press." the coronavirus arrives in the west wing. at least two administration aides have tested positive for the virus and now the white house is taking extra precautions. also, new reporting that the administration's decision to shelf advice from the cdc about reopening the economy came from the highest levels of the white house. and former president barack obama slams president trump for his response to the coronavirus outbreak and warns of disinformation ahead of the november election.

good morning, everybody. it is monday, may 11th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin with the coronavirus outbreak inside of the white house. as president trump tries to convince americans that it's safe to return to work, one of his own top advisers says it is, quote, scary to go to work at the white house. this is coming after two people with access to the west wing tested positive for coronavirus in recent days. one of the president's personal valets and vice president pence's press secretary katie miller who is married to the president's aide stephen miller. dr. anthony fauci, fda commissioner steven hahn and cdc director robert redfield are in quarantine. the vice president laid low over the weekend, but his office now says he will not self-quarantine

and does plan to be at the white house today. "the washington post" reports that all white house staffers received a memo from the white house management office on friday encouraging employees to, quote, practice maximum telework and to work remotely if at all possible. but the paper reports this, several administration officials say white house staffers were encouraged to come into the office by their supervisors. here is one of the president's senior economic advisers, kevin hassett, discussing his concerns about working in the cramped west wing. >> it is scary to go to work. you know, i was not part of the white house in march. i think that i'd be a lot safer if i was sitting at home than i would be going to the west wing. but i think everybody knows going to work, you've been in the west wing. it's a small, crowded place. it's a little bit risky. but you have to do it because you have to serve your country. >> so according to the "new york times," white house officials initially asked reporters not to

identify katie miller as the aide who had tested positive. but the president blew the secret when he publicly identified her during a meeting with congressional republicans on friday. >> it's -- she's a wonderful young woman. katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive. she hasn't come into contact with me. she spent some time with the vice president. it's, i believe, the press person, right? you say press person. so she tested positive out of the blue. this is why the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great. the tests are perfect, but somebody can happen between a test where it's good and something happens and all of a sudden she was tested recently and tested negative and then today, i guess, for some reason, she tested positive. >> or maybe they have great

because now you know the press secretary to the vice president is positive with the coronavirus and needs to violate. so senator lamar alexander warned yesterday that congress does not have enough money to help everybody impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. speaking on nbc's "meet the press" they said the republicans need a break through such as a vaccine. the trump administration has suggested a goal of 100 million vaccine doses by september, but alex sander said he has no idea if that is possible. >> there is not enough money to help everybody hurt when you shut down the government, so the oi only solution is test, trace, treatment and vaccine. so the fast turn -- on testing -- is the only solution to this. so we have to reopen the economy, we have to do it carefully, we have to let people go back to work and earn a living and i don't see us being able to appropriate much more

money to help provide a counter to that. >> so former president barack obama slamming the trump a administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic calling it, quote, a disaster. obama added that trump's handling of the deadly outbreak is, quote, part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty. obama also addresses the justice department's decision to drop its case against ex national security adviser michael flynn, telling former aides that, quotes, our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. meanwhile, obama confirmed that he plans to campaign heavily for his former vice president, saying on the call that he will be spending, quote, as much time as necessary and campaigning as

hard as i can for joe biden. also, according to "the washington post," republicans are growing increasingly nervous about possibly losing control of the senate this november. thanks to a combination of the sinking economy, the president's mishandling of the outbreak and rising enthusiasm among democratic voters, the post is noting that in recent weeks, gop senators have been forced into the difficult position of touting their own response to the pandemic. without overtly distancing themselves from a president who is under secretmy, but still also holds significant sway among republican voters. one republican strategist closely involved in the senate race is telling the post this, it is a bleak picture right now all across the map, to be honest with you. according to the paper, republicans have privately become alarmed at the situation in key races where they are counting on gop incumbents such

as senator susan collins of maine and tom tillis of north carolina to hold the line. amid the coronavirus crisis, president trump is growing concerned about its growing impact on his re-election campaign. "the washington post" is reporting that some of trump's advisers have described him as, quote, glum and shellshocked by recent polls, which have shown him trailing joe biden. in private conversations, they say, trump as struggled to process how his fortunes suddenly changed from believing he was on a glide path to re-election to losing in virtually every poll, including his own campaign's internal surveys, these are advisers telling the post. trump is also concerned about the possibility that a second wave of the coronavirus this fall could further hurt his chances in november. let's get into some of this.

