Have lost their lives. These are mothers and fathers and sons and daughters, siblings and grandparents. On wednesday, one person died in the u. S. Roughly every minute from covid19. The economy is in shambles posting its steepest decline in gdp output on record. Millions of americans are facing Economic Uncertainty or disaster. According to trump, everything is fine. Based on the polls, im doing well in florida and the local government is doing a fantastic job. I think were doing a fantastic job. We did the right thing initially. We saved millions of lives. We did the right thing. We have started them up and i think we really started it up very successful. No, no, none of that is true. Today three of the Trump AdministrationTop Health Officials appeared for a economy. James clyburn slammed the administration for not doing more at this stage many the pandemic. The United States response stands out among the worst of any country in the world. My question is, where should we go from here . Today, i am calling for the administration to finally give america a comprehensivcomprehen National Plan that prioritizes science over politics. Vanity fair is reporting that the reason why we dont have large Scale National testing plan may be because a White House Team run by professional nepotism beneficiary and domestic and Foreign Policy utility player Jared Kushner didnt think it made sense, politically. A Health Expert in touch with the white house told the magazine, the political folks believe because the virus was going to be rel indicated to democratic state, that they would blame those governors and that would be an effective political strategy. The white house not surprisingly is called the reporting incorrect. What is clear, in trumps america there are two groups. Our people, quote unquote, and the rest of us. Keep in mind, kushner and trump are from blue states. They were both willing to toss aside friends and neighbor, the people they literally grew up because it was expedient to expose those people to sickness and death. They seem nice. There are reports however that trump has become more engaged with the crisis now that its affecting what he and his crew call our people. The virus surging if states like arizona, texas and florida. In fact, today, florida saw its fourth straight day of record reported deaths. While florida is melting down and facing a potential hurricane, trump held a mini rally of almost uniformly maskless supporters when he landed in tampa earlier today. For more im joined by jonathan lemure. This idea that the administration delineates between myself and every one else is sticking in my kraw. How would a white house think its good politics, assuming that the virus is also a political virus and never even reach their people. Obviously, the virus doesnt care for politics or about state borders. It doesnt know anything about the electoral college. From the beginning the administration has handled this in a politicize way. Hes never been one to rally the nation in a time of crisis. This pandemic has been no different. To be clear, the white house strongly disputes some of the details in this story. Right from the beginning, there was a sort of blue versus red dynamic here and not just politics of masks bp youll recall when the virus first struck and new york was the epi epicenter, the president floated the idea of isolating new york. Sort of sealing it off from the rest of the country. He floated that while talking to reporters. He quickly backed away from that. While we reported at the time, he did so in part thinking he would be a reassuring signal to his supporters in other states he was dealing with the crisis that was over there in other places, blue states, ie, new york. There hasnt been a sense and effort to have any National Plan or strategy here even as the president s poll numbers have taken a beating because of his handling of the pandemic. You mentioned florida. Arizona and texas, too, are now electoral battlegrounds where the virus is surging. The white house has been signaling they are worried about a few other states too. Mainly in the midwest. Ohio, indiana, wisconsin, minnesota, colorado, a lot of those states also vitally important to the president s hopes of being reelected this fall. Dr. Blackstock, its so enraging to think that what it takes for a president of the United States to care about people, potentially dying by the hundreds of thousands is they be in the right states. That herman cain, god rest his spirit and his family that would be a more important death to the bt than the average black person out in the world that couldnt vote for him. Leets talk about oush states that he considers our people. Georgia. Georgia voted for him. Children and staff test positive at a camp. The cdc released a study on friday about the outbreak says it shows children are susceptible and play an Important Role in transmission. Among the children and staff tested, 260 came back positive. 