Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, march 19th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner is with us. So reports of new cases of the coronavirus in this country seem to be coming in by the minute. There are now more than 8,900 confirmed cases here in the u. S. And more than 150 deaths. The number of cases in the state of new york alone jumped 44 over the last 24 hours. Now close to 2,400. Thats more than double Washington State, which has the second highest number of confirmed cases. A top official on the White House Coronavirus Task Force Says the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Is expected to dramatically increase over the next few days. At a White House Briefing yesterday, dr. Deborah birx urged americans not to overreact, noting that the spike will occur as testing accelerates. They were individuals who had been tested. Who
Playing multiple rounds of golf at his Virginia Golf Course while unleashing a string of malicious retweets attacking nancy pelosi, stacey abrams, and hillary clinton, as well as a twitter tirade against his ousted attorney general, current Alabama Senate candidate jeff sessions. And the Trump Administration is banning travel from brazil. Now the worlds most dangerous hotspot due to months of inaction and denials from their president , trump ally jair bolsonaro. The ban prevents any foreigners who have been in brazil during the past two weeks from entering the u. S. Well have a live report from rio in just a moment. But we begin with our memorial day panel. Nbc political reporter monica alba at the white house. Washington post National Political reporter robert costa, moderator of Washington Week on pbs. And msnbc political analyst rick tyler joining us as well, former Obama White House Communications Director jen palmieri, and nbc news president ial historian Michael Beschloss. Monica
Hundreds of federal buildings and courthouses across the country are stepping up security. Homeland security secretary jake johnson says the move is in response to the continued calls for attacks again. A heightened vigilance in the protection of u. S. Government installations and our personnel. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams with all the details. Pete, whats the latest here . And theres not a specific threat theyre tracking, correct . Right. Thats what they say. This is, you know, what is publicly known what has led to this decision. It was just a week ago of the shooting at the Canadian Parliament building and the killing of a soldier at the Canadian National war memorial. That followed the attack on another soldier in canada. Continual stream of intelligence Officials Say about isis calling for attacks on American Government officials, Law Enforcement officers, public buildings here in washington. So its really the steady drumbeat of that. They say rather than a specif
Its out of the dire straits song money for nothing. Interest rates have been so low for so long, and i think most everybody understands that wherever this shakes out, the days of basically cheap money for investors is coming to an end. Serge the days of close to zero interest rates. Free money. We have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. And National Affairs analyst for nbc news, and msnbc, John Heilemann. Hes peppy this morning, thats not good. We have Time Magazine contributing editor and author of the president s club Michael Duffy. And msnbc contributor, kasie hunt. Its also kasie what are republicans thinking on capitol hill when they did pretty well in the last Government Shutdown. Shifted the blame to democrats. It was the schumer shutdown. Democrats panicked, pulled back. Now were moving towards a new shutdown and the president of the United States is saying i would love a Government Shutdown. Republicans, what say they . They say theyre not interested in a
They have no policies that are any good. Theyre not good politicians, they got nothing going. Their policies stink, theyre no good. They have no ideas, they have no nothing, the democrats. Just flailing that was President Trump yesterday before kindly extending an open invitation for democrats to come to the white house to work togeth together. Its the art of the deal. Welcome to morning joe, its friday, june 2 2nd. What a crazy week its been. With us we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, jon heilemann. Donny is here, White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire, White House Correspondent for pbs news hour. Yamish allison dure is with us. And the chaos, figuring out how to keep track of these kids and reunite them with their families. Showing what a massive failure, what a massive failure this is for the white house. And it really is, every man and woman for themselves in there as the pr disaster rolls forward. And of course, the chaos that is reign