Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Disapprove. The numbers are shifting for the president . Talked about it for a long time. A bit of narrow casting. But this is about as narrow casting as it gets. Willie, all i can say for donald trump and republicans who are hoping, like a special election in ohio tonight, the republicans hoping that hes somehow going to get them over the finish line, even in strongly republican districts lie this ohio 12. They better hope that their small slice of the electorate comes out, because, i mean, donald trump is sacrificing just about every other group in america for this one group of white, noncollege educated voters that, again, just there just arent enough to get him over the top or to get his candidates over the top in
Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, april 1st. Along with joe, willie and me we have former white house adviser for Health Policy professor and advice proboast, doctor ezekiel emanuel. And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei joins us as well. Joe, that press briefing yesterday was dark. There was some hard truths that came forward in one big dose for the United States of america. That is a press briefing that Health Care Providers and doctors and scientists begged, begged the white house to give two weeks ago. To tell americans the truth. That is actually the briefing the Intel Community begged donald trump to give in january and february. They saw this coming even several weeks ago, doctors i know very well, scientists, Health Care Professionals were saying, mr. President , 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 people could die from this virus if you dont start moving. The president didnt want to hear it. This is, after all, a president who talked about one person dying
President the very best projections. They call it modeling, wolf. They look at whats happened around the world. We think italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point for a variety of reasons. So weve built thatted m emodel Vice President mike pence yesterday saying that the white house modeling suggests the impact of the coronavirus in the United States may be most similar to italy. For reference, italy accounts for more than a quarter of all deaths worldwide from the virus, cordi i recording over 12,000 deaths. The death toll could be higher, as one study suggested some elderly victims died alone in their homes because they never made it to the hospital and were never tested for the coronavirus. Willie, that certainly is sobering news from the Vice President of the United States. Italy, of course, has been fighting through this for a month. As the wall street journal investigation uncovered, a lot of people in italy died at home, and they never bothered tes
Adherence to the physical separation, the guidelines that the Vice President talks about, the physical separation, at the same time were seeing the increase in deaths. Were seeing rather dramatic decrease in the need for hospitalizations. Yesterday was Something Like 200 new hospitalizations. Its been as high as 1,400 at any given time. So that is going in the right direction. I say that, and i always remind myself when i say that, that means that what we are doing is working. Therefore, we need to continue to do it. I get questions a lot, dr. Birx and i, about these numbers, the projections. They went from 100,000, 200,000, now down to 60,000. Thats a sign that when, as i keep saying, when you take the data you have, and you reinsert it into the model, the model modifies. Data is real. Model is hypothesis. Okay . Thats what you have to do. Thats what i think were seeing. Dr. Anthony fauci at yesterdays White House Briefing, explaining a revised projection for deaths in the u. S. From
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