i'm andrea mitchell in washington as we continue our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. here are the facts at this hour. beginning tomorrow, more than two dozen states will be reopening some part of their economy. from retail and beauty to construction and elective surgeries. arizona, indiana, missouri, and ohio are just some of the states with partial reopenings planned. but many are still worried that it may be too soon. and as more states begin reopening, protests by americans living in states that are still under strict restrictions are increasing even though they do not reflect widespread polling indicating most americans want to wait longer. still protesters rallied this weekend calling for an end to the lockdowns in those states. one of those states still underics strict restriction is new york, the u.s. epicenter of the virus. the nypd isn't out 100 officers

to ensure that residents abide by social distancing rules in what was a nice sunny weekend. we will ask mayor bill deblasio about that and more when he joins us later on this hour. lastly, the senate will be back in session tony but with big changes. senator mitch mcconnell said there will be new guidelines. we begin this hour with president trump, and a new claim tonight that contradicts our own reporting and many other reports about when u.s. intelligence agencies first warned of the coronavirus appearing in china. the president tweeting intelligence has just reported to me that i was correct and that they didn't bring up the coronavirus subject matter until late into january just prior to my banning travel to k40i7b from the u.s. they spoke of it in a non-threatening and matter of fact manner.

fake news got it wrong again. our own fact check here, multiple agencies reported that intelligence warned the president in early january in his daily brief being the wuhan outbreak. whether he listened or read the briefing which he unlike previous presidents does not take every day is of course in question. monica alba is at the white house. monica, nbc reported extensively about an earlier time line of when intelligence started reporting about the presence of the coronavirus in china. >> as far as back as early and mid january msnbc and other news outlets reported several intelligence agencies that included information about the virus's spread in china did make to it the white house and to the president. it is worth noting even as of january 17th some travelers who were coming from wuhan were screened at u.s. armts. so the government was clearly aware that this was an issue at

the time. and the president did go on later in the month of january to institute that partial travel ban which of course didn't apply to u.s. citizens but foreign nationals. it is also worth mentioning that 400,000 odd travelers had come were the country in the weeks preceding and tense thousands after that travel ban was in place. but the president continues to tout his early action while at the same time he was down playing the virus and saying it would go away eventually. he was citing the low number of cases and as you and i know so well he continued to travel extensively domestically going to campaign stops february into early march as this was spreading. there are questions about him, and now making this claim that intelligence has inform him on this. he didn't extrapolate. it is unclear who issing the him this. it is unclear what kind of a

statement might be released in a more formal capacity. we don't know. this is something he just tweeted out without supporting much evidence for his claim, andrea. >> of course it was much later than that that he dismissed, basically, the very experienced admiral joe mcgoir who was leading national intel yens and brought in as an acting intelligence director the current acting dni, rick grinnell who is also our current ambassador to germany, who had not been experienced in intelligence. so there is not -- not deeply experienced in intelligence. so there is a gap there where he did a shakeup on intelligence. this is not his first attack on the intelligence community. also in undermining the reporting here he is also i guess trying toet is up the scapegoating of china as having not warned the world about it. china did not warn the world most effectively, but u.s. intelligence had their own information.

also, the president has been retweeting today a conspiracy theory blaming president obama for the russian probe, which is another whole tack. he has been very busy on twitter this weekend. >> dozens and dozens of tweets, and retweets this weekend, andrea. as you mentioned, he was at camp david for most of it in what the white house was billing as a working weekend but there weren't public events on his schedule yesterday and today was an indication into his thinking, retweeting the conspiracy theory as you mentioned. the president has at times hinted at information he says will come out later about former president obama's role in this. obvious low it has never come out. he teased it and mentioned it in interviews. also today, he likes to enjoy and elevate some of this information for which there is no basis or claim. it is also worth pointing out, andrea that he is trying to move this ball forward and look ahead to the weeks to come as the country starts the reopen with

