unprecedented. i think so much about what the sort of -- your sort of point about what the kind of political imperative in a sort of short term tactical sense is. but then when you think about the scope of the crisis that likely is going to be inherited by this administration, it's quite daunting and this choice is going to be quite consequential. always great to see you. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> great to see you, chris. thank you. that is "all in" for this evening. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, my friend, much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us. tomorrow something to watch for, tomorrow afternoon. they're calling it a national funeral, a day of mourning. and we have seen these kinds of protest actions before here and there. but tomorrow as our country approaches 100,000 americans dead in the coronavirus crisis, we think that protests like this are going to be happening in roughly 20 different states

tomorrow afternoon including in washington, d.c. where we have seen a protest like this outside the president's hotel. tomorrow we expect to see a funeral procession of at least a couple hundred cars. let to try to bring home to the administration the consequences of how terrible the response to the epidemic has been so far. we think there will be protests under this national funeral day of mourning rubric all over the country tomorrow. but the one in cash washington we're expecting to be a large funeral procession that is apparently going to proceed from the home of the -- the washington home of the leader of the senate, senator mitch mcconnell, to the white house. and clergy are expected to speak in memoriam for the dead. relatives of those killed by the coronavirus are expected to lay out body bags outside the white house grounds tomorrow. we know of planned similar protests tomorrow, not just in washington. also at the president's golf

course in new jersey. also at the federal building in little rock, arkansas. also in columbia, south carolina. we know of planned protests in georgia, michigan, new hampshire, illinois, all over. that's something to watch for tomorrow afternoon. the united states does have over 92,000 deaths from coronavirus now, by far the largest number of deaths in the world. our outbreak is now over 1.5 million cases. again, the largest outbreak on earth by far. it's worth keeping that in perspective though. our epidemic is now so massive compared to every other country in the world, it's almost a qualitatively different thing. we are 1.5 million plus cases right now, so that makes us first. but the second, third, and fourth largest outbreaks on earth -- the second, thirpd, and fourth ranked countries in terms of the size of their outbreaks, they're all between 250,000 and

300,000. our epidemic is five times larger than the next largest outbreak on earth. it's also slightly bone chilling, slightly eerie at least to see that the leaders of the countries with the four largest outbreaks on earth are prime minister boris johnson in the uk who has been called the british trump, president jury year bolsinaro in brazil who's been called the latin-american trump, president trump himself, and president vladimir putin of russia. it's boris, bolsinaro, putin, and trump now overseeing the four worst outbreaks on earth not just because they're countries with large populations but because they're countries that have radically mishandled the virus. i mean -- and the four of them, you know, they do have some links and similarities in terms of their style in politics. when it comes to the virus though, it's not hard to see how they all ended up with the four largest out of control outbreaks

on earth. all four of them took a stance early on that it was somehow either unmacho or magically unnecessary to do anything to try to slow the spread of the virus. and so they didn't do anything to slow the spread of the virus or they at least undermined those efforts with their blow hardiness and skepticism about the public health imperatives. and now, i mean, we're five times worse off than any other country on earth under president trump. but president trump at the top of the heap is in company he very much likes. in terms of world leader who is have blown this crisis the most disastrously and paid for it in the lives of their citizens. i should also just mention incidentally that in brazil, where president bolsinaro is in charge, they have a raging out of control epidemic right now. interesting, that country's president, bolsinaro, like our president, is publicly going

whole hog that the idea that the malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are some sort of miracle cure for coronavirus. president bolsinaro in brazil is expected to announce a national expanded protocol for the use of chloroquine. he reportedly fired the health minister because the health minister wouldn't sign off on this cockamamy plan. that's going to be announced tomorrow in brazil. and boris johnson's government in the uk has announced a new bulk purchase of hydroxychloroquine. it's like we're now learning all the weird markers of the most poorly managed large disastrous epidemics on earth in the era of coronavirus. first, look for trumpiness or trump friendliness. second, does your world leader fetishize a random malaria drug that doesn't seem effective against this virus but this leader nevertheless insists it's a miracle cure? so far trumpiness, weird attraction to hydroxychloroquine, and -- well,

