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hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. remember monday the decision about when and whether to reopen the country was in donald trump's hand. he had the total authority. got an update for you, now the buck stops in 50 other state capitals. donald trump total can pit lags on how to ease the social distancing restrictions, is

complete. the plan released yesterday by the white house, handing all decisions over to the states. "the new york times" writes it up this way, quote the 18-page document released by the white house provided mostly general guidance and did not confront some difficult questions, including how to finance the billions of dollars necessarily for expanded testing, whether travel should be restricted between states, when the ban on international travel from europe and elsewhere would be lifted. the ability to quickly contain future outbreaks by quarantining sick people and their contacts but they few specifics about how strained public health systems around the country will achieve that goal. it's not an overnight belief on the president's part and states' rights. trump the buck stops with the states posture is largely shield himself from blame, new outbreaks after states reopen or

for other problems and house speaker nancy pelosi's response was even blunt than that. she said, quote, the white house's vague and inconsistent document does nothing to make up for the president's failure to listen to the scientists and produce and distribute national rapid testing. the president is now shifting responsibility to testing back to the states as well. with the new new posture that amounts to little more than testing? you want testing? you do it. >> we're in very strong communication with the governors, we'll be helping with testing, they're going to be testing, it's got to be a localized thing and it really has been since i've been involved because i said in, federal government is supposed to do testing that's 2,000 miles away, it's ridiculous, but the testing has been so incredible. >> i'm old enough to remember when he announced tests in

parking lots thousands of miles away. comments like those reignited tensions between trump and some of the hardest-hit states. one unnamed governor telling nbc news, quote, everything the president has done has made testing more difficult for the states. there was testing available in february and he rejected it and he called the virus spread a hoax, now he's looking for someone to blame, as usual. new york governor cuomo went into greater detail on why passing the buck to the states just doesn't make sense when it comes to testing. >> this is mayhem. we need a coordinated approach between the federal government and the states. we cannot do it without federal help. i'm willing to do what i can do and more. but i'm telling you i don't do china relations, i don't do international supply and that's where the federal government can help. >> governor cuomo's press conference wasn't even over

before donald trump erupted at him on twitter, essentially live-tweeting his response and criticizing cuomo's coronavirus response. calling him a complainer, asking him for a thank you and blaming the states for not stock piling enough ventilators. tough to square a tirade like this with president trump's declaration just days ago that the president had total authority. >> well, if he's sitting home watching tv, maybe he should get up and go to work. you're going to say just after saying this monumental task is up to the individual governors and individual states, i'm providing no finance, he's doing nothing! he said it's up to the states. it's up to the governors, which is what it was always. it's always been the governor's power. all he's doing is walking in front of the parade.

how many times do you want me to say thank you? this was your role as president. . >> the president's ever-evolving response to the coronavirus pandemic is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. los angeles time white house reporter eli stockel is back. plus, former chief spokesman for the justice department, our friend matt miller is back. eli, take me inside what -- it looks like a bouncing ball at this point. monday, authoritotal authority. tuesday, he backed off. today, he's live-tweeting support for the second amendment and protesters. what's going on? >> well, it's the same thing, nicolle, that's been going on this entire presidency, this hall of mirrors aspect to it. he the president does something,

watches himself, reflected in the coverage and that prompts the next thing that he does. he's been eager for a long time to claim victory, to give some signal to the country that we're past this and that's what he tried to do yesterday. he was in a very good mood. not a whole lot of clashing with reporters in the briefing room. he felt like he was finally at the ribbon cutting. the building hasn't been built yet, they're tilling the soil to reopen this economy. but what governor cuomo said reflected what a lot of people outside the administration saw which was a president eager to shift the onus on making this decision to governors, the pressure and to basically say, look, we did our job. there have been a lot of conversations behind the scenes, inside the oval and with the president, urging him not to put, you know, a date after he did a thing of opening by

