Joining us from london with more on this, nbc newss matt bradley. What do we know . Reporter this is really an evolving situation. What weve heard so far from the u. S. Military and this is in a statement that a combined u. S. And afghan force conducting an operation in nan ga har proch province was engaged by direct fire. We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available. Thats what weve gotten officially from the u. S. Military. A New York Times correspondent in afghanistan, he said that this might be what you would call a green on blue incident, and thats one in which Afghan Soldiers fire upon american troops, and of course weve seen this a lot in what has now become rekrercently americas longest war, the longest in history. This New York Times correspondent said there may be as many as five or six fatalities. None of this has been verified independently by nbc news except for that statement from the u. S. Government saying that u. S. Soldiers
Moment. He earned that 43 seconds, Stephanie Ruhle. Thank you. I appreciate it. This morning the ground is of course settling after the super stunner with the political universe looking a lot different right now than 24 hours ago. The democratic primary a twoman race and we are watching the campaigns in many realtime now. Shifting their strategies on how to get to milwaukee. Joe biden waking up in california this morning. The former vp now for the first time the delegate leader. Our new reporting behind the scenes on how he plans to use the comeback of his career to lock in the nomination and what our sources are telling us on how Bernie Sanders plans to stop him. The senator is Still Holding a lead in super tuesdays biggest prize, california. With everybody looking to the next contest coming up fast, places like michigan, missouri, arizona, ohio, florida and for other candidates, right, super tuesday is turning into what now wednesday. You have Michael Bloomberg meeting with top advis
Chemicals come from china. I cant make the vials fast enough. I cant make the swabs fast enough. So, i dont know whats right or whats wrong with that National Supply chain question, but thats where the federal government could help. But should the states take the lead on the tests . Yes. Thats exactly right. But we need the volume, and the volume is going to be determined by how well those National Manufacturers provide the kits to the 300 labs in new york. Once you take the test, theres a whole second function that were not talking about, which is you take the test tracing, you know. We have to talk through tracing, because people dont understand what tracing is. Tracing is then this function that weve never done before, where you hire an army of people, thousands of people, to be investigators, in essence not a scary investigator but an investigator who traces the contacts of every person who is positive. Thats an entire undertaking that no one has even imagined before. So, ideally,
That new york milk story is a great example of how the supply chains get disrupted because so much of the milk supply was destined for new york city Public Schools, which is a very big consumer of new york state milk. Theyre all closed down. Those milk producers up there dont have contracts for delivering it elsewhere, and the governor has to figure out how to get that milk out into the world where it can get to the people who desperately need it, cant afford it. Right and there are statewide contracts like that that governors around the country need to fix. There is another im bambalancet commercial food and the extent restaurants are not operating, those contracts need to be converted into retail contracts there is a role to play a significant role to play for usda and the federal government in terms of trying to fix the mismatches in supply and demand so you dont have hungry people in one place and food being dumped in the other. Usda is pretty much asleep since the start of this cr
Cant afford it. Statewide contracts like that governors all around the country need to fix. Other imbalances about commercial food producers, used to selling in restaurants, to the extent theyre not operating, those need to be converted to retail contracts. Significant role to play for usda and federal government in terms of trying to fix mismatches in supply and demand, so you dont have hungry people in one place, food dumped in the other. Usda has been asleep since the start of the crisis. These are just the sign of it. Come up with structure thats permanent to always deliver food to people in need rather than dump it in quantities it happens sometimes. Yeah. Capitalism needs an assist in this one. Yes, it does. Could use now and in the long run. Thank you. Thank you. Not all of us have been using time productively in the shutdown but max rose has. Decorated army veteran who served in afghanistan, now serves people of Staten Island and part of brooklyn in the congress. Was deployed w