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velshi, picking up coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. the numbers of new cases and deaths continue to rise nationwide. there are now more than 724,000 confirmed cases around the world in the united states, more than 38,000 have died here. and at his coronavirus press briefing earlier, the president spent most of his time at the podium airing grievances we've gotten used to hearing about the media, certain governors and the previous administration, but he didn't offer a lot of new information about his administration's response. the president did, however, defend his tweets about liberating certain states, even as response coordinator dr. deborah birx continued to stress the importance of social distancing. >> what this graph illustrates is the amazing work of the american people to really adhere to social distancing. this was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation and

the world hadn't attempted to do but they were able to decrease the number of cases so that in general most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals in a region. >> i'm getting along very nicely with the governor of michigan, but she has things, don't buy paint, don't buy roses she's got all these crazy things. i really believe somebody sitting in the boat in the lake should be okay. they shouldn't arrest people. some of them are being unreasonable, i really believe that. >> joining me now, dr. olympia roy, an internal physician and dr. gupta, both of nbc news medical contributors. thanks to both of you. i'm a little concerned. the president's got deborah birx standing there describing

successes of social distancing and work-from-home orders and the country but he continues to send tweets out liberating michigan and virginia. i don't understand how the two are supposed to square. >> they're clearly mixed messages and the public in certain states that really follow the president and what he says are listening to that. look, from a medical standpoint this is deeply concerning. because we've said before this is a virus, it's a path general th -- pathogen that does not discriminate. it doesn't follow political advice, it doesn't respect borders, it's going to attack anybody with any particular background. we've already seen this, old, black, white, chinese, indian, it just doesn't matter. my concern is that in these particular states where they are listening to him and where they are valuing individual liberties over the public good, we're going to see some truly adverse,

harm. consequences these same people are potentially going to get sick, they're going to be presenting to the hospitals and where my medical colleagues and these states are going to feel the burden of taking care of them. and, yeah, people that work in hospitals, doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, they're not going to say you're a republican or liberal, i will not take care of you. they take care of everybody. this will be a direct burden on the hospitals in these particular states. >> vin, obviously we want to get back to work. you medical professionals haven't not been at work but the country would like to get back to work. there are some very serious concerns about having the right data in order to make the right decisions, right, whether that's the rye number of tests for people who might have coronavirus and the idea there are tests for people who had coronavirus or might have had it and might have developed antibodies. but you're saying that even that's not a sure thing.

so if i took an antibody test and was determined to have had coronavirus, it's not for sure that i've developed an immunity. >> that's right, ali. here's the concern here. last night the w.h.o. issued a statement where they essentially said antibody testing, we can't rely on it to determine if somebody actually has immunity to covid-19. that's a big thing. the only reason we really care to see if somebody has an antibody to a disease is to see if they are or are not at risk for reinfection. so if we cannot trust that an antibody test for covid-19 means that or doesn't mean that, what's the point of doing it? that's what the w.h.o. is issuing guidance on.

maybe doing the swab test into the nose or into the mouth, but that is, as we've talked about several times, there's a lot of bottle necks to doing it, it's resource intensive. ant bo a ant body testing as a very limited utility. >> thank you to both of you. joining me now to talk more about tonight's coronavirus task force briefing, as well as the comments the president made this week about what exactly he thinks his constitutional powers jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the national constitution center and professor at the george washington law school and charlie savage, washington correspondent for are the "new york times" and an msnbc contributor. he's the author of the books "power wars, the relentless rise of presidential authority and

secrecy." both of you gentlemen have been dealing with this in administrations all along. there's a constant battle between administrations and congress and the courts about what everybody's relative authority is. charlie, you wrote an article earlier this week in which you said or it was titled "why trump's threat to adjourn congress is dubious." that was one of the things that donald trump said out there, that he may use the power vested in him by the constitution to adjourn congress because he wants to get certain things done. what do you make of that? >> what trump is talking about is he wants to use a provision of the constitution that president has ever used, which allows under very limited circumstances the president to adjourn -- forcibly adjourn congress, if the house and senate can't agree on when they want to go home. and he wants to do this because he wants to make recess appointments, which allows him to install judges until the end of the next congress without going through the senate

