geoff: 7,000 coolers. lemonis: what are the top skus you sell? geoff: the 12-pack black.you have in stock right now? strud: honestly, i do not know how many black 12-packs we have in stock right now. lemonis: how many do you have? geoff: zero. lemonis: you don't think that's a thing you should know? how many 12-pack black coolers do you have in stock today? strud: oh, christ, come on marcus. not right now, man. lemonis: here's the funding. here you go. here's some money. essentially, they've piled up a bunch of cash in their warehouse in different areas and don't know what they have. and anytime a company does this, it essentially puts themselves out of business, and they don't even realize it. this inventory that's sitting around needs to be, first, organized, and second, if there's too much of something, it needs to be liquidated. if there's too little of something, it needs to be ordered. you think your [bleep] looks together? strud: for my knowledge, i know what's here. lemonis: okay. so, i want to hear from your sister. brett: you were doing just fine, just fine. eve

geoff bennett, stand by. this morning we are starting to see those meat shortages that we've been talking about play out in the real way. first of all, if you go to costco, that store limiting how much meat you can buy each trip. wendy's reportedly taking burgers off the menu at some locations in several states. the move comes as the plants that we rely on to process meat are seeing coronavirus outbreaks across the country. nbc's mara barrett is in pennsylvania, about 40 minutes north of philadelphia. she's at a jbs beef plant that temporarily closed after an outbreak there. there's this new cdc report showing that pennsylvania has the highest number of meat processing plants with workers affected by covid-19. what does it mean for americans looking to buy meat? what does it mean for americans just looking for some sense of norm normalcy? >> reporter: craig, the cdc says there's a low likelihood of the virus being spread on frozen meat or packaging. but americans should think about where the meat is coming fr

geoff, i'm going to start with you.hat is the level of anxiety inside the white house this morning? >> reporter: good to see you, as always. i think kevin hassett, the economic adviser captures it best, he has a reputation among all of the public-facing white house officials as being among the most candid and yesterday on one of the sunday shows, he said it's scary to go to work. he realizes that he would be safer sitting at home than he is going to the west wing, given that as you point out, there are now two white house aides who have tested positive for coronavirus. you've got the military valet to president trump and also katy miller's, vice president mike pence's press secretary. they're boosting temperature checks and testing. senior staff who interact with the president are being tested daily, i'm told. and the entire west wing is being sanitized on an even more frequent basis. you've got the country's top three health officials all now self-quarantining in some form, that includes dr. anthony fauci and the heads

let me put this one to linda from geoff.14 days, i comply. a short time later i get another call from my employer saying he or she isn't happy, can't go on sanctioning this is my employer under any legal obligation to comply with the instruction for me to self—isolate or could i be sacked? so the government has issued guidance for employers. again, zoe mentioned the gov.uk website so he should have a look and there. a couple of things i would say, the first one is that employers are going to recognise that in order to continue to release lockdown, employers have to comply with this as well. the government is definitely expecting that. so geoff will not be dismissed and that is unacceptable for employers to do that. the second thing is, if geoff tests positive or alternatively he is advised to self—isolate because he is a contact, there will be verification of that. he will have proof that he will be able to forward to his employer by e—mail or other means, text message, to show them that if he is concerned. the third and i t

a colleague geoff bennett has more on that for us. good morning to you, some i friend.e biden been saying on this? >> reporter: good morning, alex. for weeks, as you know, many democrats had urged joe biden to issue a more forceful response to that sexual assault accusation. now he has done just that. he has flatly and emphatically denying the allegation that dates back nearly 30 years. >> branding a new sraovaccine aspiration warp speed, clinical trials will begin on 14 potential vaccines. fast tracking a process that may produce a patient ready vaccine as early as january. no guarantees. >> reporter: that of course was the story done by my colleague kelly o'donnell. i'm told we have the correct package now, and i think we can play it. >> actually, i'm getting from our executive producer that the tape is not quite ready, geoff. i'm sorry about that. but give me the synopsis version of all that joe biden said. look, i, along with a lot of other people in this country, watched joe biden's interview. it went on for 20 minutes with our colleague mika brzezinski yesterday.

