Released them this june. The specific date by which the Justice Department has to unredact this stuff, i kid you not, the judge says on or before november 2nd, 2020. So on the eve, literally the eve, the day before the president ial election 15 more pages of the Mueller Report including potentially why they didnt charge the president night before the election. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now it is time for the last word can lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And thank you very much for representative mall couple ken yat ta. That is the interview of the week. What you did in the last hour, taking inside whats really happening in the Pennsylvania Republican controlled legislature, what they are trying to do with this election, i could have listened to him for the rest of the night. I could have if you ran that video of him in the meeting for another hour, i would be riveted to it. This is there is so much at stake, and we see this one person in pennsylvania doing everything he possibly can to fight against what republicans are trying to do there. This is thank you for bringing this story to our attention. We all have to stay on it, honestly. Yeah. What the republicans are doing there is really, really important, potentially determinatively important in terms of the president ial election. And the republicans who are willing to do stuff like that in state legislatures in swing states are going to become some of the most Important News makers and the most important people for us all to Pay Attention to in the next few weeks. I will tweet you a link for the entire footage of kenya tas testimony at that hearing because i played a little squib of it, but the whole thing is fantastic. Lets coordinate on this because im happy to have him on tomorrow night to continue this, but i dont want to get in the way of what you are doing. Lets just keep malcolm kin yat ta on television as much as we possibly can the rest of the way here. Ill call him and tell him you are going to be calling. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, tonight there is now only one degree of separation between donald trump and covid19. Bloomberg broke the news tonight, now confirmed by nbc news that Donald Trumps closest aid who is not a Family Member has tested positive for coronavirus. Hope hicks, one of president Donald Trumps closest aids, has tested positive for coronavirus infection, according to people familiar with the matter. There was no indication that the president has contracted the virus, the people said. Hicks traveled with Trump Aboard Air force one to and from the president ial debate on tuesday. Hicks traveled with trump to his debate with biden on tuesday and to a minnesota rally on wednesday. Trumps entourage entered the debate hall without face coverings or removed them as they sat down and refused an offer of masks from a doctor at the cleveland clinic, which was cohosting the event. Bidens guests wore masks. Hicks was seen on tuesday riding maskless in a staff van with white house Senior Adviser steven miller, Campaign Adviser jason miller and others. When they returned to washington on tuesday, Stephen Miller and hicks were seen sharing an umbrella as they existed air force one in the rain. The New York Times reports tonight officials at the white house have known since wednesday evening that she had the virus. Tuesday night in the room with hope hicks watching approvingly, donald trump mocked Wearing Masks. I dont have i dont wear masks like him. Every time you see him, hes got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from you and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. He has to lie about joe bidens mask. He has to lie about the size of joe bidens mask. Joe biden of course wears the same kind of mask all the rest of us wear, but donald trump certainly needs the biggest mask we have ever seen if hes going to continue to hang around the reckless people who work for him. Here is what joe biden said in response to Donald Trumps idocy about masks. Masks make a big difference. His own head of the cdc says if everybody wore masks and social distanced between now and january, wed probably save up to a hundred thousand lives. It matters. Hope hicks will not be accompanying donald trump on air force one to his rallies this weekend in wisconsin, a state which is suffering its worst outbreak of coronavirus yet. We will be joined later in this hour by a local official in wisconsin who does not want President Trump to come to that state. Donald trumps recklessness his recklessness with his staffs continued recklessness, the combination of that, on the coronavirus is but a piece of the relentless recklessness of donald trump and his staff in the face of threats to the american people, be it from a pandemic or bad actors like heavily armed american White Supremacists whose pride in their pride supremacists beliefs is included in the childish name they have given themselves, the proud boys. Donald trump refused to condemn them on the debate stage, and the White House Press secretary refused to condemn them again today, which the racist antisemitic members of the proud boys have taken as encouragement. Donald trump now lives in the same house and pretends to work in the same house where president franklin delnor roosevelt led and won a war against racist antisemimites with guns. Donald trump and his permanently tainted staff now do everything they can to coddle and encourage racist antisemimites with guns. Here is what Donald Trumps former National Security adviser said about this today on msnbc. I mean, it should be super easy to condemn White Supremacists, right . And so i think that these these extremists really gain traction, right, and they draw more people in because