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are you concerned about the potential impact on the global economy? >> i think that china will do a very good job. >> trump never got a cdc team on the ground in china. and the travel ban he brags about, trump let in 40,000 travelers from china into america after he signed it. not exactly airtight. look around. 22 million americans are out of work. and we have more officially reported cases and deaths than any other country. donald trump left this country unprepared and unprotected for the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime. and now we're paying the price. >> good morning. and welcome to "am joy." there are now more than 700,000
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confirmed cases of covid-19 in the united states. and almost unbelievable number. and there have been more than 38,000 fatalities. just to put that in context, a little more than 33,000 americans died in combat during the korean war. the fifth deadliest war in our nation's history. just let that sink in for a moment. more americans have died from the coronavirus in the last seven weeks than during a three-year war. but donald trump's mismanagement is laid out clearly in the joe biden ad you just saw remains more concerned about revving up the economy than saving lives. as he continues to pressure governors to lift lockdown orders and risk their own health by going out in close quarter groups to protest them, the new wall street journal nbc news poll out this morning finds that the american people are not on
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his side. about six in ten americans are more concerned about the public health implications of getting back to work than the economic ones. among his republican base, who are usually blindly aleely are usually blindly aleel alegi their dear leader, that doesn't jive with the claim that critique is partisan to ruin his re-election prospects. here's what he said yesterday at his briefing. >> now they're giving you the other, testing, testing. but they don't want to use all of the capacity that we have created. we have tremendous capacity. dr. birx will be explaining that. they know that. the governors know that. the democrat governors know that. they're the ones that are complaining. >> oh, really? just democrats complaining? why don't we check in then with the republican governor of
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maryland, larry hogan. >> there is no question, this has been the number one stumbling block in america, the lack of availability of testing and you can't get to any point where you can reopen the country until not just in my state, but across the country we can do much, much larger scale testing. >> and what about the republican governor of ohio? a state that trump actually won in 2016. here's what he said this week about reagent, a fancy word for the chemical compound needed for testing. >> one of our problems for our hospitals doing testing is the lack of reagents. and this does lie with the fda, certainly would allow our institutions to really ramp up the number. they got capacity. their capacity is out here and they're here in what they're able to do every single day
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because they got a reagent being really rationed. their agent is a problem that we have to go to washington and see, you know, with the fda as far as the approval. >> joining me is the democratic senator from ohio, sherrod brown. and, senator, good morning. what do you make of donald trump's claim that he did the most important thing, right, to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which was his travel ban, banning people from china, from traveling here, which actually isn't true because more than 40,000 people still traveled here. and the fact that for all that he said we are now at a number of people with deaths and reported cases that just is astronomical and tops the entire world. >> yeah, more people are getting sick, more people are dying in this country. you just had on the governor of my state, i said very publicly that governor dewine's early actions will -- aggressive and
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early actions will save lives in ohio, fewer people will be sick and fewer people will die and the president's inaction, coming to this two months late meaning not enough protective equipment for our workers, not just doctors and nurses, but grocery store workers and bus driver and custodians and housekeepers that are changing the linens and more people will be sick and die because of this president's inaction and late action and uneven leadership we just have seen across the board. >> one of the entities that donald trump among many that he's trying to find to blame for this failure is the world health organization. i want to play for you very briefly the director general of the organization, ted row ghebreyesus, here he is talking about what was done and why. take a listen.
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>> with 99% of cases in china, in remains very much an emergency for that country, but one that holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world unless we use the window of opportunity that we have now. >> today i'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the world health organization while a review is conducted to assess the world health organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus. >> senator, mr. ghebreyesus' comments were on february 11th, quite early on in this crisis, in late january we know that the united states senators received a briefing on how serious the threat was, of this virus breaking out of china and, you know, spreading and becoming a pandemic. that was in january.
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this february comment from w.h.o., trump seems to have done almost nothing in the interim. this sounds like something there should be hearings about. some senators, some of your colleagues, were alarmed enough they started dumping stock. so some people figured out this was a threat to the united states as well. >> republican senators will dump stock, many of them they won't call hearings because they want to hold this president accountable. they had a chance with impeachment. they have a chance now. they're not doing it. we were talking last night during the two hour concert show that the world health organization and this is an organization that eradicated -- with the u.s. in a co-leading position, hoped to rid the world of smallpox, essentially eliminated polio in all but a small handful of countries. we know the president takes -- we know from watching him, he
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takes responsibility or said he's not responsible for this, so we knew he would find somebody to blame. to blame the world health organization is -- in the middle of a pandemic is the height of irresponsibility. but, again, no surprise from this president who has just failed repeatedly to work with the states, to get protective equipment, to get testing, to do contact tracing, all the things that every public health official i've talked to says we need to do much before opening the -- much more expensive testing, contact tracing, than quarantining and isolating and doing what countries like taiwan and south korea and germany have done so, so much better, even though we knew about this as early as any of those countries. i would add one other thing, that two years ago, this president eliminated at the white house, eliminated the office of global security, dr. timothy zimmer, admiral, not a doctor, admiral zimmer, he ran
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the anti-malarial international effort for president bush and set up his global security office. imagine if because his job of 40 others that admiral zimmer was to surveil the world every day and look at countries and see if there were potential epidemics in any country in asia or africa or europe or south america and then move in with u.s. public health officials. like the cdc, and work with the w.h.o. and stop those epidemics, potential epidemics before they became worldwide pandemics. and the president has failed, starting pretty much on that day, since 2018. >> yeah. let's talk about the nsc office elimination as well. he doesn't seem to be interested in prevention. let's talk about now in terms of the economics. the way it is playing out for ordinary people is people are devastated economically. trump thinks the answer is to
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send people who are potentially sick back to work, to be cogs on the wheel. you called out and said that lawmakers that -- that banks need to stop charging overdraft fees. this is a cnbc piece here. cory booker and yourself, senator cory booker sent letters to 15 banks on friday urging them to stop charging overdraft and insufficient fund fees to people who are now hurting economically. you also proposed a hero's fund to provide up to $25,000 pay increases to essential workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. can you talk about those two things? >> we need to do two big things. we need to help those people who are unemployed that cory and i are working on that, that request with banks and we hope to do more than just make a request that they don't charge overdraft fees and don't go after people who are most vulnerable. what we have to do for those people that are laid off, we have to speed up the unemployment benefits to them, the secretary of labor is a
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corporate lawyer, corporate lawyer and has shown no interest in workers or unions, he's shown a lot of interest in attacking unions. we have to stop any potential foreclosure. need a moratorium on foreclosure and eviction. that means helping people pay their rent when they're laid off because the pandemic. the other thing we need to do, so we work -- we work to make the lines easier for those people laid off in all facets of their lives. other thing we do is to work with those workers who are in a sense in the line of fire who are potentially exposed for the pandemic. that's grossry sto grocery stors drivers, people that clean hospitals. we have to make sure they can get help, making sure their jobs are safer, the president failed miserably in getting protective equipment to them and to hospitals. and, second, we need to make
