Where she announced that she had actually called joe biden that day or the day before to tell him that she no longer wanted to be considered as a possible running mate because Amy Klobuchar believes and she told joe biden this that joe bidens running mate should be a woman of color senator Amy Klobuchar will join us later in the hour tonight the day after the Washington Post poll showed donald trump running a full 15 points behind joe biden, donald trump tried to revive his president ial campaign in a White House Briefing with reporters that was supposed to be about the coronavirus epidemic in this country. What could possibly go wrong it almost could not have been a bigger disaster for donald trump. And i say almost because, of course, it can always be a bigger disaster for donald trump and the Trump Campaign and one way it could have been a bigger disaster is if the president had gotten a question about intelligence reports saying that russia has been paying to kill american soldiers in afghanistan 14 questions, and not one question about intelligence reports saying that Vladimir Putin is paying to kill american soldiers in afghanistan and reports that donald trump has done absolutely nothing about that not one question about the most grievous dereliction of duty that we know about, that any commander in chief has ever committed or been suspected of committing so, yes, that would have made it an even worse day at the microphone for donald trump, but no one asked him about that. And it could have been a worse day at the microphone for donald trump if he had said something as utterly insane as the thing that made him stop doing briefings on the coronavirus. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can minute one minute, and there a way we can do Something Like that by infection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number it will be interesting to check that that, you have to use medical d doctors with but it sounds interesting to me, and the light, the con september, one minute, that is pretty powerful. The president dntd say anything as insane as that about treating coronavirus today. But it could have been worse but he did Say Something that for any other president would be the most shocking thing that that president has ever said publicly, the question about was about Ghislaine Mar maxwell being a procuse for refugee epstein. You heard a description of one of the victims who was 14 years old. And maxwell approached her outside of her Public High School in new york city. The victim described how she was lured by miss maxwell back to epsteins mansion. The girls father had died when she was 12 years old and the mother was struggling, she was a vulnerable 14yearold girl and maxwell saw an opportunity for a criminal sexual predator the first time she brought up the name, how did she describe him to you . I was saying she was similar to me. Did she say she could help you with your career that is a big part of it. And you think of it now, she used the phrase the recruiter. For sure, 100 , yeah. When you first met him what do you think what did he say . Very nice he is saying, you know, he has heard a lot of about me. This the recruiter was talking nice thing. The recruiter, she is accused by federal prosecutors or being jeffrey open steens recruiter, and for the first time in the history of the presidency of the united states, the president offered his well wishes for an accused sex trafficker for Jeffrey Epsteins recruiter. He didnt offer his well wished. He admitted to knowing her and meeting her and donald trump didnt have a choice of knowing that, because there with many photographs of donald trump with Ghislaine Maxwell and jeffrey open stee epstein, and there are proto photos of her with prince andrew, who refused to answer fbi questions. Today n the middle of the press briefing, donald trump was asked by a reporter if he thinks maxwell is going to turn in powerful well and the most powerful man who maxwell knows said this. I dont know, i havent been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I met her numerous times over the years. Especially since i lived in palm beach. I wish her well. I wish her well. Consider the profound perversity of that. Think about how rarely trump says things like i wifsh her well health care, locker up and sex women yal, lock her up she never said i wish her well and no help from trump trump has attacked and visually and could never touchdown it in her heard. And he nerve said anything like that, who has been fighting the coronavirus epidemic in her city and has the coronavirus herself. Trump has never said i wish her well to the mayor of atlanta as any other ptd would have think about how hard it is to get donald trump to say i wish her well what do you have to do to get trump top say that about you i wish her well. No one in america has expressed more hay ted but Jeffrey Epstein gets an i wish you well from trump leaving the country tonight with a very simple question, why . Why does trump wish her well is trump afraid of what she might tell prosecutors about trump . Is trump communicating to an accused sex trafficker today you can get the roger stone treatment or you can get the Michael Cohen treatment . You can get a you can be kept in prison. Because for criminal defend dant, its up to him now is trump saying to ghislaine mex well saying, its up to me how long you will be in prison and america is asking these questions about because donald trump and the Trump Company had the idea of sending trump in front of a microphone to so a press briefing on the coronavirus, and trump told us nutley nothing news worthy he made it clear its mostly up to the governors. He is kind of their partner. That is the same man who said i take responsible for everything. And the coronavirus continues to surge in this country. And as of tonight there are 3,897,691 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the united states, and tonight, the country has suffered at least 142,722 deaths joining me, is editor and prize winning columnist. And doctor, can you give Gene Robinson and i just a minute to do a side bar here about what happened in that briefing today, which