joining me now, washington white house reporter for politico, daniel lippman. good morning, daniel. great to see you on this monday morning. thanks for joining us. i do want to get to those polls i just mentioned, but i first want to talk about the outbreak inside the white house. troubling, to say the least. what are lawmakers saying about this outbreak? and give us the behind the scenes in the white house as you are seeing it and hearing it. >> so they have told more people to start working from home who can and it's really kind of damaging to morale when you can't even stop the coronavirus from popping up in the west wing. and you're exactly right. while trump has slammed testing, wouldn't he want to know that katie miller tested positive? and most workplaces don't have access to daily testing, like

many in the white house. so that makes it much harder for people to go back to work and lawmakers are a little increasingly concerned about going into the white house if they are going to get exposed. >> yeah. i mean, that's the most confusing thing to me about all of this was the president's reaction to the positive tests inside his own administration. that's why you have a period of two to four days, there is a day that you will test negative and suddenly there is a day that you will test positive because the virus becomes active in your system. let's get back to those polls with regard to joe biden versus president trump in a general election. biden leading in every single poll, even when you're talking about internal polling with regard to the president's polls that he touts a lot, especially when he finds himself to be up in some of those polls. so you can imagine how it's concerning to him now and affecting him now.

is he concerned about a second outbreak and how it could feasibly hurt his chances at a re-election? and how is that reframing their attack strategy, their campaign strategy going forward? >> so if you have a second outbreak in september and october, that's right before the election. so that makes it critical for the trump administration to get a handle on this to, you know, stop the spread then and to kind of pray that this does not come back. you know, trump himself has grown increasingly concerned about people coming -- you know, he doesn't want people to come too close. he's worried about getting the virus. he's in his 70s, so not good for someone his age. and i think the strategy going forward is going to hit biden on china, but it's unclear that they can easily defend their own response. >> daniel lippman, stay close.

i will talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, new reporting that some administration officials are growing concerned about the cost of stimulus spending. amid the coronavirus outbreak, ride hailing companies uber and lyft are facing a new legal battle about whether their drivers should be considered employees. those stories plus a check on your weather when we come back. they are the heroes, the helpers -

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by classifying drivers as contractors. uber and lyft get to bypass providing health benefits, they can avoid paying minimum wage and payroll taxes, as well. so they see it as a big money saver. according to forbes magazine, uber has responded to the lawsuit lawsuit with the following statement, we will contest this action in court while at the same time pushing for guaranteed minimum earnings and new benefits, as well. let's get into this. joining me now, danny cevallos. good morning to you. great to see you this morning. there's some pretty major financial implications on this case for both sides. both for the uber and lyft employees as well as the companies. talk us through this. >> this would be a massive financial implication for uber and lyft. if these drivers were

reclassified as employees for the reasons that you mentioned, some of them. they would have to get into issues of waorkers' comp. uber and lyft's response is basically, we are not employing these drivers. we just provide access. arguably, they're like an overblown craigslist. we have two people. one person needs a ride, another person is willing to give a ride. we connect them. the complaint is that an independent contractor must satisfy certain elements. in california, you're presumed to be an employee unless you show the contractor does something your business doesn't normally do. so, for example, at my law firm, if i hire someone to come in and do landscaping around the building, that's not something the firm normally does.

we're not in the business of landscaping. the problem is that uber and lyft don't fit neat loy into any of these categories either way. it's hard to say whether they provide technology or do they actually employ these drivers. >> so two things here. when you say this classification of the company doesn't necessarily have control of the employee, couldn't uber and lyft drivers argue that the company doesn't necessarily have control of them considering it is incumbent upon them to which rides they actually take and secondly because this is the state of california here filing the lawsuit, could this result in affecting other states, as well, and uber and lyft drivers outside of the state of california when the decision does come down? >> that will be the argument from uber's drivers and uber

itse itself, that the control is entirely on uber drivers themselves, when they start working, whether or not they accept a ride. but on the other hand, the state of california says well, they have that kind of control, but the company controls all kinds of things. if a driver accepts too many rides, they can be paused in the system or suspended in a certain way and just as many issues mitigate on these people being independent contractors. because this is such new technology, the traditional idea of someone going to a factory and being employed, they just don't fit neatly into either one. and yes, this case could have implications for other states that have or may accept similar

laws to california and define their employees as california has. >> all right, danny cevallos, thank you as always, my friend. great to see you this morning. still ahead, an american scientist gets the president's attention after contradicting trump's claims that the virus originatesed in a chinese lab. back in a moment.

