funds on personal items like sephora cosmetics, trips to atlantic city, and even only fans. turns out, they don t sell fans at all. the name of the site is very misleading. republican congressman george santos providing an awful lot of material for the late night shows. we ll go through a very damning ethics report. that was the tip of the iceberg there from jimmy kimmel, and show you the response from the new york lawmaker who says he s sticking around. we ll see if he can. talk about that in a minute. also ahead, we ll have the latest from the middle east. israel says it has more evidence hamas is operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and we will recap another diplomatic day on the west coast for president biden, where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, november 17th. with us this morning, we have the host of way too early, wh
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with our health lead. We are all now, including President Trump, facing a new reality on coronavirus as the number of americans confirmed as infected has jumped by more than 1,200 in the past 24 hours. The number is assuredly higher in reality given the significant lag in testing. This sad landmark, 100 in the u. S. Are now dead from this virus. Over the course of a one hour and 24 minute News Conference earlier today President Trump said if americans follow the new guidelines things could get back on track fast. 15 days from yesterday. Well see what happens after that. If we do this right, our country and the world, frankly, but our country can be rolling again pretty quickly. In order for things to be rolling again, not only do americans need, of course, to embrace the new social distancing guidelines, the Trump Administration says the economy will require a major boost. Not Just Airlines or tourism or other industries, but boosting direc
Cases in america. States that rushed to reopen are getting hit hardest. Florida, georgia, arizona and texas set a record for hospitalizations for the 16th straight day. The president s allies, republicans, spent the weekend pleading with americans to do one simple thing. Wear a mask. These are really important. This is not as complicated as a ventilator. Part of our guidance, guidelines to open up america, again, encouraged people to wear facial coverings where social distancing was not possible. Our administration is promoting the practice on behalf of the administration the White House Coronavirus task force and the president will continue to do that. Former defense secretary jim mattis appeared in this video and dick cheney in this picture. His daughter liz hashtaged this tweet quote real men wear masks. But not President Trump. This weekend, he spent his time beating the drum against vandalizing monuments to slave holders tweeting photos that he claimed to be of people who tried to
other prominent democrats who got campaign cash from bankman-fried include sitting on influential committees in charge of oversight over the crypto word. richie torrez who sits on the house financial services committee tells us he is donating the money he got from bankman-fried to charity and insists the cash to him and his fellow democrats won t cloud their judgment. there were republicans who received money from his business partner are. 92 was spent on democrats. i m confident in congress to conduct robust oversight. people will receive hearings and tough cross-examination and decide for themselves. paper trail leads to democrats on capitol hill. what happened as ftx filed for bankruptcy is still a mystery. there is a new lead in the bahamas where sam bankman-fried is hold up in a penthouse. they transferred money from ftx
the case. listen to from richie torrez, a democrat from new york. here s what he s saying. we have to be careful not to treat the latino vote as a model and not to take historical constituencies for the democratic party for granted. we can lose those constituents and we have lost them. mercedes, what do you say? yeah, the democrats have been very comfortable in they thought they were making inroads with the hispanic community. the problem is when the democrats and the leftists are pushing things like changing the spanish language, going from latino to latina to latin x, when hispanics don t recognize that word and gender race confusion and critical race theory, that is very alarming. add to that the economy as juan brought up. this is critical. what is happening is that the hispanic families want to make ends meet.