confirmation process he can only do that when the senate is out on a lengthy break. they haven't done that since 2007. it's an empty threat. it's an empty threat because the senate and house are not in disagreement about when they are wanting to go home. mitch mcconnell when he left on the lengthy break himself proposed let's go out on a series of three-day breaks and under senate rules the minority party can block any attempt to go on a longer break so it was never going to get to a house/senate split. it's an extraordinary claim, a monarchical i'm going to dissolve parliament if they don't do what i want. and the unlikelihood that mitch mcconnell is going to want to gut his own power to block nominees when a democrat could be president in just a few months. it's also sort of a nonsense claim. it's the second time this week president trump has made an extraordinary self-agrandizing

claim that made everyone's heads explode but it was empty as a matter of law and political reality. >> the other one there was a lot of back and forth about the president and presidential schoollars, andrew cuomo referred to the 10th amendment. it says the power is not delegated by the united states by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states or reserved to the states respectively or to the people. give me your evaluation on both of those things, the president saying he has absolute authority and his call to adjourn congress. >> neither is grounded in constitutional law and history. it was remarkable that both andrew cuomo and rand paul invoked the 10th amendment and states rights to make clear that the president as andrew kwcuomo

said is not a king. in federalist 69, there were four reasons why the president has less power than the british king and the governor of new york. one was the provision that charlie cited that he can only adjourn congress when both houses disagree, which they don't in this case, unlike the british king or queen, who as we saw recently with brexit has the authority to dissolve parliament whenever he or she wishes. and more generally, hamilton was channelling the consensus among all the framers that the branches had to be mixed, the president checked by congress and the judiciary and by the state. so it's heartening in some ways to see people from mitch mcconnell and rand paul and andrew cuomo and folks on the other side rejecting the absolute authority. and the twice is the president's

call of armed rebels to rise up against the states' government who want to have the coronavirus quarantine. this probably doesn't rise to the level of incitement under the constitution because the threat has to be intended to and likely to invoke imminent lawless action but it certainly doesn't have any precedent. >> that is a weird one. liberate wisconsin, liberate virginia, liberate michigan. and he didn't walk that back in

any meaningful way today. he sort of stood by it. >> when he was pushed on it, he kept on focusing on virginia, where he also had that parenthetical trying to get gun rights enthusiasts upset about the new laws that the now under control of the democratic party state or commonwealth have passed. these are things like you can only buy one handgun a month and heightened penalties if you leave a gun around a little kid and universal background checks, which he says adds up to democrats wanting to abolish the second amendment. it's a diversion into the culture war over gun rights. that doesn't have anything to do with what's going on in michigan and minnesota and the upper midwest. but he had seen a protest i believe on fox news about liberate minnesota before he started firing off those all-cap tweets. this is a president throwing some bombs out there. >> no kidding.

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trump said tonight the u.s. is investigating china's response to the coronavirus. this is, as u.s. officials tell nbc news, the intel community is examining whether the virus emerged accidentally from a research lab in wuhan, meaning somebody got it who worked in

that lab and that was patient zero. now the wuhan institute of virology is breaking its silence saying there's no way the virus came from us. joining me is ian bremer, president of euroasia group. mira, let's just get to the bottom of this. there's two pieces of this that can be true. one is there was this lab that was researching bats whereas we believe this infection came from and somebody accidentally infected themselves and that became patient zero and it was too late before china had a handle about of what went on and there's this other thing brewing in right-wing circles about china an infection that was going to be detrimental to the west and america. i know that you and ian are deliberate people who study these things. can you make some sense of this for our viewers?

>> you've been right to break this down in two stages. the first is the question of the fact that there is indeed a lab in wuhan near the site of the market which is most likely the site of the origin of the virus and the possibility that is now being debated that perhaps the virus emerged organically or by accident from that lab. this has to be closely connected to a conspiracy theory that has been kicking around for some time, that is the idea that the virus was a state-made bioweapon that came from that lab. that is a theory that has been supported pi suppoby supporters president, right-wing circle, senator tom cotton, for example. there is simply no reason to believe that is the case. there is no empirical evidence to voiri ifyverify that. while in is a new iteration on that, i have not seen scientific

to say that is true and the wet market still seems like the most likely source of origin. >> mira said something interesting, there's no verifiable evidence. one of the issues with china, when we've got good releaation relationships with china, you often have to voiri iverify wha say. so, number one, do we believe what china says? and, number two, what does this portend for our relationship with china? president trump is a combination of somebody who is overly complementary about chinese leadership and at the same time started a trade war with them. >> we're really not comfortable with their data certainly. i thought it was appropriate when dr. birx put out her data today, there was an asterisk next to the chinese numbers.

