Crisis back in march. Lets hope its not simply due to being a lagging indicator. Maybe this is a positive trend. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his state will be pausing its reopening plan due to a recent spike in cases. He also asked texas residents to wear masks and practice social distancing. Its important not to lose track of the economic crisis unfolding alongside the pandemic. Frankly due to the pandemic. The Labor Department says an additional 1. 5 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Feels like the Third Straight week when thats the number. Joining me is my coanchor katy tur. What else are we going to be looking at this hour . Well, chuck, right now the house is debating its Police Reform bill. The George Floyd Justice in policing act. The house will vote on the bill this evening. Exactly one month after floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police. The proposal would likely be a nonstarter in the Republicancontrolled Senate but could offer a road map for democra
Have White House Reporter jonathan lemire, columnist and editor of the Washington Post, msnbc political analyst euGene Robinson. Nbc news correspondent and host, kasie hunt. And historian john meacham. The author of the forthcoming biography of john lewis, entitled his truth is marching on, which accomplishes in october. We look forward to that. We have a lot going on this morning. The president leaves for arizona this morning. Jonathan lemire will be traveling with the president. He can tell us what to expect. Senator Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is planning to hold a vote for a gop Police Reform bill this week. But democrats may try to block the measure and House Democrats looking to subpoena attorney general bill barr, kasie hunt will be reporting on those stories and much more. An emotional seen at talladega as nascar drivers and crews rally behind Bubba Wallace one day after a noose was found in his garage stall. Look at that. Beautiful moment well be talking about that as well
You got to get tanned indoors rather than outdoors, ainsley. Ainsley well, steve, all of this as hundreds of doctors have joined the call these are doctors, keep in mind, to end the strin jengt stayathome orders. More than 600 sending a letter to President Trump calling this lockdown a, quote, massive casualty incident. Saying that americans are putting themselves at risk by missing routine appointments. Isnt that interesting because we hear all these expert doctors say dont open too quickly. But then you have this other group that is saying look, if you look at the statistics it shows states that are reopening, many of them dont have as many cases now. They are doing better. And potentially you have got suicides that are up. Have you got people are drinking during of the day now. They are worried about alcoholism killing people and worried about Domestic Violence as well, brian. Brian yeah. And, for example, there was a food line last week 3500 people lined up for food. They are out o
Immigration policies coming to life, marking some of the darkest moments in his presidency, at least early on, separating children from their parents, allegations of widespread abuse by customs and Border Patrol well before the pandemic, the first news reports detailed the shocking, Inhumane Treatment facing Migrant Children at the hands of u. S. Border agents, migrants reporting cases of retaliation for protests, unsanitary Living Conditions and now were taking a closer look at what this pandemic means for the thousands of migrants at our southern border and in light of the pandemic, this vulnerable population faces what has been called, quote, a life or death situation. At another migrant detention facility in arizona, one that saw an outbreak of almost 80 cases of covid19, thats as we know of, an Advocacy Group told nbc news, these particular migrants were forced to clean facilities. The Detention Center is operated by i. C. E. For i. C. E. By a forprofit Company Called core civic.
Positive for the virus. That makes a total of eight staffers who have now tested positive as a result of the tulsa trip. That number is expected to rise. Having last week bragged that upwards of a Million People had applied for tickets in tulsa over the weekend, the president delivered a meandering hour and a half long speech to a much smaller crowd. Local Fire Departments said about 6,200 people attended. The arena has a capacity of 19,000, give or take. During the president s remarks, he used racist language to describe the virus, had this to say about testing. Heres the bad part. When you test when you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people. Youre going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. They test, and they test. We have tests of people dont know whats going on. Covid, its this again by the way, its a disease without question. It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versio