really was not about the coronavirus, and then we turn to the coronavirus, we are going to need you to tell us everything that should have been said about the white house today. But in this, it was a campaign i ve event, as all the e vents in the bhous are, and they couldnt have foreseen how trump is going to step in it and i came in the question of epsteins recruiter and we heard trump say wofrrds o say him her same barely, i wish her well i wish her well. The white house and the company must have had limited expectations and we were not briefed on anything new. He had nothing new to say, the idea was for the ptd to come out. Not sound insane and to provote a lot of headlines saying, the you know, the there was no plan, no 34r57b for dealing with the coronavirus, no plan for detding the schools open safely. Nothing. But Ghislaine Maxwell. What can go wrong, and what went prong was stunning you are absolutely right that is the news of less than half hour long briefing. It was that he had words for maxwell that he had basely for no one other who had i can think of no prom mant women he seems to have a thing about powerful women, and you know, given her circumstances, giving the accusations against her, given the fact that we kno acknowledges a relationship really of long standing, you have to wonder if he was sending a message to her you have to wonder that, and im not one for conspiracy theories or anything like that. But its just whats out there in front of us right now this was weird and i cant imagine that their hair isnt on fire in the white house over it. Gene, this is the case in the Southern District of new york, where bill barr, with Donald Trumps orders, did force out jeffrey berman, the u. S. Attorney investigating and running the cases, a brilliant power player over 24 hours managed to get his own deputy as his successor instead of the one that trump wanted in there, to supervise the case to supervise exactly this investigation. They wanted someone in there who never supervised a criminal case that is what they wanted, which is all part of the story and may have been part of wishing her well trying to get her an easier prosecutor. Perhaps but there are a lot of prosecutors in the Southern District of new york who have experience and know how to handle these kinds of cases. And it will be hard, i think, to pick one who would be so compliant as to look past the crimes of Ghislaine Maxwell if she committed crimes shes accused. She is not convicted she is innocent until Proven Guilty but there is a lot of evidence, a lot of testimony against her. Sew the big question is what you did she have to say about powerful men who might have been involved with jeffrey ensteen and his Sexual Assault and rape of young girls, under age girls in the sex trafficking scheme that he ran and enjoyed, and there are all the photographs of clearly a relationship between epstein and maxwell, and donald trump in palm beach, in new york, there are some hanging out together there so the question is obvious and suspicions are there, and i suspec there are prosecutors who will ask those questions. What should we have heard at a White House Briefing today, which of course should have included dr. Fauci and the other experts, on the state of coronavirus in this country today, where were seeing the surges, where were seeing some of the better versions of control of this virus . Yeah, lawrence, thank you again for having me on look, lets just start, a little positive news. The president acknowledged that Wearing Masks is useful. That is good give him some credit for that, and he acknowledged things will get worse before they get better unfortunately, much of the rest of the press conference was misinformation about death rates and other things largely werent on point it would have been very helpful to hear from the task force, the scientists, about what the National Plan is, and the fact that 15, 16 states have raging wildfires in terms of the coronavirus outbreak what are we doing . How do we get it under control and how do we prevent another 20 states that look like they are on the verge of losing control, from stepping over the line. They are serious issues and the cost, we are losing about 1,000 americans a day, every day from the virus, and i would have loved to have heard a detailed plan of what were going to do, and how were going to bring it under control. We didnt hear that. But, you know, grading on a curve, im happy he said good things about Wearing Masks and acknowledging it will get worse before it gets better. Let me ask you, about your state, massachusetts, which has been successful in really getting control. The numbers seem to have stabilized, stabilize at a low level. But they arent going below this sort of minimum floor. What does the massachusetts experience tell us i will be completely honest its making me a little anxious, a little worried because what it says, as states open up, we should expect some cases to go up and what im worried about, are we going to be able to open schools and that will require a vigilance on the government and the state to keep the case numbers low. Thank you for starting off our discussions tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you. And when we come back, four years ago, Pulitzer Prize winning george will left the republican president when dont trump when the nomination. 