With tear gas and others with restraint. Joy reed will be my guest. The joe biden platform, after all that civil war stuff, is his campaign the most progressive in modern history . The case will be made when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If you went back to the beginning of this year, 2020, and as the ball was dropping, you predicted we would have had a once in a century pandemic that would shut down the entire economy, put half the world on a lockdown, kill more than 100,000 americans, and be the leading cause of mortality for weeks at a time, all of it, every last part of it would have seemed incomprehensible. And this is where we are. 100,000 americans have died. Yet the only real nod the president has made to any warning or empathy for the fallen is to lower flags at federal buildings and monuments to half staff for three days. Now they are back up. Now they are back up. Hes bored with dealing with the virus. Hes moving on. He wants us to move on, too. The president is mad at the virus for screwing up his reelection, which has been obvious and clear from the moment this all started in his public pronouncements, but a source kelling vanity fair that trump was in a rage last week about how the virus affected him. He said, quote, this is so unfair to me. Everything was great. We were cruising to reelection. Its clear this is how he has been thinking about it, that he is the victim here. 100,000 dead, its unfair to him which is why he wants to move on and his twitter feed is an utter selfparody of idiotic bs and lies instead of sorrow. Its why he said the u. S. Would be reopening, vaccine or no vaccine and conducting himself as if none of this happened, as if we were transported back in the time machine to the first day of the year. As if it were a year ago before the pandemic hit. I mean, if there is any strategy behind this, the idea is to acceptable the message. Its done now. Its over. Lets stop talking about this. But it is it is over. Nationally, we appear in the agate to be in the decline phase of the first wave, which is cautiously good news. But this virus, this disease has already killed an incomprehensible number of americans. Everyone is sort of struggling how to communicate it. Americas front pages attempt to convey the scale of the horror. But donald trump cannot grasp this. We know this about him. It has been clear for the totality of his public life. Today it was left to joe biden to deliver a National Eulogy marking the lives of those we have lost. To all of you who are hurting so badly, im so sorry for your loss. I know theres nothing i or anyone else can say or do to dull the sharpness of the pain you feel right now. But i can promise you from experience, the day will come when the memory of your loved one will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. My prayer for all of you is that that day will come sooner rather than later, but i promise you, it will come, and when it does, you know you can make it. God bless each and every one of you and the blessed memory of the one you lost. This nation grieves with you. Take some solace from the fact we all grieve with you. We all grieve with you. Just some simple, straightforward, common human decency. The pandemic is not gone. People are still dying. The virus is still raging in places like Nursing Homes and meat packing plants and a in two apartment buildings in my home borough of the bronx, a complex i remember from my youth, a chess tournament i played there once. That place has become known as the death towers. There is talk as many as 100 residents have been sickened by the virus there. And in some place, this is important, the virus is now surging. This is how things look in alabama which saw the largest single day increase of cases in the city of montgomery, dr. Lisa williams says quote, our icu beds are full. Weve been having a lot of overflow in the icu. It is overwhelming. Another alabama doctor, michael sagg warns it is difficult to convince people the virus is still here. Quote, i do not think there is any appetite among the general population nor of our political leaders to do much more about it. But alabama is not alone. North carolina just hit a new high of coronavirus hospitalizations. 702 people in the states hospitals with the virus. The number of coronavirus patients at sioux city, iowas hospitals just hit a new high. Mississippi just reported its highest number of weekly average cases. Im afraid of this is the new normal and as a country while were mourning our dead and continue to fight the virus, we continue this late into it to have these very complicated problems thrust upon each and every one of us at all levels of American Life and society and governance, how do we put the Public Health infrastructure in place and go back to work and school . Is summer camp a possibility . What should we do . How do we visit elderly relatives who we desperately miss and love and want to hug, but we dont want to get sick . While were trying to figure this out, all of us together, do you know what the president is doing . The president is tweeting about the stock market. And other nonsense and saying the state should open up asap. He is so removed