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00:00:50.000In South Korea, where you've seen a significant bending of the curve, that is what people are calling it, the curve being the number of people who are infected and then the number of people who are dying.
00:00:58.000This obviously means that people are now getting increasingly serious and cautious about going to wide-scale public events.
00:01:05.000Not that if you're young and you go to a big public event, you're gonna die, but that if you go to a public event, you may become a carrier or transmitter to somebody who is more vulnerable, somebody with a preexisting condition, somebody who doesn't have a strong immune system, cancer patients, leukemia patients.
00:01:21.000I mean, there's no other way to put it.
00:01:22.000You look at the news, it's hard not to be scared.
00:01:24.000And the reason it's hard not to be scared is when you see Italy shutting down every public space, like all public spaces, except for grocery stores and pharmacies.
00:01:35.000When you see Israel shutting down not only all travel, but all public events, over 100 people.
00:01:39.000When you see people trying to shut down public events in Washington State.
00:01:43.000Obviously, all of this is predicated on the notion that coronavirus is easily transmitted, which, as far as we know, is true, and also that coronavirus is a lot more deadly than the flu, which, as far as we know, is also true, but it does differ based on age bracket.
00:01:59.000It is irresponsible reporting to suggest that every person who gets coronavirus is equally likely to die of it or experience significant ramifications from coronavirus.
00:02:09.000The younger you are, the better chance you have of recovering from this.
00:02:11.000And even if you're older, the majority of the people who are getting it are indeed recovering.
00:02:15.000The death rates, even for people above 80, yes, it's like 15%, which is unbelievably high, really frightening.
00:02:21.000But that means that 85% of the people getting it above the age of 80 are recovering from coronavirus.
00:02:26.000But it is lack of information that, of course, is scaring the living hell out of everyone.
00:02:30.000And this means that President Trump stepping into the fray and presenting some sort of plan here was absolutely necessary.
00:02:42.000But first, let's get to the actual news.
00:02:44.000So yesterday, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of coronavirus disease, COVID-19.
00:02:50.000According to the Washington Post, the WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic, reflecting alarm that countries aren't working quickly and aggressively enough to fight the disease it causes, COVID-19.
00:02:58.000We are deeply concerned by both the alarming levels of spread and severity, and at the alarming levels of inaction, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
00:03:07.000For weeks now, the WHO has hesitated to make a pandemic declaration for fear of inciting panic or prompting some countries to flag in their efforts, even though many epidemiologists believe the coronavirus had already spread to pandemic levels.
00:03:18.000On Wednesday, Tedros noted the widespread scale of the outbreak.
00:03:21.000He said there are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries.
00:03:25.000Over 4,000 people, 4,291 at that count, have lost their lives.
00:03:29.000In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of coronavirus cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even higher.
00:03:36.000Tedros said that the word pandemic is not a word to be used lightly or carelessly.
00:03:41.000It's a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death.
00:03:48.000The WHO's announcement does not trigger any new funding protocols or regulations.
00:03:51.000It basically just scares the living hell out of everyone, is what you get from that.
00:03:55.000It's not that anybody then gets a release of funding thanks to, like, if you declare a national emergency in the United States, that gives additional powers to the government.
00:04:02.000That's not the same thing for the WHO.
00:04:04.000When they declare a pandemic, it basically has the same effect as Michael Scott going to the center of the office and shouting, I declare bankruptcy.
00:04:15.000Okay, with that said, the NBA has now put its season on hold after one player tested positive for coronavirus.
00:04:21.000We're now finding out That a second player has tested positive for coronavirus.
00:04:24.000According to the LA Times, the NBA on Wednesday indefinitely suspended the 2019-2020 season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19.
00:04:33.000Just a couple of days ago, Gobert, who apparently was coughing in the locker room, he jokingly went around the press room and started touching everything.
00:04:42.000He started touching all the microphones.
00:04:43.000He started touching all the reporters' stuff.
00:04:45.000Well, turns out, dude had coronavirus.
00:04:47.000And now it turns out that another player has come down with coronavirus as well.
00:04:52.000According to The League, the test result was reported shortly prior to the tip-off of tonight's game between the Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
00:04:59.000At that time, tonight's game was canceled.
00:05:01.000The affected player was not in the arena.
00:05:03.000The NBA is suspending gameplay following the conclusion of tonight's schedule of games until further notice.
00:05:09.000If you remember the plot of Space Jam, all the players refuse to play because they are afraid that they're going to be infected with the alien virus inside the locker room.
00:05:16.000The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.
00:05:22.000Mark Cuban, who's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he came out yesterday.
00:05:25.000He said that he's going to try and find a way to continue paying his hourly employees, which is a really cool thing to do, obviously.
00:05:32.000The Lakers and Clippers were considered favorites for the championship.
00:05:35.000The Lakers landed in China for exhibition games after an international incident.
00:05:57.000Coronavirus falls on the blessed and the unblessed alike.