231 of them, 17 and younger. What are the risks that children who test positive even if they dont have symptoms could infect others and what do you make of the idea theres a there people, our people situation or a delineates in the white house when the disproportionate number of deaths are among our people, among black people and brown people. Right. Thank you for having me, joy. I was here in new york city in march taking care of patients. I feel like that presser the other day by the president , i felt almost gas lit. I saw people suffering and if significant pain from the virus. I heard sirens a all night taking patients to the hospital. Theres been a lot of a federal strategy. At the very minimum we should have a universal mask mandate and shut down the hot spots. I think were seeing increasing evidence like this study that came out today with the georgia camp that really in order to stay home, you need lower rates of Community Transmission of the virus. Going to school shouldnt be an opg f option for students and families. For every child that may be infected, they have a parent, maybe a grandparent. They are also the adult camp counselors. Every one can get sick because children dont die and its great numbers and they do also die of this, the idea its okay to send kids back to school when kids at a camp, its insane. Help us out. Were dying here. Your daily upbeat message with what floridans are going through. Governors who have done what trump wanted and pretended that the virus isnt that serious are demanding, insisting in texas and florida and other states that kids go back to school and they dont care what the teachers and what people like you have to say. What do you have to say to donald trump and mr. Our people, the president of the United States . Thank you for having me. Ive been a big fan since your days down in miami. Its my hometown as well. If i had to ta you can to donald trump, id tell him this. People are going to die. People are dying every day. The stats dont lie. Im not a doctor. Im a teacher. I love teaching. We want to go back to school and be with kids. Im a High School Band director and there are coaches and counselors who cant wait to get into our buildings but we need to do this safely. Last month in florida, we had 25,000 children under the age of 18 that tested positive here in the state of florida. Thats 900 kids per day in the state of florida. Were in the epicenter of this virus. We do not have it under control and a governor who has tethered himself to a secretary of education who should be dismissed because she has no background in education. Shes supporting the school shes trying to undermine and underfund for the last three and a half years. We need help. We need mask mandate, testing, tracking and tracing. We need ppe. We need an infrastructure change like weve never seen. Lit cost us more money to educate our kids than less. We need to get in school and now florida is in the epicenter of this hurricane. Now we have two crisis going on. Our governor has not given us leadership. Were looking for this but we need to do this because theres 2 tn 2. 8 million children depending on us to get back in school. We have seen in other states where teachers are prepared to strike. In arizona teachers strikes are possible. Washington post reporting there may be strikes. Are the teachers in florida prepared to go on strike if the governor forces schools to reopen before you all feel comfortable . In florida we havent had since 1968. Its against the law to strike. These are last recoursorts. Teachers are filling out living wills. They need to two back to school. They want to do the work and love children. They are doing everything they can. I spent the better part of the week in washington, d. C. With the American Federation of teachers who had the first reopen prehensive plan. Our federal government, our State Government is leaving us lost. We cant leave chimpb lost in our public schools. We will not be the petri dish for america. We need this help. Were asking everybody who scare cares about kids to get behind us and let us do this in smart, heroes act in the congress so we can get the money we need to protect our kids. Dr. Blackstock, i want to ask you about what the administration seems to want to do is hupush this drug they wan every one to take. Now they have someone doing it with them. Dr. Stella who is a pediatrician. Here he is putting forth herself as an expert that conservatives should listen to instead of like dr. Fauci. People are dying. We are news of a kid died. He didnt have to die. People are like he should have a wore a mask. He should have. Its most likely he would not have died if he had the drug. I believe shes a pediatrician has said things about people having sexual relations in demons in their sleep and masks are not helpful in stopping coronavirus. As a physician, yourself, what do you make of her growing influence among conservatives who do not really believe that the coronavirus outbreak is a real threat . Obviously, very, very concerning and disturbing that she is sharing this misinformation. We know so far from numerous well done studies is hydroxychloroquine has negative side effects. Its people like herself that have encouraged myself and other colleagues to speak out and make sure were conveying accurate, responsible information in this pandemic. Its very concerning and disturbing shes sharing this information. I want the public to know we have tremendous evidence that says this drug is not effective and can be harmful. Were out of time, jonathan. Do you have any reporting that suggests donald trump or anyone near him has any financial interest in this drug because he does seem obsessed with it . Theres been a lot of investigate iive reporting into that suggestion. Theres been suggestion that the