I dont care if a person is old. Im old by your definition. I still think i have a value, right . My mothers old. Shes the most precious person to me. So protect every life, and im not going to trade off Public Health and well figure out the dollars and well figure out the economic impact, but well protect people in the meantime, and well protect their health. Governor, you have spoken about covid overflaw facilities good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington continuing our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. U. S. Governor andrew cuomo has just been giving his update, saying theres been a fairly significant drop in hospitalizations statewide, and Health Care Workers have tested lower for antibodies than the general population. Another good sign, underlining the importance of having personal protective equipment. He also pushed back on the idea reopening the economy is more important than preventing more deaths from covid19. And here are the other facts at this hour. Today a
Out around memorial day, either at the end of may or early june. Pence telling this to reporters in a briefing that cnn was not invited to. A source telling me that key medical experts will continue to advise President Trump even after the Coronavirus Task force folds. A separate, knowledge source, sources, really, tell me this news of the task force closing down was not shared with the actual task force when it met earlier today. In fact some members learned about the decision through journalists, not from the white house. The white house appears to be entering a period right now of hoping that everything will go back to semi normal, despite the fact that the death toll and infection rates continue to grow. The president also seems determined to fight oversight of how his administration is handling it all. Earlier today, President Trump said he will only allow key Task Force Member dr. Anthony fauci to testify before the republicancontrolled senate, but not the democraticcontrolled ho
Doing, sometimes they pressure you about it. Especially when its something that evil. All right. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Rachel, day 89. Whats some Veterans Benefits . Veterans benefits have changed peoples lives. It couldnt be more important. Congressman max rose did deploy with the National Guard during this pandemic service. Hes going to join us later in this hour because hes one of the people putting pressure on this administration and as you just reported, it looks like the Trump Administration is going to have to, against their will, end up doing the right thing here. Yes. Pressure i mean, listen, when you cant defend what youre doing and youre not doing it for shock and awe effect, whether you cant answer why youre doing something that evil to people that have done that much good ultimately push back works and they have to cave on Something Like this. Well see what happens. Im
Press event on Vaccine Development, the president declared quote vaccine or novak see vaccine were back. Trump wants you to believe were back but lets be incredibly clear. Were not back. There is a long, long way to go before were close to making decoloration,s like that. As of tonight, there are 1,450,637 reported cases of coronavirus in the United States. 88,101 confirmed deaths from coronavirus in the United States and that is likely an under count. Just tonight, cdc director robert red field tweeted all 12 models predicts the United States is heading towards more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths by june the 1st. Thats a little over two weeks from today. One of the main coronavirus models used by the white house now projects that 147,000 people will die in the u. S. By the beginning of august. Some 36 million americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance claims in two months. Nearly 15 of the u. S. Work force was unemployed as of april. And last night, Governor Andrew Cuomo assaile
Many Public Events at National Cemeteries and military parades are cancelled for safety reasons. Two states today with alarming Public Health news. The governor of arkansas announcing his state is already experiencing a second peek of coronavirus infections. Reporting more new cases today than the previous high. That was one month ago. And over in north carolina. Health officials reporting the single highest one day total of new cases yet. More than 1100 people confirmed with coronavirus in north carolina. Just today. Despite those very disturbing figures, many beaches are packed, theyve been packed with people now that every state has relaxed stay at home restrictions, at least to some degree. Many of those beach goers are practicing a social distancing. Others weve seen are not. Theres some serious concern from medical experts about tomorrow. With the potential for very large crowds of people attending sunday worship services. Thats after President Trump declared churches and other h