it's something that everybody giving us their best advice. has to grapple with. and in a sense by how do we go forward? we stay new york tough. needing him. but as your correspondent was new york tough means more than just tough. it means discipline, means saying, a move back to family and friends and what's essential unified, means loving and it can help us sort of soften the means smart. and now is a time to be smart. blow a little bit and help us find love. the pope was saying a couple and now more than ever. weeks ago this isn't god's and that's what it is to be new judgment on us, but it might be york tough. and we are. questions? our judgment, kind of an opportunity to see what's important for us in our lives. one of those things is family and friends and love basically. i think it's a call to greater love and compassion is also seen by hospital workers, that's a sign of god's love too. >> and it's also a moment to i'm sorry? >> are children hospitals being think about charity, to think about helping the needy, helping used for potential and how long those who are the most will they stay up and running? vulnerable in this crisis. >> the temporary hospitals are >> that's i.t. roo. an overflow relief capacity in terms of good friday, we celebrate or we mark jesus kind valve. of offering his body for people, i showed you the projections, which all called for a multiple for the salvation of others. when i think of people like doctors and nurses and health care workers and all sorts of number of hospital beds than we

people, grocery clerks and have. we took our 53,000 beds. transport workers who are we raised it to 93,000 beds. literally putting their bodies on the line for the sal vacation and then we created -- that of others, it's not hard to see still isn't enough by some of these projection models, we then that charity in action. created overflow facilities, it's not hard to see people as javits, several 200-bed overflow we say in the church other christs, our jesuses today on facilities and knock formica, we good friday. >> thank you, father martin. as always we follow you and heed don't have to use them in the your wisdom on social media and hospitalization rate stays low. read your writings and it's very they are being used to some comforting indeed. extent. javits is being used to some thank you. >> thank you. and coming up -- the next extent. i have said to the hospitals a number of times, if you need relief, we have it. hot spot, philadelphia officials are pushing back on the white house warning they could soon but if the hospitalization rate see their hospitalization rates stays the same, we have up to a soar. stay with us. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. 90,000-bed capacity in our system, fully taxed. up to the brim. but that's an overflow capacity we don't use if we keep this curve down.

>> and the second wave -- >> you can answer. go ahead. >> do you want them around for a second wave? >> i don't want the second wave. that's -- i don't want a second waf. i don't want a third wave. i don't want a 1 1/2 wave. ♪ in nearly 100 years serving the military community, i want there to be -- >> which are you looking at one, we've seen you go through tough times a second wave, and two, and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher regarding testing, what is the your heart, courage and commitment holdup? what is the logjam right now and has always inspired us what do you want from the feds? and now it's no different >> what happens on the testing, so, we're here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on basically we rely on private sector company to do these and the online tools you need tests. private sector companies would because you have always set the highest standard have to develop a test. they would have to buy, acquire and reaching that standard is what we're made for the reagents to compile that ♪ 100% online car buying. carvana's had a lot of firsts. and reaching that standard is what we're made for test, whatever physical car vending machines. equipment they need, a finger and now, putting you in control of your financing. at carvana, get personalized terms, swab, et cetera. and then package them, and they browse for cars that fit your budget, would have to have millions. then customize your down payment and monthly payment. they would have to have millions quickly. and these aren't made-up numbers.

then we have to figure out how it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. to actually take those tests whether you're shopping or just looking. once you had millions of products. it only takes a few seconds, we've been working with labs. and it won't affect your credit score. we've been working with finally! a totally different way to finance your ride. suppliers. that is search easier said than only from carvana. the new way to buy a car. done. we haven't found a private sector company that can come up to scale that quickly. they can't get the reagents. they're not equipped. we said a few days ago, we asked private sector companies to come forward, that we would invest with them to develop capacity and scale. but i don't beave it happens without a significant partnership with government, where government comes in and says i'm going to fund this, we will do it up to scale, we will form a coalition and consortium. we will put together the new york state department of health with the new jersey departments of health. we will acquire reagents from other countries. i don't even know if you can get all of the supplies in this country.

