his show, "all in with chris hayes" airs weeknights, 8:00 p.m.n msnbc our friend chris hayes is here but first, "a closer look. >> seth: hello everyone, and welcome back to the attic crawl space. on monday, we answered a question many viewers had been wondering about, what's behind that tiny, little door back there when my kids escaped at the end of "closer look. now, a lot of people online have said they were adorable, and too cute for words and i assure you they are. in nine second chunks. also, some of you might be looking at me right now wondering, does seth know he has already worn that shirt? and yeah, i know i promise you, i know. and i do wish i had a deeper roster of shirts, but in my defense, no one warned me multiple times about the possibility of a pandemic because i'm not the president. that's a segue and now, even after ignoring those warnings, the president is pushing to prematurely reopen the economy, threatening to repeat the mistakes he made at the start of this crisis for more of this, it is time for "a closer look." ♪ >> seth:

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i'm chris hayes.as we enter yet another week of staying at home, the coronavirus pandemic has now taken the lives of nearly 42,000 americans. it's been over a month of social distancing. six weeks in some places and so it is extremely understandable and i say this as a personal expression of how i feel people are eager to get back to some kind of normal and there really is encouraging news out of new york where the one-day death toll fell below

our special coverage "all in with chris hayes" is up next. i'm chris hayes. tonight, the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi will join me here, as the president tries to steer the country towards a premature reopening. we also saw what happened in the last few months, right? three absolutely deadly errors made from the beginning of the pandemic by the president and his administration. one, just not taking the virus seriously enough. not appreciating what a dangerous novel virus it is from the beginning. two, not having adequate testing capacity. and three, thinking that the problem to be managed is the economy as if that is somehow separate from the public health emergency of fighting the virus. those mistakes gave us the whole disastrous response from the white house. the failed test kits. the utter inability for weeks to ramp up testing, to know where the virus was. the fact that they took way too long to begin to recommend social distancing. the fact the president during this period would come out and do a series of song and dance are you

don't go anywhere, "all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> good evening from new york.not right what is going on in america right now. it is not right. i mean, all of it, the public health disaster we could have mitigated, the economic devastation, the tens of millions of americans are now facing. specifically, the way this country is now failing to honor with dignity and grace the more than 62,000 men and women we have lost. we have all seen the stories about the overwhelming number of fatalities. at one funeral home in new york 50 decomposing bodies were found

"all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.rt with a small bit of reporting from the associated press that crystallizes the fundamental problem we face now as a nation. here is the quote from it. trump campaign officials have expressed worry that he could be pushing to open things too quickly and that any resulting deaths will not be forgiven by voters in november. that's the quote. the president's campaign advisors are trying to get the president not to go down a path that will result in thousands of people dying unnecessarily because they think it will be

"all in" with chris hayes starts next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. president donald trump is so concerned primarily overwhelmingly with how the coronavirus pan dedemic affectss day to day political fortunes with hundreds of thousands of cases and tens of thousands of deaths in this country, he is still to this date over riding scientific experts to try to make it through each new news cycle. today we got the latest example of this extremely dangerous pattern, fixation of the president putting his own p.r. over silence. this story broke yesterday. it didn't get a lot of attention. a strange story. the director of a government agency that plays a big role on vaccine development left his post. weird. kind of out of nowhere. i mean, why would this guy, dr. rick bright suddenly leave in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century to go to some other less important position in the government? dr. bright spent his entire career in vaccine development and was previously responsible for preparing the nation for influenza pandemics and coordinating productio

don't go anywhere, kwlt a"all ih chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. georgia's republican governor brian kemp is now alone on a very dangerous island. he has decided with great fanfare you've seen it on our show and covered in the news to have his state georgia reopen first. starting tomorrow, governor kemp is reopening tattoo parlors, gyms, nail salons and massage studios. on monday restaurants are set to open or at least allowed to open. governor kemp presumably thought he would get a make america great again that a boy and the grass roots would rise up in his defense which is not crazy to think because if you turn on trump tv every day, you'll see them covering reopen the country and let us work protest all over the u.s. and so, you can understand why governor kemp would think there is some great american awakening happening as he sees americans on his tv screen rise up to say let's get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. guess what? there is not. that is not where the american peopl

don't go anywhere, "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from new york.is hayes. there's a strange time lapse playing out throughout the coup triright now. places that have been hit first and hardest by the coronavirus are further along the curve of growth. and those places are fairly dense urban areas, big metropolises in really bad shape. the grim reality of this virus is everyone, every single state is headed there. here are the latest numbers. we now have more than 240,000