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sure that this pandemic -- because they're risking their lives so a lot of people stay home and work. >> yeah, absolutely. before i let you go, i know that elizabeth warren and senator kamala harris have joined together on legislation that would get the demographic data so we can break down more clearly by demographic race and ethnicity how this pandemic is hurting americans. that's important legislation. but i want to ask you, two of the people -- those two senators are both people who are talked about frequently as potential vice president running mates for joe biden. and i got to ask you, you're somebody that in -- almost every election cycle talked about either a presidential candidate or vice presidential running mate, do you have recommendation for senator biden on who he should pick? >> i recommend that he nominate a woman. i think he's going to. and there are a number of my colleagues, house members, governors, there are others who -- there is a rich farm
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system really -- large number of really good, qualified people that will serve well as vice president. >> want to give us a name? give us a name. give us a recommendation. >> you gave me two names. maybe joy reid, all kinds of names of people who are really smart and qualified. but and i think the president, back to your letter that with elizabeth and kamala, both of who would be very good choices for the president, for the soon to be president for vice president biden, i think that i've seen in my state and it is that way everywhere, my state is about 12% african-americans, more than 20% of the illnesses and deaths have been african-american, we know that's all because of health disparities, that we continue to allow in this country, starting in some sense from jim crow, red lining, through so much else that has happened. and discrimination of people of color. and we need to have -- one of the only good things that can come out of this pandemic, i'm
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hopeful, is that we really do address health disparities, much more deeply and broadly than we ever have. >> yeah. hopefully that will happen. senator sherrod brown, thank you so much, stay safe. appreciate your time. on the other side of congress, speaker of the house nancy pelosi gave an update this morning on the status of a deal that would provide support for small business owners. >> yes, we're close. again, we had common ground. c.a.r.e.s. one package was something we worked together and in a bipartisan way. springing from that and making it more effective and stronger so that more people are benefitting from it. and protected by it. i think we're very close to agreement. >> and joining me now is congresswoman from pennsylvania, madeleine dean. good morning. let's talk about the potential to help smaller businesses in going forward. what are the chances that the
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next bill that happens will actually protect smaller businesses and individual workers as well? >> thank you for having me on today. and i'm very glad to hear and read and learn from my caucus that we might be very close to a deal to increase ppp, specifically for the small businesses that i'm talking to every single day. not the big chain restaurants, but how about the small restaurants in my communities that are dedicated to building community? who are in line for ppp and have not been able to access it. i've been on calls this week with secretary treasury mnuchin and the financial services committee and asked for, number one, greater transparency in who is getting the loans and, number two, a prioritization of the smallest businesses. it is they who are our backbone, they build up our community and that's our ambition. i'm delighted we're getting closer on a deal.
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>> so i'm going to read a little bit of this breakdown of the paycheck protection extension act. and this is the legislation that you've proposed along with congressman derrick kilmer of washington. it is about small businesses. it would ensure the support for small business continues, creates an extension mechanism that puts little no-no burd bur small business owners, provides adequate funding to mitigate economic impacts of small businesses. you wrote an op-ed in "newsweek" saying our true leaders are not the ones taking the bow. talking about healthcare workers and the smaller -- all these entities on the front lines. will this bill also make it easier for the smallest businesses who don't have banking relationships to access these loans? that's one of the big deficits here, the smallest businesses don't have those relationships. >> it is exactly right.
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i know our speaker and chuck schumer have been arguing for that very thing. it was easier for folks who have business relationships to step right into a meeting with a banker virtually and make sure that they got their applications in line. that is one of the things that we are urgently persuading secretary of treasury mnuchin to make sure is done. this pandemic exposes the multiinequities in our society, and so with this next round of money, we have to be sure that the smallest of business owners, barbershops in my area, bakeries, small caterers, small restaurants, the backbone of our community, they are able to access this money and there are ways that the federal government of course can do that. i did write that op-ed because if you take a look at what the president is doing, i say beware of the person who stands there blaming and bowing. that's what the president has done over and over again. he either points the finger at
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somebody else who is responsible, not himself, not his administration, or he takes bows. this is not a time to be bowing. this is a time to be digging in. and so what i said in that article was i was so impressed by the medical people i'm in touch with, by the women in my district who are simply making masks and handing them out for free, how about the grocery store workers who go in every single day so we can have access to food? sadly we lost a food preparation worker, eknonoch benjamin becau of covid. we have to make sure our workers are protected with ppe and we're testing adequately and not trying to reopen and exposing more people to even more danger. >> to that very point, let me play you what the governor of your -- of pennsylvania said about lifting lockdown orders on
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donald trump's schedule rather than a schedule based on science. take a listen. >> never have we had a force stop of our economy and our workforce. pennsylvania's businesses are in an unprecedented position. many shuttered across the state to protect against the spread of the deadly coronavirus. but moving to reopen large swaths of our economy now or reducing our flexibility to respond is only going to prolong this crisis. >> governors are being as you said blamed by donald trump for not praising him enough, doing what he tells them to do, he can't order them to reopen states. but do you fear that some governors will follow his edicts, governors more in his purview, and then that just increases the risk that this all starts up again because if it happens in one state, as we have seen as what happened with china versus the united states, it can very quickly spread.
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>> our sacrifice, the sacrifice of people across this country must be worthy and so the president to idly say and encourage governors and notice it is a political encouragement, he encourages governors to reopen will be at their peril. and they could expose people to an even greater second wave. we must be guided by the science and guided by the humanity. governor wolf has done a terrific job in leading pennsylvania and putting safeguards in place. so i trust him to follow the science. you notice that last night if you had the chance to watch any of the global concert, in support of everybody, what was the ultimate message? we're in this together. the president does not share that view. he does not share that humanity, we have to be tested by the science and guided by the science and the humanity. we're in this together. we are not in a race to reopen
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i'm here to get tested and just want to say i -- i just want to say it makes us so proud when our doctors that look more like us get together and to service us. it makes us feel so, so proud because other places we have been going to, we have been getting turned away because we didn't have the symptoms or we just -- we have the symptoms and no one wants to service us. >> right now the communities hurting the most in this pandemic are the communities that were already at risk due to systemic inequality among other things. one of my next guests has been
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servicing these vulnerable communities in the city of philadelphia, where people of color are being hit the hardest. african-americans account for nearly half of the deaths from covid-19 and those are most vulnerable include not just communities, latino communities. joining me to discuss all of that is healthcare advocate dr. ala stanford, and jose antonio vargas, author of "dear america ." thank you for being here. dr. stanford, i'll start with you. talk about what you've been doing to try to make these tests more available, because mass testing is what we need to get ourselves back to anything like normal. >> absolutely. so, joy, i was tired of watching on the news after day that we're disproportionately affected and wanted to do something about it. i reached out to the elected
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officials, local and state, to see what things were in place, only to find that there were not things in place. and so i joined up with several of my leagcolleagues and physic to say we can do this. we reached out to lab corp., we ordered the supplies, and we put everything on our requisitions, we got our volunteers and we took to the streets. we presented mitigation strategies to the local and state government on how to reduce the disease and death in the african-american community. and hope that those partnerships will come to fruition, but until that happens, we need to get out there now. we tested over 100 people yesterday. yes. >> i'm sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt you, go ahead. >> no, no. we tested over 100 people yesterday. we anticipate we will double that tomorrow, we have partnered with churches in and around philadelphia, that have the highest incidents of positive and highest incidents of death.
