Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in had washington. President trump executive actions door little to ease pressure other than the administration to provide meaningful relief to the millions of out of work with covid supplemental Unemployment Benefits expired along with a waiver on evictions. Thises a the coronavirus continues to take its toll. Here are the facts at this hour more than 5 million confirmed cases of the virus in the u. S. More than 50,000 in the last 24 hours. 163,000 deaths. Today the federal government is setting up a new surge testing site in atlanta, a persistent hot spot. New concerns about children returning to classrooms after a report from the americcademy of pediatrics. And the president is back at the white house after a weekend at his golf resort, and also attending campaign fundraisers, but hes tweeting today that Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi know his phone number if they want to make a deal. Senator schumer says earlier on morning joe he has seen zero evidence so far that the president is involved at all and has not called back. This hour ill speak with former president ial candidate Amy Klobuchars a wells a congresswoman barbara lee and our insiders for the latest on the Vice President s choice for a running mate. We begin with msnbc White House Correspondent kristen welker, Garrett Haake covering capitol hill and peter baker. Kristen, first to you. A reality, fak check on the executive actions, one executive order, forcing the executive behind it. The others can suggestions and theyre not really getting to the people who need it most. Reporter thats right, andrea. A lot of questions about the effectiveness and the legality of these executive actions that President Trump announced over the weekend. So to go through some of the big ones. President trump saying that he will give 400 in Unemployment Benefits. Thats down from the 600 that people were initially getting and that democrats were pushing to extend. Heres the catch with that, andrea. States would need to sign on and would need to add 100 of that. So you have democrats saying that the states dont have the money to do that. Now, President Trump was pressed on that over the weekend. He indicated that the white house might be able to provide some type of a fix to that loophole, but a lot of questions about when those checks are actually going to get into the hands of americans. Now, the president also announcing a suspension of the payroll tax for those making 100,000, less than 100,000 a year. The important point about that, andrea, essentially it defers payment. So eventually those payments are going to come due. Now, President Trump over the weekend saying he was looking into possibly making that permanent, but, of course, only congress has the ability to effect tax law. The president also saying that he plans to protect Social Security funds. Of course, the payroll tax does go to pay for Social Security, but no details how specifically that would happen. Over the weekend you had democrats even some republicans criticizing the actions. Ben sasse of nebraska calling it unconstitutional slop. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi using that same language. And President Trump tweeting at sas saying, ryno ben sasse who needed my support and endorsement to get the republican nomination for senate from the great state of nebraska has now that hes got, thank you, president t. , gone rogue again. This foolishness plays right into the hands of the radical left dems. A real stand off, andrea. No indication there are any new talks planned for this week although both sides say theyre open to that. And garrett, theyve come down from the democratic side, come down 1 trillion. No sign of give on the other side, but theyre far apart. Any sign of talks . Reporter the short answer is, no. This turned into a multitrillion dollar game of chicken here. Democrats have said from the onset that they want to keep the conversations going. They want to keep negotiations going, and that up in their dem recognizing them not knowing how severe the circumstance is. And bizarre tweet from the president. A school yard version of i am rubber you are glue accusing nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer only know wanting to negotiate. In a tweet, where have they been the last four weeks . The last two in speaker pelosis office negotiating with his chief of staff and his treasury secretary. All that time calling for a president who labeled himself the worlds greatest dealmaker to come get involved himself. Kind of a bizarre moment of the president throwing back this taunt at especially after the weekend he said democrats had reached out to him to resume negotiations. When Chuck Schumer this morning pelosi through aides denied any such outreach occurred. Were well stuck here on the negotiation side until one side or the other essentially decides to blink and come with a new offer to restart things. And on the legal issues, garrett, they were, almost goading them, go to court. Sue me. Thats not a good political play for the democrats to be suing to stop the president from, you know, letting people have more Unemployment Benefits. Not as much as they want, but some. Reporter right. Optics alone are bad let alone its august and the idea a federal court would move on this in some expedient way even before the election seems unlikely. Democrats would rather see orders dismissed because they are superseded by actual action that does something. And not a lot of there there in these president ial memoranda, essentially. Peter baker, we have covered a lot of white houses, you and i. Never seen a president in the United States in the midst of this sort of standoff at his golf course. Not just playing golf but said to be a started with hail to the chief. Holding drinks, not Wearing Masks when they first came in coming into that ballroom in violation of the new jersey state guidelines. Do you want to unpack that a bit . I think that basically sums it up. Look, he cannot have these Campaign Rallies that give him such energy, that this weekend was his subs stutitute. A handful of people cheering him on while he takes on the press and democrats. Not much of a substitute for a president who drinks in the adulation of a big arena full of 20,000 people. But thats the best he can do right now with the coronavirus. You know, hes in a position where he wants to turn the tables on congress and make it about how they have screwed up and hes the only one taking action by signing these executive orders, buts a others have mentioned. The truth is, if paychecks dont actually end up seeing the results of that, in other words, you dont get these Unemployment Benefits, it wont matter whether he had a good visual at his golf club. Also, of course, hes at risk of the same thing he used to accuse president obama of doing. Overreach in terms of executive power and then golfing at times when the country is actually looking for leadership. He made a big point doing that repeatedly. Criticizing repeatedly president obama for that sort of thing and now hes, of course,s a you point out, optics being at a golf club with people who dont need 400 a week talking really stuck in this log jam with democrats rather than figuring out a way out of it. And we also point out,s a im sure most people know, that the democrats actually passed, the house passed a bill in may sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk and he was missing