good morning, everybody. it is monday, april 27th. we have a lot to cover this morning as the number of coronavirus cases here in the united states closes in on a million. concerns are growing over testing capacity. even as governors across the country are weighing plans to reopen their states. health experts are warning that while the united states has made strides over the past month, the level is nowhere near the level the president suggests it is. as the "new york times" points out the physical components of test kits like nasal swabs are

largely imported and they're hard to come back. health care workers are lacking necessary tools to administer testing on a widespread basis. governors, public health officials are operating in a wild west economy that has left them scrambling and competing with one another to procure the equipment and other materials that, in fact, they need. in an interview on saturday, dr. anthony fauci, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases said the u.s. should at least double coronavirus testing in the coming weeks before even reopening the economy. and dr. deborah birx, the white house coronavirus task force coordinator said yesterday that the united states still needs a break through on coronavirus testing to get a more accurate picture of the virus. watch this. >> we have to realize that we have to have a break through innovation in testing.

we have to be able to detect antigen rather than constantly trying to detect the actual live virus or the virus particles itself and move into antigen testing. and i know corporations and diagnostics are working on that now. we have to have a break through. this rna testing will carry us certainly through the spring and summer, but we need to have a huge technology break through. >> we have to have a break through, as you heard it from dr. birx there. so president trump also walking back his suggestion that patients could be treated with injections of disinfectant. he claims he was asking a sarcastic question to reporters, even though the tape shows otherwise. here is a look at what he said and then what he claims he said. >> and then i see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. >> i was asking a very sarcastic

question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. >> and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or -- or almost a cleaning? that was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters. >> but you were asking your medical experts to look into it. were you being sarcastic with them? >> no, no, to look into whether or not sun and disinfect quantity on the hands -- >> because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number. it will be interesting to check that. you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me. >> i'll let you judge for yourself on that one. so house speaker nancy pelosi weighed in on the president's fact-free medical advice. here is what she had to say just y yesterday. >> we spend a lot of time on what the president said and when and disinfectant in the body. you know what they call that?

they call that embalming. that's the medical term. >> and dr. deborah birx openly expressed frustration that trump's injection comments continued to make headlines over the weekend exposing a rift between him and his medical advisers. >> it bothers me this is still in the news cycle because i think we're missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an american people to continue to protect one another. >> i think i made it very clear on how i interpreted that. i also made it very clear, as has dr. fauci and everyone associated with the task force in their clarity around this is not a treatment. >> meanwhile, amid all of this, administration officials are telling axios that dr. birx and dr. fauci will take a, quote, back seat to the messages coming out of the white house as briefings are now expected to pivot to the economy. also, president trump claims his comments about injecting

disinfectants into the body as a treatment for the coronavirus, that they were sarcastic as he claims, the governors of both maryland and michigan yesterday warned that the president's remarks are being taken seriously. >> people listen to these press conferences. they listen when the governor holds a press conference and they certainly pay attention when the president of the united states is standing there giving a press conference about something as serious as this worldwide pandemic. and i think when misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message. and we had hundreds of calls come into our emergency hot line and our health department asking if it was right to ingest clorox or alcohol cleaning products, whether that was going to help them fight the virus. so we had to put out that warning to make sure the people were not doing something like that which would kill people,

actually, 20d ito do it. >> when the person with the most powerful position on the planet is encouraging people to think about disinfectants, whether it was serious or not, people listen. so we have seen abdomen increase number of people calling poison control. so i think it's important that every one of us with a platform disseminate medically accurate information. and i want to say unequivocally, no one should be using disinfectants to digest it to fight covid-19. please don't do it. just don't do it. >> all right. so republicans are growing more concerned about the president's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. and how it could actually shape the results of the upcoming november election. those challenges are growing more clear with 26 million americans having filed now for unemployment across the country, plus growing concerns that trump's daily coronavirus briefings are, quote, inflecting grave damage on the president's political standing.

