That new york milk story is a great example of how the supply chains get disrupted because so much of the milk supply was destined for new york city Public Schools, which is a very big consumer of new york state milk. Theyre all closed down. Those milk producers up there dont have contracts for delivering it elsewhere, and the governor has to figure out how to get that milk out into the world where it can get to the people who desperately need it, cant afford it. Right and there are statewide contracts like that that governors around the country need to fix. There is another im bambalancet commercial food and the extent restaurants are not operating, those contracts need to be converted into retail contracts there is a role to play a significant role to play for usda and the federal government in terms of trying to fix the mismatches in supply and demand so you dont have hungry people in one place and food being dumped in the other. Usda is pretty much asleep since the start of this crisis. But those food short takes and food dumping things, thats a sign of it. Yeah, we can only hope they come up with a structure that is actually permanent so that it can always deliver food to people in need rather than dump it or dump it in the quantities that happen sometimes. Yeah, capitalism needs assist in this one and it will be something that we can really use right now and we could use in the long run. Thanks. A permanent assist. Thank you, rachel. Not all of us have been using our time very productively during this shutdown but max rose has. Max rose is a decorated combat army veteran that serve in afghanistan and serves the people of Staten Island and brooklyn in the United States congress and max rose was deplaydeplay deplayed pl deployed with the National Guard in new york city this month. He will join us at the end of the hour to tell us what he saw and learned while hes been deployed with the National Guard that he will be bringing back to washington when Congress Considers the next steps to repair the damage from the coronavirus pandemic in this country. We begin tonight with the numbers. The United States now has 987,367 reported cases of coronavirus. And the United States now has 56,145 reported deaths from coronavirus. That means that tonight, in our sleep, we will officially cross the million mark. Tomorrow we will have over a million reported cases of coronavirus in this country but those reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg since more than 98 of us have not been tested. We will probably never have an accurate count of the total number of coronavirus cases in the United States, and we will probably never have an accurate count of number of deaths caused by coronavirus since we now know that people were dying from coronavirus before we even knew that the virus had reached the United States. Thousands of people have died at home during this pandemic without ever having been tested for coronavirus before or after death and so well never know the real number. And from the start, donald trump has not wanted us to know the real numbers and has not wanted us to know any of the real numbers in this story. In february, donald trump was trying to prevent a cruise ship from dock k ing in San Francisco americans could leave the ship. He was afraid that would increase the coronavirus cases in america at that time. When donald trump was trying to wish that number of cases down to zero, and the last days of february, donald trump actually said when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple days is going to be down to close to zero, thats a pretty good job weve done. That sure would have been a pretty good job if they did that. According to breaking news reported from the Washington Post tonight, at the time that donald trump said that and for weeks before donald trump said that, the president s daily intelligence briefing was telling donald trump repeatedly of the severity of the coronavirus threat to the United States of america a threat that donald trump ignored even though his intelligence briefing was telling him about it every day. The Washington Post reports tonight u. S. Intelligence agencies issued warnings about the Novel Coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared by President Trump in january and february months during which he continued to play down the threat according to current and former u. S. Officials. The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the president s daily brief a sensitive report that is produced before dawn each day and designed to call the president s attention to the most significant Global Developments and security threats. But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president to routinely skip reading the pdb and has at times shown little patience for even the oral summery he takes to or through times per week. Here is how the Washington Post reported greg miller who cowrote that story explains the significance of the covid19 warnings in the president s daily brief to chris hayes earlier tonight. This is where the u. S. Intelligence analysts putinform. So much a remarkable amount of energy and people go into preparing this single report each and ever day and not very many people get it. Obviously, its Main Customer is the president of the United States. He doesnt read the pdb unlike his predecessors. He does not sit down each day to digest this. He doesnt read it, doesnt skim it. So the president s daily brief may turn out to be the best proof of the president s daily failure to confront the threat to american lives posed by the spreading coronavirus in january and february and this is a rerun of another republican president s failure to mobilize after receive inging a daily wa, deadly warning in the daily brief that was a month before 9 11. The president ial daily brief told president bush that Osama Bin Laden was quote determined to strike in the u. S. End quote. And so this is not the first time a president has failed to defend the United States against a looming threat that the president was warned about. But this is the first