systems opening up. >> the rest of our discussion at meetthepress.com. that's all for today. thank you for watching. we'll see you next week because if it's sunday it's "meet the press." another staggering measure in the coronavirus crisis. the united states has now surpassed 5 million confirmed cases, and the global tally is closing in on 20 million. also, president trump announces new executive actions meant to deliver aid to americans impacted by this pandemic, but even some republicans are criticizing his move. and joe biden is set to be closing in on his pick for a running mate. the stakes are high and could potentially make history.

good monday morning, everybody. it is august 10th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've investigate a lot to cover this morning. we want to begin with the u.s. surpassing 5 million covid cases. the alarming tally has doubled since late june. right now the country holds about a quarter of the world's cases while topping the list for most reported coronavirus deaths globally. so far five states account for more than 40% of infections nationwide. hot spots are continuing grapple with rising cases like florida, which just yesterday reported nearly 6,200 cases and set a new weekly record for covid hospitalizations. over the weekend, california confirmed more than 10,000 deaths since the beginning of the crisis, and texas, more than half a million.

meanwhile governor cuomo announced new york wants t ed n epicenter, reported an outbreak. over the weekend, coronavirus relief upending congress after they failed to make a deal with the white house. announced from his new jersey golf club included deferring payroll takes for those making less than $100,000, defer student loans through 2020, discourage evictions, and extension unemployment benefits to $400 a week. the federal government will only cover 75% of that covet with the other 25% falling on states. here is what trump's justification was for that decision. >> why did you decide on $400

when previously families were receiving $600. that will be a hardship for many. what do you say to that? >> this is not a hardship. this gives them a great incentive to go back to work. >> so the legality of trump's broad orders is now the next hurdle for the white house as democrats are calling the president's latest moves understand constitutional especially involving payroll taxes. yesterday they walked back trump's previous comments that he would look to extend the deferral and terminate the tax which funds medicare and social security. you have lawmakers expressing concern over the president's new executive orders. senator ben sasse of nebraska putting out a statement reading in part, the pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is

unconstitutional slop. president obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with daca, and president trump does not have the power to unilateral ly pay. senator lindsey graham tweeted over the weekend that while he appreciated the president's actions he would, quote, much prefer a congressional agreement. and majority mitch mcconnell said he supported the president exploring his options for getting relief to the americans and then accused democrats of, quote, as he puts it, sabotaging the back room talks with absurd demands that would not help working people. and here is how top democrats have reacted to the president's executive action. >> what the president did, i agree with what the republican senator said. it was unconstitutional slop. while it has the illusion of saying we're going to have a moratorium on evictions, it

says, i'm going to ask the folks in charge to study if that's seasonable. while he said he's going to do the payroll tax, what he's doing is ujds mining social security and medicare. so these are illusions. >> unfortunately the president's executive orders described in one world could be paltry. in three works, unworkable, weak, and far too narrow. >> so joe biden also weighing in with a statement writing this. this is not art of the deal. this is not presidential leadership. these orders are not real solutions. they are just another cynical ploy designed to deflect responsibility. some measures do far more harm than good. joining me now, jackie alemany. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> where are we now?

is there room for negotiations? could they come to some sort of consensus when it comes to relief measures and putting something in place, and do you think they ar going to take these executive actions all the way to court? would that bode well for them. >> all of that is up in the air. i think what they're trying do is get republicans to vote to agree to come back to the table. that's what you heard nancy pelosi and chuck schumer ask republicans after the weekend announcements, but, you know, trump had the rare skill of ticking off both parties at the same time with this slate of executive orders and memorandums, and as you just showdown, republicans also aren't happy at what they perceive to be expansive use of presidential power and believe that, you know, congress has the power of the purse and that the legal apparatus in which the president can actually appropriate yat this money is pretty questionable right now. and on the democratic side of

