Repeated what he learned about the death toll in the civil war, he talked again about restaurant seating, how we had the greatest economy weeks ago, criticized obama, repeated the death toll projections if he had done nothing, he warned virginiaians the governors want to take their guns away. He said, quote, the federal government has a lot to say beyond what anybody understands about the illness tearing across our country side, he said, nobody can be blamed. There is no blame. He said. Throwing shade on what is likely some combination of whina of the w. H. O. As he sees it. He said, quote, it could easily have been solved. Probably very easily. He closed by saying ive seen some very good things. With that, lets check in on the real world where weigh find the nations death toll has passed 36,000. There has been 96,000 confirmed cases across the u. S. Approximately 1 of the nation has been tested. Over 50 territories are under emergency declaration. The president is in a threephased plan to reopen the country. The question is what is the federal government going to do. The first phase begins on the ability to test on the virus and do what is called Contact Tracing. As we mentioned, about 1 of the u. S. Population has been tested. Tonight, trump doubled down saying, testing is in your hands. We have tremendous unused capability in those laboratories. The governors are responsible for testing. I hope they are going to use this tremendous amount of available capacity we have. It is up to 1 million additional tests per week. When you think that in the next few weeks, well send out 5. 5 million testing swabs. Most of it is cotton. If you are following the news, you know there is also a shortage of swabs. Trumps task force weighed in saying there seem to be enough tests. And that testing is not the most important factor in reopening the country. Testing is a part, an important part of a multifaceted way that we are going to control and ultimately end this outbreak. The emphasis we have been hearing is that testing is everything and it isnt. It is the kind of things weve been doing, the mitigation strategies. We have and will continue to have enough tests to safely go into phase 1. It is beyond the possibility to test everyone in this country every day. It is not possible. Cant remind everybody often enough what we heard today in the white house, very different from what trump told our country back in march. Everybody right now who needs a tests gets a test. Right now. They have a test. Wasnt true then. Isnt true tonight. Trump backing governors lifting restrictions like social distancing and orders to stay home. Guidelines his administration suggested to all of us to try to contain this virus. Protests have erupted in michigan, pennsylvania. Trump posted these messages today encouraging demonstrators to, quote, liberate all of those states. Key to the 2020 election campaign. Today, trump was asked about those during the briefing. You talk about these states, michigan, minnesota, virginia, do you think they should lift their stayathome orders. What theyve done is too much. They express their views. They seem to be responsible people to me. Theyve been treated a little bit rough. He said his people will listen to him. Meanwhile texas which has 17,000 cases preparing to lift restrictions. Today greg abbott announced stores will offer retail to go like restaurants and more businesses will be allowed to open later in the month. Also today, the president opened up a new fight with the governor at the epicenter of the country. That would be andrew cuomo of new york. Well over 200,000, almost a third of the entire nations cases. This morning trump attacked cuomo and we quote, Governor Cuomo should spend more time doing and less time complaining. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking. We built you thousands of hospital beds you didnt need or use, gave large number of ventilators you shouldnt have and helped you with testing you should be doing. We have given new york far more help and testing than any other state by far and these great men and women who did the job never hear you say thanks. Your numbers are not good. Less talk and more action. Cuomo responded to trump in real time. If hes sitting home and watching tv, maybe he should get up and go to work. The expression dont pass the buck without passing the buck. Hes saying he doesnt want to provide funding to the states and doesnt want to help provide testing. I can tell you the states cant do it otherwise. If this testing doesnt work. Ive said it a number of times, what am i supposed to do, send flowers. Hes saying it is up to the states to reopen. It was always up to the states. Are you going to grant me what the constitution gave me before you were born. It is the 10th amendment. I dont need the president to read the constitution for me. How many times do you want me to say thank you . Im saying thank you for doing your job. Here for a lead off conversation on a friday night. Loni chen, research fellow. Former foll former policy director and dr. Anne back with us. A professor at ucla specializing in emergency Infectious Diseases starting with the peace corps in africa. The president views during a pandemic two different con stit constituents in the United States. We saw him speaking politics with those liberate michigan, liberate virginia today. Hes been talking a lot about the protests. Especially in michigan