tool to fight the virus crisis annette, you spoke to the ecb board member this morning along with geoff and karen really seems like he's keen to the flexibility of this purchase program. what are the implications that he's trying to convey to markets in terms of the flexibility of this particular tool >> actually, the flexibility of that tool is key what they want to achieve with that is to avoid fragmentation of the eurozone. which is something else if you spike in italy and spain because investors start to bet on the debt stability then the ecb can directly intervene in these markets without taking care of the capital gain and normal asset purchase program it is the whatever it takes approach, once again flexibility with all respects when it comes to allocating the funds to specific countries or bond markets. also size matters. he was stressing that and also the size matters he didn't want to say no to a potential increase of the funds. he was also saying that most likely the funds, they need to be bigger in order to keep the credibility at a higher level. take a look at the potential

professor at financial law and gunnar beck mep and geoff as well this morning. let's check the markets for the reaction to this we are seeing a broad-based rebound throughout the morning you can see holding on to gains for the most part, we have the german index trading about 2% higher and the ftse mib as well. taking this decision in stride, we have seen the market cut gains a little by offering some negative territory around the ecb and effectively that would be the ruling saying it partially violates and a bit of a compromise coming through. we'll take a quick break, coming up, drtrading troubles weigh on bnp. we hear from the cfo after the break. need help like never before and wells fargo employees are finding ways to do our part. by helping people stay in their homes, through mortgage payment relief efforts. helping local businesses in their vital role in the american economy. and helping hundreds of local organizations provide food and other critical needs... when you need us, wells fargo is here to help. there are times when our need to connect really ma

geoff is also with us this morning. sir, thank you very much for joining.you've shown great agility in this crisis reading about different initiatives. converting taxi drivers to grocery delivery drivers, setting up disinfection points for taxis. what kind of cost is involved in being able to be so ago i'ile ae there for your customers >> as you can imagine, the volume in trips in ride hailing has come down as a result of the lockdown in russia two months ago. we tried to do everything in our power to find alternative employment or opportunities for these drivers. what we noticed is a massive up tick in demand for these off line retailers we started approaching those including grocery chains, home improvement and toy stores with the proposition of, hey, you can leverage our platform we've built using these drivers to deliver packages for you this has been a tremendous success and volumes have grown look at our grocery business, that has grown 6 x since january. food delivery has doubled year on year. what allowed that to happen is that we are all working re

/china political face-off here with the details is geoff cuttmore >>> good morning frances and philiprt higher according to the futures but the chief economist in china says this spat with china and the united states is only going to become larger as a concern for investors. he says not only is the disagreement over coronavirus and trade, there will be other issues perhaps that come to the fore as we get closer to the u.s. presidential election a big factor that investors need to keep an eye on. we all know habits changed at home but according to con viva, streaming has lept we've seen a 60% increase in global streaming on demand viewing up 80% and fascinatingly, roku seems to be the leader in terms of providing television streaming services. i, for one, one person whose streaming habits have gone down and i guess that's because they've suspended live sports. but a lot more people are watching a lot more things back to you. >> we're making up for what you're missing out on, geoff it's what we talk about. who is watching what these days. >> things you never watch otherwise. >>> straigh

geoff: look, it is an asymmetrical relationship. like to hear this but the reality is that australia depends more on china than china depends on australia. supplier ofy big iron ore but one reason why that trade has gone so well in the last couple of years is because brazil has had major problems. he is unable to put volumes in the market that china wants, so china turns to australia. my concern really is, increasingly, beijing look at australian things, who cares about the relationship -- thanks -- -- , who cares -- thinks, who cares about the relationship? our economic future is deeply tied up with china, so -- china's economy. it is more than that. china is a great power in the east asian region and there is nothing we can do other than advancing our security and interests in the region unless china is supporting it or at least acquiescing. shery: heading into the november presidential election here in the u.s., we will most likely see a more offensive president trump when it comes to china and his constant attacks on beijing. ho

i'm julianna tatelbaum with geoff tut more, these are your headlines. >> china's parliament secures a new law with hong kong it brings the territory more closely under government control as riot police continue to try and contain protests in hong kong >>> the eu commission unveils a 750 billion euro recovery fund executive vice president tells cnbc urgent health is needed >> no country is left behind in this proposal. what is left behind is the ability to this crisis due to the higher debt levels >>> lufthansa trades higher despite doubts over its bailout amid disputes with brussels. easy jet sees green amid the plan to cut up to 30% of its work force >>> shares of the skand avian airline says it needs more funding to fly with 95% of its fleet still grounded >> this has caused government to close their borders and make it impokt to conduct business it's also needed that governments step in to try to help to restore this industry. >> a warm welcome to "street signs. let's get right into our top story of the morning china's top legislature has formally passed security laws for hong kong