in action. For all of this time, for the president to tweet again theyve done nothing ands a garrett points out they were in Nancy Pelosis office with his own chief of staff. Do you see a breakdown inside the white house between mnuchin and meadows also . And thats part of the problem . Sorry. Peter, im sorry. Talking to me . Sorry. Yeah. Absolutely. The white house felt for a whiles Stephen Mnuchin treasury secretary involved in a number of previous negotiations, too willing to give in, to make concessions to democrats. They were not happy about that. Thats why they sent in mark meadows. Mark meadows chief of staff, of course, his history is in the houses a a person who blew up deals not made themes a member of the caucus, the freedom caucus. Supposed to be hardliner, bad cop and mnuchin the good cop. Peter baker, Garrett Haake and kristen welker, thanks to all. And minnesota senator and former president ial candidate Amy Klobuchar joins me now. Senator, thank you for being with us. This is a bit of a mess with people, millions of people without unemployment. The supplemental unemployment and not getting the eviction relief that the president advertised at all. Thats not what it says. Youre a lawyer. Tell me about the legality of it, first. Okay. I just keep thinking of the image of these people at his golf course, at his resort. Thats not what most americans are doing right now. Theyre struggling to get by. Some are out of work. They need real Unemployment Benefits. They need, for those that are working, they need help with child care. They want to figure out their school year. And he just walks away, is down golfing instead of negotiating with senator schumer and representative pelosi. And this idea that they werent negotiating, they went from 3. 6 trillion, this has been reported and i talked to senator schumer about this last night myself, down to 2 trillion. Its the white house that isnt moving and then they play this gimmick which, by the way, yes, unconstitutionals a ben sasse pointed out, also think about the payroll tax change. Both parties people didnt like this idea. Why . Its putting the burden on the backs of seniors. Its a fake, because theyre going to collect the checks next year anyway. The payroll taxes. So lets get real. This is not a time for a bandaid solution, not when you have projected 33 reduction in gedp. Head of the Federal Reserve doesnt think that. President trump himself said it will get worse before it gets bet perp its time for real action and thats why he needs to go back to the negotiating table. I want to ask you about something definitely not in so far. Its any relief for the money that is needed to have a reliable mailin election. And in addition on friday night there was another friday night massacre with the new head of the postal service, a trump donor, no experience, getting rid of all the experienced people and bringing in his own people. What are your concerns about a fair election, about this not being in the relief package . Yeah. Well, theres a lot of things not with what hes done with a gimmick. You know . No money for testing. Theres no money for elections, and you are right. Theres no money for the postal service, and you add to that the games this guy is playing. The latest thing, andrea, im actually leading a group of senators on this today, latest thing is that theyve announced first time in a long time that you cant use a nonprofit rate for ballots. That ups the price for ballots. It decreases the time that they will be delivered, and it just makes things much, much harder for the states. Right in the middle of a pandemic. One of the things that is part of the negotiations right now, which i hope will continue, if donald trump allows them to, one of the things should be about putting in place provisions that this guy cannot mess with peoples not only there are ballots but prescription drugs and other things being delivered in the middle of this pandemic. Its game playing, but its putting not just our democracy at risk, it actually puts peoples lives at risk, since so many more people are getting their medications delivered by mail. I want to also ask you a question about joe biden. Very close to a decision if not an announcement coming any day now. On whos going to be his running mate. Now, first of all, there is a coalition of womens groups who are warning people to protect this nominee from the sexist and potentially racist if it is a black woman kind of criticisms weve already seen, stereotyping that affected women candidates. Care to view on that . Weve all experienced this. I think i was one, the one on the debate stage that at some point said if there hadnt been a different standard for women in politics we could play a game called name your favorite woman president , for that matter Vice President. But we cant play that game because there hasnt been one. Part of this is peoples expectations, the discrimination, the stuff out there on the internet, the attacks weve seen. So thats what they are doing. Theyre anticipating this, and i think its a good idea. By the way, if women werent ambitious, then Andrea Mitchell, you and i wouldnt be doing this show right now, and i think we need more of that and not less of it. So my answer to this is, hes going to pick a great running mate. Got a great group to pick from. Hmm . All of my women producers, women bosses and women colleagueses a well. Let me ask you also about whether this is the time. S a you yourself said. Play this for you. The time for a black running mate. Lets watch what you said on the day that you took yourself out of the race. This is a historic moment, and america must seize on this moment, and i truly believe,s a i actually told the Vice President last night, whenny i called him, that i think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket. So you told that to Lawrence Odonnell when you announced your decision. Is it still true now . And if so, do you think there will be backlash if one of the white contenders is chosen . Whoever joe biden chooses hes going to make a good decision, because theyre all qualified. Every single one of them. I still believe what i said to him that night, and what i said to lawrence the next day. And that is that this is a historic moment. Weve seen people of color, in epic numbers hurt from this pandemic. Overwhelmingly the ones percentagewise dieing, the ones on the front line. Weve seen the anger over the murder of george floyd in my state. This is a moment like no other and thats my suggestion, but i will strongly support whoever he picks, because they are such a great group of women, and i hope that isnt lost in all of the, you know, the guests on the show. Whos getting attacked, who isnt. Come on now. This is a moment. I remember when jair Geraldine Ferrara was picked. I thought, anything is possible. This is many years later and this is an election like no other and we have a group of candidates who have led, will be strong, bring compassion and competence to the ticket that will complement joe bidens compassion and confidence. So im excited about whoever he picks and ready to go and help. And Gerry Ferrara was 36 years ago, and weve seen how many years have passed. Thank you very much for the ambitious senator from minnesota. Which is high praise. Thanks. Theres no one more ambitious than Andrea Mitchell. Anyway very good. Thank you for having me on, and that is a compliment. Thank you. Appreciate it. 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