from what this thing is, what it has done to families and neighborhoods. And those two buildings in the bronx and Hospital Systems, what its doing now in montgomery, alabama right now what it threatens to do again to all of us, its the same virus. Its still out there. In just a few minutes, im going to talk to dr. Craig spencer who worked with aj plus who put out this incredible animated video showing one day in his life as an e. R. Doctor treating the coronavirus. This is what the president refuses to see. They arent here to say goodbye when they ask to withdraw treatment. We facetime so they can say goodbye. We stop the drip, turn off the ventilator, and wait. Your hands upon theirs, you think of their family at home sobbing. Someone starts saying a prayer. You cant help but cry. This isnt what we do. You stand by. You wait. This isnt what we do. You stand by. You wait. Time of death, 7 19 p. M. Here is the paradox of this moment i keep coming back to it. The only way that we can get to something that looks like normal, which we all desperately want to be back in a society where you can have parties and hug your loved ones and go to work. The only way we can go back to something that looks like normal is if we remind ourselves that its not normal, if we remain vigilant and remind ourselves things have changed. Thats the only way were getting back to normal. The biggest risk to stop us from getting to some kind of semblance of normal is to think everything is normal. We can only have something that look like our normal lives if we change and we adapt and rerecognize how things have changed, if were vigilant now. If we think were magically going back to our former lives to before times, to before the virus, then that is the thing that will most likely lead us to disaster. Here with me now is someone that livers and understands what the reality of what this doctor is doing, director of Global Health and medicine at Columbia University medical center, dr. Spencer, we had you on before. That video really brought me up short, and i wondered if you could talk a little bit about what the Human Experience of going through this in a hospital e. R. Has been like . Ive watched that video many times. I was part of making that video every time i see it it brings tears to my eyes. I remember the patient and the family and like it was yesterday, and it was about a month and a half ago. Look, we all want to move on to some semblance of normal, but this happens so many times, so many times every shift that we went to work. So many patients and families that we called over facetime so that they could say goodbye. I dont think any of my colleagues will ever get back to normal. This is something we didnt do on a daily basis. This was so hard and so impactful for all of us and for families who werent there to say goodbye. So just really heavy. Things thankfully have improved. We dont have the same case numbers but im afraid like you everyone is comparing what is happening in mississippi or alabama to what we saw here in new york city in the scale hopefully will never be the same but it doesnt have to be as bad as new york or half as bad to be really, really bad and i hope no one has to experience what we experienced and what i tried sharing in the video. You know, you identify something that i think is, it puts a finger on a kind of slipperiness in what our policy goals are here and i think that theres one way of thinking about this is can we go back to normal and avoid another new york city style meltdown . The answer to that is different than the answer of how much can we go back to normal and spare needless death and mayhem to local Hospital Systems . Those might be two very different answers. I think that the answer to both of those and approachable to them is bread and butter Public Health. The way we need to be approaching this, and i hear a lot of discussion, are we going to have a peak or a plateau . We dont know how many cases there will be but there will be more. Well see this more in new york city and across the country. Were seeing hot spots emerge everywhere, maybe in the south now and in the west and maybe back in the northeast over the summer, over the fall, over the winter. Were going to see this again in great numbers. We just need to be prepared. We have the tools. We know what we need to do. We missed our opportunity the first time around. We need to take advantage of it now. Youre describing that. The psychology here, i understand the psychology because i feel its tug on me as well, which is this sort of unprecedented thing happened in most peoples life span, right . This global pandemic, we watch it sort of come to our shores, it goes through china. It guess through italy. There is this, you know, Crazy Society wide reaction correct, right, to sort of shelter in place and to hunker down and kind of like, you know, get through the first wave and there is this feeling of like okay, thats reseeding now and what im hearing from you is the psychology its not gone anywhere. Like how do we no. How do you think about it . Is your mental posture towards the fact this thing is still out there . I think about it every day. When im outside. It may not be outside