there is a perception that theyre legitimate and not, you know, a fringe hate filled movement. Thats what they ought to be characterized as, and i think we americans who identify as americans who respect each other regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation, right, who are tolerant and who are proud that we live in a democracy in which we all have a say in how were governed, our voices have to be loud and drown out these people who sew hatred and want to divide us and polarize us. He told the atlantic no leader should encourage any group that is based on a narrow identity that aims to supercede our identity as americans. We begin our discussion tonight with the breaking news that hope hicks, the closest aid to President Trump who is not a member of his family has tested positive for coronavirus. We are joined by the dean of the Brown College of Public Health. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. What do you make of a situation where someone who is that close to donald trump, who has been on air force one with him now four times just this week with tuesday and wednesdays flights, what do you make of that as a risk for the president . Yeah. So, lawrence, thank you for having me on. It is a real risk for the president. First of all, i still cant believe that the white house staff dont wear a mask around the president , that the president doesnt wear a mask. I appreciate the fact that theyre getting tested all the time. That is not enough. Masks are still essential. And at this point, the cdc guidance on this is very clear. All of the people who have been around her over the last few days should selfquarantine, or 14 days, and that includes the president. So i dont know if any of them are going to do that, but it is clearly a risk, and it would be a very bad thing for our country if our president was to be infected. We have got to be much more careful than the white house staff is being. So according to cdc guidelines, the president of the United States tonight is a danger to others because of his exposure to covid19. Yeah. Look, hes been around somebody who is infected. Hes been around that person when they werent wearing a mask, and its happened multiple times over the last couple of days when ms. Hicks might have been most infectious. So it is critical that he quarantine himself and avoid other people so he doesnt continue the transmission chain and doesnt spread the virus to others. And hes scheduled for two rallies in wisconsin this weekend. Would that be even would that now be an even more reckless Public Health risk for the president to impose on wisconsin . Well, first of all, it clearly was a bad idea before this whole thing happened. Wisconsin is the third highest number of new cases in the country. Its a super hot red zone, lots of cases. So bringing together for a rally was very, very dangerous. But i do think at this point that the president should not be out and about, and again i think he should be quarantining himself and obviously getting continue to get tested until hes no longer a risk. But i think for his own protection and for those around him, everybody who has been in touch with ms. Hicks needs to be selfisolating until further notice. So, doctor, the breaking news is that the president of the United States should be quarantines. Why isnt just testing the president tomorrow enough . Why would he also have to be quarantined . Well, so we know a couple of things. First of all, the tests may not turn positive immediately. And the tests are not perfectly sensitive. So there is still a chance that he could be infectious and have a negative test. And so at least for some period of time. It may not need to be for 14 days given that he is getting tested, but at least for some period of time it is clearly within cdc guidelines and the prudent thing for him to do is for him to quarantine and not be around others until he can get a clean bill of health. So this is thursday night. He has rallies saturday in wisconsin. A clear and total violation of cdc guidelines for him to do that now. Even if he has been tested tomorrow say and saturday to go into that rally environment in wisconsin, having been exposed to coronavirus through hope hicks. Look, this is his own cdc, and the guidelines are pretty clear. If you have been exposed to somebody else, you should be selfquarantines. I do think ongoing testing can be helpful here, but not in the next 48 hours. You need to wait longer than that. So if we are going to stick with the cdc guidelines, this is not a good time to go and be part of a rally. Doctor, thank you very much for starting us off on this important subject tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. Were joined now by Yamiche Alcindor. Also with us christina greer. And, yamiche, you are part of the people who take the risk of being around these white house staffers, being around the president. We have the breaking news at this hour that the president should be quarantined. That is the breaking news that america should be concentrating on right now. All Public Health officials, the cdc, the doctor just indicated, the president should be quarantined based on whats happened to hope hicks. Thats right. And the other breaking news is the president says just a few minutes ago that he has been tested for the coronavirus and is now awaiting his results. He says he might be getting it tonight or friday. He said, quote, whether we quarantine or not i dont know. So essentially the president , as you said, that he should be quarantining. Hes openly saying he doesnt know if hes going to quarantine. The president and his staffers, while they are tested daily, as someone who is in the white house multiple times a week, a lot dont wearmasks. They are tested. But the president