So i view it as a badge of honor. Really its a badge of honor. Its a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done, okay . The president was also defending for a second day his decision to take the antimalaria, antilupus drug hydroxychloroquine despite warnings from his own government. The fda warned that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious side effects, especially with the heart. Yeah. Ive worked with doctors, and if you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old, almost dead. It was a trump enemy statement. Trump told reporters on capitol hill the drug gives you an additional level of safety as he put it. Hours later during a meeting with his cabinet, he doubled down on his explanation about the drug. There was a false study done where they gave it to very sick people, extremely sick people, people that were ready to die. It was given by obviously not friends of
Rocket and get rid of you for a while. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Im chuck todd in we just heard from President Trump just before he left the White House South Lawn to go get on to air force one and head to michigan. Joining me is my coanchor, katy tur. Sort of he seemed a bit, i get, jovial for him today as he gets ready to go to michigan. This is an uncomfortable time to be going there. They have this flood issue with the dams that broke on top of obviously the virus. And its been a politically, shall we say, polarizing time in michigan as well, and the president s visit may contribute to that. Yeah. And there have been questions asked about whether its a good idea for him to go to a place that has been such a hot zone because of the crowds that he attracts. You just heard him say hes not sure if hell wear a mask. Hes been asked about it a lot, he says, but hes still looking at it. The attorney general there, i believe, asked him to wear a mask. At one point the ford plant
It. Well have later in this hour. In any normal year, wed be covering the president ial campaign in full swing heading into memorial day. This year is different. As donald trump is struggling on his Coronavirus Response and overall standing, some arguing democrats must learn from Donald Trumps scorched earth playbook for biden to win this time. We have that story with a special veteran politico later this hour. But we begin with the state of america during this pandemic. You know, many nights he come out to you, whichever anchor you watch, whichever different hour, and we all do something similar. We report the grim picture, the case, the death toll, and those challenges, of course, grind on. Tonight is something a little different. Tonight is a marker in how far weve gotten and where the policy response to coronavirus is. Because i can tell you tonight, all 50 states are operating partially reopened 6789. Now if this works over time, this week, this moment will be the time that marked
Many of these people arent very sick, but they still go down as a case. So actually the number of cases and were also a much bigger country than most. So when we have a lot of cases, i dont look at that as a bad thing. I look that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So if we were testing a Million People instead of 14 Million People, we would have far few cases, right . So i view it as a badge of honor. Really its a badge of honor. Its a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done, okay . The president was also defending for a second day his decision to take the antimalaria, antilupus drug hydroxychloroquine despite warnings from his own government. The fda warned that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious side effects, especially with the heart. Yeah. Ive worked with doctors, and if you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad sha
Bringing half of them back, coming back this week, the other half next week, were not opening up until next week, at the end of next week. So the end of that next week marker, brian, the stands will be socially distancing. Theyll be closed off some of the seats where family can seat together. In places like indiana, its tire company that runs off the speedway the car company that runs off the tire company, those dominos start falling, you get an idea of the businesses that are affected. Absolutely. Auto racing is really trying to be the sport to come back. Their athletes the drivers, by nature, work alone. The pit crews can try to remain distanced as well as they can. That leaves security, concessions, but as you point out there, theres such a cascading economy at a local venue like that, these small tracks as they gear head, i can the tell you, friday nights, saturday nights across this country, this is what you look forward to, you cant imagine doing anything else on a summer weekend