with that, nicole wallace? >> god, i thought you were going to start me up there with the blue angels, which summons thoughts of how this crisis has spoken to and brought out the best of so many americans. our front line health care workers, and every sort of -- the millions of acts of caution of people staying home. and then the second-most powerful man in the world revealing himself in this video as a coronavirus truther or at least a mask truther. he's also much closer than 6 feet. i mean, to touch an elelbow, yo have to touch something. he's closer than 6 feet. forget he's the vice president. this is the kind of human being that repels me in the grocery store or the walmart. i don't want to be that close to anybody while we're still at this phase of the pandemic. so the president and vice president have really revealed themselves as this wacky combination of conspiracy theorists, quack medical proponents and truthers. he either doesn't believe that the mask is keeping people safe or he doesn't think that ru

at long last nicolle wallace is able to talk to us and be seen and heard. nicolle, welcome back.sed, in addition to our scintillating conversation and razor sharp coverage, the pictures of mike pence with the head of g.m., mary barra, on the factory floor, kokomo, indiana, and now the chair of the white house coronavirus task force has worn a mask in public. >> yeah, so, you know, it never ceases to amaze me how driven every single step and every single action that the president and vice president take are by the press coverage. he's not wearing a mask because his test was different. i'm sure it was negative as it was the day he went to the mayo clinic without a mask. he's wearing a mask today because the press coverage was, you know, on the spectrum from scathing to mocking that he wasn't wearing one. so they have proven response to the press coverage yet again. i did catch something phil rucker said and i'm struck by the reporting and the rationale for taking the presidential package which is i think what you were getting at in your question to phil rucker. it's thousands of pe

as with all afternoons here at this time period, i'm joined once again by my colleague, nicolle wallace. nicolle, maxine waters apparently announced on the house floor her sister is dying of coronavirus, hospitalized in st. louis. so for an increasing nexus of americans, sadly, this gets personalized. >> you know, in my program every day with some of the people who have lost their lives and it now knows no age boundary. it doesn't know the difference between people with political connections and it doesn't care about time zones. it's a scourge and it's so sad that we have to spend as much time as we do with the fights between politicians. usually, most days it's been between trump and his advisers, his science advisers. today it's between mitch mcconnell and a republican, a very republicany republican calling him reprehensible and shameful and the democratic governor of new york who's basically telling the state of new york, the world's coronavirus epicenter to drop dead and fend for itself. it's a tragic health crisis and a disgraceful political moment in this country. . so that's what

nicolle wallace will join us shortly. we begin with the latest facts as we know them at this hour. as of now, there are over 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the united states. almost 59,000 americans have died. the actual numbers are far higher because less than 2% of americans have been tested so far. there is promising news on the fight against coronavirus. gilead science and the national institutes of health say the results of trial say that patients given rem ems veer recovered quicker and left the hospital sooner than other patients. the nation's top infectious disease doctor says it's reason for hope. >> we think it's really opening the door to the fact that we now have the capability of treating, and i can guarantee you, as more people, more companies, more investigators get involved, it's going to get better and better. >>> president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner told fox news today he expects much of our country to be, quote, really rocking again by july. he's getting roundly criticized for this assessment of the administration's pandemic

i'm nicolle wallace.e'll be talking about the presidential race now that bernie sanders has dropped out in just a moment. but we begin with the coronavirus. we're starting to see the impact on the different states and the effects those actions by individual states are having on case loads and death tolls. so far more than 418,000 confirmed cases have been reported across our country, and the death toll nationwide has reached more than 14,000. the actual numbers are likely fob far higher, but we don't know for sure because of on going issues with testing in many places. some states including new york and louisiana have reported their highest daily death tolls so far. but a different story appears to be emerging in california which was one of the very first states to enact strict social distancing laws. the university of washington's institute for health metrics recently revised its projections to show california reaching its peak earlier and with fewer deaths a day. last week's forecast called for 5,000 to