there's some polls that show gop senators in arizona, colorado, north carolina and maine are either trailing or locked in a dead heat with their democratic rivals due in part to trump's job performance. the party was surprised by the results of a 17-state survey commissioned by the republican national committee which found that trump is struggling in the electoral college battleground and is likely to lose without signs of an economic rebound this fall. that's according to a party strategy. also, internal polling from the president's own campaign has shown a drop of support there. according to people familiar with the data, as the coronavirus remains the top issue worrying the voters. and these private surveys, recent public polls show joe biden leading in almost every competitive state. trump trails biden in the battleground states of

pennsylvania, michigan and narrowly in florida. also, some of the party compared the current atmosphere to anger directed towards president george w. bush back in 2006 when unease over the iraq war led to democrats reclaiming congress and then two years later winning the presidency. let's talk about some of this. joining me now, political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larson. emily, good to see you this morning. good morning. let's talk about the president's comments and suggesting about injecting disinfectant as a possible cure for covid-19 as he did, i believe, on friday. it has shocked world leaders, to say the least. what have you heard as to the reason why the president decided to either walk it back or suggest, in fact, that he was being sarcastic which we can just by the tape was not necessarily the case?

>> i think the president clearly heard a lot of criticism directed towards him for his comments. his story was changing as to why he made those comments, who he made those comments to, but the important part of the discussion, this whole situation, is that i think it's prompted the president to take a look about whether these daily coronavirus briefings are helping him and the day after he made these comments, he had a very short briefing. it was only about 22 minutes when previous ones have gone for hours. and as you mentioned earlier, there's reporting that the white house is considering not having as many coronavirus briefings or even possibly putting dr. deborah birx and dr. anthony fauci more in a back seat as the white house shifts towards hoping to show signs of economic improvement as with an eye on

the election in november. >> so what do you make of this possible plan to put these coronavirus briefings on the back burns? we know and we've heard from the reporting the absence of rallies for the president, that's one of the main reasons why he is having these coronavirus briefings every night, especially because he's inside of an election year. and now that you think about the guidelines being rolled out and the subject of the economy being front and center at these coronavirus briefings, it seems prime for the picking that the president would want to be front and center every single night talking about how the economy is going to bounce back. >> sure. i think the president has tried to make these daily briefings a replacement for his campaign rallies, which he really likes. but the problem is for him, that daily briefing with a couple, a half dozen to a dozen reporter in the room asking very pointed questions about the administration's response to the

coronavirus crisis is very different than standing on a stage in front of thousands of adoring supporters cheering every joke you make. and so it's a very different situation and the president is probably realizing that he can't spend his rifts with the press into auto win for him every single time. so that's something he's going to have to adjust to. i think he's hoping to show encouragement for -- signs of encouragement for the country and that's what he's trying to turn attention to rather than the total devastation of the virus that we're seeing every day. >> i'm sure, especially because he's looking at that internal polling that they are doing and seeing that he is also losing support among his base. emily larson, thank you. stay close. i will talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, a lot of americans have turned to online

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welcome back, everybody. a proposed lawsuit claiming that amazon has taken advantage of vulnerable consumers during the coronavirus pandemic by marking up certain high demand products far more than what's allowed under california state law. the 49-page lawsuit is claiming that amazon gouged prices for everything from face masks and pain relievers to cold medications and disinfectants as quarantined citizens became more reliant in online retailers for their goods. joining me now to talk through this, danny cevallos.

great to see you on this monday morning. i remember all of this happening and it's still happening right now, but especially when quarantine first began. if you went online to amazon, you were looking to buy some disinfectants instead of paying the regular $3.99 as you would normally pay, a lot of these disinfectants were priced at $35, $40 a bottle, which was insane to me. talk me through this class action lawsuit, what you make of it. >> it's no surprise this class action is brought in california. if you have a consumer class action, california is the place you ought to be. so you're going to see a lot of these filed in california because of its unfair competition law. that law says no seller can do more than a 10% markup on the price of a product during the time of emergency or a pandemic like this. the challenge that amazon has

here is that the law is very expansive, but their defense is going to really be twofold. number one that, look, some of these sellers are third party sellers so we shouldn't be held responsible for them. but the stronger argument is going to be the definition of cost is a hazy one. the reality is that the demand increase so much and the scarcity increased, as well, during this time and our costs went up because we had to hire more drivers and it was more expensive to pro cure this and the supplier charged us more, anyway. all of this gets added to the price and, therefore, our prices are not arbitrary markups. instead, they reflect what we, amazon, actually paid for this product before we turned around and sold it to the consumer. that is their strongest argument and, really, under the law, it's the only argument they can likely make with any success.