>> geoff bennett live for us in d.c. speaking of dr.'s legal team, i'm joins by lisa banks, wi one of the attorneys for dr. rick bright. i wanted to start with that complaint because it alleges that hhs officials were unlike secretary azar, dr. bright and other health officials were fully aware of the emerging threat of covid-19 by early january of 2020. what specifically were they aware of and what was dr. bright's response to that at the time? >> well, by late 2019, late december 2019, early january, they certainly were aware of what was happening in china. they were tracking it. they understood that this was potentially a deadly virus, very contagious and that it wasn't going to be easily contained. certainly not in china as it quickly spread to southeast asia. but that it was certain to come to the united states as well, despite what the administration was saying and what hhs leadership seemed to think. >> do you know if whether or not that information was privy to dr. bright based on internal government information or was he relyin

geoff bennett, first to you. the new safety protocols. you saw dr. deborah birx arriving today with a face mask. what about the challenges, especially to the national security staff? these are very small offices, downstairs in the white house basement, over in the executive office building. how are they going to accomplish this safely? >> reporter: it's a great point you make, andrea, because privately, white house officials have expressed this notion that, really, it was only a matter of time before coronavirus showed up here in the west wing, in part because, you know, the white house might look vast and sprawling on television, but in fact, these are fairly close quarters. and it wasn't until late last week for the most part where you saw white house officials wearing masks while indoors. but you do have now the west wing really trying to scramble to contain the virus. testing and temperature checks have been boosted across the board. folks who are in frequent contact, senior staff who are in regular contact with president trump, they are now test

we are talking about the recovery and turn around of this company back in 2004 i kid you not, geoff and i sat around and had philip green telling us why his bid was the best then stewart rose talking about why the strategy was the best. i remember when they turned down and said, no we want to stick with the current management steve row has inherited a very different company. the fact of the matter is, this is a fact in both share price terms and market scope and share terms, m&s has been on a restructuring down tick my entire career. i started in the city in 1988. let's look to the future as well there are big challenges for this company one to turn around general merchandize, home wears and clothing two, to have a response to covid-19 and to bounce back when it opens more of its stores. and third which was the restructuring plan looking more at food operations and online delivery with that interesting carter retailer outline. they are pretty late to the online delivery party. they could execute two out of three of those two challenges, one to turn around in a long-term decline. two to

patel and geoff bennett. garrett haake, to all of our contributors, kristen welker and kasie hunt and pete williams as well. chuck todd and katy tur are going to pick up our coverage right now. >> thank you, andrea. good afternoon. i'm chuck todd. breaking news all over the place. senator richard burr is stepping down as the chairman of the senate intelligence committee pending an investigation into potential insider trading as senior law enforcement official confirms to nbc news the fbi executed a search warrant for burr's phone as part of that investigation. we'll have more on that decision in a moment. the ousted top vaccine expert, dr. rick bright is still testifying on capitol hill. he's been telling congress that he believes the worst is yet to come for the united states and without proper planning, quote, gent 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history. >>> two administration officials say the cdc is expected to release new guidelines today for states to reopen schools and businesses. parts of

geoff bennett you have been digging into this whistle-blower. what began as him saying i've been dmoemoted over politics. i was shoved out of this job over the hydroxychloriquine ente. then he paint a much more damning response. >> reporter: he paint a picture on inaction and negligence on the part of the trump administration. lawyers for him say that case is made plain and simple. from 2016 until a couple of weeks ago was the head of the government agency that is invested in vaccine research and development for infectious disease outbreak. he said he was pushed out of his job. reassign tods a lesser role at a different agency bauds he pushed for a more thorough vetting. 89 pages. it's dense and detailed. we have been dissecting it and distilling it. one of the remarkable things is we have seen part of what rick bright alleges in public from the president's own mouth in those old coronavirus task force briefings. we saw him embracing it as a coronavirus miracle drug. dr. bright says behind the scenes there was this effort by some of the politica

joining us is the new ceo of medtronic geoff martha, thanks for being with us today. >> thanks for having. >> all right reported earnings yesterday morning. want to start there. certainly we saw a profit and revenue decline pretty significantly year on year, but where you did raise that dividend, why? >> well, look, it's two reasons. one, it's our commitment to returning capital to our shareholders but also a sign of our financial strength at a time right now when many in our industry are raising capital, we're out there raziisn our dividend it's our commitment to our shareholders. >> yeah. in terms of the non-covid part of your business, certainly we've seen deferred procedures and a lot of focus from the investor community on the reopening efforts we're seeing take place, not only in the 50 states right now as phase ins begin to happen but really around the world what are you starting to see in terms of a comeback and where are you starting to see demand for your products tied to those procedures begin to tick up? >> well, the -- i would say the recovery, we're seeing definite signs of