easter. they got him to back off on a date. to push the decisions on the states. but then you see trump sort of self-satisfied but also now agitating some of the governors saying it's your decision, but getting on twitter and really giving a greenlight to his spotters who have been protesting in some of these states against stay at home orders. a lot of mixed messages as the president continues to want to take credit for the good news and to deflect all the blame and all the tough questions on to governors, there's a call today that vice president pence had today with a lot of senators and it was very, very contentious, because the senators continue to ask questions about testing, they see testing as the critical thing that they have to get right and get in place before they can actually lift these stay at home orders. the people on the call with the

senators, sort of punted on that. a president eager to take credit a president who's watching television, who's reacting when he feels like he doesn't get that credit from other people on television, but the big question, the big hurdle here related to testing remains unanswered. >> all right, matt, let's slow this thing way down. this is an important point that eli is reporting. this moment is like any other about his presidency. about his teeny tiny e go and the vast nation he leads and he's making all his decisions based on press coverage, okay, the difference here, matt miller, people are dying, more than 30,000 people have died. the virus is still spreading across the country. and donald trump today, like a

punk seemed to tweet about, about protesters. i mean, where do you see this moment, matt miller? >> i think the news from the last 24 hours, not just that we don't have a national testing program but they're not going to have national testing program has been one of the most disturbing moments for me since this crisis began. i think of it compared to past crises that presidents managed. the president in january and february wasn't paying attention and when he was paying attention he was actively down playing the crisis and that had real effects within the government. but i think of past crises, hurricane katrina, when president bush's initial response was catastrophic, but that was a management error, when he realized it was an error, he wasn't on tv attacking

the governor and mayor, saying, why are you looking for planes, water and food? it's not my job it's your job. he utilized the national guard. he recognized his mistakes. what you're seeing here from the president is the opposite. no testing program initially because he failed to do his job. now there's no testing program because he's decided it's not his job and he's decided it's not his job, if the american people think it's not his job, they won't blame for the loss of life. he's looking for anyone to blame and that leaves him in a place, he's ee's and kated his number responsibility, to protect the american public. i think this news is just the one of the lowest moments we have had since this crisis began. >> if the american people are

under the belief that testing is something that donald trump is going to deliver there's reason for them to think that, here's donald trump on testing. >> anybody right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test, they're there. they have the tests we've been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-through tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals. we expect an additional 1 million of tests will be available next week. we'll have the ability to do in the millions over a very, very quick period of time. we inherited a broken test. remember, we inherit ed bad tests. these are horrible tests. and it was broken. it was all broken. we fixed it. we're doing millions of tests.

federal government's supposed to do testing in the parking lots that 2,000 miles away it's ridiculous. >> doctor, it sounds like donald trump is for tests until he failed at tests. where did that leave a frightened public? >> good afternoon, nicolle. this surreal challenging day and time. yes, the medical and public health community have been saying the same message consiste consistently, we need widespread testing. these are all strong, well-known, well-established public health measures, preventive measures but we need this data in order to really move forward but to just get current understanding of the scope of the problem, who's actively infected and then go back and do contact tracing so we can protect the people who are contacts and we also need antibody testing as well, right,

to understand who may be immune and may be protected. this is not a state problem, this is a national problem. so it's flabber gasting to me and to my colleagues to why we're not getting the federal support the people need. i spoke to my physician colleagues at a bronx hospital, remember governor cuomo said the curve in new york state is flattening and maybe even going down but at a critically high level. one of my colleagues at this bronx hospital said that while right now they have enough ppe that the patients they're taking care of are really sick, some of the older patients are experiencing delirium so they need a lot of support and lot of patients comfort care and really dying and they just need a lot of comfort and support. this is what we're talking about on the grounds, people sick and dying at this point, nicolle, it's not the virus that's

killing people it's poor leadership. >> wow, take me through then what the plan yesterday does to states that are trying to protect people, prevent people from dying, how does a hard-hit state deal with the fact that the white house basically through the hot potato back at it and say fend for yourself? some have banded together. how do we have a standardized test result if we don't have a standardized test? >> right, unfortunately that's the reality right now. when you don't have a federal response you're having basically private sectors, academia, in patchwork way trying to scramble for a solution. it's far from ideal. but yes, to your point, what we're seeing are coalitions states in the northeast, new york, massachusetts, rhode island, they're all coming together because these governors and local leaders are