so happy to be joined for this hour by my colleague, nicole wallace, and nicole, walk us through what you think the white house thought process might have been. we've gone two weekend days without the usual daily briefing and absent whatever public education comes from the coronavirus task force news conference every day, are they engaging in a fiction that perhaps a different donald trump is going to show up in the format of a news conference today? >> well, all that they have is the fiction. there is no thought process. there is no strategy session. there is no staff in the traditional sense of a white house staff. there is donald trump and the reflection of himself in cable news coverage. and i'm not even -- it's not clear that he reads a lot of print coverage, but he sees clips of print coverage as they're discussing cable news coverage and on social media. so that is what navigates every single decision, every single public utterance and every move by this white house, and notable to me is that they still haven't used that room -- the white house briefing room or the rose garden,

i'm nicolle wallace.s the coronavirus pandemic continues its spread, there's staggering new data out that could impact the all-important decision on how and when we reopen our country. today the world reached another grim milestone. more than 2 million cases globally. more than 600,000 of those cases are here in the u.s. where nearly 30,000 americans have died. and in a dramatic reversal, president trump said yesterday he's now fine with governors deciding when to reopen their own states after stating incorrectly that he holds the ultimate authority on that front. as the debate continues over how and when to reopen, there's new evidence that the projected u.s. death toll could have been dramatically lower had he enacted social distancing measures one or two weeks soot sooner. two ep deemths say if social distancing restrictions had been put in place earlier, the death rate would have topped out -- those epidemiologists are warning of the importance of learning from that mistake. in that same op-ed they wr

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i'm nicolle wallace. this afternoon there are now more than 660,000 cases of coronavirus here in the u.s. and more than 33,000 people in this country have died. the rising death toll comes against the backdrop of another disturbing number out today. more than 5 million americans filed for unemployment benefits for the very first time last week, adding to the virus' overwhelming economic toll. the total number of americans out of work now stands at 22 million since the pandemic shutdowns began. besides those dire jobs numbers, there's also increasing concern over the toll the virus is having on teachers and students and education overall. in new york city t, the epicent of the outbreak in this country, at least 15 department of education employees have died from the virus. 21 of them were teachers. another 22 were teachers' assistants. at home the virus is exposing a massive dividing line between families who can and families who cannot provide students with the equipment, the attention, the technical expe

i'm nicole wallace.ll continue to follow the breaking news that british prime minister boris johnson has been moved to intensive care. he's being treated for coronavirus. we'll go back to london in a few minutes on that story. in the meantime, as our nation braces for what could be the worst week yet for the coronavirus pandemic, we'll get a reminder that president trump still isn't over his own impeachment. late friday night, the president informed the house and senate in the intelligence committees that he was firing intelligence committee inspector general michael atkinson. last year, atkinson received a complaint from a whistle-blower community who accused the president of abusing his power by coercing ukraine's government to announce politically damaging investigations against former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. the icig deemed the complaint to be credible and said that it raised a, quote, urgent concern. so he took it to congress as he was required to do by law. atkinson issued a st

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i'm nicole wallace. we're keeping an eye on governor gavin newsom. he's speaking this hour before he begins to ease any of those stay-at-home restrictions in his state. his announcement comes as governors on the east and west coast work together to coordinate any future moves. it's a move president trump is comparing to a immunity. governor newsom called for a statewide stay-at-home order way back on march 19th. and he's already announced that it will remain in effect until at least mid-may. so far, california has escaped the most dire predictions of the pandemic's impacts. the state has lost more than 700 people to coronavirus, with a record number of deaths announced just today. but the governor says the growth in hospitalizations is slowing and yesterday in los angeles county, the state's biggest, the number of new cases hit its lowest point in weeks. and just moments ago, governor newsom said it will be science, not politics that will drive the decision to reopen the state. joining us now, nbc and msnbc news national affairs analyst, john heilema

i'm nicole wallace.he coronavirus pandemic, the two most visible leaders in this country have been president trump and the governor of the hardest-hit state, andrew cuomo. other than sharing a home state, politically and stylistically, the two men could not be anymore different. this afternoon, trump and cuomo are meeting face to face at the white house. and earlier today, governor cuomo was asked about what he intends to focus on in that meeting. >> testing. and what does testing mean and how do we do it and how can the federal government work in partnership with the states? it is a situation where you need everybody to work together and you need to understand quickly

