meantime, here is bill hemmer. ♪ >> thank you. i'm bill hemmer, busy day at the white house. president trump meeting in the oval office, and here's what we expect. about 30 minutes ago we heard from the president on a multitude of topics. he signed a proclamation for national nurses day and spoke about his decision to keep the task force intact for now saying he had no idea how popular it was with the public. the professor with his new prediction about how many americans could die. kristin fisher begins our with the white house.

more from there. >> hello, bill. right now president trump is meeting with the republican governor of iowa. kim reynolds is one of a handful of governors and she started listening those restrictions on may 1st but she kept them in place for certain counties that are still hot spots. one of the biggest concerns not just for iowa but for the entire country continues to be the impact that the virus is having on the state's meat processing plants. i keep in mind i will produces more pork than any other state in the country. just yesterday, we learned that 60% of workers at a tyson food factory in perry, iowa, had tested positive. so she is explaining to president trump today how she intends to protect and attest that critical workforce. vice president mike pence is going to be traveling to iowa on friday to discuss these very concerns.

as for the coronavirus task force, remember just yesterday vice president mike pence said the task force would likely be winding down by late may or early june but then today, president trump says he will now be keeping the task force intact indefinitely but with a renewed focus on reopening the economy and i will let him explain why he changed his mind. >> president trump: i thought we could wind it down sooner but i had no idea how popular the task force is, until actually yesterday. when i started talking about winding it down i didn't know whether or not it was appreciated by the public but it is appreciated by the public. >> one of the other changes that will be made to the task force as a president adds on adding a few members and subtracting a few others. he will be adding two or three on the economic side of things and he will likely be subtracting one or two he said who are more focused on ventilators, an issue which he now feels like the white house

now has more under control. bottom line, the coronavirus task force remains intact at least for now. >> dana: >> bill: thank you. some states now pushing forward to reopen plans as america sees a spike in the cases in the number of deaths. our coverage continues now. jonathan serrie is outside of the cdc headquarters from atlanta. >> restrictions are lifting at least three more states today. and arkansas and tennessee are allowing close contact services such as barber shops, hair salons and tattoo parlors to reopen with certain restrictio restrictions. and, at that hair salon owner is set and surely there are less

restrictive means to it achieving that goal than jailing a texas mother. the florida keys are lifting restrictions to residents but will remain closed to visitors through the rest of may. they don't want to attract people trying to escape tighter restrictions in the miami fort lauderdale area. in washington, d.c.,'s mayor -- even a suburbs in neighboring states begin to open up. >> so d.c. residents who are participating in nonessential activities no matter the jurisdiction put d.c., their households and their neighbor, people there on public transportation at risk. >> sold the overall restriction,

parts of individual states are doing it at different paces. they will make sure residents and they can pick and choose different plans. >> bill: jonathan serrie outside of the cdc. university of washington doubling its prediction for how many americans could die of covid-19. their model now predicts roughly 134,000 deaths by august. that's the task force of the white house. welcome back and thank you for your time. we have spoken many times including six days ago. six days ago. what changed? >> it's always a pleasure to be with you. we have could increase the mobility, you and i talked about

an increase in mobility in the united states. the second one is premature relaxation of social distancing in some states and projecting in the future more deaths as people move in more. and cover covid mortality -- tho have died from covid based on those symptoms even if they are not tested. the first one, we have seen some other breaks especially in the midwest and we have seen an outbreak of covid-19. >> bill: let me get a chance to get in there. none of this was alluded to last week and we talked for a long time. when the 72,000 figure came out that was actually 2,000 lower than the previous projection which in and of itself is a big deal. so the point is this is a

substantial change. what explains it and why should we believe it? >> that's a very good question. these are deaths that are happening outside of hospitals. so if you and i when we talked, for example, suddenly we say the blood pressure is going to be about 120 we have more people with blood pressure. it doesn't mean that the epidemic itself has changed in the country and that's the distinction we like to make. >> bill: i understand your explanation but none of that was alluded to even five or six days ago. the president was asked about this yesterday and was in phoenix. and he said this about the models. >> these models have been so