i'd also want one next to the iranian and russian numbers, too. there are a whole bunch of other countries, north korea. they finally admitted they have cases. obviously there's no voracity there. that's very different from saying the united states and china are about to be directly at hostilities with each other. trump's administration has been quite hawkish and consistently so towards china, particularly on issues of technology on trade on national security, but trump himself has been much more cautious around that. he was calling it remember the china virus and he had a phone call with cxi jinping, and he's been careful to say xi jinping is my friend, he's a very strong leader, i have a lot of respect for him. he's still saying that, even though he's now suspending funding for the world health organization and saying that's because they're act being as patsies for the chinese, the

responsibility would ultimately be on china. he's not hitting the chinese directly at all. so unless he's willing to do that and doing that has potential economic implications for and for the american markets and the american economy in the run-up to these elections, then i wouldn't be all that worried. let's see where it goes. >> mira, you know, we have this global pandemic, which requires, in my observation, greater global coordination than we've actually seen. and now we have this global recession, which might be more serious than that, that certainly in the case of 2008 and 2009 used global coordination to get out it have. we need for better or worse greater cooperation with china right now to deal with both of these matters. the pres wou epresident would l we're past peak with china,

which evidence says that's no true. >> no question, ali. despite the fact the united states and chinese are at the peak of what has been a very tense several years of poor bilat rahal relations, pretty much every expert believes they need to get past the worst of this to get to economic recovery. with the chinese economy only having grown as soon as then, it going to be all the more essential to have the united states and china marching from the same set of orders when it comes to the global economic recovery. so it's critically important that the two sides put aside these mutual recriminations, at least for the sake of making progress on things like a global vaccine, as well as preparing for what is going to be an ongoing set of economic shock waves in a will be with us for many months to come. >> ian, i don't know what you're doing at p.8 p.m. tonight, thers

going to be this one world together concert, can you see it in the bottom right corner of our screen, which is raising money in support of the world health organization. i assume donald trump is not watching that because he's not really in support of the world health organization right now, but can you give me your sense of what this world health organization spat is about? >> sure. i mean, look, even though the chinese are way down the league tables in terms of funding of the world health organization, the united states is actually on top, it's true that they haven't been coordinating with taiwan, which has been one of the most effective and the reason they're not allowed to be a member. why? because china is and that's a third rail for chinese. also, the chinese have not been particularly transparent with the world health organization in the early weeks of this outbreak, rear fusing full access to w.h.o., saying there

was no hume ohuman-to-human transmission. they were representing it to the government as if they complete live bought it. in a pandemic, you knee the w.h.o. their leadership might be politicized but it's better than the alternative, which is no such organization. and even bill gates, who hates politics and does not want to be in a fight with any organization came out publicly and said this is big mistake, you don't want to suspend funding for these guys right now. and ditto, the u.s. chamber of commerce came out with a state on friday saying we don't want a fight with these guys right now. this is trump wanting to plausibly blame others than his own administration for the fact that the americans have been late and have been less than completely effective. here's the problem, ali, and you

know this, even though the chinese covered this up for the first weeks and millions of chinese traveled from wuhan as a consequence, that's the original sin of this pandemic, we also know that every other country in the world then got this information at the same time. every country in the world heard the w.h.o. saying it was a pandemic. every country said we've got hume own-to-human transmission and yet the south koreans, germans and so many countries have been more effect of than the world's super power. as an american set scitizen, i that unacceptable. some of that responsibility surely has to be on the administration. >> ian bremmer and mira, thanks. coming up next, president trump claims the country should be r

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president trump might be in a hurry to reopen the economy, but that doesn't mean consumers are. more than 22 million americans filed for unemployment insurance over the last four weeks, wiping out a decade of job gains after the great recession. my next guest summed up the state of the economy in an op-ed this week for "the washington post" writing "in our market economy the consumer is king but right now as shakespeare observed uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." joining me now is richard coredray, the first director of the consumer protection bureau and author of "watch dog." your organization, richard, that you were the director of, the consumer financial protection bureau was born out of the things that went wrong in the last recession so you understand this very well. something you wrote in the

