If you think yes, call this number 202 7488000, and if you think no, you can also call 202 7488001, and you can also send a text, 202 7488003. And if you cannot wait in on social media, you can post a comment on facebook. Before we get to your calls this sunday morning, we wanted to stunning front page to the New York Times this morning. 100,000, sonearing there is no traditional news story on this front page this morning. This is a series of names where they are from, folks who have passed away or died from the coronavirus, and they have published 1000 of these names, just 1 with biographies or Something Special about those people. They write that the numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on america, whether it is the number of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short. As the country nears a grim milestone, the times scoured obituaries and death notices of the victims, the 1000 people reflect just 1 of the total, they were not simply names on
More complicated than the closing seem to have been. There has been a back and forth going on behind the scenes between the cdc and the white house about whether there should be kind of a federal guidance for houses of worship. It just a couple of days before the president made that announcement on friday, we and others reported that the white house was saying there was going to be no plans for any federal guidance in part because they did not want to give the impression that they were adding more regulations to whatever was going on at the state and local level to what houses of worship have to do to figure out how to reopen. For reasonsersed that are not completely clear, said whatesident also your listeners heard. He does not have the authority to override governors on that kind of thing, but he is speaking for a minority, but a passionate and engaged minority of americans who feel disrespected. He is focusing their on the issue of being essential, the status of houses of worship. I
Ton post to explain how the president ultimately got to that announcement on friday. The vast majority of houses of worship in the United States have been up until now pretty conservative and closed, but as we have been talking about reopening, it has become evident that the reopening is more complicated than the closing seem to have been. There has been a back and forth going on behind the scenes between the cdc and the white house about whether there should be kind of a federal guidance for houses of worship. It just a couple of days before the president made that announcement on friday, we and others reported that the white house was saying there was going to be no plans for any federal guidance in part because they did not want to give the impression that they were adding more regulations to whatever was going on at the state and local level to what houses of worship have to do to figure out how to reopen. For reasonsersed that are not completely clear, said whatesident also your l
Today, we changed the stories that we were going to cover and the order of everything. We changed the show like 300 times did you say today because new things kept happening all afternoon and into the evening, each of which was more amazing than the things that had come before on this amazing news day. Up to and including jeb bush slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon on the tonight show tonight which has just happened. We actually just got the tape of it. We will have that for you in just a moment. Its mind bending. In addition to that, weve got donald trump announcing he is running for the republican nomination for the president of the United States today. You heard about that, got lots of press today. But did you hear that since donald trump announced, he announced his running mate, who hes running with. And he says he and this running mate, unbeatable combination. They will definitely win. Since he made that announcement today, we have been trying all afternoon and all evening to
People who are effectively stateless. I hope that folks continue to keep their eyes on this. Well continue to cover it. I think the dmeft dominican the government of the Dominican Republic is going to face some Serious International pressure. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Thank you at home for joining us this hour. Today was amazing in the news. In just the news about politics today, we changed the stories that we were going to cover and the order of everything. We changed the show like 300 times did you say today because new things kept happening all afternoon and into the evening, each of which was more amazing than the things that had come before on this amazing news day. Up to and including jeb bush slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon on the tonight show tonight which has just happened. We actually just got the tape of it. We will have that for you in just a moment. Its mind bending. In addition to that weve got donald trump announcing he is running for the republica