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repeatedly emerging to people from wild animals through things like hunting and eating wildlife. there is zero evidence that this virus came out avenue a lab in china. >> does the wuhan institute of virology, to your knowledge, have this virus in your inventory? >> no. >> why do you say so? >> the closest known relative is one that is different enough that it is not sars-cov-2. so there is no evidence that anyone had it in the worlds prior to that outbreak. >> so hours after that aired, the president tweeted this, cbs and their show, "60 minutes" with doing far less within their today than it was in the past to defend china and the horrible virus pandemic. i guess they want to do business in china. last month, the trump

administration halted exploration into whether the virus came from bats. joining us now, bill karins. good morning. >> good morning. happy mother's day to you. we said earlier in the weekend a styrofoam snow coming down. so my son jumped outside. and listen to this. >> oh, my god. >> yes. so i don't know if you got any of that, but it literally feels

like balls of snow coming down. >> yeah. it felt a little -- >> it felt a little bit like hail coming down in a way, but it seems like your kids got a little bit of the giggles there dealing with that snow in may. it was just all odd all the way around and hoping it does not happen again and we are through it and it's sunny days ahead. >> okay. well, don't pay attention to today's forecast, then. so let's get into this for today. we do have a freezing temperatures out there throughout areas of the great lakes into the northeast. temperatures are well below average and that's going to happen again today. we still have 65 million people under freeze warnings and advisories and watches because we have another shot of cold air coming down. it's chilly this morning. we're in the 30s and 40s from the ohio valley up into the great lakes. as this storm systems kicks in today, it's showing it's snowing

in cleveland this morning as you wake up and look outside the window. >> come on. >> as we go throughout the afternoon, we will see a chilly rain in areas of the northeast. a section of new hampshire and texas, we could see small hail from hartford to prove denies through massachusetts. you'll get these storms kicking through today and you will see more ice falling through the sky. it's very cold, almost like the end of march ride now through the grooex and northeast. but the good news is, we should be in the 70s by the end of the week in the northeast. you can see it's an umbrella-type day in all the areas of the northeast. we'll talk about those numbers coming up and we'll give you an update on the coronavirus numbers after the break. still ahead, we're digging into new report background the white house's efforts to bury a cdc report that recommended way

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internal government emails obtained by the associated press that show the decision to shelve detailed information from the cdc coming from the highest levels of the white house. the files show that after the ap reported on thursday, that the guidance document had been buried. the trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast tracked for approval. the document, titled, quote, guidance for implementing america again framework was researched and to help faith leaders, educators, state and local officials help to reopen as they reopen their businesses. the white house said friday the documents had not been approved by redfield. the emails show that redfield cleared the guidance and shared it with members of trump's inner

circle as early as april 10th. despite this, the administration shelved it on april 30th. in a preview of his upcoming interview on "60 minutes," rick bright who filed a whistle-blower complaint last week saying he was removed from his job pore the putting science over politics, he talk about the administration's response to the covid-19 response and the reassignment that he is calling retaliatory. >> we see too many doctors and nurses now dieing. and i was thinking that we could see have done more to get those masks and those supplies to them sooner and if we had, would they still be alive today? that's a horrible thought to think about the time that passed where we could have done something and we didn't. >> you believe you were

retaliated against because you raised concerns about hydroxy clo color quinn? >> yes, i do. you had been sounding the alarm about the lack of testing platforms. this sounded like an important job. >> that's an important initiative. i am the director of barta. to take me out of our organization focused on drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in the middle of a pandemic, the worst public health crisis that our country has faced in a century and decapitate the organization to move me over to a very small level project is not responsible. didn't make sense. >> so the office of the special

counsel is saying there are reasonable grounds to believe dr. bright's reassignment was, in fact, retaliatory. it recommends a 45-day reinstatement while their investigation is continuing. let's get into some of this. joining me now, daniel lippman. these documents from the cdc, now, in fact, we learned the cdc documents had been approved and they were shelled by the highest nefls of the white house in february. tell us about what you know. >> so there were some concerns inside the white house and the

administration about whether they were overly prescriptive to churches, telling churches what they could and could not do and whether they would make it harder forebusinesses to reopen. but the ironic thing is that businesses need these recommendations, these guidelines, to actually reopen. so right after that ap report, the day after the white house ordered the cdc to get these documents approved, whoever linked it to the ap, you know, at the cdc, they kind of got what they wanted so we expect to see some of those documents get posted the next few days. >> of course these businesses need it. you don't need to be an expert to know that these businesses need it. no one has ever been through a pandemic before and nobody wants to get sick or wants their

