And as you know, i worked for senator moynihan, and i know you have an item on one of your menus named after him, and we all appreciate that. Thank you very much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Well, that is tonights last word. Msnbcs coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,159 of the trump administration. 225 days until our next president ial election. And if you were watching the White House Briefing earlier tonight, then you know nothing but good news. The president says it will be over very soon, that businesses will be open very soon, and we should await the okay to get going. He says the vaccines are coming along very quickly. They are fixing the problem. He emphasized this is a medical problem, not economic, and he said the mortality rate number may be lower than people think. Now, we should point out in the real world, the u. S. Has the highest rate of increase in the world, and our numbers rocketed up again today. And, again, we dont know how many people have it in this country because people cant get tested so much of the time. Of those tested, we know we have over 43,000. And the number of deaths just went up by at least 137 just today. As we come on the air tonight, the death toll currently stands at 533. The u. S. Remains way behind where we should be in this fight right now. Our economy is going into a forced kind of sleep mode, and unemployment claims are higher than they have ever been in our history. The International Monetary fund is now warning the pandemic is likely to cause a global recession before the end of this calendar year. Early this morning trump posted a message all in caps that said, quote, we cannot let the problem be worse than the cure itself. This has become his new theme effective today, and he said a lot more about it during tonights marathon White House Briefing where he signaled his willingness to scale back some of these recent measures taken to try to stop the virus. America continues to mobilize every segment of our society to turn the tide in the battle against the virus. I want americans to know that we will get through this challenge. The hardship will end. It will end soon. Normal life will return, and our economy will rebound. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down. At the end of the 15day period, well make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing, and essentially were referring to the timing of the opening, essentially the opening of our country. We have almost 160 million jobs in this country now, the most ever by far, by far the most ever. The number of jobs, almost 160 million. So we cant turn that off and think its going to be wonderful. There will be tremendous repercussions. There will be tremendous death from that. Death. You know, youre talking about death. Probably more death from that than anything were talking about with respect to the virus. Meanwhile the senate is paralyzed. Just what americans want to hear right about now. Theyre deadlocked on a nearly 2 trillion emergency bailout bill. This is the second time in as many days the senate has failed to move forward with an aid package. A big Sticking Point here, the 500 billion the bill would set aside for federal loans for states, cities, businesses. The bitter partisan tension was clearly evident today on the senate floor. We democrats are trying to get things done, not making partisan speech after partisan speech. Leader mcconnell continues to set arbitrary vote deadlines when the matter of real importance is the status of the bipartisan negotiations. For days now weve been engaged in intense bipartisan talks to build emergency relief legislation on an historic scale. But yesterday when the time came to vote on these urgent measures, our democratic colleagues chose to block it. We should also point out there are members of the senate missing. Theyre dealing with members directly affected by the outbreak. Amy klobuchar of minnesota today announced her husband has tested positive for the virus and is, in fact, being hospitalized. Earlier this evening, the senator spoke to rachel maddow. I would love to be at my husbands side right now, but instead im with you, which is fine, on this show. But it is so hard because you want to talk to the doctor and be there. You want to see what the oxygen levels are. You want to bring flowers, and you cant do any of that, and thats going to happen to everyone. The American People should not settle for what theyve had to date, which is not enough tests, not enough equipment, and thats why im here tonight. Yesterday senator republican of kentucky, senator rand paul revealed he had tested positive for the virus. Today as he was being criticized for being tested despite having no symptoms, he insisted more americans should be able to be tested. Senator paul, who we hasten to add is a doctor, had used the senate gym and had been in close contact with senators while waiting for his results. One of those senators is mitt romney. Heres how his close friend, the president , reacted to the news yesterday that romney is in quarantine. Romneys in isolation . Yes. Gee, thats too bad. Go ahead. Did i detect sarcasm there, sir . No. None whatsoever. So there was that. Today in the Briefing Room, dr. Deborah birx was asked about rand pauls decision not to selfisolate