Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20200624 : com

Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20200624

West from yuma where the president was today, you will find the el centro Regional Hospital in el centro, california. At the el centro Regional Hospital right now they are in exproblemis. This is Christina Santana who works at el centro Regional Medical as a nurse. Hello. So today has been a rough day. Its kind of what we expect now every day we come to work just prepared for the worst and brace yourself to what lies ahead. During the day. Its just very sad and unfortunate, and i really never thought id see any of this in my lifetime, but our little town is getting ransacked and beat up by this horrible monster that is the coronavirus. Now its beginning to infiltrate our community, wellknown people. Were all such a Small Community that its starting to hit home and its starting to wipe out families and its just a constant anxiety of realizing that the people you take care of are probably not going to make it most of the time. Im starting to understand what ptsd looks like. Its like this. Its wartime. Its constant suffering and death and dying and going on to the next one and doing your best, doing everything that you went to school for. And sometimes everything you do is just not enough and every day things change. And we dont see an end. The numbers keep going up. The patients keep coming in. And its just causing complete havoc in our little community. And then just to see that they want to open everything back up and back to normal and everyones saying, oh, this is like the flu. This is not the flu. This is a monster and it wreaks havoc on your entire body, not just your lungs. Its a whole systematic disease and were tired. Were tired. Were exhausted. Physically, mentally everything. I just i dont see how how we continue, but we do, and we will take this on head first and just do the best we can and help as many people as we can and just keep trucking every day. When we come in. I primarily work the covid tent. We can see up to 29 at a time out there between the tent and the car. There are multiple patients that start with us in triage and are not stable. So we have to rush them inside where they can get better care. Than we can provide in the tent. What ive learned is that sometimes is the last time these families will ever see their patient again. Sometimes these patients are dead within three, four hours. We are so full and have so many critical patients that the state is helping us to find icu beds all over california. And so were constantly flying out patients, fixed wing and helicopter. As far away as berkeley and stanford. And because of the way covid is, theyre not allowed to see their family, even if they are hospitalized. So it can be weeks before they see their family or it can be the last time that they see their family. So i get asked by my friends and family, hows work . And i never really know to answer. Working as a respiratory therapist during this time, its been difficult. And i know one of the things that ive really been struggling with and processing is how quickly a lot of these patients deteriorate. How they go from walking and talking to being intubated to being pronounced dead within a matter of hours and knowing that theres no family Members Around for them to say goodbye, its rough. Its very rough. Good morning. My name is judy cruz. Im the director from el centro Regional Medical centers er. Today has been one of the worst days by far. All of our beds are full. There are 12 patients waiting for admission to icu, which we have no beds, so that means were pending transfer. We have to look for beds in another hospital. This is very taxing, time consuming. Some of these patients have been here two to three days waiting for beds. Half of them are on intubated on ventilators. One of them required cpr for the first three hours of our shift. That means four nurses, a respiratory therapist, a physician in that room the entire three hours. And, unfortunately, he lost his battle to the coronavirus. When i walk out of this office, im going to go out there and tell the staff what an amazing job theyre doing and have been doing and how proud i am of them. But just know that were all praying that this comes to an end soon, and we just want to go back to normal. We just want it to go back to normal. Thats the medical director of the er at El Centro Medical Center in el centro, california, which is, again, the county seat of imperial county. I also saw nurses and respiratory therapists who worked there at el centro. That hospital is in southern california. Its basically an hour due west of where the president visited today for his event hype the idea of his border wall. In the state of california they hit a new Record Number of cases on sunday. This weekend more than 4,500 new cases reported in one day. Then the next day, monday, yesterday, they broke that record and they got over 5,000 new cases in a day. Then today, california broke that record and got more than 6,000 new cases in a day. Things are going poorly in california. Thats a snapshot that we just saw of how things are at one already incredibly hardhit hospital in the southern part of the state. The state of texas also broke the 5,000 cases a day barrier within the last day. Texas statewide numbers are terrible right now. Before the new record for new cases was formally announced by the state today, Governor Greg Abbott did a round of press interviews about the fact that the state was about to hit this new 5,000 cases a day benchmark. Governor abbott still trying to, you