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the city of philadelphia provided that to us, and through that, because we are a known face, the church is a refuge for many, a safe location, and they can come there and not be potentially prejudged. without the barriers and get a safe test and know that the results will be communicated back to them. >> that is wonderful. just to put the data up for our audience listening, the coronavirus outbreak in philadelphia, 9,014 cases. of those, 342 people have died. if you break it down by race, 52.2% of those deaths have been african-americans and that is about a whole lot of stuff that is predates the pandemic, right? that's inequality built in. >> some of it is, but quite frankly, even in our current systems, people were being blocked because they didn't have a referral from their doctor, they weren't a certain age, because they weren't a
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healthcare provider. and -- or they walked to a testing unit that was only taking drive up individuals. and we needed to as a group of black physicians take it upon ourselves to remove those barriers and make sure. there is no way we're going to identify, isolate, contact trace, and quarantine to decrease the disease and death if we can't test individuals. so that's why we started. grassroots, in the community. >> and, twil a, we have some of this data for african-americans, much like the thing that annoys me about polling, we don't even really have data on indigenous communities to be able to tell us how severe this is in your communities. can you tell us what's going on in -- within indigenous communities regarding this virus? >> well, quite honestly, joy, the impact and the response has
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really been centered around tribes and tribal entities themselves respond agency best they can in partnership with their state governments. and right now we're kind inform a holding pattern waiting for the relief from the c.a.r.e.s. act bill. and there is really a big gap in regards to how that -- those dollars are actually going to reach tribal communities. and i work at a tribal college, but tribal colleges are deeply embedded in tribal communities. we serve much more than just the higher education need. so we're feeling this as well. we are trying to respond as best we can for our communities. and trying to be a part of those entities that help in the response in and of themselves. like you said, american indians, alaskan natives, other indigenous people, we tend to be an asterisk type population
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where they go at us to the end of their data tables and say we don't have enough numbers to count these types of things. and in a lifetime ago, i was very, very accustomed to that happening when i was working for the national research center on native american aging, where we ended up being the entities that had to gather our own data and had to do our own reporting and like you said earlier, a lot of these shortcomings and short falls in care have been long, long-standing things and we have been ringing that bell for such a long time to try to address the disparity and the inequity, the biases and care, and trying to work with a system that basically has been chronically and critically underfunded. and now you get -- you end up with nawvajo nation who has mor death than 13 states in the united states. and they're trying to serve their people with a broken system, quite honestly. how are you possibly going to be able to adjust any of that.
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>> indeed. speaking of broken systems, jose, we were texting the other day. i'm so glad you're able to come on and talk about this, i want to play you what governor gavin newsom of california talked about regarding relief for undocumented americans. take a listen. >> regardless of your status, documented or undocumented, there are people in need. and this is a state that steps up always to support those in need. regardless of status. i'm proud as governor to be the first state to announce a program for direct disaster assistance to those individuals. >> and you tweeted, jose, a challenge to the governor who is going to speak after this show. or the end of the show. the governor of new york, that he needs to step up in the same way. talk about what's going on for undocumented folks regarding this virus. >> the reality is undocumented workers and our families are
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left out and left behind in this pandemic. even though we contribute billions of dlooollars to stated federal taxes, now farmers were considered their essential workers, it is time now here, we're asking people to take a pledge to help your undocumented co-workers, friends and neighbors to practice citizenship, being a good neighbor, being a helper. right now we're seeing a lot of americans already planning to donate part of their stimulus package checks to help undocumented people. and in the state, when joy and i were texting, about 25% of the workforce in new york state are immigrants. 25%. many of them are undocumented and multiple industries. and so i really hope that governor cuomo can really follow governor newsom's lead in this and step up. >> hopefully, you know, if
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anybody that is going to be in that presser with governor cuomo and gets to ask him questions happens to be listening to "am joy," i think jose has given a great question you can throw out, i would highly recommend doing that. if any journalists in there that can ask that, maybe ask that question. thank you so much, please stay safe. really appreciate your time this morning. next up, joe biden has a chance to make history again. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old.
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good joe biden asks me to serve as his vice president, during such a critical and tough time for our nation, of course i would say yes to continue to serve the people who need the help the most. we're ready to have a woman, i
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think we're certainly ready to have an african-american woman and i just hope -- >> democrats are itching to see who their apparent nominee will choose as a running mate. the names thrown around include florida congresswoman val demmings who made a name for herself as an impeachment manage we are stacey abrams and elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar and kamala harris. who biden picks could be the key to energizing voters in november and biden needs a partner who can help him confront a pandemic in the midst of an election that is disproportionately killing black people. with black women being democrats most steadfast and loyal voters and black voters having rescued biden's primary campaign there are more a than political watchers who believe a black woman should be first in line for the job. joining me is erin haynes and steve phillips, host of podcast democracy in color.
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erin, statist abically in 2018,e midterm elections, black turnout was six points above the national turnout. does that mean that biden should go in that direction. you're talking to people out there in the world, you speak it a lot of voters as you're out reporting. are people saying he needs to reward that with a black woman nominee or do people say, no, we want to talk about it, we don't care who he picks? >> i think it is both. i think black women are looking for a return on their investment in this cycle in particular. like a lot of democrats, priority is asking president trump in november and to that end they showed up in this early primary calendar, resurrecting vice president biden's campaign and making him the presumptive nominee. we saw him say at the debate in south carolina that he would nominate a black woman to the supreme court, that was something that got a lot of
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black women's attention. after there was no long are a path for a woman to be president this cycle, the conversation started turning to, you know, a woman as vice president and, remember, there never has been a woman as vice president in the history of this country either. this would also be a history making move. and so, you know, we're talking about that, talking about somebody who is representative of the direction of the party, the demographic of the party, i don't know how you talk about anybody but a black woman at the top of that. >> steve, there have been within this conversation, this sort of subconversation, if then, then who, right? there is a boomlet for kamala harris, jason johnson wrote a piece for the grio, he made the argument if you're cast this thing, you want to cast kamala harris, she's ready to be president herself. you got stacey abrams who younger black voters would
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really cater to. she's more popular with younger progressives. marcus farrell, the african-american outreach director in 2016 for bernie sanders wrote that piece. what are you hearing in terms of what people want in terms of a black woman if that is what joe biden selects? or if people say they don't care, pick amy klobuchar if you want. >> i'm not hearing a lot of that. what i did, i worked on a piece looking for the new york times looking at the electoral track records of all of the potential candidates. people are going to talk about look at polling, polling, a lot of predictive basis, but if you look at what happened in the actual races, with the various people who are being mentioned, how do they perform, what the data showed from that, the exit polls comparing those races is that abrams actually has a
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demonstrably stronger track record with the key constituency that biden needs than anybody. that he's young people, it is african-american enthusiasm, not just support. that's one thing i'm worried biden is not going to grasp, make the same mistake hillary did, we did well, african-americans in the primaries, we're fine. you need enthusiasm and also with latinos. in her actual race, compared to all the other potential candidates, abrams is significantly more -- better in terms of that actual track record percentage of turnout, the numbers are turned out, so if that's what you're looking at, to win, and you want to see who has that best track record, it is clear that abrams stands out in that regard. >> you know, erin, i don't know if your reporting supports this, the one person that seems to complicate that narrative is elizabeth warren. she had a strong base among
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black women, some black celebrity women were with her, she galvanizes a lot of black women, she did in the primary, even though she didn't get the nomination. does she complicate that question about whether or not black women would care whether or not the vp nominee was black? does she complicate it at all? >> i think that elizabeth warren's agenda is certainly something that black -- a lot of progressive black women that i've spoken to still want to see as somehow part of a biden platform and administration. you know, vice president biden is somebody who senator warren endorsed just this week, and what she said was that she felt that he was somebody who would listen. maybe somebody who was open to some of the ideas that a lot of these black women, progressive black women activists were championing and so, you know, in that regard, i think that she is going to be a part of this conversation whether she is on this ticket or not.