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And george, this being your first 24 hours of publicly declaring your willing to vote for a democrat, i thought you might need a friendly embrace from a place where that is welcome news tell us how you have gotten to this point and why your vote for biden is important to you well, the most important thing is to clear the ground so we can start over with american normal politics. On the third of june, 2016, i stopped being a republican i did not stop being a conservative i coated for goldwater and reagan its time i will be in the corner saying, oh, gosh, we have so stop some of the biden policies that is the job of a normal loyal opposition but whats happened, dont trump has cured my of fastidiousness i used to say, i cant root for this guy because he is wrong on the Capital Gains tax. I cant vote for him because he is wrong on the tax marginal tax rate i dont care lets get back, to normal politics if your party, lawrence, had in the 1980s had nominated pat monahan, our hand, or scoop jackson, i would had had a record of voting for a democrat before. That is fascinating i saw in your discussion with susan, you made the point that everyone knows, everyone in washington knows, you have democratic friends, you had liberal friends, and it made me wonder if huh been registered to vote in new york, would you have voted for your friend Daniel Patrick monahan for senate yes, even though in 1976 when he first ran, he was running against another friend of mine, the incumbent senator, jim buckley. Bill buckleys brother they dont come along like that. That when they come along, grab the brass ring. As you see the election, youre saying you said to susan yesterday, you believe that by 11 00 p. M. On election right there night, there will be so many george wills, moving overto joe biden, that we will be calling it for joe bide at 11 00 p. M. On Election Night. Thats right. Wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, florida, the largest swing state, north carolina, another swing state. Im not counting out georgia at this point, or texas for that matter the polls have been remarkably stable this year i dont think in any poll since january in a horse race, has trump one. And it keeps widening. But who in america after three and half years of this is undecided. Lets have the election tomorrow and get on with things. You mentioned to susan, you dont like getting engaged in predictions like this. Election night predictions like this you called it risky but fun. How much fun is it now do you approach this with confidence because most democrats i know are terribly worried that the magician trump is going to pull some rabbit out of the hat and pull out a win . Well, i think a nervous democrat is a good democrat in 2020 because a democrat has shown they can do really weird things like failing to campaign in wisconsin in 2016. But i think even democrats are educable and they learned their lesson and they will run a wiser campaign this year. George f. Will, always a pleasure to have you with us and welcome to the enlightenment its nice to you have on this side its temporary loitering. I understand completely thank you very much. Glad to be with you when we come back, senator Amy Klobuchar on everybodys short list to run for joe biden. After he announced he will definitely choose a woman. But Amy Klobuchar in her last appearance on the show took her out of the running when she told us she had called joe biden and told him she believes he should pick a woman of color. Senator klobuchar joins us next. Are you still at risk for a heart attack or stroke . Even if youre on a statin . Statins may lower some risks, but may not be enough. 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And it will be that is joe bidens message there is just that feeling, that you dont know if everything is going to turn out okay but i am here to tell you that it could be, it will be. That is joe bidens message today for people struggling with the coronavirus pandemic struggling with their health, with their jobs. The latest fox poll shows that 56 believe joe biden has compassion to be president , and only 36 believe that trump has that compassion and 54 trust joe biden to handle the coronavirus pandemic. And only 34 trust trump to hand the coronavirus pandemic today in a speech about his plan to create millions of jobs for care givers of children and the elderly, joe biden said this of trump. For all his bluster about his expertise he cant explain to help working families hit the hardest. You know, he quit on you and he quit on this country joining me is senator Amy Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Judiciary committee senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight i want to ask you about the program that joe biden outlined today. And the numbers are just staggering outside of the pandemic, its impossible to conceive the numbers. But threequarters of a trillion dollars, 775 billion, this is a program just for care givers to give a jobs program for care givers, for children, this would enable parents to go back to work, and care givers for the elderly and other people who need special care because of the pandemic how can somethin like that, with that budget, get through the Congress Next year well, i would say first of all, it is not just about care givers its about our whole economy when joe biden talks about Building Back better, its about things that were happening before the pandemic, where over 40 of families were having trouble getting child care and now its even harder there are people who still have their jobs who are at home who are trying to take care of their kids and what he is doing right now, i think, is phenomenal. He is looking at, what can we do right now . You have 800,000 seniors waiting to get medicaid help so they can stay anywhere in their homes and get help instead of an institutional setting. Where we have more problems with the coronavirus. What he is is saying, we have people out of work we have people who need help lets fix that now in the short term during the pandemic but lets look at the day after tomorrow, and it has people back at work, has jobs back under the leadership of someone who is experienced and to use george wills words, normal, running our country, and we have to start thinking of things like child care and taking care of seniors in a different way, and i think the pandemic made it clear what we already had seen happen in the country. We did not keep up with the times and we lost a lot of time with this president. Joe bidens approach is clearly is the only way you get the economy back, is to get control of coronavirus that seems to be the democrats approach in Congress Donald trump thinks the coronavirus has nothing to do with getting the economy back. You can just order the economy back what about republicans in the senate, republicans in the house, do they understand that the only way you are going to get the economy back is by getting