time that the president has become a threat himself. This is the first time that a president s own words amount to a deadly threat to americans. Donald trump spent weeks illegally prescribing prescription drugs on television to america at a white house microphone. Anti malaria drugs he was sure would work to stop covid19, and if it didnt, he repeatedly said what have you got to lose . The answer was your life. The anti malaria drugs can set off deadly coronary reactions in some people and that is something doctors have always known. And when a survey of Veterans Administration patients showed that the death rate was higher among patients who followed Donald Trumps advice than the patients who did not, then donald trump stopped talking about those anti malaria drugs that may have already killed thousands of people who thought they had nothing to lose by using those drugs to fight covid19. And then, on thursday, donald trump suggested something that could kill any of us, no matter how healthy we are, no matter how old we are after he was told something that day that the rest of us already knew that disinfectant is a good way to clean your kitchen counter or your doorknobs in the era of coronavirus. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. It would be interesting to check that so you have to use medical doctors but it sounds interesting to me. None of the medical experts in the room at the time jumped up to say this is deadly and you could die if you do anything that donald trump just suggested. They failed that moment, the medical experts in the room. Lysol had to issue a life saving emergency saying we must be clear under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body. For three Straight Days donald trump live in fear of reporters questions. At the next White House Briefing on friday, donald trump didnt take questions and then america had its most restful weekend yet in the era of coronavirus because no one had to deal with the tension of king george, iii level madness being spread by the president at a White House Briefing. Donald trump gave the country a weekend off duty. A full weekend where no one had to watch donald trump saying crazy and dangerous and indescribably stupid things and the only people who could have been disappointed that donald trump spent the weekend silently cowering in fear of reporters were the people working on the biden for President Campaign who so far have every right to believe that the White House Briefings are the best thing that has happened to the Biden Campaign since joe biden secured endorsements from democratic rivals. A University Poll shows joe biden ahead of donald trump outside of the margin of error 5040 in the same poll 64 say donald trump is not honest and trustworthy. Of the minority who find donald trump trustworthy, we can only hope they found lysols statement about drinking their product more trustworthy than Donald Trumps suggestion that lysol might be the prefect treatment for coronavirus. The Trump White House went from no briefing on their schedule to having a White House Briefing on the schedule to cancelling the briefing from the schedule before then restoring the White House Briefing to the schedule. Donald trump knew he would get a question about disinfectant but also knew he could just cut the reporter short and not answer the question. Now that other states, governor larry hogan said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week. I know you said they were sarcastic. I cant imagine why. I cant imagine why. Do you take any responsibility i cant imagine that. Go ahead, please. Mr. President , dr. Anthony fauci says that we need that was it. No responsibility. Takes no responsibility and once again, donald trump was able to count on the White House Press cores tendency to not back each other up and change the subject when donald trump wants to change the subject and so thats what happened. Change the subject. No other questions about it. About the single most insane thing ever spoken publicly by a president of the United States. No more questions. Dr. Masri of Louisiana StateUniversity Hospital has been keeping a video diary for us of life and death in new orleans. Soon were going to catch up and exceed the number of deaths that we saw in our city of new orleans from Hurricane Katrina. Its an interesting parallel between covid19 and Hurricane Katrina. I lived through both. Katrina came and went. It was quick. We dealt with the aftermath the whole time. But people could physically see the damage from Hurricane Katrina in their homes, outside in their community, on tv. Covid19 is different. Its a silent killer. People are stuck at home. They dont necessarily see the damage unless they have a Family Member or friend afflicted with the virus or theyre a Front Line Health Care worker. We need to keep in mind the fact that this is a silent killer, the fact that its still out there in our community. Understanding that we need to come back to a new normal. Katrina changed the way we live in new orleans. Covid19 is going to change the way we live in the world. Leading off our discussion tonight are ben rhodes, an msnbc political reporter and analyst for nbc news and the cohost of show times the circus. Ben, you handled the president s daily brief in the obama white house. How did president obama handle the president s daily brief . Well, lawrence, you know, i got over 1,000 and what president obama would do is every morning he would get a written briefing he would read in his residence and those of us in the morning meeting with him would get the same briefing and e with would meet with the director of National Intelligence in the oval office. The reason this is relevant, i learned about the Ebola Outbreak from that. President obama learned about the Ebola Outbreak from the pbd. What he did with the information is set up a government process. Lets put together an agency group, people from different relevant agencies, the nih, the cdc and state department involved in National Security and get them working on it and that pdb led to that government process