We are going to go through a very tough two weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard, we will start seeing real light at the end of the tunnel but this will be a very painful, very very painful two weeks. Stuart the president s top medical advisers project a death toll in america of up to 240,000. Everyone is now paying attention. Now weve got to focus what will likely be the worst Economic News coming at us in generations. Millions of people will not be paying their rent this month. How will that ripple through . Millions of people have just been laid off. New unemployment claims coming out tomorrow will again show millions added to the jobless list. The airlines, they are reporting passenger traffic levels down 88 in two weeks. And Mortgage Applications down 24 from last year. The market, of course, reflects these new uncertainties. The dow dropped over 400 yesterday and this morning, its likely to o
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Steps toward a truce. Stocks rose on that news. President obama is in estonia where the u. S. Will build up coalition to degrade and destroy the Islamic State after they killed another american journalist. Lvmh has agreed to give up its 23 stake in its rival. It will do struggle it will. Istribute hermes president obama took the podium addressing concerns about russia and ukraine writing and the Islamic States push in iraq. For more, we are joined by peter cook. There seems to be some progress in ukraine but a bit of confusion. At 4 00 this morning, we heard of a permanent ceasefire which was the statement from the president of ukraine. After that, we heard from the russians that maybe its not a full ceasefire. Now it seems like there is something in between. And ifoward a ceasefire this is true, this is good news. President obama said the same and press conference in estonia this morning. Voice thear in his skepticism and the question about whether russia will deliver here. The timing
Faster than anything else we can do. Some positive news from California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday. Two weeks ago, he announced the first statewide stay at home order in the United States. It appears to be paying off. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 3rd. Joe will be back on monday. Along with willie and me, we have editor in chief of the atlantic magazine, jeffrey goldberg, former treasury official, and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner. And historian and author of the sole of america and rogers profession eal of the presidenc jon meacham. Well dive into the latest numbers. The cases of coronavirus across the globe have now topped 1 million. The u. S. Added almost 30,000 new cases yesterday, with the death toll now approaching 6,000. New york state added more than 9,000 cases yesterday, totaling more than 92,000. More than half are in new york city. The death toll there increased by 188 last night to more than 1,500 total. Hospitals are stretc
Karl rove reacts to all of that in a moment, but first, another 3. 8 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week bringing the total to more than 30 million in the last six weeks alone. On tuesday, President Trump ordered meatpacking plants across the country to stay open during the pandemic to prevent shortages. More than 20 plants have shut down at some point over the last few months has hundreds of workers tested positive for the virus and one Industry Group says at least 20 workers have died. Lets bring in agriculture secretary sonny perdue to talk about all of this. Mr. Secretary, i know that youre trying to do all the right things here, theres that meatpacking aspect that you want to get those plants up and running because we dont want a shortage in the country, but what are you able to do to ensure worker safety at the same time . Obviously, thats paramount and there are two tracks here, both employee safety and health is the primary one and what we are doing