tonight is saying he doesnt actually know his status and that that is something that he and First Lady Melania Trump is waiting on. Struggling through his response to this virus. He himself may now be part of the more than seven million americans who could possibly be infected. Well, it is a good thing that theyre not relying on the rapid test, which is less reliable. The fact that theyre waiting for results means theyre taking a test that is the more reliable version of it. Lets listen to what donald trump said in an interview with a reporter at his rally in las vegas. And this is a point that joe biden was making. Joe biden was describing this Actual Exchange that donald trump had in the debate the other night. Lets listen to this. Well, im not concerned. Im more concerned about how close you are. Sorry about that. Because you know why . Im on a stage thats very far away. Uhhuh. So im not at all concerned. Christina, so he was the only one social distancing at his rallies, but he certainly didnt have enough social distance from hope hicks. And there we see in this incident what i think is kind of a perfect representation of the utter relentless recklessness of donald trump, the trump administration, the trump staff on all subjects of governance from the day donald trump was sworn in. Lawrence, i might even say from when he came down that gold escalator and called mexicans rapists. I want to thank Yamiche Alcindor and her colleagues every day who risk their lives going to the white house knowing that they dont follow guidelines. If you remember, you know, all the way through march he was saying masks werent needed. We heard him, you know, at the debate essentially chastising joe biden for wearing a mask, making it a joke. We have seen people all over florida refusing to wear masks, getting arrested, getting thrown out of Grocery Stores and sporting events because they would not comply. So we have a real difference in opinion. But heres the thing. You know, as senator Patrick Moynihan said, were all entitled to our opinions, but were not entitled to our own facts. The fact of the matter is we must wear a mask to protect ourselves from a virus were still trying to figure out. The fact that the president refuses to lead the nation in a responsible behavior is just as you say, lawrence, it is completely reckless. It is irresponsible and its the type of lack of leadership that sadly so many millions of americans have grown accustomed to over these past few years. And we saw today the White House Press secretary following the president s lead and refusing to condemn White Supremacists. Donald trump continue to refuse to do that. It is not difficult to link this to the refusal to wear masks. It is highly irresponsible, which is the mildest word you can use for donald trump coddling racist, antisemimites in this country. The White House Press secretary was posed the question over and over again, well, will you condemn White Supremacists and she simply would not do that. Part of what she was doing there was following the lead of President Trump who at that moment had not condemned White Supremacists in the way that was just declared a statement. That being said, the president tonight just on fox news a few minutes ago said he condemned the kkk and the proud boys. Hes doing that in front of a much smaller audience because of course there were people that were tuned into the debate stage that were waiting for the president to set an example and he didnt take the time to do that. He is the president responding to the pressure and the pushback that hes getting and i should say the push back from republicans. You saw republicans in different states saying were not quite sure whats going on here. Maybe he misspoke. Hes clarifying it. But i can already tell you on twitter and some of the exchanges im already having, a lot of people are saying this is too little, too late. This reminds me of when the president finally acknowledged that former president barack obama was born in america. It took months for him to be asked that question and to pose that question. Finally he said, yes, i believe he was born in america and ran off and didnt take any questions about it. So this is the president reacting to really what shouldnt i dont think have been pushback to answer a very simple question about white supremacy. And christina, the president s claiming to not know anything about the proud boys or what they represent is a flawless echo of his claiming four years ago that he did not know who david duke was and he did not know that david duck was a ku klux klan leader when he was welcoming david dukes support for his candidacy. Right. And i never heard of the easter bunny. Thats absolutely absurd. We know that the president welcomes and saddles up with White Supremacists. He has been doing that for most of his tenure in the white house. So the fact is too little too late. What hes probably feeling the pressure of, it is not just the president at the top of the ticket on the ballot. Across the country weve got u. S. Senators, weve got governors, we have all members of the house on the ballot, a lot of republicans in the fight for their lives and their Many Republican voters who just arent comfortable now pulling a lever for someone who is unclear as to whether or not he supports white supremacy. Professor christina greer, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Please stay as safe as you can covering that trump white house. I will do that. My mom will appreciate it. Thank you. And when we come back, Donald Trumps former National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster said flatout today that donald trump is aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin. Hes not the first person thats been trying to tell us that.