recognizing that their people are getting sick, they're dying, they're being overworked and they need to be protected. we need leadership to do this. and so that's kind of what you're seeing now and look the frontline medical and healthcare workers including patient transporter and food services people, people who are necessary to run a hospital, they're all really facing the burden of frankly a lack of leadership at the highest levels. >> you know, matt miller, sometimes it takes a while to see the deficiencies of trump's leadership to play out, with russia, it didn't take very long there. their interference's ongoing. in this, the impact is immediate. by refusing to offer any sort of reassurances on the stockpile, you see people on the front lines if they don't have equipment, worried they'll soon run out and doing dangerous things like reusing it.

susan glasser writes i think a great -- a great sentence that sort of sums this up. the two most memorable lines of the covid-19 pandemic is claiming absolute authority and while not responsibility. where does that leave us? >> it leaves us a crisis that won't be over any time soon, as long as we don't have testing we don't have a way out of a crisis other than a vaccine. you know, there's always been a desire by some on the right who can't defend the things that trump says to try to divorce trump's words from his actions and try to say, you know, yes, the president says crazy things on twitter but look at the things that he's actually doing. the problem is, there's never been real way to divorce his words from actions.

the reason he's attacking governors because he wants someone to blame other than himself and because he wants someone other to blame than himself. it has an effect on the way he act and the way the government act. blaming it on china is not going to work. he has to blame it on governors now. it's going to be their fault if they don't have testing and the economy suffers. he doesn't mobilize the full weight of the federal government because then it's clear it's his responsibility. you see that kind of thing we have known about him from the beginning, the willingness to put himself above anything and this just sheer lack of interest in the kind of business of running the government, just never been interested in that. he's interested in people talking about him, picking fights. having an effect not only his ability to fight this crisis but the ability of anyone in the

federal government. >> matt miller and eli, you paint such a depressing portrait of this president and sadly, doctor, you detailed the impact of that. an unbelievable state of affairs. thank you for starting us off. when we come back -- anthony fauci squares off disinformation on fox news. the two-front war that the public health officials are fighting. the grim toll the virus is taking on new york state, we'll speak to congressman sean patrick maloney about how new york bounces back after paying such a heavy price and we do to texas, one of the first big states to reopen. we learn today that dallas county is a flare-up of new cases and new deaths. we'll ask our reporter on the ground about why texas is

thinking about abandoning social distancing now.

dr. fauci on the question of a vaccine, we don't have a vaccine for sars, i mean, we don't have a vaccine for hiv, and life did go on, right, so the idea that we're definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn't really approach much else in the same way as we're pegging going back to normal with a vaccine, did we? >> well, no, laura, this is different. hiv/aids is entirely different. we don't have a vaccine for hiv/aids but we have spectacularly effective treatment. people who invariably would have died years ago are leading right

now lives. sars is a different story, sars disappeared. we in the process of going through the various phases of the vaccine, we showed it was safe, induced a good response and then sars disappeared. and we didn't need to develop a vaccine for sars. i think it's a little bit misleading, maybe to compare what we're going through now with hiv or sars, they're really different. >> but we don't know this could be disappear, sars did pretty much disappear, this could as well? >> no, anything could, laura, but i have to tell the degree of efficiency of transmissability of this is really unprecedented in anything that i have seen, it's an extraordinary efficient disease. et. >> that's misleading, laura.

dr. anthony fauci setting the facts straight last night, beating down misinformation that's often spread on that program by the host herself. for months she's downplayed the virus, cast down on the science behind social distancing and she's attacked advocates of shutdowns, it's a dangerous practice that's taking place all across that network. and let's bring in rev al sharpton, president of the national action network. one level good for laura for having tony fauci on to share facts with her large audience. and the other, he has to say her, look, it's misleading to compare the disappearance of sars and the drug treatments available for aids to this one is just a remarkable commentary on where we are. >> i think tony fauci deserves kudos for going on fox news and

for going on laura ingraham who has a terrible track record when it comes to telling the truth and i'm glad that you played the full answer that dr. fauci gave. because i think it's important for the public to hear and it's just been extroemely disturbing to watch the contrast between a trained medical professional who's dedicated his life to public health and the other so-called experts who have been appearing on fox news. >> you know, rev, let's tell the whole story for any of our viewers that don't take in a lot of conservative media or conservative social media, dr. fauci is under attack right now in some corners of the right-wing media. the entire sort of social distancing movement is under attack on fox news for many, many hours of the day and night. as being an overreaction. it seems there's nowhere more important to appear than right there.