those states -- we are told he spent much of the weekend preparing for this fox news town hall that's two hours tonight. we haven't heard much in terms of specific policy or what they might be rolling out. tonight there may be a hint of that that gives you a sense of where the president has spent his time and energy this weekend, andrea. >> thank you so much for the reality from the white house north lawn, nbc's monica alba for us. now to new reporting from the "washington post" this weekend suggesting that the president's strategy in the past months to push for reeeping of the economy was driven more by his re-election worries and not by concerns that his own science advisors -- medical advisors were voicing about protecting americans' health. americans from becoming infected again. the article in today's "washington post" saying the article quietly built an econo

metric model predicting lower more tattle levels that the white house doctors and other scientific models projected. hasset denied that he projected any death tolls. but the post and other administration officials are suggesting he did. and his model weighed heavily in the administration's planning. the white house confirmed they had skepticism about the severity of the focus and shifted their focus to the recovery of the economy custom will affect whether the president wins a second term. we bring in our panel. welcome all. i wanted to ask you about your colleagues at the post and their reporting a significant story about the president's focus on the economy, on the reopening in the last 34 days, and ignoring or down playing some of the medical advice he was getting in

terms of not objecting to states reopening, in terms of supporting the protesters in a number of states, and down playing the advice from dr. fauci and dr. birx. >> andrea, the president has done more than not stand in the way of states not reopening. he has been pretty actively cheerleading for states to reopen. in the case of michigan this past week he urged the governor to negotiate with the protesters who had stormed the capitol building. so the president's view is clearly that he wants to see states reopen. he thinks that in many cases the faster the better. he usually does add some caveats to that. you hear all the voices that are talking to him come out at different times. as my colleague laid out in that masterful piece there are a lot of different voices within the

white house trying to get into the president's ear, including dr. fauci and dr. birx. dr. birx herself said today they haven't changed their estimate of the eventual likely death toll in the united states, which is like toe to reach and top 100,000. and when the president says, apparently, with some knowledge from other advisors, perhaps including hassett, that the death toll could be significantly lower than that, well he has already been proved wrong several times. he said 50, he said 60. we are past both of those. the upper limit he ever mentioned has been 75. that may be more realistic. he also said 70. the but the peak is not passed. in washington, d.c. and other cities it will continue to rise for some weeks. >> in fact, larry kudlow was on cnn today, and he was disputing

the story and defending what kevin hassett had done. let's watch. >> yes. >> kevin hassett himself said in that story that is not true. >> he was clarifying the situation. he was not changing the situation. we have from day one abided by the advice andifiedance of our top medical people, dr. fauci, ambassador birx, and many others in hhs and fda. this idea that somehow we were creating a new model is simply not the case. >> elise jordan, we know that there is a denial right there from larry kudlow. but the fact is that the president has open low, on camera, in front of the world, has been encouraging states to open before they have even met their white house guidelines. >> it is very difficult for larry kudlow to argue that the white house is doing everything

by the book as recommended by public health experts when donald trump's own rhetoric goes completely against that. coming to tonight, it is going to be interesting to watch how donald trump manages to handle two hours of a town hall getting questions about reopening and whether he is indeed going to stick to the lines of public health experts or if he is going to move in his own direction. and similarly to what he did this week, champion those who were protesting and not practicing social distancing at various state capitals. >> doctor, what is the risk here of states reopening, especially states where there are rural areas perhaps where they have not had great infection, no hot spots like we have this the urban areas. what is the risk of reemergence, of a continuing spread, and of another spike coming this summer

or in the fall? >> that's it. the risk is, we already know that there is a likely risk there is going to be a peak in the winter and january due to potential seasonality of the virus. but now we have an additional worry that there will be a peak in between, and coming in the summer or the fall. and it is going to happen because the models coming out of seattle and elsewhere indicate that we won't really be able to go back into containment mode, meaning less than one case per million per day in an urban arearea for many states until june or the middle of june. we are opening up the economy sooner than that in many states, including texas. we might be able to get away with that if we had a public health structure commence rate with the reopening plans. we don't have that. we don't have it in the

workplace or a comfort level that employees don't know if their fellow employees are carrying covid even though they are asymptomatic. i am worried that any gains we may have made will be erased in the summer and the fall. that is going to be a very volatile time. it is in the weeks right before the election. poll numbers will drop for many elected officials. and this will encourage the kinds of scene we are starting to see in michigan where people go around in camouflage and firearms. so i am very concerned about the nation as we head into the weeks up to the election. >> and i would also ask you to think about the desire by the american people for some sort of bipartisanship. george w. bush is among the leaders who went on video and

