Field and avoid liability to shift production to thighland and vietnam. Thailand and vietnam. Oh, thighland. Thats homer simpson. The capital of course is wingler. Nothing but chicken wings and chicken thighs. Isnt that from tuscaloosa from your college days . It is. You have your dreamland and then your gillette and then your thighland. I got to tell you, by the time you its not a pub crawl, its a chicken crawl. Touch them all. By the time youre done through that, youre crawling to class. I told you, as you know, i went to the university of alabama and university of florida law school, proud to be an alum of both of them, Great Southern state schools. Theres actually a guy on twitter yesterday with a dartmouth degree that was trying to explain to everybody that elites did not understand that thailand was actually pronounced thighland. Its a moment, a cult, the cult of trump, its that reminds me alex we need this in the rotation. Where mike pence sees donald trump puts the water on the floor so mike pence puts the water on the floor. Thats all i have to say, willie. Yeah. I thought we were going to roll the clip. That was the dramatic pause for the clip. Well insert that in post production. If youre willing to go down and die on that hill, the mispronunciation of thailand, theres nothing you wont go down with trump on. Now you had the pinner pause. Now you have the corson pause. Well have the water soon. Pinter of course won a noble prize. Willie and i are working on our project in case youre wondering this early friday morning. Were trying to get our third noble prize for science you said too much already. Im going to put it next to my green jacket. What year did i win the masters. 87. Our apologies to larry. Good morning and welcome to morning joe its friday, august 7th. We have associate editor for the washington post, eugene robinson. Msnbc contributor, victoria defrancesco, ceo of axios, Associated Press reporter jonathan lemire. And historian john meacham. Willie, lets start with the news. Lets get into it. We begin with new coronavirus numbers. The United States now exceeding 160,000 deaths since the pandemic began. America has reported nearly 4. 9 million covid19 cases. Keeping a close eye on hot spots like florida where yesterday there were 8,000 new cases reported. And in texas, at least 300 new deaths for the third day. California continues to grapple with a Technical Glitch in the covid19 tracking system. Officials say its impacting response efforts statewide. A new prediction from the university of washington, the key covid19 model suggests the number of deaths in america is expected to climb to nearly 300,000 by december 1st. Good lord. The model the white house has used and a lot of people looked at. But researchers claim if 90 of americans wore masks when leaving their homes the number of deaths would drop by 66,000. The report also predicts states might reinstate lockdown measures once the death rate reaches 8 per million. Joe, when that number crossed yesterday, it was staggering. Talking about almost 300,000 deaths just over 160,000 right now. If that model plays out, lets hope to got it doesnt. Youre looking at half again what weve seen already. For people that havent been covering this closely, been covering this modeling very closely. Its bounced wildly back and forth but this university of Washington Institute has been one that the white house has used time and again. Its estimates have actually been conservative more often than not. I think the president quoted them saying it might be 60,000, 70,000, not so many months ago. This is the problem with a pandemic. Back when fools and political cranks and cult members were saying, its just like the flu, having the same number of people get this that had the flu, health experts, doctors, scientists, epidemiologists, they all talked about how quickly, how exponentially pandemics like this spread. So, of course, thats what happened. Ill be honest, i was hoping we would stay under 50,000 deaths in march. I didnt know that that could happen, but that certainly was a great hope. You notice, again, if you follow month by month by month, this spreads so quickly. And you notice, were not were not having the university of Washington Institute telling people, if you stay in your home for the next six months, if you shutdown your Small Business for the next six months, if you lock your children away and dont allow them to go to schools for the next smiixth months, no wha do they talk about . They talk about wearing a mask. Its simple. I dont remember in the founding documents or the federalist papers or in the staging of hamilton either on broadway or disney, now streaming at disney plus but man you should look at peacock, peacock is awesome. There it is. I had to say that. Peacock is amazing. I dont remember anybody talking about the right to kill yourself and others by not wearing a mask. This whole idea. I know it comes out of the trump cult thing for people who the extreme members of the trump cult about not Wearing Masks. But this study says if if we want to cut the deaths in america by how many . 50,000 or so, instead of 300,000 deaths by december we could have far less, just wear a mask. But the main thing to see with the numbers for those who still want to believe donald trump that this is going to magically go away. Its not. Look at the growth of the deaths month by month by month. What you see is a quickening pace. Instead of what donald trump is saying its slowing down, its not. Its getting worse. More people are suffering. More people are dying. Now is the time. Theres always the time to change your behavior for all of us to change your behavior and take those precautions that can save your life and the life of your loved ones. And even that huge number, the 200,000 lets hope its on the high end of things. And it assumes, that half of the countrys kids dont go back to school fulltime. The maddening part is it didnt have to be this way. That 50,000 number you predicted and thought about in march was a reasonable number. It was a terrible number but a reasonable number. Now were talking about 300,000 deaths potentially. Ohio Governor Mike Dewine tested negative for coronavirus hours after another test had a positive result. Governor dewine first tested positive yesterday morning using a rapid test which allows for results in minute but was less accurate. It was part of the protocol for those greeting President Trump on the tarmac. Governor dewine then used a more standard procedure known as pcr and the results came back negative in the evening. The second test that looks for the material for the virus is known to be more accurate but its time intensive. Dewines sample was run twice and came back negative both times. Jonathan lemire youre on the trip. This test was administered because governor dewine was going to meet President Trump on the tarmac in ohio. What was the ripple effects on the news on air force one. Im in new jersey today, dont be too jealous. Not far from the president s bed minister club where hes spending a three day weekend. But perhaps now in my first line of career obituary note i was in the room when the president said thighland. The president spent the day in ohio, which is noteworthy. He won it in 2016 and now po polling shows it even with joe biden. He has to spent time, Energy Resources in states like ohio yesterday, in texas last week, having to play defense. It was as we were about to take off from washington on air force one when we got news that the governor had tested