Mueller addressed that too. Quote, we made every decision in stones case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false, unquote. A Senior Member of Robert Muellers team will share his thoughts a little later in the hour. We begin with coronavirus. As caseloads, death tolls and hospitalizations continue to rise across the country. We also saw President Trump do something apparently for the first time. He wore a mask in public. It happened at Walter Reed National military Medical Center as he visited Wounded Soldiers and staff. Here he is explaining his decision. I think its a great thing to wear a mask. Ive never been against masks. But i do believe they have a time and a place. Doctors say the time and place are always in public and anywhere you cannot socially distance. The point is to protect others from you if you are infected but do not know it. It may have been an option for the president , but it is becoming mandatory in more places. Hours after the president s photo op, louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued a statewide mask mandate. Edwards also limited all bars in louisiana to carry out or delivery service. Masks are now mandated statewide for everyone age 8 and older unless they have a major Health Condition that makes it difficult to wear a mask. And youll have to wear a mask to enjoy a little disney magic. Today at walt disney world, the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom reopened for the first time in four months. Epcot and Hollywood Studios open on friday. Florida reported more than 11,000 new cases, again. The state is beginning to run out of hospital beds and testing supplies. Covid19 gives us plenty to discuss with Tonights Panel so lets dive right in. Joining us are Angela Turner ford, mississippis legislature has had an outbreak of coronavirus cases. Also with us is dr. Ebony hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiologist and Critical Care medicine and hayes brown is the post of buzzfeeds podcast news oclock. Dr. Hilton, let me start with you. When you see disney world reopening today as the cases and the hospitalizations are rising in florida, how do you view that . The theme parks, disney universal, seaworld, they all seem to be taking pretty aggressive measures to keep people safe, including turning away people at the gate if they dont have proper masks or if they have a fever. Its not enough. Thank you for having me, for one. What we know is that florida Just Announced that 7,000 children were testing positive for covid19. And who tends to go to these theme parks but kids. What were seeing across the nation is that our tests, although were plateaued on how many tests were performing, our positive cases are increasing and our death rates are starting to increase for the First Time Since midapril. So this is not the time to go and have a festival at a park to ride rides. People are dying and we need to take this seriously. Doctor, do you think there is any safe way that these parks, and we should note that universal is a corporate cousin of nbc through our Parent Company nbc universal. Do you think there is any way for these parks to reopen safely right now . What we know with the parks is that it causes people to be packed into very close quarters. These rides, when youre inside it you scream and that again forces out more of these viral particles. Its just not the time. Yes, we need to open our economy. Yes, we need to stimulate the growth and economic wellbeing of our nation. But we have to do it when its right and we have to have the three ts of testing, trace and treatment in place before we can move forward safely. State senator ford, at last count 26 mississippi legislators have come down with covid19. Your colleagues just made news for removing the confederate battle flag from the state flag. How is mississippi doing now in taking care of both the residents and your colleagues . Thank you, joshua, for having me on the panel this evening. The governor has actually signalled, governor reeves, has signalled that hes going to issue an executive order on monday requiring that 13 counties across the state be required that those citizens be required to wear a mask when theyre in public and in social gatherings. Theres some pushback but certainly there are positions that perhaps that approach is not strong enough. Certainly its a step in the right direction, so i think that the governor is taking an approach that will push us toward safety. I just hope that the residents of mississippi will take heed. Hayes, what impact do you think the video of President Trump wearing a mask might have . Masks have become a kind of political clapback or not wearing them has become a clapback against liberals and Authority Figures and the medical establishment. How might todays images which were looking at right now affect that, if at all . I mean im really afraid that the horse has left the barn. The horse is five miles down the road and coming nowhere near the barn again. The thing is, for one, im very glad the president clearly has listened to his advisers and worn this mask at walter reed hospital. Im glad that the president is finally taking precautions for people around him and showing that you should take precautions with people around you similar to the people at the white house around him. As far as whether this actually solves anything as far as the culture war that the president has helped push forward, i dont know. Im hopeful that the president s supporters will see this, that they will accept it. Already on twitter some of the president s strongest advocates online are trying to show that the president is being strong, brave, courageous with this one fell stroke, the president has won the november election against joe biden. But it remains to be seen whether that has any real effect besides maybe some less trolling online. Dr. Hilton, minority communities, especially black and brown people, have borne the brunt of the covid19 pandemic in the u. S. How do you see the efforts to address this right now . Are we making progress . I think our progress is slow to be made. What we know is that we still dont have race and ethnicity reported for every case or for every death. Thats inexcusable. At this point we know that Racial Health disparities did not start with covid19, it wont end with covid19. And what were seeing, though, with this pandemic is that it hasnt been of importance to the United States to determine why are black and brown people dying at higher rates from nearly every disease process that we have. This has been happening literally since the beginning of the United States when africans first came here. So with this pandemic, what we know is that black people have are 2. 