called for people to be unified in this response. and then the president tweeted against george w. bush's call for unity objecting to the fact saying that the former president had not supported him during impeachment. where does that put us, where you can't have a former president calling for unity without being criticized by the person sitting in the oval office? >> i don't know where that puts us. that's a very good question. certainly, we do hear in polling that americans are looking for leadership. and they want to see bipartisanship at least insofar as they want congress to be seen as acting on people's behalf and passing these stimulus packages and doing other thing that will help the country recover. but the president has a different goal here, which is one that has been very consistent for him. which is he is talking to a smaller group of people than the

majority. and he needs to keep that smaller group of people who are his most loyal supporters fully on his team. there really hasn't been much erosion that we are seen in polling among those people. but he needs to keep them energized. he needs to make sure that they think he is talking to them. you might ask politically where that leads the rest of the margin that he would lead for re-election that goes beyond that minority of americans, but he hasn't really been talking to those people in the same voice. >> indeed. thanks so much. much more is still to come. a live look at times scare coming up now on a beautiful day in new york city. as the weather warms up, though, the n.y.p.d.'s stay at home enforcement is also heating up. new york city's mayor joins us

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welcome back. as mayors and governors keep pushing for congress to provide more federal fund forth state and local governments whose budgets have been slammed by the burden of responding to the coronavirus, white house economic adviser kevin hassett suggested this weekend that another stimulus package to help them might not be needed. the new york city mayor then criticized him earlier today for that. >> let me tell you something, kevin. why don't you come to new york city, go to up hearst hospital, talk to our first responders, talk to the families who lost loved ones or go to the icus where hundreds of people are still fighting for their lives. >> mr. mayor, thank you for joining us, mayor bill deblasio

joining us from new york. why do you think there continues to be a disconnect between the white house and what you are seeing on the streets of new york and in the hospitals of new york? >> i am astounded. when i heard what kevin hassett said -- it sounds like larry kudlow is saying something like it now. i mean, i don't know what they are thinking. we have seen the worst epidemic in a hundred years in this country's history hit the nation's largest city. thousands of people have died. so many families are in pain. this city is right now at a standstill. and we are trying to find our way back safely, protecting our people, and then coming back the right way. instead of a helping hand from washington, instead of sympathy and respect for our health care workers, our first responders, the people of that done all of this to fight their way through, what does kevin hassett say? maybe you guys don't need help

after all. you know what, andrea, if help doesn't come from washington -- because in this process on top of all the human misery we have lost billions and billions of dollars as our economy shut down, all of that money that would have been there to pay our first responders, pay our health care workers, all the people that keep the city running that is drying up and we will not be able to provide the basic services the people in this city need and we will not be able to provide the beginning of a restart if washington turns its back on us. that's what he is saying, that somehow maybe it is okay if they do nothing. the administration had to do two things since this started. they had to get us testing when we needed it. they still haven't done that. and they had to get the cities and states aid so they can get back on their feet. without another stimulus for cities and states we will not be able to restart our economy. it is as simple as that.

>> what do you say to the mitch mcconnells and others, the people in the white house, who say well, why should we be bailing out the states, the cities that have not spent their money wisely in the past? that's their argument, that this is your budget, your problem, new york state's problem? >> we did not ask for the coronavirus to come here from overseas. first i would say to mitch mcconnell what are you talking about? this horrible plague affected in whole nation out of nowhere. and the fact that the nation's largest city has taken it on the chip is something he should be grateful for rather than disdainful. here's a city that has been leading the north american economy, we send a huge amount of revenue to the federal government, much more than we get back. we have had the highest level of employment in the history of this city. we have been the safest large city in america, with crime driven down to the level of the 1950s here in new york city.

