Europe. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. Good evening from our msnbc news headquarters in new york. It is day 1,149 of the trump administration. 235 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. We end a very difficult week on the verge of a new phase trying to stop the spread of coronavirus as President Trump declares a National Emergency and as the house reaches a deal with the white house. Donald trump made his declaration in a rose garden address. This marked the first time he had spoken at length about the virus as a domestic crisis and Public Health crisis. It marked a change in tone from an Oval Office Speech he gave. I am officially declaring a National Emergency. It will open up access of very importantly and a large amount of money. Every state to set up Emergency Operation centers. Wall street rallied, the down gaining nearly 2,000 points wiping out of most of yesterdays loss and House Speaker pelosi said she reached a deal with the secretary to provide paid leave for workers, expand food aid and free testing for the ill. It does not have a payroll tax cut. Trump sent out this message. I fully support Families First response act and encourage all republicans to come together and vote yes. Look forward to signing the final bill asap. The house leaders for both parties were in agreement about the personalitiance of the legislation. We could have passed the bill yesterday, our own bill which is a great bill. That is what we are passing today. We thought it would be important to show the American People and assure the American People that we are willing and able to Work Together to get a job done for them. We thank our republicans, those that will be supporting the bill and appreciate the president joining us with his tweet. Do you think Speaker Pelosi handled the negotiations well . Yes. I give her credit and the Administration Credit and everybody involved. We have a better product today because we waited, looked at it and we worked together. The number of coronavirus cases in the United States is now more than 2,000 with 50 deaths. The white house has been taking continued fire over the nations slow rate of coronavirus testing. This morning new yorks first drive through Testing Center opened in rochelle. At the White House Trump touted efforts to expand such tests and fielding questions about his role in the initial response to the outbreak. We have been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive through tests available. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and to be swabbed without having to leave your car. The lag in testing was in fact a failing. Do you take responsibility for that . Yeah. No, i dont take responsibility at all. That was then followed by this question on trumps decision to shrink the White House National security staff and get rid of an office to address Global Pandemics. You said you dont take responsibility, but you did disband the White House Pandemic Office and the officials that were working in the office left the administration abruptly. What responsibility do you take to that and the officials said the white house lost valuable time because the office was disbanded. I think it is a nasty question. When you say me, i didnt do it. We have a group of question. I could perhaps ask tony about that. I dont know anything about it. You say we did that. I dont know anything about it. That would seem to contradict what trump said a month ago when asked about cuts to federal agencies that were tasked when responding to Public Health crises. Some of the people that we cut havent been used for many, many years. If we ever need them we can get them quickly. I am a business person. I dont like having thousands of people around when you dont need them. When we need them we can get them back very, very quickly. And the second person who visited trumps maralago resort tested positive. Today trump was asked about the interaction. The person that you were standing next to, whether you know who he is or not tested positive for coronavirus. Dr. Fauchhi said if you stand next to somebody that tested positive you should self isolate and test. You said your white house doctor is telling you something different. Who should americans listen to . I think they should listen to their doctors and shouldnt be jumping to get the test. Are you think selfish by not being tested. I didnt say i would not be tested. Are you going to be . Most likely. I think i will do it any way. Fairly soon. We are working on that. We are working out a schedule. Miami mayor has tested positive for covid19 after meeting with the same brazilian delegation this weekend and suarez is now currently quarantined at home. The coronavirus is affecting the political life of the nation in other ways. Louisiana is the first state to postpone president ial primaries because of the coronavirus outbreak pushing back contests to june 20 from the original date of april 4th. Election officials in arizona, illinois, ohio all holding primaries this tuesday issued a statement saying the polls will be open and they are taking precautions to protect voters. In onetimes it Democratic Party cancelled the inperson portion of its upcoming caucus. One sign it up ended the daily life of the nation, the millions of kids that will be out of school as the week begins on monday. We will get to our discussion in a moment. I am joined by a democrat from washington state, a pediatrician and member of house education and labor committees. Thank you for being with us this evening. The first thing i want to ask you about is the president s declaration of a National Emergency with respect to this. Do you think the tone coming from the white house has changed to your satisfaction . Well, first of all, let me just say that this was the first time they really got the impression that our president understood the gravity of the situation that we are in and i felt he was moving us forward. I am very happy we have this now as a National Emergency. Our state needed this for a couple of weeks. It will open up resources so that we have money to help with testing, people, to be able to set up testing areas that are outside of hospitals. It will relax the regulations that tied our hands behind our backs. In