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Course, elect a president , elect we did not shutdown entirely a president in the bipartisan thats why when we started to come up, we plateaued at a level tradition to understand were safer in the world when we have that was quite high, about friends and allies that work 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, with us. This is going to take time and effort to repair. Were seeing the surges were god forbid if there were eight seeing today. Years of Donald Trumps dr. Anthony fauci yesterday amid the white houses campaign leadership, i dont think it can be repaired. To discredit him, continuing to next january if joe biden is our give his honest assessment of president , im confident we can do the hard work of beginning to whats gone wrong in this country in fighting the repair those relationships, but co we are hearing new were going to have to be patient and were going to have to recognize that a great deal warning from Health Officials that miami is quickly becoming of damage has been done. And it is going to take time for the epicenter of the coronavirus our allies to have confidence that america is really back and back in a fashion they can pandemic. Meanwhile, in the debate over how and when to open schools, trust. Only joe biden can bring us back to that point and take us three of the nations Largest School districts announced they forward because, mike, its not will be starting the year with enough to go back to where we were. The world has changed. We have a Global Economic online classes only. The president put on a new spin crisis. We have a global pandemic. On his more tests mean more all of those challenges need to cases rhetoric. Be addressed with strong, yesterday he said, when you effective american leadership. Test, you create cases. And it will take the kind of good morning and welcome to experience and judgment and confidence that joe biden can morning joe, it is tuesday, july 14th. Bring to that job and bring, willie well get to all that in therefore, to our allies. A moment. But give us the latest on miami. Lets turn to katty kay for the next question. Mika, as you mentioned, miami katty . Susan, thank you. Now the new epicenter of this youre right, i keep hearing pandemic. Florida had its second worse day from european diplomats theres for new infections yesterday a big difference between eight years and four years. Adding over 12,000 cases just a can i ask you about a specific foreign policy, national day after shattering the record for the highest number of single security issue. Day cases. We woke up that the russians Miamidade County was were paying taliban to take hits responsible for a quarter of yesterdays new cases and on american and british represents about 20 of the soldiers. As we can tell, theres been no total number of infections retaliation yet. If joe biden were president , what action would america have statewide. Health advisers to the mayor taken against russia in response describe the situation as grave. To these stories . Well, first of all, katty, its clear that, you know, what the mayor is withholding closing is at stake here are the lives more businesses. Of american servicemen and women an Infectious Disease serving in a war zone. Specialist at the university of to the extent the intelligence miami said the situation is like has indicated, convincingly, at what was happening in wuhan, in least convincingly enough to put that information in the china five or six months ago, president s daily briefing, the and like new york three months most important intelligence ago, remember that . Product produced, we have to Florida State lawmakers are take this information seriously. We have to recognize that in all calling on the federal government to coordinate with probability, russia has paid state and local leaders. Bounties to taliban to kill our 98 of icu beds in miamidade servicemen and women. Are occupied. We cant allow that to stand. In the past 14 days, there needs to be a serious and hospitalizations rose 65 , icu strong american reaction to that or they should have been by now. Admissions are up 66 , and ventilator use is up 128 . And whether that reaction took the form of economic pressure, the ceo of Memorial West response in kind, Military Hospital in south florida says, pressure, thats for the quote, we are busting at the National Security council and seams in the emergency room, i the president to decide based on am busting at the seams inside all of the different factors at the hospital. I am busting at the seams in play. And i cant sit here without the benefit of that information and terms of icus, the biggest challenge is staffing. Give you my own personal one doctor telling a local judgment, but i know that, you know, when we face challenges of investigative reporter, quote, this sort, we would sit down and we are really burned out. I would be at the at the head lets bring in the president and ceo of Jackson Health system in of the Principals Committee table in the situation room and we would weigh the evidence and miamidade. Weigh the implications and put doctor, thank you for being on the show this morning, given forward to the president everything youre going through. Clearcut options for responding but if you can tell us the appropriately. It seems this president hasnt latest there and what is needed. Done that. Obviously the number one he still to this weeks after this information hit the thing is every hospital is public domain, and i believe fairly full. What were managing right now is more than a year after he was maintaining the census that we first informed of this in some have, that is noncovid patients form or fashion, he has said and done absolutely nothing. And as theyre discharged we no expression of concern. No effort to criticize the replace them with covid patients. Russians or promise that we will we are doing a great job of act appropriately in response. Discharging. The challenges we have, number gene robinson. One, making sure our employees susan, we are where we are on are safe and kept without any infection. And the other thing is about the pandemic. Staffing. The governor has now released we shouldnt be here, but its opportunity for south florida out of control in the south and hospitals to bring in about 2,500 nurses that is critical to what we need. Southwest and schools are about to reopen, perhaps. We have the beds, we need the this is utter chaos. Staff. In addition to that, the reagents for lab testing in our so, what should President Trump loan labs has been extremely do today, tomorrow. Not that he will, but what necessary and the need for should he do given the situation now to address the pandemic . Remdesivir. Those are the three things we need right now. Well, first and foremost, if i could ask you about gene, he should respect the staffing. At this point do you need to science and respect the experts. Bring in staffing from other Hospital Systems . Stop assailing people like tony other states . I know three months ago massachusetts lifted the ban fauci. Put them in the lead. The reality is this is not a had actually new rules that pandemic we can wish away. Allowed medical students to you know, President Trump was graduate and immediately start working. Whats the situation in florida cheerleading the reopening of the economy. It proved to be deadly in terms of staffing . Premature. Thats why were seeing in the how is it best fixed at this south and the west, some of the first states to reopen, this point . The best fix is what were trying to do. Extraordinary resurgence. The governor has identified we cannot do as President Trump is doing and play politics with several different ways of bringing out of state nurses in and be willing to sacrifice the that 2,500 range that were lives of our children and their talking about to south florida. Teachers. We believe that will get us we have to recognize that in those states where the pandemic through the worst that were looking at. Is out of control, and its out with everything weve done with of control because trump urged the curfew, the controls on the the reopening prematurely of our restaurant back again and what economy, that it may not be possible, despite all of our mayor jiminez has done, we desire to see our kids back in school, to safely reopen those schools at the beginning of the school year. So, we need to get the testing believe we will hit the peak in ramped up even further. Three week, thats a long time we need to get the contact and our staff is already really tracing sorted out. Tired and nervous. I want to ask you about the we need to restore some of the restrictions that were put in profile of the patients youre place early on and lifted seeing. Early on march and april, we prematurely as california has just done in order to bend the were told it was older people curve. And it really needs to be bent that contracted coronavirus. Then we heard about in places down near to zero, as weve seen like houston younger and younger in europe or to be safe for patients. Schools and the like to reopen. What kind of patient is in your hospital right now with this wishing away reality and coronavirus . We saw the influx of young basically politicizing a patients as well in miami. Pandemic, putting his re what happens happened with the growth, the young erpatients are the same but now were seeing reelection ahead of the lives of americans is unconscionable the older. In miami we have a lot of homes and its killing us every single day. We need leadership that cares with multigenerational homes in about our children, about our teachers, about the people the staff in our schools, and it, so they come home and everybody else in this country, infected their mother and that their lives actually matter. Grandmother. And a high percent of those and thats how we get our economy jump started, which is young people have a lot offo vitally important. But you cannot skip the critical step of caring for the lives and morbidity, in terms of diabetes, the health of americans. Former National Security obesity and lung issues. Whats your message to adviser, susan rice. Healthy people across the state thank you so much. Of florida right now as you look for being on the show. Thank you all. At the scene inside your icus, and up next, the forgotten what do you want them to know victims of the coronavirus. Right now . The only thing that will help nbcs keir simmons continues his us with what were doing today is for them to use the mask and reporting on the People Living in countries that were already be socially distant. In crisis and are now facing the were finding a lot of people added threat of the pandemic. That are aggressive against keep it right here on morning joe. Complying to those environments, that is not unstandable at all. We need to make sure that everybody complies with those issues. Thats the only thing thats going to slow down the pandemic in south florida at this point. Carlos, if i can extend that question, if i understood you correctly, you said we are at least three weeks from the peak . Were also several weeks away from a lot of schools in florida opening. They open mid august, some of them. Is it save for children to go back to school, given what youre seeing in your icus and dont just think about where youre headed this summer. Emergency rooms . Think about how youll get there. When you say florida its a large state. I can speak to miami. And now that you can lease i know our superintendent, and or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person. In Miamidade County they have not taken a good view of opening discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. Schools at this time. Looking at todays environment, we were running at 25, 28 the lincoln summer invitation sales event is here. Positivity rate on people so heres to the strong, tested. Were testing a lot of people. Who trust in our performance and comfortable, were doing four to five times longlasting protection. The number of tests we did because your strength is supported by ours. Months ago, but the positive depend. The only thing stronger than us, is you. Test rates of 25, 28 are not because your strength is supported by ours. Indicative of being able to open just between us, you know whats better than mopping . The schools here in miamidade anything county. At the end of a long day, thank you. Its the last thing i want to do. Best of luck to you, i hope you get the three things you need as well i switched to swiffer wet jet you fight the pandemic. And its awesome. Its an allinone so its ready to go when i am. The cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. California is effectively and the pad absorbs it deep inside. Back under lockdown there as so, it prevents streaks and haze better than my old mop. Cases continue to surge. Plus, its safe to use on all my floors, even wood. Yesterday governor gavin newsom glad i got that off my chest and the day off my floor. Try wet jet with a moneyback guarantee ordered counties to close indoor restaurants, bars, theatres, and gyms. According to the San Francisco chronicle, Health Officials have zero d in on bars with their lack of physical distancing, and customer face coverings, masks as a major potential source of spreading coronavirus. It notes that in addition, Governor Newsom ordered 30 counties on the watch list to close gyms, houses of worship, officers for noncritical work sectors, shopping malls and barbershops and also hair salons unless they can operate outside or pick up services. You mentioned schools, Public Schools in los angeles and san diego, along with atlanta, will begin the year with Students Learning from home. Students in nashville will start remotely, at least through labor day. Heres President Trump yesterday on his continued push to reopen schools in the fall. What do you tell parents who look at this, look at arizona where a schoolteacher died teaching summer school, parents are concerned about their childrens safety. Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. But what if you could startdo better than that . Youre losing a lot of lives by like adapt. Discover. Deliver. Keeping things closed. In new ways. Its stunning how cavalier he to new customers. Continues to be about the what if you could come back stronger . Reopening of schools. Faster. Better. A blanket declaration that at comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. Schools should be reopened. He doesnt make that decision. But bounce forward. We should remind our viewers and now, were committed to helping you do just that that happens on the local level. With a powerful and reliable internet and this is the news all summer and voice solution at a great price. That every parent was dreading, call or go online today. Hoping we could get this together but you cant get back to school unless you get your infection rate down and thats not happening in this country. Everybody wants the kids to go back to school. Also yesterday, President Trump blamed the Obama Administration and also an increase in testing. When asked by reporters yesterday about the recent surge in cases across the country. If you know, biden and obama stopped their testing, you probably know that, im sure you dont want to report it. They stopped testing, right in the middle they went, no more testing. And on a much lesser problem than the problem we have. We test more than anybody by joining us now, nbc news far. And when you test you create Senior International correspondent keir simmons. Keir, you have new reporting on cases. So weve created cases. How the coronavirus pandemic is some countries they test when impacting syria and lebanon as somebody walks into a hospital the region grapples with the sick or walks into a doctors virus amid protests and a civil war. Office, but usually a hospital, what did you find out . Thats the testing they do so they dont have cases. Reporter thats right, mika. Good morning. Whereas the testing we do, we just think about how hard the have all of these cases. So its a double edged sword. Coronavirus has hit us here in europe, there in the u. S. Its not clear what obamaera now imagine that in syria, where thousands upon thousands of Testing Program trump is people literally do not have referring to. Homes to hide in. Lets bring in sam stein and in italy, under siege from president assads forces backed by russia and iran, over the yamiche alcindor. Weekend they just recorded their yamiche were going to get to first case of coronavirus. The effort to discredit dr. Just after we recorded some of the interviews in the piece fauci in just a moment. Youre about to hear. If the virus takes hold in but it does leave us with, if they find a way to discredit him, it looks like its idlib, there is literally nothing of it standing in the backfiring, if they find a way way of decimating the lives of to do so, is the president going so many. To be our scientist in chief . Amidst the rubble of syrias civil war, the fear of famine because everything he says about the coronavirus seems to be a and more misery with the bit off, if thats if thats coronavirus. Millions are grappling with the not an understatement. Most basic of questions where is the safest place to sleep . There are multiple obviously multiple examples of amon, his name changed to the president saying things that protect him and his family, made are just plain wrong about the coronavirus. I think the president is seeking the heartwrenching decision to to be not just the commander in return to their bombed out home. Chief but the chief scientist in this country. The house has been probably hes telling americans all over destroyed by 60 or 70 . The country believe me over people youre talking to, this is the only room left standing in the house, he says. Including your own local officials, governor, in this case the president said in march when his granddaughter first saw their home, scarred by fighting, anyone who wants a test can get a test, it wasnt true then, not she broke into tears. They had been sheltering in a true now, continues to not be true. Nearby camp after fleeing their hes the only one talking about home, frightened for their testing being as double edged lives. But now share the same fear of sword. People want to know who has the contracting the virus, like coronavirus because its everyone else around the world. Critical to tracing it and we have been staying in a tent stopping it. What we see in President Trump with three families, he says. Is someone whos weighing if the we were really worried we might catch the virus, so we said, political calculations, saying lets come back here with the the best thing for my kids to be safer. Reelection is for people to feel like things are normal. A decade of constant come as a result you see him pushing for schools to be open, states barredments has annihilated. To go back open. The problem is when you see a now aid agencies are warning, governor like ron desantis in my the worst is yet to come. In rebelheld idlib, for years home state of florida listening under siege from president to the president , he took a victory lap saying everyone assads forces, coronavirus could be the breaking point. Thought things were going to be terrible in florida theyre not. Were lucky we have been mostly now were in a situation where cut off to the world, this florida is the new epicenter and doctor tells us. People are terrified, including god forbid the moment we get one republicans. I think President Trump is going case, it will be a catastrophe. To continue to take this across the border in neighboring political risk, and it is a lebanon, already home to the risk. Hes leaning on the facts he can largest per capita refugee get reelected by putting the population on earth, the Global Crisis has left the country on coronavirus in the rear view its knees like never before. Mirror. Domestic violence was at the white house yesterday for a the u. N. Has been testing meeting with mark meadows, refugees across lebanon for covid19, but with thousands of refugee living in deep poverty, according to a white house official. They told nbc news the chat was one of lebanons top infectious a good conversation. Disease doctors is preparing for he did not meet with president the worst. We have a lot of refugees in trump. Dr. Fauci said recently he was not briefed and has not been lebanon, we have syrian refugee, briefed by the president in at least two months and has not in camps with overcrowding. Seen him in person since early june. If we dont fight a good fight in advance of that meeting, against covid, it might spread rapidly. White house social media reporter a strict lebanese director dan can sereno mocked lockdown has controlled its fragile health service. Dr. Fauci sharing a cartoon of but lebanon was under massive him depicted as a faucet on strain even before coronavirus and the collapsing World Economy social media. In a message, he promised to that followed. Its own economic and political crisis went into overdrive last publically disagree with fauci while suggesting the top health fall. Months before mass demonstrations in america, official had leaked millions of lebanese of all ages from across sectarian line s tok disagreements cowardly on social to the streets protesting media. And this saying he provided an decades of government corruption and financial mismanagement. Oped style memo. The coronavirus will exacerbate rapidly and deeply despite all of this, president the basic problems that led trump flatly denied reports that people to go out onto the his administration is attempting streets. The desperation and anger that people felt and humiliation. To discredit dr. Fauci, as did reporter now the country is even more broken. The White House Press secretary. I have a very good its currency losing over 85 of relationship with dr. Fauci. Its value. And people are even more i had for a long time, from the furious. We spoke to a group of young beginning, i find him to be a activists who have taken to the nice person. I dont always agree with him. Streets from the beginning. I like him, personally. I do have hope. I do think the youth and older theres no opposition generation combined put their research being dumped to forces together. Reporters. There shouldnt be a reason this we were asked a specific cant succeed. Question by the washington do you worry about infection . Post and that question was, do you worry about the President Trump noted that dr. Coronavirus . The people are going down on fauci made some mistakes and we the streets really have nothing more to lose anymore. Provided a direct answer to what they have reached such level of was a direct question. Dr. Fauci and the president have desperation that is always had a good working unprecedented in lebanon. Im saying this even after we relationship. The Washington Post, greg went through a civil war not sergeant points out all this has long ago. Reporter and they say that accomplished is unleash black lives matter protests in the u. S. Have been an intensified media scrutiny of inspiration. Asking for the people in the relationship between trump government, people that have been stealing from us, people that are the cause of all the and fauci, and new reporting that illustrates trumps trouble in this country to be held accountable. Pathologies with a new depth and every time we see a protest from the black lives matter, vividness. Lets be clear what happened as they would fuel ours. We listened to Kayleigh Mcenany you can see the pain in peopler yesterday. Several reporters brought up the Better Future but say many country as soon as possible. Document that brought up dr. I think my greatest fear is faucis statements that were on a personal level for all of lebanons youth. Wrong. And now dan scavino, out in the at least those that are capable of leaving will leave. Open, put his name on it, reporter the spector of yet another middle eastern country attacking dr. Fauci in the plunged into chaos and poverty. Middle of the crisis as it explodes. A place where millions have who are you going to trust on already come in search of a pandemic . A guy whos a famous infectious shelter. All happening in this shadow of the coronavirus crisis. Disease expert or the White House Social Media director, that should worry everyone. Its tough. Its fascinating that those its a classic case of trump prodemocracy, anticorruption scapego scapegoating. Obviously bizarre in tendencies protests in lebanon began before but this is what the president does, he looks at the problem as the black lives Matter Movement but yet at the same time have a pr problem and wants to cast felt inspired by that movement. Blame elsewhere. And the way that coronavirus fauci has been off on a few of threatens those protests and the his earlier predictions but not way they are still pushing on. As bad as some of the top white you know, weve talked about how house officials. The coronavirus is going to keep in mind it was only a couple weeks ago that mike pence change history around the world. That is a good example. Penned an oped saying there it is certainly going t of mise. Would be no second wave. Nbcs keir simmons, thank you the problem that dr. Fauci faces hes not willing to face rosie very much for your reporting. We look forward to more. Were going to take a turn now and joining us now, pictures about the campaign he tells it like it is. Bestselling author daniel and for the administration silva. His new book the order is set trying to down play the severity in the vatican around the death of the crisis, thats of a pope with a with plot problematic. But this is the administration that looks at everything as a pr lines that include the rise of problem. Far right populism and an i go back to the president s comments on testing as an upcoming global pandemic. Example. I dont understand if he you always do this, daniel, with these amazing books. Believes that if you have fewer there are so many. Tests this thing would go away. Theyre all best sellers. If we had ten pregnant women but but youre drawing on the moment. This moment in history in many five tests we wouldnt have half the births. Ways. When did you start writing this it makes no sense but he goes book . I started working on the book back to this as if it is the e last fall. It was inspired by the absolute lick elixir at hand. As long as he has that mindset that if we bury our heads in the