And they know it was tough for guests. Theyre working to make it right. As you can see its hustling and bustling again at paris hotel and casino. It was a different sight this time yesterday. Hotel guests made their way back to the hotel today after 3thousand people were evacuated. Many had to stay at other hotels because the power didnt come back on until close to midnight. Paris hotel manangement tell us theyre focus today is working with guests displaced. Paying for any missed flights, mailing had to leave town, and also offering up two free nights stays beyond any rooms they comped last night. Gaming experts estimate paris could have lost about 1point8 Million Dollars having the casino shut down. And there are likely even more losses because of the massive power outage. Richard Broome Caesars Entertainment corporation there will be considerable costs associated with this event but we havent even begin to calcuate them because its been all about getting the power restored and taking
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking
Im chuck todd. We tuned in expecting a fight but a debate broke out last night. Hats off to our nbc news colleague Kristen Welker for a job welldone, commanded control was key there. Revealing exchanges last night on the candidates approaches to numerous issues, a raging pandemic, health care, race and racism in this country, Climate Change and many others. Were going to dive into the highlights in a moment. But with just 11 days to go the biggest headline is it doesnt appear theres a headline knowing to change the overall trajectory of this president ial race. And already the virus is back in focus with a vengeance as the United States reported nearly 80,000 new cases yesterday, breaking the single day record. And sadly as weve seen, it doesnt appear were peaking anytime soon. Looks like this curve is still going up. The president is once again butting heads with his Public Health exerts pz athey sound the alarm. Returning to the president ial race, democrats are taking heart after a
Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
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Came through. Im worried if we dont do this right that we risk having a second, third, fourth curve that ends upcoming our way similar to what happened in the spanish flu. We were told to put all the people on unemployment. Thats a joke. Half my people cant get paid from the state. Its not working. That was just a glimpse at the workers on the front line of both the economic and medical fight that is facing this country right now. Welcome to friday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd continuing msnbc coverage of the coronavirus pandemic which has sent this economy into a tail spin, the likes of which we havent seen science the Great Depression. Its caused a historic spike in layoffs pushing the Unemployment Rate near 15 . We know from more data that the actual Unemployment Rate is likely much higher. Perhaps over 20 . U. S. Lost more than 20 million job in the month of april making it the worst job report on record. They started keeping the records in the 1940s. The president vowe