and with that, that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. ♪ with the number of coronavirus cases in the united states topping 1.2 million, some areas of the country are seeing a decline, while others are emerging as new hot spots. also, president trump visits a mask factory in arizona. and despite signs saying everyone is required to wear a mask, the president didn't actually have one. also supreme court juices ruth bader ginsburg hospitalized. a court statement saying she's being treated for a gallbladder infection. >> good morning, everybody.

it is wednesday, may 6th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover on this morning. despite the u.s. death toll from coronavirus now topping 71,000, the president continues his push to reopen the country. nbc news has learned that over the coming weeks, the white house plans to wind down the coronavirus task force. two sources saying the tasks for no longer meets every day. and discussions in the situation room have been shorter recently. doctors, deborah birx and dr. anthony fauci are still expected to be at the white house each day. but other members of the task force may not appear as frequently. vice president mike pence told nbc yesterday that there is no set date for the task force to formally complete its work. but the panel expects to begin shifting its response back to individual federal agencies

later this month or in early june. and here's what president trump had to say about the task force just yesterday. >> so, i think as far as the task force, mike pence and the task force have done a great job. but we're now looking at a little bit of a different form. and that form is safety and opening. and we'll have a different group probably set up noor. for that. >> are you saying mission accomplished? >> no, no, mission accomplished is when it's over. >> are you saying you're getting the advice that you need? >> we have great advice. we have medical doctors, laboratory people. >> so this move to disband the task force and reopen states is coming as the coronavirus continues to spread rampantly in the united states. "the new york times" out with a piece, details how new hot spots are countering places like

new york city, chicago and new orleans. the "times" made this chart showing a curve in the new york metro area, compared to the rest of the country. new york, as you can see here is trending downwards. while the rest of the country is trending upwards. for example, dallas county yesterday, reported its third straight day of record cases. on the same day the governor of texas announced a new wave of openings. salons and barbershops and friday. gyms and manufacturing plants in less than two weeks as well. the "times" also notes the following, quote, the country is still in the firm grip of the pandemic with little hope of release for every indication of improvement in controlling the virus. new outbreaks have esearmerged elsewhere leaving the country in a deadly march of deaths and

infections. it is rampaging through nursing homes, meat packing plants and prisons killing the medically vulnerable and the poor. and new outbreaks keep emerging in grocery stores, walmarts and factories, an honest harbinger of what a full reopening of the country will bring. here's the president just yesterday, discussing the sacrifice that he's willing to make. >> yes, will some people be affected? yes will some people be affected badliy yes. but we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon. >> do you believe that's a reality we're facing that lives will be lost to reopen the country. >> it's possible there will be some because you won't be locked into an apartment or house, or whatever it is. but at the same time, we're going to practice social distancing. we're going to be washing the hands, we're going to be doing a lat of the things that we've learned to do over a period of

time. and we have to get our country back. >> so, amidst all of this, we have some polling out right now. a majority of americans saying that they're concerned that states will begin lifting stay-at-home restrictions way too soon. according to a new monmouth university poll says 63% think states are opening too quickly during the coronavirus pandemic. 29% say states are not moving quickly enough. 56% say that preventing more people from getting sick should be the more important factor in lifting restrictions. while 33% say it should be preventing an economic downturn. 49% of independents, 80% of democrats say that health concerns should be the presiding factor in deciding when to actually reopen. and while 54% of republicans say the economy should matter more amidst all of this. joining me now is managing

editor of "the washington examiner" magazine. jay cruz. jay, great to see you this morning. a lot of talk about in the last 24 hours. i want to talk specifically about this notion that the white house coronavirus task force is possibly winding down, as we have heard. it is part of the president's effort, it seems, to refocus on the economy. but i don't quite understand it, when looking at some of the graphs i've shown at the top of the show, we're seeing the curve continue to go up in the rest of the country. while the new york curve continues to dip downwards. we're not at the point where we don't need a tank force on hand. >> yeah. it's kind of disappointing. i think largely because of dr. birx and dr. fauci would give much more scientific and medical information during