so it's not an art form per se. we have the tests. there are private companies who have the tests. the art form is coming up to scale that quickly. it's the mobilization, the creation of the operation that can make millions and millions of tests. so you could use 10 million george tests in new york tomorrow. just going back to work. by the way, i would love to see people going into a nursing home, a new normal. before you start visiting people in a nursing home, you take a rapid test at the front door and get the results in 20 minutes before you walk in to visit someone. health care workers, test them all. but that's millions of tests. again, how do you make private sector companies do this? you don't if you're the

governor. if you're the president, you have something called the defense production act that can fund and mandate actions by private sector companies. again, this is -- the private sector company would get paid, god bless them. let them make a profit at it. but we need a tremendous, the head of the white house medical task force, dr. deborah birx, warning that philadelphia mind-boggling increase in volume is an area of, quote, particular quickly. and i don't believe just waiting concern in the pandemic. for the private sector companies and experts do predict the city to come up to scale, you're going to see it in the time will reach its peak some time early next week. the sports arena as temple frame that you need to get it done. >> you're saying millions and university in north philly being millions, how many? converted into a temporary >> we have 19 million people in the state of new york. hospital for noncovid-19 patients to take pressures off you'd want to start by testing everyone, right? hospitals. nbc's morgan radford joins us you would want to test people who would be going back to work, from philadelphia. test people going into nursing i know there's a federal homes, test health care workers. pushback from the warning. but in new york, there are 30 what are you hearing that? >> that's right, it's emblematic

million tests you can use. for some cities as they prepare as many as you can make, you can to approach their apex are use. that's just new york. getting mixed messaging. that's without new jersey. that's without connecticut. the white house task force said that's just the tri-state area. here in philadelphia is an then you have california. emerging hot spot. just think of the numbers. we have updated numbers today to doctor, do you want to speak to show there are about 6,000 cases here in the city of philadelphia what goes into making these and now about 19,000 throughout the state of pennsylvania. if you actually talk to the tests? >> i think as the governor mentioned, there are a lot of different reagents and chemicals to prepare the test. local and state leaders here, they are saying they are prepared and they are ready. and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as they expect to approach that apex as early as next week, where you've been watching governor andrew cuomo and where they're saying they have about 40% available icu beds, 70% of president trump's push to get people back to work as soon as the end of this month is coming their ventilators are available. up against warnings from his own they are saying what we are seeing here is exactly what they medical advisers about creating believe is a linear, not an a new wave of covid-19 cases, exponential rise in cases and their new cases are actually es fewer than 1% of the nation's population being stabilizing, even though we're seeing the number of deaths tested. this is an issue the governor's increase. been talking about. as you look around here, barely despite the president's claims to the contrary, giving public anyone is outside. regardless of the messaging, health officials no way to track the disease and its spread. local leaders are saying, look, the federal government can call this a hot spot if they want.

>> don't you need a nationwide do what they need to say to make test for the virus -- >> no, we have a great testing sure people stay inside. the temple sports arena is being system. it's the best system in the world. do you need it? converted into a hospital with is no. is it nice to do? as many as 200 beds. yes. we're talking about 325 million meanwhile the governor said he people and that's not going to will close schools here the rest happen, as you can imagine. of the school year to make sure >> the president's false claim people stay inside and stay safe, andrea. about having the best testing >> morgan radford on a gusty day system in the world is based on in philadelphia and empty independence mall. a numbers but per capita, the extraordinary sight there. thank you very much, morgan. joining us now, democratic u.s. is way behind most developed nations including hard-hit countries like italy, congresswoman barbara lee of spain and germany. california. moments ago as we said, governor congresswoman, thank you very much. you have been speaking out about cuomo announcing new york, the the fact the legislation that has been proposed now from the hardest hit state in the republican side does not include covid-19 crisis and that trend tracking the data on the is continuing. the hospitalization rate though minority communities, the people is trending down as the death of color who are so rate goes up. more than 700 people in new york disproportionately affected by state having died as of this. tell me what you're asking for as these negotiations continue yesterday. cuomo said new york needs through the weekend, one hopes. several thousand tests a week for people to go back to work >> thank you so much, andrea. safely.