this, there is hesitation about whether or not these announcements actually do anything for americans as house speaker nancy pelosi said. you know, the eviction moratorium as the president called it, she's asked hud to look at doing something with rental assistance, it doesn't necessarily extend the moratorium. the other big sticking point is the enhanced unemployment insurance. president trump is asking state governments to cover 25% of that, which is just untenable for a lot of governors. you know, governor cuomo came out immediately on sunday and said there's no way states can contribute $100 to that because state budgets have been totally decimated by the coronavirus as well. so i think that there are enough hardships and enough criticisms from both sides that congress might be forced to come back to the table to try to hash something out. >> the problem is i wonder if

the president knew what he was doing because if the democrat december side to take this thing all the way to the court, that could feasibly hold up, for instance, this $400-plus that americans could be getting with the unemployment insurance. that's down $800 a month versus what they were getting before when it was $600 a month. nonetheless, if they take this to court, democrats could seem as if they were holding up the payments, which wouldn't necessarily bode well for them either. >> that's a great point, but at the same point, i do think republicans are in just as precarious a situation as well with a number of vulnerable republican senators who for their re-election also need to be under the appearance of being productive and getting people their benefits. but you're right. democrats are in a tough position. republicans have, you know, successfully messaged over the

past week that democrats are holding up this payment, this piecemeal measure, but democrats continue to argue that $400 is just inadequate. so are a lot of these other measures. for example, an eviction moratorium, democrats argue, doesn't do much without rental assistance. you know, 30 million to 40 million americans are on a mortgage cliff right now. without being prepared with rental assistance, democrats believe the action doesn't really do much. same thing with payroll tax cuts, disproportionately benefits corporations, cuts from medicare and social security, so there are a lot of question marks here. >> a lot of question marks. that's putting it lightly. "washington post's" jacqueline alemany, thank you. stay close. i'm going to talk to you again in a little bit. as you heard, lawmakers on

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one of the things i've learned, chuck, at the white house, is the statutory duties we've been able to. do i'm confident every one of those will stand up. if you look, for example, at the eviction and foreclosure language, in your opener there, you noted the words "shall consider." that's how you write it, but everybody knows in that

bureaucracy you damn well should do it, and they will. >> that was white house trade adviser peter navarro on "meet the press," refuting the claims by a lot of lawmakers as i mentioned earlier that the executive orders that the president signed on saturday, they are, in fact, unconstitutional. in addition to eviction and foreclosure languages as navarro mentioned, he said the president has the executive order to institute through the treasury department. also he noted the lord and founding fathers created executive orders because of partisan bickering and divided government. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning, danny. good to see you on this monday morning. >> good morning. >> i want to start with the basics here. what is the constitutional basis for issuing executive orders? >> nobody's really sure. the constitution doesn't each

speak of executive orders, and congress hasn't really defined what they are, but we know they exist because presidents have issued them and the supreme court has addressed their constitutionality, and basically the supreme court looks at whether or not the executive order is founded on either the constitution or congressional statute. and then they use this three-part analysis. either the president is acting hand in hand with congress, in which case the executive order has power. sometimes he's acting where congress has expressed no opinion one way or the other on the topic, and he's sort of in this middle area, and then sometimes the president acts against congress's will in which the supreme court says his powers are at its lowest ebb. so the fact that congress is already coming out against these executive orders demonstrates that either the courts or congress itself can pass them

withouten presidential authority. >> doesn't that fact alone make an skpebive order that allocates money fail the constitutionality test? >> yes, but look at the sorcery involved with it. in some cases it doesn't in the case of payroll tax forgive it or forgo it forever. the president doesn't have the power to do that. congress has the power to levy taxes. the president can staal them, put them off, delay them for up to a year, i believe, but he cannot get rid of them completely. so you have to look at the small print of this executive order because what the president is saying it does isn't really exactly the same as what the constitution and the supreme court will allow him to. do and congress, i should say. >> all right, danny cevallos, my friend, thank you as always. good to see you this morning. still ahead, everybody, the