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geoff bennett is there. this community is one of the wealthiest african-american communities in the country. does this show that higher income levels are not the kind of buffer we thought they were? >> that's precisely what it shows, steph. we've reported extensively about the ways in which this coronavirus has had a disproportionate toll on communities of color. african-americans make up 13% of the u.s. population but they make up 30%, roughly one-third of all coronavirus related deaths in this country. that slow rolling tragedy is the same in new york, philadelphia, chicago, milwaukee, louisiana, oakland, and here in prince george's county, maryland, which is among the wealthiest black enclaves in the country. it's been that way since the late '70s, early '80s. public health experts point out systemic inequities show up in health inequities no matter how much you make. they also have doctors, police officers, other professionals who have not been able to socially distance or quarantine themselves because t

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we have it all covered starting with nbc's geoff bennett. >> reporter: tonight a dire warning from dr. anthony fauci. reopening the country too soon during the coronavirus crisis will cost lives. >> there is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you might not be able to control, which in effect hypwill set you back, not only leading some suffering and death that could be avoided but could even set you back on the road to economic recovery >> reporter: a reality check from the nation's top infectious disease expert which stands in stark contrast to president trump's push to reopen the country. tuesday's senate hearing unlike any before with the witnesses and many senator senators appearing remotely by videoconference. four of the nation's top health officials responsible for the federal response, dr. fauci, cdc director robert redfield, fda commissioner stephen han, and admiral brett jarar offering their assistance dr. fauci assessing it's a bridge too far to expect a coronavirus treatment or vaccine by the fall school semester. they could not say when they will release in

we are going to be asking you to geoff the train.orter: surety workers and city officials were on hand to offer help. >> this is the last stop. you have to step off. reporter: but this woman had no idea where in the city she was. the confusion and anxiety written across her face. the destitute have been amongst new york's most vulnerable. over the weekend, to homeless people were found dead on the subway. >> homeless people of right now in new york city have a 50% higher mortality rate from covid-19 then housed new yorkers. by not offering people something as simple a hotel room where they can be self isolating and safe, we are relegating them to die. reporter: it can feel like we are living in another time of, but he can you spare me a dime?? just as a face mask has become a symbol of the viral contagion, cues have become the market catastrophe. thiss at a shelter in lower manhattan. it's not just the homeless who are hungry. it is the newly jobless as well. >> there are folks at this line who in the beginning of march were employed

nbc's geoff bennett now with the latest on all of it now. geoff, good morning. >> reporter: peter good morning to you. the april jobs report shows in brutal detail how much the coronavirus crisis has pummeled the u.s. economy. as you mentioned, you've got the unemployment rate soaring, the u.s. economy shedding more than 20 million american jobs. it's the fastest and sharpest downturn in u.s. history. this morning, devastating new jobs numbers as the coronavirus crisis delivers yet another economic gut punch. more than 20 million jobs lost in the month of april according to the department of labor. the biggest decline on record. the unemployment rate tripling to 14.7%. the highest level since the great depression. >> i'm basically at my breaking point. worried, nervous, scared. >> few corners of the economy or country were spared. although some groups felt the impact more than others. with 19% of hispanic workers, 17% of black workers and more than 15% of women now unemplo d unemployed. dawn was laid off from her job as a medical technician

wall street extend this win streak and for those looking for new jobs, who's hiring let's bring in geoff you, francis and these markets irrepressible. we take out 3,000 on the s&p and then just a day or so later we get the dow pushing through this 25,000 number and if you like we'll call this lockdown lifting euphoria clearly people are optimistic that the economy is going to bounce back with a v shaped recovery but hang on, we do get those claims numbers today and the expectation from the labor department is it will be in excess of 2 million filing for insurance for the weekend last week that now takes us to not far off 40 million americans losing their positions through this covid-19 period. that is not good news. maybe some brighter news, we are going to hear from people that are going to put out a list of jobs available for those who are looking right now. they're the kind of temporary jobs, maybe just a stop gap but at least an opportunity to get back to work and put some money back into the bank account >> good to hear with those tough numbers to digest. thank you. >>> a look back