in the same places in the same numbers but we know its slipping around this country. We see images of people at the ozarks completely not respecting social distancing at all thinking that this is a disease of the elderly. When in fact, people intubated have been in their 30s. People have died in their 40s and 50s. Normally healthy people. I understand people are fatigued with staying inside, especially as its getting really beautiful. Memorial day means so much. Traveling, vacation, some sense of normalcy. We need to base these decisions to open up on Public Health principles, good bread and butter health, contact tracing, isolation, things we should have been doing all along but didnt have the tools to do. Or didnt develop the tools to do. If we dont take that approach now, well continue to see the virus and it will continue to infect us. It will continue to circulate amongst us, and we will have more deaths for the next few months, really until we have some other therapy or vaccine to prevent such massive spread. Dr. Craig spencer, youve been an incredible voice throughout this and i want to thank you for your time and the amazing work you and your colleagues have been doing and do every day. Thank you. Thank you very much. I want to turn to ed young, a staff writer at the atlantic covering science who wrote about how americas patchwork pandemic is fraying further. This is a great piece that kind of captured some of the strangeness of talking about the virus in the u. S. Because its an enormous country. The virus travels and has outbreaks in intensely localized place, and we have an enormous patchwork of policy. What does this add up to ultimately . I think it adds up to chaos and i think it adds up to a very difficult crisis for people to get their heads around. Weve already talked about how cases are spiking in parts of the country like alabama whereas theyre going down in others like new york. Were seeing massive differences in how well different states are prepared for the pandemic in terms of testing and Contract Tracing and all of that is a result of the negligence, the federal negligence coordinating a solid response to the virus and instead letting the states do their own thing. And i think because of that it is really hard to predict what the next few months are going to bring. Are we going to get a lull before a second peak, or are we never really going to get out of this first wave . Yeah, that is precisely the sort of concrete prediction that were all sort of desperate to get. There is also, its also hard to communicate across the sort of vast channels of American Life. You know, in new york city, you know, where im born and raised and grew up and have friends and family that i love and reading that story about those towers in the bronx, i mean, the virus killed one out of every 500 people in that city and possibly more once its all touted. Thats shocking to conceive of that when you look and think about and of course, there are places, huge swaths of the country where the fatality rate is lower than motorcycle crashes and i understand why people who are in parts of the country where its lower than motorcycle crashes are having a harder time subjectively relating to the danger of it than, say, people in new york city. I also totally understand that especially when there is so much misinformation and active disinformation circulating around the virus, but i think people need to recognize that a pandemic of this kind was always going to take its time to move across the country and so theres no reason why suburbs or rural areas should think that they are going to be spared. It might take more time to reach them but it will reach them. Like wise, it will also hit areas that it has already hit and that have lowered their guard. I think were going to see that very dynamic shifting patchwork over time and like you say, it does make it hard to maintain the kind of persistent wariness that we need across the country when you see people out and about at pool parties while youre still confined at home, it does somewhat erode ones willingness to continue doing the kind of measures that are necessary to reduce transmission across the board. Final question for you and your piece and your writing throughout this which is incredible has touched on this which is there also the sort of world a lot of the countries in the world have gotten through what looked like first waves, even extremely hard hit places like italy and northern italy, spain and the like. Theyre as we take stock, there just remain a lot of open question, right . About what comes next and why some places got hit as hard as they did and why in some places it seems the case fatality rates are so high and all of that uncertainty now hangs over the u. S. , which is its own kind of the way were doing it fed rated agglomeration of states and state policy. Yeah, i agree. And its really important for everyone to remember there are so many different factors that go into success or failure. Right. Reopening is just one of them. There is also things like the age structure of a population. The quality of medical care. All of these things, its really easy to draw the wrong lesson by comparing