"all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. i want to start with a small bit of reporting from the associated press that crystallizes the fundamental problem we face now as a nation. here is the quote from it. trump campaign officials have expressed worry that he could be pushing to open things too quickly and that any resulting deaths will not be forgiven by voters in november. that's the quote. the president's campaign advisors are trying to get the president not to go down a path that will result in thousands of people dying unnecessarily because they think it will be bad politics, it will be bad for his campaign as they try to get him reelected. that's the reporting. it shows the fundamental problem we're facing as a nation we've been facing for months. the reality is we have a million cases of coronavirus. we have more than 55,000 dead americans and they're not just numbers. every day more and more people, people that you and i know, friends of yours or loved withins or loved ones of friends, i remember at the beginning of

"all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.s now on lockdown. the coronavirus is coming for everyone, and there is no way to fight it yet other than staying home, at least as of this moment. nearly 4 billion people around the world have been ordered to stay inside and so this is what that lockdown looks like across the planet right now. some of the busiest places in the world, times square here in new york city, london,

"all in with chris hayes" is up next. from new york, i'm chris hayes. there's a concerted effort on the part of influential network that we all call trump tv to peddle dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus. call it coronavirus trutherism. the question at issue is one whose answer should be obvious to everyone, is this disease really as deadly as the vast majority of experts tell us it is, as we've all seen with our own eyes. last night, one host told his viewers that experts are wrong. we should lift the lockdowns because it's not as deadly as we thought. >> just today, the san francisco bay area announced it will extend its lockdown to the end of may, five weeks from now. what is the scientific justification for doing that? they didn't tell us, because there is none. none. you may remember what they first told us back in february and march. they said we have to take radical steps in order to "flatten the curve." well, six weeks later, we're happy to say that curve has been flattened, but likely not because of the lockdown. the virus just isn't

i'm chris hayes. it has been another bad day in the battle against the virus. i wish i could say otherwise but that's where we are. we are seeing accelerating cases and accelerating deaths. there are now more than 211,000 coronavirus cases in the u.s. and at the last count and this is changing frankly minute by minute and i wish it weren't, there with more than 4700 fatalities. this chart shows u.s. cases dating back to march 1st. just a month ago when we had 89 confirmed cases. you can see the increase over the past month. cases are now growing by tens of thousands nationwide every day. and even the sunniest voices in the administration that repeatedly played down the threat and looked into the camera to tell americans the risk was low like mike pence are now saying we in the u.s. are on track similar to the hardist hit countries. here is the vice president quote, we think italy may be most comparable area to the united states at this point. italy. where despite a national lockdo lockdown, hospitals are overwhelmed, doctors, many of whom do not have sufficient

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.ht amidst a conver sagts abosation everybode on. first principle is that total shelter in place lockdown is not a sustainable open-ended way to run american society. for any number of reasons, there is only so long we can do this. i say that as a journalist who is in contact all day every day with many sources, and also as a parent with school-aged children trying along with my wife to home school them every day. the current status quo cannot exist forever. we agree on that. that's principle one. principiple two is we're not gog back to the pr

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. let's begin tonight amidst a conver sagts abosation everybode on. first principle is that total shelter in place lockdown is not a sustainable open-ended way to run american society. for any number of reasons, there is only so long we can do this. i say that as a journalist who is in contact all day every day with many sources, and also as a parent with school-aged children trying along with my wife to home school them every day. the current status quo cannot exist forever. we agree on that. that's principle one. principiple two is we're not gog back to the precoronavirus normal any time soon. huge parties with thousands of people packed into a frat house on a college campus or crowded rock concerts in giant arenas. sold out broadway shows. football stadiums filled with 100,000 people packed next to each other. i think it's pretty unlikely any of those will look how they looked before. we're going stand further away and crowd into spaces and we're going to wear masks and workplaces th

i'm chris hayes. perhaps you've noticed a small but growing chorus, loud chorus arguing it is time to move on from this pandemic, throw the doors open to the economy, anything less than that is tyranny at these protests that have broken out where you can find plenty of trump gear with guns and the occasional confederate flag flown in michigan of all places. these protests are being organized by some of the right wing interests behind the tea party protest against president barack obama. where do you think these protesters get these ideas? today, the president unveiled his guidelines for quote opening up america again, the plan, if you want to call it that is 18 pages. it may have some states effectively reopening in a month. here is the thing, the president does not want states to ease into this. he thinks we can make a full on return to normal. >> there's not going to be a new normal where somebody has been having for 25 years 158 seats at a restaurant that now he's got 30 or he's got 60 because that

