we found ourselves in a familiar position this afternoon when it comes to president trump, asking both can he do that and did he really do what he said he did. the president taking a series of executive actions on covid relief, dealing with unemployment benefits, payroll taxes, evictions, and student loans. the president sending his team out in force on the sunday shows today. to defend this unprecedented power grab from congress when it comes to taxing and spending. democrats, meanwhile, point to the fine print that shows there's much less to the president's actions than meets the eye. >> i agree with the republican senator said, it was unconstitutional slop. >> it doesn't help when speaker pelosi goes out after every day and scarves flying and beats the heck out of us for being cruel people. >> while he says he's going to do the payroll tax, what he's doing is undermining social security and medicare. so these are illusions.

>> on average, dana, it will run through about $800. >> but the executive action says -- the executive action says $400, and that the state would pay 25% of this. you're talking about some other money that i don't know about. >> well, we will stand ready to repurpose if states put in a little bit more. >> all this comes as the nation passes a grim milestone. now more than 5 million americans sickened by covid. i'll talk to congresswoman brenda lawrence about all of this in just a few minutes. we're also on vp pick watch. a decision by joe biden could come at any time, as he zeros in on his choice for a running mate. here's what hillary clinton had to say about the choice just a short time ago on msnbc. >> he has to have somebody that would be ready to be our president, somebody that he wants to work with, and somebody who can help him win. and i think there are a number of people on that list who could

do all three. >> much more on that interview ahead this hour. right now, questions are circling the president after his signing of one executive action and three memoranda. are they legal, and how will they impact your life? let's look at what we know about the unemployment benefits the president is calling for. it's meant to provide $400 a week, states will be asked to cover 25% of the cost. the federal contribution would come from the department of homeland security's disaster relief fund, which has about $70 billion in it now. the president says the benefits will end when that fund's balance dips to $25 billion. but with about 30 million people unemployed is he essentially saying the benefits would only last a few weeks? for the payroll tax action, the president is calling for a delay in payroll taxes from next month until the end of the year for americans making less than $100,000 a year. but those taxes pay for the social security trust fund. and this could mean that

taxpayers will have to make up for those withheld taxes by paying for them in one lump sum in january. kelly o'connell joins us from bridgewater, new jersey. kelly, there are so many questions about where the money from the executive actions would come from, also whether the president actually has the authority to make these changes. >> well, what is clear is that the power to designate funding and to deal with taxes belongs to congress. that's for sure. and so the best solution would be to get a bill that the president could sign. in the short run, with negotiations falling apart, the president is using these executive actions to try to find ways to bridge the gap. so he is able under the law to move some money around. that's not the same as appropriating it, which belongs to congress. so that's part of what we're seeing here. moving money from an existing fund where it has not yet been fully spent to try to make these benefits available to the americans who have been counting on enhanced federal unemployment

benefits. it was $600. the president is saying $400. and when it comes to the payroll tax deferral, this would, in the eyes of the administration, give people more money in their paycheck, not having to pay that tax, pushing it off into next year. the president argues if he's re-elected, he would work to make that a permanent cut. that all remains to be seen. and secretary mnuchin, who is in charge of the treasury, says that while the payroll tax cut does fund important social benefits like social security and medicare, that they can take money out of the general fund to cover that. so those benefits would not be affected. but you get an idea of how complicated this gets and how sort of the cups are being moved around on the board in order to try to make something work. there are questions about whether there will be legal challenges. top democrats today were saying there are questions about

constitutionality here, but there were no leaders who were saying they want to race to try to file suit because there are other more pressing matters like trying to negotiate a deal. will they go back to a full negotiation? that remains to be seen. in the short run, the president is in some corners getting credit for doing something, and in other corners, getting a lot of criticism for pushing the boundaries of what his role should be, and will it even be effective? that's what we're all trying to understand today, what are these actions, can they work legally, and what effect would they have in real people's lives when there are issues of people having to pay their bills and when will they get funding? we don't even know at this point when they would be able to get that additional money. and as of next month, they might have a little more in they paycheck without that payroll tax being taken out automatically. >> and kelly, you had an exchange with the president about those enhanced benefits. let's listen to that. >> why did you decide on $400 when previously families were