the -- especially during the press briefings. in their case, they continue to be involved on a daily basis, i think that's good. i'm not sure about the task force itself. i'd actually be glad to see the press briefings come to a close, largely because the president can't keep words coming out of his mouth. and fauci said something and trump said something the complete opposite. it just gets a little ridiculous. so, hopefully, though, even though the task force itself maybe disbanded, the white house is going to keep folks like birx and fauci nearby in case something happens. you see in new york the curve is going down overall, across the country, it's going up in some states. depending where you're working. it depends on the states itself. but if there's a major outbreak, especially in the fall, hopefully, those people are

still around to kind of guide the president in the way that he should be. >> let's look at the recent polls laid out. the majority of americans say they are concerned that states will begin lifting stay-at-home orders way too soon. what do you make of this? >> well, there's those -- a lot of times it depends on the question. there was another poll i saw, it was the ugov poll, i don't know what it was. if -- the statement was if you could go back to work tomorrow, 77% said they would. i think there's a lot of different factors that go into there. i think certain states, if states were to reopen, they're still not going to go to movie theaters, or restaurants simply because they can.

human behavior is going to take over. just because a state says, okay, salons are open doesn't mean that salons are going to open completely. i get the polling, they see people getting sick with this. and see how it affects people and makes people nervous. i consider myself included among them. so it is, it's still kind of scary. and people are worried and probably naturally worried as a result. >> all right. jay caruso, stay close, i'm going to talk to you in a bit, my friend. also, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was hospitalized yesterday with an infection called by a gallstone. she underwent a benign gallbladder condition at johns hopkins hospital and there stay there until wednesday.

she's taken part in telephone arguments on monday and tuesday as well. ginsburg has beat cancer four times already. and her latest hospital stint in november when she suffered from chills and a fever. coming up, everybody, president trump has appeared to soften on the coronavirus vaccine by the end of november. we'll show you those comments. also a health and human services official filed a new whistle-blower complaint claiming that warnings about the coronavirus were ignored. legal analyst danny cevallos joins us for that. also, a check of your weather, when we come back.

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filed a whistle-blower complaint on tuesday. dr. rick bright, former director of the biomedical advanced research and development authority or barta says he was reassigned, quote, for trying to reprioritize science and safety over political expediency. >> time after time, i was pressured to ig or dismiss expert and scientific recommendations and, instead, award lucrative contracts. most recently, i witnessed government leadership rushing blindly into a potentially dangerous situation by bringing in a non-fda approved chloroquine from pack stkistan india from facilities that had never been approved by the fda. their eagerness to push blindly

forward without sufficient data to put this drug into the hands of americans was alarming to me as my fellow scientists. >> hhs denies removing dr. bright for retaliatory reasons saying he was reassigned to work on territorying to combat covid-19. he's seeking reinstatement to his barta position. joining me now to talk about this is msnbc legal onanalyst danny cevallos. danny, this is an 89-page complaint, break down the actions that might help dr. bright get his job back? >> there's a lot in this complaint but you could probably distill is it down to allegations that political contracts were awarded based on cronyism, and secondly that potentially harmful drugs were

promoted lick chloroquine a hydroxychloroquine without safety measures. and hhh is painting itself in a corner saying oh, no, dr. bright did a terrific job we just reassigned him to another place where his tremendous abilities would be useful. they have painted themselves in a corner and watch how they have to pivot and have to explain why they demoted him and then start to call him a bad employee which is going to be totally inconsistent with their own position. but they painted themselves into their own corner there. >> so, do you think it is highly likely, at this point, considering the defense that you've heard from hhs that bright will get his position back? or is there something bigger going on here? >> not necessarily, because we're at the very initial complaint stage. which is submitted to the office of the special counsel, not to

be confused with the special counsel's office. this is the agency or the group that looks into whistle-blower complaints under federal law. and it hasn't been around all that long. they have a pretty good success rate. but, however, in this case, there's a long way to go. they still have to hear the other side. and i'm sure there's going to be another side. >> all right, danny cevallos, thank you, as always, my friend. great to see you this morning. still ahead, everybody, we're getting our first glimpse of pro baseball this season, but it is in south korea. the latest on how that country is opening back up. we're back in a moment. i know that every single