across states or across countries. I think one lesson for the u. S. Is very clear to me is that the countrys long history of pushing medical care away from marginalized communities and black and brown communities is coming to roost now. Were seeing that people in minority and indigenous groups are seeing much higher rates of infection and death from covid19, and that is contributing to the patchwork effect that weve talked about. And i argue in my piece that we are not going to see the end of the pandemic unless we make specific efforts to support the health of the most marginalized and Vulnerable People among us. Until all of us are safe, none of us are safe. That is a great way of thinking about it. Ed young of the atlantic. The atlantic has been doing really wonderful coverage of covid throughout, and i look forward to reading them every day. Thank you, ed. Thank you. Still ahead, the president s assault on democracy in the midst of a pandemic. His dangerous attempts to sabotage free and Fair Elections in this country, after this. When we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get 2 months free. The president is increasingly both in person and on twitter doing his very best to sabotage administration of free and Fair Elections in the United States in the midst of a pandemic. Hes spreading lies and misinformation about absentee balloting. In fact, his lies got so egregious, twitter appended a meek little Fact Checking link. The president is freaked out about it. Important to realize twitter is not the issue here. Okay . The president apparently hopes that he can pressure states into not offering absentee mail in voting so that those states end up in the truly twisted position that wisconsin voters were put in last month, you will recall, in which they had to risk getting sick voting in person in the midst of the pandemic, or just not voting at all because they couldnt get an absentee ballot in time. Even though that particular disgusting spectacle backfired on republicans and the republican candidate lost, donald trump seems more devoted than ever to making that the National Norm this fall. The strategy. So now, it is basically going to take a 50state effort state by state, court by court, secretary of state by secretary of state to make sure everyone in this country, republican or democrat can safely vote without risking their health. Joining me now to talk about this is marc elias. He is one of the top election lawyers in the country. Hes currently involved in numerous Voting Rights lawsuits. Fist lets start with i dont want to have you rebut the nonsense the president has been saying, but just the general effect of the president of the United States essentially trying to undermine the legitimacy and the veracity of an entire sta states voting system. Its awful, chris. Because when the president speaks, even this president , it matters. When you have the president of the United States day after day after day repeating lies about voting and about vote by mail, it has an impact. But, you know, thats what weve come to expect from this president. Remember, even after he won in his last election, he had a lie that he had lost the popular vote due to illegal voting. So now i mean, the one sort of saving grace i suppose is he can tweet and talk about it but it doesnt actually have a ton of power over this. These are largely state decisions. What is the lay of the land right now from your view and i know youre involved in litigation in a bunch of places about the degree to which states are preparing, have no excuse absentee in place and are able to have the capacity to implement it at scale. So three things. The first is, the fact that he doesnt have the power directly doesnt mean that he cant through bully pulpit and through influencing what republicans do at the state and local level have negative consequences on the election. There is no question if donald trump told the republicans in wisconsin cut out the nonsense and lets make sure there is an orderly election, there would have been but donald trump sent the opposite message. So against that backdrop, you have states doing the best they can, dealing with the burden of a system in many states that is not built for large surges of vote by mail and now having to deal with that in the middle of a pandemic while the Postal Service is not fully funded and the president of the United States rails and skews lies about vote by mail. So, yeah, an important distinction. Emily basilon pointed this out. There is a distinction whether the state offers no excuse vote by mail under the states laws, basically you request an absentee ballot. You dont have to get it notarized and state your reason and thats true in many states wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, North Carolina that have laws on the books that give voters that right. Theres a difference between that and are you prepared to run an election like arizona where 80 of people will vote by mail and thats a pretty big gap, right . Yeah, you have three buckets. You have washington and oregon utah, a nice red state, colorado, hawaii that run all mail elections. So essentially everybody proactively gets a mail. Then you point out