00:06:01.000As first reported by Deadline, the Academy Award winner and his wife were on location in Australia for pre-production of a film on Elvis Presley when they began experiencing symptoms.
00:06:09.000Hanks wrote in a statement first published by Deadline and later shared to Twitter, we felt a bit tired like we had colds, we had some body aches, Rita had some chills that came and went, slight fevers too.
00:06:17.000To plate things right as is needed in the world right now, we are tested for coronavirus and were found to be positive.
00:06:21.000Hanks went on to say that he and Wilson will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety require.
00:06:28.000And meanwhile, as I mentioned, we now have a breaking piece of news that jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for coronavirus as well.
00:06:38.000Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room, touching other players and their belongings as well.
00:06:58.000It would not be surprising to me that if universal testing were available in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people would have coronavirus already.
00:07:05.000The Brazilian government spokesman, who met with President Trump last weekend and was pictured standing next to him, has now tested positive for coronavirus as well.
00:07:13.000So you would hope that the President of the United States has been tested for coronavirus.
00:07:16.000The Brazilian President, as I mentioned, is now being monitored for coronavirus.
00:07:19.000His schedule for the week was cancelled.
00:07:21.000Both were with Donald Trump and Mike Pence last Saturday at Mar-a-Lago as well.
00:07:26.000So, all of this is, um, all of this is deeply disturbing.
00:07:30.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second, and President Trump's response, which, as I say, is receiving, at best, mixed reviews, and frankly, those mixed reviews are well-deserved.
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00:09:03.000The View taped yesterday without an audience, which basically mirrors reality.
00:09:06.000But in any case, the Hollywood Reporter is now saying that the Late Show with Colbert, Tonight Show with Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, all will be proceeding without audiences.
00:09:18.000Also, Fox News has confirmed that the Greg Gutfeld Show is dropping into audience as well, so everybody is cutting down on the audiences.
00:09:24.000The NCAA Tournament is now going to be played without fans.
00:09:27.000In a statement posted on Wednesday afternoon, the NCAA President Mark Emmert announced that upcoming championship events, including the men's and women's basketball tournaments, will be played in front of only essential staff and limited family as well.
00:09:39.000Emmert wrote, while I understand how disappointing this is for all the fans of our sports, my decision is based on the current understanding of how COVID-19 is progressing in the United States.
00:09:48.000This decision is in the best interest of public health, including that of coaches, administrators, fans, and most importantly, our student-athletes.
00:09:54.000The men's final floor was slated to take place before a sellout crowd of probably 70,000 people at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as well.
00:10:01.000Meanwhile, New York City has canceled the St.
00:10:59.000It is unclear whether school shutdowns are the best idea at this point for schools that do not actually have any incidence of coronavirus.
00:11:06.000But again, because testing of coronavirus is so scanty.
00:11:09.000It's difficult to tell who the hell even has coronavirus at this point.
00:11:13.000Okay, so with all of this said, Angela Merkel in Germany is telling the German people that 70% of the population could come in contact with coronavirus.
00:11:24.000She said the consensus among experts is that 60 to 70% of the population will be infected as long as this remains the situation.
00:11:31.000She says that we have to basically shut down all social meetings.
00:11:49.000This is not that coronavirus will disappear if we all take two weeks off.
00:11:52.000The idea here is that you're buying time, you're slowing the spread, that every day that you add to that curve means a day that researchers are able to develop a vaccine.
00:12:00.000It's a day that brings us closer to summer.
00:12:02.000There's a lot of speculation that during warm weather seasons, the flu tends to die out.
00:12:06.000And so if we can get into summer and warm weather in the northern hemisphere, that that will help curb the spread of coronavirus in general.
00:12:59.000What you would expect is that once coronavirus is under control, no matter what, you would see a V-shaped recovery because the underlying economic fundamentals are not really the problem.
00:13:43.000So we are approaching the point where all stock market gains under President Trump have been lost thanks to coronavirus alone, which is an amazing, amazing statement about globalization and the costs of globalization.
00:13:55.000The benefits of globalization are there for everybody to see.
00:13:57.000The costs of globalization are, if you have a black swan event like this one, it can completely shut down supply lines all over the globe.
00:14:03.000And Dow Jones' collapse today does demonstrate that President Trump's attempts last night to tamp this thing down were a failure, at least in the public mind.
00:14:12.000There is no sense of confidence that is emanating from the federal government.
00:14:15.000This does not mean that the federal government could, at this point, do anything that would tamp down the markets.
00:14:21.000Bottom line is that even if Trump had done a stellar job last night, which he did not, Even if Trump had done a stellar job last night, it is unlikely that the markets wouldn't have dropped this morning because, again, he can't provide assurances that everything is under control because everything isn't under control.
00:14:32.000We don't know exactly what the hell is happening right now.
00:14:35.000I mean, the fact is that Italy has shut down all life there and the deaths continue to rise in Italy.
00:14:41.000So we're going to bring you more of this in just one second.
00:14:43.000We'll get to President Trump's response yesterday.
