Willie. Hes looking like the edward r. Pu murrough of our time. How was your weekend . It was good. The kids are rolling back to school. Were looking at some semblance of normalcy, but thats not possible with reporters Wearing Masks and the president still asking them to take them off despite everything we know. I havent been back to new york since the end of february. How is new york city doing . I get some reports its fine, but a lot of other people say, man, when you come back youre not going to recognize it at all, between the boarded up buildings and people have moved out. So many people have moved out. Look at times square this morning. 6 00 a. M. , nobody is there. Whats new york city like . Its strange. I mean, this is the tuesday after labor day, where there should be this massive rush of kids going to school and people going back to work and saying goodbye to summer. To me when i was back this summer it felt like summer, which is to say there werent a lot of people here. The
Boys are. You have to give me a definition because i dont know who they are. Whatever. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, october 1st, along with joe willie and me, we have professor, eddie glaude jr. And editor at the Financial Times, ed luce. Its so interesting, isnt it, that hes saying the same thing now that here he goes again. That he said as weve been talking about for four years, as he said before super tuesday in 2016. I dont know who david duke is. And, of course, back in 2000, there are quotes of him attacking david duke and saying he wouldnt be a reformed Party Candidate because david duke was a racist and didnt want to be in that party. And then he was slibry about the klan, i cant attack this group because i dont know what theyre doing. Here he goes doing the same thing again. He gave them a very clear message to stand back and stand by. And you can see him thinking, willie, in that debate how do i do this, how do i do this . Because both Chris Wallac
successful, tragic suicide very is very low. politically you would think, how in the heck will politics into this. the american rescue plan, this $1.9 trillion bill that passed to provide some covid relief has within it some of the factors that may address population-based risks versus the individual risks that we look at as doctors. so i think it s an exciting time. and now we have some of the resources in place to help. and again, back to suicide, mental health crises. clearly, they are all one big problem that we need to pay attention to as parents, educators, and everybody that s many this country has a role to play, mika. and jillian, really quickly, tell me about let s update update us on the mental health worker crisis that you were so concerned about a year ago. are you really starting to see that now or is that something that you think will just be with
us for a while? i think this is going to be something that s going to be with us for a while. you know, what mental health workers and front line workers and regular health workers have gone through and endured over a period of time of time has just, it will have tremendous impact. and those are things that we can treat, but they take time. i think we re looking at a couple of years for us to really catch up and support the people in the medical profession that helped us through this pandemic. and i think we ll see a surge in teachers, as well. dr. jillian galen and dave campbell. dr. galen is a lead author of the book dbt for dummies and we appreciate you both being on today. our next guest is also a colleague who stepped back from the anchor desk to take care of his ailing dad and that s what sparked his new project on what