congress there has been a agreement that Speaker Pelosi was working with the treasure secretary. They seem to be having a parallel track. They came to an arrangement. It was worked out with republican leadership. That is a separate set of initiatives. Tell me how that is going to help americans. Well, this is so important. It is really nice to see that we can come together, democrats, republicans, and get things done on behalf of the American People. This is so important. Diseases spread. This spreads even before people have symptoms. We are asking extraordinary things from our citizens. We are asking people to stay home from work when they might normally not. Quarantine for 14 days after exposure and have their children at home and closing schools. If we are going to make the asks, we have to give people the resources to do it and have extended sick leave and paid family leave and even that we make the testing free which is my part of this bill. It is so important. There are no barriers to doing the right thing to protect our communities. Congresswoman, for all of the questions that you get as a member of congress, you get more from people in the fact you are a doctor and a pediatrician. I want to ask you as a doctor what do you think that we should all be thinking and doing . Well, i think this really goes back to the basics. We live in an era of everything fancy and new and technology and really this comes down to what i do in my clinic every day. You know, the kids are germy. I touch a lot of germs. If you wash your hands and if you dont touch your face and cover your coughs and sneezes with the inside of your elbow that will go a long way. If you are ill, you should stay home. Absolutely no sense in exposing other people and making this pandemic even worse than it already is. Your bill goes some distance to allowing some americans for whom that is not an option, missing work and staying home into a bit of a reality. Thank you if are your time. Thank you for those in congress that came together to get this done. Here for our leadoff discussion on a friday night. Jonathan allen, a senior political analyst for nbc news and frank, a msnbc National Security analyst. Annie, i am going to start with you. The concept that this is a National Emergency. We had a National Emergency declared about the stuff on the southern border a lot of americans dont think is a National Emergency but the president had real reluctance. The oval Office Address that led to a market meltdown . Yes. Todays press conference was seen as an opportunity for him to do a doover of the oval Office Address where it was a giant failure of leadership. His aides came to him like lets try something else. He was convinced to do this because the oval Office Address did not have the impact he expected it to. We have seen him moving slowly to this is not just something that needs to be contained to closing the borders but something inside of our country and this is the first time that he addressed the situation, the Health Crisis going on within our borders. It has taken him a long time to get there. He started from a place of just hoping that it would go away. Now he seems to understand that is not the case. I am not sure i would call it full throated and robust. But compared to the oval office the other day it was quite a development. The president feels like a reluctant participant in this one. Struggling with his written words he reads on the screen and surrounded himself with a bunch of ceos. But it did signal i have other people involved. I understand the measurement is not the stock market. It is something else. I need to take it seriously. How convinced are you that we are now on the right track . He is at least listening to Vice President mike pence and the treasure secretary and Speaker Pelosi and the institute on allergies and infectious diseases, the people telling him this is a crisis that he needs to address and it is one that needs a federal response. It is one that needs money and needs money not only to businesses but to protect the American People on a health level and economic scale. People need family and medical leave. States are going to need waivers to get people who, you know, have work requirements for food stamp benefits to be able to get those. So the president is obviously taking this seriously at a very different level than he was before. And what basically got what happened over the course of the last couple of days, his political standing was taken out from und from underneath. Once the deal got struck they moved forward on that. The president declared a National Emergency. Everybody was Holding Hands today. It is kind of amazing. A story buried on the side. Somebody said why are you not covering negotiations going on in congress. Nancy pelosi and steve frank you are the only one on the panel that has executive experience. The thing that struck me. I wasnt looking for things to go wrong today. The president , when asked, said i dont take responsibility for anything. Yeah. Lets talk about that for a moment from a Leadership Perspective. I look at it through Crisis Management and leadership. What we have seen from him is violating most of the basic tenents of Crisis Management rules. You need to tell people i am always going to tell you the truth and i am go to make hard decisions and i need everybody to pull together and implement them. I dont have all of the answers but i am going to rely on experts to help in the Decision Making. We have not seen any of that until a sign of Bright Sunlight from today where he changed to how wall street is doing to how Peoples Health is doing and how we mitigate the virus. We should applaud a small victory. We are still very concerned from a Leadership Perspective that he seems unable to pull the trigger and admit that i am accountable. I own this. When you dont do it as a leader you dont establish credibility. He was sort of looking at him saying what do you know about this. You know, one of the interesting things here, unlike the financial crisis of 20082009. A final crisis that could be helped with financial tools. This the National Security problem has to be solved. This is a national Health Crisis. Today was the first time that it seemed like i have to take that