"all in with chris hayes" is up next. from new york, i'm chris hayes.ed effort on the part of influential network that we all call trump tv to peddle dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus. call it coronavirus trutherism. the question at issue is one whose answer should be obvious to everyone, is this disease really as deadly as the vast majority of experts tell us it is, as we've all seen with our own eyes. last night, one host told his viewers that experts are wrong. we should lift the lockdowns because

msnbc's "all in" with chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we're still on this friday in the midst of one of the worst disasters of the second world war and from the beginning, the president wanted to wish it away and tell us we have it totally under control as he said in january within a couple days the case count is going to be down to close to zero. as he claimed in february. he tried happy talk and spin and when none of that worked and the government failed to protect us with inadequate testing, he turned his attention to finding some magic pill, some bolt from the blue cure to make everything go away and make the economy come back and get donald trump reelected and so he seized on genuinely promising, though very limited initial signs about this malaria drug and day and night he, folks on trump tv flogged it and pushed it. >> a drug called chloroquine some would add hydroxy, hydroxychloroquine. it's been around a long time. if things don't go as planned, it's not going to kill anybody. >> if i had the choice, i would use it for me and i'

msnbc's "all in" with chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.n this friday in the midst of one of the worst disasters of the second world war and from the beginning, the president wanted to wish it away and tell us we have it totally under control as he said in january within a couple days the case count is going to be down to close to zero. as he claimed in february. he tried happy talk and spin and when none of that worked and the government failed to protect us with inadequate testing, he turned his attention to finding some magic pill, some bolt from the blue cure to make everything go away and make the economy come back and get

"all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.r solstice is the darkest day of the year and every day after the winter solstice is a little lighter but still very, very dark the day after the solstice and the day after that. that's where we appear to be here in the u.s. with the coronavirus pandemic with the first wave of the virus at or near the peak which is promising in the sense of what it means for where we might be in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks from now but it also means that what is happening now is as bad as it gets. more than 32,000 americans have died. we had our highest single day death

i'm chris hayes. want to start with a small bit of reporting from the associated press today, that crystallizes the fundamental problem we face now as a nation. here is the quote from it. trump campaign officials have expressed worry that he could be pushing to open things too quickly and that any resulting deaths will not be forgiven by voters in november. that's the q

"all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. half the planet is now on lockdown. the coronavirus is coming for everyone, and there is no way to fight it yet other than staying home, at least as of this moment. nearly 4 billion people around the world have been ordered to stay inside and so this is what that lockdown looks like across the planet right now. some of the busiest places in the world, times square here in new york city, london, england, rio in brazil, moscow, russia, here in the u.s., based on the data we have, which, again, we don't know if all that data is right, certainly not worldwide but based on the data we have, we're experiencing the largest outbreak in the world right now and we just had our worst day yet. nbc news counting more than 273,000 cases in the united states more than 6900 deaths from the virus. in the hardest hit state, new york, this is the scene in brooklyn's largest hospital where 32 coronavirus patients are now being treated in an area that normally only has 17 beds. and the number of coronavir

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. ♪ >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.his is the image that sums up today. a distopian vision of an election amist a pandemic. the milwaukee journal sentinel catch thing shot, a line of voters stretching down the block, all wearing masks, trying to physically distancing. one of them holding a sign reading "this is ridiculous." they were in the line to vote in among other things the wisconsin presidential primary. but that's not what today was about. for the state's republican party, the vote today was over a contested election for the state's supreme court. the situation today is an absolute disaster. as a public health crisis and also as an indicator of the health of our democracy. essentially, the wisconsin republican party decided that any deaths that might occur from this enterprise, this ridiculous enterprise, from holding an election in the middle of a pandemic will have been worth it. everyone you see here was exposed to unnecessary risk. that's just the basic fact, inescapable. forced to the polls because state rep