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but i think that the conversation around a black -- a black woman in particular, not just a woman of color, but a black woman is something that i'm hearing from so many black women voters as the thing that could really excite and energize that key constituency in particular headed into november because, you know, with this pandemic looming over everything, you need to excite people, you know, headed into novemb november. >> whose ever dog, they're welcome to be on the show, by the way. my dog is upstairs. he's happy to join in. i think we're out of time. we're going to continue this conversation. we'll have you both back, thank you, both, and please stay safe. coming up, a closer look at why mitch mcconnell, they always do this on the teases, sticks his neck out for trump. isn't just a department.
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i'd love you to say a few words, because you -- this man worked 24 hours a day for a long time. this is the worked 24 hours ha long time. $6.2 trillion. >> let me just say this is a proud moment for our country. for the president, the republicans, the democrats all pulled together and passed the biggest bill in history, in record time. >> i'd love to shake your hand, but anthony would get angry at me, so i better not do it. >> wow, remember when the gop tried to take complete credit for passing the c.a.r.e.s. act. did you also notice how chummy trump and mitch mcconnell were?
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we have why that is the case and how mcconnell has enabled president trump. joining me jane ayer, author of the new piece "how mitch mcconnell became trump's enabler-in-chief." let me read a little bit from a bit of your article for those who haven't read it, and you should. this is the understanding the two have come to, mcsxonl trump. trump and mcconnell have come to understand each other, according to al cross, a columnist and professor at university of kentucky. the president needs him to govern. mcconnell knows if their relationship fell apart, it would be a disaster for the republican majority in the senate. they're very different in many ways but fundamentally they're about the same thing, winning. what does winning mean to each of them? we know what it means for trump, but what is it mcconnell wants to win through trump? >> amongst others, he wants to win re-election. he's up for re-election in the
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fall. and he also wants to keep the republican majority in the senate. it's incredibly important for him to stay majority leader. what he has going with trump is basically a marriage of convenience, where they each get something out of it, even though they have very different constituencies, in a way. when trump ran in 2016, he talked about trying to drain the swamp. you'll see in the story there are people who describe mitch mcconnell as the biggest swamp creature in washington. he's made a career out of servicing the biggest donors in the party and getting away all the campaign finance laws that try to flow corrupt money into politics. but they have a partnership now. as that quote told you, it's all about winning, and nothing will stand in the way of them trying to win. >> this is where it gets a little confusing. you're quoting a couple of
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political scientists who wrote a book. quote, in order to win election, they explain the republican party has had to form a coalition between corporatists and white conserbe conservists. they called this plutocratic population. the thing that's ironic about that is on the populist side, they don't actually get anything economically out of this plutocracy. they are being pushed to infect themselves with coronavirus. they are on the losing end economically, but somehow they're still allied with the plutocrats. >> trump's rhetoric, which is often racist and anger-laced and
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anti-elisist, is the language that excites the lower educated part of his base, sort of the white male base particularly. so he's saying things that make his supporters feel good. i actually did talk to a number of people in kentucky who were in appalachian, areas hard hit with poverty. it's worth thinking about. what they said is some people there support trump because they feel like at least he knows they're alive, they're in flyover country, and he's talking their talk. he's not doing much for them, as you point out. what this deal is with mitch mcconnell, mitch mcconnell has delivered that tax bill in 2017 that completely serviced the top 1% of the richest people in the country. 80% of the goodies in it, went to the top 1%. yet -- and so he's getting what he wants because trump helps him get re-elected.
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those kinds of policies are not popular with the american public. but that rhetoric, just that coalition gets them re-elected. >> and here's the irony of that. you know, what mcconnell delivers is judges. most of these people in trump's base can't name any judges by name but it's a theoretical thing that he's delivering them the kinds of judges that will force women into the home giving birth and gay marriage and the thing they think is going to help them in the end, in the hereafter. when you think about it pragmatically, you just had andy basheer beat the most trumpy governor in the country to regain the statewide office of governor. you write that this is not necessarily a winning strategy for mitch mcconnell. >> it may not be. >> go on. explain that. >> it's absolutely true. mcconnell has wrapped himself around trump.
