Energy, they dont want to be lo locked into a house or an apartment or some space. Its not for our country. Were not built that way. You know, mika, that was good morning, everybody, welcome to morning joe. That was actually an illustration of what writer windsor mann in his latest analysis of donald trump has done. Last month donald trump declared victory over the coronavirus, and this month he declared war. This week he surrendered, and its very interesting, mika, that that surrendering is coming as the United States just passed a thousand deaths. New york city yesterday new york city alone, one city alone, had more people die from the coronavirus yesterday than died in afghanistan fighting in 2020 in 2019 in 2018, in 2017, and than 2016 combined. More people died yesterday in new york city than died this year in afghanistan, the year before that, the year before that, the year before that, the year before that and the year before that, and the president is now surrendering. Already. One week in surrendering, and this ad, mika, that were going to be showing later on today, 32,000 cases in new york, 334 deaths. This happening in the state where the president lived his whole life, and just listen to some of these quotes from january the 20th. Hes not worried at all. We have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from china, and we have it under control. Its going to be fine. On january 24th. It will all work out well. On january 28th, he retweeted that Johnson Johnson had created a coronavirus when he knew that was a lie. On january 30th during a speech in michigan he said we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country. Five, five people, and those people are all recuperating successfully. That was on january the 30th when it had already been declared a World Health Emergency by the w. H. O. Of course on february 5th, thats when the cdc shipped their faulty tests after donald trump said no to getting tests that would have already had americans tested from the World Health Organization tests. On february 10th, he said by april this will miraculously go away. On february 23rd, he said its very much under control. We had 12 at one point, and now theyve gotten very much better. Again, yesterday, in Donald Trumps hometown, 1,000 americans died of the coronavirus that he a thousand total deaths. We went over yesterday and in his hometown of new york city 80 people died. Throughout february trump also said things were getting better. On february 26th he said were going down, not up, as we skyrocket straight up with new virus and death, new people getting viruses and death. On february 27th, he said its going to disappear one day, like a miracle, its going to disappear. On february 29th, he lied again about vaccines saying theyd be available, very quickly, very rapidly. When everybody said its going to take a year to a year and a half. On march the 4th, he said its very mild. On march 7th he said im not concerned at all. Im not concerned at all. While today in new york city doctors and nurses are risking their very lives. Nurses are going around in garbage bags the New York Post reports, in garbage bags because donald trump refuses to do what it takes to get them the gear they need. March 10th, he said its going away. Just be calm. Its going away, and he lied about tests. He said on march 6th anybody that wants a test can get a test. Hhs secretary azar lied also about tests. He said theres no testing kit shortage, nor has there ever been. Thats just a flat out lie, and mika, yesterday, donald trump, again, lying to the american people, lying in a way thats going to kill more and more american people. Weve already seen that. Thats not hyperbole. Donald trump in january was warned by the Intel Community this was coming. He blew them off. In february he was warned again. He blew them off. He blew off the World Health Organization begging to give us tests. Hes made mistakes every step of the way, and now over a thousand americans have died, and those numbers weve been telling you this for two weeks, those numbers are going to skyrocket. Friends, were not even close to the worst point of this crisis, not even close. Now, how do i know that . Is this about trying to predict what somebodys going to do in a campaign or how moving to the left or moving to the right is going to impact a politician a performance in a debate or how their poll numbers are going to be affected by some wonderful speech they give . No, this is science. This is data. You can go to the Johns Hopkins website to see the trend lines where theyre going. Its you know, you see that hurricane coming towards shore, the hurricanes coming towards shore. In fact, the outer bands have started to hit the shore, and its going to keep coming, and what donald trump said in the past i said last week didnt matter to me. It really didnt because i said wed sort that out in the fall, but now that hes being reckless and irresponsible, now that he is still refusing to do everything he can do to get americans the testing kits that would not only save lives and shorten this virus, but it would do what hes mainly concerned with. Right. Save his businesses. It would save other businesses. It would save the wall street from crashing even more. It would save people who are going to be struggling, 30 unemployment perhaps. If you get this widespread testing as ive withbeen saying a month now you can track the virus where it is, where its going, who can go back to work and who cant, but mika, they still refuse, despite the fact i was promised time and again and americans were promised this past weekend that were going to hear about great breakthroughs on testing this week. Mike pence promised us that over the weekend. Weve heard nothing. And its just kind of trickling out. Just more lies by the president saying oh, were doing a better job than south korea. No, south korea has 50 million people, mr. President , that live in their country. Here it is. Adjusted for population. We have 340, 330, 340 million, so mr. President , youre lying when you say that we are doing a better job than south korea. South korea actually, if you look at that, the u. S. Trails every country in the number of coronavirus tests conducted per million people, and this is science. I dont know. Maybe you didnt take science at whatever school your daddy got you into. I dont know. But this is just science. This is just data. Donald, you cant fudge this. You cant negotiate with a pandemic. You cant have a patchwork approach to going to war. Americans are dying. Theyre going to keep dying, and youre wrecking the economy. You are wrecking the economy unless you start nationalizing the effort to get testing out to every american so we can see whos healthy enough to go back to work. We can see who has the disease and who needs to be quarantined, and we can tell the difference between the two. We are flying blind because of you mr. President , and it comes down to testing, testing, testing. Weve been telling you this for a month. Were telling you this again. Youve got to focus. Youve got to save lives, and youve got to save the economy, and right now youre failing on all three points. Do a better job. As you saw, the president tried to say that this was going to go away. It didnt go away, and to your point, joe, about testing to back up a little bit on two fronts. Number one, if we had followed the warnings of the World Health Organization, if we had not fired everybody in the pandemic office, we would have had testing early on and perhaps some of his economic goals would be possible if we could do rapid tests across the country, if we could figure out if there are any asymptomatic carriers out there, we would have a road map. We would not be flying blind, and for some parts of the country it might be possible to reopen a lot quicker, but we dont have that because the president botched that, so then it gets to a question for the republicans. For republicans who still wont speak out about whats right here, speak out about the science involved because you got to pull back, and youve got to look at this presidency, and this is what weve come to. We let it go. The republicans let it go when he constantly attacked the media from the get go, called us crazy, called us oversensitive. Let it go, its fine. Wait, but beyond that he said that the way we were covering this, the way we were warning americans about this day coming and that it would get even worse, he said that coverage was a hoax. But im backing up to the beginning. Republicans let it go when he chipped away at our democracy, undermining the media. When he chipped away at our democracy and cozied up to dictators. When he chipped away at our democracy and worked with a foreign leader to get dirt on a political rival. Are we really going to find out the hard way . Are we going to find out the hard way that it is not okay to let a president run roughshod over our democracy and go completely unchecked . Are we going to find out the hard way, are republicans and democrats and american citizens going to find out by watching their families get ill from a virus that the president tried to play down . By getting ill from a virus that the president reopens the economy before its possible scientifical scientifically . How far are we going to let him go . Well, mika, youve said are they going to let him do this . They already have. There are a thousand people in america, over a thousand people now dead from a virus, from a pandemic that donald trump said was going to go away, that it only infected five people and it was going away. That it only affected 15 people and that it was going away, that it was going to magically go away, and we didnt need to worry about it, and here we are, again, well show you the numbers later on this morning. Well show you the trend lines that we showed you yesterday. This is going to get much worse, and Jonathan Lemire right now in new york city as i said, its a war zone in new yorks hospitals. This country that suffered so much on 9 11, that gave so much of its heart and soul on 9 11, new york city cops coming down with this, new york city firefighters coming down with this, nurses and doctors are those firefighters now on the front lines, are those cops on the front lines, hospital administrati administration, and are guess what as we look at an abandons times square in a crisis the president said was going to go away, we have nurses who are dying, by the way, nurses that the New York Post reports are forced to wear garbage bags because they dont have protective gear. They are literally draping garbage bags over them in this fight against a pandemic that the white house has been warned could kill over 2 million americans, more americans than died at every war since 1776. A and yet this president is still whistling past the graveyard, and its nurses and doctors and our Senior Citizens who are effectively being told to go to hell. The image you just showed of times square there stark and empty is eerie, and scary but also representative of a state thats doing its part. People are staying home. They are social distancing themselves. Theyre doing what they can, and at least right now they have largely been it seems abandoned by the president who up until a short time used to live here. Trump, of course, now, lets remember he doesnt live in new york anymore. He changed his residence to florida a few months back. Yesterday in new york city the Mayors Office put out a statistic, at 10 00 a. M. There had been 199 deaths by this coronavirus. By 6 00 p. M. , it had surged to 280. Thats only an eighthour gap. 81 people died. Thats more than ten per hour. You showed it there. We have reports of nurses having to wear plastic garbage bags because they dont have enough equipment. That same hospital where thats happening a worker