receiving $600? that will be a hardship for many. what do you say to them? >> it's not a hardship. this is the money they need, they want, and this gives them a great incentive to go back to work. >> not rinne addressing the $200 disparity there, but are you hearing anything from administration officials about how he landed on the $400 number? >> they looked at it as a compromise. and there was always a lot of question about the $600 amount as it relates to people who are on the lower end of the earning scale, that that might actually be more money than they had been taking home. that's a small number of americans. and for many who have lost their jobs or are on furlough, for higher wage earners, that $600 a week has been essential. spoke to a family today that they have been relying on that, and without it, it will mean a real challenge for them to just deal with the basics and the essentials of their monthly bills. so the president is saying, by doing $400, that's help, but it

also would not encourage anyone to not go back to work because they had been making more. again, a very small number of people would be in that category, and frankly, some are offended at the idea that they would somehow sit out and not be willing to work given the scale of this crisis. jobs are hard to find now for people who are unemployed, so it seems like a compromise number. one that would offer more of a benefit than is typically seen, but less than families have been accustomed to having over the past four months. lindsey. >> kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you for breaking that down for us. and now, i want to bring in michigan congresswoman brenda lawrence. she's a member of the appropriations committee and the committee on oversight and reform. so congressman, first i want to get your reaction to these executive actions. do you feel the president is setting a dangerous precedent by u usurping congress.

>> i want to take you back to hurricane maria, in the midst of a disaster, people lost their lives, homes, and the president began throwing paper towels at them. i equate this to him sitting in his private luxury golf resort in the middle of a pandemic, a national emergency, and he just creates things. he's often challenged with procedure and knowledge of the law. but he took this opportunity to sign executive orders that we're all questioning the legality of it. i know i sit on appropriations. i understand how our tax dollars are appropriated according to the policies and the laws of this country. and i just want you to know that when you talk about pushing back taxes, because people are in need. they're not asking for this money so they can go out and buy a car. they're trying to pay their

bills. and if you're pushing back the bills that they would have to pay, tell his people to go back to the table and negotiate, because in the heroes act, we have an opportunity not just to push back payments of your mortgages and your federal loans but to actually give funding to aid you in paying those bills. i hear all the time that the $600 stopped people from going to work. but do you know, i heard and i hear from those families when there's no job for me to go back to. i worked at a casino. they're shut down. there is no job. and i still have my bills. i still have to pay for food and shelter. i still have to, you know, try to survive here without income. we have money that will address the digital divide, the broadband that we're trying to

educate our children at home, that the heroes act will address. >> representative, i want to ask you, so this is kind of a go it alone strategy that the president is trying to do, but according to some analysis from "the new york times," they don't think that this will help the economy at all, and in fact, it's not going to provide immediate relief. do you think that the only people who will benefit from these executive actions, essentially, are lawyers, because this is going to end up being litigated? >> they are the only ones. and i have to mention what a hardship this will be on our states. in the heroes act, we're actually giving money to our states and local governments. >> right, because states are strapped too, and they're expecting to now pay 25% of these benefits. >> so now they're saying find money that you don't already have. i don't see anyone benefitting from this, but i see so much hurt. the fact that our president is this arrogant and this naive of what the executive order can do, can't do, and how he's sending

out these false hopes to our community is unacceptable. >> representative, finally, i have to ask you about the veepstakes. joe biden, of course, picking a running mate very soon, within the week, we're hearing. do you have a preference? you obviously represent a district in michigan. are you hoping for a biden/whitmer ticket? >> well, the thing i'm most excited about is the caliber of the women. so obviously, i know my governor, governor whitmer. i endorse kamala harris for president. karen bass is my chair of the black caucus. and val demings is my colleague. i know all of these women. they're phenomenal. i need the president to pick the person that's going to be the winning -- the winning ingredient to this ticket. the person who will work for him, all of those women i know will be loyal. all those women i know are very knowledgeable. and capable of performing the job.

this is now for joe biden to bring in the right person to get the job done so we can win and stop these executive orders, stop the arrogance, and get a president who has compassion, intelligence, and the will to recognize he has the will of the people to take care of them. >> i don't know who it's more difficult to choose for, you or the former vice president. congresswoman brenda lawrence, thank you. >> thank you so much. have a great day. >> we are following breaking news out of north carolina, where an earthquake has shaken much of the state this morning. rattling homes, buildings, and of course, the people there. 5.1 magnitude quake. it was centered near sparta in the eastern part of the state. and it was the first earthquake to hit north carolina since 1916. no injuries are reported. we're looking at some images of the damage there. items knocked off store shelves. glass shattered in kitchens. folks in virginia, south