control of the coronavirus . I think they know it. I think many of them are afraid to say it because theyre afraid of trump just today, we heard from him and he will finally has admitted this is getting worse, so i thought to myself, okay, he has admitted this, and why is the heroes act that was passed in the house, including funding for testing, includes help for the cities, includes a help the front line workers need. Why has that been sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk for 60 days and now we hear today they are in disarray . They had two months to decide. That is why you are seeing growing support for joe bidens plans. Its voting for something. And that is bringing Leadership Back so we can actually do something about getting testing. And i have friends who are sitting in their basement, and they dont want to infect their spouse they are not sure if they have it, and today, it took seven days to get the test back, and all that time, theyre in the basement because they dont want to infect their wife or kids, thinking they have coronavirus and they didnt. This isnt how they should be running the country. We will squeeze in a break here because i want to ask you about russian interference and quickly, how is your husband doing . We know he was infected with coronavirus. Yeah, he is doing so much better we went on a long hike, 17 miles. Very good. Yeah, i good a ledder leader on the fight bit board 6 national leadership. I received a badge. Great to hear. He is well and i had dad has gotten through it as age 92. He got it in assisted living there you go i am just learning about your father now sorry. We will take a break we want i am reluctant to do the george will predictions about who is going to win. Because i dont know what the russians are going to do lets talk about that after the break. I thought the same thing. Thank you. Youre clearly someone who takes care of yourself. So when it comes to screening for colon cancer, dont wait. Because when caught early, its more treatable. Im cologuard. Im noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92 of colon cancers even in early stages. Tell me more. Its for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. False positive and negative results may occur. Ask your prescriber if cologuard is right for you. Im on it. Thats a step in the right direction. Sixtytwo thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and thirtyone cents. 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Last night, joe biden said about russian interference in the election. I cant do anything about what is going on in russia except respond, and putin knows i mean what i say. This is a violation of our sovereignty. If it occurs, there will be response in kind and it will not get unnoticed and unreported. Senator Amy Klobuchar is back with us. And to win, he has to not just beat donald trump. He has to beat putin. I love those words. Because what was very clear, he is not going to cower to putin we now know the reports that the russians were putting bounties on the heads of American Forces in afghanistan we know from british and canadian intelligence, they were trying to get data, and steal data on vaccines and we know in the 2016 election, they attempted to break into the data bases and the voter information in all 50 states, and illinois getting as far as that voter information so that is why i have been such a proponent with automobile never republican, including James Langford conservative of oklahoma, we have a bill to push for the backup paper ballots and the one virtue here, voting by mail, along others, including keeping people say, we will have backup paper ballots. They will be the ballots and that thats why right now, we have an opportunity to make sure that the version of the heroes act that passes in the senate includes the money that the house allocated for vote by mail and for keeping polling open 20 days in advance, and that is what we need that is the bill we are leading and its time to get it done. The george will strategy is just win by a giant margin because youre going to have to with the russian interference and with the attempts the republicans are going to try. I love that, and that is one of the things i love about our candidate, all of the Strong Senate candidates, all of the Strong Senate candidates, i was just with virtually with governor hickenlooper in colorado, we are not limiting our systems to the bright blue states we see it as an election that is about the entire country suburban areas and rural areas, and gover thing governing as george will explained, in a normal fashion you do it in winning the presidency and other races as well to do that, you need to win big, and as i listen to george little, i thought, we have to be able to vote that is why its so important for democrats, republicans, independents to come together, and to say lets get the funding to make sure that everyone can safely vote. People havent have to choose. Between the right to vote and a right to be healthy. Senator, thank you very much for joining us appreciate it. A lot of fun. I look forward to being back on again. Thank you. 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In the age of school shootings, thats what the job requires but asking me to return to the classroom amid a pandemic and expose myself and my family to covid19 is like asking me to take that bullet home to my own family i wont do it, and you shouldnt want me to mindy festage has worked in the Miamidade Public School System for 28 years her husband is a schoolteacher there, and her son is a senior in high school in that system. Today on the today show, she said this. You know, teachers are afraid there are a large percentage of teachers that are saying, look, if we reopen, i cant go back to work im going to have to resign and find another job and were going to be losing some fantastic teachers and innovative teachers, and we cant afford that. We already have a Teacher Shortage, and this is just going to make it worse floridas Largest Teachers Union is now suing floridas republican governor, ron desantis, and the governors education commissioner over an emergency order which says, quote, upon