wrong since day one. they've been so out of whack and they keep making new models, new models, and they are wrong. those models that you are mentioning, you are talking about without medication. while we are mitigating and we can be in place and work in place and also mitigate. >> bill: i will give you a chance to respond to that because white house plays a very close attention to models and you are on the phone a lot together. >> we did talk to the white house about our models and again, models do change unfortunately when we have new data, and that's true. we are reporting right now, we have deaths without medication. if people are going about right now wearing masks and keeping a safe distance, we will not see 134 deaths. that's based on what is

increased. >> why should we rely on such a projection if it has great variance over just a couple da days. >> that's exactly alike -- we are predicting a hurricane. more data comes in and the hurricane changes the reaction. the definition of mortality has changed and we have to change our model. you and i talked about this before, and i still believe that the worst is behind us but we have to be extra careful. >> bill: christopher murphy runs a program there. he alluded yesterday that you are using information from four different cell phone providers for the latest data. what can you explain to us about how we can understand that going forward. >> very good question. right now we have data from google, facebook and we have all the mobility before and after the social distancing has been

introduced. right now we are seeing many places in the country starting the first week of april, mobility is going up against america. >> what are the companies again? facebook and what else? >> facebook, google -- plus the cell phone companies? >> yes. we have data and now if you look at our digitalization you can see how much mobility was and how much of a decline with each introduction. >> bill: i wanted to decline again. it's a remarkable jump i think most of us can admit. >> can i say -- again. you and i talked about this and we have touched on that. we are seeing an increase in

temperature right now and it's decreasing. it's increasing the transmission by 2%. we have more testing right now which means we detected cases earlier and we are detecting the threat of the virus. these two things are going for us. the mobility is increasing but if americans are going about it and wearing a mask and wearing a safe distance, the numbers will come down. >> bill: thank you from washington. republicans, democrats and the president are now at odds over what should be at in the next relief bill. should they be able to strike a deal and if so, over wet. rob portman from ohio will answer that. it is another political battle viewing, conservatives and liberals for an influential appeals court position. we will explain that. plus, there is this. >> the chinese say they want to cooperate, great. cooperation is about action,

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meanwhile up the hill lawmakers trying right now to get another deal done on the next relief bill. democrats demanding money for state and local governments and president trump pushing for a payroll tax cut. welcome to our program here. as i am speaking, the airlines are testifying in some hearings on the hill and they are need an additional $10 billion and some form of assistance and relief. let's get to the next relief package. i don't know what it looks like or even if that happens but it's clear that this is the most contentious yet. what should be in it, do you think? >> no question is the most contentious yet. it's deficit the fatigue, and on the other hand there are going to be some gaps. we've done it very quickly and passed four pieces of

legislation. probably better in my view for that to be alone rather than a grant because just like every other business in america, with regard to state and local, we don't know how much lead there will be until the existing funds are being spent. so that's going down to state and local. so let's see, i'm a big man of flexibility and i don't think there's enough flexibility in the original legislation. we've added a little more to a treasury role, but let's put in legislation flexibility so states can use it as they see fit. a lot of companies say i don't know what the demand is going to be. we could be 12 or six months, or even less than that.

>> there's already been $3 trillion, and that's probably what it will end up being. speaker pelosi talked about it trillion dollars, and we are also looking at here, we have to be sure that every dollar that is spent is well spent. >> bill: if you know there will be some abuse deep in that hole. this is in china come another thing that you are hot on. >> i think the lack of chinese transparency is the real story here. it clearly exacerbated the problem and made its distribution around the world dramatically more likely. >> bill: if you are pushing

for the u.n. to investigate the world health organization. why would you trust the u.n. to do that when you consider the world health organization? >> somebody has to do it and that's an international body that we are part of and we have to be sure that we have accountability here. let's remember, everything started in wuhan. so the wuhan provinces where where this all began. if they had not cut this under wraps as they dated it would have been obviously much better for the people of china, but also they allow people to trav travel. luckily we put a ban in place already in the u.s. but it was already here. not just on the transparency of them telling people but allowing people to travel when in fact they knew how incredibly infectious this virus was. >> bill: let's see where this goes, we will touch on this

again in about 30 minutes. quickly, you favor remote work. you had a few telework meetings i understand? do you think the u.s. senate could be there on capitol hill? >> bill: it's easier to do so in person but just to see week, we social distance. but last week, it worked really well. we had witnesses all over the country and there was no difference really. people were there testifying and members asked questions. as of today i've already gone to two other remote hearings and i was able to do it from my desk. i think the whole idea of teleworking is catching on and congress is finally beginning to

catch up with the rest of them. >> senator, it's good to see you. thank you for coming back. speaker pelosi saying as far as she's concerned that joe biden sexual harassment matter is a closed matter. martha maccallum on that, nex next. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for?