while waiting for test results . Each person has to be responsible in the way that they decrease their interaction with others, the six feet. And youre all very social distanced, so thank you. But also assuming that everyone that youre interacting with could be positive. There was also a notable absence at this evenings briefing. That would be dr. Anthony fauci. He was m. I. A. More on that ahead. And one more thing from the briefing. The president , who has been trying hard along with backup from some on fox news, to brand this illness as the chinese virus reacted today to the prejudice this has caused toward asians here in the u. S. It seems that there could be a little bit of nasty language toward the asianamericans in our country, and i dont like that at all. They are making statements to Great American citizens that happen to be of asian heritage. Here for our leadoff discussion on a monday night, nancy cook, white house political reporter for politico. Melanie zanona, congressional reporter, also with politico. And dr. Lipi roy, assistant clinical professor for the department of Population Health at the nyu school of medicine. She is among our medical contributors. Good evening. Thank you all for coming on. Nancy, id like to begin with you. Is it possible we have reached the social distancing Attention Span of the president . Is it possible that he truly is thinking of loosening up advice, regulations way earlier than most physicians would recommend . Can you take us inside your reporting for politico inside the west wing and these deliberations . Sure. And so i started to hear over the weekend that there was this brewing fight between economic officials and Top Public Health officials who were participating in the Coronavirus Task force. And basically what was happening is economic officials had been hearing from Business Leaders and the president himself was getting very worried about the state of the economy. And there was this thinking that, you know, there was this pondering of whether or not they should keep urging people to do social distancing at the end of the 15day mark or whether or not they should give people a different guidance. And really what has happened is that the economic officials have so far won the battle, and the president tonight said that he thought that they would reopen the economy soon. Meanwhile, the Top Public Health officials in the administration are uniformly horrified by this idea. They think its terrible. The virus is spreading throughout 50 states. You know, the infection rate in new york or at least the ones we know about is rapidly increasing, and they just feel like its way too soon to reopen schools, businesses, restaurants that, you know, we really need to get this under control. And the other point that the Public Health officials make is that theres still really a scarcity of testing in the u. S. , and so its very difficult to even know who is positive and who should be isolated. And until that testing problem is solved, the Public Health officials within the administration feel like this is a very irresponsible choice. And, doctor, youre obviously here to talk about medicine, Public Health, and not politics. So ill ask you, this very optimistic talk today from the president about perhaps a date certain to reopen business as usual in america, he raised the possibility that Public Health experts would clear region by region of our country, telling people its safe to come out. Im assuming you would find this counterproductive. Hi, brian. Good to be with you. I feel like i have to take a deep breath every single day. We all need to because we need to brace ourselves for a very long, dark, and tough, challenging road ahead. My fellow medical professionals are using terms like were calling up politicians and going on social media, wherever, talking about the defense production act, military support in hot zones, and supply chain, nationalization, coordination. This is not what were trained to do. We are trained to do a specific role, which is direct patient care. Thats what were trained for, and its what were good at. The fact that my fellow medical colleagues are talking about all these other things is really a reflection of a failure of leadership, and this is going to have dire consequences, catastrophic consequences on millions of patients and ultimately as well on Health Care Workers because this unprecedented burden that the Health Care Workers are going to face is going to have a psychological toll on health care workforce. Remember, precoronavirus, i think we have to redefine our time lines, pre and post covid19. Precovid19 burnout rate among clinicians and physicians was extremely high. Almost 50 of doctors experienced burnout, which is emotional and physical exhaustion and depersonalization, which has adverse effects in terms of patient quality of care and increased medical errors. All of this is related, and were making a strong cry here for help and support, which we need desperately. Melanie, i am guessing on behalf of the bartenders and servers and people in retail who are home watching, out of work, temporarily unemployed, that the last thing they want to hear about is bickering in the u. S. Senate. But, please, it is your beat. I know that. Please tell us where it stands right now. Well, brian, ive