company owns a small fraction of percentage in some overseas operation. To this point, there doesnt seem to be a significant Financial Investment from the president or people close to him. You can rest assure the reporters are still looking into this. Very briefly, i was in the Briefing Room on wednesday when the president at the white house, the president defended his we retweet of quack medicine. This is dangerous. You combine that with his scatter shot messaging on masks. He didnt keep his distance or wear mask. Its not an example for most americans should be following. Yeah, indeed. Thank you all very much. Next, trumps desperate and dishonest claims about mail in ballots and voter fraud. Why are you spending more energy to get the resources and the funding for the states that they want to be able to secure this election for all americans . You know nothing about my energy. You know nothing about what im doing. What are you doing . You know nothing about what i do. Hes now openly trying to steal the election because he cannot win it honestly. Al franken is here on trumps very, very bad week. On trumps very, very bad week. Hey, can i. 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In addition to that, hes threatened to delay the election. Today, he even brought out his favorite fear monger in a tweet cbs reporter caught Stephen Miller emerging from his crypt to go on fox news and claim that mill in ballots will lead to fra fraud. Tru trumps behavior that become so alarming that they have had it. It was written that trumps tweet about delaying the election is fascistic is itself ground for the president s immediate impeachment. Today the Lincoln Project released a new ad calling him out for what he is. A failed president facing defeat. With millions of out work and tens of thousands dying from his incompetence and neglect. Donald trump, here is the message. We will vote. We will defend america. We will throw you and your failed cronies out of office. The choice, america or trump. Im joined by tom nickels. This is your ad, tom. Im going to go to you first. We have to Start Talking about fascim. You also say that Donald Trumps calls to delay the election are fascistic. Is that where we are now . Were not there yet. I dont know whats going on with your audio there. Were not there yet. I think its interesting that you the head of the Federalist Society use the term like davids term. A fascist has high discipline. One of the reasons were not there yet is because donald trump and most of his supporters are not nearly that disciplined and that cohernent but trumps moves are auto cattic. Hes terrified of losing the election. Rather than lose it, he would burn it down and cast the election into doubt so when he loses, he can have some excuse, some reason for saying that he lost. Maybe even delay the election so he can just do as much damage as possible on the way out. Hes like a little kid flipping over the checkers board because hes losing the game. Thats what hes doing to try to do. Whats interesting is that there are people who arent going to help him with that which one helpful side. The challenge though is the people who will help. I think thats what lot of people are afraid of. The Republican Party has laid down for this for something the Federalist Society that has gotten 200 judges all packed away has called fascistic. Let me let you listen to what nancy pelosi says. To understand this, want to cancel this election, postpone the election, really . He learn that from putin or something. Somebody who has some expertise in this, politic poli requires the pentagon to take training to refer to protesters and journalists as adversariead. If you have the secretary of Defense Training their employees to treat journalists and protesters as adversaries, this is alarming. Your thoughts. Its extremely alarming. We can get into an argument about whether its time or whether its useful to use the word fascist. I agree with tom. Were not there yet. Donald trump has made it clear he would love to get there if he could. The question of whether he can really is a question of how many enablers he has. The Republican Party has turn into a party of enablers because he can commit political murder by a single tweet. All of them fall in line. The question is, are the uniform Services Going to be his enablers as well. I think we saw really interesting case study, a really scary study with layfayette sc e square. That association was too toxic. First secretary esper and a week later the joint chiefs of staff said no, actually, we didnt know where we were going. Really frightening defense on its own. We dont want to think of these men as going somewhere without knowing where they are going but it really clear indication of that, if association becomes too toxic, too ill legitimate they will not support him. I think youre right in that the military has proven very much determined to protect the legitimacy of themselves. Theyre not going to allow donald trump to necessarily spoil their legitimacy. Theres stay in hotels and corrupting influence there but im wondering across the board. You have census door knocking, the pressure to finish the count. Meaning the census is being undermined. The way in which we apportion power in this country. It itself is being undermined. The postal service, they have a flunkie in there thats upsi undermining it. You have