where govern whitmer has been seen as a possible running mate for joe biden. It is not my people versus other people in terms of who gets sick or doesnt get sick. I think it is me versus the governors, versus china or the w. H. O. About blame. What is consuming him according to people in the administration is not so much feeling the weight of this crisis on his shoulders but real deep frustration about how hes being covered and the narrative he wants to set about his leadership is not what he sees. When the country reopens, he doesnt want the blame on his shoulders for deaths that might happen after states reopen. If it was too early or if there is not testing. Thats why hes putting this on to the states now. It is about credit or blame is the division. He stood there in that red hat. He pointed out what was not true that day or tonight. How close are we to it being true if you want a test, youve got one . We are far behind in testing. Not only do we not have enough tests for opt mall testing meaning every person who needs one should be able to get one but we do not have a National Testing strategy. In addition, we are having supply chain issues. We do not have swabs. Every person who needs one cannot get a test. Right now as weve noted, people who are symptomatic can fight to get a test but there is not enough capacity now to do it. This issue of testing really requires a National Strategy. We still dont have a National Strategy. It doesnt seem like it seems like he wants to give all of the authority to the states because the National Strategy just doesnt exist. Loni chen, what do you make of the america break to work strategy . I think at the end of the day, the president is always focused on getting folks back to work. The challenge will be this, youll have different states working on a strategy of timing that works for different states. The issue is when you have two states next to each other, those should not be looking at different strategies. What happens in california will affect neighbors. What is happening with california, oregon, washington coming together. That makes sense to me. If Governor Abbott wants to get texas back up and running but louisiana on one side and new mexico on the other side, if there is an issue there in terms of those states having Different Levels of cases, thats a challenge. Then youll see cases moving back and forth and potentially creating hot spots. We need to be very careful about how this is done. We sure do. Earlier this week, the president read this laundry list of business executives, the tippy top name in all of their fields in banking, in tech, in industry as the president calls it. Some of it when contacted said, i saw we got a request to be on a phone call. I had no include he was going to use my name. What do you know about that . From beginning to end, this attempt to have some sort of Economic Task force with the leaders of the country was a bit of a debacle. He read these names off. That was the first a lot heard of it. There was a hastily scheduled Conference Call the next day where a lot of leaders who would have agreed to be on it couldnt be on it because they had prescheduled meetings to attend. Then on the call, encountered a lot of push back from Business Leaders saying we need testing before we feel comfortable to go back to work. I dont think this was the kind of backing he was expecting, that hes used to seeing from republican lawmakers. Just a validation of what he wanted to hear. If he was looking for val dags, thats not what he got on this call. Governors and ceos said the same thing. A lot said they doubted this group would ever meet again. That was a one and won confidence call. Anne, the president said the nation is passed its peak, is that still true . Because we dont have enough testing in place, we have no idea where we have on the curve. We are still trying to understand where are we. How far into the woods are we. There is no way to know until we have testing in place. It is not only testing for symptomatic people. It is for everybody looking for asymptomatic people. This is important because we know asymptomatic people represent a large part of people who are sick. That means we have to be able to not only test people who are symptomatic and test people Like Health Care workers, first responders, essential workers so that they know whether they have it and we can isolate people and quarantine contact. If we do what the president is suggesting and we are having states open up here and there, we dont have the testing, we dont know who is sick and who isnt. We dont have the curve. Are we not the United States of america . We need to have collective wisdom to come up with a strategy that makes sense for everybody and to have the entire nation to forego present pleasure for future collective gain. Ill read you a quote from the wall street journal, trump has asked white house aids for economic response plans that would allow him to take credit for he can yomic successes. Trump tries to give the impression hes running this response but he wants to avoid being too tied to it. Is this his new Campaign Strategy . Does that sound about right to you . This campaign is very interesting. I think the perfect easys response is going to be the central question voters will grapple with when they go to the polls in november. There may be plans to try to disassociate from the economic response. The reality is, in this response, hell get credit for it. At the end of the day, people, the voters in november, this is going to be a referendum on the performance of the crisis and recovery from it. Anne, the sound outside of your window could be used for a relaxation app. Thank you for showing up on a friday night. Coming up, a possible sign for a possible treatment. 