and he's calling on the federal first let me thank you for government now to produce inviting me to be with you. millions of tests under the and i would also like to take a federal defense production act, moment to thank our frontline something the president has not agreed to do. workers who are doing dire work joining me now, dr. murphy, former surgeon general in the obama administration, and the under these circumstances. vice dean of johns hopkins thank you to everyone. and what we are doing is bloomberg school of public extremely important as to what health. welcome both to you. we're doing now from terms of dr. murphy, you can certainly disproportion impact in the probably empathize with what's african-american community and going on with the white house communities of color. medical task force doctors. so what we are focusing on and i how they're in a tug of war, want to congratulate the really, with the president, who congressional black caucus and want to reopen much more speaker pelosi and those leading this effort to try to make sure quickly, is under a lot of pressure for the obvious the data is collected based on economic tragedy for millions race and ethnicity. and millions of americans but the medical realities, as the we know the centers for disease doctors have been saying, are control has not done that. we want that data collected in this could get worse if people realtime and we want it made go back too soon. >> that's right, andrea. public. if you don't have the data, how as painful as the time is when do you snow to targknow what's we're being asked to really turn our lives upside down in an and how to really make sure that people do not die? effort to reduce the peak number each and every day anywhere and of infections, it is essential

we don't open up too early. especially now we're seeing in right now our foot is on the the african-american community accelerator and we're seeing disproportionate deaths, which progress, that's the good news. is a disaster, it's immoral and social distancing is making an impact and slowing the spread of we have to stop it. the virus. so we have a duty and if we take our foot off the gas, responsibility as members of if we get distracted, not only congress to make sure we tell will we see a resurgence of the virus, ultimately it will be our agencies to do the right even more harmful for the thing. >> congresswoman, one of the economy as well. reasons chicago is so focused on if you care about the economy, if you care about health, you this is they do collect the have to get the timeline data, ethnic and racial data straight. there in chicago in the city and what the timeline really tells mayor lightfoot has been a real us, there are three big things sports person on this. you need to have in place before but without having this data, we you start opening up. i think the three ts, test, don't really know how many people are being affected. in dense areas such as new york trace and treat. city and other communities with right now our testing capacity, even though we made so many minorities, may be improvements, are way behind. dyeing without us even knowing it's not the number of tests but are they in the right place? about it. is the turnaround quick? >> no, you don't know. andrea, let me say this speaks that's one we have not seen a to the larger issue of systemic plan from the federal government that will determine a capacity and structural racism and underlying issues because it

to test and quarantine in all 50 relates to conditions which are states. we traditionally left this up to still with us in terms of health the departments of state, disparities. departments of health, but we when you look at what's called know they're not prepared. the social determinants of we should never allow our health care, when you look at hospital physicians and health unequal education, when you look care workers to be in position they need to go in and treat at disproportion of poverty rates, when you look at the people without the protection they themselves as clinicians issue how we live and many of us need. we're not prepared from a in extended families, when you treatment perspective, the look at a lot of the capacity we need, unless these discrimination that's taking place over centuries, we have three ts are fulfilled, opening up is a dangerous proposition. underlying conditions that give way to diabetes and heart >> white house officials claim disease and asthma and all of there would be 27 million tests those underlying conditions which create a pandemic upon a available by now and the numbers are well below 2 million tests pandemic in the african-american community. and so we have to, one, address administered. >> i think the point you made earlier, if you open up too data gathering immediately based early and we can't watch what's on race and ethnicity so we know happening, if we don't know how to target resources. where there may be infections, but we have to encourage and resist on rapid response there. because we need to make sure we're just as susceptible to everyone gets tested and we need massive outbreaks as they were a to know in medically underserved month ago, two months ago. areas we know where the hotspots