this city has been a success, and these policies have been work asking these investments have been working. why would he want to be disdainful towards a place that's working, working for all of america? why would he want to be disdainful against these heroes who -- guess what. they are public servants. they are paid for by the public sector. those heroes, the e merks mts, the panhandle, the fire fighters, the doctors, the nurse, and our public hospitals. he wants to leave them high and dry? i think that's un-american. i think that's unpatriotic, to stab in the basket the very people who fought their way through this crisis on behalf of everybody in this country. they deserve a lot more respect than that. >> i wanted to ask you about your efforts through the n.y.p.d. to prevent obviously restless new yorkers who have been stuck inside on a beautiful weekend from coming out and ignoring social distancing. i believe the n.y.p.d. said

yesterday there were some 46 summonses issued. what was the experience today and throughout the weekend that had 1,000 police officers on the streets? >> andrea, look, i want the say new yorkers have been absolutely amazing. it is the most densely populated city in the country. you know new york so well. this is a tough place do social distancing. it is a tough place to shelter in place because people are so used to going out. but new yorkers have done it to a remarkable degree. there are still a few people who don't follow the rules but they really are few. the message i sent is n.y.p.d. is going to be out in every community, every part of the city, certainly to help people -- they are giving out face coverings. they are reminding people, educating people. but for folks who ignore the rules and try to gather then we are giving summonses, across the board. there has been enough chance for people to understand that the social distancing is literally about protecting people's lives. we didn't have to give a lot of summonses yesterday.

that's good sign. today there have been places that needed extra enforcement but most places have been fine. most people are really getting the message. >> i also wanted to ask you about -- you mentioned testing, which is still lagging, despite what the white house says. also the contact tracing that you were speaking of where governor cuomo and mike bloomberg earlier this week. mike bloomberg is putting money into this. how is this going to work? are you seeing any early results to this or is this still being organized? >> andrea we are going to create something that's never been seen before in the history of this city or this country. during the month of may we are going to build a huge testing and tracing apparatus. we have one hand tied hyped our back because the federal government hasn't come up with the testing we need. we are concerned about laboratory capacity to process the tests. what has become clear in this

country is this country is too dependent on chemical agents and equipment from other countries. we don't make a lot of that here in this country. but we ned to again. even if the administration continues in washington not to provide the testing, we are going to do everything we can with what we have got. you are talking about tens of thousands of people who will be testeds daily. you are talking about a tracing prats that anyone who tested positive we interview them, who have they been close with in recent days, who have they come in contact with, we test those folks. if they need to be isolated we provide a hotels room if they can't isolate with their family. there is not the right space for that. we do that enough times the right way it starts to constrict the disease, squeeze and it starts to drive down the numbers even more. >> just very briefly, is there a message here as you look at these numbers, as hideous as this is, 240 people died in the

state just this weekend -- is the worst over do you think? >> i am very hopeful the worst is over, andrea. the one thing i talked about today we have to be careful not to have a boomerang. we can't let the cities reassert. it's the about smart steady progress not letting the foot off the gas too soon. but i am hopeful the worst is hype us. >> thanks to all of the people who work in new york city, the health care workers, and also the police, the fire, the emts, all the front line workers who have been doing so much. >> thank you. >> a big thanks to you and everyone working there in new york. >> appreciate it very much, andrew '. >> mayor bill deblasio. thank you for taking time to be with us. still to come, a cotension joe biden vice presidential pick has a somewhat tense exchange over the sexual harassment allegations that biden has been strongly denying. and president trump looking ahead to the election as new

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welcome back. a tense exchange gaining some traction today as michigan governor gretchen whittmer, a strong supporter of joe biden and one his potential choices for vice president was asked by jake tapper to weigh in on the sexual assault allegation against joe biden by former staffer tara reade. whittmer, a sexual assault survivor herself. >> why do you believed bien and not kavanaugh? are they not both entitled to the same presumption of innocence regardless of their political views? >> you know, jake, as a survivor, and as a feminist, i will say this. we need to give people an opportunity to tell their story. then we have a duty to vet it. because you are a survivor doesn't mean that every claim is

equal. it means we give them the ability to make their case and the other side as well and then to make a judgment that is informed. i have read a lot about this current allegation. i know joe biden. and i have watched his defense. there is not a pattern that goes into this. and i think that for these reasons i am very comfortable that joe biden is who he says he is. he's -- you know what, that's all i am going to say about it. i really resent the fact that every time a case comes up all of us survivors have to weigh in. it is reopening wounds. and it is, you know -- take us at our word, ask us for our opinion, and let's move on. >> my panel joins me now to discuss the latest on this. alley vitale, adrian he will rod of the hillary clinton campaign, ann guarin of the "washington post" is back with us. she's of course a nbc news