"washington post" this week that i thought was one of the best descriptions of economic activity in america that i've ever heard. you write, "economic activity is the sum of billions of discrete decisions influenced by available financing, uncertainty and differing expectations. such activity is not able to snap back into place suddenly as much as we might hope it would." so in a state governor lifts a stay-at-home order or the president tells you april 12th or may 1st or may 15th is the day to get back to business, how i behave out there is up to me and what i think and what my family feels and how safe we feel. it's not something somebody can tell us. >> i think that's true. and, by the way, consumers in america are the base of the pyramid. individuals and family generate about two-thirds of the economic activity that makes up gdp. unless our households can maintain that spending, which

cannot see a strong recovery. over the last 11 years of the economic recovery that just ended, it was consumer spending, particularly in the last several years that was the back bone of the economy. and right now we're facing a crisis for the individual, for the household who don't have income coming in and it's going to make for a prolonged, more sluggish recovery. >> before the recession actually, consumer confidence was doing pretty well, but the idea that we recover depends not just on consumer confidence. the idea that the future will be better. but there's a very practical aspect as to whether or not you're going to spend when we live the stay-at-home stuff and that's how much much you have. whether it's insurance or the bailout packages or get more money to small businesses, we ran out of money in 14 days on thursday, there are two parts to this. i might feel good about the fact that coronavirus is gone and i would like to get back to

business as usual but i might not have the same financial resources available to me. >> that's exactly right, ali. there's three reasons i laid out for why it is that the consumer will not be able to sustain this recovery to the extent we might hope they would. number one, unemployment has spiked dramatically. as you noted, the claims are showing unemployment headed to 15% or even higher. and even by the end of next year, it's difficult to get that number back down again once the economy is broken. and the congressional budget office is estimating it will still be at 9% at the end of next year, which is almost triple what it was in february. so that's going to constrain consumer spending. second, for all the people who have been off work or have had their hours sharply reduced, it's not going to be easy for them to get back to spending at the same levels. they have an overhang of debt, mortgage and rent payments they were behind on, auto loans they were behind on, credit card bills and they're going to have to pay that off before they can start spending robustly again.

then thirdly, when people see the financial situation as fragile as they're doing right now, it makes them more cautious about spending. this happened in the great depression, it happened after the last great recession and during that great recession and it will happen now again, let alone the effects of the health crisis, which are going to create distancing and people's unwillingness to circulate, all of that makes for a painful, slow recovery and prospect, i believe. >> richard, we'll continue to talk about this in the hopes that we can get back to whatever we thought normal was. richard is the former director of the consumer financial protection bureau, the author of "watch dog, how protector consumers can save our economy and our democracy." i'll be joined live by mayor de blasio who said president trump should provide financial relief to the epicenter of the crisis if he want the nation to recover.

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the coronavirus pandemic is shining a spotlight on every day heros that keep america running. yolanda fisher, the cafeteria manager at it. >> -- t.w. brown middle school, he and her colleagues made and distributed over 1 million means since school closed on march 23rd. she told the magazine, i'm still going to work because we're feeding the kids. it's any kid that stayed in dallas and needed a meal. we're feeding our community and i love that. yolanda, thanks for being with us. one of the untold stories in america are the number of children who get their meals from school and for whom schools represents a good deal of stability in sometimes unsettled lives. so the shutting down of school is confusing for everybody, their kids, the families.

the number is so big, i can't actually read it the number of school meals missed due to school closures. what you're doing is not just a service but these are kids who otherwise wouldn't have -- maybe wouldn't have been able to get that meal. >> exactly. and it's families that wouldn't be able to get it. because when it started out, people had food and they were fine but we noticed the number started going up because the food started running out in the stores. so i feel like that why our numbers started running up with adults and kids. >> how did you organize this? >> i'm just a worker who is on the front line just trying to do what we have to do to get the community fed. >> what do you feel when you go out there every day? we see images of you there, you are wearing masks. are you worried about getting

sick? >> yes, you worry about that but in the scheme of things, it's what god created me to do, to serve. you know, if i distance from it, that's a bad thing but at the same time it's some kid that really need their food so i don't mind going out there to give the food out. i just make sure i'm covered or whatever is required. >> tell me about the people who are coming there for the food. how are they doing? does this provide some sense of normalcy in a world in which all of their normalcy has disappeared? >> yeah, and the kids love it because, you know, they're sick of the house so it gives them a chance to get out and see people. and the windows are up and we're waving at them through the window. but you can tell that the family, you know, they are really happy that we're out there giving those meals. we give them like seven days

