Be over. On Easter Sunday, the u. S. Reporting another 2,000 plus fatalities bringing the National Death toll to more than 22,000. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. Its the highest in the world. The head of the American Food and Drug Administration offering a little hope saying models show the u. S. Is, quote, very close to its peak, and that he believes the worst may have passed. But some states are bracing for a later peak like texas which is extending its disaster declaration. This is all happening as americans wonder when life can get back to normal and when they can go back to work. President trump offering no clarity. Jeremy diamond brings us the latest from the white house. Reporter President Trump on friday said it could be the biggest decision of his presidency. That is the decision on when to reopen the United States economy. Its a question that has been on President Trumps mind this past weekend, this easter weekend, when President Trump initially said he wanted t
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are author and journalist Yasmin Alibhai brown, and david bond whos brexit editor at the financial times. Welcome at the financial times. To you both again. Tomorrows front pages, starting with. The daily mirror and guardian report that the Prime Ministers chief aide, dominic cummings, has come to the attention of police after travelling to his parents home 250 miles away in durham, while suffering coronavirus symptoms. A source close to mr cummings denies he was spoken to by officers. The guardian reminds its readers that at the time mr cummings left london the government had told people not to travel and to stay at their family home. Labour is demanding a very swift explanation for what it calls an apparent breach of lockdown rules. Firms will be required to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed staff under treasury plans to unwind the state subsity scheme, according to the times, whic
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor
To protect the people who are struggling and they dont want want to take in want to take it away from anybody. The vast majority of americans in the hardworking middle class dont want to take away from people that have made. They do want to hurt the people that are trying. They wonder who is fighting for them. Whos fighting for the hardworking everyday people who do things right and do not complain that have built this nation . And conservative believers in limited government and Free Enterprise that that is our challenge in their and the opportunity. To be there for them and by the way i can think of a better call because our hardworking middleclass is one of the things that makes america different and special to the rest of the world. Every country in the world though unfortunately every country in the world has poor people but few have the fiber and widespread middleclass that america does, widespread middleclass that everyone we have said should have been a goal opportunity to be p
Call me bloody mary bill. It works after a long night with the whiskey. Morning joe starts right now. According to government run news outlets, last week the iranian government launched a live monkey into launched a live monkey into space. Theres been no independent confirmati confirmation which means it probably didnt happen. They released a photo, this is the alleged iranian space monkey. Based on the photo, im guessing he didnt volunteer for the mission. And id like to see them hook the iranian space monkey with the ikea sweater monkey. Wouldnt they make a great couple. They said he flew into space and came back alive and well and even threw him a parade when he got back. Theres the space monkey. Adorable when he banks his little sim balls together. Very cute. Good morning from los angeles, tuesday, january 29th. With us on set from new york, willie geist, mike barnicle, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein, former treasury officia