monday, you have david letterman as a guest on your show. >> david letterman yes. >> i love it >> sethrst, we were like, "wow, we got david letterman. and we were like, "is he confused does he know which show this is?" [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> yeah, but that's like interviewing, like, michael jordan like, you know >> seth: absolutely. certainly, as a talk show host >> oh, yeah. >> seth: you know, i've had the pleasure of doing just once, but you are -- you're like -- it's like playing basketball against michael jordan you know what i mean >> it definitely is. >> and what's even more intimidating now, david letterman has god's beard. >> yeah. >> seth: yeah, he does hav [ laughter ] >> so, like you got to have some really good questions. >> yeah. >> seth: yeah, yeah, yeah. right. >> he's scary. >> 'cause he's gonna be like, "you know what i'm putting ten plagues on you family." >> yeah. [ laughter ] he has, like, that beard that's like, "yo, i walk around bare foot all the time. >> mm-hmm. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> you know what i'm saying? >> seth: yeah. the beard -- that bea

that's josh letterman and moira. thanks very much. let's get back to your questions.oining us now is the financial editor on nbc and host of the podcast, her money. glad to have you back. let's dive in with a question from jeremy. he asks, i only know about the stock market through my 401(k). what i don't understand is how the stock market isn't getting worse and worse. what happens to make the markets bounce back in days like these? >> it's completely understandable that people are confused about this. the reason that people are so confused and it is so confusing is this is -- the market is moving for basically two categories of research. when it seemed like it was likely that something would pass, you saw the markets react in a positive way. the other factor is there's a lot of computerized trading. it has to do with the volume of trading, the direction of trading, the number of shares that trade has. for those reasons it sends the market up as well. if you're investing through your 401(k) and you have a long time until retirement you want to make sure you are putti

nbc's josh letterman has been digging into this and joins us now. what is going on?his started out with the right intentions. officials wanted to get relief to hospitals out the door as fast as humanly possible. so they used the best data that they already had in their computers which turned out to be medicare spending rates from last year. but the problem as we know is that some parts of the country are far harder hit by coronavirus than other parts of it. if you look at the way this first $30 billion tranche of hospital aid went out, a state like new york got about $9,000, if you look at how many cases of covid-19 they have there. just across the border in new jersey, 71,000 cases, got about 13 grand for every covid-19 case there. but then far less hard-hit states like west virginia with about 718 cases got $351,000 while north dakota got $267,000 per covid patient out of that first tranche. and if you think about who doesn't really have medicare patients at all, pediatricians and children's hospitals essentially got no money out of the first tranche of aid. >> is

and david letterman was on either hiatus or he was away somewhere.s studio so we didn't have to try to figure out how to put a show together, you know, without a studio but this has been a much bigger challenge than a little fire at 30 rock. >> seth: what was the fire was it the koosh balls did the koosh balls blow up? those things are fire traps. >> yeah, finally the koosh balls said, "i've had enough." and just boom. [ light laughter ] >> seth: oh, they self-immolated >> yes, that's what it was yeah, it was something, though, to be in his studio, which is so many people, compared to our little crowd of, what, 300, and his crowd of 3,000 >> seth: i know. >> it was, like, crazy >> seth: it's funny, i don't know if people fully understand when they watch talk shows that some of them like ours are a lot smaller as far as the amount of people and even being a guest on those shows, when you walk out you realize, "oh, this is a much bigger place." >> even "the tonight show" i was shocked it wasn't bigger than it was. >> seth: yeah. >> the first time i did