which led to the deployment of thousands of u. S. Troops to west africa who could facilitate the flow of tens of thousands of Health Care Workers to west africa to stand out that Ebola Outbreak which killed two people in the United States. The pdb is the warning to the president in the United States about the most dangerous tlhreas in the world. President trump ignored those warnings. He paid no attention to them and what he clearly did is try to down play the virus so that the stock market would somehow not tank. You know the reality is that the virus itself was going to tank the stock market and he tried to keep the numbers down instead of ramping up testing which is what he should have done in february and keep the reporting of the numbers down. This is someone that ignored the information that could have saved, lawrence, thousands if not tens of thousands of american lives. Its impossible to oversee the severity of his duty as commander in chief. Ben, when president obama saw the first reference to ebola in the president s daily brief, how quickly did he take action . Did he have to see it several times in the brief by your memory was it the first time he saw it that he said we got to do something about this . To be honest, what i remember is that there were reports of deaths from an Ebola Outbreak and that gets your attention. He said Something Like we got to keep our eye on this, right . As you see this is not something thats going away, its something that is building, that is when he says to us he has some familiarity with both the potential of ebola but also the lack of Public Health in infrastructure in west africa, we better set up a process to deal with this and get the best expert in the room to deal with this before anybody else heard of it. That gives you the opportunity to deal with something before everybody else heard of it because our Intelligence Community is out there paying attention to this stuff and on this show, i think, we probably talked about how President Trump has destained his Intelligence Community by saying they are fake news and dont know what they are talking about and owned by russia. They may have seemed like a relatety show at t reality show at the time. We have a president that didnt Pay Attention to wantings because he doesnt take briefings and wants to be briefed in pictures and not words. We are living with the consequences of this. This is hospitals trying to warn him about throughout john and february. John, new poll today almost twothirds of america think donald trump is not trustworthy. Joe biden opens up a tenpoint led out side the margin of error. Is that a reaction to the White House Press briefings . Yeah. I think to a large extent. Its reaction to a lot of things. Certainly its a reaction to fund mentally its a reaction to the pandemic itself and in the first order. The fact that there are a lot of scared americans who are focused in a way on their own health on the health of their families, on their well being in a laserlike way as we go through this extraordinary period and in m t moments like that that are rare focused on this imminent threat, they then look to the one person they naturally instinctively look to for leadership, for guidance, for simple though and things americans look to their president and they got none of that from donald trump. Not just the stuff ben was talking about. That is correct but almost every quality that americans left and right, republican and democrat traditionally assume they will see in a president of the United States, theyve seen none of it from donald trump in this crisis and i think the briefings, the daily briefings, those many hours that donald trump has sucked up the air time that he sucked up, all of it to his political disadvantage because for a lot of americans who have various expectations of a president , donald trump has fulfilled none of them, not only his duties as commander in chief and as the chief executive of the country, but on all of the other metmetrics, i think ameris increasingly find him wanting and thats what those polls, not just that poll but many polls across the Battle Ground states are showing. And john, at todays White House Briefing, the president trouted out what seems to be his favorite version of it, which is a bunch of high powered Business Executives people Running Companies like walmart and the giant pharmacy chains around the country but once again, making some statements about what they might be able to achieve in the future on testing after theyve already failed to do what some of these same people said they would do on testing in the past. Right. I think, you know, that its weve seen the show before that we saw today and im not going to ever be in a position to deme demean. There are Companies Across america doing heroic work. They are being put and right to be there in some sense, they are trying to do what they can in the service, not of the president but in the service of the country but i do think that we have seen that parade of ceos up there before and the record the president has to run on the record that i think, you know, were talked about this on the show before and ill keep beating this drum for the next nine months, this election now is almost inevitably going to be a referendum on Donald Trumps leader ship and the early victivicti verdict is conclusive donald trump failed in the leadership hes faced so far. Thank you for starting us off tonight and ben rhodes, thank you for joining us tonight and give you a belated thank you for the work you did with others in the Obama Administration to contain ebola, the story that is always worth retelling with what were going through now. Thank you, ben. Appreciate you joining us tonight. 