And the retiring of a racist nfl mascot when all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have seen an abysmal failure of leadership from our president. The u. S. Has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world. Our president had zero desire and zero ability actually to solve the problem. Instead, from now until election day, every day, all of his energy is going to be focussed in finding a villain. I said repeatedly on the show, this problem that we are in the midst of, it is a very hard problem to solve, and people make mistakes. For example, the cdc initially told americans not to wear masks before reversing that guidance in early april. That was a very bad and costly error. In new york state, Governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor bill de blasio made serious mistakes that very likely cost lives. Heres the thing. There are two categories of leaders right now. There are those that are trying their best in good faith and working to do whatever they can to defeat the viru
Just when he thought he bowed out of public life, Robert Mueller comes back roaring back, after president commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and ally roger stone. Despite the fact that stone lied about his russian contacts and his communications with wikiileaks, the president has painted his longtime friend as something of a victim. But now the former special counsel is breaking his silence at least in print. Defending his doj colleague. Originally in an oped in the Washington Post, mueller wrote this, when a subject lies to investigators it strikes at the governments effort to hold wrong doers accountable. We made every decision in stones case as in all our cases based solely on the facts and the law and accordance with the rule of law. Claims to the contrary are false. Joining your conversation is our good friend frank figliuzzi. Lucky for us hes now an Msnbc National Security analyst. Some of the words that were like fingers in the socket for me. Donald trump suggested tha
Roger stone joins me tonight. A new racism controversy for Tucker Carlson as a man who writes his scripts resigns in disgrace. And the retiring of a racist nfl mascot when all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have seen an abysmal failure of leadership from our president. The u. S. Has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world. Our president had zero desire and zero ability actually to solve the problem. Instead, from now until election day, every day, all of his energy is going to be focussed in finding a villain. I said revotedly on the show, this problem that we are in the midst of, it is a very hard problem to solve, and people make mistakes. For example, the cdc initially told americans not to wear masks before reversing that guidance in early april. That was a very bad and costly error. In new york state, Governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor bill de blasio made serious mistakes that very likely cost lives. Heres the thing. There are two categories of lead
Administration declared a Public Health emergency. What did the president do about the coronavirus . I issued a travel restriction from china. Public Health Experts say they bought himself a little extra time and then jausquander it. What did the president say . Its like a miracle. One day it will disappear. Was it a reality . The cdc official said its not a question of if the virus spreads but when. Reporter how delayed reactions from beijing to the white house contributed to missing supplies. Were running out of medications, running out of equipment. Reporter slow testing and confusion about the best way forward. Its frustrating, it dishes disheartening. We can do this. We know how to do this. Reporter a cnn special repo report, the pandemic the president. We decided to take a look at how the United States was fighting this deadly virus. Incredibly were back here months later with a new investigation and sorry to say, in many ways things are much worse for muff ch of the countr and a
You see it right there, the global model for coronavirus mitigation. By comparison to most other countries the president rights who are suffering greatly we are doing very well. The numbers make clear that thats simply not true. The United States is both the leader in cases and deaths. You see the numbers on the screen. In 20 days since the call tar hit july 1,119,000 of infections in the case. This is the picture of suffering, the u. S. Sevenday average measured against that of the European Union who has flattened the curve and that have brazil where cases are rights but not near as fast as here in the United States. U. S. Hospitalizations are within whisper distance of the pandemic peak. Dr. Anthony fauci said this morning on npr the white house has not asked him to be part of the president s onagain briefings but, quote, if they want me there ill be more than happy to be there. Youll remember the Daily White House coronavirus briefings were cancelled because the president kept contr