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letterman in 1862 took over the medical corps. when he took it over, he devised the whole thing, now he created an ambulance corps. he also gave tests to surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. that's where it got better and better. 3 million fought in it, 600,000 died in it, 700,000 carried wounds off that battlefield. i was dealing with at this time, was the musket, it went in like a finger and came out like a fist and shattered that bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it whatsoever. even if you got shot with one of them in modern medicine, they couldn't put it back, they had to amputate because they blue it apart totally. 75% survived the amputations off the table and then decreased down to 65% due to disease that put in. the soldier came on my table in the morning, first one, nothing wrong with him, his survival rate was great about 70%. then if the next soldier came in, he had blood poisoning, bone infection, anything disease, i'm going to transmit it to the next soldier. if i'm operating blood's coming in here, body

letterman took over the medical corps. when he took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. now he created an ambulance corps where he could get the men off the battlefield quicker and faster. he also had to test the surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. that's where it got better and better. 3 million fought in it, 600,000 died in it. 700,000 carry wounds off of that battlefield. so what happens there is -- what i was dealing with at that time was really, boy, the musket went in like a finger and came out like a fist. it shattered that bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it whatsoever. even if you got shot with one of them in modern medicine, they couldn't put it back, they had to amputate because they blew it apart totally. the survival rate was great off my table, off the amputations. 70% survived the amputations off this table, but then it decreased down to about 60% due to the fact of disease that set in. the soldier came on my table in the morning, first one, nothing wrong with him, his

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and with apologies to david letterman, the number one least desirable item at the supermarket.ack of un-refrigerated liverwurst. it can't go bad if it was never good. you know, one world leader who is not ours has come up with an interesting way to fight the virus. and lead his nation. the president of turkmenistan has banned the word "coronavirus". if you say the c-word, you go to jail. why didn't we think of that? what could be the thinking behind that? does he think if you don't show the name it won't show up? this is a virus. not volgamo this guy even dressed up like a giant coronavirus nasal swab. this is the guy's name, i don't know, whatever it is, it's 900 points in scrabble. here's another shot. he looks like if dean cain was stung by a swarm of wasps, this is exactly what he would look like. meanwhile, in north korea, they are claiming they don't have any coronavirus. none, which seems unlikely, considering their neighbor, south korea, had thousands of cases and their other neighbor is china, which obviously had the virus, although to be fair, they've basically been i

and the political correspondent josh letterman joins us to break it down.heard in that story from tom, about what some of the confusion was. do we have any clearer sense of why there was so much confusion on day one? >> well, part of it, joshua, is the fact that the government did not give banks the guidance they needed to put it in to place until the 11th hour. literally just a few hours before midnight on the day that that was to go in to affect. and a lot of the banks, they don't have systems in place where their application system can talk to the small business administration. so, they are having to manually enter every application in, which is causing delays. people are not actually having the loans processed. they are applying for the banks that can get the applications on online, but they are not seeing the money yet. the other problem that we are seeing a lot of, joshua, is people finding out about the restrictions. they are finding out that they need to have a pre-existing relationship with the lender. bank of america, wells fargo, in order to get

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joining me now, josh letterman. josh, good morning to you. thanks for joining us.have some new reporting on this. tell us why so many are falling through the gaps here and which americans don't exactly qualify for these checks. >> part of it is the speed with which congress had to push this las vegas through very quickly and part of it is by design because lawmakers wanted to make sure that this coronavirus money went to people who really need it the most, people whose livelihoods are directly affected by the pandemic. but the result is there are a lot of people who are falling through the cracks and won't get the money. and one of the reasons is the way they set this up is if you're someone who is claimed as a dependent on someone else's tax returns, you are not going to be eligible for a coronavirus check. so that is leaving people out, such as college students, even 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds who might live with their parents. if they're claimed as a dependent. kids who are 16 and under, their parents will get an extra $5 let you know, but not if they're olde

. >> joining me now is josh letterman, nbc news national political reporter.osh, we're hearing a lot about this second task force. what is the latest? >> well, we know that president trump is putting this together. we expect to hear who is going to be on it in the coming days. it's not going to meet every single day like the coronavirus task force. we've been seeing them at the white house briefings. but also the cast of characters here is not going to be totally new. it's going to include people like mark meadows, the new white house chief of staff, the treasury secretary as well as larry kudlow, the head of the national economic counsel. these are people that are already advising the president quite regularly on these issues. and we know that when the president makes that momentous decision he's going to have to make about starting to reopen the country up, it's going to be about taking all the advice he's hearing from the doctors, dr. birx, dr. fauci and the others we see at the briefing and combining that information with the economic advice he's getting f