"all in" with chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.ing, from the first reports of a new mysterious pneumonia in china and the first intelligence reports that our government got, there's been a question that has hung over the entire u.s. government, over the whole world but our government specifically as it thought about how to deal with this. how fatal, how dangerous is this disease? even though we now know there is a stack of reports warning that the pandemic was coming that it posed an enormous public health risk, the people in the trump administration

keep it right here for chris hayes. ♪ >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes.ast week, the trump administration put forward its plan for "opening up america again." a clear signal to the states it was time to think about it, to get back to reopening. in fact, the president has been talking about more than that, he's been talking about a future with crowded restaurants, packed football stadiums and encouraging the small groups of very loud protestors, sometimes armed, who are trying to pressure governors to ease restrictions, who do

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we are about to enter what will almost certainly be the worst week we've experienced so far in terms of the human toll of this pandemic. just today, britain's prime minister boris johnson who was already hospitalized for coronavirus symptoms was moved to intensive care as his symptoms worsened. his aids report that he remains conscious and not on a ventilator. prime minister johnson asked his foreign secretary to stand in for him if necessary. here in the u.s., we have over 360,000 cases and close to 11,000 deaths. even with those awful incomprehensible numbers, we're starting to see signs that the lockdowns and physical distancing across huge swaths of the country is really working. but the way this virus works, the vie it's worked in every other country more or less is that fatalities are a lagging indicator so everyone is staring down at this week knows it is going to be really bad. this is how the surgeon general described what is ahead of us. >> the next week is going to be our p

"all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. they knew, they knew and they were warned. they knew and they knew and they knew and they were warned and they were warned and they were warned and they did next to nothing. there is a mountain growing by the day of investigative reporting how much the trump administration knew about the threat posed by the coronavirus, the extent to which this devastation we were living through at this moment was predicted and i don't mean an exercise from last year, though, there are those or warnings during the transition from the obama administration, there are those but this specific pandemic early on. "new york times" is the most shocking breathtaking blow by blow of the president's failure to do anything at all. quoting, throughout january mr. trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an ocho ray of figures from top white house advisors to ex ert maperte intelligence agencies identified the threat, sound aid laed alar made clear the need for action.

don't go anywhere, "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. there's a strange time lapse playing out throughout the coup triright now. places that have been hit first and hardest by the coronavirus are further along the curve of growth. and those places are fairly dense urban areas, big metropolises in really bad shape. the grim reality of this virus is everyone, every single state is headed there. here are the latest numbers. we now have more than 240,000 cases in this country. more than 5800 deaths from the virus. more than half of the cases are in just three states, new york which has more than 92,000 cases with new jersey and california. we are also seeing disturbing surges in a number of other states we've been keeping an eye on and tracking including florida, michigan and louisiana. here is the thing, the way this virus works is that not everyone will have exactly the same epidemic at the same time. the actual way the virus spreads in the community is the same everywhere. it the same virus. the same human bodies and that

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the virus is nasty. just the truth. a new study from the cdc suggests it's more chance misble than we know and deadly. we know that looking at the numbers day after day, thousands of americans dying day after day. we got a disturbing visual of that. hart island has been used as a potter's field for people's whose family cannot afford a funeral or go unclaimed by relatives. a giant trunch is dench is bein deal with the surge of bodies. a spokesperson for the department of corrections said the

"all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the winter solstice is the darkest day of the year and every day after the winter solstice is a little lighter but still very, very dark the day after the solstice and the day after that. that's where we appear to be here in the u.s. with the coronavirus pandemic with the first wave of the virus at or near the peak which is promising in the sense of what it means for where we might be in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks from now but it also means that what is happening now is as bad as it gets. more than 32,000 americans have died. we had our highest single day death total again today and that devastation is going to continue. it will be dark for awhile. we're going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. but the other side of this, course ever of course is the unprecedented economic devastation, right? j.p. morgan chase predicted unemployment will hit 20%. that's great depression levels. the unemployment claims we've seen are off the chart in terms of fili

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. ♪ >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.today. a distopian vision of an election amist a pandemic. the milwaukee journal sentinel catch thing shot, a line of voters stretching down the block, all wearing masks, trying to physically distancing. one of them h