let's go to geoff bennett at the white house right now. what's the read?d like to underscore and amplify a point you made in that this is rare testimony. this the first time the country is hearing from the nation's top four health officials who were charged with the federal coronavirus response in an unfiltered manner away from the close and careful gaze of president trump who at times during previous coronavirus task force briefings has either cut off or redirected some of these answers. but a couple of headlines here, because this was this point of bipartisan agreement on the testing front, as you mentioned, lamar alexander, the republican of tennessee who chaired this committee said what our country has done so far on testing is impressive but not nearly enough. we also heard from the top democrat of washington, she said we need dramatically more testing. it's unacceptable we don't have a national stranl plan to make sure testing is fast, free, and everywhere. that stands in stark contrast to what president trump told me yesterday in the rose garden. he

at all that policy higher levels are going to determine our monetary policy at all >> let's bring geoff into the conversation it is interesting to hear there around fiscal policy not only on the national side but at the european level with the commission to present their proposal for the eu recovery fund he said on the one hand that fiscal policy isn't going to affect the bias. as we've heard from madam lagarde, there clearly is a push to take more of a burden here. what was your take on the vice president's comments this morning? >> absolutely. it is something we've heard over and over again, haven't we since the gfc in 2008. it was mario draghi beating the drum andencouraging government to embrace governments and reforms and create more head room for exactly these kind of eventu eventualities to meet these crises we have this crisis many governments fixed their roofs. we are in the die lema where the ecb is left holding the ring here to try and keep down borrowing costs for those peripheral members italy, as annette pointed out, is square and center as the forecast mentioned debt to g

let's bring in our guest geoff is also going to join the conversation jim, thank you for joining us this morning you've conducted this annual study for 22 years pretty impressive. what is the key message for investors out of this year's study. >> hi, thank you for having me on the key message, we've been in a super cycle of low defaults. i think the creative destruction regime has been thwarted by heavy introduction relative to the economic outlook. we've got so much debt in the system, wir nervous about wide-spread results. and even nor nervous about huge debt burdens the policies put in place to prevent the defaults defaults will probably get to a normal recession and probably lessen in europe defaults massively depress to the shock and that's the key message. >> that is really fascinating when we think about what all of this means that has kept low and sometimes negative properties coming with the pandemic, they are getting even more stimulus coming what does that mean? perhaps all of these companies that shouldn't have been kept alive should be kept alive in the future >> there is a

something you and karen and geoff and i spoke about. that is a decline but still healthily in double digits way above what we saw in the financial crisis these are scenarios and examples the fact that the financial system is working and the bank of england seems a little more bullish about the strength of recovery plus the fact that they are willing to put more money in the system in june, if needed later to support the guilt purchase and the markets by and large, i would say this is neutral to slightly larger today. back to you. let's get over to markets and see how equities are holding up. you've got the stoxx 600 trading about 0.4% higher. now we have a little red, patches of red on the board in auto, travel and leisure the german dax leading up about 60 basis points. this follows a slip from yesterday of the main banch mark down 0.3%. travel and leisure has been in focus. we've heard about some earnings and meaningful comments around what to expect around travel iag doesn't expect passenger demand to return until 2023. we are lookin

. >> geoff is now with us. you conducted this interview last night with the president of the euro area. it is all well and good to have this recovery plan but speed really matters here. what was your sense speaking and discussing this problem? >> obviously they are going at the right speed but there is frustrations still about the pace at which they are still moving how quickly can they move through that eu leader's meeting where they talked about focusing on some sort of shared deb burden paper to the idea that there was a trillion euro idea fund but it was very slow i asked the president about how the lending terms would last and what would be the detail for companies or countries, she said it is too early for that kind of information at this point which suggests that it could be weeks and weeks before we really see something put together that can then start to provide financial assistance for companies in the process. frustrating, i would say in terms of how it is going to be assessed by those who continue t