been checking in with my sources constantly on capitol hill. What i can tell you, at least as of right now, both sides feel like they are within striking distance of a deal. The last we heard was about an hour ago. Chuck schumer was in a meeting with steven mnuchin, and mnuchin left with one of schumers aides, which is a good sign. But, look, i have to give the usual caveats that things could always fall apart. A deal is not final until its final. And there is an overwhelming sense of urgency among lawmakers right now that they need to get something done. Democrats especially are getting hammered by republicans right now, being accused of Holding Things up even though theyre trying to push to make the bill better in their words. On top of that, lawmakers are also concerned about being in the capitol for their own health and safety. A lot of these members are older. Theyre more vulnerable. Theres more and more cases every day of either aides or other lawmakers contracting coronavirus. Its causing attendance issues. And so everybody wants to get this done for the American People and also so they can get out of the capitol as well. Nancy, as i pointed out at the top of the broadcast, or tried to, very little of what the president had to say in the Briefing Room today matched up with the reality we are covering here tonight. Why his insistence, according to your reporting, his insistence on having a speaking role at this briefing every day when, especially on a night like tonight, fauci was m. I. A. . Yeah, its been interesting to me the evolution of how the president has crept into this briefing. And i was at the white house this weekend for the two briefings, and i was there sitting through the briefings for about three hours in total on saturday and sunday. And today the briefing lasted almost two hours. I feel like whats happening is that the president really has no outlet at this point. Hes not traveling. Hes not doing campaign rallies. Hes not going to maralago or bedminster, and he really needs an outlet to speak to people. And i think that these briefings have taken the place of that. I also feel like he really wants to paint this optimistic picture, and he feels like he is the best face of the response. And so he keeps going out there and, you know, sort of trying to say, oh, things are great. Were going to open soon. But he keeps undercutting and contradicting his Health Officials and sending so many mixed messages to americans about potential treatments for this, the time frame of when they should stop social distancing. And so theres a lot of angst in the white house about whether or not these briefings every day are a good idea, and theres a lot of angst about how timeconsuming they are. But the president , i think, has really come to like them. So i think we will see him this being a feature of the white house moving forward. I also saw it surmised because his liveaudience rallies have been suspended, this gives him the oxygen of a kind of live appearance or performance. Doc, i want to play for you something i saw tonight in real time. On fox news, Tucker Carlsons broadcast, he had the Lieutenant Governor of texas on tonight, who noted he was 70 years old, and that puts him in one of the risk categories. Ill let him make the point. Well listen to this. But the summation of what he was trying to say in his own words was, the only thing worse than loss of life in this country would be loss of the american way. Well play it, talk about it on the other side. No one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the america that all america loves for your children and grandchildren . And if thats the exchange, im all in. So, doctor, i recognize this goes to philosophy. It goes to politics. Its very personal in his world, in his life. Its also a viewpoint youre starting to see and hear. What do you make of it, again, as a Public Health professional . So, look, ive said this before. Ill say it again. As doctors, as nurses, as frontline Health Care Workers, we have one agenda, one sole agenda, and thats to preserve the health and safety of our patients. And frankly its going to be in the order of millions of people. So we need to just act. The doctors and nurses, we know what we need, and were being handcuffed. Were just not getting it. Patients are going to die. We know that, brian. People are already dying. We already know the numbers in new york city. I at least feel reassured that mayor de blasio and Governor Cuomo are acting and theyre taking the advice closely from their medical and Public Health officials. So we really need to act, and were just not getting the support that we need. Thats all i can really say, brian. Melanie, a quick question to you about politics and the u. S. Senate. When you talk to senators, you realize that on the ted cruz unpopularity ranking scale, rand paul is right up there already. How is his Coronavirus Diagnosis going over in that chamber . Well, theres bipartisan outrage because after he took the test, he didnt selfisolate, which is what Health Experts had said are the guidelines. Instead, he continued to carry on his daily life. He worked out in the senate gym, which he wasnt supposed to be doing. He also was going to the senate lunches. And now as a result of that, he potentially exposed other senators and at least