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pitch and cheerleaders wearing masks, dancing for cardboard stand-ins for fans. south koreans packed malls and shops and amusement parks over the weekend as officials are expected to relax more measures today. got to love the cardboard stand-ins. meanwhile in britain, the death toll from the coronavirus continues to climb. according to the latest government figure, the uk now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in all of europe, this as britain's government faces accusations of being slow to order a lockdown. and failing to quickly ramp up testing. let's get into this a bit. joining me now from london, nbc news correspondent chapman bell for us. chapman, good morning to you. you have the highest number of recorded deaths at this point in the uk. what are the next steps there? >> well, yasmin, with this grim milestone, the government has admitted, you know, it's clear,

it's not over yet, even though there's evidence that cases have peaked and it looks like the curve is definitely flattening. but they also admit the next stage won't be easy. and they must continue to be guided by the scientific advice that the government receives. now boris johnson is expected to be in parliament today. his first prime minister question with the new leader of opposition. and there is pressure there for the government here to set out its plans for the next phase. now, it's expected to happen later this week, but there's been growing scrutiny of how the government dealt with it from the beginning. criticism of the late lockdown, after they first tried the herd immunity approach and then changing it to a full lockdown. prime minister boris johnson saying he was shaking hands in hospitals surrounded by people with the coronavirus. now, he, of course, ended up coming down with covid-19 himself. spending several nights in the hospital including intensive

care where he has been recovering after being released from the hospital, he's been recovering ever since. and just recently taking back the reins of the government. so, we are waiting to see what the next steps will be. like i say, we're expecting to get that later this week but that's not going to come without criticism. so we'll see how this first time in parliament happens today, yasmin. >> nbc's chapman bell for us. thank you so much, chapman. great to see you this morning. with that, let's head back to the united states, nbc meteorologist bill karins who is tracking the numbers as we speak, bill, take us through today's numbers? >> yeah, we have a number of things on the cases as far as testing yesterday. we got the numbers yesterday. and it was a little over 250,000 new cases came in. which was the third highest total in one day. 7.5 million people have been

tested, about 2.2% of the u.s. population. here's the thing i found testing about it. notice the dotted red line at the bottom? that's the percentage of positive case of all people tested. yesterday, we dropped to about 10% of the people that were tested were positive. usually, when we have these high testing days, we've had a lot of daily new cases. you can see the arrow is there all the way to the right. we.lowest number of new cases on a high testing day, yesterday. so that's good. you can interpret that as saying we're testing the less sick people now. whereas previously, the people getting tested were the very sick. we hope that can continue. let's jump to the weather picture. we don't have a whole bunch of severe tomorrows but we're seeing a dreary weather pattern set up for ohio and pennsylvania, a cold rain. even some snow in pennsylvania. 6:00 a.m., washington, d.c., in light rain.

philadelphia, new york, sometime around late morning, early afternoon is when some of that will start moving your way. then to the late afternoon, it will be over the top, especially the new york area, philadelphia, long island, shifting out to sea a little later on. we also have this heat wave going on. arizona today, phoenix, 107 degrees already. los angeles is hot. 93 degrees. even into tomorrow, that heat is prevalent in areas of the southwest. you know, we had a very hot april in areas of miami where it was hot and humid. now the heat has shifted to the west. of course, a lot of people want to know, yasmin, what are are the effects of covid-19 in the peak heat of the summer. we'll find out in arizona with the heat. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, dr. anthony fauci is set to testify at a hearing before congress next week. and president trump does not appear to be happy about it. plus, the predators a face mask factory in arizona. but the only problem is his

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situation to be unsuccessful which means death. which means death. the house, they should be ashamed of themselves. and frankly, the democrats should be ashamed because they don't want us to succeed. they want us to fail so they can win an election which they're not going to win. >> while trump has blocked fauci's house testimony, nbc news has learned that the esteemed doctor will testify at the republican-led senate led meeting may 12th. also in his push to put americans back to work, the president yesterday mischaracterized a pair of grim new models showing that coronavirus deaths and cases will increase as states do open. >> on the ihme model which now showing 130,000 deaths doubles its previous predictions, are you predicting some of that will happen because some states are relaxing guidelines? >> no, that assumes mitigation. >> for what? >> well, we're letting people

out. the fact that we're letting people go and go to their jobs. they have to do it. you know, if they held people any longer with the shutdowns, you're going to lose people that way, too. and you already have, i'm sure. between drug abuse, i mean, they say suicide. a lot of different things. look, models have been very inaccurate, i've seen models that have been very inaccurate. one model which is very important which is if we did this a different way, we would have lost more, much more than 2 million people. we did it the right way. we did everything right. but now it's time to go back to work. >> these models have been so wrong from day one. both on the low side and upside. they've been so wrong. they've been so out of whack. they keep making new models and new models and they're wrong. those models that you're talking about are without mitigation. we've mitigating we can work in place. we've done it right but now we