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whenever mcconnell has taken on trump in his own state of kentucky, his popularity has fallen among the trump base because they don't see him as trumpy enough. now that trump is really -- we see he's unfit to handle a crisis like the coronavirus, it's apparent to everyone. the consequences are literally lethal. and -- but mitch has thrown in his lot with him. it's a bet that he's made. and we don't know how it's going to come out in november, but one of the most interesting indicators is that the political report, which is widely respected, downgraded its chances of the republicans holding the senate to a 50/50 toss-up. and this may cost the republican party to have bet on donald trump, who is governing in such a way that people are beginning to become appalled. >> absolutely. lindsey graham once said, if we
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this is her message of all jobs are necessary for the supply chain. and when you start messing with the supply chain, if we run out of food, there's going to be a whole lot worse than what's going on with the few people who are suffering from the disease, for which there is a very effective treatment. >> okay. can you talk about where you're from and then what made you bring your lovely pig. also, what the effective treatment could be. >> can well, now i forget, hydro -- i can't pronounce it, but that medicine with zinc and vitamin c, many people are recovering, far more are recovering than are dying. and i'm here to say, open up minnesota. >> okay, thank you, scientist
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lady. welcome back to "am joy." people really believe the things they hear during donald trump's so-called news briefings. she's not a scientist. and they're happy to take cues from him on social media when he urges supporters to get rid of dr. anthony fauci. it's no surprise to hear them chant "fire fauci" at the state capital in austin, texas. they all screamed, "fascist fauci" and accused him of making up covid-19. when you see these protests, in states like michigan, which donald trump needs for reelection, don't assume they woke up one day, removed their protective face coverings and spontaneously walked out of their houses eager to catch covid-19. just like donald trump's overtaking evening newscasts, they are also serving as his re-election strategy. the associated press writes it was organized by the michigan
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conservative coalition, founded by a gop state representative, shawn mad dodock, who is on a advisory board for trump. it's not just donald trump, these backers also have ties to members of his administration. in this case, education secretary betsy devos. quote, another group promoting the event, the michigan freedom fund, is backed by greg mcneilly, a longtime political backer perform a e backer. the way he sees it, these people, the protesters, are, quote, the modern day rosa parks protesting against modern day injustice and loss of liberties. you heard me right. rosa parks. rosa parks, who was already a
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civil rights oregon in alabama when she was arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of the bus. rosa parks who became a civil rights icon because of her actions sparked one of the largest parts of the movement, the buses boycott, which prompted browder versus gale. steven moore is somehow confusing rosa parks with these people who showed up in michigan waving confederate flags screaming and blocking ambulances. in fact, for some strange reason, he's been invoking rosa parks all week. here's what he said in an interview on a right-wing program. >> yeah, i'm working with a group from wisconsin that wants to do a drive-in. you remember the old sit-ins, this is a drive-in and they want to shut down capitols. we have a big donor in wis we, i won't mention his name, and he
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said, steve, i promise i will pay the bail and legal fees for anyone that gets arrested. this is a great time, gentlemen and ladies, for civil disobedience. we need to be the rosa parks here and protest against these government injustices. >> exactly like rosa parks. joining me, congresswoman moore of wisconsin, a member of the house ways and means committee, kurt bardella, former spokesperson, and renee graham, associate editor and opinion writer for "the boston globe." this is a great panel. i'm going to start with the congresswoman. you've written a letter to fema asking for more testing materials. in the mind of steven moore, i guess you are the people that
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ran the bus company who opposed rosa parks because they equated the right to go out and infect other people with covid-19, with the coronavirus, to go back to work potentially symptomatic or asymptomatic character, that to them is being rosa parks. your thoughts? >> well, just let me start by saying, steven moore, there's no kin, no relationship, to me. let me say that that movement has borrowed heavily from the civil rights movement. i mean e it's very telling they would use an icon of the civil rights movement. they've learned from us. prior to us they just really didn't have any other resources other than money. now they bus loads of people in for the protests. brookfield, wisconsin, where
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they held the protest yesterday is probably in the county with the largest per capita income in the state. and so they've organized, used money, whatever trump comes in, they send bus loads of people into the venue and they've learned from our civil rights movement. and we have to own that. they learn from us how to do this. >> well, you know, michael harriet, i was tweeting about this yesterday. the ironies are very rich to the point that the congresswoman is making. the nation"national review" mag was founded by william f. buckley, weeks before the montgomery bus boycotts began, right before the arrest of rosa parks. and it was found inherently opposing the civil rights movement. opposing dese ining desegregati.
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a descendant of william f. buckley jr. to say, oh, no, the state doesn't have its own right to protect citizens. there should be some superimposed forcible reopening of states that imposes that on governors. i don't understand this idea of an inherent civil right to infect other people with coronavirus. do you understand it? >> joy, obviously you've probably never had to sit at the back of the cubicle at work to earn your paycheck and you want to get back to work. where the discrepancies in this notion that this is a civil rights movement is that the civil rights movement didn't affect white people, giving black people rights, the right to sit on a bus anywhere they wanted to, didn't take rights away from white people, but this movement instead will take lives
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away from the people who they work with, who they live around, neighbors and their friends. that's the divide in this movement, is really this idea, it's an extension of the white populism that gave us donald trump. it is this disaaffected, angry, white people who are economically, they say, disenfranchised and they want their country back. what their country is the right to exist no matter how much they harm the people who are around them, the poor people, the people who are sick, the people who are suffering from a global pandemic. they don't care, as long as they can get their paycheck. we saw that when donald trump was elected and we're seeing it again now that we're on the eve of another election. >> they make it clear with the waving confederate flags pipts not like they're hiding it under a bushel.
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it would be more direct and open to chant, let us infect you, because that's what they're saying. we're in a bunch, we're not social distancing, we could be passing this virus around here. so let us come back to work and infect y'all. it's a strange civil rights-ish movement, if that's what they think it is. you were writing about this this week, dave, to let us have wwe, because wwe is an essential business because people can't watch sports. >> no, they've gone from all lives matter to no lives matter. these folks are -- let's be honest of what they are. they are the fox news, nazi, confederate death cult of the republican party. they're a slap in the face, not only to the health care workers on the front lines risking their lives every single day but also a slap in the face of the people who are dying from this virus in
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disproportionate numbers, black and brown people. these not economically disenfranchised folks. these are small business owners, retire retirees, they want their workers sent back to work. it's a complete farce. it needs to be said, it's unrepresentative of the republican party as a whole. i just saw a poll that 70% of republicans want a national stay-at-home order. this represents nothing except for the narrow astro turf racist and the hard interests that form the modern day republican party. i think this is important covering it critically, but i think the media would do well to cover it far less. i can't tell you how many 100-person protests i've been to in my life and gotten zero media coverage. yet this is something that sets off a national conversation when these folks don't deserve the sweat off our brow. >> you know, and that's a good
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point because i remember during the iraq war, there were a lot of protests against the war that you would never know happened unless you have spann. c-span. really. they didn't get the day to day to day coverage. the thing about it that is strange -- i'm going to read -- keith ellison's son wrote a "new york times" op-ed which was brilliant. during every crisis, well-meaning white people here to make a ritual of acknowledgment the city's steep inequality. it's as if people think the mere acknowledgment is the work but as north minneapolis prepares to brace ourselves for the grim future, detroit and milwaukee have shown us, the death tolls suggest the acknowledgment don't mean a thing. you have a lot of folks saying, we know this isdy proportionately killing black and brown and disindigenous people. you wrote a piece about for our
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nbc news think. you imagine the world if obama had sent tweets like that. the people who are demanding folks go back to work, people like steven moore are rich, and they want those workers to go back because they want their stocks to go up. they want to be richer. the people they're using to be the bodies, to be the field troops, are the people who are going to get sick and maybe die. >> right. i mean, here's the strange thing about all of this, joy. if everyone in trump country did what he wants them to do, go out there, civil disobedience, spread covid-19, they're all going to get sick and die. that's not going to go over well for him politically. trump is so fixated, i think, on just getting through that day and the next day that everything he does is not calibrated for what's going to happen and be the consequence one week from now, one month from now.