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of split on it. good day to you. what you see there i think played out pretty clearly and i don't think anybody really believes that we are ever going to find out the absolute truth of something that happened decades ago between these two people. unless some new evidence comes forward that we don't know about right now, and of course we will keep our eyes open for that. i do find it very interesting to watch nancy pelosi say, i believe him, he said it didn't happen and i support him. i've known a long time and that's it. that kind of answer was completely unacceptable, as we all know, when it came to brett kavanaugh. this raises a very valid premise

that we are sadly off-track when we started getting into the terry territory of believing all women or believing all of any group in the situation. it should all be about to process. what are you going to do now? this makes the accusations that were once brought against president trump will also vehemently denied that they were true come back to life. it starts to neutralize that issue as it you had into this election especially since you have a lot of people that say, i believe tara reade about i support joe biden anyway. >> bill: she may not want to talk about it again, and i don't think he will get his wish. were you ever along with her?

and those questions have not been asked and answered yet. >> he basically hasn't even said if he remembers who she is. there are lots of questions at this raises and there are a number of people who support her story, and like christine blasey ford, she told back down then they recounted it. so yes, i don't think this is going to go away but politically one of the problems for joe biden's he's in a moment where he needs to unify the party and he needs to bring in a lot of the supporters of bernie sanders, some of the younger voters who are going to have a harder time i think in some cases with the story. this is driving a wedge between people in his own party and also has to store enthusiasm and passion for his candidacy. >> bill: i was looking at the

news shell for him, and it's fair. he needs to find a way to get out the basement tapes and project himself into our ever more digital world so on and on it goes. we will see how much he takes a bit and when. see you at 7:00 tonight, martha. >> thanks bill. >> bill: let's get back to the white house. kim reynolds is talking about the coronavirus outbreak in her estate and more on that meeting and more on america's food supply, a critical issue inside of their coming up. also up battle brewing as lawmakers decide whether or not to take up a court nominee and a woman in dallas and sentenced to jail for reopening her business. why she argue she did not have a choice, that's next. >> i just know that i have rights, you have rights to feed your children and make income. and anyone that wants to take away those rights is wrong.

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>> sandra: battle lines on the hill as the committee is holding a hearing on confirming just a walker to the court of appeals in washington. mitch mcconnell pushed to get walker a seat on the powerful court but democrats are pushing back, criticizing walker's age and membership in the federal society. the d.c. circuit is considered to be the second highest court in the land. the american bar association ruled that walker wasn't qualified for the current judgeship he has, a district judgeship in western kentucky. but on tuesday the ab said he was qualified for the d.c. circuit but they hunt handle fundamentally different things. they said he didn't have enough trial experience for the lower

court. walker has mocked the supreme court obamacare ruling and that's something that concerns democrats that came up in hearing this morning. >> in light of your affordable care act's constitutionality, would you commit to recusing yourself? >> a judge has to take every case, case by case with an open mind and the decision on whether to recuse the case is a decision about the case. >> dick durbin called that response "painful" as a district judge ruled against a kentucky mayor barring sunday church gatherings without a hearing. walker told senator as his ruling complied with the first amendment's free exercise clause. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he needed to call the senate to session but democrats think the senate should focus instead on

coronavirus. >> i just think it's absurd and frankly offensive to all the people around the country in crisis >> all they've done so far as handle nominations and they had one confirmation on monday night and one today. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leaders that he wants to confirm justin walker soon. >> bill: i want to bring in judge napolitano. the judge in "the wall street journal" writes judicial code of misconduct and had a long editorial in the newspaper or online. what do you think of this? >> it's becoming a complex case. i have no opinion on whether judge walker is qualified by intellect and temperament for the court but by persistently staying as a member in an organization that i'm very fond of but wouldn't join as a judge