have to get back to work. we have to do it. >> let me ask you, you responded to the two new studies with the forecasts. your own numbers have shifted over time. >> they have. they have. >> you said 60,000 americans could die. i watched your town hall, you said 75 to 80 to 100,000 could die. what models are you looking at? and what should americans be prepared for as we head into the fall and could see potentially a second wave? >> well, the upper number, as you know, 2.2 million people. and then there were some models or charts that showed higher than that. 2.2 million people. i always felt, 60, 65, 70, as horrible as that is, you're talking about filling up yankee stadium with death. so i thought it was horrible, but it's probably going to be somewhat higher than that. >> so, amidst all of this, the president toward a honeywell factory manufacturing masks

without wearing a mask himself yesterday, despite company protocol and a sign saying everyone is required to wear one, hours before he departed for phoenix. the president was asked about wearing a mask. watch this. >> have you decided if you're wearing a mask? >> well, i haven't decided. i don't know -- if it's a mask environment, i would certainly do that. i'll know when i get there. but i -- if it's a mask environment, i would have no problem. if i'm supposed to make a speech, you tell me, should i leave the mask on when i'm speaking? i don't know. that doesn't sound right. but if it is a mask environment. >> it is a mask environment. they make masks. honeywell sent a statement saying this, a small group of individuals directly interfacing with the president on tuesday, were tested for covid-19 and

received negative test results and were permitted to not wear masks during portions of the visit based on medical screening. as the president made his way to arizona the state recorded its highest daily death toll so far at 33 fatalities. with plans for barbers and salons to reopen on this friday. joining me once again, managing editor of "the washington examiner" jay caruso. let's talk about this mask-gate, shall we call it. you have the president not wearing a mask at a facility that makes masks. last week, you had vice president mike pence not wearing a mask at a facility that also requires the wearing and usage of masks. this is an optic situation, this is a messaging situation for the american people when you're protecting those by not wearing

a mask and you're not doing it yourself, jay. >> i don't think anyone has asked the president -- you probably heard him say the words over and over again, strong and weak. and my guess is trump would -- forget the health implications, it's always about optics for him, in terms of how he looks. and his whole thing -- and if anybody wants to challenge me on this, they can. he would see himself wearing a mask as a sign of weakness. so with him not wearing a mask he sees that as a sign of strength. so that's why he's going to do it. it's kind of this false bravado that you see a lot from president trump and a lot of his followers. you know, the alpha male kind of situation. rather than -- it's at a point now, wearing a mask, four months ago, i think most of us probably would have been like, that's kind of weird, why is that person wearing a mask? now, you see a person wearing a mask, it's no big deal. no one is going to judge for not

wearing a mask. it's somewhat amusing, like you said, it was a factory that makes masks so why wouldn't it be a mask environment. >> let's turn back to the president blocking dr. anthony fauci from testifying in front of the house today. what do you make of this? and what do you actually expect to hear from fauci when he does in fact testify before the senate health committee later this month? >> well, all this is another lesson in how the president -- to be blunt, he shows his unfitness for office. he doesn't understand the separation of powers. he doesn't understand that congress has oversight over the executive branch. dr. fauci is an executive branch employee. if you will, for lack of a better word at the moment. congress has the right to call him to answer questions about what's going on, based upon the laws that they've written. that's how the system works.

that's how it's worked since our inception. trump doesn't seem to understand that. you know, he goes back and forth, my power is overall, whatever, he doesn't think, it's a situation where he doesn't want somebody to testify, it goes back to what i said a moment ago, it's all about the optics for him. dr. fauci is going to go before a committee and he's going to tell the truth based on science and facts and data and that may make trump look bad which is all he's concerned about, more than anything else. >> all right, jay caruso, thank you as always, my friend. great to see you this morning. let's talk 2020 for a moment, everybody. the new york state primary has been reinstated after a judge ruled cancelling would be unconstitutional and deprive presidential candidates bernie sanders and andrew yang of proper representation at the