carolina, and tennessee say they felt the shaking. more protests are under way in beirut over what protesters say was government negligence that led to tuesday's deadly blast. lebanon's information minister announced her resignation today. becoming the first senior member of government to do so. this as president trump joined world leaders in a conference call this morning led by french president emmanuel macron, as part of a global aid effort to help the city. outside of monetary aid, the president promised last week he's now sending monitors to the nation on what action the u.s. might be able to help with. let's get to journalist rebecca collard on the ground in beirut joining me now. rebecca, protests going on behind you. what's the latest today? were they as large as they were yesterday? >> let me just first show you what's going on. you can see these are security forces in the street, beirut, they have pushed most of the protesters out of the center of the city with just a barrage of tear gas. so the protests were not as big

as they were yesterday, but there were a lot of people, thousands of people that went to the country's parliament to protest against the government. sorry, wee a little out of breath here, and they're still trying to clear the streets here. you know, lindsey, people are just so angry about this blast here on tuesday. and they absolutely blame the government for what happened. all day today, people have been telling me that they will not accept simply the resignation of the country's information minister. what they want is for the whole government to fall. they said that the decades of corruption and nepotism and mismanagement, that they have been suffering, that also led to this blast on tuesday that killed so many people, and really has destroyed the city. you can even see behind me, lindsey, just the rubble in this neighborhood. how many buildings are destroyed. so you know, there's still a lot of anger in the streets here tonight, lindsay. >> rebecca, thank you for that live update. be safe out there. >> coming up, zerlina maxwell

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continued foreign interference in our nation's upcoming election, former democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state hillary clinton spoke with msnbc's zerlina maxwell about what needs to happen between now and november to protect the integrity of our elections. >> when even the trump administration intelligence officials have to admit that there is so much activity coming from russia that is designed to help trump, then you know there's so much more than they're even telling us. i hope the press doesn't fall for it. i hope the press is vigilant and

incredibly skeptical about what's happening online. i hope the press covers the vulnerabilities of our election systems to interference, something that we now know more about than we did right after 2016. i hope that even republicans will find their patriotism, their conscience, try to force some of the classified information into the public arena so that people have a better idea about what's going on. and of course, the biden campaign and all of the allies it has have to be as vigorous as possible in refuting and rebutting all of the disinformation and flat out lies that we can expect the russians to be part of ramping up. >> and when asked to weigh in on joe biden's much anticipated vp pick, clinton pulled from her own experience back in 2016 saying it would have to be

someone ready to be president tomorrow, who can work with biden in good and bad times and who could help him win, but she was quick to highlight the role sexism plays in the campaign, as biden decides which female candidate will be on his ticket. >> there's still just so many filters that stand between women seeking public office, particularly at the highest level, and the press and the public. and we just have to keep ripping them away and making it absolutely clear that women are ready to serve. we have served. we are prepared to serve. and i think that, you know, any of us in the press or who have any kind of platform should be ready to really speak out and defend the woman that vice president biden picks because i can tell you the trump campaign has not been successful in the many absurd attacks that they have made on joe biden. they have tried just about

everything they can think of, not that they're going to stop because that's the only way they think they can win. but they're going to go after whoever he puts on the ticket, whichever woman, no matter how accomplished, and so i think all of us should learn from the past that there are these biases and attitudes about women seeking power. oh, my gosh, there's never been an ambitious man, apparently, at least i don't hear that word applied to a man. so we've got to defend the right of women to seek and hold power. and i think we're going to have a lot of practice on that as soon as joe names his choice. >> and joined by guest host zerlina maxwell. great interview today. i want to get your thoughts on her calls to defend the eventual pick from sexist attacks. we have already seen them. we just heard hillary clinton talk about one of them, the fact kamala harris has been accused of being too ambitious. what do you think the public would need to do and what did

you make of those comments? >> i think one of the things she said that stuck out to me was that we all collectively, women and allies to women and our autonomy and rights need to speak up. instead of maybe turning to a friend of yours and saying, hmm, that seemed a little sexist, tweet about it, post about it. start those conversations with the people in your family and community. so that we can all better understand how sexism manifests because to her point, you know, we're sort of away from the days where people are explicitly sexist. you still have that, obviously, because we're in the air era of donald trump, but in terms of how the media portrays women seeking positions of power, sometimes it's more subtle. >> do you think society has moved forward at all since 2016, because many felt sexism played into the clinton campaign? do you feel we have grown at all