hatred, the vitriol directed sand this wouldnt be a big toward pope francis by the deal, youll have him butting european far right. He is the boogie man for them. Heads with people like dr. Its sort of put, you know, one Anthony Fauci, because he doesnt want to hear numbers of piece together. Started building the story from it. Were at a point the president there. And as i was finishing the book, is looking for a scapegoat for his failures. The coronavirus puzz starting. Isnt he going to buttheads so the story is set largely in with supporters because if any italy on the eve of this of his supporters know someone or suffered from the coronavirus, they know how terrible pandemic. Dangerous it is. And also, they see that the my characters inhabit rome, president is not having rallies. Venice, florence, and so i was they see that they had to cancel writing it really with a heavy heart for the italian people. One in New Hampshire and they claimed it was the weather, they i spend a lot of time there. See that it wasnt raining at not knowing that within a few weeks later, we were going to all. Like how exactly can they hold have it, you know, unfortunately, much worse with this up . Them. Is there anybody in the white we didnt learn any lessons. House trying to get the we didnt lock down. President to really get more in we didnt do all the things that line with science . Were necessary. What i hear from my sources and now they are coming out of is that at the end of the day, it, and we in the United States the president is going to do here are still in the thick of it with no end in sight. What the president is going to do. The task force continues to dan, its willie. Great to see you. Meet, dr. Anthony fauci goes to congratulations on your the white house for those meetings but the president is on soontobe next seller. An island of his own, he wants obviously, by the time the pandemic hits, even in italy, to lash out and whatever he youve got your story in place. But you begin the book with a wants to. Prophecy about a global hes approaching the coronavirus pandemic. How did you take what was much like other scandals, impeachment and other places happening in the news and plug calling it a hoax, then saying that into the story you already had in your mind and probably this is maybe bad but im going down on the page . To get through it, well all get you know, i would write in through it. In this case the question you the real world sort of one step asked is the question of the 2020 election. Removed. Its just a little different are Trump Supporters going to from the universe that we make President Trump pay a price for the way hes handled the coronavirus pandemic . Thats going to be, i think, inhabit. And i had to make a decision. Whats on the ballot. Is this going to be a the sense in the white house is cataclysmic event . Thats where this ultimately is this something i should going to lie. Include in the book . And i ended up doing it, and it not in polls or what the president says on a daily basis, its how voters react to the was sort of gabriel making president s thinking on this. I think it is remarkable to see almost a biblicallike prophecy of a coming apocalypse and that dr. Anthony fauci is now the person who the white house warning a character, a friend of his, about what might happen. Is attacking. And unfortunately, it turned out to have dan scavino use his name to be true. And one of the things he talked about warned about would be the on facebook for all to see and for him to feel comfortable to inability of populist leaders to do, obviously hes gotten the deal with this. And if you look around the world feeling from the president he right now, what you see is that can attack dr. Fauci and there wont be any repercussions. Technocratic leaders have fared well see. Very well in their handling of still ahead on morning joe, a the coronavirus. And the populists have failed federal judge delays a ruling on miserably, whether it is great whether migrant parents detained britain, whether its brazil or whether it is the United States. By i. C. E. Should be released. The distrust of science, the playing to the lowest common meaning children could be separated this friday. And later, two members of former denominator of the electorate. The three major populist president Barack Obamas National Security team, susan governments have failed rice and jeh johnson join the terribly. And technocratic governments, germany i mean, a couple of years ago, we were talking about conversation. But first, lets go to bill greece as an almost failed karins with a check on the forecast. A stormy day, and the epic state. Well, they got rid of their populist government. They got some grownups in heat wave continues in the charge. South. Watching the storms rolling and greece has just done an through kansas, a stormy morning extraordinary job handling the in south dakota and minnesota and well see additional storms, coronavirus pandemic. The populists, not so much, as maybe an isolated tornado or we say. Mike barnicle . Two. Areas of concerns, iowa through daniel, first of all, theres Central Wisconsin and a sliver an element of sad innocenness i of colorado, kansas, texas 5 appearance here today. Usually were on set every year Million People at risk there. At this time. Tomorrow the storms head towards we get a book. You sign the book for us and i st. Louis and chicago, in the reward my wife, one of your same areas headed to the plains into the midwest. Biggest fans, with the book. How about the heat, its been but the vatican is a source of hot the last couple kays, endless, endless stories having arizona to texas we continue to do with whoever is pope at a with 43 Million People under particular time. Heat advisories. But this particular pope, pope francis, you just alluded to it, that heat today, its going to feel like 111 degrees in west is surrounded by internal texas. Controversy. Thats not the desert. Much of it based in ideology, dallas 99, houston 97. Conservatives, liberals, aimed and then that heat is going to spread to the east coast by the at pope francis. How much of that surprised you, time we get to the end of the week. And how much of it helped define wednesday gets very hot in the character of this book . Nashville, memphis and well, my readers know that ive had a longrunning sort of shreveport. Subseries of thrillers that have d. C. , 95 on saturday. Been set in the vatican, have cooler in Northern New England today and areas of the pacific dealt with internal church northwest. Our final graphic today, just because we had these other issues, corruption, the history issues in 2020, we cant forget of jewish catholic relations. About one of our biggest problems on the planet, thats and hes had a wonderful global warming. Halfway through the year, Second Partnership with my fictitious hottest year to date, all time pope, pope paul vii. Record heat across northern and pope paul vii and francis siberia. And here we are on track for have a little similarity. Florida to have its hottest year they are both opposed by ever recorded. That issue is not going away and internal doctrineare reactionary something we need to solve. Looking this morning, a beautiful sun rise from d. C. Up hardliners and opposed by far to the northeast. Right politicians. Thats the George Washington bridge and youre looking at the and, look, ive been endlessly hudson river. Fascinated by the vatican. Youre watching mornimorning. I love spending time there. Well be right back. Orning joe. I love writing about it. Well be right bk. Ac i like liberty mutual. And, look, it is you cannot understate overstate, excuse me, the crisis in which the modern church is in. The moral crisis because of the sexual abuse scandal. The coming financial crisis. Im told by vatican insiders they get that no two people are alike and customize your car that the church is very, very close to bankruptcy. Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Weve had archdiocese excuse what do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Me, diocese and orders in the liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. United states declare bankruptcy, but the church itself is in real financial trouble. And so this papacy is interesting to watch, to say the least. All right. 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You can find that in the Washington Post. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Thanks, mika. Hi there. Im stephanie ruhle. Its tuesday, july 14th. Here are the facts at this hour. We start with the largest state in the country shutting down businesses all over again after the most recent spike in coronavirus. The governor of california ordered all restaurants to stop serving indoors and shut down bars completely. Gyms, malls, barber shops, offices, churches are also being closed across most of the state. At the very same time, californias two largest public School Districts in los angeles a federal judge will not rule until next week on whether migrant parents detained by i. C. E. In Family Detention Centers should be released. The decision will now come after the july 17th deadline imposed by a federal judge in california for all children to be released from i. C. E. s three Family Detention Centers to reduce any exposure to covid19. Joining us now, nbc news correspondent julia ainsley. What does this delay mean for the children and the parents right now being held in these facilities . Well, mika, this decision yesterday or potential decision yesterday thats been delayed, that would have been one of the last fail saves to keep the Families Together because as you know the families in i. C. E. Detention, about 360 of them, they were staring down the friday deadline since the california judge said the children need to be released but she didnt have jurisdiction over the parents. The judge that has the jurisdiction over the parents said he would wait until next week to make his decisions. And listening to the arguments and questions, it seems he would side with a limited release, releasing certain parents he thinks are higher exposure to covid19. The argument from the lawyers is the parents may be soon faced with an impossible decision of having to either keep their children with them in detention or release them. The reason they might be faced with that decision is because in that california court, theres a negotiation happening between the two sides are lawyers are having to decide whether or not to give parents a choice to stay with their children or release them. I said wouldnt every parent decide to keep their child with them, and a lawyer for the parents yesterday told me because the rates of covid has started to rise in i. C. E. Facilities, over 3,000 across the country, there are parents telling the lawyers they are considering giving up their children in order to save their lives. Julia, let me ask you the obvious question. The courts are looking at the parents and children as two separate entities. If the parents are not released and the children, where are the children going . Thats the best question. Because they dont know. The lawyers dont know. They told me yesterday that government has made no commitments to whether the children will be deported, continue their asylum hearings, whether theyll go into the custody of health and human services. What we think, if thenm respecting the children, they may come up with a form that will have to give certain safeguards to the children saying they can stay in the United States, they can go to a Family Member or someone designated by the parent in custody, someone they trust in the yooiUnited States who can t care of them, but right now the government has made no promise in each of these cases. Its something we have to watch before friday because the bottom could be falling out on these families. Thank you so much more for your reporting on this this. A new york judge lifted a temporary retraining order on mary trump, the president s niece, one day before the tell all bid. The bid by the president s brother, robert trump, to block the books publication, didnt pass legal muster. The contents of the book had, quote, already reached millions of people by the tremendous attention its gained by the h book in public. Its scheduled to hit shelves today. What is the white house saying about this . This book does not shed a kind light on the president. The White House Press secretary has already come out bashing the book. She said she hasnt read the back yet but she has seen excerpts and read the media reports. She thinks this is someone with a vendetta against the president. But what i can tell you as someone who got my hands on the book this weekend you see someone on who knows the trump family well and is someone poised to breakdown the president s personality, his characteristic and where he learned the behavior youre seeing in office, in terms of relying on his instincts, in terms of his moods. I think its going to be an interesting book and more interesting now that you have mary trump being able to talk about her experience growing up in the trump family and around her uncle. Yes, and the father son dynamic is fascinating apparently in the book. Coming up on morning joe, more on florida with miami becoming the new epicenter of the pandemic. And the Republican National convention slated for jacksonville in one month. Were back in just a moment. If youre 55 and up, t mobile has a plan built just for you. We want you to get the value and service you need to stay connected. Saving 50 vs. Other carriers with 2 unlimited lines for less than 30 each. We know that connection is more important than ever. And were here to help, when youre ready to switch. Call 1800tmobile or go to t mobile. Com 55. 