Restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on Civil Liberties in american history. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most trusted person in america when it comes to cboe pandemic according to polling is dr. Anthony fauci. The director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. And there is good reason for that, right . Hes a legend in the field of infectious diseases. He served six president s, democrats and republicans. He played a major crucial role in helping contain the hiv aids epidemic he was personally treating ebola patients as early as five years ago. His entire career has been building for the battle we are now in with a once in a century pandemic he has been a scientific voice of reason throughout there is no denying the u. S. Has had a disastrous response. The numbers dont lie. We are now in the cusp of hitting 200,000 deaths that horrific death toll represents a far higher mortality per capita rate than the rest
Foundation of american democr y democracy. We say i cant breathe. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Were 49 days out from the election the country continues to be in the grips of a once in a century catastrophic pandemic. We lost over 196,000 americans in fact, just today we recorded over 1,000 american deaths i get it i get why the shock of the results of 2016 and its election has led so many people in the media and in politics and a lot of you right there on the other side of this screen, the viewers, the ones i talk to or email me, to believe that President Trump has some unquantifiable, almost imaginable power to hypnotize the voting poll louse. A lot of people feel the polls cant be right but that is not true based on the data we have right now President Trump is significantly down in the polls. Seven points behind joe biden according to the 538 average that gap is larger and much more consistent than the polling in 2016 and every day that t
Undergoing unnecessary hysterectomies and now alarms over william barr when all in starts right now good evening from new york im chris hayes. From the start of this pandemic, Donald Trumps original sin as we documented time and time again has been putting short term political expediency above longterm Public Health strategy hes done it over and over and over again it is why our responsible virus has been this rolling, horrific nightmare. Were now seven months in. It is all still happening. It is why we still have days that were losing more than a thousand americans to the violence like today where covid tracking recorded over 1,200 deaths it is why we are closing in on 200,000 deaths one of the most important things the government can do is to be clear and consistent with the public and its messaging its crucial you need to come up with a message thats grounded in the science and then repeat it and get good information out and today the director of the cdc who has had many of his own
Thats when coronavirus was ravaging new york state and likely beginning its spread to other parts of the United States heres what he told the American People on that very same day america is continuing to make critical progress in our war against the virus. Over the weekend, the number of daily new infections remained flat nationwide flat. Hospitalizations are slowing in hot spots like new york, new jersey, michigan and louisiana this is clearly evidence that our aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working. And it wouldnt be long before donald trump would start tweeting against the stayathome orders his own government recommended and urging his supporters in states like michigan and virginia to liberate those states however, we now know that he was privately telling bob woodward, who was writing a book, that the coronavirus pandemic was a deadly plague that could rip you apart. The president s lie to the American People including his own supporters is ongoing. And with potential
Allegations laid out in Bob Woodwards book that he lead about, captured in his open recorded words and advanced a theory how to address the pandemic why would you down play a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm lowincome families and minority communities. Yeah. Well, i didnt down play it. In many ways i upplayed it in terms of action. It would go away without the vaccine, george. But its going to go away a lot faster it would go away without the vaccine . Sure, over a period of time and many deaths and youll develop like a herd mentality its going to be herd developed, and thats going to happen that will all happen herd american tamentality. A lot of people that dont want to wear masks a lot of people that think masks respect good a lot of people waiters. Why blame the waiters today, the rebukes were coming from inside his own government, specifically the head of the centers for Disease Control. This mask, these facemasks, are the most important powerful Public Health too