00:14:46.000Which was marred by a bunch of screw-ups, unfortunately.
00:16:31.000It was a lot better than President Trump going out in public and suggesting there were 15 cases and it was moving down to zero, as he did a couple of weeks ago, which was obviously untrue.
00:16:38.000But with that said, here was the president of the United States last night announcing, we are marshalling the full force of the American government.
00:16:43.000Today the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic.
00:16:50.000We have been in frequent contact with our allies and we are marshalling the full power of the federal government and the private sector to protect the American people.
00:17:01.000This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history.
00:17:07.000Okay, well, there's only one problem, which is that he didn't actually get to the key points of the speech.
00:17:30.000So a lot of people overseas were rushing to buy plane tickets, hoping to sneak in under the deadline.
00:17:35.000Sort of shades of the original travel ban that President Trump issued when he first came into office that was a debacle in the way that it was originally instituted.
00:17:42.000If you're going to give a speech like this, you have to have everything locked down.
00:17:45.000You're trying to provide a sense of solidity.
00:17:47.000You're trying to provide a sense that you know what you're doing, that the federal government has thought these policies out.
00:18:04.000Here's President Trump suggesting that all travel from Europe is going to be suspended.
00:18:08.000To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.
00:18:18.000The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.
00:18:21.000These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.
00:18:26.000There will be exemptions for Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings, and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, But various other things as we get approval.
00:18:41.000Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.
00:18:49.000Okay, mistake number two is that he announced that there would be basically bans on the importation of European goods, which would shut down the entire global economy.
00:18:56.000And the stock market was like, what the F is this?
00:18:59.000And it turns out, of course, that his executive order does no such thing.
00:19:05.000Because if you buy something from Europe, it is not as though the virus is coming over on your food thing from Europe.
00:19:11.000So, announcing apparently accident- I mean, it's in the teleprompter, so I'm not sure how that's an accident.
00:19:16.000Whoever put that in the teleprompter needs to be fired forthwith.
00:19:19.000That the prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trading cargo, but various other things as we get approval.
00:19:24.000The White House then had to clarify, saying that the ban only applies to human beings, not goods or cargo.
00:19:29.000The people transporting goods will not be admitted into the country, but the goods will.
00:19:33.000And then President Trump had to go on Twitter and correct himself.
00:19:35.000He said, please remember, very important for all countries and businesses to know, trade will in no way be affected by the 30-day restriction on travel from Europe.
00:19:41.000The restriction stops people, not goods.
00:19:43.000Also important to note, when he says 30-day restriction, the executive order does not have a 30-day timeline, so it could be extended beyond 30 days.
00:19:50.000Also, Trump didn't mention that the ban would not apply to American residents, citizens, or generally citizens, immediate family members, and the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, had to issue a statement making that clear.
00:20:02.000Okay, then President Trump announced that health insurance providers had agreed to waive customer payments for coronavirus treatment.
00:20:09.000He said earlier this week, I met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all copayments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise at medical billing.
00:20:20.000They met with Trump and they said, we'll make the coronavirus testing free.
00:20:23.000That is a very different thing from coronavirus treatment.
00:20:25.000If you get double pneumonia as a result of coronavirus, insurance companies can't make that free.
00:20:29.000Exactly how are they going to survive that without some sort of federal government bailout?
00:20:33.000A White House official confirmed to CNN that insurers had only agreed to waive co-payments on testing, not the actual cost of the treatment itself.
00:20:42.000Then President Trump attacked the European Union, saying that large numbers of clusters in the U.S.
00:20:46.000had been seeded by European travelers.
00:20:48.000I mean, some of that is true, but the fact is that we are not even sure whether banning travel from Europe at this point is going to be incredibly effective, considering that we now have community infection in the United States.
00:20:58.000So, while it may be a good idea to prevent further travel generally, because travel is basically people in small, enclosed spaces with lots of other people, with that said, the idea that a travel shutdown at this point is gonna be completely effective, It was effective originally.
00:21:11.000Now that the virus is widespread, it's difficult to imagine how that's going to be completely effective in the United States.
00:21:15.000We can't even trace where the cases are coming from right now.
00:21:20.000President Trump did announce that the Small Business Administration will be providing $50 billion in small business loans.
00:21:26.000One of the problems with this particular policy Is that how do you determine which small businesses ought to get the loans in the first place?
00:21:33.000Once the government becomes the lender of last resort to businesses, you're picking and choosing winners in a way that other policies would not.
00:21:39.000A payroll tax holiday would not pick and choose winners.
00:21:42.000If the federal government were frankly to just give everybody $1,000, Andrew Yang style, that would not be picking and choosing winners, but instead to use the SBA to sort of prop up particular businesses, but not other businesses.
00:21:53.000Unless it's universal, it's very difficult to see how this is going to work.
00:21:55.000Here's President Trump talking about the Small Business Administration.
00:21:59.000I am instructing the Small Business Administration to exercise available authority to provide capital and liquidity to firms affected by the coronavirus.