two other republicans have had to sit on the sidelines and werent able to vote on sunday or today because of it. So now the gops already thin majority is even thinner. You have members who are growing increasingly worried, and i think this whole episode with rand paul is really stepping up the anxiety and the anger in the capitol hallways right now. On that note, our thanks. We appreciate the three of you helping start us off. Coming up for, well ask a pulitzer prizewinning science journalist about the growing wave of information and disinformation now overwhelming a frightened population. And later, a deeper look into the growing debate over saving an ailing u. S. Economy or saving more lives as the 11th hour is just Getting Started on a monday night. There is some encouraging news out of italy, and every night were going to give it a try and try to find some good news. The bbc is reporting a 3d Printing Company in italy has designed and printed 100 respirator valves after a hospital there ran out of them. They cost about 1 each. The prototype took about three hours to design. According to an article in forbes, the Coronavirus Crisis may have an upside, and we quote. While the grave and tragic human toll of lost lives cannot be measured, there is a silver lining. If the history of pandemics is a guide, this contagion, like all others, will spark a wave of innovation proportional to how it alters the shape of society. We are so pleased to have our friend back with us tonight, Walter Isaacson, distinguished fellow with the aspen institute, former editor of time magazine, veteran journalist and author, biographer of, in no particular order, franklin, einstein, kissinger, jobs and da vinci. Hes a professor of history at the jewel of new orleans, tulane university. Walter, thank you very much for coming on. I guess i want to know what do you think we are at the beginning of right now, and how is your betting on america as you know it to get through what you think is coming . Well, i think america will get through it. Its the most innovative country in history, and as you said, sometimes tragedies like this have to spark innovation. I think well have new ways of doing supply chains. Well have printing on demand. The whole notion of a Global Supply chain will probably break down a bit, and well have more local manufacturing. But most importantly, i think it will be a century of biotechnology. I think people watching this who are young today will say, all right. The past halfcentury, the last part of the 20th century, was an Info Technology revolution. This is going to be a biology revolution, a biotech revolution, and its going to come with people understanding viruses, understanding how to do genetic editing, understanding new technologies like crispr. Because those are going to be so much in demand. Let me run a theory by you. In all the history youve studied and know about, has there ever been a single individual, who will have even though its socioeconomic, who will have as big a control over our supply chain as jeff bezos and amazon and the role theyre about to play in getting stuff to American Homes that can afford it . Well, yes. I mean thats one of the innovations that came after the sars crisis was a whole lot of Online Shopping. And i think, you know, youre going to see that now. But there is a hunger that people have to actually be together. We thought that Online Shopping would destroy the Retail Industry just as we thought walmart might. But people do want to get out and get together. So i think once we create vaccines and treatments for this, whether its in six months or 18 months, i dont think were going to just be shopping online. So we can assume that the engine of american industry, science, technology, were all motivated to work toward a cure, toward therapeutics for this. We can assume that theyre going to be running hellbent for leather toward that goal. Oh, everybody is. I was just in communication with jennifer doudna, one of the coinventors of the Gene Editing Technology crispr, and theyre Holding Meetings about how do you find new detection technologies, how do you find new ways to fight viruses. Bacteria have been fighting viruses for 3 billion years and one of the things that weve done in biotech recently is take from bacteria some of the ways that they fight against viruses. So i think youre going to see this type of innovation just like after world war ii, where the government, academia, and private enterprise all worked together to create things like the computer, the internet, and the microchip. We try to keep religion out of this kind of thing, but your lips to gods ears. Walter isaacson, thank you. Were probably going to ask to talk to you along the way. We greatly appreciate being able to interview you tonight. And were back live. Heres how im able to change clothes so fast. That was an interview with Walter Isaacson on tape from a few nights ago because in the last commercial break, we lost everything. As you know, were all in individual satellite remote studios. We lost all of our incoming skype interviews. We have cobbled together our next couple of guests. This ought to be interesting. Well take another break here. When we come back, that segment we promised about information and disinformation out there right now. Get it. Get it. 