you have states that have large numbers or predominantly mail voting. And then you have lots and lots of states like michigan will, like pennsylvania will, like you mentioned, which historically have relatively low rates of vote by mail but were going to see a surge. You may have states that have 25 to 30 vote by mail. And so each of those faces different sets of challenges. Oddly, the states in the first category because they are used to running all mail elections are the best prepared. Its the states that will see the surge that we worry the most about. Right. We have seen the department of justice get involved here, this case in alabama in which there is a challenge over a requirement that people have a witness essentially to say why they need an absentee voting and the doj filing. In defense of that law against the challenge, which says something to me about what William BarrsJustice Department is going to be willing to do as you see a bunch of fights over access to absentee balloting in these states. Yeah, so a couple of things. First of all, if we had any doubt about what the republicans are going to be willing to do, look at what they did in wisconsin when the onlystate ju. They were willing to make people wait in line and vote in the middle of a pandemic and risk their lives in order to try to win a state judicial election. Just imagine what they will do for november. And with respect to the attorney general, you know, the Voting Rights act gave the department of justice the right to file a brief to make sure that states were not impinging on Voting Rights. And it is disgusting and disgraceful that this department of justice had the audacity of sending its Civil Rights Division to a federal court in alabama to side with the state of alabama against the Naacp Legal Defense Fund and the good work theyre doing to try to give people the opportunity to vote by mail in the middle of a pandemic without having to find a witness. Thats just an abuse of what this power of the doj was intended to do, which was to step into curb states. Instead, its being used to combat civil rights movements. Yes, the doj using the Voting Rights division to go into the state of alabama to side with the Alabama State government as it tries to make voting harder for the people of alabama is not the way its supposed to work. Mark elias doing work on the trenches. Wed love to get you back to keep telling us updates. Thanks a lot. Id love to come back, thanks. Great. Next, joy reid on the death of george floyd at the hands of police and what this moment and the protests surrounding it lays bare about the inequities in america. She joins me next. Over the past several weeks weve all gotten used to these scenes of protesters against physical distancing, against Public Health measure, gathering in cities across the country, often armed with long guns. Weve seen the incredible at times really unbelievable forbearance of Police Officers amidst a pandemic as these people, these protesters shout and berate and menace. Like they did here at the minnesota capitol just last month. But, you know, it was a very different situation in the twin cities last night with a Different Group of people where many Wearing Masks trying to social distance flooded the streets to protest the death of a 46yearold black man named george floyd. On monday floyd was detained by police in minneapolis on suspicion of passing a fake 20 bill. That was the infraction he was suspected of. An officer kneeled on his neck as floyd said repeatedly, i cant breathe. Floyd had no pulse when he was in an ambulance. He died soon after at a local hospital. Four minneapolis officers including the one you see there were fired within 24 hours for their involvement in the incident. Last night, this is how the protest of floyds death ended up. Police in riot gear flooding the streets with tear gas and shooting rubber bullets into the crowd. Huh. Another example of how this pandemic has been a kind of black light exposing all the inequalities in American Life. For more on that im joined by joy reid, host of msnbcs am joy who will be hosting a special this sunday on poverty and the pandemic, talking with vulnerable groups about how they are being impacted during this crisis. And joy, i imagine you have the same thoughts i did watching that because we have gotten so accustomed to the insane, almost incomprehensible Police Restraint in the protest to see that protest and that way last night really drove home the point. Yeah, i mean, you were in ferguson. You covered that. I was in baltimore and covered that. The excessive use of force. First time i saw a tank in real life was in baltimore where citizens were protesting the death of a black man at the hands of police. I think this is consumed. I think everyone black i know really everyone i know is consumed with this, all of these deaths. Right . I was trying to think how coherently to talk about it. And the way it feels to me is that were watching played out the way that europeans came to this country to get away from being subjects telephone kings in europe. But what they did is created for themselves a sort of kingdom, every man a king, the subject is black and brown people. The