seriously. He seems to have figured out that if you solve for the health part of this the economy will follow. He had it backwards from the start. One of the things that people have been reaching on out and talking to us are the way life is changing and the way that it will change, right. The thing that shakes people the most is they dont know what it looks like. Kids are coming back from college. People are overstocking on food and goods. The president hasnt gotten to that point yet and coming out saying we will be together. We will figure it out. The guidelines are not coming out from the president or the administration about what sort of events to cancel. What events to hold. We are not there yet. He really left those decisions to the states. Governors decided to shut their schools, not with federal guidelines. He was last to pull down his Campaign Rallies, the Trump Campaign has postponed all gathering. They were slower to do it and they were maintaining a business as usual posture until a few days ago, yesterday did they really announce all Campaign Rallies are off the books for now. As little as 48 hours ago the president blurted out he was hoping to hold a rally in florida at the end of the month. He has been slow to realize that he thrives on crowds. This is what energizes his base. He is aware this is a reelection year and he is very frustrated that this is really hurting him. So he has been not leading the charge on putting down pulling down Group Gatherings certainly. The Trump Campaign said they are cleaning their offices and told people not to come to work on tuesday. That is not a long time. Most are two weeks to a month. Yeah. Every president is challenged by something. Sometimes it is National Security or Mass Shootings or 9 11 or a recession. This has been this president s biggest opportunity to step up. There has been a very, very delayed reaction. That makes those of you involved in National Security, it gives you pause. Those that had pause for a couple of years now because of his Decision Making in the direct fields. What we are seeing appears to be an inability to make the tough leadership decisions. Lets just talk about modeling behavior. He is vis vas lading on whether not to get a test. He should cancel rallies if we are canceling basketball games. We are not seeing the leadership. From a National Security perspective, we are seeing police and Fire Departments unable to staff shifts because people are coming down with covid19. Troops are being affected. The question for the president can he be commander in chief during a Health Care Crisis that affects security. John allen, the United States senate is the place bills go to die. Any problem with the bill that passed tonight through the senate . I would be shocked after President Trump said he is 100 behind it and it should pass asap. Senators have the ability when they want to be thorns in the side of process. The senate has left town. Usually they are able to get it done by unanimous consent if they need to. Thanks to the three of you, i thank you for helping us kickoff the friday night. Drive through testing lines and hospital bed shortages. We will talk to a doctor that worked in both the obama and trump administrations about what is going to happen next. And later we are moments away from the european travel restrictions going into effect. We will explain what that means here and across the atlantic. T here and across the atlantic you are watching msnbc. We want to make sure that those that need a test can get a test very safely, quickly and conveniently but we dont want people to take a test if we feel they shouldnt be doing it. We dont want everyone running out and taking it. Only if you have certain symptoms. Testing is the major obstacle to containing the coronavirus. State and local officials are taking their own measures including drive through testing stations like the one that opened in new rochellenew york today. I spoke about the Vice President and i spoke with the president. They are authorizing new york state to do the testing and allowing our labs to do the test. Allowing the state Health Department to set up the protocol. David served under the current president and before that undersecretary as supervising the Health Care Service for veterans and medical leadership roles with multiple universities. He is the author of the book that it shouldnt be this hard to serve your country. You are a medical doctor and you ran a hospital group. This is all stuff that fits in to your world. There is something called the infection curve. If we did nothing the infections could peak and exceed the dotted line that goes horizontally through that our health care capability. If we do certain things the same number might get sick but it will be within the capabilities of the health care system. Thats right. If we do nothing without interventions the number of cases will double every six days. If you follow the math, and without intervention we would overcome the supply of hospital beds by the middle of may. We want to use our resources as wisely as possible. When we exceed our hospital beds, that means people dont get the same care they otherwise would in a hospital because you are coming up with makeshift hospitals and facilities but people that need a hospital bed may not find one available because hospitals are full. This is clearly affecting a lot of people in the way they get their health care. Leaders are putting together Emergency Preparedness plans. So that they can make the skarts resources needed available. We are seeing some people delaying necessary care because they are concerned about going into hospitals now. So this is very important. The Public Health issues that we are facing right now. They are probably unprecedented for many people. Lets examine that for a second. You are immuno suppressed. They cant be around people. There are a lot of people that say i am young. I am not going to take the precautions necessary. If you are a carrier you could end up killing people. We are seeing how one person does impact another person. If you are not rational. If you are not doing the right things as an individual you can have a big impact on somebody else and on an entire community. One point you made to me the