let's bring in josh letterman, josh is an nbc news national political reporter, josh, take a listen tohat speaker of the house nancy pelosi said about phase four of this bill. take a listen. >> i think right now, we need a fourth bipartisan bill. and i think the bill could be very much like this bill we just passed. i don't think that 350 is enough for small business. and i don't think that eight weeks is enough of a time to make a judgment about the viability of the business, and how long they keep on their employers. so i would like to go right back and say let's look at that bill, let's update it for what some other things that we need, and again, put money in the pockets of the american people. another direct payment. >> josh, how is that landing with congressional republicans? how quickly do you expect congress to move on phase four? >> well, craig, what just about everyone seems to agree on is that congress is going to have to do more, beyond that $2 trillion stimulus. the question is what, and how fast. with republican leaders in both the house and the senate suggesting give it

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joining me from the education department headquarters in d.c., my colleague josh letterman who has beening to look into this. it was an astounding statistic a few days ago. why has the education department had such a hard time shoveling money out the door that congress said shovel out the door? >> well, part of it, chuck, has been about this confusion over who exactly would be eligible. and perhaps it's not a huge surprise that president trump wouldn't want to send dollars to dreamers given his position on daca and on immigration, but it really had to go above and beyond the letter of the law. what's in the c.a.r.e.s. act which said that colleges and universities should have broad discretion to hand out these dollars as they should see fit. made no explicit reference to immigration status or immigration, but as a result of that confusion about who was eligible, we are seeing these delays with less than $1 billion of that $6.3 billion handed out so far. officials here at the education department telling me that only 1 out of 10 schools that have applied for that funds have gotten them so

nbc news national political reporter josh letterman has been following this story.s of confusion here. i'm looking to you to clear this up, to tell us who qualifies, how people sign up, do they need to sign up? can you break it all down for us? >> reporter: this has been just a real mess for people, frankly, alex over the last week as they tried to sort it out. if you're on ssi, as about 8 million people in that category, even as of today, more than a week after this game law, the government cannot tell you whether or not you need to file a tax return in order to get this money, but to try to simplify this for people as form as possible. if you filed a 2018 or 2019 tax return, you're good. they have your information. in you're on social security retirement or disability, then you are also already all set. you're not going to have to do anything other than possibly update your direct deposit information on an i.r.s. website that hasn't been created yet. if you don't file tax returns, you're going to want to file a simple tax return to make sure you get that money, bu

. >>> let's go to josh letterman with new reporting on the next wave relief payments.u tell us about that. >> the first ones went out on friday night according to the irs. we want to be clear with people. they're only going to get one coronavirus payment unless congress authorized a new round but not everyone will get the money at the same time. so you'll see them sent out in waves as the irs and the treasury are able to process more and more americans. and a senior treasury department official told me tens of millions of americans will see payments directed into their bank account by wednesday april 15th. on april 17th, this coming friday, the deadline the irs set to have a new website a portal similar to the ones that you use to check the status of your tax refund but you could use it to see when your payment is coming. and if you need to, you could update your direct deposit information with the irs. later in april social security resip yenl yen recipients will see those and the paper checks will be mailing out starting in may. and if you wonder whether there is mor

joining me now is josh letterman. josh, look, the more we are reporting on anti-body testing and learning about it, i'll be frank with you, there is not one out there that sounds like it's reliable yet. >> right. we remember the excruciating delays in february and march as the u.s. is trying to ramp up testing for the diagnosic test that's tell whether you you have covid-19 right now. and so when it came to the anti-body test that's tell whether you you might have had it in the past, the fda swung the pendulum in the other direction to say instead of a really lengthy exact process to validate these, we're going to go ahead and let companies made these start selling them right away. they validated themselves that test works without any fda review. and that's why it's exactly what you said. it's the wild west out there. we have all of the tests on the market. >> let me pause you there. let me just pause you there. because i want to sort of reword what you said there. because it's the same thing that they found out the f