00:22:10.000Effective immediately, the SBA will begin providing economic loans in affected states and territories.
00:22:18.000These low-interest loans will help small businesses overcome temporary economic disruptions caused by the virus.
00:22:26.000To this end, I am asking Congress to increase funding for this program by an additional $50 billion.
00:22:33.000Okay, so we'll see whether that is effective or not.
00:22:36.000Bottom line is that there's gonna have to be some government response to the fact that there are gonna be a lot of short-term layoffs, people being furloughed from work thanks to all of this.
00:22:45.000It would not be surprising for the federal government to step in.
00:22:47.000Okay, we're gonna get to the media's response to Trump because Trump's speech had serious problems.
00:22:52.000He made some real mistakes in the middle of the speech, but the media's response is overwhelmingly stupid, like incredibly and overwhelmingly stupid, and we're gonna get to that in just one moment.
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00:24:19.000The president has been giving very mixed messages on Twitter in public about the nature of coronavirus, about how much of a threat it is.
00:24:26.000OK, so he is getting more serious about all of this without question.
00:24:30.000And it is true that the administration's response, put Trump aside, the administration's response has been quite serious.
00:24:37.000The fact is that Stephen Redd, who is one of the Trump key officials on all of this, Stephen Redd suggested yesterday that the coronavirus response is significantly larger than the American response to H1N1, which was a major epidemic that happened in 2009.
00:24:54.000It's a much larger response than we had for H1N1.
00:24:57.000I think there are more sectors of government involved.
00:25:01.000We didn't do a lot of the things that we're doing now because they weren't appropriate.
00:26:41.000Fauci said we are reaching a stage one vaccine faster than anyone has ever reached a stage one vaccine.
00:26:47.000So there's a bit of good news for you.
00:26:49.000With regard to vaccines, as I've mentioned publicly many times, we were able to very quickly go from an understanding of what this virus was to what the genetic sequence was to actually developing a vaccine.
00:27:04.000But there's a lot of confusion about developing a vaccine.
00:27:08.000In the next, I would say, four weeks or so, we will go into what is called a Phase I clinical trial.
00:27:15.000Getting it into Phase I in a matter of months is the quickest that anyone has ever done literally in the history of axonology.
00:27:23.000Members of the government are also pointing out that while we are ramping up for widespread testing, it's gonna take another two weeks for widespread testing, which that, of course, is bad news.
00:27:31.000That means more informational deficits at this point, all of which is bad news.
00:27:36.000Now, as I say, the media's response to all of this has been absolutely egregious.
00:28:28.000You're focused on the fact that Trump points out that another major virus comes from China?
00:28:33.000And that maybe this might have some implications for American policy?
00:28:36.000And your initial takeaway is that that's Trump being a racist against Chinese people?
00:28:40.000That's really where you're going with this?
00:28:42.000I'm sorry, I'm not going to consider you a serious person if you think it's a major problem for the President of the United States to point out that a foreign virus is indeed a foreign virus.
00:28:49.000Literally the entire media two months ago was calling us the Wuhan virus.
00:28:52.000Anyway, here is the brothers Cuomo, Chris and Andrew.
00:28:55.000Chris interviewing Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, about all of this, and Governor Cuomo very angry that Trump called the virus foreign.
00:29:02.000This is not about a foreign virus, whatever that means.
00:29:22.000If you actually had testing capacity, you would see how high the numbers are already.
00:29:28.000Okay, so it is true that we need better testing capacity, but if you're really bitching at this point about calling it a foreign virus, your priorities are completely and utterly misplaced.
00:30:07.000If the test kits that the federal government has promised aren't out there, then those governors can't make choices.
00:30:13.000And you said the president should stick to the script.
00:30:16.000I don't know if he stuck to the script or not.
00:30:20.000that whatever script he read was wrong because they've had to clarify it several times.
00:30:25.000And I just got to say, if the president came out to calm people's fears, he didn't do a good job of it because they've had to come back and clarify it several times.
00:30:33.000And this has been going on long enough for them to get it straight.
00:30:37.000We need straight, accurate information from this president and this administration, and And I don't understand why you are tiptoeing around it.
00:30:46.000He came out, gave an address that usually happens very rarely, and he doesn't get it right?
00:31:19.000What the president says makes a difference but the markets were not going to respond well anyway to the fact that we have a tremendous lack of information.
00:31:26.000The president is obviously on a personal level taking everything a lot more seriously.
00:31:30.000The president is meeting with a prime minister today and they agreed not to shake hands and Trump said it's a strange feeling for politicians because handshaking is routine.
00:31:40.000Their agenda is to paint Trump as... Several things can be true at once.
00:31:43.000One, Trump is not doing the world's best job of handling this thing on a personal level.
00:31:47.000Two, the Trump administration is doing everything that it can, and they're doing just as much as any other administration would.
00:31:52.000Anthony Fauci has served in several different administrations.