in the last four years as a society? >> yes, i do. i do think we have grown. i think the existence of donald trump in the white house and the fact that he is so overtly sexist in some respects in terms of his rhetoric and policies, it puts it so much on the front burner, so we can all see it. we can all address it, and hopefully move forward in a much more progressive way. and so i think that we have made progress. but we can still make the same mistakes again, because you see that in some of the coverage already, and joe biden hasn't even picked the woman, and we're already criticizing the woman he hasn't picked yet. so i think to hillary's point, we all need to get information to quote beyonce, and essentially try to push back against narratives that we deem unfair or if we are viewing the candidate through a prism or a lens that is a different standard than we would with a male candidate. >> well, to russian interference, which we also

mentioned that you two discussed in your wide-ranging interview there, we heard it there, she hopes republicans can find their patriotism. it sounds like a lot of the onus is put on the press, the press needs to be vigilant, the press needs to be publishing this information, rather than the government of the current administration. >> well, i think she was focused on the press because she doesn't have any faith that the current administration will not use stolen documents, if that is something that potentially happens in this election the way it did in 2016, and they won't exploit that messaging because you saw in 2016 donald trump quote wikileaks and use stolen emails to essentially back up his message that hillary clinton was quote/unquote corrupt. and so in this election cycle, she has no faith that the trump administration is not going to use stolen documents because they have a precedent of that. the republicans are not going to

speak out because they haven't done so yet. and so now, we're just left with the fourth estate, the media, to certainly not amplify messages from stolen materials but also some of those materials, it's hard to tell if those materials are actually real and not manipulated by the hackers themselves. so it's just very important that we shouldn't use stolen materials in order to damage one candidate or another. and hopefully we'll get an administration that will take those cybersecurity issues seriously because, again, it really is about patriotism. it's not partisan. hillary clinton had recently said that china or iran could hack in favor of democrats, and against donald trump. so this is a threat to the entire nation, not just one party or another. >> zerlina maxwell, thank you for breaking down your interview with us, and good to see you this weekend on "a.m. joy."

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and despite those numbers, the state is barreling ahead with its school reopening plans. joining us now to discuss is nbc's chris pallone in winter garden, florida. how is florida planning to get students back? >> hi, lindsey. it's really on a district-by-district basis. the only real rule coming down from the state is school districts must offer some sort of in-person instruction in their school buildings during the fall. now, i'm right now in orange county, florida. this is the orlando area, one of the largest school districts in the state. and they're set to reopen tomorrow. but you will not see any school buses or parents dropping off here out in front of this high school because for the first nine days the entire district will be going to school online. and then, on the 21st, panchts will have the option of bringing their children to school. there was a deadline last month. take a look at the numbers. this district has about 212,000 students. parents had to choose whether their students were going to

come back to the classroom or continue to learn from home for the entire semester. and as you can see, 67%, the overwhelming majority, are choosing to keep their children at home. at least for the first nine weeks this semester. the other remaining 33% will be sending their children back to school here on the 21st. this is not without controversy, as you might imagine. despite all the assurances from school leaders this is going to be safe, there's going to be social distancing, masks and sanitizer, they're bracing for infections and how to deal with those. right now, there are three lawsuits in the state from various teachers unions challenging the state mandate saying that students have -- that schools have to open up to let students back in to the classrooms. we spoke with one of the leaders of one of the teachers unions who explains why they're concerned. >> virtual education, distance learning, is not optimal. it's not the way we want to teach our kids. we want to have that magic

created between the teacher and the student. but given the circumstances that we have, it's dangerous. it's life or death right now. and people from cafeteria workers to bus drivers to paraprofessionals and k-12 teachers should not be putting their lives on the line trying to educate kids. >> obviously, the first day of school is usually a very exciting time for parents, teachers, and students, but just like everything in 2020, here in florida it's very uncertain as parents try to do the best for their children and school districts do everything they can to keep people safe, but districts have opened in places like georgia, indiana, and even in the first week, they're already starting to see infections. so we'll have to see how it goes here as schools start to reopen in the different counties across florida over the next couple weeks. >> all right, chris pallone in winter garden, florida, thank you so much for that. among the president's new executive actions, one deals with the issue of eviction.