rest of us are subjects, thats whether or not its amy cooper versus Christian Cooper. Amy cooper, citizen, Christian Cooper subject so she feels she has a power to make him tell her, to for her to, you know, she has to decide what he can do. He cant have his own decision. She makes those decisions. She can use the police to enforce her rule over him. In the subject of mr. Floyd, he was not treated as a citizen. You wonder if there was a white person and there had been a 911 call that they passed a 20 bill, would that person be dead . Likely not. If the Police Showed up on mr. Cooper, he would be in great risk, well put it that way. Weve seen this over and over and over again whether its trayvon martin, ahmaud arbery, i where regular people say i can act as the police. It can pursue you, i can chase you and say youre the one whos dangerous and i can say i have a right to kill you and do it and do whatever i want to you. The Breanna Taylor situation, you can be in your bed. Youre a subject, not a citizen. And its the same thing with these armed white men who can get armed up and walk into a state capitol, and thats okay, and the police are benign. They dont even act afraid. But let black people show up and protest the death of an innocent black man and suddenly you know what . We need tear gas. Weve got to go full force. Yeah, the subject citizen line is so perfectly apt in this case and particularly in those the images we did see, have seen of police in the face of these protesters where the relationship there is like constituent or citizen or okay, well, im here to make sure nothing goes down to make sure your constitutional right to bear arms and protest are protected, thats my sort of sovereign duty here and thats just not the way. I mean, in baltimore, in ferguson and last night in minneapolis and every other protest that ive ever covered against police violence, it does not go down like that. At all. Charlottesville, the same thing. The police were there to protect the people who were marching as neonazis, not to protect the black people who were being victimized by those neonazis. This plays out over and over and over again that black peoples right to protest is secondary to white peoples right to be an armed protest with long guns, terrifying looking war weapons. Thats fine. The police are there to protect their civil rights but for black people it is simply subjugation. Its simply were there to control you, were there to minimize your movement, to minimize your opportunity to protest because you simply are a subject in this country that is something thats never been fixed. 400 some odd years later, we have not fixed it and i have to say, even among even ordinary white citizens who are considered good people, dont consider themselves racist people, there is still way too often that same attitude that if i see you in my building, i have the right to say why are you here . Do you belong here . Do you want to show me identification . You have to. Or im going to use my power of this. Im going call 911 and enforce my power over you. And that is just ordinary people in central park. That is what is so scary about this country. And all of this, i mean, this is one way in which state force cuts along these lines but one of the things weve seen in the pandemic is that all kinds of institutions have cut along these lines. Whether its the way that people in rental housing are being treated or the Actual Health disparities. You have a special this weekend, specifically looking at that, right . About the ways in which those disparities have been thrown open in the midst of the pandemic. Well, here is what is ironic. By the way, ill throw in one more thing, these white protesters that say you dont have the right to tell me i have to wear a mask or cant be at the beach. Im a citizen. It even plays in with covid. You cant police me. I police you. But on the subject of poverty, here is what is ironic. Four white people, four white citizens, they actually arent doing all that much better economically. The average person who is poor is white. Not black. It is rural poor white people who are in the exact same position as poor african americans, as poor indigenous people, people in those meat packing plants. We show poverty for what it is. What bishop barber, this is what he wanted to do is to open poverty and low wealth and show 40 million some odd americans are not just black people, brown people, indigenous people. You have a lot of white americans quite frankly who are fighting for people who are so far ahead of them economically, who are dragging them along the same way they are dragging people who look like me along. That the the irony of the whole thing. You got the wall street journal and the president s Economic Advisor saying dont worry, a Capital Gains tax holiday is coming amidst this, which is too perfect to put on top of it. Joy reid, its great the talk to you. Ive missed you, and im going to watch your special. Its american crisis, poverty and the pandemic. It airs this sunday, 9 00 p. M. Eastern on msnbc. Its going to be great. Thank you, joy. Thank you so much, chris. Still to come, does joe biden have the most progressive platform of any democratic president ial nominee in recent memory . Minimum wage immigration activist Matt Iglesias is here to make the case ahead. When i noticed my sister moving differently, i didnt know what was happening. She said it was like someone else was controlling her mouth. Her doctor said she has tardive dyskinesia, which may be related to important medication she takes for her depression. Her ankles would also roll and her toes would stretch out. 