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i'm nicolle wallace.re's a glimmer of good news coming out of the epicenter of the coronavirus today. new york governor andrew cuomo says the number of people needing to be hospitalized grew by its smallest number in weeks. that's the good news. the bad news, the sad news is the number of people who have lost their lives to this virus has reached a new high. governor cuomo says 799 people died in the last 24 hours from the virus. that brings the total to more than 7,000 in the state of new york. today the governor says he's bringing in additional funeral directors to handle the death toll. >> if you ever told me that as governor i would have to take these actions, i couldn't even contemplate where we are now. and to put all of this in perspective, i lived through 9/11. 9/11 was supposed to be the darkest day in new york for a generation. we've done everything we can since 9/11 to make sure 9/11 didn't happen again. we lose 2,753 lives on 9/11. we've lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. that is so shockin

>>> stay right there for a special that's up right now hosted by brian williams and nicolle wallace called "testing and the road to reopening." among their guests, bill gates, governor andrew cuomo of new york. that starts right now. >>> with the country largely locked down and economic turmoil growing, the debate to reopen intensifies. >> things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to the entire world. >> how is returning to work done safely without sparking a second wave of deaths? >> we need to test anybody and everybody. only then can we think about reopening the economy. >> tonight, the critical demand for coronavirus testing. >> every governor in america has been fighting to get tests since the beginning of this crisis. >> how much testing it will take to reopen the country? >> after you do the testing, states have a second big task. put together an army of tracers who then trace each person who tested positive. >> this is an msnbc special report "testing and the road to reopening." >>> well, good evening. brian williams here with you and nicoll

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xfinity mobile. >>> brian williams and nicolle wallace back with you. of the hour into who is normally "the 11th hour" broadcast, we're continuing our special coverage of the critical roles that testing and contact tracing will play in what is called reopening our country eventually. a number of states are eager to reopen amid troubling unemployment news. tomorrow the state of georgia will begin opening some businesses even though experts have warned it's too early and even though the president publicly broke with georgia's governor just a few hours ago. meanwhile, other states are taking things, as they must, much slower. >> this hour we'll hear from new york governor andrew cuomo, whose state is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak here in the u.s. new york just released the results of an antibody testing study today. we'll also have much more from our exclusive interview with microsoft co-founder bill gates. he responds to the conspiracy theory that blames him for the entire pandemic. but first here are his thoughts on where things stand. >> my

i want you to listen to what msnbc nicole wallace said about the pandemic and the president.>> it took a colorblind, gender blind, state lines blind virus to sort of have all of the president from the first three years catch up. i wonder what do you think about whether or not their silverlining there and some of the things that we talk about for three years maybe catching up with him. stuart: as silverlining because it hurts the president. go at it joe, your 30 seconds. >> not much to add to that, it is obvious. nicole wallace is an anchor, that is not an anchor, that is an opinion host and that's why so many people distrust the media because you have a title, you're either an anchor and delivering facts and asking questions were an entertaining host and have a diary episode. that's what nicole wallace just did, shared a thought into think that this could hurt the president and get him out of office, that's okay type of stuff that people shake their heads and say enough, that is horrible nearly 50000 people are dead, concentration on the facts and educate the public. stuart:

i'm nicolle wallace. it's the fight against coronavirus hits a make or break moment in the u.s. with the nationwide apex potentially just days away, the united states death toll already nearing 18,000 with more than 485,000 confirmed cases across the country. donald trump as you saw took to the podium this afternoon ignoring the public warnings of some of his closest allies not to do that and leave that podium for the experts to let them do the talking, though trump signaled today he's going to listen to their guidance when it comes to reopening the country, he stressed once again he turned "this" and a widespread shelter in place orders. here's trump in the last order nuancing a new task force focused on reopening the country. >> i call it the opening our country task force, or opening our country task force. the great business leaders, great group of people, say this, jim, way tonight get this open as soon as possible. this country was open to be vibrant and open and not where people are staying. >> are you determined to open it by may 1st. >> i'd love to open but i'm not dete