last time we talked, the department of Veterans Affairs is a Capable Organization that has a lot of capacity. It employs the most nurses and doctors. It has the ability under title 38 should a National Emergency be declared to reach out and work with the private sector. We need to see more partnerships the types the president was demonstrating. All of those pharmacies. Absolutely. We need to engage our private sector to help work and the federal government. I had people tweeting me saying isnt this just a private takeover to profit off of coronavirus. The private sector brings real practice that it would take a while for government to build. It can move quickly and in times of crisis we see the American People coming together. We had republicans and democrats today agreeing on the right thing. I am hopeful that it is a time to pull together and put aside of the pettiness we have seen and do the right thing to keep the American People secure. Coming up, what the trurcmp administration learned about combatting the coronavirus through a Facebook Group. The cs through a Facebook Group robber it is almost inevitable that the vast majority of all schools in all states will close. We have to think about families. We really need employers to let parents stay home to care for the kids and the issue of food is a really big one. We have about 30 million children around the United States that rely on schools to get their food. We can think about it differently, schools not just as buildings but Food Distribution centers. That was former education secretary arnie duncan speaking about the Ripple Effect of the coronavirus on some of the most vulnerable americans. Todays decision to declare a National Emergency will free up tens of billions to soften the blows across the country. But President Trump was reluctant to declare a National Emergency in part for this reason. Trumps aides will not give the president a final verdict until Jared Kushner talks to relevant parties and presents his findings to the president. He reached out to his brothers wife father who is a doctor and took the issue to a Facebook Group. Anybody that is following Jared Kushners deal of the century in the middle east is not sure he should be running this response. Give it to Jared Kushner. When he needed to figure out about china google d. This is not the first time it happened with Jared Kushner. He is a Senior Advisor to the president meaning he can have his hands in anything and everything and he is there when the president needs advice and assistance and people to go out there and talk to people. That is one of the things that Jared Kushner does. He talks to a lot of people on various issues he is in charge of. I had a number of people that says he is in charge. You mentioned the Facebook Post of his brothers fatherinlaw the president very much relies on him. This method has gotten the white house into trouble in the past. At some point we have a nation full of Public Health experts. Today seemed to be an indication that pressure built on the president. He had to deliver a press conference based on Public Health and not what was talked about in the oval office. We were hearing the president would not do this emergency declaration. It was very clear on wednesday after the address was criticized that it did not go far enough. That he said inaccurate information. He needed something new. He needed to be much more forceful. You know, he had people advising him to take bold action. I think he was looking at the markets. He was looking at what people were saying and felt like he needed to do that. The president said in response to a couple of direct questions he does not take responsibility for changes made at the white house to a National Security group that looked into pandemics. He does in his speeches in the oval office and tonight this afternoon at the rose garden, he does take credit and believes the early closing to people around the world and the barring people from europe coming over, he does think that is a big deal. Public Health Experts dont lineup on that. You are right. There are a lot of people saying the thing about europe that it has come too late for it to be effective. There are a lot of exceptions to that. Some people cant come in to the country but some can. Does it look like the response, and i want to remind people that we first heard about this in december. The first case was reported at the end of january. This became big really in the last month or so. It has been a month of knowing that coronavirus is around. A reluctant response from the white house. Wednesdays remarks looked like they were forced from the president. He did not seem to be able to deliver it comfortably. Do you think something has changed today. Have we changed in our response in a way that might be meaningful in an effort to fight coronavirus . I do think there is a realization by the president that he needed to do more. Just by the fact that america is shutting down. Schools. Businesses, his own Campaign Rallies. There is a feeling you need to get out there and do something. The president is very focused on the economy. He really felt like he needed to do something. It wasnt doing well on wednesday after the address. You know, he wanted to take something on. We saw the stock market rebound initially. So, there is a feeling that something has changed. Now we need to see the follow through on that. Are all of the things he said they were going to happen. Where is it going to be spent and how . Good to see you again, thank you. What to expect when you are expecting during a Global Pandemic. E expecting during a Global Pandemic among the many unknowns about covid19 what are the risks to pregnant women . Are they more vulnerable to get the virus and is there a threat of transmission to the fetus. Dr. Patel served as a senior aide in the obama white house. She is also a practicing primary care internist as johns hopkins. Thank you for joining me. Good to see you again. There are obviously call sorts of groups that we are talking about that feel more vulnerable because of coronavirus. What do we know about pregnant women . First of all, there is not a lot of information just because this is a novel virus. What we do know, and a lot of it is emerging