positive and would not be able to be on the tarmac so he wasnt there when we landed. The president was greeted by other officials and representatives. He addressed it saying he hoped the governor would be okay. The entire day was centered around a speech. The president touted his economic policies, toured a whirlpool factory in ohio, to tout the manufacturing under his watch, which has stalled the last year or two. But he cant out run the virus, everything he tried to do was shadowed by this. And last night when we landed in new jersey we got word the second test was negative. In texas last week, the congressman was going to be on air force one, he wasnt because he tested positive, seems other tests kantd it as well. But everyone that comes in contact with the president , staff, officials on the road, reporters, i took that same test that governor dewine did in ohio. But theres been false negatives at first or a false positive. It calls into question how accurate and safe these are for anyone, including those traveling with the commander in chief. Theres been questions for some time about these rapid tests and how accurate they are. I do know, willie, that Mike Barnicle is thinking ahead, even after the pandemic is over, he may get a kit and any time hes invited to do something hell do a dewine. Its a good out. Take the test, positive. I cannot go to your bridge game. And then take the real test a little bit later on. So mike dewine got out of being with the president , not that he would want to do that. But those tests are especially since you have those tests that have proven to be unreliable around the president of the United States. You wonder if theres not a better way to do it. The fact that the testing, gene robinson, thats being used around the president of the United States is so inaccurate tells you first of all, how dangerous that is for the country that our leadership cant even be tested safely, but also how poorly our testing regiment is, even six months into this. Right. It definitely defeats the purpose of giving everybody a test whos going to see the president if you cant rely on the tests, right. So you have no idea if you know, hopefully you have some idea. Hopefully theyre not 50 inaccurate or whatever. But clearly, in this high profile case and as jonathan said in other cases, this rapid test has been wrong. And that certainly does call into question its worth. And also it does raise questions. Theres so much different kinds of tests, different manufacturers, different methods with different degrees of reliability. It is a patchwork that i guess you could better describe as a crazy quilt of testing. And again, that was one of the original sins in response to this pandemic was we never got the testing right. We never made it right. Widely available enough, reliable enough. So we still dont have as good a handle we ought to have on where the virus is and where its going next. You know, its a lack of planning and its a lack of planning thats haunted this administrations approach to the pandemic from the very beginning. Of course, it stops at the top where you had donald trump youre writing about going back to schools without a plan. You had donald trump, back in the spring, back in the spring when this pandemic was first erupting, saying people needed to go back to school. Go back to school. He wasnt talking about it in the fall. He said in the fall the pandemic was going to be gone. Believe me, trust me he said, it was like lets open businesses by easter. Every step of the way this president has been wrong, been overly optimistic, been polly annish. And the impact for that has been deadly for americans, the reason the numbers are increasing exponentially. We had no plan, whether it was reopening schools or a testing regiment. Gene, i saw a picture that a student took in a Georgia School about an hour outside of atlanta, those children were packed packed inside a classroom. I mean, inside a hallway. A hallway. Most of them not Wearing Masks and, of course, the answer, what was the answer . They suspended the student who took the picture which, of course, tells you all you really need to know about how that School District and how others around that state are handling this pandemic. Absolutely insane. Absolutely insane. Look, we all understand why it is imperative that as soon as we can safely do so we get the schools open. So if you decide to go ahead and open the schools, which i think most of the country is not ready for yet but if you decide to go ahead and do it, the very least you can do is require every student to wear a mask all the time. How do you do that . The same way you enforce the dress codes at every school in america already. Schools already dictate what students can and cant wear. You know, how you know, your skirt is too short or your pants are too baggy or you cant wear this or that, you have to be properly dressed to go to school. Every School District in the country can mandate, right now, today, that proper dress includes wearing a mask, period. And then you would have a lot less transmission of the virus, a lot fewer hot spots of ballooning, mushrooming inflation of spread the way that were likely to have in the absence of these kinds of mandamans mandat mandates. Its an easy thing that could be done but not being done. 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You could just say yes or no there. No, i dont need to take a test. So joe biden, that was a couple days ago. Now today clarifying remarks he made after suggesting the latino was more diverse than the black community. President trump wrote about it on twitter saying joe biden just lost the entire Africanamerican Community. What a dumb thing to say. Mr. Charlottesville said hes lost the entire did he really say that, willie . He wrote it down. I was working on our science project yesterday. Did he really say that the man who had david duke praising him for his moral equivalency with nazis and protesters did he really say he lost the Africanamerican Community. Yes, when you were putting the mentos in the coke bottle it blows up. I got video of it. This is a guy who said to Jonathan Swan of john lewis, he didnt come to my inauguration. The president only included part of the former Vice President s exchange he first made the comment in a conference of black and hispanic journalists. Are you going to reengage with cuba . Im specifically wondering yes. About the Florida Communities yes. That are incredibly interested in in the cuba issue yes. And see status given to venezuelans while cubans are being deported. Yes. Im going to engage. What you know, but most people dont know, unlike the Africanamerican Community with notable exceptions, the Latino Community is a Diverse Community with different attitudes about different things. You go to florida you find a different attitude about immigration than you do than when youre in arizona so its a Diverse Community. Then while addressing a group of latino elected and appointed officials yesterday the former Vice President continued to make that argument. We can build a new administration that reflects the full diversity of our nation and the full diversity of the latino communities. What i mean full diversity unlike africanamerican communities, other communities, from everywhere, from europe, the tip of south america, to the border in mexico and in the caribbean. And different backgrounds, different ethnicities, but all latinos. Were going to get a chance to do that if we win in november. So when the backlash hit last nig