>> so two things here. you're saying that you're not necessarily surprised that this is coming from california because of their strict laws against price gouging. could you see, though, other states getting on board with a lawsuit like this one even if they don't have a law like that in place? and secondly, because of what we've seen happening amid this pandemic and that there is going to be a new normal, could you see other states against price gouging like what we're seeing in california? yes and yes. if you're a plaintiff's counsel, you're going to pick the best forum for your case. >> the great to see you this morning.

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welcome back, everybody. politico is weighing a decision to replace alex azar. among the names under consideration are white house coronavirus coordinator deborah birx, medicare chief burma and eric hargan. officials have been upset with azar's response to the coronavirus outbreak and a lot are now angry about his handling of the ouster of vaccine expert rick bright. azar assured mike pence that bright's move to the national institutes of health was a promotion, despite bright's team releasing a statement that he would soon file a whistle-blower complaint against his leadership. trump tweeting reports that hhs

secretary alex azar is going to be fired by me are fake news and that alex is doing an excellent job. with that, i want to bring in meteorologist bill karins. bill, let's talk through the numbers that we have seen over to the weekend. here in new york, the numbers have continued to slope downwards, which is good news here. the governor here start to go talk about an initial phased reopening possibly beginning in the next couple of weeks. but talk us through what we're seeing across the country. >> yeah. and the bottom line is that it was a -- as far as the numbers, when it was a good sunday, it was one of the lowest numbers we've had all april for cases and fatalities. let's talk about the fatalities as a total. for our nation, we're about 55,000 right now. but here is the silver lining. yesterday with 1,157 reported deaths in the country, that was actually our lowest number for one day we've had all april long. so that is pretty positive. in areas like new york, we're

much lower. only 367. at one point, new york was having over a thousand a day. massachusetts had a big number, but even new jersey had one of its lowest number of cases at 75 and wrapping up the top six, connecticut, illinois and michigan were about 62. and the one positive, i counted ten states that didn't report any fatalities yesterday. that hasn't happened in a long time. maybe we are start to go round the bend on that. as far as the weather went, it was a miserable day in the northeast and it's not going to be any better today. stuck in the house with a lot of kids, i feel for you. it's not easy. when it's cold, it's chilly, it's rainy, it's snowy in areas of northern new england right now. it's not going to snow a lot as far as the accumulations are going to go, but there are a few spots in vermont, maine, new hampshire as we go throughout the day today. but for today, we're hot in the middle of the country. we're very hot in areas of the

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with another wave of states preparing to ease coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts. across the country, the pandemic has killed more than 55,000 people as the total cases of infection nears a million. on friday, georgia began allowing nonessential businesses such as hair salons and gyms to open doors. today, limited in restaurant dining and movie theaters are allowed to reopen, as well. in montana, church goers returning to service after stay at home orders were lifted yesterday. today, businesses there are allowed to reopen at limited capacity. tennessee says it's going to allow only restaurants to reopen with reduced capacity. in mississippi, a lot of retail businesses will be back in business, but that does not

include hair and nail salons, gyms and entertainment venues. in colorado, democrat governor jared pollis has given the green light for retail curbside pick up. barber shops, tattoo parlors are allowed to reopen with retail stores, restaurants and move theaters soon to follow there. while some states are easing covid-19 restrictions, others are ramping up. michigan's gretchen wittmer has ramped up after more orders related to the pandemic. in new jersey, the death toll associated with the pandemic is nearing 6,000 with more than 109,000 cases reported. governor phil murphy says he believes the state is still weeks away from entering the first phase of gradually reopening its economy. he spoke with nbc's meet the