which stands for a finite set of legal principles, that a judge should not be supporting openly while on the bench. he has gotten himself in a bit of a tingle here. i think he will probably be confirmed but it would have been easier for him had he not taken such a strident position in favor of joining this organization. the organization stands for things that i believe in. small government and maximum individual liberty but not all litigants want a jurist with that kind of an attitude trying their case. this is a jurist who unabashedly has that kind of an attitude and makes no apology for it, and it uses the bench to try to settle policy issues outside of the courtroom. >> bill: we will see if the confirmation goes forward as you protect. now i want to go to texas. this is shelly luther and it's a

story that's hot because she's in jail now for seven days. >> why did you reopen? >> because i had no other choice, because i couldn't feed my family. >> the attorney is asking a judge to reconsider. on friday of this week she could have done it without having to say i apologize in front of a judge. >> all right. so she was not convicted of violating governor abbott's guidelines because the guidelines are just guidelines and they don't have the force of law. she was convicted of violating a judicial order to shut her salon. the judge who issued that order has no more authority to shut the salon then does the governor who didn't any authority to shut the salon. and then after he convicted her, saying all i need you to do is admit that you are selfish and you won't go to jail, admit that

she's selfish, being selfish is not a crime. the sort of, say what i want you to say and i won't send you to jail violates her right to remain silent. this case is a mess. the best thing that could happen with governor abbott is for her to be released immediately so she can go to work. and then the guidelines would then open up. >> bill: within 48 hours. does she stay in bars or -- >> i hope they let her out soon but she is a hero for not kowtowing to this judge who wanted her to admit that she was wrong. she was not wrong. >> thank you for your time, we will see you in person soon. in the meantime, hispanic families have been hurt by the pandemic. we will meet with a woman who

has lost four family members and lost has a sister in the ic right now. >> kathy roman lost three uncles and grandmother to the coronavirus over the span of a week and a half. it's unfathomable pain, for family members dead and no chance to say goodbye. hospitals and no funerals. kathy is a housekeeper at a rehabilitation center and she can't afford to take time off or work from home. she takes the train every day all while her older sister evelyn is in the icu fighting covid-19. >> sometimes i cry, because it's so sad. to lose family members like that, in the blink of an eye, and you can't even say goodbye to them. it's painful, it really is. >> death rates for black and hispanic families are double that of white families and hardest hit new york city.

part of the reason is that minorities disproportionately work essential jobs, latinos represent 54% of agricultural workers, 39% of food processing workers and 32% of janitors and building cleaners. black americans represent 37% of home health aides and a 27% of vocational nurses and bus drivers. in michigan, blacks are 37% of the population but 41%. and health disparities play a role and blacks are almost twice as likely to be uninsured and have a higher prevalence of certain chronic conditions. >> we know that black people have higher rates of asthma and heart disease and those are largely tied to environmental factors and the fact that we've got and in terms of where they live and are exposed to

environment the hazards and that can include waste and sanitation facilities. >> the economic recovery will likely be more difficult as well. hispanic households about 61% and black households about 54% have suffered a job loss or some kind of pay cut. >> bill: a bryan llenas, live in new york. some more news from the president and he's meeting with the governor from iowa and when we get a chance to play back, we will. they are talking about agricultural meat shortages. the meat supply and production should be fully back in stock between the next seven and ten days. also the president talking about wendy's, a brief shortage with the fast food chains and also says that the task force in the same rules that we have currently. u.s. and china trading more jabs of the virus outbreak, more comments from mike pompeo today.

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this virus is testing all of us. and it's 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. >> here's how this will get solved really quickly. the chinese communist party could do what they are committed to do under their obligation for the world health organization. and that's what nations all around the world are doing.