the president claimed in his news conference he was extending the federal moratorium on evictions that lapsed late last month. the reality is quite different, though. in that it merely calls for top officials to consider whether an evection's halt is needed, and it doesn't provide any aid to renters. now, a new report from a group of housing advocates and researchers has found in the coming months, up to 40 million americans could be at risk of eviction. 40 million. that's compared to an average of 3.6 million a year before the pandemic. joining me now is rent strike organizer and virginia resident sammy borna, and dianeiental, ceo of the coalition for low-income housing. thank you for being here. you're currently facing eviction from your home. you have kids, a family. you mentioned in a "washington post" article a judge has given you a 60-day extension to pay your rent, but you don't have a job. without those extended

unemployment benefits, how would you even do that when that 60 days is up? >> yeah, the fear so far day and night, me and my family, and some of our neighbors, we discuss it on a daily basis. actually, before the pandemic, you know, we go through this crisis with the bills, and some other family expenses, so during this time, it's really a difficult event to think about. especially when it will happen. it's really uphill. when i went to the court the first day, the 60 days kind of gave me a window to grieve, but now the 60 days started running out. we started counting down. my fear, you know, with two kids and my wife pregnant, 5 1/2 months now, and a job has still not come, and unemployment as we

know is expired. so it's something that's a nightmare for me and a lot of my residents here, the people who have been organizing together to try to find a solution during this pandemic. what we're going to do with our kids. you know, and that is only to be evicted from a house with two kids, you know, that's another crisis to be out in the street with the kids, no place to go. that's one of the crisis and nightmare with this right now. >> diane, i want to get your reaction. why do you think the president stopped short of extending the eviction ban? >> well, i don't know why he did, but he certainly did. he had the authority to extend an eviction ban at least on federally backed properties, and he chose not to. and the executive order that he signed this weekend is really nothing more than an empty shell that creates chaos and confusion and it offers nothing more than false hope to renters who are at

risk of eviction because that executive order does literally nothing to prevent or stop evictions. and unfortunately, sami is not alone. it's very clear that if there is not a significant and sustained federal intervention, there will be a tremendous increase in evictions across our country. we estimate anywhere between 30 million and 40 million renters are at risk of losing their homes before the end of the year if congress does not act. >> just an astronomical number. sami, how many of your numbers have signed on to this strike, and is your landward willing to work with you, even if you can pay a little bit to stay? >> well, this complex we're living in, i have so far close to 500 tenants to w.h.o. have signed a petition to our campaign to continue to fight for rent cancellation. so far, you know, in the last

week, i was in the courthouse helping some tenants to get back extension for 60 days. what they're offering is to come with 25% of your rent and the rest the end of the month. and the second offer they gave to us, which is to pay 25%, you know, with a signed agreement, and six months period, and that's only for one month. so to us, it's kind of not kind of like help to offer someone who doesn't have a job, doesn't have an income, and unemployment is ended, so that is not a help to the landlord to help the tenants to stay in their homes. >> right, where is that money supposed to come from anyway? diane, before i let you both go, according to your research,

congress needs to include at least $100 billion in emergency rental assistance. how long would that help renters for? what month would that take them through? >> well, if congress were to both implement a uniform national moratorium on all evictions for nonpavement of rent and provide at least $100 billion in emergency rental assistance, as the house has done, and passed these provisions not just once but twice, if congress were to implement it and enact these provisions, we could keep low-income renters stably housed for up to a year. so during, and perhaps even a few months past this pandemic depending on how long it goes. >> okay. sami, we wish the best to you and your family. diane, thank you for joining us. thank you both of you. coming up, the lawsuit that could end the nra. i'll talk to a filmmaker who went inside the fight against the nation's oldest gun rights group. oup.

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lawsuits against the national rifle association and its charitable arm, the nra foundation, continue to create a stir this weekend. the suits both announced thursday by the new york and washington, d.c. attorneys general include allegations of misuse of funds and fraud and abuse. the new york a.g. is seeking to dissolve the nra entirely. four current and former nra executives including ceo wayne lapierre, named in the new york

suit, and are accused of using the corporation as a, quote, personal piggy bank that contributed to a loss of more than $64 million in three years. the details mentioned in the suit match up with what was laid out in a recent pbs frontline documentary on the history of the nra. why it is under fire now. >> a lot of people around nra looking to be rich. can't imagine any other nonprofit in the entire country that has a similar mission where people are making so much money. >> joining me now, there director and producer of that documentary, gabrielle shaunder. what did you hear in the new lawsuits that lined up with what you found in producing the doc? >> you know, in a lot of ways, we weren't entirely surprised by the information in these lawsuits, this confirmed much of the reporting that our film lays out and that the nra has, you know, in fact been, you know, at