as we are getting more and more data from all of the countries, starting with china. There is no greater risk for getting the virus. If you are pregnant and you do get infected with covid19, what does that mean for your baby . We know very limited data. Nine cases in china that have been incredibly detailed. We do know that those women presented in their third trimester and all had a form of pneumonia that we think played a role in fetal distress leading to csections. All of the babies did fine. Nine births. Led to what we would call complications in the delivery. Thats real. Unlike the flu where infants and children that do not have well developed immune system more developed. I hate to say that there is something always interesting about these novel virus or the silver lining. In that sense that incredible resilience and they are not getting infected. Having said that there are children that have been infected, all of them with the exception of one case have all recovered fully. We are trying to understand what is it about children that confers some sort of protection. What would you recommend . The one thing i am not clear on, and i have been reporting on this for a month at what point . What point do you say to somebody that i think i might have a problem here and i might need to be checked out. I am a mom. There is no time of more heightened anxiety than when you think there is something is wrong. If you dont do something, you can harm your baby. I fully recommend you reach out to your o. B. s office. They are providing guidance for obstetricians on what they should be doing. The next natural question is when do you need to worry about presenting to the office or going to the doctor in person and what do you do when you get to the doctor. Be sensible. Use precautions, speak up early. It is really a matter of do you think that you actually have covid19 and should you be getting tested. That is the question a lot of pregnant women will be asking. There is a lot of anxiety out there. You know, you get a cough. You sneeze. Everybody is worried about it. There are heightened anxieties all around. Thank you for joining me. For more answers to your coronavirus questions our special team of experts will be here to answer them tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. And 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Make sure to use the hashtag msnbcanswers. Hashtag msnbcanswers. We are minutes away from new travel restrictions going into effect for most countries in europe for the next 30 days but there are exceptions for u. S. Citizens, lawful residents and their families that can come to america as they please. Italys lockdown continues as the death toll grew by 250 in a 24 hour period. In rome matt bradley reports on the situation there. Yeah. That travel ban is go to strike a lot of europeans as deeply unfair, especially on the diplomatic and political level and ordinary people because of the double standard. American citizens in europe will be allowed to travel back to the states. Not scientific. Americans like me and my colleagues are just as capable of carrying the virus back to the United States. A good faith effort would exclude american citizens abroad. This will strike a lot of people on the political level as kind of settling political or diplomatic scores other than a real effort to prevent the virus from reaching the u. S. Where it already is. For italians, they understand very well that having any amount of virus in a country could cause it to mushroom out regardless of who enters or exits. Here in italy there were very few cases and it ballooned up into a major issue. Now italy has the highest number of case loads and deaths from the coronavirus after china. We just saw today 25 increase in the number of deaths that was an unprecedented figure. This is despite a nationwide lockdown that has seen the country of 60 Million People to stay indoors and that is what turned rome around me on a friday night into a ghost town. Now over to one of the countries not affected by the ban. The united kingdom. Ali, President Trumps travel ban is not having a effect here at heathrow in london. But it will affect european citizens from 26 countries. They wont be able to travel to the u. S. For 30 days and the president suggested the u. K. Could be added to the travel ban list as infections here rise. The president trying to clear up confusion. There has been a lot of confusion saying that u. S. Citizens headed back to the United States will be tested and expected to self isolate. We spoke to one californian couple that rushed from portugal fearing they wouldnt be able to get home. They have been here in london on hold with their airline expecting now to travel back to the United States tomorrow. They dont know what to expect. And again, the issue is that on top of the fear and the concern about coronavirus, many of the americans that were here in europe for a dream vacation are facing a nightmare of confusion and concern. Many just wanted to get home. Keir simmons at heathrow airport. An important lesson on the pandemic and a reminder to do as they say and notas they do. R tos they say and notas they do [sfx car passing by, kids laughing,] [sfx bikes passing,] [sfx fire truck siren, ambient sounds] onstar, we see them. Okay. Mother and child in vehicle. Mother is unable to exit the vehicle. Injuries are unknown. Thank you, onstar. My son, is he okay . Your sons fine. Thank you. There was something in the road. Its okay. Youre safe now. But when allergies attack,f any the excitement fades. 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Keep distance from people. Great job. Thank you. Thank you mr. President. You want to prevent the spread and transmission of the disease. Okay. I like that. The president is right about one thing. A lot of it is common sense. That is it for our broadcast. You can join me tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern here on msnbc and good night from msnbc headquarters here in new york. I noticed kim lying at the base of the bed face down. I saw zip ties tied around her ankle and feet. I still cant wrap my head around it. She was always helping others and now she needed help. Had he been keeping secrets . What about a girlfriend