00:31:55.000And governors like Gavin Newsom from California are saying they're getting what they need from the federal government.
00:31:59.000Three, nobody has this thing under control.
00:32:01.000And four, the media wants to see Trump fall flat on his face and they are eager to paint Trump as unable to handle this whole thing.
00:32:08.000So all of those things can be true at once.
00:32:10.000And in fact, all of those things are true at once.
00:32:12.000In just a second, we're gonna get to more media malfeasance, the media really, really trying to play up the idea that the federal government's response is not only insufficient, but uniquely insufficient because Trump, because everything is Trump.
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00:34:30.000Unlike Hillary, this deal will be going away, so act now before it ends on Friday.
00:34:45.000So President Trump obviously getting rigged over the coal.
00:34:50.000Mike Pence did a segment with Alison Camerota in which she was going after him really hard.
00:34:57.000The role of the media is to ask very difficult questions of the Trump administration in the most unfair possible ways, and also to play on the gap between Trump's personal thin-skinnedness and the members of his administration.
00:35:09.000This is something that the media have learned to play and play this game really well.
00:35:12.000And that is, if you're a member of the Trump administration and Trump says something dumb, You're not allowed to go on TV and just say, yeah, the president shouldn't have said that.
00:35:18.000Or, yeah, the president didn't mean that.
00:35:20.000You're not allowed to do that because then Trump gets mad at you.
00:35:22.000And so what the media have decided to do is basically hold every member of the Trump administration to account for anything dumb the president says.
00:35:30.000Well, this is what Allison Camerota was doing today with Mike Pence, and it got pretty ugly.
00:35:36.000President Trump's speech last night, after he talked about the travel ban from Europe, or travel restrictions, I guess I should say, from Europe, and the handling of cargo shipments, two clarifications basically had to be issued within the space of an hour.
00:35:52.000One from DHS saying the travel restrictions do not apply to all travel, and then the president himself tweeted he didn't mean cargo.
00:36:06.000The president took another historic step, just like he did in January with China, to suspend all travel from Europe, Alison, for the next 30 days because we've recognized, our health experts tracking global data, that the epicenter of the coronavirus has shifted from China and South Korea to Europe.
00:36:31.000Okay, so again, this is being trotted around the media as evidence that Pence won't talk up to Trump.
00:36:36.000Okay, look, we all know the situation here.
00:36:38.000The situation here is that the president has personal character flaws when it comes to being thin-skinned.
00:36:42.000He doesn't want anybody in his administration contradicting him.
00:36:44.000And Trump isn't the guy who wrote the speech or loaded the teleprompter.
00:36:47.000Listen, the buck stops with the president.
00:36:52.000Again, whoever put that crap in the teleprompter needs to be fired, like, forthwith, really.
00:36:57.000You put an error-ridden speech in the middle of a global pandemic in the president's teleprompter, you ought to be fired.
00:37:02.000Like, seriously, there's some heads that need to roll.
00:37:05.000Now, we should be in the business not of looking for a head rolling at this point, but we should be in the business of seeing what the response ought to look like.
00:37:13.000And right now, the answer is nobody knows what the hell the response ought to look like.
00:37:17.000What we do know is that pumping is not going to be the solution.
00:37:20.000President Trump has been fixated to this point on the stock market, and he continues to be fixated on the stock market.
00:37:25.000Today he was talking about how the stock market is going to be just fine.
00:37:27.000Maybe it will, but only in response to an underlying ease in terms of what we know about coronavirus.
00:37:33.000Right now, people are blaming this on Trump, right?
00:38:10.000With that said, President Trump's bizarre notion that if the Fed just eases money, that somehow the stock market's gonna be propped up, that if we go to negative interest rates, that we're somehow gonna prop up the market.
00:38:36.000Now, there are certain things that can be done to stopgap this thing, right?
00:38:39.000We can have, as we mentioned, a payroll tax holiday.
00:38:41.000There have been conservatives urging the federal government to basically sign unemployment checks for people who are unemployed for the period that coronavirus requires you to stay home.
00:39:14.000Jim Acosta from CNN asked Trump specifically if he was taking this seriously enough, and Trump ended him.
00:39:20.000Mr. President, what do you say to Americans who are concerned that you're not taking this seriously enough and that some of your statements don't match what your health experts are saying?
00:39:58.000And President Trump is tweeting things.
00:40:00.000Okay, so things change fast in politics.
00:40:03.000According to the New York Times, Joe Biden, seeking a contrast with Trump, will speak today on coronavirus.
00:40:07.000So he's going to take to the microphones to try and show why he would be a better president than the president.
00:40:12.000And presumably he will get all sorts of rich, rewarding media coverage.
00:40:15.000Even if he can't actually say the word coronavirus properly because he is malfunctioning.
00:40:19.000A day after President Trump addressed the nation about coronavirus amid criticism, he has minimized the threat of the pandemic.