5 times more likely to die, youre 5 times more likely to be infected and its not slowing. We know that africanamericans tend to live in the south and its the southwest, were going to get the hispanics americans so the disparities i fear are going to continue to increase. State senator ford, i wonder what your sense is of mississippis overall effort to fight covid19, especially as it relates to your constituents and what they need right now . I would say initially it was there was a dispute about if the governors approach was fast or prompt enough. Certainly now what ive seen in the numbers is that there is a shift where as early on it was about a 72 death rate among black people in mississippi, that number has decreased to about 51 . So i believe that individuals are taking care of themselves regardless of this clapback about wearing masks. What ive tended to see is members of the black community are masking themselves. They are trying to socially distance. And they are trying to do whats best, according to the cdc guidelines, regardless of all of the clapback that is going on throughout the nation and in other parts of the state. Senator ford, would you repeat that statistic that you just said about mortality rates among black residents. Would you say that one more time. 51 of the deaths that are currently being reported are among members of the black community in the state of mississippi. And you said that was down from 72 , was it . Yes, when the numbers were reported early on, end of march, first of april. So i think weve seen now, thats just based on the reports that were issued as of yesterday about 6 00, yesterday evening. What do you attribute the decrease in that proportion to, if anything. Im wondering if the numbers are accurate. I think that some people are probably staying home. They may not be submitting themselves for testing. I believe that there is a downward trend in whos actually reporting and then theres the question also with whats going on as of this week, the outbreak at the capitol, i believe that those numbers are probably coming in more slowly than theyre accurately being detected by the state Health Department so i think that theres a slow trend in the reports. By the way, its worth noting that according to the census bureau, 38 of mississippis population is black. So even with this decrease, it is still dramatically disproportionate ly higher than the portion of black people in mississippis population. H hayes, President Trump said dr. Anthony fauci has made a lot of mess takes in his handling of this pandemic. Dr. Fauci has done more interviews lately, contradicting what the president is saying, including how our fight against this outbreak is going. Where do you see this discrepancy between the two of them going . Is this just talk . Is this more heat than light . Or might this have a tangible impact . I mean with this president its hard to say most times whether hes just talking, which he does a lot, or whether it will actually translate into action. I mean the thing that we lets be honest, weve all been on fauci watch 2020 since he first started appearing in front of cameras wondering when if the president would put him on the back burner or fire him altogether. As were seeing fauci start to do more off camera interviews, doing more radio, more print, et cetera, its going to be curious when the president takes notice and when he starts really leaning in to fauci and start issuing his tweets and riling up his base specifically against fauci. Because everything that theyre disagreeing on is fauci is following the science, whereas trump is following his political gut instincts and thats where that clash is lying. One of them is focused on reelection. The other is focusing on bringing the numbers down in this pandemic. Mississippi state senator Angela Turnerford and dr. Ebony hilton, glad to have had you both with us. Thanks very much. Hayes, weve got much more to discuss with you and theres much more to come this hour. Some College Students face deportation over the coronavirus pandemic. California is among the states fighting that move. California congressman ted lieu joins us to discuss it, next. Im a performer. Always have been. 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Last school year they enrolled more than 770,000 students combined. 71,000 were nonresident International Students. Joining us now is democratic congressman ted lieu of california. He sits on the Foreign Affairs and judiciary committees. His district includes the coastal cities west of los angeles and long beach. Congressman, good evening. Thank you, joshua. Regarding the Trump Administrations new visa guidance, what, if anything, can you see or cal state do about it . We see a pattern where when donald trump is down in the polls, hell take an antiimmigration action. In this case theyre going after International Students, which is really quite ridiculous because International Students benefit america. In fact the state departments own website says that u. S. Welcomes International Students and they provide a valuable contribution to our colleges and universities. We know that International Students also contribute to the economy and to deport them because their college is trying to protect their health and safety with online courses is really a ridiculous proposal. I hope the Trump Administration withdraws it. Its also worth noting that International Students have been a boon to the universities because they pay full tuition. But if this remains the policy from the federal government it sounds like uc and cal state have to kind of take it. Well, what would ending up happening, i suspect, is what usc recently did. They opened all their physical classes to International Students to take for free so they simply go into one classroom, then they can stay. So its basically going to force the ucs and ucla to do something similar which increases the risk of the spread of covid19. So its really just a dumb proposal by the Trump Administration. I dont really understand what the rationale is. I know that ucla has over 7,000 International Students in my district. It will be devastating for them if they all had to leave the country. Looking at california more broadly, how did this covid19 surge happen . Governor newsom took this seriously from the beginning, many cities were cautious about reopening. What went wrong . So Governor Newsom has done a great job. At the beginning we were effective in suppressing the virus and then california, like all the other states, started to reopen. When you reopen, youre simply going to get more covid19 cases. California has nearly 40 million people. And because of the number of people, that also increases the number of cases we have so now we just have to make sure that people wash their hands frequently, wear a mask in public, do social distancing, and we need to start getting this virus back under control. California has a significant asian and Asian American population. Students of asian descent are the largest racial group at most of the uc campuses, sometimes by far. You are a taiwanese american, your family immigrated here when you were 3. How does this aspect of californias diversity shape the way that it fights covid19 . California has been one of the leaders in this fight. We have attracted the best and brightest in the world in terms of scientists and doctors to try to find a cure for covid19. At the same time, weve been very strong in pushing back against hate incidents. We know that across america theres been over 1,900 Asian American hate incidents. We have people who, for example, stabbed a family in texas who were Asian American because they thought they were spreading covid19. So we need to make sure we fight back and teach everyone that this virus knows no race or geography or Party Registration or ethnicity. Everyone is at risk. There are so many nuances to the asian and Asian American populations in california. A conversation for another day to dig deeper into that. There is one more thing we want to ask you about before you go. You are among the democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who introduced an