. >> steve schmidt with nicolle wallace this afternoon. you know, we've always been like this. during times of crisis americans look to their president for guidance. it's natural to. yet there are several instances in our history. as my next guest points out, when a national crisis can elicit what he calls a collapse in presidential leadership, he warns that's what we're living in the midst of right now. so back again with us tonight, the veteran journalist and author howell raines, one of our msnbc contributors, happens to be the former executive editor of "the new york times." howell, please share with our viewers the thinking you've been doing on the presidency. the big word of incapacity and crisis. >> brian, this is a perfect day to review what history teaches us about crisis-driven presidential elections. and let's go back briefly. we'll look at the civil war, james buchanan led the nation into war. he's remembered as our worst president. andrew johnson did badly with the reconstruction. herbert hoover the depression. lyndon johnson vietnam. jimmy carter iran hostage. geo

i'm in for nicolle wallace on this very stormy day across the east coast, high winds have knocked out nicolle's camera and that's forcing us to get creative as we in the news have often tried to do in these unusual times. let me tell you what's going on. we're holding our collective breath as the president publicly staked out his most hostile position against the top scientists of the pandemic. we're talking about of course dr. anthony fauci. t this is one of the grimmest and toughest weeks yet and it all begins right now against the backdrop of donald trump using his massive twitter following to share a message that includes this provocative language. you see it there at the bottom. time to fire fauci. dr. fauci is without question among the most trusted medical experts government officials have at this time. firing him would not only destabilize the white house task force but raise fundamental questions about where we go next given the president's at times open battling with medical advisers. none of this has stopped donald trump from tweeting this message, firing fauci. a statement

he spoke with nicolle wallace today.ments during today's briefing when the president seemed to be trying to strike something of a more bipartisan tone himself. more on that in a bit. back with us, michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee, former lieutenant governor of the great state of maryland and these days the host of "the michael steele podcast." michael, i've asked you this before, but i'm kind of obsessing about it. do you see two full, old-school party conventions in the heat of summer inside arenas this summer? >> you know, i think at this point that's still a little bit doubtful. the metrics just aren't there yet. you know, just go back to the segment you just had. the testing. where is the testing? we don't know fully, nor do we have an appreciation of just how much this virus has moved into the community. it's not just about the people we know to be sick. it is the people who are asymptomatic who may be infecting others, and the testing is a big part of that. so until you get that

this is sound bite number two, nicole wallace from msnbc asking how did you get two guys in the white house? and this is the way he answered that here in new york. >> i sent them, something i probably wouldn't have done and gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration. the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official he would work through the white house counsel and be discussions and approvals and who would be there and i thought it's early enough the militia send a couple of guys over. >> bill: you listen to that now when you hear it with a different ear. >> you really do, and i've asked a similar question when i asked for your james comey on a set of special report on the early efforts with michael flynn and it was a similar answer. i think it does take a different tone as you listen back to that. can be characterized as a set up. some analysts are saying this is what happens, but it's not really what happens in the big scheme of things if you look at what happened to michael flynn and all the coverage a

eastern, my colleague, nicolle wallace, will host a special and will be joined by baseball legend alex among others. you won't want to miss it. if the coronavirus outbreak has done one thing, it has illustrated to those paying attention just how much worst of a public health picture communities of colors face even as this crisis hits. this is a pandemic within the pandemic with black and brown communities from chicago to charlotte, north carolina suffering disproportionately from the virus. of course the trump's response was particularly schizophrenic. jerome adams basically telling us stop smoking and other bad habits. joining me is the president of suni health sciences university in brooklyn. drflt rowley, this race gap in health services, many will say y'all are just bringing up race but we're talking about actual lives that are being lost and we're against any life being lost and we're for this pandemic being solved for everyone, but it should concern people if there's an imbalance, if you're really about saving lives, you want to make sure that you're doing it where the pain is. e

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. >>> stay right there for a special that's up right now hosted by brian williams and nicolle wallacealled "testing and the road to reopening." among their guests, bill gates, governor andrew cuomo of new york. that starts right now. >>> with the country largely locked down and economic turmoil growing, the debate to reopen intensifies. >> things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to the entire world. >> how is returning to work done safely without sparking a second wave of deaths? >> we need to test anybody and everybody.