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Spend 10 dollars or more at a participating Small Business and get 5 dollars back, up to 10 times with american express. Enroll now at shopsmall. Com. We came to jackson in, i think, early march when this pandemic was really starting to pick up steam. At this point i dont know if miamidade had a case a positive test, maybe a couple. But it was obviously much different than what were finding here. So i think florida governor, ron desantis heckled during a News Conference at a miami hospital. Joining us now, morning joe chief medical correspondent dr. Dave campbell. Dr. Dave youve been following whats going on in florida talking to hospital ceos and getting a sense of things. Did the heckler have a point . Very much. The epicenter in florida is miami. And florida is one of the worst states in the country and the United States is the worst country in the world. So theres no doubt that everyone should realize that this is not some hoax. Its not a it doesnt need to be a political statement. The state of florida and other states across the country are being inundated with new cases. The lagging effect of those new cases will be increasing hospitalizations and increasing deaths. The next few weeks could be and will be really a crisis of unprecedented proportions and miami is sitting in the middle of it. Youve spoken to the ceo at jackson, my alma mater. Its important to realize that even with steps being taken in miami and other counties in south florida from broward to palm beach, steps taken by doctors to limit the number of inpatient elective cases they do, steps taken by administrators to keep beds open when possible, even with that, the icu beds at jackson memorial, as we have now heard, are almost at capacity. And as this density of infection spreads up from miamidade to broward to palm beach county, we are sitting here in palm beeach county, where i am today, wat working, watching a slow moving hurricane coming up the coast and its centered over miami mika. Correct me if anything i have said is wrong, if we dont mitigate in florida in a big way, and potentially lockdown again, this is going to get worse . There are a lot of steps that need to be taken right now, and its going to get worse either way, mika. Its going to get worse in the next few weeks either way, but to keep it from getting more worse, more severe, excuse me, we need to, as individuals, really every Single Person in the state needs to address their own personal behaviors. Wearing face masks, going outside when you can, if there are two or more people together, if they can be outside, its 20 times safer than being inside. Hand hygiene, physical distancing, all of the things that Everybody Knows about now and have learned over the next few months is so critical right now, exactly now today this week and for the next few weeks to dramatically decrease the spread of this virus, and having the government put into effect measures that will force some of these behaviors. If that means shutting some things down, were already partially shutdown, bars are shutdown, inrestaurant dining is shutdown. So every day this changes and we will see over the next few weeks, much more impactful changes that come down to us. So, dr. Dave, i just would love your opinion on this. As someone who knows florida well but also has been following the coronavirus pandemic, its july 14th. Were one month away from some schools reopening, they open about mid august, l athletic programs start whats your opinion on schools opening . First you said i have been following this. Let me tell you, this is my first day back at work, after having tested positive and quarantined. So i know quite well personally this disease and the number of other individuals i know locally that have contracted this is staggering. Its important to realize children can and do contact with this disease. Children do transmit this disease to others. Children will bring this virus back to their home and allow it to circulate through their own house, through their own parents, their own grandparents. So we should prepare for the reality that when schools reopen, even with really vigorous mitigation and containment measures that are really up to the individual schools and School Districts to enact, we could easily see yet more surging of the cases in areas where the schools reopened. Theres no easy way out of this mika. Dr. Dave campbell, glad youre back up and running and feeling bng on today. 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Welcome back to morning joe, beautiful live picture of the United States capitol, former Auburn University coach Tommy Tubberville and former attorney general Jeff Sessions face off today to decide who will compete against doug jones in novembers election. Monica alba has more. Reporter in alabama the most influential candidate is not on the ballot. Donald trump. President trump. President trump. Reporter alabama has the race President Trump is the most personally invested in, other than his owns, pitting Jeff Sessions against Tommy Tubberville. We dont know this man. He is an empty suit. You cant fake it. Youre either strong or youre not. And Jeff Sessions, hes not. It was in mobile in 2016 that Jeff Sessions threw on a red hat. Becoming the first snenator to endorse t endorse donald trump for president. Despite the immigration policy, the president never forgave sessions for his recruiusal fro the russia investigation. As you know, the attorney general said im going to recuse myself. The president was itching to campaign against Jeff Sessions in march. One week later the president endorsed tubberville and in june they travelled together aboard air force one. Jeff sessions took the blow and continued to endorse his boss. Did i write a tell all book . No. Did i go on cnn and attack the president , nope . Reporter but that devotion ended after trump told alabama not to trust their senator. But sessions fired back, i did my duty and youre fortunate i did. Reporter the president piled on. Hes not qualified to be attorney general. Jeff sessions was a total disaster. Were going to finish what President Trump started when he looked at Jeff Sessions from across the stable and said youre fired. Reporter the republican primary was unlike any, beset by delays from coronavirus, a bus fire and debates by debates. Not there, dodging again. Reporter but the race has been more about supporting the president s. Im going to stand with President Donald Trump on building the wall and cracking down on illegal immigration. Reporter tubberville is trying to trick you. Reporter for years sessions was untouchable in his home state drawing no challenge in his last race for senate, he gave it up to serve the president and now, because of the president , he may never get it back. This race has everything, monica alba reporting for us. Meanwhile, President Trump spoke on a call last night with Tommy Tubberville ahead of the run off. The president never shy of his admiration for the football dynasty nick saban built. Mentioned the success tubberville had. President trump got sabans first name wrong in the call, calling him lou. Tommy did have a lot of success against alabama and probably did get nick saban to tuscaloosa. You have the president faattackg his former attorney general for recusing himself and Jeff Sessions defending President Trump, trying to keep himself close to the president of the United States, even as the president attacks him. What do you pekts to see when we wake up tomorrow morning . This feels like a caricature of something in a Political Campaign like the will feral mo movie. Yes. The weight rooms, the squats. Its been an embarrassing ride for Jeff Sessions. You know, this is not obviously how he imagined things would go. The president has more or less challenged his dignity and called on voters to reject him. And it seems likely that will be the case. And just sort of an inglorious final chapter for Jeff Sessions if it is. We could wake up tomorrow and he pulls out a miracle. Fortunately doug jones winning was miraculoumiraculous, and co lot about President Trump at this time. But if that is the case, look at how Jeff Sessions had to contort himself throughout the primary, the ads he ran, almost pleading with trump to stop banging on him. Its not something you normally see in politics and suggests that everything in republican politics right now is done through the prism of trump and its about expressing loyalty to the president. Seems like arn unhealthy way to go about doing national politics. Despite everything we saw Jeff Sessions pull on the make America Great hat in his first ads when he was announcing he was running, hes tried to stay as close to President Trump to try to reflect some of the glory inside the state of alabama where the president remains popular. Its easy to forget because it feels like a lifetime ago that Jeff Sessions, as monica pointed out, was the first United States senator to endorse donald trump, lending some credibility to the president s campaign. Thats right. And Jeff Sessions really did show a fierce sort of loyalty to President Trump early on when he was just candidatetrump in the days when the others were not endorsing him or being next to him on camera. But Jeff Sessions said i want to put my hat in the race on the side of donald trump, and then became attorney general for that. He stood by the president except for the fact that he felt he had to recuse himself from the russia investigation and the president never forgave him. Banged on him in office, stories where Jeff Sessions was running out of the white house having to be convinced to come back in. Now you see Jeff Sessions as someone whos realizing the voters of President Trump might be the final nail in his political coffin, even if this race is close, it doesnt seem like Jeff Sessions will be able to get the seat back. Yamiche and sam, thank you both for being on this morning. Coming up, Coronavirus Infections are skyrocketing in Miamidade County in florida, but so far the mayor is refusing to issue new closures. Plus well be joined by former National Security advisor susan rice and former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. G morning well be right back. And new adventures. You hope the more you give the less theyll miss. But even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past. They may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. Lets help protect them together. Because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. Ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. Sixtytwo thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and thirtyone cents. Sofi allowed me to refinance all of my loans to one low Interest Rate and an affordable monthly payment. And i just feel like theres an end in sight now and that my debt doesnt define me anymore. 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Florida had its second worse day for new infections yesterday adding well over 12,000 cases just a day after shattering the record for highest number of single day cases of any state in america. Miamidade county was responsible for a quarter of yesterdays new case s and represents about 20 of the total number of infections statewide. Health advisers to miamidades mayor describe the situation as grave. The mayor is resisting pressure to close more businesses despite having way more infections and hospitalizations compared to march when he ordered all nonessential businesses to close. An Infectious Disease specialist at the university of miami said the situation was like what was happening in wuhan, china five months ago and new york three months ago. Lawmakers are calling on the federal government to coordinate with state and local leaders. 