00:40:24.000According to The New York Times, Joe Biden plans to give his own remarks on the virus, seeking to project steadiness and resolve from his purchase frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
00:40:32.000His campaign announced its plans for the speech on Tuesday before Trump's Oval Office address.
00:40:36.000A Biden official described the upcoming remarks as offering a view into how Biden will lead in times of crisis as president.
00:40:42.000This is why President Trump botching that speech last night was not only bad for the country, it was bad politically.
00:40:47.000On Wednesday, his campaign announced the formation of a public health advisory committee.
00:40:50.000So he's going to run a shadow government to prove that he will be more competent than the president of the United States.
00:40:55.000Members include Vivek Murthy, a former Surgeon General, Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, and Lisa Monaco, who served as Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor That is the opening, right?
00:41:05.000You know that if this thing deepens, then all of the old comments that President Trump made about the flu, those are just going to be campaign ads.
00:41:09.000Those are just going to be campaign ads.
00:41:11.000has said he would insist on transparency from China and has expressed shock and frustration with Trump's past skeptical remarks.
00:41:19.000You know that if this thing deepens, then all of the old comments that President Trump made about the flu, those are just going to be campaign ads.
00:41:25.000Those are just going to be campaign ads.
00:41:27.000So Trump getting serious about this is not only necessary, it is worthwhile.
00:41:31.000Again, with all of that said, it is pretty clear that Joe Biden is seeking to make hay.
00:41:37.000I've said for a long time, President Trump needs to run a discipline campaign if he wishes to win.
00:41:41.000The discipline extends to his actual presidency.
00:41:44.000And as worries grow, as celebrities get this thing, as politicians get this thing, as it seems as though we have no data, Then calming presidential leadership is necessary at a time like this.
00:41:55.000Calming is not a thing that President Trump tends to do.
00:41:58.000Now, meanwhile, there still is a threat from inside the Democratic House.
00:42:00.000So the best case scenario for President Trump is there's a V-shaped recovery.
00:42:03.000In a month, month and a half, this thing calms down a little bit.
00:42:06.000The social distancing measures take effect.
00:42:09.000Summer hits and coronavirus diagnoses go down.
00:42:12.000The death rate is not as high as we thought it was.
00:42:14.000And then people buy up the stock market.
00:42:17.000I mean, the fact is that people like me, if you're young, You have any sort of cash flow?
00:42:22.000Continuing to buy into the stock market is a smart move because eventually, whether it's now or six months from now or a year from now, the stock market is not only going to recover, it's going to start zooming again, okay?
00:42:30.000And you're going to make a lot of money.
00:42:32.000Buying low and selling high is the name of the game in the stock market.
00:42:36.000Goldman Sachs is suggesting that we may drop another 15% on the stock market, which would put President Trump's stock market below where it was when President Trump took office.
00:42:44.000Again, if you look at the chart, it's frightening.
00:42:45.000I mean, the chart basically looks like Continue to arithmetic growth in the stock market and then boom, right off a cliff, thanks to Wuhan virus.
00:42:52.000But the good news is that that does not reveal systemic failures of the American government.
00:42:57.000What that does, or great underlying weaknesses like in the crash of 2007-2008, it just reveals a major global pandemic disruption of the system.
00:43:06.000So that means that when the pandemic is over, or at least when it wanes, or at least when we think it's waning, then you're going to see presumably A V-shaped or U-shaped recovery.
00:43:15.000The question is whether that comes in time to help President Trump.
00:43:18.000If, if it does, then maybe this thing is over by the time of the election.
00:43:22.000Remember, things change really quickly in politics.
00:43:25.000If we get to June and things have waned on coronavirus, and President Trump takes significant action, which is what he should be doing right now, then he'll be in fairly good shape.
00:43:31.000He'll be able to say, listen, we did everything we could, we stopped coronavirus in its tracks, and it won't be an issue by the time we hit October, November.
00:43:39.000That's best case scenario for President Trump.
00:43:40.000Okay, but that requires some pretty solid leadership.
00:43:43.000Meanwhile, inside the Democratic Party, the conflict continues to play out between the Bernie Sanders wing and the Joe Biden wing.
00:43:48.000Yesterday, Bernie Sanders got up and he said, I am not dropping out of this race.
00:43:52.000No matter what, I'm going to stick around.
00:43:54.000He suggested we are winning the debate, but we're not winning the electability debate, which is a very weird argument.
00:43:59.000Here is Bernie Sanders yesterday announcing that he is going to stay in the race despite the fact that he has no shot at winning the nomination.
00:44:05.000While our campaign has won the ideological debate, We are losing the debate over electability.
00:44:14.000I cannot tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to who have said, and I quote, I like what your campaign stands for.
00:44:26.000I agree with what your campaign stands for.
00:44:31.000But I'm going to vote for Joe Biden because I think Joe is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump.
00:45:14.000That's a divide in the Democratic Party if there is a recovery from coronavirus, which, of course, is top priority for everybody.
00:45:18.000If the country, if the world economy recovers.