worth of food. so every thursday we're giving them seven days so that's really an awesome thing for them. >> some of those families might have needed that food before this started, but one thing we're seeing in particular, particularly in texas, there are families who had never been to a place to get their food. they get their food from a grocery store and they've had to line up at food banks or places serving food and that is really a difficult thing for people who have never done that before. are you meeting solve thome of people? >> yes, i have met kids that when they came to school, they wouldn't eat the lunch and now they're in the line to get the lunch. so i know it's a real great need because normally they wouldn't eat it. and now they're in the line to get it. and i just tell them, hey, don't worry, this will be over soon, don't worry about the food because we'll be out here next thursday so you don't have to worry about anything. >> that's amazingthat.

that's all a kid wants to hear is an adult telling them it will be okay because it's going to be okay. thanks to are what you do, for what your colleagues do and keeping the kid fed. you're a real hero. she's a cafeteria manager at t.w. brown school. coming up, mayor bill de blasio joins me live. you're watching msnbc. of new non-drowsy claritin cool mint chewables. the only allergy product with relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait,♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat

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aid directly to new york state, so we can keep people healthy, keep them safe. if you lead the senate will follow. if you are silent, they will not. it on you, mr. president the. >> new york city mayor bill de blasio pleading for help from the federal government. as the death toll in new york continues to rise, the budget estimates, 475,000 jobs could be lost over the next year saas a result of the pandemic. na mayor de blasio, thank you for joining us. you're talking about fundin funding 3.5, new york city got $1.4 billion in 3.0. you're looking for a total of $7 billion or additional $7 billion? >> additional. i just announced my budget. we guarantee, unfortunately, we're going to lose over $7

billion in revenue that had been something we were banking on to pay for all the services this city provides, and obviously to help us restart our economy. that's gone now. it is absolutely gone. and it could get even worse. i'm simplyeven worse. so i'm simply asking for the federal government to replace the revenue we lost in this pandemic and this economic crisis and do the same for other cities or else we will have no choice but to cut back the most basic services, and that's going to stop us from ever seeing an economic recovery. we're the economic engineoffs the country, and we can't take care of our people -- they gave $58 billion to the airline industry and i'm here in the epicenter of this epidemic and i've pleaded with the president directly, spoken with him and said, mr. president, i am losing revenue every day, i can't replace it. only you can do that, speak up

and the senate will follow, and he's been absolutely silent. his first huge mistake was not acknowledging this crisis, not getting testing for months and months. this is his last chance, ali. and he's going to have any chance of a recovery here, of getting a restart to this economy, any chance of being seen by history as someone who responded to this crisis he has to act now and save the cities of america and save the american economy, and he's been absolutely silent. he has not said a word -- >> mayor, do you think it has something to do with new york or you, or is it the same example across the country he's using, because he's not really been very forthcoming in terms of money. there's a certain amount of money that's going to state governments. state governments and your local revenue fund city governments, is this a new york thing specifically, or do you think it's a national issue? >> it's absolutely national. just in the last couple of days, ali, i spoke to the mayor of

miami florida, he's a republican. he has lost a huge amount of money in his budget. he doesn't have a way to replace it. i talked to a democrat, and he has no way to provide those basic services. mayors from ohio put out a basic statement and said we're going to have to layoff police and fire. they're already furloughing most of their public employees because they have no other option. this is absolutely happening all over the country. and it's not just red states, blue states, it's everyone. what's going to go with it is if cities can't function, how on earth do you have a national recovery? the number of people in public service unemployed alone will be vast let alone the fact if there's no basic services how is an economy going to function? no, ali, i think it's something much bigger, but it may be a republican philosophy standing in the way, but this president, you know how the senate works. if he said jump, mitch mcconnell and the republican senate would jump. he could give them all the cover

in the world help make sure this country gets back on our feet, and he is -- i can't believe what i'm seeing. he literally is acting as if nothing's going on. and it's happening right now in washington. the negotiations are going on. i appealed to him personally. i said, mr. president, just say the word. and ali, i don't understand what i'm seeing before my eyes. he is acting like he has no responsibility and he can't move the congress. when he needed to give away a billion -- excuse me, a trillion and a half-dollars he wanted to give away a trillion and a half to the wealthy and corporations. he made the senate do it. he could do that now for american cities. >> paint a picture for me of new york city with $1.4 billion and a shortfall of $7 billion. what actually happens? let's say we're three months down the road or four months down road, we've lifted the work

