Both democratic and republican kids are closed. People are on unemployment. People are in food lines. Thats not a party issue. As the senate works on that agenda, it will receive the article of impeachment against donald trump tomorrow. Senators on both sides of the aisle getting new insight and differing views on whether or not its constitutional. The preponderance of opinion is that in fact, yes, an impeachment trial is appropriate after someone leaves office and thats something i concur with. Article one, sections i think its 6 and 7 specifically point out that you can impeach the president , and it does not indicate that you can impeach someone who is not in office, so i i think its a moot point. It is constitutional. We have precedent from way back when a secretary of war was tried after he had left office, and obviously theres a remedy that would help in the future which would ban former presume from running again. His listen to this, republican senator rand paul sparring today w
Need a clear, consistent message from the government and whats become clear so far is from a testing, messaging and an Economic Perspective we need more funding, coordination and preparation. This hour the number of coronavirus cases has passed 500 in the u. S. 21 people have died. Congress acted this week to give 8. 3 billion in extra funding but that comes after years of grinding away at the Public Health infrastructure. Its not as though we didnt have any warning. First, it was asia. Now 16 Million People in northern italy are quarantined including the Financial Center of milan and a quarter of the countrys population as the death toll there spikes above 300. Even the pope who has famously watched the feet of the infirmed video streamed the sunday blessing. Now ten american states have declaured emergencies and there are very real questions of how ready we are to test widely and treat american who is are infected. But the president has been defiant about the administrations response
Dozens of experting warning that quote, americans must be persuaded to stay home and isolated and care for the infected outside of the home. And the travel restrictions should be extended and production of mass ventilator must be extended and the testing problems resolved. According to a brandnew report out just this afternoon in the Washington Post is that the top Infectious Disease director tony fauchi has cautioned donald trump specifically of loosening the restrictions too soon. From that brandnew report, fauchi and other leading Public Health experts have told the Administration Officials and other lawmakers that prematurely scaling back will hamper the efforts to contain the virus and devastate u. S. Hospitals. Fauchi who often appears next to trump is more frank in a set of interviews is over the weekend of how he is dealing with trumps inaccurate statements about coronavirus. Quote, i cant jump in front of to microphone and push him down, fauchi said, but the scientists intervi
Cant handle the bodies. Theres so many of them. This is, essentially in my community, queens, new york. Ive seen things ive never seen before. Over the bridge from queens, there is now an emergency Field Hospital being built in central park to help deal with the overflow of those sickened by the coronavirus. This is the new grim reality on this monday morning. Streets lined up with refrigerated trucks, acting as makeshift morgues, while hospital staff and First Responders struggle to keep their heads above the dizzying death toll. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 30th. We begin with the many fastmoving developments on the coronavirus. The Trump Administration is now extending its guidelines on social distancing. Instead of the president s goal of easter, the guidelines will now extend by more than two weeks, to april 30th. The death toll is increasing rapidly, now at nearly 2,500. It took a month for the u. S. To go from 1 to 1,000 deaths. According to the n
Time and time again, correct him. And the fda finally did, as well. The fda last week had to say, dont do this. Causes heart damage. Dont will be to what the president said. Talking about the hydroxychloroquine. Yes. Earlier last week, it was a president s words saying, listen, dont worry. This is probably not going to even come back in the fall. Dr. Fauci had to say, this is going to come back in the fall. Yeah. Then the president , of course, lies about what he did or didnt say on thursday. Hes talking about injection inside. Yes. Of disinfectants. Of course, i cant even believe people that used to be respectable that are now trumpists, actually trying to defend the president and say, well, he really wasnt saying that. And if you look at medical science, et cetera, et cetera. But he was trying to say that. He, once again, is riffing, when he should be following doctors. Even, jonathan lemire, he even lied and made matters worse. My mother used to say, of some people, you know, they l