contributor and elise jordan msnbc news analyst and contributor to time. jake tapper was asking governor whittmer about that as he said because she is on the list to be the vice presidential candidate. i can understand her feelings, of course, i can imagine or empathize with her feelings. but she is a strong supporter of joe biden. alley vitale you have been talking back and forth and texting back and forth with tara reade. she canceled an interview that had been scheduled on fox news this morning with chris wallace. what is she explaining to you now also about some inconsistencies this weekend in which she says about the complaint she claims she filed 27 years ago and what she put on the complaint. >> she had always told you that it was not sexual assault. now is she unclear as to whether she mentioned sexual harassment as well? >> andrea, in arts regards to

the complaint, that tara reade had told myself and mike member lean that this complaint she says she filed in 1993 never mentioned the sexual assault but was regarding sexual harassment. this weekend, then, in a text to me, she sort of elaborated and specified what might be in that complaint, and the specific words she may or may not have used. in the text to me she wrote i filed the complaint re: sexual harassment and retaliation but i am not sure what specific words are on that intake form. this is sort of a moment of expectation setting for reade and joe biden. for reade it is an expectation setting of trying to clarify what she thinks she may remember in this complaint she says she filed. for joe biden it is a moment to set the standard for how transparent he is going to be on this. we know he asked the secretary senate to help release anything that might be in either the senate's control or until the national archives, anything that

might be regarding this complaint. what still remains sealed though are those documents at the university of delaware that are going to be sealed until after biden leaves public life. there is a growing corpsohorus 2016 is still fresh in the mind of many democrats. you saw tom -- saying this is the new hillary's emails. >> speaking of 2016, you lived through that as did i and everyone covering hillary clinton and working for hillary clinton. >> uh-huh. >> her frustration that people didn't seem to care, voters didn't seem the care about "access hollywood" and about the president's -- the accusations of more than a dozen -- much more serious accusations of more than a dozen women, credible accusations that he has denied, against president trump. and this one case, unlike anything in the pattern of joe biden's life that we know of

getting this much attention but also the criticism that he has not been transparent. he took a monday to respond. now the "new york times" yesterday, a major editorial, a full page editorial call on him to be more transparent and the release the documents from the university of delaware? i think like a lot of things in 2016 i think the campaign of 2020 lass learned a lot of those lessons. on her emails we saw an constant investigation going on. no matter what we did, and andrea, you were covering this, you were right there, you knew, no matter what we did, it was never enough. every time hillary clinton said oh, i will take this measure, then, you know, the far right and frankly some of the media wanted more. i think the biden campaign has been very smart to hit this head on but also set boundaries and limitations. when it comes to the records at the university of delaware, for example, you know, that's where he has chose tony store his senate -- you know, his full senate records, and that doesn't

include personnel. it is a legacy-building -- when people -- when members of congress, united states senator, high level officials and servants of the administration choose to store and make for public consumption their records in places they do that to -- as a legacy-building exercise. they don't do it to show necessarily every personnel record. that would be point the campaign is making, his personnel records wouldn't live at a place like the university of delaware. they are still cataloging all of that material. it wouldn't be the place to do it. i think it is a very, very monumental step that joe biden made to say i want the secretary to look through the materials. >> elise jordan, you have been watching this as well.

from our background, you have worked in the george w. bush white house as well. how does joe biden get ahead of this? i did an interview this week with bill jefferis who led the obama team that vetted joe biden for the vice presidential ticket. he had ten or more lawyers looking through this and he said they looked through every record every aspect of his life and found nothing. however, they didn't go through senate records because they never found any allegation of misconduct. should they have somebody go through all this stuff even though some of it hasn't been digitized and put it out there if there is any reference to twooed. >> andrea, i think that while i -- to tara reade -- >> andrew ', i think that while it explains what the biden camp is thinking, you are getting