>> let's not forget that dr. fauci just earlier this week he did an interview sunday morning, he did my show politics nation sunday night and they were talking about fire fauci and the president of the united states re-tweeted that tweet. and despite that he went on fox news and to his credit he did not allow them to use him as a prop to try to rally the troops into let's go against those governors that maintain this shelter in place policy. we're talking about people dying. i just -- for the life of me can't understand how you can sit in new york city, where all of these studios are, fox, msnbc and others, where 2,000 people are dying a day. you act like this is going to disappear. how can you say this how many

people are dying, are we acting like these people don't matter? are we acting like we're not in the middle of a situation where we have 17 seniors found in a nursing home in new jersey and you're right across the hudson river talking about, oh, this is will just disappear, won't it? it's absolutely -- it's mind-boggling to me. >> it's more than mind-boggling. i think it's a natural evolution with a leader of no a pa thy only governeds for his people. the feature of the maga rallies is up versus them. i want to ask you, rev, something that pharrell williams said in the last block, really angry to point that he didn't want to get into it but not just the impact on people of color but on the inequality that's revealed in our healthcare system and our access to care and the ability to social

distance. do you think we're having a robust enough conversation about those issues in this country? >> i do not. one of the things that i wanted to have fauci on about, which he was very clear about is that the coronavirus did not start this inequality it exposed it. this has been a problem for many decades, where the health care of blacks and people of color has been fall less than in other communities and the fact that you're living under conditions that are different. how do you tell people who live in housing projects, social distancing, when they have to ride elevators that are smaller than six feet, sometimes are broken, how do tell people and healthcare workers and others who are doing front-line work,

who have to go to work every day on mass transit, social distancing is a luxury for certain kind of class or a certain level of living in this country and it's almost offensive to whip your poverty our lower class, or lower income bracket in your face to say, now, stay six feet away to like it's up to you to do the kind of work you're doing. i don't think we're having that kind of conversation. i don't think we're having an honest conversation and when we deal with the fact even with testing when you don't have the same kind of hospitals and healthcare facilities in communities of color or black communities, then how are we addressing the fact that even fauci saying is a disproportionate impact and you're not remedying that and here comes the president saying,

let's get ready to go back to work. let's get ready to come out of shelter where no one who has been largely untested how many are in fact infected and can infect others. it's an absolute did grace. >> i couldn't agree more with the rev. i worry for all of the eagerness to reopen the economy and i definitely understand why people are ready to get back to work, we need to have our jobs and put food on the table, at the same time, what's going to happen in poor communities outside of metropolitan areas, when you look at new york city, one of the best healthcare systems in the entire world that's so strained, what happens when this does impact with areas with more poverty. >> thank you both so much.

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new york state is still very much the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the united states. governor cuomo today announcing that another 630 people have died of the disease, an overwhelming grim figure. signs of progress we have been tracking have been holding up. one of the most reliable indicator is the three-day average of hospitalized patients that has dropped for the third consecutive day and by its biggest margin to date. in 3 1/2 hours we'll reach a new stage in the fight against the

crisis. people in new york will be required to face masks. joining us now is sean patrick maloney, how are you doing? >> we're hanging in there. great, if we were getting a fair shake from washington. >> talk about that, what do you need? >> there's a story in bloomberg today that 73% of the eligible payrolls are being covered in nebraska, that number in new york is 20% and now we're told the small business loan program is out of money. new york being the epicenter of the epidemic, there needs to be much more better e questionty in the way these federal programs are being administered. god bless governor cuomo for orchestrating this. but new york needs to get the help we deserve right now. >> is it weird to you that the