and there's no virus that escaped from the chinese lab according to them. theresa payton, chief information officer from president george w. bush. there is enormous evidence that it likely still came to the lab in wuhan. >> it's interesting, they said the interior group and that global rhetoric about the u.s. and our views of them in particular. what happens next is what we are seeing in australia where china is actually asking for a full-scale investigation like the united states. we've seen francis stand up to

china and in the western hemisphere with done a bad job handling this. it will be interesting to see where this goes but, it's time to get that virtual deal table together. >> the blame game is not doing either side much good. >> he's got a very distinguished career and what we do need to continue to press for here is a full global investigation of who knew what and when in china. and so every person, to be part of that world investigation team, we need to get to the bottom of the facts. >> bill: they are inside the

oval office, and he says he believes the u.s. death toll figures which have been projected -- and we were they've changed a lot based on these models. he does not believe the data about the deaths in china. >> i think we are going to see those numbers continue to climb up and we mean they have actually truly know the full number. remember they are not just trying to manipulate the united states or the rest of the world around their image, but they are also trying to make sure their citizens see that their government did everything they could to take care of them so they continue to potentially not report the full number. they might be able to but they don't totally know because the pin to make them so >> bill: did you see this, an opinion piece written out of,, hong kong. they are warning of a new

cold war that has been created already. do you see it that way? >> i think this could be sort of the next domain. a cold war of both misinformation and the campaigns and we have a very interdependent global supply chain that's at risk here. so now is the time to negotiate and do so from a position of strength with china. >> the point they are making is if the u.s. continues to see damage from beijing, that's where it's headed. we will continue that discussion another time. more headlines in the oval office. the nfl is still planning to have a normal season but the league now has. and roger caddell wrote that anyone buying tickets directly will be able to get a full refund or put the money toward a future ticket. the league says that ticketmaster and deceit geek will also offer refunds and stubhub will do so only where

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>> i'm just happy. speaker that is army veteran releasing the milwaukee va medical center 48 days after he was admitted with covid-19 symptoms. he was the first to test positive that hospital. doctors did not expect him to make it through the after 18 dag sedated, another 30 days stuck in bed, he says looking forward to some home-cooked meals. who could blame him? today is national nurses day. thousands of nurses have been working on the frontline.

matt fenton's boo spoke to a fef them. >> this year at national nurses day, and is taking on all kinds of meaning. here in the chicago, cook county illinois consider the fifth deadliest in the country. we went inside of a hospital to talk to nurses who tell us that they are working grueling shifts away from their loved ones. when they are on the job, they are separated from their usual staff. people on the outside might not realize what they are up against. nurses tell us what it's like to be the only person in the room when covid-19 patients are dying and that required isolation. >> i'm emotional because i know some people are hurting. they have family members here that they can't see. and they need us to be there eyes and ears. they want us to make sure that we are an advocate for these patients. >> i want everyone to know that

their family members are not alone in their recovery or death. there is always a nurse there. >> i'm so thankful i chose this profession. i want to do everything i can to like these patients feel less vulnerable and more cared for during this time. >> this is more than a career. this is our lives. this pandemic made me realize that this is where i should be. >> today, we appreciate all of our health care workers. >> good story matt. from the white house we've been waiting on this. president trump meeting with i was governor about the covid-19 pandemic. we will dip inside and let you watch that. big questions about the food supply, questions about china. all of these questions coming towards the president a short time ago and here we go. >> there is backlog in terms of

the hogs beat on who out there. how soon before that will get processed. we are seeing shortages in places across the country. how long would it be before this supply chain gets wrapped back up again so we don't have any shortages? >> president trump: plenty of supplies. go ahead. >> south dakota is coming back on board. we will have most of our facilities up and going. as we continue to keep them up and processing and bring more back online and continue to exceed the capacity, we are going to hopefully prevent what could have been a really sorry situation where we are euthanizing some of our protein supply and really impacting their food supply not only across the country about throughout the world. this is critical infrastructure. it's an essential workforce. the executive order has really may be prevented what could have been a really serious situation. secretary, would you agree with that? we are still monitoring it.

we've turned a corner. >> coming back online obviously because of some infected employees. they won't be full force for a while. we will see more variety and more cases fully supplied. >> president trump: what is your timing? >> week to ten days we will be back up. >> president trump: fully back up. >> that's a strong start up. >> it's because the president use the defense production act. make it clear that our objective is to keep meat processing plants are open whether it be iowa or delaware or colorado. and working through the department of agriculture, deploying cdc personnel to these meat processing plants, we are doing that. he talked to great heartland governor like governor ken reynolds, one of the great stories of the coronavirus outbreak has been our food