democrat democratic conference. and last month, leaving former vice president joe biden as the only name on the ballot. and they also cancelled the presidential primary amit coronavirus fears. governor andrew cuomo had issued an executive order in march moving the date from april 28th to june 23rd. the preliminary injunction granted by a u.s. district judge came in response to a lawsuit last week from yang and several new yorkers, who had hoped to serve as his delegates to the democratic national convention. the new york board ever elections declined to comment on the most recent ruling. still ahead, everybody, president trump's new pledge for americans seeking a coronavirus test before returning to work. your "first look" at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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american worker who's nervous about going back, if they want to get tested to see if they've been exposed to the virus, they can have access to the antibody test? >> they should have no problem. they should have no problem pop as good as this is, we're even getting better. we came up -- don't forget, the cupboard was bare. the last administration left us nothing. we didn't have ventilators. we didn't have medical testing. the tests were broken, you saw that. we had broken tests, they left us nothing. and we've taken it and we have built an incredible stockpile. a stockpile like we've never had before. >> that was president trump yesterday pledging anyone who wants a test before going back to work, quote, should have no problem getting access to a test which we know up until this point has been not true. as the president plans to disband the coronavirus task force, he suggested in his interview with abc news yesterday that the virus will pass on its own, with or without a vaccine.

he told abc news this, there will be more death that the virus will pass with or without a vaccine. i think we're doing very well with the vaccines, but with or without a vaccine, it's going to pass and we'll be back to normal. but it's been a rough process, there is no question about it. this comes as he also softened his promise by developing a vaccine by the end of the year. >> you have still convinced we'll have a vaccine by year's end and 300 million doses you spoke of? >> yeah, you can never be convinced. you say, am i convinced? i can say this, we're doing really great, oxford, johnson & johnson, these companies i get reports every single day. they're doing really great. am i convinced? i can't be convinced of anything. but i think we have a really good shot of having something very, very substantial. all right. let's get a check of your weather and some of those covid

numbers that bill karins has been tracking for us. this is one of those instances when you make a sweeping promise yes, you'll have a vaccine by year's end, that 300 million vaccines will be produced, people are trying to hold on to anything. they want to get back to normal. and they are scared because they want to get back to the new normal. you have to be cautious for the things that you're putting out there so as not to make promises that you cannot deliver on. >> yeah, when i have my 8-year-old asking me, daddy, when is there going to be a vaccine? you know, it's on everyone's mind. i don't want do give my 8-year-old a definitive answer because we don't know. let's get to the numbers. let's get to the curves. as far as the fatalities yesterday, whatever the reason, either a backlog or processing from the weekend, our tuesday numbers are always the highest. yesterday was the deadliest day. there have been a couple wednesdays that have been the

highest but by far, tuesdays are the days where we have the single most cases reported. as far as yesterday, it was actually on the low-ish type side, that's the lowest tuesday number going back since march. today, by the way, we'll hit 1.25, 1.25 million cases. let's get into this cold path that's coming down into pennsylvania. you deget a decent shot coming and then a real cold weekend. sunday, 48 degrees. mother's day weekend is not a great day in the north 'friday we track the rain and a little snow. if we're getting snow accumulations out of this, it's friday into saturday. it's going to be snowy in new england put but for mother's

day, we clear it out for you, yasmin. >> there you go. >> 58 degrees, colder than it should be. >> i'll take chilly and clear a any day of the week. yeah, i mean, you know, better than snow, right? thank you, bill. still ahead, we're going to go live to cnbc for an early look at what's driving the day on wall street. and as we go to break, a display of gratitude for essential workers. a fleet of vintage world war ii planes scrolled out messages of thanks and hope in the sky above new york yesterday. the plane flew over the five new york city boroughs as well as long island and jefferson. it was five to ten miles and were visible in a 15-mile radius. we're back in a moment. everyday you're eating acidic foods; you're constantly weakening that enamel structure. pronamel repair allows