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Com or call to learn more. I was glad to learn there are treatments for td. Learn more at talkabouttd. Com. At my direction, the federal government is working to help obtain large quantities of chloroquine, and you can look from any standpoint tomorrow. In new york, we think tomorrow pretty early, the hydroxychloroquine and the z pack, i think is a combination probably is looking very, very good. This is a little bit like testing new tires on a moving car. Tomorrow Clinical Trials will begin in new york for a malaria medication dispensed in combination with an antibiotic to treat coronavirus. As we mentioned, dr. Anthony fauci notably absent from todays Coronavirus Briefing at the white house. But on friday he was asked about the efficacy of repurposing this old malaria drug for this illness. Dr. Fauci, it was explained yesterday there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine, this potential therapy for people infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against covid19 . The answer is no, and the evidence that youre talking about, john, is anecdotal evidence. So theres that. And with us tonight by phone, which we sure tried to get to be able to see her on skype, laurie garrett. As a science writer, she is the recipient of the pulitzer prize, the polk and peabody awards. Shes the author of the coming plague, and ebola study of an outbreak, a romcom obviously. Shes also a contributor to foreign policy. Laurie, thank you very much for coming on and putting up with a blanket electronic failure into and out of our 30 rock control room tonight. Talk some more, please, about this medicine and any danger, as you see it, from a Public Health perspective of getting hopes up high in any of these areas. Well, as you know, brian, there is a woman fighting for her life in a hospital in arizona tonight. Her husband died because they took chloroquine after hearing the president say it was the right way to treat their covid19 illness, and it turned out they took chloroquine phosphate, which is used to clean out fish tanks. It killed one of them, and the other is fighting for her life. This is the danger of saying things and announcing treatments, announcing medicines when they havent been proven, when there are people in the public who wont fully understand the nuances. Theyre not doctors. They dont know how to dose themselves properly. Theyll go out, and theyll buy fish tank cleaner thinking that thats the antimalarial drug chloroquine. I think this is just heading down a path towards devastating outcomes as we have the president announcing medical breakthroughs supposedly, and we have certain commentators beating the drum in favor of these medicines, but theyve not been proven. Theyve not been subjected to Clinical Trials. And these are not drugs without side effects. I mean one of the drugs in the pack is azt. That was the very first drug invented for treating hiv illness, and that drug had a whole range of side effects. Can you believe that in the greatest country on earth, we had tested by the end of february this came out today 352 individuals. So roughly the number of passengers who can fit on the largest passenger jet in the world. The greatest country on earth had tested a sum total of 352 souls in the month of february. What does that tell you . Well, it tells me that we werent taking this seriously. We werent acting when acting could have made a difference, and we werent doing the things we needed to be doing to bring this epidemic under control. Look, brian, the latest data from the World Health Organization really ought to be startling and terrifying to everybody because were almost at 400,000 cases in the world. These are officially confirmed cases. And as dr. Tedros told us today in his briefing, it took 67 days for the world to get the first 100,000 cases. It took 11 days to get the second 100,000 cases. It took four days to get the third 100,000 cases. And we may hit the 400,000 in just two days. This thing is taking off. Its skyrocketing. Its in nearly every country in the world, and it is out of control. So for us to be so far down the path, grasping at antimalarial drugs, grasping at azt, the ancient, you know, 1980s version of hiv treatment, and telling the public that, hey, you know, the stock market is the problem. Were going to take out all this social distancing nonsense within 15 days, and you can all go back to work. This is just mindboggling, absolutely mindboggling. Laurie, i absolutely had to talk to you because of something i was channel hopping this weekend and happened upon an interview with you where you made a point about all the needs in all of our communities right now and how for decades in this country, there was a kind of an Unofficial Army of civic organizations that sprung up and took care of our needs. Largely in the generation that gave way to us, they were returning world war ii veterans, certainly men and women of that generation. We look around, and as you put it, at any civic local meeting you go to, the average age is up there. And all of that musculature in a community is not there anymore. You know, brian, a lot of people are forming various kinds of volunteer entities, efforts to change the course of this epidemic online. But theres a limit to