we haven't actually improved. are and how to go in and test if all we're doing now to control the infection is staying and make sure african-americans in our homes, then when we leave and people of color get the kind our homes, we will have many of treatment that they need infections and we don't know right away. and we've got to understand this where they're going so we can't react quickly. still has to do a lot with the as we know this particular virus underlying structures of this is particularly insidious with delays. country, which still haven't it's a few days before people been dealt with in terms of the get infected and people get systemic and underlying issues really sick a few days later. of discrimination historically. so it's too late to just wait for people to be showing up in can i just share this one story the hospital. with you? we have to see the test results and this didn't just start. for people to move quickly and my mother went to the hospital shut things down faster once we start reopening. to deliver me, and they wouldn't >> and we've got reporting at let her in the hospital because nbc news that there was in fact she was black. intelligence, raw intelligence, she almost died. not an assessment that would i almost didn't get here. have gotten to the president this was because of systemic racism. so we have underlying issues necessarily, but raw intelligence from china back in november, and that the world that we have to deal with that, health organization was too slow. this is what andrew cuomo just unfortunately, now are being had to say about something the president has raised in his assumed in this disproportionate defense against the world health organization. death and lack of treatment and lag of testing in our community.

>> a question that i have had so we've got to step up. we've got to make sure the from day one, and when you look federal government doesn't stop and we have to insist this back at this, where were the administration funds the office of minority health disparities. of course, they try to cut it, horns that should have been triggered back in december and zero out the racial and ethical base of health so we have a lot of work to do. january? the immediate problem is getting where were the warning signs? this data, getting people tested who was supposed to blow the and treated and making sure the whistle? the president has asked this question, and i think he's right. the president's answer is the disproportionate numbers of world health organization should african-americans are dyeing and have been blowing the whistle. getting so sick stop. the warning signs were there. this is a pandemic essentially upon a pandemic. >> and those warning signs, dr. >> that certainly is your -- murphy, the world health organization was slow, the your story reinforces the legacy criticism's been, there was too we still have not overcome. insulance out of china and false reporting out of china. >> i think in the aftermath of >> andrea, thank you so much for this, there will be a lot to review and to understand about letting me talk about the history of this. what went wrong and why it went and i hope everybody continues wrong and how we can fix it in with physical distancing. the future. and thank you again. the truth is after every >> you bet. coming up next -- in line of

outbreak response, this kind of what we're trying to do to help those that need the help the after-action now is what most. feeding the frontlines. happens, and it should happen. what a nonprofit in texas but right now in the current providing meals to medical moment what we have to make sure workers by giving a helping hand in the united states we're not making the same mistakes that we to medical workers at the same time. did several months ago. we will have that next. we're slow to stand up testing. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." we're still behind there. this experience has revealed even though i live with a higher risk of stroke critical weaknesses in our due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. public health infrastructure. we have to fix that. eliquis. the way we need to plan is with eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk a marshal plan for rebuilding better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. the infrastructure. if we do that, we will not only eliquis is fda-approved and has both. be better prepared to deal with the aftermath of covid-19 and what's next? sharing my roots. potential second spike, we will be prepared for future don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, pandemics. and keep this in mind, the mitt as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. romney people are making eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. extraordinary sacrifices now to buy us time, reduce the peak of don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve infections. or abnormal bleeding. the question is are we using while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily that time well to build up and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. capacity, to test, trace and treat. right now i'm worried we're not seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding,

on track to get to where we need like unusual bruising. to be. we've got to catch up and make eliquis may increase your bleeding risk the sacrifices people are making worthwhile. if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. >> dr. murphy, that's a very, eliquis, the number one cardiologist-prescribed very timely warning for all of blood thinner. us, dr. sharfstein, to both of ask your doctor if eliquis is what's next for you. you. wishing you all a good holiday weekend, if you can have a good holiday weekend. joining us now is wyoming senator john morassio, the third ranking republican in the senate and medical doctor and joining us now from the great state of wyoming. thank you very much, dr. barrasso and senator barrasso. let's talk about, we know there are millions and millions of americans. we will talk about 17 million americans unemployed in the last three weeks. that's probably underreported. people who can get through the but when allergies and congestion strike, bureaucracy to file unemployment take allegra-d... a non-drowsy antihistamine for jobless claims. at this point what can the plus a powerful decongestant. senate do? so you can always say "yes" we know there is a stalemate. to putting your true colors on display. democrats want more. say "yes" to allegra-d.