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Today the cdc added six symptoms to that list, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and a new loss of taste or smell. The World Health Organization today warned countries against issuing immunity certificates. We expect people that are infected with covid19 to develop a response that has some level of protection. What we dont know right now is how strong that protection is and if that is seen in everybody thats infected and for how long that lasts. Joining our discussion is former fda commissioner under president obama and the former new York City Health commissioner, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of medicine. Dr. Hamburg, what is your assessment of where we are nationally on what we have to be doing about testing. The White House Briefing didnt sound like any more real concrete steps to getting testing out there, just more hopes of what might happen in testing. Well, we began unfortunately behind in terms of our testing capabilities and we remain far behind where we need to be in terms of testing. We are clearly up against a very complex and foe. We need to be able to test so we can understand how this epidemic is unfolding, the contours, how its penetrated our communities and across the country. We need also to be able to test very importantly so that we can identify those who are infected make sure that they are isolated from spreading the disease to others and importantly getting care that they need and then of course, we need to use testing to guide our responses to ease restrictions and open up but if we dont know where we are in the epidemic and who is at risk and who is infected, we will not be successful in those efforts. I want to take your back to your job asmissioner and what y be saying to the mayor and city officials today what you would need to reopen new york city Public Schools and i asked that because so much else in the economy is dependent on the schools opening. Would you need for example the ability to test all students or test all faculty members whenever necessary . Well, we need to still learn about the nature of this virus and the risk for spread and how to contain it. We have come to understand that children are less at risk with symptomatic disease and the many complications that come with infection but we now understand they can be asymptomatic carriers. What we dont know is how much they are bringing that disease home to others in the household and spreading it in the community. We need to continue to deepen our understanding so we have to look at the experiences of other countries and places that are starting to open up schools and also return to other kinds of larger scale gathering settings and continue to learn we cant give an answer tomorrow whether the school should open up in the fall. We dont know enough. We need to have more testing. We need to make sure that we had the systems with Public Health to follow up after we test and identify those who are infected to isolate them, to do Contact Tracing and quarantine of those who have been exposed to make sure they arent sick and think about how we will reconfigure certain settings like schools in terms of are there ways to make them less dense, maintain social distancing to some degree or another and i think it will be very, very hard at the younger ages to maintain social distancing, the opposite of what school is about and its probably a false hope kids will wear their masks and wash their hands enough and everything but we have to Start Building in those new behaviors. Going back to school for college age i think is going to be a bit easier because much of it can be done online and you can distance in classrooms, et cetera. These are complex questions and i dont envy my colleagues working at the local level with Public Health but it also goes to the fact that we need more guidance at the federal level working with state and local Health Departments so we can have much clearer guidelines and more consistency. Great to have you back on the show and we need you back to expand on those. Appreciate you being here tonight. Pleasure to be with you, thank you. Thank you. And when we come back, Mitch Mcconnell told new york state to go bankrupt in the face of its funding difficulties with this pandemic and new york glove now andrew cuomo told Mitch Mcconnell exactly what he could do with that idea. That is next. I know for every pizza i deliver thats a trip that family doesnt have to take out of their house. It relieves stress off of me to let me know im doing something good for the community, not just papa johns. Im doing something good for the community, could another come aroundot, the corner. 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Senator could never get any Media Attention to that annual report and he once joked to me that maybe he should label it top secret and somehow leak it to the press and then maybe hed get their attention but now, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo has the countrys attention every day and mitch make ccconnell mae mistake giving andrew cuomo what he needed to make people understand how much new york state contributes to the federal government and to other states like Mitch Mcconnells kentucky which takes much more money from the federal government than kentucky contributes to the federal government. Mitch mcconnell suggested the way for states to handle the crisis in the pandemic is simply declare bankruptcy. Queue andrew cuomo. If you want to go to who is getting bailed out and who paid what, nobody would be bailing out new york state. New york state has been bailing them out every year for decades. If you want to do an analysis of who is a giver and who is a taker, we are the number one giver, and if you want to look at who happened to be the donar sta doner states, the same states, who are the taker states . Kentucky. Joining our discussion senator Chris Van Hollen a member of the Senate Budget and appropriations committee. Senator, one of the things i think is exhibited by Mitch Mcconnells comment is the bankruptcy of Mitch Mcconnell and republican ideas about what to do about how to help this country in this unprecedented situation. Well, that ts right, lawren. This goes down as one of the dumber things hes ever said. If you look at his proposal, it would drag the economy down faster and further if you really say to all these states that have been hit hard