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europe and asia. so a significant -- significant discussions for sure. one other sector we've been closely following, the u.s. meat sector. the u.s. is facing meat shortages as processing plants have been closed due to the pandemic and the spread of coronavirus there. one country, though, that has continued to import u.s. pork and beef is china. the u.s. exported nearly 96,000 tons of pork to china in march, that's the second highest volume on record. this was all part of the plan for china to buy for from the u.s. and the u.s. to sell more to china, but it comes at a tricky time giving the shortages that are taking place on american soil. back to you. >> as we're looking at reopenings across the country, we have starbucks looking to start brewing again. they plan to open up 85% of their locations. talk to us about their reopening process. >> so this reopening process is going to be full of new

protocols. let me run through a few of them. mobile ordering, contactless pickup, cashless payments, curbside pick up, these are all measures that starbucks will be employing. you can expect to see these employed by numerous companies in various sectors. 90% of locations are aimed to be opened by early join, that's according to the chief executive in a letter to its customers. back to you. >> all right. live from london for us, thank you, julianna, great to see you. up next, a look at axios's one big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," mayor bill de blasio says he does not anticipate new york city will fully reopen until september. he joins the conversation ahead. "morning joe" is moments away. . "morning joe" is moments away. i know that every single time that i suit up, there is a chance that that's the last time. 300 miles an hour, thats where i feel normal. i might be crazy but i'm not stupid. having an annuity tells me that i'm protected.

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where the virus is spreading. in addition to one of those top line numbers on the coronavirus pandemic like we saw earlier in the show about the total number of cases in the united states and total number of tragic deaths, important to break out what's happening in individual states. and so one of our crack visual design editors from yesterday helped build a map that looks at the trend in each of the states, sort of how and where the cases are growing and where they're shrinking. this is a key metric as far as what health officials are looking at as far as when to reopen the country. you see some stark things jump out. the numbers aren't shrinking around new york, the tri-state area who saw the most of the pandemic and the rural states out west. but in a lot of the country cases are flat or climbing. you see stark increases in minnesota where there may be the growth of a new hot spot and also in nebraska. but also in states where there's lower growth, it's 10% growth over a two-week period, these are states where governors are planning to reopen, such as virginia, texas, arizona.

the trump administration it says states should make sure they have at least a two-week trend downward before they begin to consider reopening. you see most of the country does not have that yet and so it's a concern that as many states and governors move forward to reopen in the is something we hope to look at in coming weeks to see which states are moving in the right direction and which states are moving in the wrong way. >> so the question is, will the trump administration, their response to the covid-19 outbreak, have an effect on the upcoming election here. you have new polling suggesting there is momentum veering away from republican incumbents in states with some pretty competitive senate races. talk to us about this. >> right. yeah. we talked last week about how the trend lines were going poorly for the president's re-election. we're seeing that trickle down into senate races. democrats need to pick up five seats to retake control of the senate and there are six polls since the pandemic nearly overtook the nation, five of

those were trending in the right direction for democrats. that includes montana, an online poll. taken with a grain of salt. but more importantly in arizona and north carolina democratic challengers are leading ahead. only in one place they're looking to loose, that looking to lose, that's bam. but the trendlines are definitely in favor of the democrats. >> talking about the presidential election here, you now have former vice president joe biden launching virtual campaign events in key battleground pat battleground states. how you to think this will impact the election? the new ways they'll have toins institu to institute to campaign? >> this is a big challenge, how do they bust through all the noise? it's a great thing the more that donald trump has been on stage talking about the coronavirus the more his poll numbers have shrunk. but joe biden needs to get back

out on the campaign trail, the virtual campaign trail as it were. he's planning events in michigan, florida, virtual events. they're hoping toa doh a full a rally. it will all be virtual and maybe have a zoom meeting at the political rally. but this is the new normal we're dealing with so be sure to tune in to see how does he on the campaign trail virtually. >> it certainly is the new normal. nicholas johnson, great to see you. i'm going to be reading axios am in a bit. you can read the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that does it for any on this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. what did you do when you became president to restock those cupboards that you say were bare? >> well, i'll be honest, i have a lot of things going on. we had a lot of people that

refused to allow the country to be successful. they wasted a lot of time on russia, russia, russia, that turned out to be a total hoax. then they did ukraine, ukraine, and that was a total hoax. then they impeached the president of the united states for absolutely no reason, and we even had 197-0 vote by the republicans. >> president trump's reason for not refilling what he claims was an inherited empty national stockpile for emergencies. >> he was president for 3 1/2 years. >> he has a lot of things going on, that was his answer. incidentally, poly the fact rates trump blaming the obama administration for lack of national emergency supplies as mostly false. that interview took place in the honeywell factory that makes n95 masks, which the president toured. >> where's his mask? >> without wearing a mask himself and no one around him was allowed to wear them either.