reopening in august, all School Boards and Charter School governing boards must open brick and mortar schools at least five days per week for all students the Teachers Union lawsuit attempting to block the governors order says, quote, employees and students should not have to risk injury or death by being required to report to School Teachers across the state are preparing wills and living wills ahead of possible inperson learning that can expose their health and lives to serious threats. Today florida reported more deaths from coronavirus than any other state with 136 also today florida reported more new coronavirus cases than any other state with 9,440 florida has reported that among schoolage children under 18 years old, there have been 23,170 cases of coronavirus in florida, 246 hospitalizations, and 4 deaths in florida. Joining us now is fedrick ingram, president of the florida education association. One of the thing that confuses me about your lawsuit is within the socalled executive order, there is also a line just below the line that i just read about the order that says, quote, the daytoday decision to open or close a school must always rest locally with the board or executive most closely associated with a school in your reading of the order, who really does make the decision about reopening schools . So its unfortunate, lawrence, and first of all, thank you for having me. But its unfortunate that this is shameful, reckless behavior from our commissioner and our governor because what theyre trying to do is shift the blame but still take control in a backdrop of 360,000 cases of covid, 5,000, like you said, deaths here in the state of florida, and a Positivity Rate thats over 13 . Eve got a problem here, and so what were simply asking to do is give the local control directly to our counties and our superintendents and our principals and our Teachers Unions and let them decide dont mandate a brick and mortar option because with that brick and mortar option, what youre saying is that if you read further, then there are punitive issues in that so they are threatening to take money from districts if they dont comply with the brick and mortar option. So Governor Desantis said today in response to this lawsuit, what executive order . I didnt issue an order. The education commissioner issued an order. Right dont believe your eyes is what hes telling us. This is unfortunate. This is how we have reopened our state haphazardly. We can reckless with beaches we can be reckless with restaurants. We can be reckless with bars we simply cannot be reckless with our Public Schools. This is directly coming from our commissioner of education and through our governor so were taking our governor to court because we do not want to put in harms way children, our students, teachers, our educational support professionals, those hardworking bus drivers and cafeteria workers without a plan hes given us a slogan, a slogan that says we must have brick and mortar schools we need a comprehensive, well thought out plan to keep people safe, healthy, and alive this is life or death for us what has the governor done to make classrooms safer . So i dont think the governor has done much at all, but what i will say is we want to work with the governor we want to put our voice in the table. We have an opendoor policy here at fea were simply want to be heard. There are issues of ppes Teachers Want to be protected. They want to know that masks are going to be part of the equation they want to know that plexiglas is going to be a part of the equation we have to completely reengineer our schools that are built for social interaction and not social distancing. So thats a complete school of thought that we have to deal with, educate people, and move forward. But we cannot move forward with somebody telling us directly that we must have a brick and mortar option when we know that the state is not ready for that. Is there any data telling us that florida teachers more florida teachers than usual are retiring this summer well, there is. What we are doing is collecting that data right now, but let me just give you a bit of history last year we started the school year with over 3,000 classrooms that did not have a certified teacher. We had a Teacher Shortage last year this year we expect for that and because of this virus crisis for that be to exacerbated teachers are calling every day saying theyre filling out their wills, saying if they have to go back, theyre going to test the waters and theyre going to retire we have a number of teachers that have told us that, listen, im just simply not going back if i have to go back into these Public Schools because there is no plan, lawrence. This is the state of florida, and unfortunately were stumbling our way into opening our Public Schools we must do better. Fedrick ingram, thank you very much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you thank you so much for having me. And tonights last word is thank you. Its thank you to the man whos right behind that camera right now delivering this program into your home, nelson tharp has been with nbc news for over 40 years. Nelson was behind the camera when i did what was one of my very first guest shots on msnbc in 1996. He has been behind the camera for many of the most Important News events that you have witnessed through msnbc and nbc. This is his last night behind a camera for this show, and nelson, we can never thank you enough i know im speaking for everybody at nbc news and msnbc. So tonights last word is thank you to the great, the legendary nelson tharp the 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,279 of the Trump Administration 105 days now until the president ial election. The New York Times tonight says we went over 1,000 deaths today in this country for the first time in the last two weeks. Today the president went before cameras in the Briefing Room and gave a realistic assessment of the threat of the virus for about the first week of april. Today he advocated maskwearing. He warned the American Public its going to get worse before it gets better all appropriate warnings for about the first week of april. And because mainstream media,