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it's calibrated for how can i make news today, how can i make noise. there was an ad joe biden put up yesterday on social media which is devastating and illustrates the complete negligence and failure to respond of trump dealing with corona. i think trump is trying to create as much noise as humanly possible to try to distract everyone's attention away from his tremendous failure to recognize this crisis, to take actions on it, to take action that would have saved lives and prevented the spread of covid-19 to the rate we're seeing it now. it's right-wing trolling material we've seen for years from now from people like breitbart and steve bannon and this is right out of their playbook and it's no coincidence all this escalation we're seeing is happening right when joe biden solidified the democratic nomination, when polls show biden has a lead over trump and trump is in trouble and under water. in typical, trump is trying to
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create racial tensions, inflame them and take attention away from his failures and put it somewhere else. >> including making china the new mexico, the new scary, non-white people are the chinese, right? it's like he's still trying to use that same racial trope, the same playbook. renee, i want to go to your reporting. you're coming to us from boston. i having lived -- gone to school in that neck of the woods knows there's a lot of racial tension. how is this playing out in the world up there? because, you know, it's not that hard, unfortunately, to turn a health crisis into a racial, ethnic crisis? >> well, one thing i think is interesting is how these protests have started after all the headlines the last week or so about the disproportionate affect the virus is having on communities of color. when i look at these protests, what i see are a bunch of white people essentially saying, oh,
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it's affecting those people, so why do i have to change my life for them? that's what this is coming down to. in boston the numbers are the same as they are nationally. one of the hospitals, one of the public hospitals, boston medical center, 82% of the covid-19 cases are either black or latino. these numbers are real. i think what you're seeing in the protesters, who, by the way, are overwhelmingly white, which people aren't talking about, which is quite noticeable, is they don't care. this isn't about -- they're out there waving american flags. they don't care about america. what they care about is donald trump. what donald trump has created. they don't care about the people risking their lives to keep this country moving. they don't care about empty, dangerous, rebellion. all they want is another battle waged for their lost cause. this isn't a protest. this is a temp tantrum. >> michael, i feel like this is in your lane, so i'm going to let you respond to that.
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>> see, again, i disagree with the notion we shouldn't be covering this because i think it is more than just, i don't care about these black and brown people who are dying. i think that what they're saying, quite clearly, when you see the numbers, when you see the statistics, when you see the cdc, i want more black and brown people to die. that if you want the government to open up, then you want more black and brown people to die. we see it happening in real time. we see it in donald trump's tweets. we see it in the data, there can be no other outcome if you open up what they call their society or the business or the country, unless you see more black and brown people die. >> here's the challenge to that, michael. i'll open it up to everyone. it isn't just black and brown people who would die in that scenario. if you opened the country back
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up without massive testing, what will happen is more of everyone will die, right, because everyone who comes in contact with any person that's infected, even if they're asymptomatic, can catch it and can die. black people are dying more because they're coming into it with more pre-existing health conditions that exacerbate it, more asthma, more pre-existing issues that make it -- hit you harder. bitz not like white people wouldn't die, too. it's i willogical to demand theo back into a space where they could get sick and die. >> if your job is to buy back shares, then you can do all that work from your computer at home or you can have your zoom meetings. black and brown people are disproportionately a part of the supply chain. you can't do your zoom job mopping up the emergency hospital room from your laptop.
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>> before i come off you -- before i move on, i want to stick with you for a moment. the post office comes into this. one of the things i want to talk about, congresswoman, is the fact that the postal service is one of those businesses, those industries that isdy proportionately black all around the country, even if the community isn'tdy proportionately black, it is. the attack on the postal service feels like it's a part of that. it feels like it's part of the overall attack that is a racialized attack. am i wrong about that? >> well, no, you're not wrong about that. the post office has been one of the areas of public service and job security that african-americans, veterans, by the way, coming back from wars have been able to rely on. the post office is actually in the constitution. 1775, benjamin franklin was the first u.s. postmaster. and they have delivered mail to the last mile. and even giants like amazon
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depend on them. to the extent african-americans have found this to be a great way to built a career and become part of the middle class, they're disproportionately in this distribution network. and republicans have long sought to kill the post office and the coronavirus may, in fact, be the blow that kills the post office. not to go too deep into this. but since 2007 the government has required the post office to prepay health insurance coverage for people who are not even born yet who may work for the post office. and these $6 billion a year are really creating problems -- operational problems for the post office that are unsustainable. >> absolutely. so, what is in it for these
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shock troops? they get sick and die, steven moore doesn't care. his stock goes up. he doesn't care pap what is in it for them other than this racialized, ongoing pandemic? >> all of this has to be seen through the lens of what this is, which is essentially class warfare and economic warfare. the people who are doing well in this country, the rich, the ceos, the decisionmakers, management, they aren't going back out into the world. they aren't the ones who are going to be in factories doing manual labor, doing service work, doing the things that truly make our economic engine run. they're going to be staying at home, social distancing. i don't see steven moore out there in the middle of crowds right now? i don't see anyone that's been on trump's economic recovery, all a bunch of rich people, ceos who are advising him out there, doing the things they are proce proceed festing. everything is about rich versus
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poor, upper middle class and working class and putting those two factions against one another. it just so happens that people of color are a part of one of those classes over the other, which is why i think the trump people just don't care about them at all. but everything right now is all about that class warfare that we're seeing. >> but, i mean, dave, except if you think about sports and you think about some of the athletes who are first generation rich, who they also want to shove back out there. if you're talking about putting people who are involved in athletics back out there, they are rich, too, but a lot of folks would like to see them shoved back out who would be taking risks. nba players have already contracted the virus. parents of nba players. so it ain't all poor people that are being shoved forward. >> i mean, they're wealthy, but at the same time, they're also investments by managements, which is why you see this emphasis on testing and this desire for testing in professional sports because they have invested millions of dollars in these athletes.
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oftentimes they're created like extensions of equipment. if you look at the group of people who trump has assembled to see how we reopen sports, it's the worst actors in the sports industry. it's all rich, white guys, it's owners, it's commissioners. no representatives from the union, no women. i mean, it's completely people who see athletes as extensions of equipment and as essential to their bottom line. it's disgusting. >> absolutely. >> people we always see behind trump, isn't it? a group of white guys. that's what we always see. that's exactly what he wants to present. there's no reason why he would do it any differently now. >> the fact that vince mcmahon of wwe is a part of this and his company is deemed not essential in florida tells you everything you need to know about what a sham this whole thing is. >> absolutely. >> dave, you had a final word. >> there's a book called "the
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rebellious life of ms. rosa parks" and i think all these people should be forced to read it so they understand they shouldn't use her name in vain. >> yeah, i think none -- they should all just stop saying it. don't say rosa parks anymore. that's a word of advice from a history buff. it doesn't work. it is not analogous, demanding to infect other people. a super panel. thank you very much. everybody, please stay safe. big restaurants reap the benefits of government money as small, independent business owners face extinction. for nearly 100 years, we've worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different. because helping you through this crisis is what we're made for. ♪ ♪all strength ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪
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i applied for three loans. two out of the three denied me. i still haven't heard from the third one. at this point all the banks are not taking applications anymore. >> the $350 billion emergency loan program for small
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businesses ran out of money after less than two weeks. this morning house speaker nancy pelosi said congress is close on to a deal to replenish the fund. but in the meantime, many small business owners are in limbo. so far, some of the businesses who have cereceived loans aren' small. ruth chris steakhouse $20 million. mega brands like shake shack and potbelly got $10 million apiece while smaller businesses have yet to receive a cent. with me is melba, author of "melba's american comfort," and dan price, founder and ceo of gravity payments. thank you all for being here. melba, my friend, i'm going to start with you. have you gone through the loan process and how has it worked out? >> joy, i have gone through the loan process. i was very, very fortunate to be
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partnered with a company called true fund. there's a community development financial institution. steve barrios, who i have worked with before, he and i spoke, we did the application and we just got approved last week. we have not been funded yet, however we did get approved. so, we're super duper excited about that. we need to look at small community banks as opposed to looking at big banks. cdfis have come through for me before. >> and that's a really good point. i just wrote that down, community development organizations and smaller banks seem to be i'm hearing people are having more success. andrew, what has the hospitality alliance, and there are variance businesses that are a part of it, i assume there's been a range of success when people are trying to get loans, how difficult has it been for folks?
