That new york milk story is a great example of how the supply chains get disrupted because so much of the milk supply was destined for new york city Public Schools, which is a very big consumer of new york state milk. Theyre all closed down. Those milk producers up there dont have contracts for delivering it elsewhere, and the governor has to figure out how to get that milk out into the world where it can get to the people who desperately need it, cant afford it. Right and there are statewide contracts like that that governors around the country need to fix. There is another im bambalancet commercial food and the extent restaurants are not operating, those contracts need to be converted into retail contracts there is a role to play a significant role to play for usda and the federal government in terms of trying to fix the mismatches in supply and demand so you dont have hungry people in one place and food being dumped in the other. Usda is pretty much asleep since the start of this crisis. But those food short takes and food dumping things, thats a sign of it. Yeah, we can only hope they come up with a structure that is actually permanent so that it can always deliver food to people in need rather than dump it or dump it in the quantities that happen sometimes. Yeah, capitalism needs assist in this one and it will be something that we can really use right now and we could use in the long run. Thanks. A permanent assist. Thank you, rachel. Not all of us have been using our time very productively during this shutdown but max rose has. Max rose is a decorated combat army veteran that serve in afghanistan and serves the people of Staten Island and brooklyn in the United States congress and max rose was deplaydeplay deplayed pl deployed with the National Guard in new york city this month. He will join us at the end of the hour to tell us what he saw and learned while hes been deployed with the National Guard that he will be bringing back to washington when Congress Considers the next steps to repair the damage from the coronavirus pandemic in this country. We begin tonight with the numbers. The United States now has 987,367 reported cases of coronavirus. And the United States now has 56,145 reported deaths from coronavirus. That means that tonight, in our sleep, we will officially cross the million mark. Tomorrow we will have over a million reported cases of coronavirus in this country but those reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg since more than 98 of us have not been tested. We will probably never have an accurate count of the total number of coronavirus cases in the United States, and we will probably never have an accurate count of number of deaths caused by coronavirus since we now know that people were dying from coronavirus before we even knew that the virus had reached the United States. Thousands of people have died at home during this pandemic without ever having been tested for coronavirus before or after death and so well never know the real number. And from the start, donald trump has not wanted us to know the real numbers and has not wanted us to know any of the real numbers in this story. In february, donald trump was trying to prevent a cruise ship from dock k ing in San Francisco americans could leave the ship. He was afraid that would increase the coronavirus cases in america at that time. When donald trump was trying to wish that number of cases down to zero, and the last days of february, donald trump actually said when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple days is going to be down to close to zero, thats a pretty good job weve done. That sure would have been a pretty good job if they did that. According to breaking news reported from the Washington Post tonight, at the time that donald trump said that and for weeks before donald trump said that, the president s daily intelligence briefing was telling donald trump repeatedly of the severity of the coronavirus threat to the United States of america a threat that donald trump ignored even though his intelligence briefing was telling him about it every day. The Washington Post reports tonight u. S. Intelligence agencies issued warnings about the Novel Coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared by President Trump in january and february months during which he continued to play down the threat according to current and former u. S. Officials. The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the president s daily brief a sensitive report that is produced before dawn each day and designed to call the president s attention to the most significant Global Developments and security threats. But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president to routinely skip reading the pdb and has at times shown little patience for even the oral summery he takes to or through times per week. Here is how the Washington Post reported greg miller who cowrote that story explains the significance of the covid19 warnings in the president s daily brief to chris hayes earlier tonight. This is where the u. S. Intelligence analysts putinform. So much a remarkable amount of energy and people go into preparing this single report each and ever day and not very many people get it. Obviously, its Main Customer is the president of the United States. He doesnt read the pdb unlike his predecessors. He does not sit down each day to digest this. He doesnt read it, doesnt skim it. So the president s daily brief may turn out to be the best proof of the president s daily failure to confront the threat to american lives posed by the spreading coronavirus in january and february and this is a rerun of another republican president s failure to mobilize after receive inging a daily wa, deadly warning in the daily brief that was a month before 9 11. The president ial daily brief told president bush that Osama Bin Laden was quote determined to strike in the u. S. End quote. And so this is not the first time a president has failed to defend the United States against a looming threat that the president was warned about. But this is the first time that the president has become a threat himself. This is the first time that a president s own words amount to a deadly threat to americans. Donald trump spent weeks illegally prescribing prescription drugs on television to america at a white house microphone. Anti malaria drugs he was sure would work to stop covid19, and if it didnt, he repeatedly said what have you got to lose . The answer was your life. The anti malaria drugs can set off deadly coronary reactions in some people and that is something doctors have always known. And when a survey of Veterans Administration patients showed that the death rate was higher among patients who followed Donald Trumps advice than the patients who did not, then donald trump stopped talking about those anti malaria drugs that may have already killed thousands of people who thought they had nothing to lose by using those drugs to fight covid19. And then, on thursday, donald trump suggested something that could kill any of us, no matter how healthy we are, no matter how old we are after he was told something that day that the rest of us already knew that disinfectant is a good way to clean your kitchen counter or your doorknobs in the era of coronavirus. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. It would be interesting to check that so you have to use medical doctors but it sounds interesting to me. None of the medical experts in the room at the time jumped up to say this is deadly and you could die if you do anything that donald trump just suggested. They failed that moment, the medical experts in the room. Lysol had to issue a life saving emergency saying we must be clear under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body. For three Straight Days donald trump live in fear of reporters questions. At the next White House Briefing on friday, donald trump didnt take questions and then america had its most restful weekend yet in the era of coronavirus because no one had to deal with the tension of king george, iii level madness being spread by the president at a White House Briefing. Donald trump gave the country a weekend off duty. A full weekend where no one had to watch donald trump saying crazy and dangerous and indescribably stupid things and the only people who could have been disappointed that donald trump spent the weekend silently cowering in fear of reporters were the people working on the biden for President Campaign who so far have every right to believe that the White House Briefings are the best thing that has happened to the Biden Campaign since joe biden secured endorsements from democratic rivals. A University Poll shows joe biden ahead of donald trump outside of the margin of error 5040 in the same poll 64 say donald trump is not honest and trustworthy. Of the minority who find donald trump trustworthy, we can only hope they found lysols statement about drinking their product more trustworthy than Donald Trumps suggestion that lysol might be the prefect treatment for coronavirus. The Trump White House went from no briefing on their schedule to having a White House Briefing on the schedule to cancelling the briefing from the schedule before then restoring the White House Briefing to the schedule. Donald trump knew he would get a question about disinfectant but also knew he could just cut the reporter short and not answer the question. Now that other states, governor larry hogan said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week. I know you said they were sarcastic. I cant imagine why. I cant imagine why. Do you take any responsibility i cant imagine that. Go ahead, please. Mr. President , dr. Anthony fauci says that we need that was it. No responsibility. Takes no responsibility and once again, donald trump was able to count on the White House Press cores tendency to not back each other up and change the subject when donald trump wants to change the subject and so thats what happened. Change the subject. No other questions about it. About the single most insane thing ever spoken publicly by a president of the United States. No more questions. Dr. Masri of Louisiana StateUniversity Hospital has been keeping a video diary for us of life and death in new orleans. Soon were going to catch up and exceed the number of deaths that we saw in our city of new orleans from Hurricane Katrina. Its an interesting parallel between covid19 and Hurricane Katrina. I lived through both. Katrina came and went. It was quick. We dealt with the aftermath the whole time. But people could physically see the damage from Hurricane Katrina in their homes, outside in their community, on tv. Covid19 is different. Its a silent killer. People are stuck at home. They dont necessarily see the damage unless they have a Family Member or friend afflicted with the virus or theyre a Front Line Health Care worker. We need to keep in mind the fact that this is a silent killer, the fact that its still out there in our community. Understanding that we need to come back to a new normal. Katrina changed the way we live in new orleans. Covid19 is going to change the way we live in the world. Leading off our discussion tonight are ben rhodes, an msnbc political reporter and analyst for nbc news and the cohost of show times the circus. Ben, you handled the president s daily brief in the obama white house. How did president obama handle the president s daily brief . Well, lawrence, you know, i got over 1,000 and what president obama would do is every morning he would get a written briefing he would read in his residence and those of us in the morning meeting with him would get the same briefing and e with would meet with the director of National Intelligence in the oval office. The reason this is relevant, i learned about the Ebola Outbreak from that. President obama learned about the Ebola Outbreak from the pbd. What he did with the information is set up a government process. Lets put together an agency group, people from different relevant agencies, the nih, the cdc and state department involved in National Security and get them working on it and that pdb led to that government process which led to the deployment of thousands of u. S. Troops to west africa who could facilitate the flow of tens of thousands of Health Care Workers to west africa to stand out that Ebola Outbreak which killed two people in the United States. The pdb is the warning to the president in the United States about the most dangerous tlhreas in the world. President trump ignored those warnings. He paid no attention to them and what he clearly did is try to down play the virus so that the stock market would somehow not tank. You know the reality is that the virus itself was going to tank the stock market and he tried to keep the numbers down instead of ramping up testing which is what he should have done in february and keep the reporting of the numbers down. This is someone that ignored the information that could have saved, lawrence, thousands if not tens of thousands of american lives. Its impossible to oversee the severity of his duty as commander in chief. Ben, when president obama saw the first reference to ebola in the president s daily brief, how quickly did he take action . Did he have to see it several times in the brief by your memory was it the first time he saw it that he said we got to do something about this . To be honest, what i remember is that there were reports of deaths from an Ebola Outbreak and that gets your attention. He said Something Like we got to keep our eye on this, right . As you see this is not something thats going away, its something that is building, that is when he says to us he has some familiarity with both the potential of ebola but also the lack of Public Health in infrastructure in west africa, we better set up a process to deal with this and get the best expert in the room to deal with this before anybody else heard of it. That gives you the opportunity to deal with something before everybody else heard of it because our Intelligence Community is out there paying attention to this stuff and on this show, i think, we probably talked about how President Trump has destained his Intelligence Community by saying they are fake news and dont know what they are talking about and owned by russia. They may have seemed like a relatety show at t reality show at the time. We have a president that didnt Pay Attention to wantings because he doesnt take briefings and wants to be briefed in pictures and not words. We are living with the consequences of this. This is hospitals trying to warn him about throughout john and february. John, new poll today almost twothirds of america think donald trump is not trustworthy. Joe biden opens up a tenpoint led out side the margin of error. Is that a reaction to the White House Press briefings . Yeah. I think to a large extent. Its reaction to a lot of things. Certainly its a reaction to fund mentally its a reaction to the pandemic itself and in the first order. The fact that there are a lot of scared americans who are focused in a way on their own health on the health of their families, on their well being in a laserlike way as we go through this extraordinary period and in m t moments like that that are rare focused on this imminent threat, they then look to the one person they naturally instinctively look to for leadership, for guidance, for simple though and things americans look to their president and they got none of that from donald trump. Not just the stuff ben was talking about. That is correct but almost every quality that americans left and right, republican and democrat traditionally assume they will see in a president of the United States, theyve seen none of it from donald trump in this crisis and i think the briefings, the daily briefings, those many hours that donald trump has sucked up the air time that he sucked up, all of it to his political disadvantage because for a lot of americans who have various expectations of a president , donald trump has fulfilled none of th