98 of icu betds in miamidade are occupied, icu admissions are up 66 , hospitalizations up 65 , and havenventilator use up 68 . The ceo of Memorial Hospital in florida says we are busting at the seams in the emergency room, im busting at the seams inside the hospital, im busting at the seams in terms of icus. Its grave. The challenge she said is staffing. One doctor telling a local reporter, quote, were really burned out. Willie. Across the country in california, that state under lockdown again as cases there surge. Yesterday the governor ordered every county in the state to close indoor restaurants, movie theatres, bars and wineries. It is a major pull back from the states effort to recover economically to the pandemic. Health officials have zeroed in on bars with lack of physical distancing and customer face coverings. Also noting, Governor Newsom ordered 30 counties to close gyms, houses of worships, barbershops, hair salons, malls unless they can operate outside and offer pick up services. And now los angeles and atlanta will start with schools remotely. Heres President Trump yesterday on the push to reopen schools in the fall. What do you tell parents who look at this, look at arizona where a schoolteacher recently died teaching summer school, pas parents are worried about safety schools should be opened. Youre losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed. I said schools opening in the fall, its not the fall really, this is coming in a few weeks for School Districts across the country. Youve seen l. A. , san diego, nashville others saying were going to start remotely we hope to get back into the School Building some time this year. And to take schools as an independent subject from whats happening in the Health Crisis is beyond flawed. It makes no sense. You have to get your case numbers down, all these metrics that public Health Officials have been talking about suppressed so you can then open the schools. Theyre not independent from one another. The president says basically throw open the doors of the schools and see what happens. Yeah, i imagine look at the polling thats come out this morning in had axios suggesting that parents are much more cautious than the president is doing. Whatever he says about opening schools, which he cant insist to do, 71 saying they feel nervous about that prospect. Ive been talking to educators around the world how they did it. And its a laborious process, its an expressive process to get the schools open as well, but the difference is they had infection rates much lower. Florida it seems unthinkable to have schools reopen there with the numbers they are. If you cant get your numbers low, i have been told by educators in germany and denmark, you cant open schools. You have to have the infection rate much more under control than the United States does. Its tragic to look at america today, which is shutting down, im talking to my friends and family in europe and things are opening up. Theyre going to school, going on holiday, going to restaurants, theyre seeing people. And here we are, were shutting down again. I cant overestimate the degree to which america looks like the pyorrhea at the moment. Its just got it wrong so badly compared to every westernized country and schools is an indication of that. Actually, theres a great piece in the Washington Post entitled trumps performance on covid19 looks especially bad compared with the rest of the world its written by brian claus and says in part this, the reality is this, trumps response to the pandemic measured against the efforts of other developed countries has been an unmitigated disaster. When you compare the United States with other countries, no spin or lies can obscure a basic fact. Trumps response to the pandemic has been a world leading catastrophe. There are undeniably small differences in how data are measured and tracked but the gulf between americas caseload and everyone elses is so vast that it cant be explained or wished away. This conclusion, the pandemic was unavoidable but americas dire circumstances were a policy choice. The rest of the developed world followed science, the United States followed trump. In november voters should look around the world, realize how badly we stack up, and cast their ballots accordingly. History will look on this, mike barnicle, i believe, the way istory is filled with people who became giants during moments of quite critical conditions. Fdr, Dwight Eisenhower in the three or four days prior to june 6, 1944 was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day as he made the decision whether to send that fleet across the English Channel and invade occupied france and defeat the germans in world war ii, the fact is a sad, sad fact, mika, is that covid19 has defeated america thus far because of largely one thing, an epic lack of leadership by the man who led this hour, the president of the United States. An epic lack hof leadership and failure to make hard decisions. 825,000 students are going to be studying online in los angeles and san diego. Thir things like that that are going to make more difficult for americans because the president of the United States took a medical emergency, a virus, an epidemic, a global epidemic, that is crippling the United States of america and turned it into simple stupid things like wear a mask, dont wear a mask, its all up to you. There has been no effective leadership out of the oval office in this country. Thats i think the defining factor in why we are losing the war against covid19. There are scientists, top leading doctors, pandemic experts who will say that lives were lost because of decisions made from the top down. Also yesterday when asked by reporters about the recent surge in cases across the country, President Trump had this to say about the Obama Administration. If you know, biden and obama stopped their testing. They just stopped it. You probably know that, im sure you dont want to report it, but they stopped testing. Right in the middle, they went no more testing. And on a much lesser problem than the problem we have. Okay. Its not entirely clear what obamaera Testing Program President Trump was referring to. Gene robinson any ideas . No, no idea. Hes making stuff up as usual. Testing does not create cases of covid19. Testing reveals cases of covid19. Right. Testing shows whats happening. Its like saying, if i dont look for termites that are eating my house, there wont be any. No there might be termites you need to look for them and find them. Were not doing as much testing per capita as other countries so there are cases going undiscovered, unreported in this country, and the comparisons are shocking and its shocking that they keep getting worse rather than better. Were not catching up with the europeans or the asians, the other developed nations that encountered the exact same virus, in the exact same way, and we are just we are losing to this virus. And the president s lack of a rational response is has made everything much worse. States now have to shutdown yet again, which shouldnt be happening. Its creating all these problems with the schools. Opening the schools is not a partisan issue. Everybody would love to see the schools open, but you have to have the right conditions for that and you have to spend the money to do it right. And the president is not interested in doing either of those. So its no wonder that the axios polling Shows Parents are nervous about it, why wouldnt they be nervous about it. Theyre not prepared. This is a disaster thats getting worse, rather than better and thats shocking at this point. Katty kay, speaking at an event, dr. Anthony fauci who has now come under attack from the white house, linked the rush to reopen to this spike in coronavirus cases. Heres what he said. The europeans have done it, people in asia have done it. We did not shutdown entirely, and thats the reason why when we went up, we started to come down and then we plateaued at a level that was quite high, about 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, were seeing the jusurges that were seeing today. If you look back in early march we were saying on the show, we cant trust Donald Trumps hunches about a public Health Crisis, we have to listen to the doctors, the cdc, it turns out magical thinking and hoping and wishing this will go away as the president said many times it will disappear, when it gets warmer out it will disappear. Turns out thats not a strategy that saves lives. Turns out listening to doctors does. Now we have a white house behind the scene creating Opposition Research pointing out the times that dr. Anthony fauci was wrong. This is somebody on their own task force theyre attacking and suggesting the media tell the American Public not to listen to. In fact, listen to the president s hunches. And look where those have got us. So there are a couple things that dr. Anthony fauci himself would say he would change, the need to change peoples behavior, and people shouldnt wear masks back in february and early march. But that was because he wanted to keep masks for health care workers. But the fact that you have a white house criticizing their own top doctors in the middle of a pandemic is like what the white house pulling out of the w. H. O. In the middle of a pandemic, you turn against the doctors, the medical society because they are saying things you dont want to hear. The internal conflict for the president has been handling the virus against his own political fortunes. He put them on separate tracks. If only he put them on the same track. If right from the beginning he thought to himself, my political fortunes are tied up with how i handle this virus, so im going to do everything i can to do the right thing, keep the country shutdown, we wont open up before its necessary but he separated those two tracks and thats where the conflict has come in and led him to be critical of his doctors because they are the ones saying we have to shutdown more. Fauci has been, in several interviews hes given the last couple weeks, hes been scathing about how the process was handled, specifically on the issue of opening too soon. Why did america open too soon . Partly because people were impatient, but people in spain had eight weeks they did not leave their apartments, i had friends that walked around her apartment three miles a day and didnt leave her apartment for eight weeks. So people were impatient, the president was impatient, and the leadership in the white house gave in to that impatience. And as dr. Fauci said yesterday, america has to get its numbers down. You couldnt get from italy to ge germany or france so you couldnt take the virus with you. America cant do that. Im in washington d. C. , i dont want a load of people coming here from florida or arizona, theres no way to stop them, thats the way the virus travels. But its a question of management and encouraging places to open up before they were ready to do so. Thats what set america back, thats whats making it look worse in its handling this. Dr. Fauci is in no way infallible, he made mistakes at the beginning of the crisis, not asking us to wear masks we know that was a mistake now. But the president , i wish this were a joke, but the president by virtue of a retweet is asking the American People to listen to more people to the former host of Love Connection that the cdc is to be ignored. Not a joke. Thats a fact. Thats a problem. President trump was asked if next months convention in jacksonville can proceed given the spike in floridas coronavirus cases you would think they would not hold the rnc in florida especially now, but heres President Trumps response. Are you going to be able to hold the convention in jacksonville with the virus spreading . Were going to see it built up a little bit but we going to do something great. We think were doing well. Several republican lawmakers say they do not plan to attend the convention, including 7 gop senators, lamar alexander, roy blunt, susan collins, chuck grassley, lisa murkowski, mitt romney. Congressman hood said everyone assumes no one is going. He was one of eight gop house members who told the times they plan to skip their partys convention. Mike barnicle, who in the hell would go to florida to a convention to be packed together like they were in tulsa, where the Trump Campaign ripped the stickers off the seats that would provide some guidance for social distancing and stuffed people together in a sweaty arena and spread the pandemic so they could have their photo op of lots of people clapping for trump. Who would go to Something Like that . I have no idea, mika. I have no idea. This is just another piece of anecdotal evidence as to how far this country has sunk in its battle against this epidemic. And it continues every day. I mean, every story we have read today and yesterday and the day before yesterday, blah, blah, blah, every story is a portrait of incompetence and corruption within this administration. But incompetence leads the league here today. The incompetence of this president and this administration. I think, gene, its ant to be topped off by the debate, the argument at national levels, political levels about how to open schools or if schools ought to be open. I think from an anecdotal point of view, talking to people in line at grocery stores, people will gamble on power ball tickets, Mega Millions tickets, horse races and ball games, but they will not gamble with their Childrens Health and safety. And that is something that the administration, the president of the United States is going to inevitably bump into. They have betsy devos, the secretary of education, a wealthy woman who has never been in a classroom as an educator standing in front of a classroom and views her job as a hobby. But the School Openings i think is going to be a real Pivotal Point and its coming up quickly, gene. Its coming up right now, mike. All it requires is just a little bit of empathy, a little bit of ability to put yourself in somebody elses shoes to realize how parents will feel or are feeling now about the prospect of sending their kids to school. Do you know any children . If you know any children, you