A hazmat suit telling wisconsin voters that they were, quote ris, incredibly safe to go out. Of all the things that ive seen in my 25 years of politics and being associated with politics and reporting on politics, i dont know that ive ever seen anything as reckless and irresponsible with the Public Health as what i saw yesterday where republicans, republicans jammed down the throat of wisconsin voters an election in the middle of a pandemic where they had to stand in lines close to each other. And, yes, you can say this, the republicans that jammed this election through risked the lives of countless wisconsin voters and those in other states. This is, afterall, mika, if you want to know what this is about as we look at these pictures, this is about a Wisconsin Legislature and a Wisconsin Republican party in wisconsin that has spent the last decade doing everything they could do to twist and distort voting outcomes and elections. You dont believe me . In 2018 the numbers here, Democrati
Preferred to spend your time during the press conference the way i did. Mika was downstairs. We heard the droning. I went upstairs. It was grotesque. I turned on rolling stones, very loud. I had to make sure it was loud enough. Mika will put on every tv in the house. Smart play. I went through exile, my favorite cuts from while, main street, let it bleed. That was good. Got some of my 90s favorite hits, right here, right now. The 90s. Ended up with u2, all that you cant leave behind. Good. I have to say, at the end of the one and a half, two hours, i was in a better mood. Youre right. Than mika. Its true. Because i have the twitter, i knew everything he said in five minutes instead of having it wash up having to endure it. Like sludge for two hours. I feel bad for the people, willie, who stand around him. I recommend watching it that way. You can get the important stuff from the doctors later. Pick out the facts the doctors are presenting. Thats a great night. Ive been thinking a lot a
Great shape. And theyre really in great shape to open. And i think youll have quite a few states opening soon, and theyre going to be very vigilant. Theyre going to be very careful. Sorry. Public Health Experts have said this would be better done if there were comprehensive surveillance testing, which were obviously not in the position to do. I wonder if maybe dr. Birx or dr. Fauci sure, we can do that. Dr. Fauci and i will do it together. Its why i wanted to put up the syndromic and influenzalike illness piece. Because what is key in this is the early alerts, and getting in there before they even know they have a problem. And i think cdc has been remarkable in building these platforms. Dr. Redfield integrated them, so theyre all on the same website. If you look at covid19, go into cases, you can find all of the data. And the the beauty of it is the states are used to utilizing that through flu season. So the testing and contact tracing, and dr. Redfield will be putting people in every
It angered me and it saddened me beyond words. But i know that it is my responsibility as mayor of this great city for us to continue to work to put that anger and that sadness into action. The white house does plan to delegate outside groups to examine chokeholds and use of force policies even as Congressional Democrats are proposing banning chokeholds immediately and creating a federal standard for the use of force. Joining me now on all of this, nbc News White House correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs more can chesky in atlanta, nbcs Garrett Haake on capitol hill, and Washington Post bureau chief phillip rucker. Kristen, first, to you, the president is taking a step, certainly a signal that after much reluctance and refusal to talk about systemic racism, for instance, he is feeling the pressure or they are feeling the political pressure even from their own republicans on capitol hill. Thats right, andrea. President trump has been under pressure for weeks to p
Countries. Thats 130 out of 140 countries. He is completely upside down. What youre saying is were 130th instead of first . Correct. What youre also saying is, im confused here, willie, i think somebody this is the second time hes done this. s he looks at the Johns Hopkins charts. Can we put this s houp . Yeah. What theyre showing here is the ten worst, if we can put up the Johns Hopkins chart. E jo there it is. It shows, actually, yeah, were sitting at the ninth worst in the world. Or number one, however you want to look at it. I mean, weird. Yeah. Im not sure where the president gets that information. Itha appears to be complete disinformation once again from the president of the United States. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 21st. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have White House Reporter for the ite associated press, jonn lemire. Host of msnbcs politics nation and president of the National Action network, ti reverend al sharpton. Former chief of staff