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>> we've heard from people like melba, have gotten the loan but haven't gotten the money yet. hundreds of business people got shut out. they thought they were getting the money. they got their applications in and now they hear they're not getting any money. so, we need congress to get past whatever issues they're having and get more money into the pp fund and get it into our small business owners' hands immediately. this is the future of our nation, the future of our towns. they need cash flow. >> dan, you and i -- i appreciate -- we kind of met on dm because you were tweeting about the things you're going through. i was like, hey, can we talk about this on air? your business actually is a through-point to other businesses, right? you can kind of tell how other businesses are doing by how you're doing, right? you're dealing with the payment side of it, when we're swiping our cards to get paid, pay our
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bills. what are you seeing in terms of your clients and how they're faring with the money that was supposed to save these businesses that came from the federal government? >> i started building my business when i was 17 to help small businesses and to help them out, we don't charge like a monthly fee most of the time. we just make our money as a percentage of small business revenue. our 20,000 small businesses are on average down 55%, but also our data shows that small businesses only have on average 27 days from the start of the crisis before they were going to go under. and so with 95% of businesses still not having received any assistance or even in the -- under the current plan not having access to any assistance, there was a mad dash for those funds, the likes of which i've never seen and i feel like i'm just being crushed -- punched in the stomach multiple times every day hearing about our clients, how they're going to great lengths to save one, two, or three more jobs.
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these are the restaurants, these are the dentists, the veterinary clinics. all these small businesses are doing everything we can but we basically left 95% out in the cold with no viable path forward. >> let me play you elizabeth warren. she talked yesterday, she was on the show and talked about this exact thing and the challenge that is the disconnect between passing of this c.a.r.e.s. act and actually people being able to be helped. take a listen. >> right now, what we're really pushing hard for is to get information, hard data about where that money is going and to make sure that money is not -- once again on a bailout -- go to the tree tops but that the money is actually going to the grassroots, the small businesses that both desperately need it and that are the real backbone of our economy. >> melba, i think about the fact that -- i live back and forth,
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live in harlem when i'm in new york. businesses like yours are part of the community, part of our family in the community. it's really irksome to hear people like shake shack and ruth chris already got their money. for your business, can you explain what that means on a day-to-day basis? there's rent involved, that means a mortgageholder is also involved, your staff. can you walk us through what that means that the money is is not in your hands right now, that it's not in your corporate account? . >> yeah, joy, first of all, the profit margins in the restaurant are slim to middling. they're anywhere, if you're lucky, to 7% to 14%. it's not like -- you can't think we're making a lot of money from this. we do it for the passion and the love of the industry. there are a myriad of different bills. don't forget about fines and, you know, payroll is about 33% to 40% of what you pay.
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to keep us going and for us not to have that money in our hands and to see that ruth chris got $20 million, i think of the life line that that could have been for so many small businesses. i mean, that would have saved their business. and a lot of times, like me, these are businesses that started out literally with a dollar and a dream, that really saved up, that worked in this industry and that started from the bottom and to hear some of my friends, my dearest and deepest friends, were not funded, first of all, and i don't know how they're going to come out of this. this is conversations i have with my peers in the industry on a daily basis. >> dan, i'm assuming you were giving an amen to that, as melba was talking. >> and we put $90 billion of tax cuts for rich people into this program that was supposed to help small businesses and then
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we took the billions of dollars, the $350 billion that was supposed to go to small businesses, like melba's small business, and gave it to chains. the number one thing we need to do is vote and change public policy. in the meantime, me and everybody at gravity payments we're calling businesses like melba's directly or helping them get set up with online ordering. avoid the apps or anything that will further compress the march gibbs or push money to the biggest, wealthier companies. we all need to work together and try to help so in the meantime we can all try to buy from those businesses that are open directly, not through any third parties who charge huge commissions. ultimately we need to raise our voice in unison as loud as possible and let the government know, we have to prioritize our small businesses, our front-line businesses that are keeping people fed, like melba. one of my favorite restaurants
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in seattle is called pork chop & co. they tell me they feel extremely uncomfortable going to work every day. but they're giving a lot of money to front line workers. they're heroes. and i told the person, i started crying when i was talking because i told the person, you are so undervalued. i'll say the same thing to melba, you and your staff are so undervalued. you're doing so much for us and we need to rally behind you and try to get away from uber eats, try to get away from ruth's chris and help businesses like melba's. >> the thing is -- let me just show who's on this list of people that donald trump has decided, his economic reopening council. it's jamie dimon, the guy who used to complain that barack obama was mean because he said wall street tanked the economy. elon musk, mark cuban, vince mcmahon, ceo of wwe, you know, and, andrew, the challenge with
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all of that is at the end even an uber eats is some person who's making very little money to deliver it to you. every link in this, there's somebody that is not making a lot of money that is going to be on their face because of this whole thing. they're not getting anything. i'm sorry, let me let you talk, andrew. >> listen, i am a strong believer that restaurants are the backbone of not only our country, our towns and our cities and the full economy is not going to recover unless our restaurants are at the core of that recovery. it's not just needing more money for ppp. we need changes because it's not working for the restaurant industry. we don't know when we're going to be able to reopen. then when we do reopen, we don't know what consumer purchasing behavior is going to be like. are people going to be comfortable going out eating and drinking? what we need to do with the ppp, in addition to funding it, we need to make sure we allow that loan to be a forgivable grant if
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we hire our staff back by the end of the year. not by the end of june, as the law currently requires. and we need more than 25% of that loan to be able to go to rent and utilities. in high rent places like new york city, 25% is not going to cut it. we need people like melba and others at the table, in all halls of government saying, this is what we as small business owners need to rebuild our economy and rebuild our nation. >> yeah. amen, amen. i'm going to end. we are out of time, but i have to say before i go, but i have to say, happy birthday, melba. i have secret knowledge that this is your birthday. >> happy birthday, melba. >> i'm going to wish you a happy birthday, my friend. >> thank you. thank you. >> we'll have you guys all back. listen to these guys, congress, listen to them. melba wilson, andrew ridgy and
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many of you have seen hours and hours and hours of donald trump giving his daily briefings that ares s oostensibly about coronavirus updates. what have not seen this week, his predecessor, barack obama give his endorsement for who he thinks should occupy the white house next, his rit-hand man, his bff, joe biden. it's a moving, powerful message we would like to play for you in its entirety. >> hi, everybody. let me start by saying the obvious. these aren't normal times. as we all manage our way through a pandemic unlike anything we've seen in a century, michelle and
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i hope you and your families are safe and well. if you've lost somebody to this virus or if someone in your life is sick or if you're one of the millions suffering economic hardship, please know that you're in our prayers. please know that you're not alone. because now's the time for all of us to help where we can and to be there for each other as neighbors, as coworkers, and as fellow citizens. in fact, over the past weeks we've seen plenty of examples of the kind of courage, kindness and selflessness that we're going to need to get through one of the most difficult times in our history. michelle and i have been amazed at the incredibly bravery of our medical professionals who are putting their lives on the lines to save others, the public servants and health officials battling this disease, the workers taking risks every day to keep our economy running. and everyone who's making their own sacrifice at home with their families, all for the greater
