Sanka reveals he begins his second week of unpaid furlough on monday. Times are hard. Newspapers are struggling. Subscribe to your local paper if you possibly can. Congratulations to joe and all you guys. That does it for us tonight. See you again tomorrow. Its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Thats a great politzer story and journalism story. Rach rachel, i have to thank you for basically booking a very important guest in tonights show. Dr. Sharon duclos who made an appearance on video from iowa. Doctor in the very, very emotion l pre press conference. Shell be with us to discussion the situation. We know about her exclusively thanks to you and running that powerful video last week. Im really glad youve got here. The situation shes in in Black Hawk County, iowa is really alustive and the thing that makes there are a bunch of counties in the country right now dealing with huge numbers of cases without the resources to deal with it but it has attracted National Attention a
County, iowa is really illustrative, and the thing that makes there are a bunch of counties in the country right now dealing with huge numbers of cases without the resources to deal with it but it has attracted National Attention and will change the course of how things go in iowa because of just because her and her colleagues are eloquent. They are living their lives where they didnt think they would be in front of a National Microphone in their lives, and suddenly, especially thanks to you bringing them to us. Doctors and officials there, they really have told the story in a way that is invaluable and very hard to get from anyone else. Yeah. They are brave and competent and clear hearted folks. Im really happy you got it. Well done, lawrence. And congressman adam schiff is going to join us, too, rachel with the latest on what the house of representatives is going to do. Later in the show. Thank you, rachel. Excellent, thanks, lawrence. Thank you. John kenneth galbraith, president ken
Know, a nobrainer. They ought to be at the center of our understanding of whats really grasping the country right now, what were going through, what it means to have over a million coronavirus cases and climbing. What it means to have had over 60,000 americans die from this in just a matter of weeks, with that number still just climbing relentlessly. The president s soninlaw who is a senior white house adviser, with no fixed responsibilities, Jared Kushner just went on tv today and called the american coronavirus catastrophe a quote Great Success story for the Trump Administration. It is not, obviously. With the hugest outbreak on earth. Even though we had the luxury of weeks, even months of warning that it was coming, with now more americans dead in less than two months than died in all of the years of the vietnam war. It is not a Great Success story for america. It is certainly not a Great Success story for the administration that has not been leading a response. So you probably noti
Convention center in manhattan that was converted into a Field Hospital to take overflow from new york city hospitals, they have closed that down as a Field Hospital site. They treated over 1,000 patients there at the javits center, but theyve shut it down now, new york fire department, fdny, and their bagpipers were on site to mark and cheer for that closing, which does feel like a real blessing. The u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort has also now closed up its new york operations and has set sail. It has started the return trip to its home port in norfolk, virginia, after that ship treated hundreds of overflow hospital patients while floating in new york harbor. Also the popup hospital in central park that was built to take overflow patients from the mt. Sinai hospital system, as of today that central park popup hospital is not going to be taking in any further patients. We understand theyve apparently still got some small number of patients there, but they are not admitting any new on
See if i can do this rachel thing without rachel no, thats not going to work. You know if you were watching this program last week, there is a special Congressional Election in the Santa Clarita area outside of los angeles tomorrow but all the voters have been mailed ballots in that Congressional Election. So they could all vote by mail. They dont have to go to the polls. Well see how this one works out. As the country begins to open up, were going to have to understand the different risk levels that we face. For example, which is more dangerous, sitting in a restaurant or sitting in a Conference Room with fellow workers . Which propels more infected droplets into the air, a sneeze or a cough . The answer is a sneeze. Sneeze is much more dangerous. Theres plenty of answers like that to questions like that that you need to know. Person who knows the answer to all of those questions and more will join us at the end of the hour with the practical advice you absolutely need right now every