brian williams here you along with nicolle wallace and over the course of the next two hours we're going to examine two very important steps to re-opening our country. coronavirus testing on a massive scale. and contact tracing. right now, over 868,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in our country with more than 49,000 souls gone. today, we learned another 4.4 million americans filed jobless claims last week bringing the five-week total to more than 26 million people that we know of. one key in returning people to work, getting back to normal, is, of course, widespread testing, so tonight, we're going to look at the importance of both diagnostic and antibody testing and hear about the number of tests that we need to safely re-open. >> and, brian, another important issue is contact tracing. we're going to be hearing a lot about this. it's the process of tracking down everyone who may have been exposed to the virus. we'll go through how it's conducted and why it's absolutely critical to stopping new infections. tonight, we'll be joined by three key people working hard to fight

and on these afternoons, nicolle wallace and i will join us at least electronically to sort through it. nicole joins us now to continue with our coverage, prior to her afternoon broadcast each day, which has become a special elongated edition of "deadline white house." hey, nicole? >> hi, there. >> we're all elongated these days, because the news is so extraordinary. when you played these images of the protest, i tried to think if i could even fathom what it would have been like after say, nem nem 9/11 when i worked in the white house, if people had been angry about the new way we had to travel on the airlines and had taken to the streets to protest. i'm not saying it isn't understandable that some people are frustrated. i think everyone is frustrated, but i think the human calculation is that my frustration is less than the terror of someone older or someone with a heart condition and someone on my block or someone in my building or someone that i know and love who could die if they get this wicked virus. so this idea that donald trump's last action as this country's commander in chie

but the fact that is a tough economic time should not be a silver lining for anyone, including nicole wallace, thank you very much. great seeing you. >> thank you. good to see you. charles: many small businesses, folks, are taking on the insurance industry as they struggle to survive. ashley webster is with us. he has more. ashley? ashley: yeah, it is going to be a big struggle, charles. many businesses carry what is called interruption insurance, but it turns out that almost all of these policies do not cover viruses or pandemics. but a question being asked right now, did businesses close because of the virus or because of government telling them to lock their doors? does that make a difference? we can expect thousands of lawsuits in the court system to try and solve that issue. but as it stands right now, most insurance companies will deny the virus claims, saying the business actually suffered no physical damage, and oh by the way, they say, a pandemic is simply not insureable. >> the reason why a pandemic is excluded simply because it is unpredictable in nature. what we're experiencing no

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happy to be joined each day by nicolle wallace. another day of indoor life and suspended animation. i have to quickly add, depending on where you live. it was fascinating at the white house briefing yesterday when dr. birx directly confronted by tell us how there's going to be social distancing for massage therapists, tattoo artists and hairstylists. she chose to take a pass. she didn't want to prejudge. the president said he assumed there would be testing for customers going in. nothing of the sort, of course, is available. >> i think for the administration to squander the credibility of one of the two most trusted figures they have -- we've seen polling that suggests that the president and vice president do not enjoy the trust of even what you would think would make up the entirety of their base. their numbers are down in the 30s. tony fauci and the cdc have the trust of upwards of 60% of americans, i think 66 and higher for those two entities. for dr. birx to say, i think even kids understand about social distancing at this point, you can't keep a six-foot distance between yourse

i was amazed when nicolle wallace asked you for your recall of the insults you have received from him, that you have a top-to-bottom memory of all the things he has called you over the years. >> it's -- it's been a lot of things. some of them you can't say on television. but, you know, but, look, the insults are beside the point. he does that. he does that in the briefing room for a variety of reasons, but it's often simply to detract. he does it because he knows that his supporters love it when he beats up on the press. but, you know, he never actually seems to mean it. i think that one of the fakest things around are his attacks on fake news because while he attacks reporters like maggie haberman of "the new york times" is a favorite, you know, target of his attacks, he -- he respects maggie haberman. he talks to maggie haberman. he knows it's important what she writes and what she thinks. i've covered four different presidents. they all complained about press coverage. donald trump's complaints are turned up to 11. i mean they're beyond the other three, but it's the same -- it's th

. >>> a programming note, tune in tonight when bryan williams, nicole wallace and our nbc news team examineacts about coronavirus testing and contact tracing. plus savannah guthrie's exclusive interview with bill gates who has committed extensive resources through the gates foundation to combating the pandemic worldwide. watch the msnbc special report, "testing and the road to reopening" tonight, right here at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. >>> president trump credit sidesisides i criticizing georgia's governor for lifting restrictions on tattoo parlors and nail salons. plans to reopen businesses less than 24 hours from now, we're on the ground. >>> first we bring you firsthand accounts from the workers battling the pandemic up close, dr. rutan, from an icu in florida. he talks about the mental toll it takes on front line health care providers. >> i sit at home reliving each death, each delay in my head. the statistics tell me this person's father probably wouldn't have made it no matter what i did but my heart can't help it. maybe if i had been better, i wouldn't be standing outside telling