died. At a couple of hospitals, bellevue hospital, New York University hospital we are seeing them make makeshift morgues. Theyre closing down streets so they can build up tents so they can be prepared to take the influx of bodies that are expected to come because of this death. We have talked about testing. It was just a week or so ago where the president and the Vice President promised drive through testing at walmarts and targets. That hasnt happened yesterday. The president yesterday. By the way, as youre talking about testing Jonathan Lemire, in the county where donald trump loves to travel to, Palm Beach County, you cant get tests. The president said on march 6th if you want a test, you can get a test. In all of Palm Beach County, there are no tests to be had in the Third Largest county in the state of florida. This is in the state of florida where Senior Citizens are, so many Senior Citizens are, jonathan, and you have the president s people writing opeds and telling cable News Reporters if seniors die, seniors die. You have republicans who are lieutenant governors in texas saying you know what . Grandparents you know what, theyre going to be willing to die so the economy doesnt go down too badly. This is the innew argument that being made by Donald Trumps supporters that, yes, a lot of people are going to die, and well, thats not as troubling as a bad economy. But go ahead, jonathan, im sorry so interrupt. No, the point is well taken, and that is you are right. That has become the rallying cry of some certain parts of the right suggesting this is a sacrifice that some americans are willing to make to keep the economy going. Obviously its in everyones interest for the economy to do well, but Public Health should be coming first. The president here, we saw his tweet yesterday. He laid it out pretty plainly for us. He accused the media of that the media is the driving force behind the efforts to keep the country closed to keep it shuttered. He says the media wants that to happen because it would be detrimental to his reelection efforts. Its not the media thats suggesting the country remain closed. It is scientists, doctors, and perhaps most importantly the nations governors who are at the hot spots right now. Governor cuomo in new york, obviously california, washington state, seemingly by the day we have more and more states advising lockdowns, suggesting people stay home for the next two or three weeks, joe, and it is only going to get worse. I keep coming back to what Governor Cuomo said yesterday. New york is going through it now even though its apex is a couple of weeks away. New york is foreshadowing whats going to happen to the rest of the country. Other parts of the country, florida included, are going to be dealing with the brunt of what new york is going through right now. I hear one doctor after another saying floridas going to be the next hot spot. Lets show that image of the New York Post again if we can, can you imagine, more people are going to be dying of the coronavirus in the United States by just multitudes than died on 9 11. Can you imagine if we required new york city cops and new york city firefighters to be fighting the fires and the death and destruction that day in garbage bags . The people that you are looking at on the front of the New York Post, those are firefighters. Those are Police Officers on 9 11 except theyre going to be working on a virus that will end up killing more americans than were killed in iraq, killed in afghanistan, killed in the entire war on terror, and what were talking about, because the president brought this up, mika, before surrendering, you know who were throwing away when larry kudlow and steven moore and donald trump, and people for catholic magazines are saying, you know what . People have to die. Theres a story. Senior citizens, grandparents. And theres a story in the New York Times about a lawyer who a big spread about a lawyer who influenced the president with two arguments that Senior Citizens were going to die anyway. They were unproductive, and they cost a lot of money. They cost a lot of money. Really . So theres the logic that the president has taken forward, and whos being abandoned . Its world war ii vets who gave their entire life now in their 90s, the frailest among us, and theyre being abandoned. Youre seeing korean war vets in the golden years of their life after giving their all to their country being abandoned by this president. Youre seeing vietnam vets who went through hell not only at war but when they came home they were treated like garbage, but you know what . They still love their country. They still wave their flag. Theyre still proud, still proud that they went and fought for their country when they were called while people like donald trump stayed home and went to elite colleges and dodged the draft. But those vietnam vets, theyre being left behind, and it seems that republicans now are making the argument let the world war ii vets die. Let the korean vets die. Let the vietnam vets die, let everybody in that generation die because were worried about boeing. They want boeing who gets a 17 billion bailout in this package after killing people because of their selfishness, because of their greediness. All these other companies with stock buybacks, the same thing happened there. We have republicans we have people like Lindsey Graham and rick scott more concerned about boeing than Unemployed People in their own state. And i understand with rick scott because he cut Unemployment Benefits so low in florida that florida actually has the worst Unemployment Benefits in america because of rick scott, but rick scott was worried about unemployed americans, unemployed americans getting too much money while he had no problem with boeing getting a 17 billion bailout after killing people because of their selfishness and their greediness. Mika, the priorities, ive never in my life seen the