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well. although cdc reports show fewer children have died than adults, a study shows children may be carriers of the virus just as much as adults are. meanwhile pressure to keep schools open amid the coronavirus pandemic has been intense in some states that are struggling to maintain this outbreak. in florida as governor ron desantis pushed to reopen schools, they were instructed not to give school boards advice on reopening. school board members said they felt compelled to reopen classrooms despite serious misgiving about about exposing students and teachers to the coronavirus. in georgia, students and staff members have reported testing positive for the virus. north paulding high school drawing attention after students

posted videos of students and teachers without masks in tightly packed hall ways. and governor cuomo said schools across new york state can reopen for in-person instruction this fall if the rate of infection in their communities across the state remains low. so the "washington post" is reporting that white house chief of staff mark meadows is skeptical of the scientific con senn does from the two visions guiding the pandemic effort, dr. deborah birx and dr. anthony fauci. that is according to senior officials and other people briefed on the internal discussions. the officials say meadows has repeatedly requested the validity that wearing face masks helps contain the spread of co-vand has regularly raised with fauci and others a range of issues on which he thinks fauci has been wrong. officials add that when he catches fauci sounding out of sync with the president he

admonishes fauci to stay on message and has advised that they should not suggest restrictions or make policy in the media. okay. let's switch gears and get a first look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you, bill. good to see you on this monday. >> what has science does for us, yasmin? science hasn't done anything to advance life. i know. we're into the dog days of summer, i know it. we're in the parker of hurricane season. that's always important. this time of year. if we don't have hurricanes, it's just hot and we get tired of the humidity out there. we have heat alerts for 40 million people, areas from southern new england including new york city and boston. we have another region from st. louis to memphis to little rock to greenville to tupelo. and this is how it's going to

feel this afternoon. kind of similar to yesterday too. memphis 1rks memphis, 106, shreveport, 104. even new york city will feel near almost 100 degrees. tomorrow it's really brutal down along the gulf coast. nashville will feel like 100. we'll start to see heat increasing in areas of the mid-atlantic region. f toward the end of the week, the heat breaks. d.c., 98. if you want great weather, go to chicago. temperatures there northeasterly 80 degrees all week long. as fang as severe storms, you've been waking up in the middle of the night through minneapolis, south dakota. later on today, kansas, st. louis, springfield, that area could have isolated severe storms or flash flooding. keep the umbrella for later on today. as far as the rest of the week goes, it's been dry in new

england. that's going to continue along with the hot conditions. we'll see storms in areas from the midwest all the way to the southeast. you guessed it. it's august. hot and humid for most of the country. you're actually lucky this time of year if you get a little bit of rain. >> triple digits in some parts of the country. incredible to see. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, we're digging into intelligence interferen interference. russia is sabotaging biden. also what we know so far about biden's upcoming vice presidential announcement. we're back in a moment. vice presidential announcement. we're back in a moment start your day with secret. secret stops sweat 3x more than ordinary antiperspirants. with secret, you're unstoppable. no sweat! try it and love it or get your money back.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with a new intelligence report that shows president trump is denigrating joe biden to reduce his election chances. that's according to a top official at the national intelligence security center who on friday released information about foreign interference. the report also found china has been expanding its influence efforts in november and would prefer trump does not win, but officials said chinese leaders have not yet decided whether to weigh directly into the presidential contest. the report also found iran wishes to seek intervenes and divide the country. although "the new york times"

was told russia is the bigger threat. when asked, here's what president trump said. >> mr. president, intelligence said russia is already meddling in this year's election to hurt joe biden and china is considering that way to hurt you. do you believe in that intelligence, and what do you think about it? >> it could be. i think the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump. >> that's not what -- >> i don't care what anybody says. >> so in light of the intelligence report, national security adviser robert o'brien was pressed on whether the president confronted russian president vladimir putin about meddling in u.s. elections. >> when president trump spoke to vladimir putin july 23rd, did he tell him to knock this off? >> the president's told the russians and we've told the russians, our counterparts, many, many times not to get

