monday, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the justices hear the case of u.s. patent and trademark office versus booking.com. to case concerns the travel companies fight to trademark its website. be part of history and listen to the supreme court oral arguments as they are heard by the justices live, monday, at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, on demand at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. immediately following the live supreme court session, join jeffrey rosen of the national constitution center leading a live discussion with scholars. from politico.com. trump's unspoken factor on reopening the economy, politics.

ost: that's from politico.com. thank you for being with us. so how does the white house thread the needle? guest: well, they're trying to do that right now. you've seen about 12 or 15 states starting to reopen, but the president has said they don't want -- he doesn't want the states to open too fast. they'll allow some businesses to open, but not others. it's really a balancing act, as they are looking around at the country. in some states, as you just mentioned, they haven't even peaked yet. around the washington, d.c., area, we're talking about a peak right about now. so he really has to look at that and push states to open,

and you're going see him doing that in the coming weeks. but, you know, not go fully there, not go there with every single business and every single state. host: the back drop to all of this is the president spending a rare weekend at camp david. he's not there that often, hasn't been there over the last three years of his presidency. what's the significance of what he's doing there today and through the weekend? guest: i think one of the things is, as he said many times, he's ready to get out of the white house. he doesn't like being cooped up. if you remember before coronavirus, he would travel probably to his resort every weekend, almost every weekend. so one of those things is just getting out of the white house. but he also has this fox townhall tonight, where he's preparing with his aides on what he needs to say, and he also has a trip this coming week for the first time in almost two months, not quite two months, where he'll, you know, it's an official trip. he's going to arizona. but he wants to figure out what

that message should be to america about how to open up, but open up responsibly. host: let me get your reaction to the story that's been percolating over the last week, the former vice president appearing on msnbc on friday on "morning joe," categorically denying that he had any inappropriate relationship with a former aide back in the 1990's. how does the trump campaign deal with this? guest: well, the campaign is really pushing hard on this, because what they're saying is that joe biden is sort of saying two different things, that when this whole issue came up, similar issue, not quite the same, with brett kavanaugh, a justice now on the supreme court, joe biden said basically, not these exact words, but the presumption is someone comes forward, a woman comes forward in the glare of the spotlight, you have to start with the presumption that what she might be saying is true. obviously he's categorically denied what this woman is saying about him.

so they're saying, why are you treating women differently? but you'll see the president went a little bit off message in the last couple of days when he was commenting about this, he said, well, basically there's a lot of famous men that get accused of things that aren't true, so maybe it's not true. obviously this is coming from him. he's been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. 10 has a different perspective. so he's a little bit off message there. but i think that the trump campaign, the official statement are going to be really pushing hard on this. they think it's a real vulnerability for the former vice president. host: we are talking with anita kumar. stay with us, if you would, i want to share with our audience how the trump campaign is responding to the biden allegations in this newly released ad. >> a former u.s. senate employee has come forward alleging former vice president joe biden sexually assaulted her. >> his hands were on me,&underneath my clothes. >> you have a right to be

believed. we're with you. >> do we value stpwhem do we believe women? >> women should be believed. >> we believe women. >> i'm very disappointed that there are those who continue to not believe women who come forward. it is not easy. they should be believed. >> she is putting herself out there, knowing that they're going to try to excoriate her, and she has the courage to come forward. she has nothing to gain. what does she have to gain? >> i stand with survivors. >> the woman should be given the benefit of the doubt. >> these white men, old, by the way, are not protecting women. >> showed the kind of compassion and caring that we need from our president, and which joe biden has been exemplifying throughout his entire life. host: that from the trump campaign. anita kumar, not only going after the former vice president, but also democrats in this election year. guest: yeah, that's one of the reasons i think joe biden finally came out and had this

interview a couple of days ago. his campaign had put out a statement a while back, because these allegations have been out there for about a month. but a lot of democrats, members of congress, prominent democrats around the country, people who he might pick as vice president, were being asked about this, and it was really putting them in sort of a tough position. they hadn't really heard from him before. i think that's one of the reasons he finally decided to speak publicly about it. host: we'll follow your work at politico.com on this sunday morning. anita kumar, thank you for being announcer: this picture tweeted out by mark noller early this afternoon with his report. afternoon landing on the south lawn as president trump and key aides returned from working weekend at camp david. a number of news organizations report that abortion is a sticking point on a possible bipartisan deal to help laid-off

workers keep their health insurance. the hill reports, republicans say the new funding needs to include the hyde amendment or another restriction on federal money going toward health plans that cover abortion, an idea that democrats oppose. thehill.com. from the sunday news programs, we will hear from two governors with different plans for reopening their states and secretary of state mike pompeo on china's role in the spread of the virus. first we hear from dr. deborah birx, a member of the coronavirus task force. all, california this past week thousands of people were massing on beaches. in very close quarters. simple question, is that safe? dr. birx: if it is done with social distancing, yes. if it is not done with social distancing, no. >> i do not know that you can see the video.