by the coronavirus, just declare bankruptcy and has governor y cuomo pointed out, those have been the engines of federal revenue, states like kentucky used to help support the people in the state of kentucky. So mcconnell really stepped in on these remarks and it looks like now hes trying to backtrack. Senator, what are you looking for next . The senate is going to reconvene in a week. What do you think should be the next steps that the Senate Considers in how the country fights this pandemic . Well, i think at the top of the list has to be assistance to state and local governments. Essentially what Mitch Mcconnell was saying the other day was to our first responders, to our firefighters, to our police, to those on the front lines, you know, were not going to be there for you. We the federal government will be there for big corporations. Well be there for the Airline Industry but were not going to be there for those who are on the front lines. Congress has got to do that. Weve got to come together. These states are losing revenue for the same reason businesses are losing revenue. People arent walking in the r too. And thats not generating less revenue. This is the time the federal government needs to help those on the front lines. That needs to be a big part of it. We also need to really get serious about creating a National Supply chain and production of testing equipment. Today, you know, the president came out and unveiled his socalled testing regime. All it was was contracting the challenge out to the states. It was more hocus pocus. We need reduction capacity to get supplies. Those are two things that need to be in the next round. And what about oversight of what congress has already done . Were hearing stories about the Small Business program that are just outrageous. Yeah, im glad you raised that because we did make important changes in this most ve recent bill that passed last week. Mitch mcconnell tried to rush through the replenishment of the fund without reforms or strings attached. Fortunately, we said no. We will replenish these funds but we need to direct a lot more funds through local vendors, community lenders. Its really helped the moms and pops who were left out of the round one. So were hoping that will be helpful. There are some other reforms that should have been made as part of this recent bill that were rejected by the Trump Administration and secretary of the treasury mnuchin. So were going to have to go back to that because otherwise, we may continue to see stories about how the well connected, those who have connections to the biggest banks, you know, are first in line when in fact, we need to make sure this money gets to where its needed most. Senator part of thank you very much. Good to be with you. Thank you for joining us tonight. Appreciate it. Last week on this program you heard from pete vegas how easy it was for him to get a Small Business loan for his legitimate Small Business, but he decided he didnt feel right about accepting that loan and his experience with it made him think that the Small Business program amounted to legalized fraud. After this break well tell you what pete vegas decided to do with his loan money and well be joined by Stephanie Ruhle and what shes finding in the Paycheck Protection Program. Since 1926, nationwide has been on your side. Weve been there in person, during trying times. Today, being on your side means staying home. Nationwide office of customer advocacy. But we can still support you and the heroes who are with you. Were giving refunds on Auto Insurance premiums, assisting customers with financial hardships, and our foundation is contributing millions of dollars to charities helping with covid19 relief. Keeping our promise to be on your side. Los Angeles Lakers franchise is valued at 3. 7 billion, which does not fit most peoples definition of a Small Business but the los Angeles Lakers applied for and received a 4. 6 million loan in the first round of the new Paycheck Protection Program designed to help Small Businesses keep people on their payrolls. The Lakers Organization now says that they will return the money but thats only because the organizations disgraceful grab of that money was made public. One of the people who helped expose the problems with the Small Business loans, pete vegas joined us on this program last week after writing an op ed in the wall street journal where he said his experience with the loan program made it appear to be a fraud. After his appearance on this program last week, pete vegas decided to repay the 3. 4 million loan his company, Small Business legitimately obtained from that Small Business program and we should thank business operators like pete vegas that tell the truth how this worked for them and pete vegas case he had the honorable sense of duty that made him return that money and we command him for that. Joining us is Stephanie Ruhle, Senior Business correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. Stephanie, its not an accident. We know what Small Business is, but republicans define Small Business in legislative language to include 3. 7 billion Companies Like the los Angeles Lakers. Its not an accident. Its the way they write the law. Its the way they write the law but what is so puzzling to me is how in the last week lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who signed off on this legislation are now furious and angry and shaming businesses and saying how dare you take that money . Businesses we like them to all operate be bwith better angels their shoulders, theyre all suffering. When new legislation is out and money is available to them, there is a really good chance they will apply for it but we turn to our government to set the rules to make sure the money goes to the appropriate party. So when you have lawmakers and Steve Mnuchin say these businesses who shouldnt have taken the money, they should expect the harshest of consequences. News flash, the consequences will be nothing but siesides pu shaming because they havent broken the law or viewlat latev rules. When lawmakers say we leave it to the banks, the banks better get this done, what do you expect . Unless you make it really clear what you want and there is punishment on the other side, they are going to do what theyre going to do. Stephanie rule, thank you for join us tonight and thank you for covering this as closely as you have. We really appreciate it. Thank you. When we come back well be joined by new York Democratic rose, a captain in the National Guard and spent this month helping to build a hospital on Staten Island which is now treating coronavirus patients. Well talk with max rose about that next. Were at the movies and we need to silence our phone. Who knows where that button is . I dont have silent. Everyone does right up here. It happens to all of us. We buy a new home, and we turn into our parents. 