third factor, i don't even want -- i don't even want to tell you a third thing i could tell you about all these guys but i won't. but we are seeing a weird sort of stripe, a similar stripe among the kinds of leaders who are handling this the worst. domestically, the american response has a pretty distinct theme song at this point in the epidemic. it sings like this in the headlines every single day now. maryland reports largest rise yet in coronavirus cases 4 days after reopening. also just seeing headlines like this from all over the country every day now. texas, north carolina, arizona seeing rising cases as they reopen. quote, texas saw it's largest one-day increase in cases on saturday. north carolina also saw it's largest single day jump on saturday. arizona reported close to a record high as well. seven day average in new cases in all three of those states has been rising. the data with the risks of the

states reopening amid ongoing outbreaks and boy do we have ongoing outbreaks. and off the coasts, they're in the middle of the country, and in many cases they're in rural cares or small cities. the most new cases in the past two weeks, sioux city, iowa. the most new deaths in the last two weeks, gallop, new mexico. the highest daily growth rate in case cass, rural, minnesota. huntsville, texas. you've seen all this footage, all these weeks now of governors and state legislatures and sometimes mayors arguing we're not new york city so we don't need to worry about this. we need our restaurants open and our churches open. we're not new york so we should be fine. yeah, well, you know, new york -- you're not new york. you're right. new york city's epidemic is going away. they're on the far side of their curve and coming down more every day. where it's growing is all these places that are emphatically not

new york. and that shouldn't be a comfort at this point. the cdc just today publishing a case study in the mmwr, morbidity and mortality week ri report documenting a church in rural arkansas where the pastor and his wife held services because they thought it would be fine. they thought the virus certainly wasn't there. turns out they were both positive. turns out they infected 35 people in that church service. they infected 61 people in total in the community. that has left four people dead from that outbreak already. they don't say exactly where that is, but it's described by the cdc as attendees at a rural arkansas church in the second week of march. more than 60 infected, four dead already from the pastor and his wife. but even as that sort of character of our local outbreaks now and the widespread far flung locales where you can see the

outbreak at its worst right now, the national response, the federal response continues to be basically insane. i mean, the president is insisting to the public now that not only is he taking this unproven miracle drug and it's great, he loves it. he says he's definitely taking it. but he says he's taking it as a preventive, as something that's going to prevent him from getting the coronavirus. it's like it's a fake vaccine or something. he also says -- can't just leave it at that. he also says all the front line workers across the country are also secretly without telling you, they're all secretly taking this drug as well. they're all taking it themselves to keep themselves from getting infected. there is no sign that front line health workers are doing that in any significant workers. there's no clinical sign whatsoever that the drug offers any preventive effect in terms of the keeping yourself from getting the coronavirus.

the president is saying that yeah, he's taking it for sure, and he's taking it as a prevent skpif all the doctors and nurses are too. they're just not telling you. he's saying it's a preventive for this disease. he's claiming he's using it himself despite the fact that those things have no support whatsoever. but presumably that will not just be another one of the president's lies about this crisis. presumably that will lead lots of his supporters to try to take this drug or get their hands on this drug as well which of course will just compound a new public health danger on top of the existing one that we are trying to survive. when i say that the national response is increasingly insane, i mean, that's what i mean. it's one thing to be incompetent. it's another thing to add a whole new self-inflicted level of public health harm, misinformation, and almost literal insanity in terms of understanding the facts about the virus on top of what you already have to cope with. i mean, and all the while the president continues to try to

blame somebody else, anybody else, for what has gone wrong here. yesterday you might have seen he sent this letter to the world health organization threatening the world health organization anew and saying that the united states was going to leave the world health organization altogether in the middle of the pandemic. the president's letter, in making that threat, cited one of the most influential peer reviewed medical journals in the world, the british medical journal called the lancet, as part of the american government's beef with the w.h.o. the president said in his letter that the w.h.o. had ignored reports from early december about the virus spreading in china. the president's letter said, quote, we know the following: the w.h.o. consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in wuhan in early 2019 or even earlier according to reports from the lancet medical journal. the lancet medical journal wrote to the white house today to say oh, my god, what are you talking