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. here is the hard reality. the virus is nasty. just the truth. a new study from the cdc suggests it's more chance misble than we know and deadly. we know that looking at the numbers day after day, thousands of americans dying day after day. we got a disturbing visual of that. hart island has been used as a potter's field for people's whose family cannot afford a funeral or go unclaimed by relatives. a giant trunch is dench is bein deal with the surge of bodies. a spokesperson for the department of corrections said the island buried 25 bodies a week to 24 a day. "the new york times" reports funeral directors say they have been told any coronavirus victims not claimed within two weeks will be buried on hart island temporary. those are hard truths happening right now. that's what is happening. that's the toll of the virus and the economic toll which is incomprehensible. here is the line for one food bank in san antonio, texas. that food bank fed about 10,000 households on thursday alone.

i'm chris hayes. as we enter yet another week of staying at home, the coronavirus pandemic has now taken the lives of nearly 42,000 americans. it's been over a month of social distancing. six weeks in some places and so it is extremely understandable and i say this as a personal expression of how i feel people are eager to get back to some kind of normal and there really is encouraging news out of new york where the one-day death toll fell below 500 since april 2nd, there is a long, long way to go. the president is talking about the future with the country totally reopen, there will be restaurants crowded and college football stadiums in alabama will be full and the message is, we're passed the worst of it already. we're over the hump. we're going to get back to it. but if you're thinking in the long term and it brings me zero joy to say this, the reality is we are early in the parts of battling the pandemic. today alone we lost a1300 americans. this remains a four-alarm fire. this is not the decorati

don't go anywhere, kwlt a"all ih chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. chris hayes. georgia's republican governor brian kemp is now alone on a very dangerous island. he has decided with great fanfare you've seen it on our show and covered in the news to have his state georgia reopen first. starting tomorrow, governor kemp is reopening tattoo parlors, gyms, nail salons and massage studios. on monday restaurants are set to open or at least allowed to open. governor kemp presumably thought he would get a make america great again that a

. >>> good evening from new york i'm chris hayes. the u.s. has had among the worst most catastrophic responses to the coronavirus among pure nations in large part because the president has failed at every turn and the result is unprecedented illness and misery and death and that doesn't include the economic devastation that has been this president's sole focus from the beginning as he attempts to save his political future. that means the toll of this virus becomes more and more clear every single day and can't be happy talked away. president trump now needs to find someone to blame for the crisis that he helped bring about. that's what today has been about for the president, a day after telling nation's governors you're going to call your own shots. he tweeted the states have to step up their testing. as "the washington post" reports trump's the buck stops with the state's posture is largely designed to shield himself from blame should there be new outbreaks after states reopen or for other problems according to administration officials invol

"all in" with chris hayes is next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. what will almost certainly be the worst week we've experienced so far in terms of the human toll of this pandemic. just today, britain's prime minister boris johnson who was already hospitalized for coronavirus symptoms was moved to intensive care as his symptoms worsened. his aids report that he remains conscious and not on a ventilator. prime minister johnson asked his foreign secretary to stand in for him if necessary. here in the u.s., we have over 360,000 cases and close to 11,000

i'm chris hayes. it has been another bad day in the battle against the virus.d say otherwise but that's where we are. we are seeing accelerating cases and accelerating deaths. there are now more than 211,000 coronavirus cases in the u.s. and at the last count and this is changing frankly minute by minute and i wish it weren't, there with more than 4700 fatalities. this chart shows u.s. cases dating back to march 1st. just a month ago when we had 89 confirmed cases. you can see the increase over the past month. cases are now growing by

keep it right here for chris hayes. ♪ >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes.ast week, the trump administration put forward its plan for "opening up america again." a clear signal to the states it was time to think about it, to get back to reopening. in fact, the president has been talking about more than that, he's been talking about a future with crowded restaurants, packed football stadiums and encouraging the small groups of very loud protestors, sometimes armed, who are trying to pressure governors to ease restrictions, who do not, for the record, reflect the opinion of the majority, indeed the vast majority of americans. the reality remains that it is not clear the country is ready to open in my full sense. and we need to ground the conversation in the reality of now, right? this is what now looks like. on sunday, there were 16 pages of obituaries in "the boston globe." 8 1/2 page out of new orleans. that is almost double the normal amount. 12 pages in connecticut's hartford current, the index on the left unkascharacteristicall stretching to the bottom. a

we're about to head into "all in" with chris hayes. i hope you have a good and pleasant weekend within the tough times we're living through and evbefore we go to "all in" we'll look at the press conference. >> i said you won't be there forev forever. 25 to 50 seats. don't worry about it. eventually you're going to be back to the scene that you used to have, which was -- look, i could tell you about and i'm not going to do it because i didn't want to bring it up but i can tell you about events that took place and i said things like you'll never do that again or you'll never do this again or i don't even want to mention the events. i don't want to mention what you're supposed to be doing because -- you know one of them was so horrible. i said a certain industry will be out of business, never happen again. two weeks later it was like nothing ever happened. hopefully we get rid of this. we have tremendous talent up here and all over including governors and local governments, state governments i. look forward to the time to me when we can r