president is so out in his disdain for new york, live-tweeting governor cuomo's press conferences, almost chest-thumping about the red states being able to open because they don't have as many cases although they did something differently or better other than being densely populate zbld it's probably, you know, what we should expect from the president. what matters right now to new york and as long as we can get the equipment we need, protect our first responders, as long as we keep the hospital capacity where it needs to be zwe can get the testing where it needs to be to get the economy going again then we'll be able to join in with the president with this desire to reopen, rooted in a program that will work, evidence based. that's the point. the president wants to kiss the soldier in times square but you got to win the war first and

winning the war means putting down this virus and we can do it but we need the testing and we need that done through the defense production act and the centralized elements of presidential control. the authorities the congress has given him, the resources we have allocated for this he needs to use it and in new york there's no substitute for that. even with the great state leadership we have here. >> it's so interesting, as you're talking. i worked in the white house during 9/11. after 9/11, there was threats to the new york and the city and new york city state got resources. wonder if that model seems to be abandoned for this crisis, we a health pandemic represents in many ways an even graver threat to all americans, a germ can travel more seamlessly than any sort of terror threat it would appear. >> lot of reasons to be proud to be a new yorker, one of them is

we send millions dollars to wash tan than we get back here. we underwrite the safety nets for the red states. when there are hurricanes, the new york delegation steps up immediately and votes for disaster assistance to those republican, red areas of the count country. when i got elected to congress in 2013, we waited 75 days for the republican-controlled house to do on the sandy disaster relief. this is an old story. where they think they can -- they think they can treat us like dirt and treat -- new yorkers are tough, we should remember what's going down and this is on the list of reasons why we need change at the top in this country. >> let me ask you this, you have been tweeting about testing, if

donald trump's goal is to flip a switch as he said, get the economy back up, there's no way around that, you only one way through it, what do you make of his complete abdication of any responsibility for testing in. >> yeah, there's no way out than through and the tougher we make it right now the shorter the duration of this economic crisis will be. and the entire relief package the entire stimulus plan is a bridge, it's designed to cover everything for the period of time we need to, but how long that takes is critical to whether it will work and shortening the period of the economic crisis by defeating the public health emergency is the key to all of this stuff working. to keep these small businesses running, small businesses afloat, it's intricately linked. you got to do the hard thing now, put down this epidemic and

then we can re-jump this economy and i'm similar at thattic to the president's desire that we want to get back to work. i do, too. let's win the war first. >> do you worry on the political side of this part of the debate that the president is seizing this ground of being for -- which you just said, that we're restless, every single person wants to get back to work but we don't want to become the country that jeopardizes the live of every person over 60 or every person with a pre-existing condition? do you worry the political messaging, the main lining of disinformation on conservative media has seized the mantle, bill barr said the other side wants to hide under their beds. >> i think that's what the president's doing. he's trying to be the guy tell you what you want to hear and we're sort of the nanny state

saying, not yet, keep the recession going like we support that. that's not working when you look at the numbers among republicans who say the president is mishandling the crisis. people are seeing it with their own eyes. i do think the president's nonsense on this is being -- it's falling on a tougher audience than normal but that's exactly what he's trying to do. trying to set up this dynamic that he's charging ahead while we're dragging our feet. it's that nonsense, that substituting arrogance for competence that got us here in the first place and the death toll in new york, and this is going to sound tough, the death toll in new york is a function of the president's delay and happy talk and arrogance early on in this crisis. and we don't want to prolong the crisis and defeat the economic recovery efforts because we have prolonged it too long to lift at

the federal level by opening too soon. putting down the pandemic allows us to restart the economy sooner, that's the point. >> let me ask you, because you raised the intel picture and you're on the intel committee, we've had conversations about your work on that committee the pandemic was something known to the intelligence community, based on e-mails a printed and published in "the new york times" by the scientists at more than a handful of the president's own cabinet agencies, what does the after-action and i know this having worked in the white house on 9/11 and with wmd, there will be an after. the truth will emerge. what do you think that picture as someone who sees the raw intel, what does that picture start to look like for you? >> i serve on the intel committee. i can't get into the classified information that was presented to us. if you're reading "the new york times" you would have known what you needed to know about the

