Clinton back in 2016. That is an encouraging sign for democrats. And this sign of the times, whats happening today, joe biden is doing a tele town hall with the states voting tomorrow. Bernie sanders is doing a virtual rally. Mike allen, live in d. C. , thanks for the update. Thank you for your coverage. Well be reading axios a. M. In a little bit. Sign up at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us. Morning joe starts right now. Would you prefer a 14day, just sort of National Shutdown to slow this thing . I would prefer as much as we possibly could. I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting. Should more americans be prepared to be hunkering down at their house . I think americans should be prepared that theyre going to have to hunker down a significantly more than we as a country are doing. The top Infectious Diseases doctor in the country, dr. Anthony fauci, with that warning yesterday on meet the press. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. We
Raised the 90,000 beds and we created and still not enough by some of these projection models. We created the overflow and city and javits, several 200 beds overflow facilities. We dont have to use them if the hospitalization rates stayed low. They are being used to some extent. Javits is being used to some extent. I have said to the hospital a number of time, if you need relief, we have it. If the hospitalization rate stays the same, we have up to a 90,000 bed capacity s capacity system, fully tasked and up to the brem. Thats a capacity i hope we dont use if we keep this curve down. You want them around for the second wave . I dont want a second wave. I dont want a third wave or 1. 5 wave. I want this to be it. Regarding testing, what is the holdup and what do you want . We rely on private Sector Companies to do these tests. They have to develop a test and buy and acquire agents to compile that test, whatever physical equipment they need for fingers or swabs or etcetera and package th
The mayor of washington dc extended to june 8th. And a call for a baitout of the states. They said we cannot afford a partisan process to turn this into a political football. And the nonessential travel ban between the u. S. , mexico, an canada is likely to be extended. The Kaiser Family foundation said 20,000 families could use their employer based insurance. That number could go up and you know what that means, Health Insurance coverage will continue to go up. With me now is my coanchor for the next two hours, katie turr. Were approaching 1. 4 million cases of covid 19 across the United States. More than 83,000 people have now died the university of washingtons tracking model is now projecting that the death toll could rise to nearly 150,000 by early august. New polling shows that most americans remain worried about the threat of the virus despite States Reopening. According to that poll, two out of three think large gatherings of adults will not happen until july or later. Today, fo
With the economy in shambles, more than 26 million americans are out of work. The worst economy in decades. Trump bailed out wall street, but not main street. This afternoon, millions of americans will apply for unemployment and with their savings run out, many are giving up hope. Millions worry that a loved one wont survive covid19. Theres mourning in america. And under the leadership of donald trump, our country is weaker and sicker and poorer. And now americans are asking if we have another four years like this, will there even be an america . Good morning. And welcome to a. M. Joy. That ad from the Campaign Group the Lincoln Project irked donald trump so much this week when it launched an social media and apparently ran on his personal state tv channel fox news that it sent him into twitter at 1 00 in the morning just rage tweeting everyone he could think of. How dare they . Do they know what i am . Thats before it has a chance to start its full tv run and before we find out if fac
Economic advisors. This morning, they are looking forward to the reopening and opening that that in the months to come does provide an economic bounce back, but admitting it might be a slow one. That staggering jobs report on friday, the white house was expecting it to be particularly brutal, and now theyre even conceding that mays job report will probably be even tougher, but take a listen to how treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin talked about the tradeoff on the sunday shows this morning. Here he is. Do you agree that there is a considerable risk not say you shouldnt do it but a considerable risk to reopening both from a Public Health and an economic standpoint . Chris, if we do this carefully, working with the governors, i dont think theres a considerable risk. As a matter of fact, i think theres a considerable risk of not reopening. Youre talking about what would be permanent economic damage to the american public. Reporter the message from the white house is really this transition