We are headed for what could be a rough christmas with millions of Unemployed People at risk of losing benefits at the end of the year, congress is once again running out the clock, and we face the possibility of yet another Government Shutdown tomorrow night, no this week cant just deal with the covid extension approved before last nights deadline, buys them a little bit time but republican senator is holding up passage involving annish an issue over the federal and lending for businesses. And adding it has nothing it do with covid but would make it harder for the Biden Administration to deal with a recession. More on the status covid relief and look at the Congress President elect biden will be working with, lets bring in our Political Panel including the author of power up newsletter of Washington Post a democratic strategist of founder of Northern Star strategies and project seeking to rename the bridge after late congressman john lewis. Good to have you all with us. 1y5ky jackie,
I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by easter. Easter is a very special day for me and i see it sort of in that timeline that im thinking about and i say wouldnt it be great to have all of the churches full . I think Easter Sunday and youll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time and its just about the timeline that i think is right. Today images poured in from across the country of what easter looked like in the age of social distancing. And clearly, they are nothing like President Trump hoped they would be. And now as the president eyes another benchmark, 19 days away, the Washington Post reports one of the biggest obstacles to the virus response is trump himself. Advisors spent significant time to manage the president and his whims from successfully dissuading him from seeking to reopen the country at easter to tempering his impulse to push unproven drugs as miracle elixirs and we have a window how we arrived at th
Its ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And i think you said that hasnt been checked, but youre going to test it. And then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And i think you said youre going to test that, too. Sounds interesting. Well get the right folks who could. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So check that. Youre going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. A lot of people have been talking about summer. Maybe this is one of the reasons. I mentioned maybe it does go with heat and light and people didnt like that statement very much. The fake news didnt like it at all. And i just threw it out as a suggestion. But it seems like thats the case. It wo
We cant keep our country closed down for years, and we have to do something. And hopefully that wont be the case, john, but it very well could be the case. We cant have our whole country out. Cant do it. The country wont take it. It wont stand it. Its not sustainable. Now there is Science Behind waiting longer to reopen in many places. The president pushing obviously thor way. As we have seen more states reopen, we can actually assess in realtime, and it is a grim process, believe me, but we can assess what this does when you reopen in different places. We are seeing spikes in different parts of the country. This chart is courtesy of the New York Times. You see new york on the left, the epicenter of the breakout in a state that has been under these stayathome orders. The case number, though, is coming down, even in that hard hit area on the left that is the slope you see. Now look to the right. Thats the rest of the nation, which is confronting a growing surge. You can see the curve of
Of decisions is complicated. But youre right. I mean, obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different, but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. There certainly was. And the possible effects of that pushback are in the numbers youre seeing on your screen, more than 550,000 confirmed cases here in the United States and a death toll nearing 22,000. Of course, no one can say how much lower the numbers would have been if the white house had taken action sooner. Meantime, the president is spending this Easter Sunday weighing what he calls the biggest decision of his presidency, when to reopen the country. Dr. Fauci explained to my colleague, jake tapper, what any sort of moves to open up the country might look like in the coming months. It is not going to be a light switch that we say, okay, it is now june, july or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on. Its going to be depending where you