boltons reaction john boltons revelations and what john boltons revelations tell us about this president . What they tell us about this president is hes the most corrupt person who has ever felt the office and that he fundamentally betrayed his oath to the american constitution. The president of the United States wears a 35 word oath from George Washington through dobnad trump to preserve and protect the United States. Weve had good president s and great president s. Weve had mediocre president s, bad president s, awful president s, crooked president s. But we have never had a president who has so willfully failed in his oath of office to defend the country. And that is the calamity of the Trump Presidency. Steve, also this weekend, Jeffrey Berman standing up to the attorney general and the president in what they were attempting to do with the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan, that truly is the biggest thing that happened this weekend and the strongest move against trump corruption that weve seen in a while. Berman being able to get his own choice in effect to succeed him in that office. Well, lawrence, i think that there are two equally tied unbelievable events of the weekend. First the president admitting that he slowed down testing. Then causing the deaths of tens and tens of thousands of americans because it would be bad for him politically. And then you see the assault on the rule of law that was attempted by bill barr this weekend. It is just completely out in the open. Its overt. There is no brake. There is no restraint anymore in my view in their minds about the limits about what they will or wont do. So what were going to see over these final months of the Trump Presidency is someone who is more cornered. He will become more desperate and dangerous, so we will see this increase at an expedited tempo before joe biden is the president elect of the United States. Steve schmidt, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. 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One of the important choices voters will make is the democratic nominee to challenge Mitch Mcconnell in the senate race in kentucky this year. And for the first time in history, kentucky is allowing absentee voting for anyone who wants an absentee ballot due to concerns over the coronavirus. You dont have to have some excuse for the absentee ballot about being out of town. But kentucky could be headed for an election day disaster because there will be fewer than 200 polling locations in the entire state of kentucky. Jefferson county, which includes the city of louisville is home to half of kentuckys black voters during a normal election year, Jefferson County alone has 256 polling locations. Tomorrow the louisville Exhibition Center with 350 voting booths will be the only polling location for Jefferson Countys more than 610,000 voters. Joining our discussion now is the cofounder of black voters matter. What are you expecting tomorrow in kentucky . You know, we dont know what to expect. We have just been seeing this over and over again. Here is a county people would know. There is 600,000 people. There is 600,000 voter. You have done from 3,700 polling sites down to 200 polling sites. We have half the polling sites. So were very, very concerned about whats going to happen. Even when were talking about 350 booths, or understanding is there will be 18 lines and 25 people a line. You know, that sounds good on one hand. You know, everything goes well. But when you are talking about massive crowds coming, we experienced this just recently in georgia. It was a different system we experienced that. 50 of the africanamerican population, this looks like and feels like Voter Suppression that ultimately in a time that were talking about a pandemic in the middle of a crisis we want to have people spread out. We dont want to have one site, just the thinking about it. Thats why there was a Bipartisan Committee that actually took this to court to try to stop it, but the judge denied the motion. Were very, very concerned around what is going to happen tomorrow. About people who have to work and cant stand in lines a long time and peoples possible exposure to covid19. Yeah. 600,000 voters is an enormous number of voters to have with basically one polling place. Thats like the island of manhattan having one polling place. The democratic governor of kentucky seems okay with this. Lets listen so what he said. There can be concerns about one polling location. I dont think its being done intentionally to suppress the vote. But at the end of the day i think we will have more people vote in this primary than we have ever seen. I think we will have our largest turnout. So he says he doesnt think its being done to suppress the vote. Whether its intentional or unintentional, do people have free and equal access to the ballot . Wi there is no way you have got a population of over 600,000, that you have going to have one polling site. We know there will be problems tomorrow. We can anticipate just on recognizing the numbers. So whether there is an intentionality around it or not, there are many that believe it is intentional, right . But whether it is intentional or not or whether you prove that or not is a secondary issue. The first issue is do we have an efficient and effective way to make sure that people are not standing in lines for extended period of time during the worst Health Pandemic that we have seen in this country in the last hundred years . It is unconscionable what is happening right now. The fact of the matter is there is more than half a Million People that literally have one polling site. That has not been done before and i dont know what way that could be efficient, effective in any form or fashion. Latasha brown, your work has never been more important. Thank you for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Coming up, as congress is in the middle of a debate about banning choke holds by Police Nation nationally, an nypd officer gets caught on video using an illegal choke hold on an unarmed black man. That officer has already been suspended. Thats next. Tada did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . I should get a quote. Do it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. And ask your doctor about biktarvy. Biktarvy is a complete, onepill, onceaday treatment used for hiv in certain adults. Its not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights hiv to help you get to and stay undetectable. Thats when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. Research shows people who take hiv treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit hiv through sex. 