eugene robinson, carol lee, and hugh hewitt. welcome to sunday and a special edition of "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. as you can see, once again, we look a little different this week. this morning, and for the foreseeable future, i'll be anchoring "meet the press" from my home office as we here at nbc news practice social distancing. two images illustrate the week we have just been through. these all nurses in hard-hit new york city wearing, yes, garbage bags, because personal protective gear is unavailable. and this graph illustrates the almost incomprehensible rise in first time unemployment claims to a record 3.3 million. on a week when the united states passed 120,000 cases of covid-19 and 2,000 deaths, when we appear to pass china and then italy for the most cases in the world, president trump offered americans mixed messages. early in the week, the president s

carol lee. hugh hewitt. welcome to sunday and a special edition of "meet the press." >> we look a little different. we'll i'll be anchoring "meet the press" from my home office as we at msnbc news practice social distancing. these are nurses in new york city wearing garbage bags because personal protective gear is unavailable. this graph illustrates the almost incomprehensible rise in first-time unemployment claims to a record 3.3 million. on a week when the united states passed 120,000 cases of covid-19 and 2,000 deaths, when we appeared to pass china and then italy for the most cases in the world, president trump offered americans mixed messages. early in the week the president said he'd like america to be open again for business by easter. that the cure, he said, shutting down the economy, could be worse than the disease. mr. trump seemed eager to play the role of optimist in chief, leaving it to scientists, governors, and local officials to own the hard news about disease spread, shutdowns, and forced li

"washington post" columnist eugene 76orobinson, carol lee, hugh hewitt.ings are going to gett( worse in every metro arean the country, so hunker down.fá number two, i'm note1 prepared tell you my recommendations yet, but clearly new recommendations are coming. and number three, go find as a<á because we're struggling. andrea, what did you hear? >> exactly that. first ofok all, herxd recommendations clearly and dr. fauci's are going to be, you can't do this county-by-county approach. you can't mitigate this by ending it on tuesday7euju$e 15 days. it has to be extended. whether the president goes along with that remains to be seen. he did back down after a full day of confusion yesterday on whether or not he could have an enforced quarantine around the tristate area around new york, and it was only after governor cuomo went on tv and said that this would be the federal government declaring war against the states, that backed down and we saw vice president pence rushing in to the white house unexpectedly, not scheduled, last night. and then, of course, the c

choice between bernie sanders and one other candidate, you could sort of see, as you put it, as carol lee and her colleagues wrote, the subtle hand of obama kind of coming into play here in which they're clearing the field to some extent of the other moderate alternatives so that it is a biden versus sanders kind of contest. >> everybody strap in. super tuesday starts in hours. our great thanks to peter baker, to carolyn ryan, to donna edwards for starting us off on manic monday, i guess. >>> coming up, we'll have more on the coronavirus, the administration's response to it thus far. an expert on pandemics and the person who led the obama response to ebola among our guests. >>> and later, a retired u.s. four-star army general weighs in on trump's peace deal with the taliban. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a busy consequential monday night. which of your devices are protected by daily security updates? daily security updates... daily? i don't know. the only thing... i'm struggling with this. some providers you have to manually download updates to each device. comcast business secu

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