from home and in theory businesses somewhat back to normal. obviously we would have a lot of a lot of businesses and there will be a lot of people unemployed, what happens to a city without a lot of business like new york city? >> so you can't provide basic services. what does that mean? it means all the things people depend on in their lives, police, fire, sanitation, education, go down the list of something that makes any city, any town function if you're missing $7 billion i assure you have to start to cut that stuff back in ways that can be very dangerous. meanwhile, ali, there are more and more people in the city hungry who literally have no money for food and more and more people who have no health care. we have to put a huge amount into our health care sps. we have the biggest hospital system of any city in the country. it's costing us a huge amount to deal with this pandemic. if we don't have the money, what are we going to do? how are we going to save lives?

so the notion of an economic recovery, a restart when in fact you're going to start to see cities fail, you're going to start to see cities on the road to bankruptcy. i mean think about that reality, ali, of a country literally starting to crumble because the federal government wouldn't act. earlier in this crisis i compared president trump to herbert hoover. he was he was ignoring it, had no plan to address the coronavirus and he is reverting to that reality again. american cities are hanging in the balance and he literally has nothing to say about it. it's unbelievable. so in a few months -- >> let me ask you this. so the frustration on the part of regular people who are probably watching this is that they are craving, leadership. something is going on bigger than any of us can handle so we look to our leaders to handle this. the president is developing acrimonious relationships with a number of governors across this

country including gretchen whitmer of michigan and governor cuomo of new york. you've had a famously acrimonious relationship with governor cuomo in new york. are you able to get beyond that so you and governor cuomo are on the same side of this as it relates to the president? >> absolutely. in this crisis people should put aside so many of these differences. and governor cuomo and i have agreed on almost everything in this crisis, and we've been working together and our teams have been working together. but the fact, you know, the president of the united states actually calls out governors names or mayors names and attacks us and talks about whether he likes people or not, what leader in the middle of the worst health care crisis in a century wants to talk about who was nice to him or not? this is ridiculous, ali, and i think it's as simple as this. he's got one more chance. if he wants to have any reputation, any sense in the eyes of history he did anything in this crisis, he's got to act right now before we lose this

chance to restart the economy. pif he fafails to protect americans and american cities and american states and the economy therefore can't restart the final judgment in history let alone the voters will be he blew it in the beginning and he blew it when he had a chance to fix it, and all he cared about was who was nice to him and who wasn't. it's pitiful, so this is his one chance to get it right. >> let me ask you about a tweet you sent out because new york is one of those places where social distancing is more complicated than it is in let's say dallas or a place like that because we're on the subway, we're on the streets all the time. the population of the city in normal times increases by 50% during the day versus the people who sleep-in this city. you had tweeted out if people aren't enforcing social distancing they should snap a photo and text it to 311. is that actually happening? are people doing that, and what

happens as a result of that? >> ali, they are doing it. i've got to tell you new yorkers have been absolutely amazing, truly amazing at oelgs distancing and shelter in place. and this is maybe the hardest place in the country to achieve those things, but there's been a lot of discipline except for a few people. and what i'm saying to my fellow new yorkers is blunty to save lives and protect people you have to report any distance of crowding or people not observing social distancing. so folks are sending out those photos and we send out the nypd. nypd is monitoring those photos and they can get officers out to the site. all people have to do is send in a photo and location and we can get officers out there in 20 or 30 minutes in most cases and break up what is going on. and if people are not willing to follow instructions by our police officers they will be fined. and those fines go up to $1,000 now because this is about saving lives and we mean business. >> mayor, i've got under a minute left and i've been talking to some emts who have been critical about your ability

to get them the things they need in order to operate safely. we've seen record numbers of 911 calls that we haven't seen actually since 9/11. are the emt and the fdny and the police getting the protective gear they need? >> absolutely, ali. they are the priority along with our health care workers. wherever we can get it around the world in fact we're making a lot of ppes in the city because we had no other choice. of course they're the priority, and we've got hundreds of ambulances and ambulance crews around the country to come in and give them some relief. we are protecting them. there's no question. but the federal government is failing to help cities like new york help people get the ppes. we have to find them ourselves. that's the reality. >> mayor bill de blasio, thank you for joining me, sir. of course the mayor of new york city. continued good luck in your efforts. that does it for me tonight. you need to standby, though,

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