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Propublica reported that richard burr sold up to 1. 7 million in stock around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the daily health threat. They reported his biggest sales included companies that are among the most vulnerable to an economic slowdown. All in all trades looked suspicious. The next day the daily beast said senator loeffler also sold up to 3. 1 million in stock and a Senate Briefing and purchased hundreds of thousands in an oracle stock in companies that specialize in digital work environments. Sketchy. The reports about other senators transactions but when you scratch the surface, they didnt look as serious. So loeffler and burr really seemed like a category of their own. It seemed like it might be a focus of the actual federal crime investigation. One big difference is Kelly Loeffler has done everything in her power to praise him, while senator burr has called donald trump jr. And kushner to testify. He supported the findings in the Mueller Report that russia tried to help trump. He was about to release the final report from his committee. This question hung around is there a difference in the way the two republican senators have been treated by the Justice Department . Then we learned two new things about Kelly Loeffler. One of them is after these stories broke, her husband, who is the ceo of a company that owns a new york stock exchange, knowing full well that his wife might be under investigation, gave a Million Dollars, 1 million to trumps super pac. Thats a lot of money. And while richard burr gets served with a warrant and his phone is seized by the fbi and gets leaked by the press, loeffler says shes cooperating with the fbi. Apparently on her own accord, no warrant and no leaks. All of which brings us to the latest Kelly Loeffler news. Yesterday we find out her case has been closed, along with two of the other senators i mentioned. So thats it. Were done here. Not richard burr. Hes in a different category. He will have this hang over him and maybe, who knows, could ultimately result in criminal charges. But Kelly Loeffler case is closed by the fbi and it seems richard burr is still hanging out there, even though it seems like on the surface they did pretty similar things. Maybe thats how it should be. Maybe its done in good faith. Maybe an investigation into loefflers investigations showed there was nothing there and maybe burr did something to still be under investigation and maybe Kelly Loefflers husband gave a Million Dollars to trumps super pac and trump had the department of justice let her go. Normally i wouldnt think thats how it went down and it cant possibly be that brazen and open and corrupt but can you really trust in William Barrs department of justice to do the right thing . Its time for the Memorial Day Sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed. Can it help keep me asleep . 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And is the is why his polling average is at its worst position in a while. After this very long, hotly contested primary, there is now a tremendous amount of unity on the democratic side, i think its fair to say. Joe bidens campaign is looking at joint campaigns with Bernie Sanders people. Though biden did not run an aggressively ideological campaign, the substance of his proposed agenda in everything from housing to Climate Change is arguably the most progressive policy platform of any democratic nominee in history. Joining me now, the author of that piece, Matt Iglesias, Senior Correspondent at fox. Matt, i like the piece. You had been one of the fox people who had sort of made the case for sanders early in the primary when different authors were doing that. Your piece here is sort of on the stuns of whats in the platform. Why do you say that it is possibly the most Progressive Agenda of a democratic nominee that has happened so far . You know, joe biden is a Democratic Party lifer. He is a very mainstream democrat. He has been there for a lot of years. A lot of that is sort of old history. It came up during the primary, but the evolution of the Democratic Party has been in a much more progressive direction over the past 5, 10, 20 years, and i think thats really reflected in this platform here. I mean the small thing is, biden is for the 15 an hour minimum wage. We didnt talk about that at all during the primary because the candidates all agreed. But as recently as 2016, that was a very divisive issue, that was something that hillary and Bernie Sanders argued about an enormous amount and now it is you didnt hear it because it is the consensus, but it is the consensus that actually drives what might happen in policy terms, and so you look at down the road, you know, hes