they want a different allocation for these 250 million or whatever's going to be in this next unanimous agreement. there is no agreement now. are there any talks under way with the democrats? >> oh, there are talks that continue. i think we have to make sure this phase three works. when you take a look at it, you say what has worked the best? it's these loans to small businesses so people can stay on the payroll. they can keep getting paid. it's worked so well that we're exhausting and we hit almost a limit of how much is available for the program. so our goal was to just raise navigators of the turf and keepers of the green. that, up that number from the to the rural ramblers, back to the landers, $350 billion to $600 billion and head turners and stripe burners. that was defeated just yesterday run with us on a john deere mower. in the senate. we want to go back and do that because this is more than just grass. again next week. it's home. what we want to do is see what search john deere mowers for more. else is needed, but right now fill the need we know is there so people can stay on the payroll, stay connected to their jobs and small businesses can continue to pay their bills, so i would like to see this pass

and then continue with the discussion of what may additionally be needed. you want to say what is going to work -- >> senator -- >> yes, andrea? >> i didn't want to interrupt you, but there's so much reporting everywhere that this small business loans are not getting to people, the banks gridlock. there are banks that are closed and not responding to people. and this is is not working the way it was anticipating. what would be the objection, first of all, of fixing it, putting more in for food stamps and other things that didn't get in, helping hospitals on the frontline? isn't there some way to compromise this? >> i think that can possibly be in the part of the discussions, but right now over $100 million has gone out. the needs continue. there are more loans in the p e pipeline. it's getting better and better every day. we had thousands of loans made

in wyoming. the numbers are huge and the success is significant. will hospitals need more? i believe actually we will. but the first checks went out to doctors and hospitals yesterday. next group goes out next week. we don't know what those needs are going to be. those are discussions that should continue, need to continue and i support all of that. right now where we've exhausted the revenues in the program is for the small businesses, for people who are wanting to get as more and more americans checks from their businesses, are suffering from the economic the small businesses they work for, which is so many americans. shutdown from the virus, restaurants are hit especially i think that's why we approved that and it should not have been hard, but a trend is starting to blocked yesterday by the support both restaurant workers democrats and should be approved and health care workers on the on monday. front lines with a charity reaching out in both directions. >> let me ask you about the garrett haake has that story criticism from fellow republicans, from the "the wall from texas. street journal" editorial board, >> the dining room at dallas usually a supporter of the president's. from lindsey graham saying texmex restaurant jose is president trump sometimes drowns out his own message by these bustling again. this is no happy-hour rush. they're making more than 500 lengthy argumentative briefings, meals each day here, bound for which are not as fact-based as north texas hospitals, feeding doctors and nurses, treating they should be, where he gets in

fights with reporters. should he be doing fewer of covid-19 patients. >> the idea that we could cook a those, leaving that to the vice square meal and serve it to health care workers in a very president, coming out perhaps once a week and not doing the stressful environment, that daily briefings for two hours or might be what lifts them up that day to get through their double more? >> i think it's important for people to hear from the shift. >> effort spurred on by texas 20 president about what's going on and the daily briefings, like you have just shown with somethings who lauvennched feede governor cuomo are very helpful. front line in march. primarily when he tune into organize delivery to medical those briefings after listening to the president, then i want to workers. feed the front line now hear from the medical experts, partnering with 25 local restaurants and counting, in from dr. fauci and dr. birx as houston and dallas. well as the team supplying >> restaurants and the hospitals testing and giving their best keep wanting more but that's advice and how we are doing, largely a function of the money which seems to be meeting with a great deal of success in terms we can raise and how we can get people involved from our of bending the curve down. communities. >> similar organizations with by people doing the right thing similar names now operate in other hard-hit cities like new responsibly. staying at home. york, new orleans, and oakland. that's what will make the >> this is the community difference. recognizing that people are in getting the tests as well as need right now. following the behaviors. >> at jose, owner brady wood has that's the best way to reopen this economy as quickly as possible. rehired 20 laid-off workers to andrea, until we get the disease help meet that need. behind us and adequate testing, >> this is what's keeping us