involved in the election. >> but did president trump tell president putin -- >> what i don't get involved in unlike my predecessors, i don't get into the conversations the president has with foreign heads of state, whether it's russia or france or the uk for that matter. those are private conversations. what i can tell you, we made it very clear to the russians, very clear. no administration has been tougher we've sanctioned hundreds of russian entities the troll farm. >> the message clearly wasn't received. did president trump say to vladimir putin knock it off this time? >> margaret, there's almost nothing we can sanction left. we put so many sanctions on the russians -- by the way, the prior administration didn't do it. we sanctioned the heck out of the russians, individuals, the companies, the government. whether it's related to anyone. we've kicked out scores of russian spice. we've closed down their consulates on the west coast,

their diplomatic facilities. there's not a lot left we can do with the russians. >> joining me once again with "washington post" "power up" jacqueline alemany. i do not believe the president trump said to putin knock it off, and we've seen that publicly. not only has he not said to not interfe interfere. he says it again on the podium the other day when asked to react to this new intelligence report in which he says, jackie, i don't care what other folks are saying. this is what i believe. how are lawmakers reacting to this report? >> like we've seen over the past four years as you've pointed out time and time again as the president has denigrated, disparaged, and really denied the findings of the intelligence community, we're not hearing much from the lawmakers.

you know, their argument being that china favoring president trump is not the equivalent to active interference in the way that the russians meddled in the election in 2016. you did have senator marco rubio, the head of the senate intelligence community on the republican side call for, you know, an investigation into this, to look a little further for a briefing, but republicans receiving a briefing from even nina earlier on all this information that he just publicly revealed, and we haven't heard any posback from it. i think what we're seeing is republicans mored about placating the president who s you know, always lashes out when a republican pushes back against him for not listens to the intelligence or saying that, you know, the russians actually did interfere in the 2016 election

and actually just, you know, really calling the facts for what they are. >> will this have any impact, do you think, from your perspective, on the election? >> completely. i mean i think you're seeing it happ happen, impact in many different ways already. tim more tock, the president's spokesman, was like, you should look at the interference the joe biden campaign is running. you're seeing senator ron johnson who your correspondent has done excellent reporting on, actively engaging and soaking up this disinformation from foreign actors. the power of these campaigns is that they are done relatively

subtly by russian actors through social media, and, you know, getting into the bloodstream of a lot of the literature and talking points that i think lawmakers, sometimes even unknowingly pick up. that's why you have house democrats who also called for a briefing for all lawmakers to hear from the intelligence community about what kind of intel and classified information is acceptable to, you know, be taking in, and then, you know, spitting out to the public again. i think, you know, it's not partisan or political to say that no one wants a repeat of 2016 or to imperil our democratic systems, which is exactly what the russians are trying to do roit now. >> that's exactly what's happening right now. "washington post's" jacqueline

alemany. thank you, my friend. joe biden is close to picking his running mate. we're told he could announce his final decision sometime this week. biden has already passed several self-imposed deadline, but his only real deadline is the democrat iks national convention which begins, by the way, august 17th. nbc confirmed governor whitmer traveled to delaware last weekend to meet with former vice president joe biden. kamala harris and former national security adviser susan rice are also under serious condition as well. sources also say elizabeth warren and tammy duckworth could not be counted out. anybody's guess. still ahead, how donald trump blurred the line between president and business owner while largely ignoring safety precautions. we're back in a moment. we're bat

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welcome back, everybody, to president trump's unscheduled news conference that appears to have been for show for members of his golf club. they walked in with no masks until they were eventually handed out before the president arrived. social distancing guidelines were all ignored. the club official told everien to spread out a bit because tweets were going out. the president played to his audience. >> you said the pandemic is disappearing, but we lost 6,000 americans this week, and just in this room, you have dozens of people not following the guidelines in new jersey, which say -- >> it's political activity.