patrons to get sick, either. that said, i want to talk about this recent politico piece on mark meadows on which you contributed, as well. what challenges here, as many as we can talk about in this time that we have, what challenges is meadows facing as the new chief of staff? >> number one, president trump doesn't like to be handled. another one that we focused on is the jared kushner angle with jared, being trump's son-in-law and someone who he trusts implicitly, that they sometimes will clash a little bits early on with just any chief of staff

because jared has his own power and he has worked closely to try to get equipment to the states and to hospitals. remember those reports about how he was using volunteers that weren't actually very qualified at getting that. and so i think meadows is trying to kind of manage the president because right now the polls are just not looking good, as we talked earlier. >> well, with that, i say good luck. daniel lippman, great to see ow this monday morning. hope you join us again soon. florida health officials releasing new data showing a spike in nursing home deaths related to covid-19. they appear to have counted for more than 60% of the coronavirus deaths in florida in the last week. on friday, the florida

department of health reported deaths at facilities marking a striking increase of 242 deaths from the prior week's report. in this same time period, the state's overall death toll increased by 401. florida currently has nearly 41,000 covid-19 cases confirmed and has reported over 1700 deaths. meanwhile, we've got some grim new numbers showing avenue of new jersey's covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes. there have been rates over the national rate. as of sunday, state records show nearly 15 nursing centers have reported deaths.

the facility has been raf aemed by pandemics since march and now more than 60% of residents have contracted this disease. as of sunday, 72 deaths had been linked to the virus. about 20% of the staff is sick and one employee has died. so far, new jersey has reported over 140,000 confirmed cases and over 9200 deaths. still ahead, a bump in the road to south korea's reopening after the easing of restringzs led to an inspection hike.

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welcome back, everybody. over the weekend, all bars and

nightclub nightclubs in korea were shut just days after restrictions were lifted. according to a "new york times" report, a south korean man who had tested positive for the virus last week had visited nightclubs the weekend before which left officials scrambling to contact 7,200 people who may have been exposed to this virus. so far, 27 cases have been found among club goers and people in contact with them, according to a disease control official. south korea's health minister said this, we can't sustain our society with our daily life and economic activities standing still but, unfortunately, we could not find a precedent for what we are actually trying to do. with that, let's get a check on your numbers with bill karins. it's tough, you know, this reopening process for so many

countries across the world. nobody really knows what it's going to look like and how it's going to go. the up side to what south korea is doing, they are actually keep the contacts of the all the people with these bars, these clubs. so if there is an outbreak like we are seeing now, this cluster, they are able to find everybody that was there and find out if they're testing positive, as well. not for sure if that is something that could happen here in the united states. >> yeah. legally or just even if it's even possible with 330 million people. >> exactly. >> a lot of challenges. let's get into some of these numbers. we had over 500,000 people tested over the weekend. and the good news is the fatalities were down over the

weekend. as far as the number of cases went, we saw roughly around 20,000 reported on sunday and that was also the lowest since the end of march. so hopefully we can continue those numbers as we go throughout this week. let's transition into the weather pattern that is going to change this week. so it's still very chilly out there. tulsa, 53 degrees is unheard of for this time of year. chicago, 48 today. it will be another cold night tonight and then we start the transition. it will get warmer towards the end of this week. look by that time we get to friday, philadelphia, 81 degrees. it will feel like a heat wave. much of the country will have a big warm-up by the end of this week. so, you know, it's going to rain a little bit here and there, but et will warm up finally. >> folks are ready for a heat wave, my friend. thank you, bill. great to see you today. we are back in a moment. these are extraordinary times, and we want to thank the extraordinary people

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aren't we talking close to 25% at this point which is great depression? >> we could be, but let me emphasize, unlike the great depression where you had economic issues na led to this, we closed down the economy. so it wouldn't be a surprised if you close down the economy that in half of the workforces, half the people didn't work. so the reported numbers are probably going to get worse before they get better, but that's why we're focused on rebuilding this economy. we'll have a better third quarter. we'll have a better fourth quarter. and next year is going to be a great year. >> not sure everybody is as sure as they are as we're hearing from mnuchin. april jobs report posted a massive 25 million jobs lost which is highlighted a struggling u.s. workforce and some demographic getting hit harder than others. karen cho is joining us live for

this. mmuchin is seeming fairley positive about the economy. i'm not necessarily hearing that from other economic advisers for the rest of the karen, about women that are facing unemployment right now, as we are looking to some of these terrible numbers? >> what we know so far is that there's been a disproportionate impact on women. it's been called a shesession, a nod to the mansession around the global crisis. this term is being used by the ceo or chief executive for the institute of women's policy research. after the payroll data crossed friday, 50% of the jobs lost were held by women. 15% from 3.1% in february. for men, it is tracking at 13%. a huge u-turn from what we saw earlier in the year, and