we're not going to be able to fully get this economy back to alive. if it wasn't for the feed the where it was beforehand. >> but do you agree with lindsey front line and feeding these graham and other republicans who are saying the president should save himself and perhaps be much health care workers, i think it would be tough to make it work just on takeout. >> garrett haake joins us now from dallas. what a great idea. tighter in his own mentioning? >> i think he should be more >> reporter: yeah, andrea. what appealed to me about it is open to the experts and i don't know if all of the questioning it's so simple for folks like me. back and forth adds as much as i can't build a ventilator or sew a mask. you probably don't want to eat the opening statement and as much discussion with the medical my cooking. if approximate you can donate, experts. >> i got it, thank you. can you help out on the maybe they're watching you at restaurant side and on the the white house, i hope. medical workers' side and it's or one could hope. thank you very much, senator scaleable everywhere. this organization is opening up barrasso, and wishing you a very additional branchs in ft. worth, good holiday weekend. nashville, charlotte. >> and you and adam. they're trying to get up and thanks, andrea. running in chicago, atlanta and, >> thank you. and for more about all of as i mentioned in the piece, this, joining us now, jennifer there's lots of other groups palmieri, former communications doing similar things in similar director from the obama white cities. it's scaleable and it's simple. house. and from the clinton campaign, jonathan lemire, white house >> and i bet you could do -- you correspondent for associated could sew a mask, garret. press and "the washington post" chief correspondent dan balz. welcome all. i'm sure you could do anything. what about the way people first to you, jonathan lemire,

responding in texas, you know, there's been a lot of mixed covering the white house every day. that message perhaps is getting messages coming from the to the president because as we saw yesterday with a much political leaders in texas. shorter presentation from him. are people distancing there? >> reporter: they are, at least in the big cities. >> he did make an adjustment in texas, the cities run the there, andrea. you're certainly right. he was up on stage only 15, 20 vanguard of this, dallas, where i am right now, acted more minutes. far less than we have grown quickly to try to enact social accustom to in recent weeks. distancing than did the and there's become a growing chorus of republicans and governor. so, we saw the big cities kind of leading the way on this a conservatives who want him to little bit. and economic pain came first start limiting the time he here before the medical pain, spends in the briefing room. but texans are paying very close attention to this as well, "the washington post"/op-ed did a piece yesterday that suggests the president limit his time andrea. >> garrett haake, thank you for there and turn over more to the being there for us. vice president and then, of course, to the health experts. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell i think there's sort of a reports. growing -- sort of this tension this quick story before we go. talking about great ideas. in the white house about what to a bar in new jersey is giving away t-shirts with takeout do next. there's a consensus the vice president for the most part has orders of $29 or more, featuring led these briefings well. he's somber and sober. dr. anthony fauci as a world war he's a governor -- former ii era uncle sam recruiting governor, so he's used to sort of the managerial aspect. he can relate to what the

governors and statehouses across image with saying i want you to the nation are going through. certainly americans want to hear health advice from dr. birx and stay home. and this one in fauci we trust. dr. fauci. it's allowed the bar to keep all his employees on the payroll not laying off any of his staff. and in some ways -- speaking of good ideas. we hope most of you can find [ no audio ] >> and i think, jonathan, i humor, peace, and faith this weekend. follow us on facebook and on apologize. i think your audio is breaking twitter @mitchellreports, as we up a bit. let me turn to dan balz, who's await today's white house been writing about the gridlock briefing. i'll be back after the briefing that people are experiencing and false promises from government with katy tur but for now chuck and what this really means, the bigger picture of the warnings todd picks up our coverage. that didn't get through, the money not getting out, government not working. we saw the gridlock between the republicans and democrats. governors are really the only hope right now. >> well, the governors are even more on the front line than a lot of the people in the federal government. the way our system of federalism works in a case like this, the governors have to take the lead on many of the things that they're doing, and responding in