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To our medical professionals, look, i you all are the soldiers in this war, and its just truly, truly unbelievable. Look, this is the first covid19 only hospital to be established in the entire country. So for the rest of your lives, this is just an unbelievable, unbelievable achievement. And like dr. Adali said, your team has just been unbelievable. You guys came in here five days ago, and we stood up a hospital. So this has been just an honor to work with each and every one of you. On behalf of all of Staten Island and all of new york, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are saving lives, and youre going to continue at this facility. So god bless you. [ applause ] captain rose is also congressman rose, who represents Staten Island and some of brooklyn. And joining us now is congressman max rose of new york. Congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. What have you learned in your weeks of deployment with the National Guard in new york, working on Staten Island, that you want to bring back to members of congress when you reconvene . Thanks for having me. Its good to see you. Look, what i learned and what i experienced was also something quite frankly that we all knew and were seeing well before, which is that we have heroes on the front lines right now. Our medical professionals, our nurses, our doctors, our physicians assistants, and so many others are risking their lives each and every day to keep us safe. And theyre going home and dealing with incredible stress as well, worried that theyre getting their families sick, sometimes isolating themselves from their family. And weve had this discussion for weeks now about ways that we have got to be there for them. But this crisis will continue to go on, and their service continues to go on. All of the people that you saw in that video, look, i didnt do anything. I was there for a couple of weeks. But theyre still out there, and weve got to figure out a way to put the division aside, this blue state versus red state rhetoric that is bubbling up now. We have to think about them, who each and every day are putting the country first. Congressman, this is the same place that had to rebuild had to survive hurricane sandy, rebuild after hurricane sandy, and i was out there a lot after that and saw a spirit on Staten Island that is very, very special. And its special to that place. Talk about what its like when Staten Island comes together like this. Well, first of all, you know, we call them essential workers now. But the folks living on Staten Island and also in the South Brooklyn portion of my Congressional District as well, these are the people who serve new york city cops, the firemen, nurses, teachers, first responders, sanitation workers. Theyre the reason why the lights of new york city go on. They are the folks who are putting their lives on the line each and every day, who we have said openly, you cant stay at home. You cant isolate like the rest of us. No, we need you. And it is a community filled with heroes, heroes who we only seldom recognize, but heroes who put their lives on the line and serve this city for their entire career. And they dont do it because theyre looking for any thanks. They dont do it because theyre looking for any outward forms the gratitude. They do it because they love this country and because they are true experts at their craft, and we should be thanking not only them each and every day, but thanking them with real real wages and real protections. Thats also what theyre deserving of, not just our thanks. And it seems that new york is past its peak or perhaps past what might be its first peak. What do you say to people who are wondering how much longer theyre going to have to observe these rules, governor cuomos rules about this, when it seems to them like perhaps were past the worst of it . Well, first of all, we have to acknowledge the deep economic pain that people are going through. This is not just a health crisis. This is an economic crisis, and youre seeing i see each and every day in my community and i speak to Small Business owners who have given their entire life to their business, their entire life to their restaurant or their bar, doctors who have given their entire life to their practice, and they are seeing it slowly, slowly die before their eyes. And we have got to tell them that there is a plan in place for them to regain their livelihood. But the last thing that we want, the last thing that we want is for them just to open up and then have to return back. We cant afford for that to happen, so we have to get the resources in from the federal government for testing. We certainly have to maintain the solidarity that weve maintained to date. Were going to get this economy going again. This is the greatest country in the history of the world, and were going to stay united. Congressman max rose gets tonights last word. Thank you for your National Guard service and thank you for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Lights that tonight are saluting the u. S. Coast guard and the u. S. Navy over the shutin city of new york from high atop the empire state building. Good evening on this day 1,194 of the Trump Administration. 190 days to go now until the president ial electi