In the dark, releasing new details of their arrangements with the big companies, created a new and convoluted Emergency Response system, and sewed confusion and distrust in the states and among the people who need medical supplies. We have got a team of reporters on this nbc news exclusive and on the white house response. So we begin with our nbc news senior political analyst, jonathan allen. So jonathan, i got a call out of nowhere this weekend after your reporting came out from a source in the National Security world, in the government, saying that this lined up exactly with what they were saying. Well, im glad to hear that, katindicat katy. What youve got going on, katy, is a task force run by Vice President mike pence, who has seven subtask forces. Weve heard there are going to be new task forces. And essentially whats gone on is an effort to create some efficiencies that appears to have, in a lot of cases, created inefficiencies and confusion. There have been bidding wars, as youv
Higher. A tiny fraction of the americans have been tested for the virus. Still under 1 . Over 22,000 people have lost their lives. Today new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he believes the worst could be over even as his state reached another tragic milestone. Over 10,000 new yorkers have now died. Nearly half of all the covid19 deaths in this entire country. 2700 lives were lost in 9 11 and 9 11 changed every new yorker who was in a position to appreciate on that day what happened. And the number of lives lost was horrific after 9 11. And the grief was horrific. And we are at 10,000 deaths. We can control the spread. Feel good about that. The worst is over. Yeah, if we continue to be smart going forward, because, remember, we have the hand on that volume of. You turn that valve too fast, youll see that number jump right back. But, yes, i think you can say the worst is over. Because the worst here are people dying. Thats the worst. If we continue to be smart, meanwhile, states along th
Guidelines. Were going to see fridays trails open, golf courses, car dealership, some florists, some other retail but no beaches. Not yet. And we are being warned that this process will be slow. The new york city subway closed overnight, first in over 100 years to clean the cars. We have turned the corner, and were on the decline. You take new york out of the national numbers, the numbers for the rest of the nation are going up. What were doing here shows results. Across the country as a whole the new case count is not falling, hovering somewhere over 20,000 every single day. I think that we need to understand this may be the new normal. We may not be able to get transmission down much more. I hope we can. But many places reopening anyway. Hot spots now growing in cities like dallas, some more rural flare ups, too, like those in nebraska and minnesota. But better testing might just play into all this. I dont think theres anyone that didnt know there were more cases out there that just
Were hearing from a source, they told rich edson that mike pompeo, the secretary of state himself went to President Trump and said you need to fire this guy, steve linick. We found out late last night that he would be dismissed in 30 days. An obama era employee who briefed on ukraine last fall. The white house not commenting why the president did this. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put out a lengthy statement about the friday night firing. Its concerning that the president has taken the action as the house passes the heroes act, which contains critical funding for the state department ig to oversee and ensure the effective wise spending of Coronavirus Response funds. This firing will set back the important work of the office of Inspector General to perform critical audits, investigations and inspection of u. S. Embassies and programs around the world during the crisis. Kristin, this is interesting, this is from the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee eliot engel. Ive learned that