compared to december, where women had more payroll jobs than men. high transaction volumes means risk has been elevated for wall street banks. typically, wall street participants try to offset potential losses. some watching the bank say if volatility continues, you'll see the assets reduced by some of the banks. that's something we'll be watching very, very closely now. when it comes to life insurance, a hit from some americans who might be trying to protect loved ones in the worst-case scenario. what we're hering is insurers are turning away business from some americans that might be seeking the life insurance policies. the reason why is the drop you've seen in interest rates. typically, insurers invest the money from premiums to hlow-ris government bonds. the yield half of where it was at the start of this year. >> so there are not necessarily

people being turned away because they can contract covid-19 and there's no way to predict that? >> it's about reprising of risk. you saw it last time around the financial crisis. insurers, banks, weighing up what the cost will be to offer policies or services for financial services and insurance. typically, you have to cover the cost of offering the inthursura claims. if you can't get the money back in government bonds and low-risk investments, you have a hard time paying it out down the track. >> karen tso live from london. thank you, as always. great to see you today. up next, a look at axios' one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," a big show. 24,000 confirmed cases and 1300 related deaths. ohio governor mike dewine has been waging a tough battle against the coronavirus. he's going to preview the state's next steps to stop the spread and reopen their economy. "morning joe" is moments away.

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welcome back, everybody. joining me now with a look at axios am, the co-founder of a yoeaxios, mike allen. good to see you. talk to us about the one big thing today. >> axios one big thing is mike pence on mike flynn. on friday, i hopped on air force 2, the same morning they discovered that one of their staff members had tested positive. we flew to iowa with vice president pence. i had an interview with him there for axios on hbo. knowing that president trump had said he would consider bringing general michael flynn back into the administration, now that the justice department has moved to drop its charges against him, i asked mike pence, "would you be fine with that?" why this matters, is that you'll remember that lying to vice

president mike pence was one of the reasons the white house gave for firing mike flynn. mike pence opened the door to that. he said that he clearly had been the victim of prosecutorial misconduct, and he said that he would welcome the idea of seeing michael flynn again, calling him a great patriot. in this interview for axios on hbo, which airs tonight on hbo, on all its platforms, 11:00 p.m., we'll also talk to the vice president about wearing masks in the white house. i also will ask him about the jobs report. >> well, you can't tease me with that part and not give me the answer on -- as to whether or not the vice president believes they should be wearing masks inside the white house, considering how many positive cases that we've heard emerging in the white house over the last couple of days.

>> yeah, i think you maybe just saw a photo of the vice president which will give you his view of it. as you have seen, the white house has been very resistant to that idea. now, as we've seen on the show this morning, you have people self-quarantining, missing meetings, testifying at hearings remotely, conducting hearings remotely. it's an example of how, even while the administration is trying to drive a reopening message, a "we're on the good side of this conserurve" messag their own house, they're having increasing troubles, including now the president and vice president and a couple of their top aides being tested every day. a daily reminder, the coronavirus is in their house. >> and a daily reminder that tests are incredibly important. by the way, we'll be seeing more of this and talking more about this coming up a little bit later on "morning joe," as well. let's talk about another thing

that axios is reporting on. despite these unemployment numbers we're seeing, a looming recession, possible depression here, you have investors and money managers still expecting the president to win the election in november. talk us through this. >> yes, so this is fascinating. we're calling this big money on trump. this is the lead of the axios markets newsletter today. you look at the polls, and joe biden is winning in swing states which, of course, are the polls that matter. look at what money managers think, conversations on wall street. look what online markets are saying. they both are still, by notable margins, margins that surprised me, expecting a trump victory. this is based on the idea that as states reopen, we'll see a quicker recovery than it feels. >>let hope we do. i think everybody wants that. >> amen. >> mike allen, thank you.

>> have a great week. >> you can sign up for the newsletter -- you, too, my friend -- at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this monday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. i can tell you that i knew that he lied to me. and i know the president made the right decision with regard to him. >> the president has talked about bringing him back into the administration. is that fine with you? >> i think general michael flynn is an american patriot, and he served this country with great distinction in uniform and now, i believe, a decision by the justice department lays bare what was clearly prosecutorial abuse. for my part, i'd be happy to see michael flynn again. >> because you like working with people