know that social distancing is its not something wired into them at that point, right. So theyre going to be all over each other. Theyre going to be crowded together. Leaving aside for the minute you cant leave it aside, you cant have schools without teachers and support personnel and administrators. So there will be adults in the school, adults particularly vulnerable to the virus. But children will pick up the virus and bring it home to their parents, grandparents, other care givers. It simply is inevitable, clear as day, thats what will happen with infection rates this high. Thats why other nations that are opening schools and doing it successfully and carefully, step by step, first managed to get the infection rate down as close to zero as possible. So in european countries, its a bad day in germany if they have 400 new cases in the whole country on an given day right now. Thats a bad day in italy right now. Here were talking 12,000 just in florida just yesterday. You know, a 15,000 day just in florida. The day before. The day before. Its just astounding. Rates are way, way too high, in my opinion. And i think in the opinion of most medical professionals to open the school doors and say everybody come on back. Thats a recipe for utter disaster. Theres a lot of fear about the schools opening. I think, you know, if someone was advising the president and wanted to try and instill in him understanding why they may want to do more intense mitigation in florida, talk to him about it from a political point of view. Florida has a lot of seniors, a lot of cases will mean a lot of deaths and a lot of those deaths could be seniors who are scared they would get the coronavirus and die. If you look at the latest poll, joe biden is up 6 in florida. As tim russert said, florida, florida, florida, cant win without florida. And according to the cbs news yougov poll, donald trump is losing in florida. His response to the pandemic really seems to be playing out here in these polls. It might be good for the president politically to step up on fighting the pandemic. Still ahead on morning joe, shes a retired marine, who flew 89 combat missions as a fighter pilot. Now amy mcgrath is on a new mission trying to unseat Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, the kentucky democrat joins us next. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. G morning well be right back. The open road is open again. And wherever youre headed, Choice Hotels is there. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. Sir. 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The last time you were on was exactly a year ago. You were just rolling out your first ad. So, wow, congratulations, here you are. What have you learned over the past year . Well, the people of kentucky are really ready for a change. You know, the coronavirus has hit us hard just like everywhere else around this country and people are tired of a senator that has been in washington for 35 years and has not put the interests of kentucky and its residents ahead of the interest of his special interest and big money friends and they are calling and demanding change. I think thats what you saw in the primary with the enormous turnout, and its exciting. What data, what information has your campaign picked up tangible to know that you have a chance to beat Mitch Mcconnell who has been there for over 30 years, that people really are ready for a change and they will make that change . What have you learned or what has your campaign found out about the voters in the state of kentucky that would make you believe that they would unseat him for you . Well, first of all, the primary that just happened we had enormous turnout, more than in decades. And folks are really ready to get rid of him. I think no matter where you go, whether its louisville or eastern kentucky, folks are hurting. And they are tired of a man who continually prioritizes things like tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 and big corporations. Kentucky had a lot of problems before the coronavirus. We had the highest cancer rates in the country, some of the highest rates of diabetes. And folks here are tired. They want somebody with common sense solutions, somebody whos not going to go to washington and look at the interest of their Political Party and personal power. Thats my message is, lets get a leader thats going to get really put kentucky first and somebody thats going to do whats right for kentucky no matter who wears a red or blue jersey in the white house, thats the opposite of what Mitch Mcconnell is all about. Amy, its willie geist, good to have you on this morning. Lets talk about schools. I know you have children. The president of the United States saying again yesterday we have to open our schools, talking about a blanket national policy. Obviously this is a state by stdistrict by school district, school by School Decision that people are going to have to make. What is your view, as i know kentucky is coming up in a few weeks on the first day of school about whether or not it is safe for schools to open in the state of kentucky right now . As a parent, we all want, i think, our children to go back to school if we can. Thats the problem. Were in a pchandemic right now. We want schools to be safe. We have to prioritize our kids and teachers, make sure they have the proper protective equipment. Look at each individual state and where theyre at with this pandemic, and make the decision in accordance with Public Health. Thats so important. The other thing thats important is we have to have the resources to go back to school. In the heroes act that was passed that Mitch Mcconnell is basically sitting on, theres a billion dollars for kentucky schools that hes sitting on. He doesnt prioritize funding for state and local governments. Thats our school system. Thats our teacher. That is what is going to be required to go back to school safely. And he hasnt prioritized that. Its a real problem. So we have to tackle these things. So how has the governor done in your state handling this covid crisis . This is the School Decision is not independent of the Public Health decision, so where is kentucky right now . If you had to open schools in two or three weeks from now, would you open them . I think governor bashir has been a bold leader and done a good job in his handling of the coronavirus and prioritizing Public Health over the interest of politics and, you know, the interests of the economy. In terms of we all want to get the economy open but he has done a good job saying hey, we have to do this right. I think thats the same attitude he brings to opening schools. We have to do it right. If we do it, lets prioritize Public Health, make sure the students and teachers have the proper protective equipment to go to school because we want to keep our kids safe. Mike barnicle has the next question. Mike . Amy, what would you tell an undecided vote erin kentuc vo kentucky the biggest reason that Mitch Mcconnell had to be defeated, what would that reason be . Look around, are things getting any better . This man has been in office for 35 years. Is your life better than it was six years ago . He has no vision for the future. We have to have new leaders. If you look at whats happening in this country with the pandemic, 136,000 americans have died, more than all the wars since world war ii combined. If you look at our economy in shama shambl shambles, this is a leader thats got to go. A lot of people here in kentucky believe that. Its not really a partisan thing. But we have to have a vision for the future that prioritizes things like health care. You have seen it now more than ever. We have this pandemic where you have health care tied to your employment and now we have massive unemployment. People are hurting. Just a few weeks ago i was in the unemployment line talking to folks in frankfurt and we have people who single moms whohab because the day cares were closed. And so whos going to take care of the kids . And this young mother was there trying to figure out why her check hadnt fwoen througone th. Shes trying to put food on the table. We have to prioritize this. We are in a pandemic of Epic Proportions here wiand we need lead that. We have to have good solid leaders for the future. Mitch mcconnell has operated in washington d. C. For far too long and look at where its gotten us. Gene robinson . Amy, youve raised a lot of money, i think youre running a really good campaign. My question is, what are you doing and what and your campaign and governor bashir, what are you all doing to make sure that on november 3rd, kentucky residents are able to vote safely, without artificial obstacles that have been created in some other places but most importantly theyre able to do so, anyone who wants to vote is able to do so safely . Well, we learned a lot of lessons from the primary that just happened. And the secretary of state here and the governor here came together and tried to have a safe primary where people could vote, largely by mail, which is different in kentucky. In kentucky we dont have a vote by mail, so this is all new. So it required a lot of voter education, which is where my Campaign Came in. We spent a lot of resources on showing people how they could vote. And getting them their ballots. We have to do that going forward. My hope is that the governor and secretary of state will come together and allow and enforce and push mailin voting for the fall. Because this pandemic is not going away. And hardly anybody whos a Public Health official thinks so. We have to make sure that people can vote and we have to get them their ballots and its got to be accessible. We had problems in the primary that we have to fix. We have to do like an after action report on that, fix it and move forward to november so everybody can have their voice heard. Amy mcgrath, thank you very much. Best of luck to you. Well be reaching out to Mitch Mcconnells office to see if hed like to come on. Thank you. Speaking of voting, former president barack obama said voting by mail shouldnt be a partisan issue and everybody should be able to vote. He tweeted his support for voting by mail and shared a link to an npr article that said the oishl had become politically charged as republicans and President Trump fought against it. Voting by mail shouldnt be a partisan issue, especially during a pandemic. Everybody should be able to request an absentee ballot and make their voice heard in every election. Up next, america, russia and 100 years of covert electoral interference. Our next guest takes a look at the century long pattern of meddling between the u. S. And russia. And what it means as we head toward november. Were back in just a moment. Were back in just a moment. Looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. Theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. 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Also with us for this conversation, former secretary of Homeland Security under president obama, jeh johnson. Ill start with you first mr. Shiemer about the book and about the upcoming election. How worried should americans be that russia will attempt to interfe interfere again . Sure. And thank you very much for having me. As the book makes clear and the purpose of the book is to show history of the electoral interference, to show what they had done to inters is nothing good. The kgb interfered throughout ourio russia interfered massively in the 2016 election and continued to interfere in our politics, had Hillary Clinton won the election, as i showed in the book. Theres no reason to believe that that story will end before the coming election as, you know, folks like robert mueller, chris wray and fiona hill have warned that russia is planning to interfere with the election as it did in the last cycle. Mr. Secretary, you said this book was the best you have read on this topic. Why dont you take the next question to mr. Shimmer. Thank you, mika. David congratulations on a good book, i thought it was fair, balanced and captured the complexity of the subject. My question to you is, youve heard me say we have to divide the threat into separate bucket, the threat to our election infrastructure, the threat of hacking into campaigns and the threat of russia putting out extremist views and fake news to influence the minds of voters. Which of those categories right now do you believe represents the most serious threat to our nation and democracy . I think both matter, but i think im increasingly worried about the stability of our voting process. To take the two buckets, the first is efforts to manipulate voters, last time spreading prop beganda on social media and stealing emails. But its something that voters should be on guard because theyre designed to manipulate them. If our citizens are more aware of those efforts theyll be able to mitigate the effectiveness of them in real time. The second bucket is the exposure of our infrastructure, as i reveal in the book based on the interviews i did with 26 former president obama advisers, Russian Military intelligence was targeting our systems in the summer and fall of 2016, had the ability according to folks like john brennan to alter data, to the