about? i'm paraphrasing that. but that's basically what they -- i mean, here's what they said. i can quote it. quote, this statement is factually incredit. the lancet published no report referring to a virus or outbreak in wuhan or anywhere else in china. like i said, oh my god, what r you talking about? the continued quote, the allegations are serious and damaging to efforts to strengthen international cooperation to control this pandemic. it is essential that any review of the global response is based on a factually accurate account of what took place. it is so embar -- we're beyond shame at this point. i would like to note for the record that it is humiliating that this is the behavior of our government. it is so embarrassing that this is the kind of thing the white house sends out these days in the name of the american people. i mean, did you even look that up before you put it in the letter to the w.h.o.?

oh, there's stuff in the lancet in early december about wuhan. i heard it about -- on talk radio or on "fox and friends" or something. without checking whether or not that was true you put it in a letter in writing and sent it to the world health organization assuming it was true or wouldn't matter if it wasn't. you're not writing a letter to the editor. you're not a crank calling in at the end of the rush limbaugh show to get your dittos. you are the white house speaking on behalf of the most powerful and previously most respected country on earth and you're just making that stuff up in front of everybody. i mean, it's one thing to be defunding the w.h.o. and blaming them for what we've done wrong. it's another thing to be completely incompetent at even trying to ineffectually insult someone whose help we need. it's just -- but it's endemic now. it is just the way they are.

and with this president in charge for long enough, it's now in every aspect of the federal response. take, for example, the trump appointed defense secretary, mark esper who a few days ago in the rose garden got really excited and blurted out this. >> winning matters and we will deliver by the end of this year a vaccine at scale to treat the american people and our partners abroad. >> winning matters. winning matters. we will deliver by the end of this year a vaccine at scale to treat the american people and our partners abroad. he's saying by the end of the year, we -- i guess the u.s. military because he's the defense secretary if not the u.s. government -- we will have a vaccine that prevents people from getting coronavirus and we will have it produced and delivered at scale by the end of the year to treat the entire american population and the population of our allies

overseas. boy, would that be amazing? that would be amazing. and when you speak as the defense secretary of the united states of america, there is some inherent gravitas to your words. we assume that you are speaking on the basis of information that supports your public assertions. well, on the basis of what information from the defense department did the defense secretary say we are going to have a vaccine producing and delivered at scale by the end of this year, not only for the entire american public but for other countries as well? on the basis of what information did he make this assertion? well, i don't know. but task and purpose today reports on the internal guidance of such matters that's currently being circulated inside his department. from the person at the pentagon who's actually in charge of this stuff, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security who says something that is the opposite of what secretary esper is telling the public from the the rose garden. quote, the defense department

should prepare to operate in a globally persistent novel coronavirus environment without an effective vaccine until at least the summer of 2021. quote, we have a long path ahead. all indications suggest we will be operating in a globally persistent covid-19 environment. that's the actual advice inside the defense department for the u.s. military in terms of planning ahead. at least think about through next summer before you start thinking about any vaccine being here to help. nevertheless, there's the secretary of defense in the rose garden standing there with the president saying isn't winning awesome? we're going to win! just tell people it's all better already. and by the way, there's no reason to plan for any need for long term mitigation of any kind. it's cool. it's all over. it's done. pay no attention to 92,000 plus dead americans and the rising daily case numbers in most states in the country now. and i think that we're now

calloused and immune from the happy talk from the white house, right? even if it's the trump appointed secretary, it feels different to have that coming from the pentagon, right, to have that message about winning being delivered from the secretary of defense to the american people. it still feels different coming from the military. but they've got that too. along those lines, if you want a nomination for the most excruciating trump administration self-defeating cruel policy of the day, i commend to you this new reporting from politico which finally gets to the bottom of why it is that president trump picked a random wednesday in june as the day his order would expire that provides federal funding for the deployment of national guard troops around the country to fight the epidemic. you've probably seen in your local news, news about your state or news about notable