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good. but if there's one thing we've learned as a country from moments of great crisis, it's that the spirit of looking out for one another can't be restricted to our homes our or workplaces or our neighborhoods or our houses of worship. it also has to be reflected in our national government. the kind of leadership that's guided by knowledge and experience. honesty and humility, empathy and grace. that kind of leadership doesn't just belong in our state capitols and mayors' offices. it belongs in the white house. and that's why i'm so proud to endorse joe biden for president of the united states. choosing joe to be my vice president was one of the best decisions i ever made, and he became a close friend. and i believe joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now. he's someone whose own wife has taught him how to persevere, how
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to bounce back when you've been knocked down. when joe talks with parents who lost their jobs, we hear the son of a man who once knew the pain of having to tell his children that he'd lost his. when joe talks about opportunity for our kids, we hear the young father who took the train home each night so he could tuck his children into bed. and we hear the influence of jill, a lifelong teacher. when joe talks to families who have lost a hero, we hear another parent of an american veteran. a kindred spirit, someone who has faced the hardest loss. that's joe. through all his trials he's never once forgotten the values or the moral fiber his parents passed onto him and made him who he is. that's what steels his faith in god, in america, and in all of us. that steel made him an incredible partner when i needed one the most.
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joe was there as we rebuilt from the great recession and rescued the american auto industry. he was the one asking what every policy would do for the middle class, and everyone striving to get into the middle class. that's why i asked him to implement the recovery act, which saved millions of jobs and got people back on their feet, because joe gets stuff done. joe helped me manage h1n1 and prevent the ebola epidemic from being the type of pandemic we're seeing now. he helped me restore america's standing and leadership in the world on the other threats of our time like nuclear proliferation and climate change. joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery. and i know he'll surround himself with good people, experts, scientists, military officials, who actually know how to run the government, and care about doing a good job running
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the government. and know how to work with our allies, and who will always put the american people's interests above their own. now, joe will be a better candidate for having run the gauntlet of primaries and caucuses alongside one of the moss impressive democratic fields ever. each of our candidates were talented and decent, with the track record of accomplishment, smart ideas and serious visions for the future. and that's certainly true of the candidate who made it farther than any other. bernie sanders. bernie's an american original, a man who has devoted his life to giving voice to working people's hopes, dreams and frustrations. he and i haven't always agreed on everything, but we've always shared a conviction that we have to make america a fairer, more just, more equitable society. we both know that nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change.
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and the ideas he's championed, the energy and enthusiasm he inspired, especially in young people, will be critical in moving america in a direction of progress and hope. because for the second time in 12 years, we'll have the incredible task ofrebuilding our economy. and to meet the moment, the democratic party will have to be bold. you know, i could not be prouder of the incredible progress we made together during my presidency. but if i were running today, i wouldn't run the same race or have the same platform as i did in 2008. the world is different. there's too much unfinished business for us to just look backwards. we have to look to the future. bernie understands that. and joe understands that. it's one of the reasons that joe already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history.
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because even before the pandemic turned the world upside down, it was already clear that we needed real structural change. the vast inequalities created by the new economy are easier to see now. but they existed long before this pandemic hit. health professionals, teachers, delivery drivers, grocery clerks, cleaners, the people who truly make our economy run, they have always been essential. and for years, too many of the people who do the essential work of this country have been under paid, financially stressed and given too little support. and that applies to the next generation of americans. young people graduating into unprecedented unemployment. they're going to need economic policies that give them faith in the future and give them relief from crushing student loan debt. so we need to do more than just
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tinker around the edges with tax credits or underfunded programs. we need to go further to give everybody a lasting career and stable retirement. we have to protect the gains we made with the affordable care act. it's time to go further. we should make plans to affordable for everyone, provide everyone with a public option, expand medicare and finish the job so that health care isn't just a right, but a reality for everybody. we have to return the u.s. to the paris agreement and lead the world in reducing the pollution that causes climate change. but science tells us, we have to go much further, that it's time for us to accelerate progress on bold new green initiatives that make our economy a clean energy innovator. save us money and secure our children's future. of course, democrats may not always agree on every detail of the best way to bring about each
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and every one of these changes. but we do agree that they're needed. and that only happens if we win this election. because one thing everybody has learned by now is that the republicans occupying the white house and running the u.s. senate are not interested in progress. they're interested in power. they have shown themselves willing to kick millions off their health insurance and eliminate pre-existing condition protections for millions more, even in the middle of this public health crisis, even as they're willing to spend a trillion dollars on tax cuts for the wealthy. they have given polluters unlimited power to poison our air and our water and denied the science of climate change just as they denied the science of pandemics. repeatedly, they have
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disregarded american principles of rule of law and voting rights and transparency. basic norms that previous administrations observed regardless of party. principles that are the bedrock of our democracy. so our country's future hangs on this election. and it won't be easy. the other side has a massive war chest. the other side has a propaganda network with little regard for the truth. on the other hand, pandemics have a way of cutting through a lot of noise and spin to remind us of what is real and what is important. this crisis has reminded us that government matters. it's reminded us that good government matters. that facts and science matter. that the rule of law matters.
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but having leaders who are informed and honest and seek to bring people together rather than drive them apart, those kind of leaders matter. in other words, elections matter. right now, we need americans of good will to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance and just plain meanness. and to change that, we need americans of all political stripes to get involved in our politics and our public life like never before. for those of us who believe in building a more just, more generous, more democratic america, where everybody has a fair shot at opportunity, for those of us who believe in a
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government that cares about the many and not just the few, for those of us who love this country and are willing to do our part to make sure it lives up to its highest ideals, now is the time to fight for what we believe in. so join us. join joe. go to joebiden.com right now. make a plan for how you are going to get involved. keep taking care of yourself and your families and each other. keep believing in the possibilities of a better world and i will see you on the campaign trail as soon as i can. thanks. >> is it not amazing to hear an intelligent, empathetic, presidential man? that's amazing. it's sunday. so it's okay to say amen. appreciate you being here today.
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