point on election day itself the white house was running a secret crisis team bracing for a russian cyber attack and that was when barack obama was president. Now donald trump is, someone who has solicited rather than sought to deter foreign interference in our election. So perhaps there are reasons to perhaps push harder in causing chaos in our democracy. Secretary johnson, let me put a question to you. Harry reed makes news in davids book, when he says russia changed vote tallies but they succeeded in had it. Did you find any evidence that russia changed the number of votes cast for donald trump in the 2016 election . No, i did not see such evidence while we were in office and i have not heard of any since. We were very concerned about that. To be clear that was probably my principle concern in the summer fall of 2 registration lists were vulnerable in the hands of state Election Officials. But as i sit here now, i do not know that russia was able to alter the vote count or suppress votes, Voter Registration lists. But theres plenty to be concerned about as david outlines in his book, i believe the threat is ongoing, russia has never withdrawn from this behavior and its something we should be very concerned about in 2020. So david, what evidence did harry reed provide to you that votes were changed . Because obviously that is the worst Case Scenario as you lay out in the book, that is the great fear that russia or another power could change the number of votes cast for one candidate or another and make a person president who did not win enough votes to become president. What senator reed told me was based on the concerns expressed to him by officials like secretary johnson prior to the election about the voting systems given the slim margin by which donald trump won, hes convinced that russia did alter the vote count and in the coming decades it will come out as russian leaders talk more directly about that. I want to be clear he didnt have any direct evidence of it. And it certainly alarms the mind but the tradition of interference is to manipulate people that is what the history in my book shows, soviet, cia and Russian Operations to mold Public Opinion in other countries and just because were protecting our infrastructure doesnt mean were solving this problem we have to figure out how to make ourselves more invulnerable to attempts to undermine and overtake our political debate. And until were able to do that, its open season for foreign actors seeking to direct our political processes. Katty day hkay has the next question. Secretary johnson you saw russian interference when president obama was president. Lets say donald trump loses in november and it would be president joe biden. We have to assume the russians would carry on trying to do this stuff, so what are the mechanisms, what things can america do to try to protect itself . Is it having better hackers than they do, or is it something overaveragiove overarching to protect from russian interference in the future . I believe that a lot of good work has been done by state Election Officials over the last three and a half, four years to harden their Cyber Security of their election infrastructure. Its not perfect, its state by state by over the last three and a half, four of our election Cyber Security has gotten better. I agree with what david said. The number one threat, in my view, are socalled informational ops. Influencing the minds of voters by things they read and see on the internet. Voters need to be far more skeptical about things we read on the information highway and skeptical of the source, where its coming from, and bring an intent mindset to how we vote in our democracy. I think thats the number one threat. I believe that was the number one threat that influenced voters minds in 2016. And we know that campaign is ongoing. So, secretary johnson, id like to ask you about the coronavirus, especially as it pertains to our National Security. Weve got surges happening in florida. Weve got problems with it in california. New york has found a way to mitigate. But most by all estimates from from top doctors, this is not over yet, and the leadership in this country has actually made the situation worse. How does that fare for our ability to keep our homeland safe . Is there a connection . It does not fare well. When i look at whats happening in the south, southwest, and the west right now, i am more distraught than i was in midapril when here in the new York New Jersey area we were in the depths of the crisis, because what is happening now could have been avoided. This did not need to happen. By early may we figured out physical distancing, good hygiene has the ability to slow the spread and flatten the curve. Yet we see this resurgence now in other parts of the country. And i believe that a lot of it has to do with our leadership at the state and national level. And the message they send to the public about what it is we need to do to protect ourselves and protect others. So this did not have to happen. Im very depressed and distraught about it. Jeh johnson, thank you very much. And fellow at yale university, david shimer, thank you as well. The book is rigged america it, russia and 100 years of covert electoral interference. Yesterday we reported joe biden was being urged by some democrats to go big and try and expand the electoral map. We learned just a few minutes ago that the campaign is set to run ads in a deep red state where polls show he is competitive. Morning joe is coming right back. Migraine medicine. Its called ubrelvy. The migraine medicine for anytime, anywhere migraine strikes without worrying if its too late or where you happen to be. One dose of ubrelvy can quickly stop a migraine in its tracks within two hours. 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Dr. Anthony fauci yesterday amid the white houses campaign to discredit him continues to gives him honest assessment of whats gone wrong in this country fighting the coronavirus. This morning were hearing new warning from Health Officials that miami is quickly becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, in the debate over how and when to open schools, three of the nations Largest School districts are having online school. Yesterday the president said, when you test, you create cases. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, july 14th. Willie, well get to all that in just a moment. Give us the latest on miami. Yeah, mika, as you mentioned, miami the new epicenter of this pandemic. Florida had its second worst day for new infections yesterday, adding well over 12,000 cases, just a day after shattering the record for the highest number of single day cases of any state since the beginning of this. Miamidade county was responsible for a quarter of yesterdays new cases and represents about 20 of the total number of infections statewide. Health advisers to miamidades mayor described it as grave. The mayor will not close businesses. An Infectious Disease specialist at the university of miami said the situation is like what was happening in wuhan, in china, five or six months ago. Like new york three months ago. Remember that . Florida state lawmakers are calling on the federal government to coordinate with state and local leaders. 98 , 98 of icu beds in miamidade are occupied. In the past 14 days hospitalizations rose 65 . Icu admissions are up 66 . Ventilator use is up 128 the ceo of Memorial West hospital in south florida says, quote, we are busting at the seams in the emergency room. I am busting at the seams inside the hospital. Im busting at the seams in terms of icus. The biggest challenge, she said, is staffing. One doctor telling a local investigative reporter, quote, we are really burnt out. Lets bring in the president and ceo ofsystem. Thank you for being on the show. If you could tell us the very latest and what is needed. Obviously, the number one thing is every hospital is full. What were managing is noncode patients and some code patients to start, we have seen them replaced. Were seeing an increase of admissions. Were doing a good job of discharging. The biggest challenge is making sure all of our employees are safe and kept without any kind of infection, which is extremely important. The other thing is really about staffing. The governor has now released an opportunity for south florida hospitals to be able to bring in about 2,500 nurses. That is critical to what we need. We have the beds. We need the staff. In addition to that, reagents for lab testing in our own labs have been extremely, extremely necessary and the need for remdesivir. Those are the three things we need. The need for remdesivir. If i could ask you about staffing, at this point do you need to bring in staffing from other Hospital Systems, other states . I know three months ago massachusetts lifted the ban had actually new rules that allowed medical students to graduate and immediately start working. Whats the situation in florida in terms of staffing . How is it best fixed at this point . The best fix at this point is what were trying to do. The governor has identified several different ways from bringing outofstate nurses in that range were talking about in south florida. We believe that will get us through the worst of what were looking at. With everything weve done with the curfews, the controls in the restaurants back in and what mayor gimenez has done in miamidade, we believe we have a threeweek window before we hit the peak. Weve been going at it for three, four months and our staff is very tired. Carlos, its willie geist. Thanks for being on. I want to ask you about the profile of the patients we were seeing. Early on we were told march and april it was mostly older people who contracted coronavirus. Then as this went out in the ensuing months we heard about places like houston, younger and younger patients. What kind much a patient is in your hospital right now with coronavirus . Well, with he saw that influx of young patients as well, willie, here in miami. Whats happened right now with the growth, the number of young patients is still the same but now were seeing a lot of the older. Whats happened in miami because we have such diversity here, we have a lot of homes with Multigenerational Families in it. The young people have come home and infected their mother or grandmother and thats made it a lot worse. The young people weve seen, the High Percentage of those young people, have a lot of comor ed byty like diabetes, lung issues. Whats your warning to people across the state of florida right now as you look at the scene inside your icus, what do you want them to know right now . The only thing that will help us with what were doing today is for them to use the masks and be socially distant. Were finding an awful lot of people that are extremely aggressive against complying to those environments that is really not understandable at all. We need to make sure everyone complies with those issues, keeping hands clean, Wearing Masks and being socially distant. Thats the only thing that will slow down this pandemic in south florida at this point. Carlos, if i could extend that question. If i understood you correctly, you said we are at least three weeks from the peak. Were also several weeks away from a lot of schools in florida opening. They open midaugust, some of them. Is it safe for children to go back to school, given what youre seeing in your icus and Emergency Rooms . When you say florida, its a very large state. I can speak specifically to miami. In miami, the superintendent as well as Miamidade County have not taken a very good view of opening the schools at this point in time. If you look at todays environment, we were running at 25 to 28 Positivity Rate on all those patients that were being tested. Were testing a lot of people. Were doing now four to five the number of tests we did three months ago. But those Positivity Rates of 25 to 28 are not indicative of us being able to open the schools here in Miamidade County. President and ceo of Jackson Health system, carlos migoya, thank you. Best of luck to you. I hope you get those three things you need as you fight this pandemic. California is effectively back under lockdown right now as coronavirus cases there continue to surge. Yesterday governor gavin newsom ordered every county in the state to close indoor restaurants, movie theaters, bars and wineries. The move signals a major pullback in the states twomonthold effort to recover from the economic pandemic. According to San Francisco chronicle, Health Officials have zeroed in on bars with their lack of physical distancing and customer face covering, masks, as a major potential source of spreading coronavirus. The chronicle also notes in addition, Governor Newsom ordered 30 counties on the states watch list to close gyms, houses of worship, offices for noncritical work sectors, shopping malls and barbershops. Also hair salons, unless they can operate outside or pick up services. Willie . Meanwhile, mika, you mentioned schools. Public schools in los angeles and san diego along now with atlanta all will begin the year with Students Learning from home. Schools in nashville also will start the year remotely, at least through labor day. Here is President Trump yesterday on his continued push to reopen schools in the fall. What do you tell parents who look at this, who look at arizona where a School Teacher recently died teaching summer school, parents who are worried about the safety of their opened. Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. Youre losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed. Mika, its stunning how cavalier he continues to be about the reopening of schools. A blanket declaration that schools should be reopened. He doesnt make that decision. We should remind our viewers, that happens on the local level as los angeles, atlanta, san diego, reminded us yesterday. This is the news all summer that every parent was dreading, hoping we could get this together. You cant get back into school unless you get your infection rate down. Thats just not happening in this country. Everybody wants the kids to go back to school. Also yesterday President Trump blamed the Obama Administration and also an increase in testing. When asked by reporters yesterday about the recent surge in cases across the country. If you know biden and obama stopped their testing. They just stopped it. I know you know that. You probably dont want to report it. They stopped testing. Right in the middle they just went, no more testing. And on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have. We test more than anybody, by far. When you test, you create cases. Weve created cases. I can tell you some countries test when somebody walks into a hospital sick or walks into maybe a doctors office, but usually a hospital, thats the testing they do so they dont have cases, whereas we do. We have all of these cases, so, you know, its a doubleedge sword. Up next, well go to the white house for reaction to that and a tweet from one of the president s top advisers mocking dr. Fauci. Morning joe is back in a moment. This is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. 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Hes telling americans all over the country, believe me, over all the other people youre talking to, including your own local officials, your local governor, in this case the president said in march, anyone that wants a test can get a test. It wasnt true then, its not true now. It continues to not be true. Hes the only one in the administration whos talking about testing as a doubleedge sword. Obviously, people want to know who has the coronavirus because that is critical to tracing it and critical to stopping it. What we see in President Trump is really someone whos weighing the political calculations. Hes saying, look, the best thing for my reelection campaign, the best thing for my administration is for people to at least feel like things are normal. As a result, you see him pushing for schools to be back open. You see him pushing for states to go back open. The problem now is when you see a governor like ron desantis in my home state of florida listening to the president , desantis took a victory lap saying, look, everyone thought things were going to be terrible in florida, theyre not. Now fast forward were in a situation where florida is the new epicenter. I think President Trump is going to continue to take this political risk. Its just that, a risk and hes leaning on the fact he can get reelected by trying to put the coronavirus in the rearview mirror. Dr. Fauci was, in fact, at the white house yesterday for a scheduled meeting with chief of staff mark meadows, according to a white house official and a person close to dr. Fauci. The official telling nbc news the chat was, quote, a good meeting. Both sources confirm dr. Fauci did not meet with President Trump. Dr. Fauci recently said he was not briefed and has not been briefed by the president in at least two months and has not seen him in person in at least two months. Deputy chief of staff for communications publicly mocked dr. Fauci, sharing a cartoon of the top u. S. Infectious disease expert as a faucet on social media. He agreed to publicly disagree with dr. Fauci while saying the top Public Health official agreed with the president cowardly through leaks to social media. Listing nearly a dozen past comments, some taken out of context by dr. Fauci. Despite all of this, President Trump flatly denied reports his administration is attempting to discredit dr. Fauci, as did the White House Press secretary. Well, i have a very Good Relationship with dr. Fauci. I have had for a long tile. From the very beginning. I dont always agree with him. I get along with him very well. I like him personally. Theres no Opposition Research being dumped to reporters. We were asked a very specific question by the Washington Post. That question was, President Trump noted that dr. Fauci made some mistakes and we provided a direct answer to a direct question. President trump and dr. Fauci have always had a very good working relationship. Greg sergeant points out, quote, all of this has accomplished is to unleash media scrutiny between the tortured relationship between trump and fauci. The result, a spate of fresh reporting on the relationship, which shows trumps pathology and vividness. Sam stein, lets be clear as you listen to Kayleigh Mcenany yesterday. White house officials on background talked to several reporters pointing out dr. Faucis inaccuracies over the last several months and put out a document that looked to all of us who cover politics like an Opposition Research document about dr. Fauci. Now dan scavino out in the open put his name on it attacking dr. Fauci in the middle of this crisis as it explodes. Who are we are going to trust on a pandemic, a guy whos a famous Infectious Disease expert or White House Social Media director . Its a tough one here. Its a classic case of trump scapegoating. Its bizarre in its tendency but thats what the president does. He looks at this problem as a pr problem and he wants to cast blame elsewhere. Fauci has been off on a few of his earlier predictions but not even remotely as bad as some of the Top White House officials. Keep in mind, it was only a couple weeks ago mike pence penned an oped saying there would be no second wave. Fauci will not paint rosy pictures about the state of the pandemic. He tells it like it is. For the administration trying to reopen the economy and reopen schools and downplay the severity of the crisis, that is problematic. This is the administration that does look through everything as a pr problem. And i just you know, i go back to the president s comments on testing, as a primary example. I dont understand if he actually believes that if you just had fewer tests, this thing would go away. If we had ten pregnant women that administered five pregnancy tests, we wouldnt have half the births. Obviously, this makes no sense. He keeps going back to this as this is the elixir to the problem. As long as he has that mindset that as long as we bury our heads in the sand, this wouldnt be a big deal, then hell butt heads with Anthony Fauci because he doesnt want to hear the reality, he doesnt want to hear the numbers of it. Thats the point where were at, the. The is trying to find a scapegoat for his own failures. We showed you that bizarre moment yesterday when the president randomly attacked the Obama Administration over some unnamed testing policy. Unnext well talk to former National Security adviser susan rice about that and much more straight ahead on morning joe. 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But they stopped testing. Right in the middle they just went, no more testing. And on a much lesser problem than the problem we have. So, whats he talking about . First of all, good morning, mika, everybody else. Its good to be back with you. I have no idea what hes talking about. Its completely pathetic. The reality is that on Donald Trumps watch, over 135,000 americans are dead. Our infection rates are skyrocketing, surging past any other country in the world. And this is largely due to Donald Trumps own indifference and incompetence. And now his willful disregard for the lives of americans. So, i assume this is his way to confuse people who arent paying attention who may have forgotten the coronavirus arose in the last six months under Donald Trumps tenure. We didnt have a Novel Coronavirus under barack obama and joe biden. I have no idea what hes talking about. We werent testing for a virus that didnt at that time exist. So, this is just more smoke and more deflection. Well, speaking of smoke and deflection, there have been a lot of reports about the white house attempting to really kind of discredit dr. Anthony fauci. You worked with him. Hes worked for many administrations. Can you tell us what your experience was like working with him and what do you make of this attempt to discredit him are during this time . Its so irresponsible and offensive. Dr. Fauci, with whom i had the honor of working for many years when i was National Security adviser. We worked together on the ee local ba outbreak, we worked together on the zika outbreak. He is one of the most decent, committed Public Servants i have ever known. He brings enormous integrity to everything he does. Hes struggling in this administration, despite all of the ridiculousness to give the American People the critical information they need to have to keep themselves safe. Donald trump is clearly threatened by the fact that he wont be bullied, he wont be intimidated, he wont shy from his mission and mandate, which is to tell the truth. Doesnt mean that he or anybody else gets everything 100 right. This is a brandnew virus. Were learning as we go. But the one person in this administration who i know i can trust to give us the facts as best we know them is tony fauci. For donald trump to try to discredit him, disgrace him is not only offensive, its dangerous. Its the people donald trump appeals most to, who dont want to believe the science, who dont want to wear the mask, that we all need to be committed to wearing and the steps we need to take to combat this virus, or were going to be in worse shape. Its not just a matter of politics or smears. Its really very dangerous. Ambassador rice, its willie geist. Good to see you this morning. In some ways joe biden is running a parallel presidency with this campaign, explaining what he would be doing, for example, to address this crisis, trying to act president ial in ways he doesnt believe, a lot of people dont believe donald trump is. Your name has risen toward the top of the list as his choice, joe bidens choice as Vice President ial nominee. Is that a job that interests you . Willie, ill tell you what interests me. Its seeing joe biden elected our next president and the democrats in charge of the house and the senate. And i will do everything i can and whatever it is joe biden wants me to do to help him succeed in becoming president and succeed in governing. If thats as his running mate, id be honored to be considered for that. If thats some other capacity and simply doing the daytoday work of trying to get out the vote, ill do whatever it takes because this is so critical. American lives are being lost every day unnecessarily because of failed leadership from the white house. Our economy is in a crater. Far worse than it needs to be because of failed leadership out of this white house. So, this is really a moment where our livelihoods and our literal lives depend on new leadership, not to mention or position in the world, our National Security. Theres nothing more important. Ill do my best in any capacity to help him succeed. Have you, ambassador rice, had conversations with the Biden Campaign about the potential for filling that role . Willie, as you might anticipate im not going to get into conversations i may have had with the Biden Campaign. What is your experience with joe biden . I said you have a long, personal relationship with him. His leadership style, the role he played as Barack Obamas Vice President , what are your reflections about what kind of president he will be, if hes elected . Well, with joe biden, what you see is what you get. Ive had the great privilege to work with him not only through eight years of the Obama Administration, but back, frankly, as well when he was in the senate. He served on the Senate Foreign relations committee. Hes decent. Hes honest. Hes empathetic. Hes competent. Hes hard working. And hes committed to the interests and the advancement of the American People and of americas role in the world, our leadership in the world. He will bring to the white house the kinds of handson, thorough, factbased leadership we so desperately need. Whether its to revive a flagging economy or to get this coronavirus pandemic under control once and for all and renew our leadership in the world. All of which are absolutely essential to our national unity, to the preservation of our democracy and to our fundamental security. So, i know joe biden well and i know hell be an extraordinary president of the United States. And i just cant wait for us to get there because each day that passes with donald trump in the white house is deadly. Mike barnicle. Susan, you were just talking about the world. Given your credentials and your experience, let me ask you this. Lets take four capita alliance