coronavirus combatting efforts around the country involving national guard troops. roughly 40,000 national guardsmen, guardswomen are deployed right now around the u.s. it's the largest domestic deployment for the u.s. national guard since hurricane katrina. and these national guards men and guardswomen, they're doing everything from running community testing sites, they're doing that all over the country. they're providing medical staffing in hard hit prisons that have tons of cases. they have been running food banks and food distribution sites. they run field hospitals. they've been dispatched to states like massachusetts to run the state nursing home program for residents and staff. national guard has been doing all of this work from an order from president trump that allowed this to be paid for by the federal government. now after the president did that in early march a bunch of different members of congress

and senators and governors lobbied the president to please extend that authorization so these national guard deployments could go through to the fall. the white house would not agree to do that, would not agree to extend them to the fall. but weirdly, they decided that they would extend it a little bit. they decided they would extend the federal deployment to june 24th which is a random wednesday in late june. nobody could really figure out why they picked that day until somebody finally did the math and as politico.com reports today we've now realized that if this thing ends on june 24th, that means that the federal deployment for these 40,000 national guard troops will end at day 89 of that deployment. and ending on day 89 is really important because if their

deployment had gone to day 90, if it had gone one more day, those national guardsmen and women would have become eligible for benefits towards retirement and education funds under the new gi bill if that federal deployment had gone one more day. so, president trump is cutting off their deployment. they're calling it a hard stop at day 89 of the deployment, specifically so they don't get their benefits. thank you national guard. this is how your president thanks you. this is how the trump administration wants you to know that you're valued and appreciated for your work. and not only do the guardsmen and guardswomen get screwed this way personally, but the states of course that are counting on all these folks to do all of this front line work against coronavirus, the states are also going to lose them all, hard stop, because they've all got to end this deployment on wednesday the 24th so they don't get their

benefits. and in fact, the states are likely going to lose these national guardsmen and women in early june because protocol says they're all going to need to go into two weeks of quarantine before they go back into civilian life, hard stop, on june 24th. i guess they're all going to be out of commission in terms of the states being able to use them by june 10th. but it's all so the president can keep them from getting them benefits. use them up to the moment they might get something that might benefit them in their retirement or educational benefits. i mean, that takes planning. that takes thought. don't let anybody tell you the federal government is being slow or lazy or cumbersome here. they're nimble when they need to be, right? they're hard at work devising complicated systems like that to mess with the people that are putting themselves in danger and doing the hardest work to save american lives here. and of course they're also hard at work because what better time than a global pandemic that's going to kill 100,000 americans

by the end of this month, what better time to try to take advantage of the pandemic to rye to achieve some totally unrelated but very unpopular long-term goals. for example, we have been reporting on the president firing four different inspectors general over the past six weeks, all of them fired late on friday nights hoping to avoid press scrutiny. the inspector general of the intelligence community fired after he didn't go along with the trump administration's efforts to block a whistleblower complaint from getting to congress. that's the whistleblower complaint that ultimately led to the president being impeached in december. remember president trump got impeached in december. also the inspector general of health and human services, she was fired after she reported hospitals were short on critical supplies including ppe as they try to fight the epidemic. the inspector general at the state department fired according to the white house at the insistence of secretary of state mike pompeo as that inspector general was investigating

multiple serious investigations against secretary of state mike pompeo. tonight we learn the house is investigating the replacement of the transportation inspector general, investigating elaine chao for running her department in i away that was designed to shore up her husband's political prospects. her husband is mitch mcconnell, the republican leader of the senate. secretary chow was being investigated for maximizing benefit to her husband's re-election. that ig was hustled out at the department of transportation and replaced. democrats want to know what secretary caoa's office had in that one. what better time for it, right? the republicans in the senate today though may have outdone themselves once and for all in an effort to try to use this

particular moment in american history to go after the obama administration. what they have done today is an effort to try to go after the obama administration that appears to have backfired quite spectacularly. i mean, it's one thing to not do the basic work of trying to keep americans alive during a crisis like this when we are running the worst international response to the coronavirus on earth and we have the body count and the case count to show for it. it's another thing -- it's a sort of different, slightly lower circle of hell to try to turn the moment of this crisis to your own political advantage either through distraction or simply having the field to yourself while everybody else is working on trying to save lives. but then for it to not work and for those efforts to actually make yourself look terrible in the process, well, that was -- that was -- that was part of today's news. and the full story of that