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My bodys made of glitter and ill throw it in your face well, were doomed. The World Premiere is now in your home. A smooth jazz troll . I dont care for smooth jazz. If we really want to get to the point where were testing as much as we would like and as most other governors in most other states would like, there needs to be more testing infrastructure, more test kits, more capacity to test. Charlie baker, governor of massachusetts, a state that remains one of the biggest testers in our country. But as the governor said, they still need more tests. The New York Times points out, commonwealth of massachusetts is the first state to invest millions into the idea of Contact Tracing. Our next guest says Contact Tracing and testing are part of a multiprong approach to reopening his state, reopening this country we all share. And for more we want to welcome to the broadcast dr. Kevin tabb, internal medicine physician and the president and ceo of Beth Israel Leahy Health in massachusetts. Doctor, i note you have a number of Clinical Trials under way. If there is good news to report, please do. Yeah. Well, good evening, brian. Thanks very much. We are involved, as are a number of other Academic Medical Centers around the country, in Clinical Trials looking at a variety of different options. But it is very premature right now to talk about good news. We just dont know at this point, and its important to get this right. And so i think its going to take some time before we understand whether or not any of the things that were looking at, any of the therapies that were looking at will potentially pan out. Let me localize this for you, and i think most folks have been to your fine city. If the boston metropolitan area, if the hub received permission tomorrow morning, come on out. The weathers fine. Go back to school and work. Go to red sox games. Go to celtics games. Go to bruins games. Can you imagine that . Can you imagine what would happen as a result . If you cant imagine that, what needs to happen between now and that point . Well, i can imagine that happening, and if that were to happen, it would be an unmitigated disaster. Luckily in this state at least, i think theres broad consensus among the citizens of the state and the leaders in this state that thats not something that were contemplating right now. Were still seeing an increase in the number of cases and the number of deaths. Today marked a pretty grim milestone for the highest number of deaths weve seen in this state, and so were nowhere near ready to open things up. I think we really need a multipronged approach. Some of your earlier guests talked about the need for more testing. Thats absolutely true. I think its a combination of continued social distancing, more testing, robust Contact Tracing, which you just referred to, looking for new therapies, and ultimately a vaccine. And were going to need all of those things to really beat this disease. I had an e. R. Doc tell me on the broadcast this past week at the hospital where he works, ventilators bring with them an 86 mortality rate. In other words, they lose 86 of the patients intubated and placed on ventilators. Are you seeing that same rate, and can you speak to any of the New York Times reporting this week that some docs are turning against ventilators in all cases . Well, i dont think that its i dont think that its the ventilators that are bringing the deaths. I think what were seeing are very, very sick patients and a high proportion of these patients that ultimately need ventilators but are not are not making it to the end. I think were trying a number of different things. Some of them are the Clinical Trials that were engaged in, and some of them are other things like placing patients on their stomach in a prone position and other things, which were finding may be very helpful here. So the truth is we just are not sure yet the best way to treat these patients, but were learning on the fly. While im not a doctor or come to think of it a college graduate, we did see the first pictures of patients on their stomachs that i recall from the early days in italy, and of course physically the lungs are in the back. As we learn more about this, it does make at least common sense, correct, doc . Well, yeah. It is something that has been tried before, and i think people are finding it increasingly helpful to try spells of having these patients on their stomach. And were seeing in many cases that that can prevent somebody from progressing to the point where they need to be intubated and on a ventilator. And then in some cases when theyre already on a ventilator, putting them in that position can help. But, you know, the truth is theres not going to be one single Silver Bullet to this crisis. Were going to need to try a number of different therapies. Were going to need to try preventative actions and ultimately were going to need to get to treatment and a vaccine. You may have lost tom brady, but the city of boston, state of massachusetts is blessed to have some of the best hospitals in the world, yours included. Thank you at the end of a busy week for finding time to take our questions. Dr. Kevin tabb with us from boston tonight. And coming up for us, how the president s supporters are rewriting the coronavirus narrative when the 11th hour continues. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. All this week as youve heard, the president s been pushing hard to get parts of our country regionally, parts of various states back open as soon as possible. He took the campaign a step further this morning, posting demands to liberate three states in his country where democratic governors have imposed stayathome orders. Not surprisingly, hes receiving heavy air support from the supportive cast of fox news in prime time tonight. Millions of americans are fed up with their governors. Look at michigan. Protests erupting against Governor Whitmer because, why . Issuing lockdown orders. Youre preventing residents from visiting their own family members, cutting their own grass, buying seeds, fishing. You cant be any more socially distant than fishing. There are far too many Unanswered Questions tonight. Too much about this doesnt make sense. And insistence of mostly liberal governors to keep states closed that have comparatively low rates of mortality and that never came close to swamping the Health Care System is just pushing people to the brink. So thats how thats going, and its been going on night after night after night. And were happy to have back with us again jeremy peters, political reporter for the New York Times. Jeremy, lets begin with the president , and well back into fox news as it were. Is it possible same question i asked annie karni tonight the president , during a pandemic, views two different constituencies, in quotes, his people, and in quotes, the rest of us . Right. And i think primary to both of those, brian, is trump himself. He views this exclusively almost in terms of what does this do for me, and what does this do for my chances of reelection in november . Thats exactly why you hear him talking about the economy so much. And you can you can almost hear the disappointment in his voice when he talks about how he had to shut down the most successful economy that the world has ever seen, and he uses these hyperbolic exaggerations to describe the way that his administration has worked harder and more effectively than any other administration and has provided all these tremendous tools to the states because he wants to cast himself in the role of the hero here. He needs a hero and a villain in every political script that he ever writes. This is how he has run for office. Its how hes run his businesses. In this case, the villain is going to be the democratic governors in these states, and donald trump will be the hero. Thats how he can write this. Virtually ever prime time show goes after Gretchen Whitmer at some point. Tonight Tucker Carlson went big on china and Gretchen Whitmer. Tonight sean hannity talked about his socalled hannity plan to open up new york city, the epicenter of this illness. It will be interesting to see if that gets rebranded under the president s brand and we hear about it again. As youve reported on for years, its symbiotic and it goes back and forth. Sometimes talking points that start on fox in prime end up at the white house, and sometimes its air support for points that again on pennsylvania avenue. Thats exactly right. It really is a give and take. I think, though, in this case, brian, what you saw the president tweet this morning with liberate minnesota, liberate michigan, virginia, that started more in the conservative media. The Trump Administration and trump himself have been at the briefings and most of their approach in terms of Public Policy very cautious and guarded in terms of saying when can we get states back up and running . Well, we need to see that infection rates are lower. We need to have more testing. Well, all of that went out the window today because over the last week or so, youve had this cacophonous roar in the conservative media that people are having these authoritarian mandates, locking them down in their homes, preventing them from going to church, preventing them from fishing. And, you know, really, if youre looking at this from Donald Trumps perspective, what better us versus them story line is there than the trump salt of the earth voter being told by the liberal democratic governor that you cant go hunting and fishing and go in your boat. And thats what theyre getting at here. Theyre trying to create this division, and it really is, i think, a two americas version of this pandemic playing out because the cities that governor Gretchen Whitmer is looking at, detroit, very high rates of infection, very stressed out Health Care System, theyre experiencing it differently than the people are in the rural areas of michigan. So what you have are these strikingly different experiences where people are saying in these rural areas, well, why cant i go out and live my life as usual . There arent that many infected people here. And the governors in these states looking out for the entire population, looking out for the cities where the infections are really spreading and saying, well, its just not safe to do that yet. And you have a conservative media apparatus and a president of the United States who is willing to exploit those differences. Jeremy peters of the New York Times has been our guest. We commend to your attention his latest on the radio host Michael Savage currently on the New York Times website. Jeremy, thank you. Coming up, one of our medical contributors today put it this way. Its not the virus thats still killing people. Its poor leadership. President ial historian Michael Beschloss on president ial responsibility when we come right back. So whats going on . Im a talking dog. The other issue. 