press yesterday. >> we're not out of the woods yet. i think we're several weeks away. and the big mantra, and our state has done a really good job of this, i give a shout out to our residents, the mandate to stay at home and stay away from each other is still very much in effect until we can break the back of this curve. >> important to note, new jersey governor phil murphy will be our guest ahead on "morning joe," so you do not want to miss that. joining me once again, political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larson. emily, good to see you again. i want to switch gears here and focus on the politics of the coronavirus. one of your latest reports out, you mentioned more than 50% of all political ads on television right now are about the coronavirus. >> yes. it's definitely something that normal advertisers for corporations are certainly mentioning the coronavirus crisis and it's no different for politicians, whether they are

creating brand new ads that are focussing solely on the coronavirus crisis or just sort of tacking on another mention of something about in these uncertain times or something they're looking forward to or how they would like to lead the country through this crisis. it is something that they're mentioning in their political ads. this is one of the most important ways that candidates are reaching their voters during this time because they cannot hold normal rallies for candidates who are not in office who are either going for an open seat or going up against an encouple bevent. they are trying to make sure that voters still know they exist even though they are not in a position of power. so definitely increase in spending and also an increase in the pharmaceutical lobby has had the most aired ad that mentions the coronavirus, no surprise there. >> emily larson, thank you so

much. great talking with you this morning. so as governments around the world race to lockdown their countries to contain the spread of the virus, sweden has taken a very different approach, leaving restaurants, schools and malls open while issuing social distancing guidelines, banning large gatherings and recommending the elderly stay at home. in an interview with npr yesterday, sweden's ambassador to the united states claimed the government's strategy of not locking down the country to achieve herd immunity has seen success. for more on this, i am joined by richard engle for us. richard, good morning to you. great to see you today. we know with the uk, right, they proposed this herd immunity at one point. there were supporters of it. that back fired on them. how does the swedish government explain its different course of action? and is the data backing it up? >> so the proof is in the streets right now.

they are taking a very different approach. if you look around stockholm, i'm in central stockholm right now, you can see people are out. the shops are open. they do have some recommendations. so they're not obliging people to stay at home, they're not obliging shops to close, but they are giving guidelines. they are suggesting that if people go to restaurants, they don't crowd the restaurants, that they keep tables separated. schools are still open for children. and their approach is to basically protect the elderly and vulnerable and let everyone else be responsible for their own lives, take their own decisions with these guidelines. and they say so far it is working. they have had 2,000 deaths in this country. now, that is higher than other scandinavian countries that have taken more strict approaches like norway and finland, but it has not overwhelmed the health

care system. this is a country that has good health care systems. it has -- people generally go to the doctor, get preliminary care, and they haven't had a shortage of supplies. they say their hospitals are crowded, but there hasn't been a state collapse. and the majority of people in this country are supportive of this policy. there has been some economic damage, but nowhere near the kind that you've seen in italy or spain or the uk or other countries that have gone for a total lockdown. >> so i'm sure domestically inside sweden they are concerned about outside travel, folks coming into the country that could feasibly bring the virus. so talk us through, richard, what it was like traveling into sweden. >> so domestic international travel right now is a snarl. it is confusing. to leave london, we had to prove that we were going on a work

trip. journalists are considered key workers for essential travel because we're trying to relate what's going on and the different approaches around the world. so we had to prove to the people at check-in counter at heathrow airport that we really are journalists, that we are not going for fun or tourism, but we had an important story to tell. after showing our press cards, we were allowed to fly. we went through finland because there aren't that many flights, so we went through finland. finland was a very different approach. finland, lots and lots of people were wearing masks. the airport was quite empty. it was quite a surreal experience going through that country. and then when we landed in sweden, it was almost like going back in time four or five months because the situation was quite normal. you're able to hail a taxi, people are out, the -- it's not just bars and restaurants that are allowed to open. everything is open, pretty much. art galleries, clothing stores,