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susan rice served as president obama national security adviser in his second term and in the final weeks of the obama administration she says she made time for one final very, very final email. here's how she wrote it up in her memoir. she says the email was to memorialize a brief meeting president obama hosted with james comey, vice president biden and myself. the discussion followed a larger meeting in which president obama was briefed on the version of the intelligence community report in the recent election. obama was explicitly not seeking to inject himself in any law enforcement business and as always insisted we proceed by the book to avoid inappropriate white house involvement in matters. rather from a national security

advantage point obama wanted to know if there was any risk in fully sharing information related to russia with the incoming trump team. comey offered his best judgment which remains classified and agreed he would let the president know if anything changed. this is what i wrote up as a summary of that brief conversation. i say that was a final email because secretary rice sent herself that email on the day, on the last day that the obama administration existed before president trump became president. she wrote up that summary. she emailed it to herself, ccing her deputy as national security adviser. and the reason you do that, the reason you write a note to file is so that something like that will be in the file, so something like that can't be disappeared. she memorialized that conversation. and except for not spelling out what she described as comey's

best judgment on whether there was risk the in sharing information about russia with the incoming trump team, that assessment from james comey was still classified so she couldn't describe that. apart from that susan rice described what was in that email she wrote to herself on inauguration day. senate republicans have decided this is a scandal and have tried to demonize susan rice from day one. they've been chasing this specific email since early 2018 since just after susan rice's successor, mike flynn, pled guilty for lying to the fbi about his repeated contacts with the russian government. maybe it's just because mike flynn and now the trump justice department want to take that guilty plea back from mike flynn. maybe it's because we're about to have an election and rice

could be a vice presidential running mate. lindsey graham has announced plans to subpoena officials from the obama administration. that list includes susan rice. and today the trump administration decided they would declassify that final email from susan rice, the email she wrote to herself, that memo to file. they decided they would declassify it to let everyone see the untold evil that must lie within, the spoke coming from that smoking gun. now we can see the part that was previously classified, the part that susan rice wasn't able to herself disclose because it was previously classified. this is the part that republicans were so sure is a terrible smoking gun and should be shown to the american people. this is what they wanted us all to know. quote, director comey affirmed that he is proceeding by the book as it relates to law enforcement. from a national security

perspective, comey says he does have some concerns that incoming national security adviser mike flynn is speaking frequently with the russian ambassador. comey says that could be an issue. president obama asked if comey was saying the national security counsel shouldn't pass sensitive information related to russia to flynn. comey replied potentially. he added he has no information thus far that comey has passed information to the russian ambassador but noted that, quote, the level of communication is unusual. the president asked director comey to inform him if anything changes the next few weeks that would effect classified information with the incoming team. comey says he would. that's the smoking gun? who was holding it exactly? that's the mystery paragraph republicans have been hell bent on seeing themselves and exposing to the public, the fbi director saying he would proceed by the book but there might be a problem with the incoming trump

national security adviser because at a level of his communication with the russian government is unusual and i'm not sure we should let him see anything sensitive when it comes to something that the russian government ought not get their hands on. that is what senate republicans have finally pried loose today. that's their big prize. i don't know if this is their quarantine project but i imagine they would prefer now that this is out, they would have preferred to spent this time doing more jigsaw puzzles. joining me now is the former chief of staff of the pentagon and the cia. mr. bash, it is nice to see you. thank you for being here tonight. >> hey rachel. >> as you can tell, i am a little bit flabbergasted by this story. i'm a little bit up to here in terms of everything that's going on, in terms of the coronavirus response and the trying to blame other people, trying to distract from other things. big picture though, i see this as a real on goal on the part of the trump administration and republicans who are really out to blame the obama