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Next to you, apoquel is a dogs best friend. Ultimate victory in this war will be made possible by americas scientific brilliance. There is nothing like us. There is nobody like us, not even close. I wish i could tell you stories what other countries, even powerful countries say to me, the leaders. They say it quietly, and they say it off the record, but they have Great Respect for what we can do. Susan glasser of the new yorker has a different take on this president s leadership abilities. Regarding this crisis, she writes the following. It has been met by the same old, same old from americas president. Unhinged press conferences and unfounded conspiracy theories, lies, attacks and bizarre non sequiturs and abrupt, seemingly incomprehensible policy shifts from a leader who has no problem changing course at the expense of his own credibility. Back with us again tonight is our friend the noted author and president ial historian Michael Beschloss. Allow us to recommend for your quarantine book list any of his works, but certainly his latest. President s of war the epic story from 1807 to modern times. Michael, after sandy hook, it will always be said to this president s annoyance, barack obama acted and spoke on instinct to a shaken country. Talk about the leadership instinct you can characterize it any way you wish that you see in this president. Oh, the opposite of that. You know, brian, youll remember on Election Night when donald trump gave his victory speech, he said, its so important to me, means so much to me, he said, to unify this country and to be president of all the people. And thats about the last we heard about it. He gave a very divisive inaugural address, and through this administration and weve been seeing it today youve seen this great tendency to pit one section of the country against another. And thats almost totally out of keeping with the history of the presidency as you know. The founders wanted the president to bind up this very divided nation at times when, you know, parts of the country were in disagreement, for instance in the 1950s. The Supreme Court said integrate the schools. Dwight eisenhower, who was president , didnt even necessarily agree with all of that opinion, yet sent federal troops to little rock to integrate little rock high school. You and i have talked about how Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s walked on eggshells to make sure that enforcement of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights would not threaten a civil war in this country. You did not have a president , you know, doing the equivalent of tweeting, liberate, you know, various states governed by democratic governors. I would point out today is the anniversary of the day in 1861 that virginia seceded from the union. Not a great day for our president to be talking about liberating virginia and the second amendment. And, michael, we also have this new dynamic entering the conversation, admittedly on the right. As i mentioned, a lot of fox news prime time is devoted to this. Im going to play for you some audio that surfaced earlier this week. This is republican congressman named hollingsworth of indiana. It is always the american governments position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as americans and the loss of life of american lives, we have to always choose the latter. It is policymakers decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say, this is the lesser of these two evils, and it is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these evils, and we intend to move forward that direction. So, michael, this is the theory of its a grotesque term acceptable loss. President s have faced it like fdr going into the second world war, postpearl harbor, certainly on the eve of normandie. But have you in your memory, have you heard this in this kind of context . I have never heard language like this, and i have never heard a president speak with so little sensitivity and empathy about the number of people who may lose their lives as the result of the policies were talking about. Its the opposite of conservative. Conservatives talk about their reverence for life. The fundamental job of an american president is to keep the American People safe, not necessarily to sacrifice lives for the sake of the economy as that congressman was talking about. You mentioned leadership. You have written so elegantly about something relatively minor that Lyndon Johnson did after a terrible hurricane flooding in louisiana. He went up on a levee. He held a flashlight under his chin to illuminate his face. The power was out for the entire region. And he said, this is your president and went on to say he was there for them, and they were going to be okay. That, i think, is an example of what youre talking about. Thats thats real leadership, and thats what we really have not seen very much of. And you know what it is, brian, is not just telegraphing to