but first, we can cross to ian bartholomew and shelley king who portray geoff and yasmeen. and we owe them, we owe something to them. we have to be as real and as honest as we can be. teresa and women's eight have introduced us to people and told us stories that have inspired us to tell the truth. ian mcleod, our producer, has been so supportive and opened doors to us and we can talk to these people. it was a great challenge, but i was going to say i have enjoyed it, but enjoying is not the right word. i have been grateful and have relished the opportunity to open people force my eyes to this almost stealth sort of abuse. an eye-opener is a really good way of describing it because the progression has been very slow in this relationship. it started off very slowly and there has been that slow chipping away of that confidence and reducing, i don't wa nt to confidence and reducing, i don't want to say the word normal, but a normal relationship into something which is quite horrible and cruel. that is right, but through the research we have done and the people who have spoken t

davis,e, geoff breckenridge, benjamin and other prominent officers of the confederate government, crossed the mississippi one miles above four to adams. lieutenant general longstreet accompanies them. there is no doubt whatever the truth of this information. this message was sent may 12. davis was captured may 10 in georgia, nowhere near the mississippi. stillngstreet himself was in virginia. so things can get a little confusing for the end of a war. and actually on may 24, longstreet asks permission to visit washington dc unimportant, private business. may 25, longstreet would take the amnesty oath, but he was presidentialhe proclamation, lincoln's proclamation on amnesty and reconstruction in 1863. exceptions included high-ranking military officers and all who resigned commissions in the u.s. army and navy to join the confederacy, both of which applied to games long street. longstreet would be granted his pardon in june 1867, and all political disabilities were removed by act of congress june 24, 1868. longstreet is going to leave 1865,urg on june 26, accompanying him his eight tj aide,

his comments echoed some real leadership geoff gundlach have been saying hang on. we're waiting for this economy to work its way out and while there is good news on the disease. there's good news there. we have to invest based on numbers. the numbers seem to be getting worse. i watched him for decades. you wait the hear for the buffet news that he's been adding to this stock or that stock people used to say ta poor old warren buffet, he doesn't get tech anymore maybe he's past his prime because these dot coms are the wave of the future he usually gets the last laugh i figure he does this time it's a good word of caution. take your time and if you're going the buy, be opportunistic and make sure there's some real there there to get you through perhaps what could be a more difficult market >> yeah. >> nothing happies the heart more than an 87, 88-year-old man who is still investing for the long term as warren buffet is. rachel, let me turn to you michael said there's good news on the disease front yes and no there's good news in the sent therese there's a fast emerge

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geoff bennett has the story. >> reporter: the push for a coronavirus vaccine put on the fast track. >> we'd love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year. >> reporter: president trump unveiling a new white house effort he says is aimed at developing and districting a vaccine for the deadly virus. >> it's called operation warp speed. that means big and it means fast. >> reporter: mr. trump tapping a four-star army general and pharmaceutical expert to lead the effort. >> i have very recently seen early data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine. and these data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. >> reporter: the trump administration's end-of-year goal outpaces what most experts believe is possible, that it will take 12 to 18 months to develop test and produce a vaccine and that anything less would be a medical miracle. >> i just want to make something clear. it's very important. vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. >> reporter: experts say the u.s. will not fully be able to reco

my colleague geoff bennett saw dr. birx here wearing a mask. so she is still present. but i think there's a big emphasis in the white house to try and carry on the perception of business as usual because the official message is still, we're reopening the economy, we're preparing for a second wave. the worst is behind us. >> what more are they doing to keep people safe? they were already doing an enormous amount of testing. >> well, they -- >> unlike the rest of us. >> they were, but they're going to ramp that up. mask wearing. people who are in close proximity to the president throughout the day are now supposed to be wearing masks, though i will tell you, i've seen a number of people on the white house grounds and campus not wearing masks. so people who aren't in contact with the president don't need to wear them. but still choosing not to do that. and increased cleaning. and then, of course, temperature monitoring. they are asking people additional questions about if they've experienced any symptoms before going into the gate. as we've seen, only so much you can do.

we'll talk now to geoff barton, who's the general secretary of the association of school and college's the founder of oasis community learning — which is planning to re—open all 35 of its primary academies next month and why do you think it's safe to reopen on the 1st ofjune? and why do you think it's safe to reopen on the 1st ofjune? firstly, cani reopen on the 1st ofjune? firstly, can i say have the greatest respect for all those who have concerns around safety, i share those, but the second thing, however, although for some children they have access and they are safe and sound and they are being well fed through the lockdown, that's not true for many of the children in our schools, 45% of the children in our schools, 45% of our children should have free school meals but the system to deliver them has failed completely. many of them don't have gardens, they are shut up inside in small, damp, overcrowded conditions and this is an incredible strain on them and their parents and their mental health and we are being asked by pa rents to health and we are being asked by parents to reope