you're wrong about that. it's a political activities that has exceptions and it's also a peaceful protest. as you know -- [ cheers and applause ] >> -- they asked if they could be here. you know -- to me, they look like they all pretty much have masks on. you have an exclusion in the law that says peaceful protests or political activity, right? yeah. it says political activity or peaceful protest, and you can call it political activity, but i'd call it peaceful protest because they heard you were coming up and they know the news is fake. they understand it better than anybody. they asked whether or not -- they asked whether or not they can -- >> so it's unclear why the president staged this unannounced event. but here he is addressing them

just before the news conference. he was caught on a hot mic. hello, everybody. hello, everybody. we're going to do a live press conference. you can come in and see. you'll see fake news tonight. you'll see what i have go through. all my killers are there. wow. so you'll get to see some of the people we deal with every day. it's like a history lesson for your children. tell your children about it. we have a lot of good news about the economy, a lot of good things happening today, otherwise i wouldn't have a press conference. enjoy it. we'll be at it in a little while. they'll be coming in about 15 minutes. thanks a lot, everybody. enjoy it. let's go to meteorologist bill karins with the weather. before we get to the weather, let's go through the covid

numbers as we start a new week. as we know, on mondays, there's a bit of a slope reporting from a sunday. but nonetheless, we're still seeing numbers spiking, especially in areas of the south and west. >> yeah. you're exactly right. the weekends are a little quieter, mondays are a little quiet eric and the higher numbers are tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday too. as we went through this huge crest -- some say we never got off the first wave. we had one bump in april. now it's confirmed the july peak was 69,190. we see where we are. it's coming off a little bit. right now the seven-day average is around 54,000. we've taken 54,000 cases lower than the recent crest and on sunday we had 47,000. still compares that to april, it's like double what that crest was, but you get the idea.

as far as fatalities, yesterday, 535 deaths reports. some don't report the fatalities on the weekend. that's why that number is lower. that's why we do the seven day average. it gives you a better idea. the seven-day average is 1,036. that's about 100 lower than what we peaked at with the second bump last week. we'll see if that holds, if it continues to creep up. as far as it holds, it's the dog days of summer. it's hot. you get afternoon storms. usually you don't get tornados this time of year. we're going to see a lot of afternoon storms hit and miss right through the end of the week. we're pretty nice. i think the great lakes has some of the best weather all week long instead of the mild conditions, hot and humid conditions. the heat will be on through the end of the week. as far as the tropics go, there's a chance we'll have joes feechl we're onto our jay-named

storm. it's way, way out in the atlantic. in the next couple of days, it's still going to be drifting through the open water. we're not concerned with it. don't be surprised if you hear in the next day or two josephine has formed. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, a look at the stories drien driving your business day and in changes to the postal service that some democrats say are to undermine the election ballots ahead of the election. we're back in a moment. the ele. we're back in a moment here's your iced coffee! ♪ america runs on dunkin' sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you.

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welcome back. postmaster general louis dejoy continued his sweeping overhaul of the postal service by shifting the executive structure. according to a memo released on friday, the two top executives overseeing day-to-day operations have been displaced, and more

than 20 other executives were displaced of re-assigned. he was pushed to rescind cost-cutting efforts that are creating significant delays in mail delivery. it includes mail deliveries and overtime play. bloomberg reports additional changes are intended to complicate the delivery of mail-in ballots for the upcoming election. let's turn to business now. pfizer agreeing to manufacturer gilead's groundbreaking work on remember december fin. >> pfizer agreeing to manufacture and supply remdesivir which is made by rival gilead. what we leerned is it can help

shorten the recovery period for hospitalized patients, gill yanld reporting recently it wouldn't be able to manufacture enough of the treatment drug to meet demand, so pfizer stepping in. pfizer has been and pfizer has been working on a potential vaccine for coronavirus. and in other news, amazon is in talks to speed up the service. there are reports in "the washington journal" that it's been talking to simon property group about repurposing j.c. penney's as fulfillment centers. that would mean having less traffic through the mall, which is essential to doing business but it would get a reliable tenant and finding paying tenants is challenging at this stage. so amazon might be a decent