preparations that had to get done in this country and the aggressiveness with which he needed to treat the first cases to do -- to do testing, contact tracing, to do containment, the way obama administration did during the ebola crisis, had the administration done the response right we wouldn't be saying, gee, why did you ignore the warnings? the fact is, we had several months lead time on this and i don't think anybody reading the intelligence would have said, would have built in the assumption that we would have been imco incompetent in it. and it's the reality of exponential viral spread that when you do that, you buy yourself a huge problem when it could have been a manageable one. so i actually agree there has to be a bipartisan action commission on this and wherever the blame should lie it should

lie. i'm not afraid of the truth. the real story here is the wasted weeks when we could have contained this thing. the death toll in new york and other places is a direct result of that. >> you're right. sean patrick maloney, great to talk with you. >> thank you very much. after the break -- the governor of texas announces that the worst is behind the state and unveils a plan to start to reopen that state, live report on how that squares with science, next.

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donald trump is handing states the reins when it comes to reopening. one state grabbed them. texas becoming the first state to lift some coronavirus restrictions. its governor greg abbott announced today that the state will begin the process next week, opening parks and retail services. texas currently has 17,000 cas s s and less than 500 deaths. let's bring in nbc news correspondent garrett haake with the news and views from dallas, texas. what's going on? >> reporter: well, nicolle, the governor's order mirrors the president's, in it's a three-phase plan. the first starts pretty much today, he'll announce new openings on april 27th and more come may. he enlisted a strike force that

sounds way cooler than a regular task force. some restrictive, they're tightening restrictions on nursing homes, they're saying no more schools definitely not coming back this school year. they're dipping their toes in water with the reopening with this retail to go program that will start next friday. the governor said he hopes to be able to lift more restrictions on more businesses like restaurants by april 27th. but the big question in all of this is, says this is all dependent on hospital capacity and testing. texas has done a very good job managing hospital capacity thus far. but the testing numbers are are abysmal. texas has been second to last in per capita testing. the testing that is happening here, it's being driven by private labs. i checked the numbers. 169,000 tests done in texas since this started, 161,000 have been done by private labs. the government has got to step up and get the testing going if

texas has any real picture of what we're reopening into if the state does indeed continue to reopen over the next couple of weeks. >> garrett, is the headline that texas is we're done, corona is over here? >> no, i don't think that's entirely fair. the numbers have been flattened in some of the bigger cities, like in houston. although here in dallas today, the county judge announced the largest single day of cases i think we've seen so far. about 124. they're trying to find this fwoe goldilocks zone in the midst of trying to fight this. i've said this including on this program. texas was at the front end of the economic pain in part because the economy is dependent on oil and oil took a huge hit globally early on in this crisis. now they're trying to figure out a manageable way to do this. we'll find out in a couple weeks

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to the family of frontline responders. visit hope.tidecleaners.com to learn more. sad moment today. the navy identified the sailor assigned to the "uss theodore roosevelt" who died of coronavirus on monday. charles robert thacker jr. he was 41 years old, a father from arkansas. his death is an unconditional tragedy. but at least there's this. his wife, who is also active duty and stationed in san diego was flown to guam to be with her husband at the time of his passing. i'm sure they and we are all thankful for that. so many victims of this crisis have been denied that small blessing. then there's margit feldman killed by coronavirus. almost 75 years to the day since

she was liberated to the nazi concentration camp. she's an incredible story. she had to lie about her age just to survive at auschwitz. telling them she was 18 and not 15. she made it her mission to tell young people about the holocaust. there's so much more to her story. in her honor, we're encouraging everybody asking you, if you have a minute, read about her, read her message and never forget. that does it for our hour. thank you for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. entertainment giants coming together for one world tomorrow. a special to support the world health organization an the global fight to end covid-19. the event will be hosted by jimmy fallon, stephen colbert, jimmy kimmel. it's on all the networks of nbc. our coverage continues with my colleague chuck todd after a quick break.

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