As the debate rages on about when states should get back to work, new controversy over the aggressive plan in georgia where in just about 48 hours from now, all hair salons, tattoo parlors, even bowling alleys are cleared to open their doors. I worry about that georgia is going too far, too quick. Lets start things off with Geoff Bennett at the white house. Good to talk to you this morning. Give us the latest from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Reporter good to see you. President trump says today he will sign that new immigration executive order that puts a 60day pause on green cards. This temporary ban is aimed at protecting Work Opportunities for americans, the millions of them who have lost their job as a result of this Coronavirus Crisis. The president yesterday said that at the end of the initial 60 days, he might choose to extend it. Heres the tweet the president fired off in the last hour or so. He says i will be signing my executive order prohibiting immigration into our country tod
Defense which is not crazy to think because if you turn on trump tv every day, youll see them covering reopen the country and let us work protest all over the u. S. And so, you can understand why Governor Kemp would think there is some Great American awakening happening as he sees americans on his tv screen rise up to say lets get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. Guess what . There is not. That is not where the American People are at at all. We live in an extremely polarized country where americans are split on just about everything. Everything except the need to take drastic precautions to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Polling by huff post shows despite the president s bluster and all the talk on trump tv the need to socially distance have been strikingly consistent over the past month. Look at the pink line. 36 of americans are very concerned that they or a Family Member will contract the virus. That line is almost the same a
Lets get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. Well, guess what . There is not. That is not where the American People are at at all. We live in an extremely pol polarized country where americans are split on just about everything. Everything except the need to take drastic traugfstic precautp the spread of coronavirus. Despite the president s bluster and all the talk on rightwing tv and talk radio americans attitudes about the need to socially distance have been strikingly consistent over the past month. Look at the pink line. 36 of americans are very concerned that they or a Family Member will contract the virus. That line is almost the same as it was at the end of march. Now look at the navy blue line. 50 of americans are very concerned about the spread of coronavirus in the u. S. Also pretty consistent from a month ago. Now look at this. The orange line. 78 of all americans, that is, democrats and republicans, say state stayathome orde
United states and soon to be 86,000 american dead. 26,000plus cases just yesterday. There are also new warnings about the virus and countermeasures in place to guide the experiment. The fda said the rapid lab tests, the ones being used at the white house, shouldnt be trusted. They said coronavirus could lead to increased risk of blood clots. Lets take a look at the metrics as we go through this. 48 states right now have their reopening plan in place. Massachusetts and connecticut the last two. They will follow and they will follow soon. Lets walk through the work week. Lets go back to monday. On monday 19 states were heading up in their case count. Thats not good. Nine were steady. 22 states were heading down. Thats where we began the work week. That is on monday. Lets look at today. Today we have 28 states trending down. Thats a positive sign, right . Only seven states trending up. 15 States Holding steady as governors decide how quickly do i open, as mayors decide, do i go along with
Everyones minds in a good way. So theres a lot going on. A lot coming up on the show tonight. We start tonight with what i like to think of as our little organizational management problem. The known universe of 19 major candidates or potential candidates for the republican nomination for president. This is our working this is not even a list. Its our working thing we put up on the wall during the day to keep these people straight. The red squares show folks who have already announced officially that they are running. Dotted lines around some other people. Those are folks who have told us they will make an announcement some time soon. But even with those delineations obviously still the problem here is crowded. The problem at least in terms of organizing this as information. Finally today we did get news of some impending breathing room. We got big news from one republican wouldbe contender who said today that he will not run. Wow. Finally theres a republican who thinks theres a reason