their particular states. i think where there has been a breakdown is that normally when you have a disaster, natural disaster or something like that is it tends to be isolated in a particular area. it's in a city or state or at most a region. but this is a 50-state problem. and so the lines between the federal government and the state governments, and local governments, are more fraught in this case. governors are able to do only so much in a situation like this. we've seen some governors who have done terrific work in mornings were made for better things leading their states. than rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis. but it also requires a consistency at the federal when considering another treatment, level. and i think that is where ask about xeljanz xr, there's shconcern aboconcern wh a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriatic arthritis for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. broken down. there will be a lot of it can reduce pain, swelling, after-reports after this, and significantly improve physical function. andrea, we know that. but we're still in the middle of xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; this and trying to fight through it, so i think it's important

the federal government be as don't start xeljanz if you have an infection. efficient as it possibly can. and so far, it hasn't been. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. >> and we've also seen, jen palmieri, the dramatic change serious, sometimes fatal infections, this week in the democratic cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. election, the primary campaign as have tears in the stomach or intestines, is over. joe biden is the apparent serious allergic reactions, and changes in lab results. nominee and is, again, making tell your doctor if you've been somewhere more concessions, just not fungal infections are common, everything bernie sanders or if you've had tb, hepatitis b or c, obviously wants, but more concessions in the last 24 hours or are prone to infections. on health care saying the don't let another morning go by medicare should be lowered from without asking your doctor about 65 to 60 and expanding his xeljanz xr. previous concession on student loans, on tuition saying that people who make under $125,000 [sfx: bikes passing,] and go to historically black [sfx: fire truck siren, ambient sounds] colleges or public schools, public colleges, should get free onstar, we see them. okay. mother and child in vehicle. tuition. >> yes, and it's smart of the mother is unable to exit the vehicle. injuries are unknown. biden campaign to do this and i thank you, onstar. think to do this right out of the gate, just a day after my son, is he okay? sanders has dropped out two, a, your son's fine. thank you. not get bogged down in there was something in the road ... it's okay. you're safe now.

negotiations about what these proposals are going to be. but showed the sanders' supporters early on an openness to embracing some of these ideas. and i went through this process working for hillary clinton four years ago and working with senator sanders to try to win over the support of his people and it's not easy. i think the fact that the sanders' campaign is so thoughtful about how they tried to do this shows you that it's not easy and i think that the biden campaign is smart to just at least show, we hear you, respect the effort you all put into these issues and we're willing to meet you part of the way. >> dan balz, what about having safe elections? we saw the disaster in wisconsin and resistance to mail-in balloting from the president, which seems to be a big obstacle for the legislation that's been just sitting there in the senate from the democratic side. >> what we saw in wisconsin i

think is a harbinger of what we're going to see throughout the year. i think there are a couple of things to remember. most of the battleground states have provisions for mail-in ballots and many of them, i think, i'm not 100% sure, but many have a kind of no-fault good afternoon. situation for absentee ballots. i am chuck todd. any minute now, president and the republican party and the trump's coronavirus task force trump campaign are working that will give an update on what system effectively now. they're doing in response to the they're participating fully in pandemic. we will bring you that briefing that. i think there will be debates in as soon as it happens. other states where they don't one topic the team will most have mail-in ballot provisions likely be asked about, reopening the country and what that means or no fault absentee provisions for the economy. according to the washington and we will see the kind of post, the trump administration is trying to look at may 1st as battles we saw in wisconsin. this is going to be a full a target date. employment for lawyers election starting right away. >> you see what's happening, and these are issues that are going where we are, where we stand, to have to be dealt with if they're going to be dealt with and successfully, fairly quickly. you can't put this into practice in a couple of weeks. so i think this is going to be a very big national debate, and what the president is saying in