"all in with chris hayes" is up next. ♪ >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.e are making some progress in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. but we remain this'veing a country that has not yet brought the virus under control nationally. today, the death toll surged over 3700 people in the u.s., hitting a tragic milestone. more people died of this virus in this country than in the september 11 attacks. today, we saw more than 700 deaths nationwide. this afternoon, the president, who claimed in early february the virus was under control, stood before a graphic proclaiming that the u.s. policy goal right now, the goal, the thing that we are shooting for, that his administration is attempting to pull off, is for between 100,000 and 240,000 americans to die from the virus. that's right, 240,000. apparently that is what his administration meant when they said the virus was contained when the president said it would go away like a miracle. hundreds of thousands dead. in new york state, the epicenter of the virus, there are now more than 75,000 confirmed case

"all in" with chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes.m the beginning, from the first reports of a new mysterious pneumonia in china and the first intelligence reports that our government got, there's been a question that has hung over the entire u.s. government, over the whole world but our government specifically as it thought about how to deal with this. how fatal, how dangerous is this disease? even though we now know there is a stack of reports warning that the pandemic was coming that it posed an enormous public health risk, the people in the trump administration just seemed completely and utterly clueless dismissing the threat posed by the virus. >> what's the mortality rate so far nationwide -- worldwide? >> worldwide i believe under 2%. >> how much under 2%? >> i'll get you an exact figure. i'll check with cdc on their monitoring worldwide mortality rate and i can get that for you. >> but you don't know the mortality rate today? okay. what's the mortality rate for influenza over the last, say, ten years? >> it's also right around

"all in" with chris hayes starts next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. president donald trump is so concerned primarily overwhelmingly with how the coronavirus pan dedemic affectss day to day political fortunes with hundreds of thousands of cases and tens of thousands of deaths in this country, he is still to this date over riding scientific experts to try to make it through each

our special coverage "all in with chris hayes" is up next. i'm chris hayes. tonight, the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi will join me here, as the president tries to steer the country towards a premature reopening. we also saw what happened in the last few months, right? three absolutely deadly errors made from the beginning of the pandemic by the president and his administration. one, just not taking the virus seriously enough. not appreciating what a dangerous novel virus it is from the beginning.

"all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. they knew, they knew and they were warned. they knew and they knew and they knew and they were warned and they were warned and they were warned and they did next to nothing. there is a mountain growing by the day of investigative reporting how much the trump administration knew about the threat posed by the coronavirus, the extent

i'm chris hayes.erhaps you've noticed a small but growing chorus, loud chorus arguing it is time to move on from this pandemic, throw the doors open to the economy, anything less than that is tyranny at these protests that have broken out where you can find plenty of trump gear with guns and the occasional confederate flag flown in michigan of all places. these protests are being organized by some of the right wing interests behind the tea party protest against president barack obama. where do you

nbc's chris hayes promoting a conspiracy theory that the trump administration inflated the death tollns of the president could take a "victory laclap." greg, you always feel so strongly about the media and i wanted to ask you, is there anything that you think the mainstream media will have an appropriate perspective on? >> greg: i think, i completely understand the poetical politics. it's a team sport thing, and like some viruses it's incurable. the only thing that bothers me is the media so clearly on one side, i'd like to change that but it's never going to happen. acosta asking whether trump had investments in hydroxy, as if trump would risk his reelection, his legacy for a couple hundred dollars in stock, it's just. even more is, it's not even a cost original. he stole that from that don't we do well, morning joe. i think we should to contact tracing on really dumb ideas in the media. identifying someone who's been near someone infected with the dumb idea and then try to trace it back. it starts with msnbc, then moves to cnn and goes back to nbc. if we could stop it we could preve

i'm chris hayes. there is a strange sort of time lapse playing out throughout the country.laces that have been hit first and hardest by the coronavirus are further along the curve of growth. those places are fairy big dense metropolises and they are in bad shape. every single state is headed there. here are the latest numbers. we now have more thnew york wit cases and new jersey and