what can be done online. There comes a point when you need actual people power, feet moving on soil, and coming together to carry out actions. The kind of thing in the old days you counted on from the red cross, from the community chest, united way, boy scouts, girl scouts. You know, in 1947, the city of new york that you and i are both sitting in was threatened with smallpox. There was an individual who had gone all over as a tourist throughout manhattan and had smallpox, infected some other people. Panic ensued. The commissioner of health said, im going to somehow find enough vaccine to revaccinate the entire population of new york city. And who mobilized all those people and got them in lines to be revaccinated for smallpox . It was the boy scouts, and it was the red cross. Well, today i doubt anybody would let the boy scouts carry out any kind of helpful activity related to this epidemic. Its a hell of a point. Laurie garrett, please come on with us again, especially when we can see you. But thank you for putting up with us tonight and sharing your wisdom with us. We appreciate it. Coming up as we move on, new mexico joining the list of states telling people to stay home. Well talk live with their governor about her decision. People dont want to talk about it. So i share it. Song by song. The dark and the light. The struggle and the joy with my mental health. Whats your mission . Use godaddy to help make it happen. sensei beautiful. But support the leg when i started cobra kai, the lack of control over my business made me a little intense. But now i practice a different philosophy. Quickbooks helps me get paid, manage cash flow, and run payroll. And now im back on top. With koala kai. Hey more mercy. vo save over 40 hours a month with intuit quickbooks. The easy way to a happier business. The great state of new mexico has joined a growing list of states to take more serious precautions, instructing the people there to stay at home to help reduce the ongoing spread of this coronavirus. With us for more is governor Michelle Lujan grisham, democrat of new mexico. Governor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. I realize you have other concerns to worry about. Tell us first off where your states numbers are at last count. And i note the stay at home directive is dated till april 10th. I presume you reserve the right to extend it if youre still in the teeth of this thing, correct . Absolutely. And unfortunately because were following cdc data and looking at the World Health Organization data and our own data points, were beginning that twoweek area where you really have to slow the spread of this virus. So the likelihood that we have to extend remains high. We have 83 confirmed cases, 18 new cases reported today. Thats our single highest day, and were a state thats been doing better, i think, in terms of per capita representation of testing. So were about 6,250 tests, but its not enough to stay proactive and provide the kind of instructions to your population and businesses that can really impact bending the curve. So wed like to be doing more. If two people walked into an e. R. Tonight in albuquerque, one of them was me and another person was a poor person from albuquerque, we were both presenting with symptoms, would we both be able to get tested . Would one of us . Would neither of us . All testing in new mexico is free. All costs associated with covid19 treatment is covered. And, in fact, weve taken another step, which is anyone, say, for example our child care workers, our frontline workers, were making sure that many of them are uninsured, and were making sure theyre part of our highrisk pool. So were paying their premiums and theyre completely insured, including their whole families. Just dealing with risk factors. Weve been very aggressive in our state making sure no surprise billing and equal access to testing. I dont want you to blow your source but there are millions of americans tonight who would love to access to a test, free or not. How is it that new mexico and throwing any modesty aside is so well equipped to test its residents . Well, one thing i want to say is that 2 Million People really doing effective surveillance, recognizing now that we are struggling and grappling with individuals who are asymptomatic and really trying to get our hands around, right, the contact, making sure were doing everything we can to minimize community spread, we should be doing a lot more. The position that new mexicos in thats a bit different is that we are a state thats got two of the five national laboratories. We have incredible research centers. So were equipped with the kind of instrumentation that allows us to do Rapid Testing and to do 500 to 1,000 tests per machine at a time. Were a state that could get to, in short order, 6,000 tests run per day. Heres the challenge. Getting the materials and getting the fda approval fast enough on each of those instruments. Theyve made it incredibly complicated to access the swabbing at the front end and the reagents at the back end. Its all tied, which Company Makes which instrument, and frankly its become a fulltime job working either around or directly through the federal government to make sure that that supply chain stays so that we can be more proactive so that we dont become an epicenter. The more