tenant for simon properties. but we're not hearing anything affirmative right now. >> you just talked about businesses collapsing because of the coronavirus crisis. you're also seeing millennials hit hard by the economic collapse. what can you tell us about this? >> they're bouncing from one crisis to the next. particularly for this demographic. if you think about it, they came into the workforce around the time of the last financial crisis so struggling to attain jobs and the move up the career ladder many still hanging onto debts, including student loans, personal loans but you're seeing more job losses so it's thought it may hamper their ability to a attain wealth that came with previous generations. there's concern that this generation that was not buying cars or owning homes could be

hurt worse now financially. >> thank you so much karen, good to see you this morning. up next, everybody. a look at axios a.m. and coming up on "morning joe," top democratic senator chuck schumer will be our guest. we'll ask the senate minority leader if he expects negotiations to resume. "morning joe" is moments away. "morning joe" is moments away.

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welcome back, everybody. joining me now political reporter for axios, hans nichols. good morning to you, hans. give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> our 1 big thing is looking at how president trump is trying to lure vice president joe biden, the former vice president into a tax trap. it reminds us of walter mondale in 1984 where he said he was going to raise taxes on everyone, he was clear on that. what the president is trying to do is trick joe biden into that moment. so far joe biden has avoided it.

his statement on what the president is talking about, as far as executive orders and having his payroll tax cut, having it be litigated and le e legislated after the election, biden is talking about the importance of social security and seniors. clearly this week the trump campaign is going to try to push the biden campaign into coming out with some position about that. this is interesting because it's after, right, our taxes will be going up after the fact because if, in deed, this is the constitutional question, if companies withhold payroll taxes for the next couple weeks, months, then there will be a decision in december on whether to claw those back. that's the exact debate the trump campaign wants to have.

y yasmin. >> it is difficult. give us context especially when it came to obama and roll back certain tax cuts that bush put in place. but that god side lined until 2013 when he had to adapt some of those. >> yeah. >> it's difficult for the president following to do that sort of thing. >> once tax cuts are baked in, it's difficult to repeal them. no one knows that better than barack obama and joe biden. they campaigned on repealing the 2001, 2003 bush tax cuts they said it was all for the wealthy. when huh a couple deals in 2010 and 2012, basically what the obama administration did but joe biden was part of, they said we'll make the tax cuts permanent for any family making less than $450,000. that's an expansive view of the middle class. i know you have chuck schumer on here a little bit and he has argued about where the line should be. but 450,000 is where it was

baked in 2012. we'll see whether biden wants any limits on this, the payroll tax cut. the president said it's for those less than 100,000. we need to be clear on this. this will be litigated. this is not just going to be litigated in the courts. it'll be litigated in board rooms. can you imagine any company looking at their payroll saying the president has done this, here's the legal order, what do we do? do we withhold taxes? do we do that knowing this could all snap back and our employees could be on the hook in december under a joe biden presidency? do we wait for the courts to settle it out? no one is going to stay neutral in the 2020 election, everyone has to declare sides and that includes board rooms. >> quickly, hans, i know that axios is reporting that senator

elizabeth warren, hillary clinton expecting to speak the wednesday of the democratic national convention, i believe that will be august 19th or so. what more can you tell us about their speeches and the importance of that date? >> we're probably -- i'll be honest here, we're reading a lot into speeches days and who comes when. we've reported wednesday night you have senator warren, former secretary of state clinton, giving big solo speeches. wednesday night is traditionally the night you have the veep come out and make the strong case for the veep conditionandidates. the challenge for the democrats, how do you put something on television for two hours of live television for four nights that's both compelling, creative and importantly they can't make

mistakes. that's no small task. they have a lot of speakers lined up. we're trying to figure it out. we'll have a busy week trying to figure out calendars and schedules. and then when's the veep, who's the veep? hopefully i'll have some scoop for you some time in this hour this week, but i can't promise it, yasmin. >> i know you will. i have confidence in you hans nichols. thank you. good to see you. i'm going to read axios a.m. in just a bit. you can read it too at signup axios.com. that it does it for me, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. >> entitlements are on the plan? >> they will be. we have tremendous growth. this next year, toward the end of the year, the growth will be incredible and at the right time we'll take a look at that. >> earlier this year president trump hinted at cutting entitlements and ove