know, smooth things over, calm people down, alleviate any concerns about how bad things are in his state. Until recently, he was still claiming that the state had plenty of Hospital Capacity, and besides, the numbers only looked so bad because of increased testing. Hes been echoing the president on that point, but its just not at all true for texas. Testing doesnt put you in the hospital, governor, and texas hospitalizations have doubled since memorial day. Theyve just had 12 Straight Days of record hospitalizations in texas. In houston, theyve doubled their case numbers since just last week. Hoouft chronic cal today is out with an editorial blasting Governor Abbott for his, quote, foolish and shortsighted leadership in downplaying the impact of the virus. Harris county where houston is says they will exhaust their available icu beds within 11 days. Theres 5 Million People in harris county. Theyve got 134 icu beds left as of today. And case numbers doubling week to week. Late last night the texas Childrens Hospital announced that it will open its doors to Adult Patients in and around houston to try to alleviate some of the strain. The Childrens Hospitals going to start taking Adult Patients as of last night. In utah, the state Health Department is also raising alarms that utah Hospital Capacity is on track to be overtopped in as soon as four weeks. Theyre advising the state of utah to start opening alternate care facilities now so that people have somewhere to go when the hospitals are full. Health officials in the state are now asking the governor of utah to make face coverings mandatory. They are not mandatory right now in utah. Bluntly, the state Health Department is is calling on the governor to shut the state back down again if the case numbers dont go down. Health officials in utah are asking for the state to have its old coronavirus restrictions reinstated by july 1st if case numbers dont come back down to around 200 new cases a day. Well, for context, utah right now is at more than double that number. Theyre approaching more than 500 new cases a day now. Theyve been over 200 new cases a day for 26 Straight Days now and theres no sign of it slowing down at all, but the state Health Department want it is to revert to its stayathome order if they dont get back down to 200 cases a day by july 1st. By next week. In neighboring arizona dont even get me started. Before the president arrived for his Arizona Campaign event tonight, he went to yuma first and talked about his wall and then he went to phoenix. This is what his phoenix event looked like. Before he arrived in phoenix, arizona for this event tonight, which was staged just like this. Look at it. Look at that. This is not a picture from the past, precoronavirus, this is a picture from tonight. The white house did this. Arizonas Health Department as the president arrived in arizona today, arizonas Health Department announced a Record Number of new coronavirus cases for the state today. And a Record Number of new hospitalizations for the state today. And a Record Number of icu beds in use for the state today. And a Record Number of patients on ventilators in the state today. All in one day they hit those records. The day that President Trump came to town and staged that event with 3,000 people inside. I mean, arizona right now is not in a holding pattern, theyre taking off. Two weeks ago arizona started to hit 1,000 new cases a day. Six days ago they shifted gears up to 2,000 new cases a day. Now in three of the last five days theyre up over 3,000 new cases a day, including more than 3,500 new cases just specifically today. And this is coming at a time when people in arizona are waiting five, six, 10, 12, 13 hours to get a test. Even people with symptoms. Because the state is so consistently terrible. Theyre 40th in the nation in terms of access to testing. And still, with that little Testing Available in arizona, their numbers are still this bad. Were going to have a live report in just a moment from a front line doctor in phoenix, an emergency room doctor in phoenix to talk about why the last thing that Community Needs right now is an indoor event tonight with 3,000 people packed in like sardines and almost nobody Wearing Masks. I mean, just think about this for a second, right . I mean, how does how does this look to other countries, for example . I mean, for all the, you know, failure of the president s way smaller than expected rally in tulsa, oklahoma this weekend. I know hes gotten a lot of grief and hes been very embarrassed about how small that crowd was with 2 3 of the arena sitting empty. But think about it this way. Even for that sad sack of a bad turnout rally in tulsa, the white house, the president still did manage to get 6,000 people into that indoor space in tulsa for that event. 