states that are able not to become an epicenter, then the more likely you have a National Response that saves many more lives than the current way were doing it, which is chasing where the largest number of cases and spreads is by itself. We have to help those states, but you better slow the spread in the rest of the country, or the whole countrys going to look like that. So heres what weve learned. In addition to being a staggeringly beautiful place to live in or visit, new mexico seems to be about as well squared away for whats coming as any other state in our union. To the governor, governor Michelle Lujan grisham, thank you very much again, amid all you have to care about tonight, for spending a few minutes with us. Coming up for us, the new coronavirus guidance from the governor of florida. It would be a very blunt instrument. When youre ordering people to shelter in place, you are consigning a number, probably hundreds of thousands of floridians to lose their jobs. What were going to do in the state of florida and ill be issuing an executive order, is anybody traveling from those regions in new york or new jersey to the state of florida is going to have to do a mandatory 14day selfisolation. Thats the only way we can be sure that that virus is not going to be reintroduced in the state of florida and then spread. So lets repeat for the record. Tourism brings in billions of it would be a very blunt instrument. When youre ordering people to shelter in place, you are consigning a number, probably hundreds of thousands of floridians to lose their jobs. What were going to do in the state of florida and ill be issuing an executive order, is anybody traveling from those regions in new york or new jersey to the state of florida is going to have to do a mandatory 14day selfisolation. Thats the only way we can be sure that that virus is not going to be reintroduced in the state of florida and then spread. So lets repeat for the record. Tourism brings in billions of dollars every year in florida, but right there, despite concern about crowded spring break beaches in his state, despite a Huge Population of seniors in florida, republican Governor Ron Desantis today stopped short of ordering people to stay in their homes. Instead, as you heard him say, anyone flying into florida from new york and new jersey will now have to selfquarantine for two weeks. The order does not apply to anyone who chooses to, say, drive south on i95 and enter florida by car. Another break for us. Coming up, this might look to you like people crossing a london street, and it is. But wait till we play you the audio when we come back. Can my side be firm . And mine super soft . With the sleep number 360 smart bed, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. But can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. And snoring . No problem. And done. So, ill wake up ready for anything . Oh, weve got your back. So, you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. And now, save up to 900 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. Plus, 0 interest for 48 months on all smart beds. Only for a limited time. Last thing before we go here tonight, Ask Donald Trump about bojo, boris johnson, and trump will tell you that they call bojo, boris johnson, the trump of the uk. Indeed and true to form, bojo was way late in taking the coronavirus seriously and way late in calling for brits to stay home, as in he just did it today. So our friends in england now must get used to the life that millions of us in this country have been leading for a few days. Like us, theres no sports on the telly, and like us, they have a slew of temporarily unemployed playbyplay broadcasters in the sports business. So the british rugby announcer nick heath has decided to do playbyplay on highlights from everyday life. Crossroad dash. Light turns to red. We wait for the beeps. There they are. Jd sports man, hes got a decent start. Leggings on the outside. Oh, jd sports distracted over the shoulder. Leggings is going to get there. Oh, she does it again. Three titles in three days. Off past vegas gold for the lap of honor. Victorious. This the International Four by four push chair formation final. Weve got the upfront pair, of course, johannson and erickson from sweden. Theyre in with the brits here in smith and black. Theyre doing particularly well of staying quite close with them around this very delicate bend. Of course theyre pretty familiar with this course, and thats what saw them become european champions just a few months ago. Great to see them back. You join us live here on tooting common once again. Carla the cavapoo coming along nicely on a mundane walk. Oh, my goodness. Whos this . Oh, its colin. Hes broken free. Bless you. Well, hes going to be disqualified. Carla seems quite happy, though 5. 8s across the board. Lovely. Nick heath with the call to take us off the air tonight as we start a new week and a new adventure together. That is our broadcast for this monday evening. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. Good evening, from new york, im chris hayes. As u. S. Coronavirus cases cross 42,000, we have now become the country with the second highest recorded active cases headed it seems unfortunately towards number one. And at this moment, President Trump is very obviously