administration and get them by showing that they were very concerned for good reason about mike flynn's communications with the russian government. >> yeah, rachel. what was the context here? the fbi and the national security agencies were looking into russian interference. not only that vladimir putin had directed russian interference in the 2016 election but that they were doing so to benefit donald trump. and as the susan rice memoir that you referenced noted, the administration had been reviewing a classified document that outlined all of this russian interference. this document of course was ultimately declassified and led to the special counsel investigation. so, on january 5th, the key national security -- at the white house -- by the book.

>> jeremy -- i -- as soon as i started interrupting you, your audio came back, but it was otherwise like a pixilated nightmare there for a second where we could neither see nor hear you. do you by any chance have a back up phone on you that you can speak into now that i can see you again? >> sure. >> hey, there you go. see, that's all it takes is triple defense. very good. say what you were just saying in terms of the by the book request by the president that this be handled as a by the book matter. say again what you were saying about that request from the president and that assurance from james comey. >> absolutely. the president made clear that he wanted the fbi director to handle any law enforcement matters strictly by the book. and according to this contemporaneous email that susan rice, comey provided that assurance to the president.

and susan rice makes clear in that email that the congress was not asking about, initiating, or instructing anything with respect to a law enforcement matter. they were concerned about the national security implications of mike flynn having so many conversations with the russians, conversations he ultimately misled the vice president about and the justice department said wait a second, this guy can be blackmailed by the russian federation. the incoming national security adviser could be blackmailed by the russian federation because he's clearly covering up conversations he's having with a u.s. adversary. >> jeremy, let me just ask you how you feel about, and how you view the recent developments around the flynn case. we've got the justice department moving to drop the charges. we've got the lead prosecutor in the case abruptly resigning from the case. goeft the judge overseeing the case appointing a retired judge -- very unusual move -- appointing a retired judge

basically to argue against the justice department dropping the charges against flynn into looking whether or not flynn may have committed criminal contempt and lying to the court. and now we've got in congress we've got the effort to expose -- in congress and in the administration -- to expose people from the obama administration who took a look at those intelligence reports to see who this american private citizen was who was cautioning the russian government not to worry too much about the sanctions that were being imposed on them for their interference on the election. i mean, all of these things happening at once. it seems like lindsey graham is going to try to turn the time between now and the election into an opportunity to bring obama officials in under subpoena to question them over this stuff. big picture when you look at this, how do you view this and how soeerious a situation is th? >> two things, rachel. first, the career prosecutors at doj, the senate confirmed trial judges in the district court are

very concerned here, and they are pushing back at what they view as a side door or back door pardon effort by the president of the united states outside of traditional constitutional processes. so, with respect to the flynn prosecution, we can see the discomfort that the professionals have, but i think at the end of the day trump will probably pardon him if he doesn't get his way. with respect to what's happening on the hill and the unmasking deal, that's a process when you're a national security professional, reading intelligence reports, interesting in what a foreign official is saying but you're talking to an american known as person one in the report, you need to know who the person is. you don't know x ante who the person is which makes me laugh because everyone is saying susan rice tried to unmask mike flynn. if she knew it was mike flynn,

she wouldn't have had to request his name be unmasked. it was done by the way rachel 16,000 times in 2018 under donald trump as compared to about 9,000 times under president obama. this happens about 40 times a day. this probably happened twice in the hour since you've been on the air. this unmasking process is a very routine process. it's well overseen. there's no scandal here. >> jeremy bash, former chief of staff of the cia and the pentagon. thank you for taking the time to help us understand this, particularly since we had to hurdle technical difficulties. it's great to have you here. >> thanks. >> much more. stay with us. >> thanks. >> much more stay with us ays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong.