. >>> stay right there for a special that's upright now hosted by brian williams and nicole wallace calledg and the road to reopening" among their guests, bill gates, andrew cuomo of new york. that starts right now. >>> with the country largely locked down and economic turmoil growing, the debate to reopen intensifies. >> things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to the entire world. >> how is returning to work done safely without sparking a second wave of deaths?

he told my colleague nicole wallace that it was productive. he said the president was receptive to his concerns that the federal government needs to give more help with funding and testing. he said the president did not test for new york reopen on any kind of time line. as president trump publicly pushes other states to ease restrictions, there are kernels by some that some of these governors may move too quickly. georgia is a prime example. georgia is allowing gyms, barber shops, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys reopening. subject to certain social distancing restrictions, it is under clear what that means in practice. because if you're like us, you've gone through many of those businesses we just tallied there. depend on people being in very close contact with one another. that's hard to do tattoo in a social distancing area. the governor's actions would appear to be in defiance of the white house's own guidelines which recommend states have more robust testing and contact tracing programs set up before they begin the easing of some of thes

we invite you all, of course, to join nicole wallace and myself, 10:00 pm eastern, an nbc special report, testing stand road to re-opening. certainly was a critical subtopic of today's briefing. our special guests tonight will include the governor of new york andrew cuomo, former mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg, to tuque about the difficult road ahead for their states and localities. also that man on the far left. bill gates. we will talk about his efforts through the bill and melinda gates foundation to fight this pandemic world wide. 10:00 even. 7:00 on the west coast on this very network, where now ari melber picks up our continuing confirmage from here. ari. >> thank you, very much, brian. appreciate it. . we have been, of course, keeping an eye on the white house coronavirus coronavirus task force briefing and the interviews, including those interesting little clues about 2020 and the running mate consideration with kamela harris. so we have a lot to get to i want to bring in a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post". the director of the national and glo

i'm nicole wallace. throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the two most visible leaders in this country have been president trump and the governor of the hardest-hit state, andrew cuomo. other than sharing a home state, politically and stylistically, the two men could not be anymore different. this afternoon, trump and cuomo are meeting face to face at the white house. and earlier today, governor cuomo was asked about what he intends to focus on in that meeting. >> testing. and what does testing mean and how do we do it and how can the federal government work in partnership with the states? it is a situation where you need everybody to work together and you need to understand quickly who's in a better position to do what. >> we're keeping an eye on the white house for any details that start to emerge from that meeting. but first, let's get caught up on the facts as we know them at this hour. more than 43,000 americans have now died from the coronavirus and the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. is closi

join brian williams and nicolle wallace for special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and how we recover from this. they'll speak with governor andrew cuomo about the road to recovery. savannah guthrie's exclusive sitdown with bill gates on his efforts to fight the pandemic. don't miss this special report, testing and the road to reopening tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. 7:00 out west. we'll be right back. i just love hitting the open road and telling people that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. and nutrients to what do we wburger...inner? i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. >>> welcome back. even at the house, it's minutes away from passing a nearly half a trillion dollars spending package in respon

here's what governor cuomo told nicolle wallace on msnbc immediately after his meeting with the president. >> the meeting went well. and i think it was productive. the big issue was testing, as everybody knows that's going to be the next step as we go forward. and how do we separate the responsibilities and the tasks on testing, vis-a-vie as stated in the federal government and the acknowledgement that we will need to work together on this. it has to be a real partnership. and i think we had a very good conversation. >> governor cuomo maintaining diplomatic relations with donald trump. did not mention anything specific that the president actually agreed to. and the president didn't mention anything specific that they agreed to when the president appeared later at the white house press briefing. governor cuomo did say that he believes new york state has to double its current rate of testing from 20,000 tests a day to 40,000 tests a day. dr. zeke emanuel will join us later to discuss a new action plan from the rockefeller foundation, proposing what it calls "an ambitious but achievable goal