6,000 people. And then tonight he crammed another 3,000 people inside for another campaign event. And however positive or negative or exciting or embarrassing these political events have been for the president , these are still the only indoor events in the country in months in which thousands of people have congregated inside the same space. I mean, think about that. How do we explain that in terms of our responsibility as a country in the midst of a Global Worldwide pandemic where countries even when they isolate themselves from one another are still interlinked, where any country where this is out of control is a risk to any place else on earth. I mean, how do we explain that . I mean, its one thing to think about, you know, countries where whatever the rural says, people are going to do their own thing. But in this case, think about what the rural is doing, think about what the occupant of the white house has arranged here. The largest indoor congress gant events of the coronavirus era, the only mass indoor events being held for any reason anywhere are being held in the United States to celebrate the president s reelection effort. Because thats the one priority thing we need to do as a country . I mean, if were going to get thousands of people together in places with out of control epidemics let it be so we can chant lock her up and hear stories from the president how good he is walking down ramps and how president obama is a secret kenyan who should be arrested for treason or whatever. Thats the reason we need to put thousands of people in the same space with no masks again. This isnt happening anywhere in any industrialized country. It certainly isnt happening anywhere else in the country that has the Worst Epidemic and the highest death rate on earth. Thats us. But this is what the white house is doing. I mean, its like this stuff is happening on another planet where a failure to deal with this totally foreseen, preventible Public Health disaster didnt just kill 121,000 americans in 16 weeks. Heres the governments top Infectious Disease doctor, dr. Anthony fauci, testifying today in congress. If though travellers are from countries where the virus is still rampant, where it is still rampaging at will. So that means that even as the eu opens up its borders to travellers from all over the world again, it means countries where theres been abject failure in dealing with the coronavirus, places like russia and brazil and the United States, were not going to be. Welcome. Quote, European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are preparing to block americans from entering because the u. S. Has failed to slow the scourge. Lump in american with russians and brazilians as unwelcome is a stringing blow to american position in the world. Which has more than 2. 3 million cases and upwards of 120,000 deaths. More than any other country. Yeah, we are so disastrously, poorly run right now as a country that we are an international catastrophe that the rest of the world has to protect itself from. Our bodies as americans represent a threat to the rest of the world because of the way that our government, our leadership has allowed this virus to run rampant through our bodies as the american population. And so we now are an infectious vector risk to the rest of the world. And, meanwhile, back at home, tomorrow a bombshell is about to land in terms of the president also messing with the rule of law. Today we got and i know this may have gotten somewhat lost in the shuffle today with everything the dystopic landscape that is the news today. This is important. We got the Opening Statement that federal prosecutor Aaron Zelensky is going to give tomorrow at noon when the house convenes its hearing on the Trump Administration interfering in the rule of law. Aaron zelensky is currently serving as a federal prosecutor in the Justice Department and is coming forward as a whistleblower and now we know something of what he is going to say. And this is just phenomenal. I mean, just check this out. Its from zelenskys Opening Statement. Quote, im prepared to testify before you today about the sentencing in the United States versus roger stone. Since 2014 ive been privileged to serve as one of over 5,000 assistant u. S. Attorneys. Were a nonpartisan, career prosecutors working in offices throughout the country. Our job is to see that justice is done in every case without fear or favor, without party or politics. I remain committed to these principles, as am likewise committed to complying with your subpoena, to the best of my ability. Its unusual for a prosecutor to testify about a criminal case, and given my role as a prosecutor, there are reasons why my testimony will necessarily be limited. The department of justice has indicated it may assert certain privileges related to investigative information and decisions, ongoing matters within the department and deliberations within the department. I intend to respect the invocation of these privileges in appropriate circumstances, but also recognize that, for example, the deliberative process privilege doesnt apply when testimony sheds light on government misconduct. He says, quote, the first thing every u. S. Assistant attorney learns is that we have an ethical and legal obligation to treat every defendant equally and fairly. In the United States of america we do not prosecute people because of their politics and we dont cut them a break because of their politics either. In the many cases ive been privileged to work on in my career, ive never seen political influence play any role in prosecutorial decisionmaking. With one exception, United States v. Roger stone. He says, quote, what i saw was the department of justice exerting significant pressure on the line prosecutors in the case to obscure the correct sentencing guidelines calculation to which roger stone was subject, and to water down and in some cases outright distort the events that transpired in his trial and the criminal conduct that gave rise to his conviction. What i hear repeatedly was that roger stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president. I was told that the acting u. S. Attorney, timothy shea, was receiving heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Justice Department to cut stone a break and that the u. S. Attorneys sentencing instructions to us were based on Political Considerations. I was also told that the acting

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