You, im gillian turner. President trump says that restarting businesses and reopening the country, after the devastating april jobs report that revealed over 14 of americans are newly unemployed. We go now to david spunt. He joins us live from 1600 pennsylvania avenue with a look ahead at President Trumps reopen strategy. David. Hi, gillian, good afternoon to you from a chilly afternoon at the white house. President trump was supposed to be at camp david this weekend meeting with advisors. Plans got changed. Hes going to be meeting with senior military advisors at the white house in the cabinet room later this afternoon. The white house not specifically saying, gillian, what this meeting is about, but it comes after punishing numbers came out, as you mentioned, the worst jobs report in u. S. History. 20. 5 million americans lost their jobs last month, pushing that rate to 14. 7 , the highest since the great depression. Fox news has told a phase four stimulus package wont pick up for an
Countries. Thats 130 out of 140 countries. He is completely upside down. What youre saying is were 130th instead of first . Correct. What youre also saying is, im confused here, willie, i think somebody this is the second time hes done this. s he looks at the Johns Hopkins charts. Can we put this s houp . Yeah. What theyre showing here is the ten worst, if we can put up the Johns Hopkins chart. E jo there it is. It shows, actually, yeah, were sitting at the ninth worst in the world. Or number one, however you want to look at it. I mean, weird. Yeah. Im not sure where the president gets that information. Itha appears to be complete disinformation once again from the president of the United States. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 21st. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have White House Reporter for the ite associated press, jonn lemire. Host of msnbcs politics nation and president of the National Action network, ti reverend al sharpton. Former chief of staff
President threatening to withhold federal funds from states that make it easier to vote during this pandemic. In one tweet, the president blasted nevadas transition to a mostly mail election, falsely calling it illegal and accusing the state of creating a, quote, great voter fraud scenario. The president put finance officials on notice tagging his budget director and the treasury department. In another tweet, he falsely accused michigan of, quote, illegally mailing absentee ballots to 7. 7 million people. When the state only sent out applications for absentee ballots. He corrected that part, but stood by the false claim that the state did something illegal, which it did not. The president was asked about his tweets yesterday. Well, i think if were talking about the mailin ballots, if people mail in ballots, theres a lot of illegality. They harvest ballots, you know all about harvesting. And people go out and they vote. If you need a mailin balanceout, specifically, im in the white hous
To the National Electrical contractors association. We have created him a hard hat with the president seal. [cheers] we are here at the college of the ozarks in missouri where students faith, freedom, love 6 country and hard to work hard before they leave this campus. They call it hard work u. [chanting hard work u. ] [chanting hard work u] live from the college of the ozarks in missouri, its fox friends for this very special wednesday as they perform a medley of america and at the same time there is hollering hard work u. Hard work u which is their motto. Ainsley waking up early with us many of them may not have gone to sleep. Brian pete hegseth has been there since yesterday. The crowd pumped up last night and told. Pete, you welcome that type of applause. You used to getting that when we toss out to you. Pete never ever ever. This is the First Time Ever i can barely hear you guys. Im telling you its a special campus. We had a chance to visit yesterday. Im telling, faith, freedom, pa
Strategy, what really matters to voters . We went to texas to find out. Well get to that in just a moment. But we start with our preview of a hearing that will make or break Brett Kavanaughs confirmation to the Supreme Court. President trump will have his final say in a News Conference later today, but just a few hours ago he offered both praise and criticism of the current process. The republicans could not be nicer. Could not be more respectful to the process, certainly could not be more respectful to the woman, and im okay with that. I think i might have pushed it forward a lot faster. Republicans outwardly confident of a successful vote. Privately, though, some believe they dont have the numbers, two reasons why. One, the accusations by Christine Blasey ford. Two, his defenders inability or unwillingness to support kavanaugh without offendering or alienating women. At stake, republican unity, and we cannot stress this enough on this wednesday morning, how this nation treats those w