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arizona is one of the states in the country where the state government is getting more and more parsimonious in terms of releasing information about the epidemic in their state. they originally fired university modelers who were working on making projections about the

epidemic in that state. then they brought them back after a public outcry. they've only tested less than 1,000 of the 41,000 plus prisoners in the state, so we really don't know what's going on in the state's prisons. there are believed to be new outbreaks in arizona meat packing plants but the state isn't releasing that information either. and we also don't know how many arizona nursing homes have coronavirus outbreaks or how many residents have died from the virus because the state won't release that information ether. but that explanation for why they're not releasing the data on nursing homes has evolved in a weird way. the government and the state's top health official cited the federal medical privacy law as the reason they couldn't tell the public where nursing home outbreaks were happening. that makes no sense because the federal hipaa law is about personal information releasing names of nursing homes with outbreaks is not personal information. two weeks after that, they were asked again. this time they gave a different

reason. this time they said it wasn't the federal privacy law. they said it was a state privacy law that prohibited releasing the information and they would only tell the public which nursing homes had outbreaks if a judge ordered them to do so. the media outlets sued the states to get the names of the nursing homes. the state is fighting that as well. but now they're doing so in court with a third excuse. the state of arizona is arguing in court they cannot and will not release data on outbreaks and deaths in the state's nursing homes because it would be, in their words, bad for business. it would be bad publicity for the nursing homes that have coronavirus outblaeks. quote, the department and this court cannot ignore the reality that disclosure of the records at issue is likely to cause harm to the businesses and their

residen residents. really? more harm than them dying from coronavirus? calling the excuse, quote, truly astounding. joining us live is will humble. he's the former director of the arizona state department of health services. he's the director of the arizona health association. i appreciate you coming back to talk to us about this stuff. >> good evening. thanks for the chance. >> am i right that this is the third evolving explanation for why they can't release the nursing home data? >> yeah. the first two arguments were really public arguments during press conferences and stuff like that. and they essentially you heard the health director invite a lawsuit which now there is one. and in those court documents, the new argument came up which is that it would be, in quotes, financially detriment toll the facility, if we were to release that information. they used another excuse too which was -- get this one -- it would have effect on the

community's trust that the department can prevent infectious diseases. that's another one that was in the court document. >> it would seem to have a deleterious effect on the confidence in the department of health if the department of health lies to them and hides information from them about where the virus is and what facilities might need the most help in keeping people alive. it seems like -- i know a lot of sfats don't want to release this information. but these arguments are just confounding. >> you know, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me either. here's the thing. if you look at it from a big picture point of view, when i was a health director i always felt like transparency is what improves the public's trust in your agency's ability to do work. and when you have trust with the community then you can get better results because people trust you. and if you hide information and if you are not transparent, people just naturally have a lower level of trust with you. so, it's really -- you know, i

don't understand the decision making here, but nevertheless there it is. >> you used to run the arizona department of health services, as you said, do you think that this is likely a health department decision, or is this the sort of thing that the governor might be leaning on the health department to try to prevent this information from coming out because he doesn't want to answer questions about it? >> you know, it's hard to tell. i'm not behind closed doors anymore. i'm not in those conversations. so i don't really know. i know that they are very sensitive to stakeholder sort of concerns about this, especially in the industry. but on the other hand, you know, you have a big stakeholder group here called the aarp, and they're super interested in this. so, you know, the public as a whole is really interested in these results, and you are know, what's happening out there in nursing homes, but especially at aarp. and as you mentioned at the top, arizona is sort of on the bottom -- actually we're 51st when it comes to testing per

capita. and that in and of itself makes people nervous. and then you combine that with the fact that the lack of transparency is out there and not really allowing folks to ged like to have about their loved ones and the facilities that they're living in. it just compounds that lack of trust, i think. and i think it's counterproductive. >> executive director for the arizona public health association, former health state director, sir, thank you very much for your time tonight. i am confounded by what arizona is doing here. we'll stay on the story. thanks for being here. >> thanks. we'll be right back. stay with us. back. stay with us so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment

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