shoe stores, everything. >> what a difference for you that must be. richard engle live for us in stockholm, thanks so much. still ahead, what the white house pandemic coordinator is saying about how long americans will need to maintain social distancing. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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powerful light. >> i know i shouldn't be touching my face, but -- now there is a rumor that the president is going to fire me. let's see what he said about that. >> today i walk in and i hear he's going to fire him. i'm not going to fire him. i think he's a wonderful guy. >> so yeah, i'm getting fired. >> you know you've made it if brad pitt is portraying.punish that was brad pitt portraying dr. anthony fauci. in an interview earlier this month, fauci jokingly requested that pitt portray him on saturday night life. we live. well, he got his wish. dr. deborah birx suggested yesterday that social distancing will still be a reality for americans going into the summer. >> the vice president, on friday, said that by memorial day, in fact, i want to read the

quote exactly here, that by memorial day, the epidemic, i think honestly, if you look at the trends today that i think by memorial day weekend we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us. this memorial day 2020, that it's behind us, can you explain what he means by that? >> i think he means that in the models and in tracking our actual data, because presocial will be with us through the summer to ensure that we protect one another as we move through these phases. >> i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, i wasn't necessarily surprised by hearing what dr. birx had to say. i imagine that so long as there

is no treatment, successful treatment in place, there is no vaccine in place, that some of these guidelines will be in place like social distancing because the virus will remain a threat. >> yeah. that's not going to change, right? i mean, you know, maybe we can get the antigen testing. maybe that can be helped. but as far as the -- yeah, the vaccine, we can actually feel good giving each other handshakes and hugs again. i have a new graphic for you that i want to show you. first, i want to give you the one that i've been showing you all along, the cases and the curb waiting to see until we flatten that. today is the day that in the united states we'll have our 1 millionth positive case and it's the day in the world that we'll get our 3 millionth positive case. a little silver lining even though it was still over 26,000.

this was a testing by day we had over a half a million test results that came in this weekend alone. right now, 5.5 million cases have come in across the country, roughly about 1.6%. quickly, going through the forecast for today, still an ugly day in the northeast. my apologies for maine, new hampshire, down through southern new england. and by the time on friday, another rainy friday in the northeast, yasmin. so it is just -- it's tough with the kids at home when it's ugly l like this. >> it is tough. it's always nice when there's sun outside. by the way, with some of that testing stuff, always important to remember dr. anthony fauci saying even with the testing happening in this country right now, we need to double that capacity if we want to reopen. thank you, bill. great to see you this morning. still ahead, everybody, we're going to go live to cnbc for an early look at what is driving the day on wall street.

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welcome back, everybody. after facing widespread backlash, several companies are now facing the dilemma of whether they should return the money they obtained from the small business stim use husbaul. talk us through which companies are being pinpointed and how they're react to go this criticism. >> so to put this into context, more than 200 public companies

applied for at least $850 million worth of support through these programs. this is according to data from fact squared. so a number of companies that the stimulus wasn't necessarily aimed for are taking advantage of the government funds. thousa now, at least 13 of these public companies that received coronavirus hardship loans have said they will return the money after all of this public scrutiny has surfaced. but not everyone is doing that. some of the smaller companies, in particular, who have taken the money say they need it. they need it to pay their workers and keep afloat. they're using it within the spirit of the program and what it was actually designed for. expect more headlines in the coming days, as the new round of stimulus that was agreed last week starts to filter through to the real company. in terms of what else we're seeing in the market right now, a lot of claims around different products being some sort of treatment or being able to combat coronavirus. the federal trade commission has

come out warning about marketing firms' health claims about unproven treatments. they said marketing firms and other companies that distribute products or networks of distributors are responsible for the product and earnings claims that those distributors are marketing. during this health and economic crisis, they need to be on the front foot when it comes to false claims. hopefully we'll have regulation around that so we can trust the claims that are out there. yasmin, back to you. >> cnbc's julianna tatelbaum, live from london. thank you. great to see you. up next, axios' one big thing. on "morning joe," with a wave of states preparing to ease coronavirus restrictions, phil murphy says new jersey is weeks away from the first phase of reopening. he is going to join the conversation ahead. "morning joe" is moments away. s i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. they are both very much hand in hand.