one way or another,dy denigrating the idea of vote by mail and suggesting it's wide open to fraud, which there's no particular evidence that that's the case, will complicate all of those battles. >> thanks so dan balz, thanks to jonathan lemire, and palmieri, good to see you again. coming up -- mass without the masses. how christians are observing this good friday in isolation and how americans are turning to faith in the coronavirus. and one woman shares how her faith is getting her through on the frontlines. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us here on msnbc. >> we had a busy night last night. we had almost full capacity in the intensive care unit. about to suit up and go in. i'm feeling tired and fatigued but leaning on the verse a friend sent me yesterday, psalm

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on this good friday, christians around the world are commemorating without the solemn religious services, as churches are locked down. as the pope did on palm sunday, the church is celebrating mass without the masses. nbc's matt bradley is at the vatican and joins me now. matt, it's a very different easter. this has happened during the world wars and other places, but to see st. peter's square empty must be quite astounding again, as it was on palm sunday. >> it's astounding for catholics, it's astounding for the vaticans behind me. what they're looking at here is actually what the pope called creativity of love. and that's the message the church is trying to get out of the public trying to keep everyone together and also keeping them apart as noted.

they're using streaming services now, ever since the last month the pope streamed his private personal mass from the castle santa marta from his residence to the public. ever since the churches throughout rome have been shut. he also did an extraordinary orbi to orbi prayer here in front of the vatican a couple of weeks ago, in which he was alone. that's how all of the masses are going. easter sunday the pope will do almost the exact same ritual but literally with no one there. and there's something else to look at, the church is kind of hoping they're optimistic this could lead to a revival of the faith, resurrection of faith itself here on easter, as all of these people are moving indoors, starting to reflect, prioritizing their families, looking to their communities and helping other people. this is exactly what the catholic church is preaching ever since it's founded.

this for them they see a resurrection of faith and that's what they're looking forward to, andrea. >> that's so affirming. thank you very much matt bradley at the vatican. joining me now dr. james martin. thank you so much for being with us s you were writing at the start of this crisis, quoting some like the founder of the jesuits there are two forces that affect our inner spirit and one is the anxiety that gnaws at our soul. you can reflect on that more accurately than i. >> sure. there are two forces that work in us all the time. one drawing us towards god and what drawing us away from god. at the beginning of the crisis and throughout, i have been telling people st. ignatius says panic and despair and terror are really not coming from god. that's coming from god is hope and calm and peace. so when you're trying to determine which way to go and which kind of voices, interior voices to listen to, listen to the voices of peace and come.

>> and the other voices of stress and anxiety that we all feel create the false rumors, create all of the misinformation. some of it coming from public sources but a lot of it generated from people who are so stressed and that only makes things worse, exposes us, in fact, to the infection. >> it does. and it's not that we shouldn't be concerned. obviously, i live a block away from mt. sinai hospital. i see tents and people coming in and out. it's not that we shouldn't be concerned or take precautions. it's that sort of panic and kind of unreasonable terror also prevents us from making good decisions. again, that's not coming from god and it needs to be turned away from so we can make good decisions and really be at peace. >> how do you advice people of faith to find peace and to find the spiritual life in these online services without the

presence, without communion physically in your faith and all of the rest of the christians around the world who are going through that this weekend? >> for the christian, the church is much more than just the building. we are united, as we say, the body of christ, the body of christ on earth, which is the community, the people of god. and as pope francis said to try to be creative about the ways you're worshipping. listen to livestream services, go to things online. and to remember christ is with us. one of the messages of good friday is jesus suffered the most intense pain, physical and emotional, spiritual and he understands what we're going through. so when you're praying to jesus, you're not praying to someone who understands you just because he's divine and knows all thing but because he's human and experienced all things, as we see on good friday. >> the other part of this season this whole week, what jews are

experiencing with passover, family, friends, connections. with so much suffering, how difficult is it