00:45:21.000The divide between Sanders and Biden is going to take on a lot larger status as the election approaches.
00:45:25.000Here's Sanders saying he looks forward to debating Joe Biden for no apparent reason.
00:45:28.000On Sunday, I very much look forward to the debate in Arizona with my friend Joe Biden.
00:45:35.000Donald Trump must be defeated, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen.
00:45:43.000On Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal.
00:45:57.000Okay, so that is where we currently stand.
00:45:59.000Basically, everything is on hold in serious terms because of coronavirus.
00:46:03.000But if we move past coronavirus, then all of the political stuff is back on the table.
00:46:07.000And obviously, it is true that coronavirus is being politicized by people who are looking for a political advantage.
00:46:12.000President Trump ought not hand people a club with which to hit him politically.
00:46:16.000Plus, I mean, he is, putting aside politics for a second, he's the leader of the free world.
00:46:20.000He's the leader of the most powerful country on the planet.
00:46:22.000He's the leader of the country in which you live.
00:47:06.000He's the president of the United States, and he's been absolved from a lot of the responsibilities of leadership by the fact that we've already baked into the cake that the man's going to tweet a lot.
00:47:13.000But when you're in the middle of a serious national or international crisis like this, there is no substitute for leadership.
00:47:19.000It's time for the president to step up and get it done.
00:47:21.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then a thing that I hate.
00:47:24.000So, as long as you're gonna be self-quarantining, I just restarted Better Call Saul.
00:47:28.000So, Better Call Saul is a spinoff from Breaking Bad.
00:47:30.000If you've never seen Breaking Bad, go stream it.
00:48:52.000Okay, let's just be clear about something.
00:48:55.000Even libertarians, when it comes to policing externalities, when it comes to collective action and the necessity of fighting a collective threat, are not libertarians.
00:49:13.000There are not a lot of libertarians who believe that in a time of pandemic, we shouldn't collectively mobilize and use the resources at our disposal to prevent externalities.
00:49:21.000Okay, two, the idiocy is trying to equate a pandemic situation with you have a non-communicable disease or you have a disease that's not going to kill anybody else.
00:49:31.000And when you're talking about a pandemic, I've been saying this for years, okay?
00:49:33.000I'm pretty libertarian when it comes to vaccinations.
00:49:37.000I do believe in regulations at the school level that you shouldn't be able to come to school unless you are vaccinated.
00:50:00.000Cook, over at National Review, a libertarian, is fully on board with the idea of government action in times of crisis like this, when there is a collective threat to the collective, because you can't avoid the threat.
00:50:12.000Okay, the idiocy of people on the left suggesting that every situation is a crisis situation and therefore Medicare for All is the same thing as taking care of the population during a pandemic, that's nonsense.
00:50:21.000Not only is it nonsense, it's idiotic nonsense.
00:50:24.000So Farhad Manjoo, who is replete with idiotic nonsense, he has a piece today where he says, all it took was a pandemic of potentially unprecedented scale and severity and suddenly it's like we're turning into Denmark over here.
00:50:33.000In the last few days, a parade of American companies that had long resisted providing humane and necessary benefits to their workers abruptly changed their minds, announcing plans to pay and protect even their lowest rung employees harmed by the ravages of coronavirus.
00:50:44.000Okay, first of all, that would not be the government.
00:50:49.000If Mark Cuban, the head of the Dallas Mavericks, the owner, if he suggests that he's going to come out of pocket and make sure that furloughed workers get paid, What does that have to do with the government?
00:51:00.000Uber and Lyft, which are currently fighting state efforts to force them to pay benefits to drivers and other gig workers, announced that actually a form of paid sick leave wasn't such a bad idea overall.
00:51:48.000Again, voluntary action by private... He's proving the exact opposite of what he thinks he's proving.
00:51:52.000Private industry is acting responsibly in many ways in order to minimize the risk of the spread of this virus.
00:51:57.000More responsibly than the damned government, which has been lax in nearly every respect on this thing, lagged a month behind, and didn't get the testing kits out anywhere.
00:52:05.000So, I mean, if anything, this column is proving that private industry is doing the crap that government has been unable to do thus far.
00:52:10.000It doesn't mean that government is unnecessary.
00:52:12.000Government is very necessary when it comes to providing the testing kits.
00:52:15.000Although private labs, by the way, are the ones that are going to have to ramp up production in order to make sure that those testing kits are available.
00:52:22.000But it's just amazing that you can conflate private voluntary action with government action and then call it Denmark.
00:52:29.000Then, here's where Farhad Manjoo finally gets to government programs.
00:52:32.000The Trump administration, last seen proposing to slash a pay raise for federal workers and endorsing a family leave policy that doesn't actually pay for family leave, is now singing the praises of universal sick pay.
00:52:41.000When we tell people if you're sick, stay home, the president has tasked the team with developing economic policies that will make it very, very clear we're going to stand by those hardworking Americans.
00:52:49.000Vice President Pence said on Monday, offering the sort of rhetoric that wouldn't be out of places on the page of Jacobin.