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good morning to you. great to see you on this monday morning. talk to us about axios' one big thing today. >> good to see you, too. happy monday morning. staying at home. axios' one big thing is how some advisers of the president are watching joe biden's relative obscurity and invisibility in the news cycle during the coronavirus outbreak. they're starting to get uneasy about it. that's because in the last week alone, yasmin, there has been national and state polls, from places like fox news, mind you, and nonpartisan places, that are showing biden beating president trump in a general election matchup in places like florida, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. obviously, those are crucial states to winning the electoral college in november. excuse me. the other thing that the advisers are looking at is how president trump is slipping in his standings among seniors. the group of americans who are most concerned about the coronavirus.

apparently, the most disappointed in the president's response so far. >> so let's also talk about swing state voters. because what i'm seeing, alexi, is that axios is reporting these swing state voters who once supported the president, now wishing he'd be less partisan, more expert driven, listen to his doctors more, the scientists more. what can you tell us about their changed views? >> you know, it is a fascinating group of folks i got to speak with in canton, ohio. virtually, of course. last week, through the focus groups we do. the same personality traits and attributes about the president that attracted these voters who, mind you, voted for obama in 2012, who voted for trump in 2016, it's the same things. he's brash, politically incorrect. they like his bravado and ego. they don't like those things anymore. that's because they recognize that we're dealing with a life or death situation. when they see someone like their

governor, governor mike dewine, get up there and give press conferences or share things on social media, they view him as doing it in a way that is nonpartis nonpartisan. they like how he puts his ego to the side, doesn't inject politics into things, and they feel, they said, like he is looking out for their best interests. they don't feel that way about president trump. because they said he doesn't always sound the most educated. they feel he is not listening to his health and science experts. and they feel he is injecting too much politics into this moment, when they think it is a situation that should have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with keeping people alive. >> as we have talked about, coronavirus is going to be driving the 2020 elections, what americans are most concerned about right now. google trend reportings show how americans are taking the coronavirus seriously with the questions they're typing into google. what kind of questions are popping up? what are you seeing? >> yeah. so we did deep analysis of over

51,000 google search trends. things like, "what is the coronavirus" has transformed into "how to group facebook," even "how to make a face mask out of fabric or a t-shirt." these show people are at least heeding or hearing the warnings and signals that the health experts are giving around the coronavirus. they're searching about how to stay home and do activities with friends virtually. they're not going outside. they're weari ining face masks they're googling how to make them out of items from home. it shows how life transformed. instead of searching things like facebook, youtube, and amazon, in february, coronavirus was the highest searched term on february 29th, outside of those top three terms. >> we're also all spending a lot of time on the internet. a lot of time to search various things. alexi mccammond, thank you.

great to see you. sign up for the newsletter at i signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this monday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute. i was asked a sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? that was done in the form of a san ca sarcastic question to the reporters. >> you were asking your medical experts to look into it. >> no, no, no. to look into whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands. it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. it'd be sbeinteresting to check that. you have to use medical doctors with. it sounds interesting to me. >> people listen to these press

conferences. they listen when the governor holds a press conference, and they certainly pay attention when the president of the united states is standing there giving a press conference about something as serious as this worldwide pandemic. i think when misinformation comes out, or you say something that pops in your head, itmessa. we had hundreds of calls come into our emergency hot line at the health department asking if it was right to ingest clorox or, you know, alcohol cleaning products. whether that was going to help them fight the virus. we had to put out the warning to make sure people were not doing something like that, which would kill people, actually, to do it. >> larry hogan on why the president's words matter. >> you know it wasn't sarcasm. >> it wasn't. >> the president's words matter. he was pushing a scam cure throughout the entire month of