the forefront of so much sort of criticism, really going back over the last 18 months of this investigation. so weren't surprised, but certainly the magnitude of what the attorney general in new york state is going after was a bit surprising. >> the documentary goes in depth in how ceo wayne lapierre was a big part in transforming the nra from a gun and safety training group to the political lobbying group we know it as today. can you talk to us about lapierre's influence and whether this lawsuit could do anything to change his standing in the organization? >> i think it absolutely risks his future as executive vice president of the nra. you know, wayne lapierre has spent his entire professional career at the nr arb. the nra is synonymous with wayne lapierre. he first joined the nra as a young congressional staffer in the late '70s. this is pretty much the, you

know, sort of the greatest crisis that wayne has faced in over three decades running the organization. >> what are your thoughts on the possibility that the nra could be dissolved? do you see that as a real possibility, and what would be the impact of that? >> certainly 100 days out from the election, it's a pretty intense issue. i think that there's grave risk here that the nra's future is in jeopardy. but like all things in our political atmosphere right now, it's an incredible partisan fight that i think we're going to witness for the next several weeks. ultimately, a judge is going to rule on whether the nra will be dissolved, but it's pretty incredible that this close to a presidential election, which the nra has forever been funneling tens of millions of dollars into, that we could be talking about, you know, an nra that is truly, you know, under fire and

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one person is dead after 20 people were shot at a large gathering in washington, d.c. authorities say multiple shooters opened fire shortly after midnight sending people running for their lives. several people were taken to the hospital in critical condition. police are still working to identify those responsible and no arrests have been made. to north dakota now where thousands of bikers are attending an annual motorcycle rally that may be largest pandemic era gathering in the country. local officials predicted up to 250,000 bikers could attend this rally in an area where, as you see, there's no mask mandate.

kathy park is in sturgis. what is the situation there today? >> reporter: good afternoon to you. in speaking with city officials the other day, they said that the turn out, so far, is on par with last year and clearly if you take a look behind me, this is main street and you see a line of motorcycles and it really stretches for several blocks. this is day three of the rally and there is no slowing down. because of covid, they've had to make some adjustments. one of the big headlines is the lack of social distancing and wearing masks. here in sturgis they say they couldn't mandate this and statewide in north dakota, masks were never required and they never issued a stay at home order and infection rates compared to other states have remained relatively low.

this is a pretty large gathering. we had an opportunity to talk some folks on the ground and ask them about potential concerns about being in such a large group in the middle of a public health crisis. here is what one rider told us. >> did you have any second though thoughts? >> no second thoughts. folks wants to exercise their freedoms. i know there's a mask and there's a pandemic but if you want to wear the mask, wear the mask. if you don't, don't. i see people wearing the masks. i see other people don't. i think it's a freedom of choice. >> reporter: this rally dates back to 1938. they are celebrating the 80th anniversary and some say that might explain why so many people are out here marking the occasion regardless of a pandemic. we're told by organizers, the only time they took a quote, unquote pause from the rally was

back during world war ii. >> thank you. 66 students tested positive for coronavirus during iowa state university's first week back. this is out of more than 3,000 who were tested upon coming to campus this past week. half of the infected students will remain in isolation on campus and the other half chose to isolate at home. 7 people are quarantining after one of them tested positive for the virus at notre dame. north carolina, duke university is opening a hot line to report students not following coronavirus safety rules. the hot line is dacalled duke speak up. it comes after a sorority event at a packed off campus house. we have much more in our next hour including the fall out from the president's executive action on covid-19 relief. the very latest on joe bind's vp search and how the

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district attorney. how new developments in a legal case could spell big trouble for the president. st. louis cardinal shortstop joins us to talk about testing positive for covid and what he thinks of major league's baseball plan to keep players safe. remember this viral video of a bride caught in the explosion in beirut. later this hour, we will hear from her. let's break down president trump's new executive action. he signed one and three mem ram dun appearing to encroach on congress's power. it's all likely to be met with legal challenges. let's take a deeper dive with our panel. josh letterman and former federal prosecutor and nbc legal analyst paul butler. thanks to both you have for joining us. josh, the president already getting push back on the morn talk shows. we heard nancy pelosi calling this unconstitutional slop. what can you tell us about the bush pack? >> both sides really a