00:52:54.000Okay, the difference is you're talking about a widespread pandemic.
00:52:57.000It is very difficult to determine whether people are truly sick or whether they are truly not if you're talking about government provide paid sick leave.
00:53:04.000Okay, this has been a serious problem in terms of American disability.
00:53:07.000A huge number of Americans who are on disability are not actually disabled.
00:53:10.000They are people who claim disability, and then they are on disability because they say they have back pain or something.
00:53:17.000Now, in a pandemic, the answer is, okay, well, the risk of people coming into work is a lot higher than the risk of people defrauding the system.
00:53:25.000You gotta keep people home, even if it means that you're paying some people to fraudulently stay home.
00:53:30.000But that's because the risk factors changed, you idiot.
00:53:34.000Representative Ted Yoho, Republican from Florida, said, you can look at it as socialized medicine, but in the face of an outbreak of pandemic, what's your options?
00:53:44.000Yes, and everyone is more of a socialist in wartime.
00:53:46.000Collective reactions are necessary for collective threats, but medicine is not a collective threat.
00:53:52.000You having an individual case of a particular disease that is not communicable is not a matter of everybody's interest financially.
00:53:59.000That doesn't mean there aren't All sorts of things that we can do as a society and as communities to make sure that people get health insurance, we can.
00:54:07.000But to pretend that all situations are equal is the idiocy of the simple-minded.
00:54:11.000To pretend that pandemic situations are equivalent to non-pandemic situations, it's ridiculous.
00:54:21.000So, Mara Gay, who is one of the leading forces behind the 1619 Project, and who was a leading factor in the myriad mistakes of the 1619 Project.
00:54:32.000The other week, we were making fun of her, but really making fun of Brian Williams, because Brian Williams brought up a tweet on MSNBC.
00:54:39.000And the tweet on MSNBC suggested that Michael Bloomberg could have paid everybody a million dollars.
00:54:55.000He sort of laughed at her a little bit, but I said on the show, that's not Mara Gay's fault.
00:54:58.000Like, I feel kind of bad for her, honestly, because the fact is that she's just a guest.
00:55:01.000What, you're going to fact check Brian Williams in real time?
00:55:03.000Okay, but because people were making fun of her, now we get a full column from Mara Gay in the New York Times talking about how it's racist To make fun of her for screwing things up.
00:55:12.000Okay, as somebody who has been made fun of for screwing things up before, let me just say that, um, that's just called life.
00:55:21.000But Mara Gay literally wrote a piece for the New York Times called, When you're a black woman in America with a public voice, a trivial math error can lead to a deluge of hate.
00:55:42.000And yes, there are always idiots who are going to send you nasty hate mail.
00:55:45.000I've gotten more nasty hate mail, I would bet, by scores than anybody at the New York Times editorial board.
00:55:50.000But The idea that my people have been through worse than a... Yes, I'm fairly well aware that black people in America have been through a lot worse, like slavery and Jim Crow, than you taking a little bit of heat for making a dumb mistake on MSNBC.
00:56:04.000But to suggest that, like, this is anywhere on par, or that this is racist, it's such a New York Times... It's such a New York Times... Like, Brian Williams got hit for this, too.
00:56:13.000But Mara Gay says, On MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, the night before, we mentioned a tweet written by someone else about the enormous amount of money Michael Bloomberg had spent on his failed presidential run, about $500 million.
00:56:56.000like she says across social media right-wing trolls celebrated the next time they make a mistake i hope people are nicer to them than they were to me how did this end up on tv one of them helpfully wrote sharing the video unfortunately quite a few americans can tell you what it's like to be the target of a twitter mob over a gaff migrates in was trivial harmless and silly what's it like when people are trying to cancel you for a math mistake weird and maddening and painful okay nobody nobody was there a single person who suggested margay should be fired over the math mistake Like anyone?
00:57:47.000But the sort of self-sacrificial, woe is me, I'm a heroine of the movement because I'm a black person on TV, and therefore any criticism of me is criticism of blackness as opposed to me making a dumb math mistake.
00:57:57.000Again, I thought the reaction was overwhelmingly stupid to Maragay's dumb mistake, but to suggest that it's because of overwhelming American racism, it's ridiculous.
00:58:05.000She says, many of those Americans She says, when I appeared on that TV program last week, I'd been working for many days interviewing black voters in the South who were determined to defeat Donald Trump, whom they see as the nightmare embodiment of the old hatreds many of them fought to overcome.
00:58:19.000Many of those Americans had survived far worse under the racial terror of Jim Crow than anything I can imagine.
00:58:23.000I thought about the black man I met at the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, who had been beaten bloody by the police there half a century ago.
00:58:29.000I thought about the older black woman who approached me in a Selma coffee shop.
00:58:32.000I thought about my father, who grew up enduring the daily indignities of segregated South Carolina and Detroit.
00:58:36.000I'm here because of them, and there's nothing the haters can do about it.