americans that you understand whats at stake and you feel bad about the tragedy thats happening day after day after day. But its also youre giving the American People a sense that they know your soul. 99 of the decisions that a president makes, none of us will hear about. But if we feel that we understand a president s values, that he is sensitive to the issues at stake, we will feel a little bit more complacent about the fact that when he makes decisions that affect all of our lives out of our sight, those will be decisions that we will approve of. And when we dont have that sense, when we dont feel that bond with the president , people go to bed at night, and they dont sleep. With our thanks for having us into your home, which i might add is a setting befitting of a Great National historian, Michael Beschloss, thank you for staying up late with us on a friday night. Thanks, brian. Still ahead for our broadcast, the heartwarming trend making life under quarantine just a little bit easier. [ cheers and applause ] empty kennels. You want good news . We have good news. Those are the cheers of the shelter staff in palm beach county, florida. For the first time in their history, their shelter has emptied one of its long dog kennels, and we have the quarantine to thank for all those new forever homes. As our next guest reports, as inevitable as hoarded pantry staples, the puppy has emerged as the ultimate vector of comfort in this coronavirus time. With us tonight is kelly horan, correspondent for the boston globe. Kelly, it strikes me this is a great time to be a puppy, so the Puppy Community is probably very happy. Its a great time for the shelters who do the lords work day in and day out. I hope everyone has thought through whats going to happen when they someday do go back to work. But i understand there is a sweetie you have picked out who will be gracing your home. Tell us your own puppy journey. Well, this reporting grew out of oh, there she is now. This reporting grew out of my oh, whos a good dog. Shes a good girl. Our son turned 9 last week, and we were desperate for him to have a way to remember this moment as something other than just the pandemic that shut everything down. And i spent a couple of weeks trying to find a puppy at a shelter, any shelter, and i just couldnt. And i gave up and did what any journalist would do and decided to write about it and to investigate and decide, is this a thing . And it turns out it is a thing. And then the day after i submitted my piece to my editor, i got a call that there was a puppy you just saw her and shell be on her way to us next week. Wow. The one thing i have read is that families have to try their best to socialize the puppy because when youre out walking with a brandnew puppy, what Everyone Wants to do is get down and pet them. You cant allow strangers to pet the puppy during a pandemic when the dogs going to go back in your house with your family. Yeah, its going to be a neat trick. Ive heard about people setting up puppy obstacle courses in their living rooms so the puppy will get used to the sounds of a car horn or a doorbell. I think one of the Biggest Challenges with a new puppy right now will be to get strangers to meet it. Theres some figure like three people a day for the first 100 days of a dogs life. Im not sure were going to be able to do that. But i think that the chance that we might have a slightly undersocialized puppy outweighs the joy that well have with the puppy. So were going for it. Do you have the following . A name . A sleeping compartment or cage, bowls, dishes, perhaps two but maybe a backdrop, one for food, one for water, rope toys, chew toys, all of it . Weve collected the whole set. We have all of the above, and the name. We were told that she was found in tennessee, so we called her tennessee. Tennessee tulip. Then we spoke with her foster mama in alabama tonight and learned that that was not correct, but were sticking with the name tennessee. Well, a very good dog is about to get a very good forever home. I couldnt be happier for you. We are sheltering with a shelter dog ourselves. Its everything they say it is. Kelly horan, thank you very much for being on our broadcast and for writing what you did in the globe. Coming up for us, another benchmark in this era of covid19 that we are all living. Ive been pretty stable with my schizophrenia for a while, and then my kids asked me why my body was rocking back and forth. 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President obama presented bennie with the medal in 2014 on behalf of our grateful nation. Bennie adkins came home from vietnam, went immediately to work. He earned a bachelors degree, then two masters degrees, started an accounting firm, later taught at auburn. He started a Charitable Foundation as well that gives scholarships to returning veterans. Bennie adkins was 86 years old. His death leaves our nation with 71 living recipients of the medal of honor. That is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. I was completely baffled at how this could have happened i didnt know anyone who wished anna any harm nobody she was stunning. Modellike. She had that personality, that happiness from within. I see her, my angel of light. I called her my muse. 46,000 . Yes, sir. Is he some kind of sugar daddy . Thats what it appears to be. She was found dead in her house. 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