Coming up on this mornings washington journal, we will take your calls and comments on the news that the president and first lady have tested positive for covid19. Host good morning. It is friday, october 2. People around the country and the world are reacting to the news that broke overnight that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus. We have a two hour washington journal for you today before the house comes in and we want to get your reaction. There is how to take part in the conversation. Epublicans call 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. If you are an independent, call 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. Please leave your name and the town you are texting from. Broke just before 1 00 a. M. Eastern time when the president sent out this tweet, tonight, flotus and i tested positive for covid19, we will begin our quarantine immediately. We will begin this immediately and get through this. Eastern. At 12 54 a. M. The
The president is expected to carry out his duties without disruption while recovering. They point out that trumps diagnosis will have a destabilizing effect in washington, raising questions how far the virus has spread through the highest levels of the u. S. Government. The Vice President of the United States tweeted around 2 00 a. M. Eastern time, karin and i send our love and prayers to donald trump and melania trump. And swiftr their full recovery. God bless you, donald trump and the first lady. One more piece of information, nbc news has posted a letter from the white house physician about the president s covid diagnosis. It is fairly brief. That, i a note less released the following information with the permission of President Trump. Both have tested positive for the virus. The president and first lady are both well at this time, they plan to remain at home. The White House Medical Team and i will maintain a vigilant watch and i appreciate the support provided by some of our count
you are doing nothing. tonight, as the nra heads to texas, the uniquely american crisis of guns in this country. a former firearms executive on what he calls his battle against the industry that radicalized america. and david hogg on the possibility for progress and what we are still learning a community in mourning. win all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are all in this country in a state of mourning for the 19 elementary school children and two teachers massacred in uvalde, texas yesterday. and there is a feeling of palpable overwhelming rage and frustration, a feeling that i share. and watching this perverse and particular ritual, which is what it is, play out, in the aftermath of a preventable tragedy like this one, hoping that some tragedy, like this one or the next one or maybe the one after that will be the thing the thing that finally cracks the resistance of the gun lobby in the republican party. but we actually have eviden
and david hogg speaks on the possibility for progress and what we are still learning. a community in mourning when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are all in this country in a state of mourning for the 19 elementary school children and two teachers massacred in uvalde, texas yesterday. and there is a feeling of palpable overwhelming rage and frustration, a feeling that i share. we re watching this perverse and particular ritual play out, in the aftermath of a preventable tragedy like this one, hoping that some tragedy, like this one or the next one or maybe the one after that will be the thing the thing that finally cracks the resistance of the gun lobby and the republican party. but we actually have evidence that the opposite is true. listen to this. a 2019 study found that, after high-profile mass shootings, like the one in uvalde, not only do legislators and governments failed to pass gun safety legislation, but in republican st
what, if anything, will they do? will anything actually change in this moment as we ve asked every single time before. the parents of these 19 children, the loved ones of all 21 deserve answers to these questions and they deserve action. we re talking about people like stephen garcia and jennifer lugo. their daughter ellie was killed in gold blood, a little girl so excited about the pool party she was going to have for her tenth birthday next week. sweetest girl you ve ever had the chance to meet. told her we were going to have a party and her face just lit up. that was the last time i saw her. i won t see my daughter again. hear with me from uvalde, texas is jose diaz-balart and gabe gutierrez. gabe, what do we know now that we didn t know yesterday or when we woke up this morning? reporter: chris, good afternoon, yes. the key question, how did the initial officers at the scene engage, in their words, with this gunman. we now know the texas department of public safety