lost in the process. every time you are explaining why it can't be done -- it is not hitting voters. maybe tom perez's words inspired rank and file dems who are already going to vote for joe biden. what does it do for the rest of the vetting public weighing these accusations and joe biden's character? like adrienne pointed out the university ever delaware archive is not going to contain personnel records. anyone familiar with archival records knows that's not the kind of information housed there: i think anything the biden campaign can do, if we can agree on a certain number of reporters, a pool to go in to have access to the records and to write about it the way the

other candidates have done with tax returns, that would be a step forward. they really need to move beyond this storyline. >> ann guarin, the president is about to go out on at least a trip to arizona this week on tuesday. he is so eager to rejoin the campaign, if you will, to get out there, he has been talking about doing something at mt. rushmore on july 3rd. yet on this subject he has contradicted his campaign, which has been going after joe biden hammer and tongues by saying he can empathize with him because he says he has been falsely accused. sounds like in his words that he is sticking up for joe biden. a strange and mixed message. >> i am sure he would disagree. but it is a -- just a fascinating kwquandary that the

trump campaign finds itself in. they feel vch they dodged a giant bullet in 2016 when the public largely as horrified as many people were al the allegations against donald tr p trump, they had already made up their minds. now they have a chance to go after joe biden at time when not everybody has made up their minds. the subject matter is one on which the president is vulnerable. the campaign seems to be aware of that but they are going forward with it anyway. i think they hope that the president won't get in their way. >> good luck with that. thanks so much to nbc's alley vitale, adrian he will rod, ann grarn and elise jordan. my thanks to all of you. we'll be right back. you. we'll be right back. balance from here.

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develop and study new drugs because we may end up finding that this drug was the first start, but it isn't really what we need for ongoing treatment of disease, or we may need a combination of drugs. >> i wanted to also ask you about vaccines. we heard from one of the doctors, one of the academic researchers at oxford today on "meet the press" speaking very hopefully about their study. i know there are a number of studies about vaccines. he was even speaking about getting through the first couple of trials and having some evidence, i guess is the way he put it, by september, which is a lot earlier than most people are projecting. where do you stand on vaccines? >> well, vaccines are incredibly important in our effort to really turn the tide on this terrible global pandemic. it's what will give us protection against infection and really allow us to really open

up restrictions and go back to living lives that may not be exactly what we were doing before, but certainly closer to life as we knew it before. but vaccines take time to develop. you need to study them carefully because you need to know that they actually work, that they'll protect you from infection. and you also need to make sure that they are safe because you're giving vaccines to people who are otherwise healthy to protect them from disease, so you don't want to do anything that would actually put them at risk. and certain diseases, certain kinds of infections and vaccines can have paradoxical effects where you can make infection after vaccination worse or make you more vulnerable to infection. so we really need to safeguard against that also. so, we need to move as swiftly as we can, but we need to pay

attention to a full assessment of risks and benefits. and we certainly don't want to cut corners that would mean that we might be using a product that really didn't work or would make people sick. >> in trying to find a vaccine, is there a risk that the wuhan virus or the virus that began in china mutated? governor cuomo was talking today about a different form of it coming from europe to the east coast and why new york may have been such a hot spot than what originally came to the west coast. where do you stand on that, and would a vaccine be a one-size-fits-all or might a different kind of vaccine need to be used? >> very important questions, and people are very intensively studying the genomes of various

eye s isolates of this virus. it doesn't seem to mutate as rapidly as other viruses do. it looks as though many of the strategies for developing vaccines will be able to be protective against the different changes that we've seen in this coronavirus/sars/cov 2 as it's called. ideally you'd like to be able to ensure it has as broad effect because there may be future coronaviruses and, of course, we never did develop a vaccine against the original sars coronavirus outbreak that spread around the world. but we need to take it one step at a time. we need to do the studies. we need to look at the level of protection that different vaccine candidates give. the exciting news is there are a lot of different vaccines currently in development and hopefully one or more will make

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♪ ♪ welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. tonight with election day six months away, states across america reopen as cases keep going up amid deep reservations about how safe it really is. but with 30 million americans out of work, what will the new economic and medical realities be? i talk to senator chris van hollen. later on the front lines of the research, i'm joined by one of the head scientists of the remdesivir trial along with a public health expert training people on how to start contact tracing millions of new yorkers. but first, there are certain things that we can all agree on right now. we can all agree that