talking about doubling pell grants, tripling housing assistance, big, big increases for federal funding for low income schools as well as this really actually quite ambitious Climate Policy agenda and it is not that joe biden is the most hard core leftist Democratic Party politics but it is the party as a whole is a much more sort of uniformly progressive force than it was just even a few years ago. I remember seeing an illustration once of where he was in the sort of ranking of democratic senators, theres a dw nominated Political Science course and right in the middle of the Democratic Caucus throughout his career which is a kind of impressive achievement in its own way, right . It means you understand exactly where the kind of middle consensus position is. I want to talk about the climate stuff. The housing stuff caught my eye because we dont talk about housing policy a lot, but there has been a real sea change in how people talk about it. The housing proposal of the expansion of federal assistance in housing is quite, quite, quite large and i think will be quite necessary in the aftermath of the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Yes, exactly. So he wants to take the sort of rental Assistance Program that has existed for a long time, people call it section 8 vouchers but right now, there is only a limited pool of money that goes in there. And so when the need for rental assistance goes up, the actual supply of assistance stays limited. He wants to make it, they call it an entitlement structure, the same as medicaid, or medicare, if you qualify for help, you will be guaranteed to get the help. That would be a quadrupling of the number of people who get assistance. Using the 2019 data. If you look at the economic problems were facing now, it would probably be even more. So that would be a huge help to many millions of low income families. Also a big sort of new automatic stabilizer into the economy. It would assure us that when people fall on hard times, because of recessions or whatever else, theyre not at risk of eviction. And this is an idea that it was really nowhere, but Matthew Desmond talked about his great study of evictions, and it becomes sort of more mainstream, in kind of policy wonk circles. Biden put it out right when the pandemic was starting to hit so it never really coasted on the news cycle. Was that would be a huge change in federal housing policy, and its something you can do in one of these budget reconciliation bills. So it might really happen. Its not subject to filibuster. So someone who came up, in housing politics, enormous change. It sounds like a small change. Enormous change. And talk about climate. The climate agenda was impressive when i read it during the campaign and it was one of the things that he put out, one of the bigger things to roll out and had a lot of good things about it, favorably compared to other folks and now that it is the plan of the nominee, it is by far, by far the largest climate agenda that has been proposed by a democratic nominee although we know how large the need is. Yes, i mean, you know, this is a tough area, because the gap between what Scientists Say we need to do and what the political system makes possible is just gigantic. But bidens agenda on climate is huge. You know, this is like a really long plan. There is a lot of different moving parts to it. But like the big headline target is to be Carbon Neutral by 2050. There is a lot of money for research, there is a lot of money for specific areas. And he kind of clashed with lefty environmental activists, a couple of detail points, about carbon capture, and about the potential role of nuclear energy. But those dont really speak to the sort of core of the climate agenda. And if youre talking about putting a lot of money into clean unreasonable, youre talking about real regulation on utilities and talking about taking care of some of the social justice and Environmental Justice angles, it is really all in there. And biden became defined in the primary by what he didnt endorse, particularly medicare for all. But theres an incredible amount of stuff in here, and its, you know, again, it is just, its because thats how Democratic Party thinking has evolved. The era of trying to reach a bipartisan deal around cap and trade is over. And so now you have this sort of much more partisan, much more progressive approach. Yeah. And the big question becomes two things. One, whether those old habits of the ways of doing politics would be to Carry Forward in office, and then of course whether you have enough senate votes and whether you can get Kyrsten Sinema and joe manchin to vote for them. You should definitely the 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,224 of the trump administration. 160 days until the president ial election. Weve had trouble on the streets of two American Cities tonight, minneapolis and los angeles. Well have more on both situations in a bit. But first, we have as a nation crossed into New Territory tonight as the marker of how this pandemic has changed this country reaches a stark and difficult to fathom high. We have now lost over 100,000 americans. 100,846 to be exact as of the time we come on the air