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Yo, stop choking him, bro stop choking him hes choking him let him go. Hes out. Hes out. Hes out. Ricky bellevues lawyer told the New York Times that he lost consciousness during the arrest and suffered injuries to his head and wrists. The suspended police officer, david affinadore was charged in 2014 with felony assault after attacking a 16yearold for possession of marijuana. He can be seen in this Surveillance Video striking him with his gun, breaking his teeth, prosecutors said. The officer and his partner were acquitted by a judge in 2016. Joining our discussion now is a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc contributor. He is an author of his 2017 book, choke hold, policing black men. Your reaction to the nypds swift action here . This is faster than we have ever seen disciplining an officer in a situation like this. Its much faster than the officer who killed eric garner by placing him in an illegal choke hold and continued to be paid 100,000 a year for the next five years. He was just suspended this past summer. So its progress that this officer has some accountability. Hes suspended without pay. Now, what he did is now a crime in new york. The eric garner antichoke hold act of 2020 makes aggravated strangulation a crime. That name is very decembe descr because it describes the risk. When officers prevent oxygen and blood from reaching our lung and brains, its very risky, which is why its been banned in new york since 1993. But, lawrence, as we see, that hasnt stopped cops from engaging in this outlaw procedure. Hundreds of complaints a year in new york since its been banned. And its not easy to tell this in the video, but mayor bill de blasio believes that one thing that he sees on the video, has seen on the video, is that one of the officers intervened to try to stop this, and that is a hopeful sign in these situations. So a duty to intervene is one of the big watch words now in policing reform. Weve seen too many instances in which officers see their colleagues engage in excessive force, and they just sit and watch a crime being committed. So part of this is about police training. We also know that the victim here, mr. Bellview, had a history of Mental Illness according to his family. Now, the reality is cops have to deal with people who are mentally ill all of the time. Thats part of their training. With some of these reforms being introduced including making officers more accountable in new york now again, you can go to jail for what this officer did. Hopefully that will make the training law professor paul butler, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. Always a pleasure, lawrence. Thank you. And when we come back, Donald Trumps going to do it again. After the failure in oklahoma on saturday night, hes heading for arizona, another state where coronavirus cases are on the rise, and hes going to have another rally, and this one is indoors in a much smaller location. Maybe the Trump Campaign now knows they need much smaller locations. Thats next. Chances are you know us. Yoohoo, progressive shoppers. We laughed with you. Sprinkles are for winners. We surprised you. On occasion, weve probably even annoyed you. Weve done this all with one thing in mind. To help protect the things you love. And if we cant offer you the best price well help you find a better one. Its not always the lowest even if its not with us. Thats how weve done it for the past 80 years. Not just today, or this month, but always. Throughout our history any time something bad has happened to us. Weve recovered. Every time. We fall, we rise. We break, we rebuild. We stumble, we learn. We come together. We work together. We innovate and create. 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Its probably 20 Million People more than anybody else. Germanys done a lot. South koreas done a lot. They call me, they said, the job youre doing heres the bad part. When you test when you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people. Youre going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. So if these 6,000 people who attended the trump rally follow medical professionals advice and try to get tested, many of them might not be able to get tested because donald trump said slow the testing down. Tomorrow donald trump is going to another place where the coronavirus is on the rise, phoenix, arizona. Arizona has set a new state record for coronavirus hospitalizations every day of the last seven days. Arizona now ranks 12th in the nation for cases per 100,000 people. Donald trump plans to deliver a Campaign Speech in phoenix tomorrow in a venue with a Seating Capacity of 3,000 people. Joining us now, dr. Peter hotez, dean of the National School of tropical medicine at Baylor College of medicine, and hes the codirector of the Texas Childrens Hospital Center for vaccine and development. Doctor, your reaction to what the president was saying about how much testing we have done and how we have done an extraordinary amount of testing while at the same time saying hes trying to slow it down. Yeah. I mean the testing never really got fully up to speed in the United States at the level that we needed, especially in the workplace, and we never had the level of contact tracing. We never had the level of what we call syndromic surveillance where you pick up cases of clusters of fever cases. We never had metropolitanarea maps, ep deepio logic maps as guidelines. So our response overall nationally has been inadequate. My big worry now is were starting to see this very steep rise in covid19 cases in florida, arizona, oklahoma, and texas. So theres this massive resurgence because we opened up these states prematurely. And here in houston, the rise is especially worrisome, and its not just number of cases. Its as you described in phoenix, big increases in hospitalizations and icu admissions. And this is where it really gets to be worrisome because once theres that surge on the icus, thats where the mortality rates go back. Icu staffs get overwhelmed, and then you could reproduce what we saw in new york city over the spring. So im worried about phoenix. Im worried about houston, dallas, austin, and some of the florida cities. And this is going this potentially could be an initiative thats as bad as anything we saw earlier this spring in new york. Doctor, quickly before we go, are we going to be able to trace the effects of the trump pandemic denial tour from oklahoma to arizona. I mean why pick these two cities . Why pick two of the worst cities in terms of the rate of rise. I guess next hell come to dallas and houston. It just doesnt make any sense. This is putting people in jeopardy. Dr. Peter hotez, thank you very much for joining us once again tonight. We always appreciate it. Sure. Dr. Hotez gets tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,250 of the trump administration, leaving 134 days to go until our president ial election. And once again tonight, we are following breaking news out of Lafayette Park near the white house tonight. Our nbc station wrc reporting that protests got tense when police pushed protesters away from the statue of Andrew Jackson after some of the demonstrators tried to take down the statue. There are reports that Park Service Police repelled protesters with pepper spray and shields. The news