let's go to nbc's geoff bennett in pg county with the latest. what's going on there? >> katy, to put context around this, we reported extensively about how this coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately hitting communities of color. that's the case in new york, in philadelphia, in new orleans, in chicago, milwaukee, detroit, oakland. navajo nation which we don't often talk about has the third highest infected rate in the country. new york, new jersey and navajo nation. to talk about what's happening here, prince george's county is a case study in how this pandemic is hitting marginalized, historically marginalized groups across socio economic lines. prince george's is -- has the highest number of wealthy african-americans. it's among the richest black enclaves in the country. about a ten-minute drive from washington, d.c., and yet pg county has the highest infected rate in this region and has among the highest death toll. earlier today i spoke with the county executive. i asked her that question, why? why is that the case? here's some of what she told me. >> so we ha

geoff barton is general secretary of the association of school and college leaders. all i would like to get your reaction to that a bbc survey that we have been telling our viewers about. 68 of the english councils questions said they couldn't guarantee wider reopening of the schools to reception, year one and year six pupils on the 1st ofjune. is that broadly in line with the sort of things you have been hearing, the sorts of conversations you have been having with schools? it is. ithink conversations you have been having with schools? it is. i think there have been so many bits of swirling speculation about this. i think it is important, while the government had ina is important, while the government had in a basin from the 1st ofjune two up and in england, it had already built in a cheque that it was going to say on the 20th of may it would make that final decision. what we are also seeing is that if you are in liverpool, if you are in hartlepool, where the infection rates appear to be greater than say london, then public health bodies there are going to make deci

of tonight on booktv random hughes asks several authors such as david brooks, and martha stewart to geoffdresses to the class of 2020. and brad thro is fee stewart ode series that focuses 0 well-known authors in the booktv archives. we examine the greg business of collecting and selling consumer dat. find more information on your program guide, or online at booktv.org. >> hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us tonight. i'm benjamin quinn. on behalf hoff harvard book store imexcited to welcome you to this event with noah feldm

. >> we have to get our country open, geoff. >> did you say, sir, the metrics you will use to make thats right here. that's all the metrics i can do. >> worry about a pandemic at this point? >> no, we're not at all. we have it totally under control. it's one person. we have it very well under control. by april, in theory, when it gets a little warmer and miraculously goes away. when it gets warm, historically that has been able to kill a virus. that's around the corner. that will be a great thing. numbers will get progressively better. you go back three months ago or six months, nothing would have predicted. when you have 15 people and 15 in a couple of days will be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done. no, i don't think it's inevitable. people say he should do more. there's nothing more we can do. we haven't seen an increase and people are getting better. almost everybody is gettingever. the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. they can't even count their votes in iowa. they tried the impeachment hoax and this is the new hoax. but we've did something that's

let's speak to geoff barton, general secretary at the association of school and college leaders.lf thousand school and college leaders who are by definition control freaks. too much of this is out of our control and what we are seeing is that there is some knowledge around science that we do not have and we have to have the reassurance about that. one bit of surprise that was announced last night by boris johnson is that we are going to have social distancing in schools, if we are going to have that, and it is happening in other parts of the world, that makes it surprising that the first show did you bring it to school is the very youngest, the year onejordan, school is the very youngest, the year one jordan, the ones school is the very youngest, the year onejordan, the ones who will find it hardest to understand in the teacher to be owed to control that. it seems that, whilst of course that isa it seems that, whilst of course that is a mission to bring children back in as appropriate when it is safe, it would have made more sense to bring the year five is back in, it would have

hi, geoff, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah, good morning to you the coronavirus is hitting closer to home in washington, on capitol hill and here at the white house where staffers say they are taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of the president after two aides tested positive for coronavirus. that's with three health officials self-quarantining, all of it undercutting the message that the outbreak is fading. this morning the coronavirus crisis affecting both ends of pennsylvania avenue. white house sources shooting down reports that vice president mike pence, who chairs the coronavirus task force, will self-quarantine after his top spokesperson katie miller tested positive she's also married to one of president trump's top policy advisers stephen miller. white house official telling nbc news the vice president continues to test negative and has no restrictions to his schedule. on capitol hill lamar alexander will remotely chair a hearing on safely returning to work and school after one of his staffers tested positive. three of the top witnesses for the hearing, dr. anth