host: i am jake sherman -- jake: i am jake sherman. i am joined by anna palmer to host an interview with democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she will join us to talk about how her district has been hit by the coronavirus, what needs to be done as far as economic relief and what congress will do, and the 2020 election. events thatrtual politico is hosting in the coming weeks, journalists from across the newsroom. if you have any questions for representative ocasio-cortez, you can tweet them and we will try to get to them at the end of our conversation. before she joins us in a few minutes, let's set the stage for where we are today. and number of weeks into the corona pandemic. you are in your house, i am in my, it is different from a lot of the live events we have done. made we can break it down in terms of what is happening at the white house and on capitol hill. and this effort to try to figure out when the u.s. can reopen for business. jake: welcome to my living room or my office. -- veryportant important things to th

i am right -- i'm joined by jake sherman. thank you so much for joining us. we are going to be talking about the response to coronavirus. and how democrats are facing the challenges related to voting in the primaries. mr. sherman: these briefings are among events politico is hosting. we are going to get right to our conversation with the chairman, but we would love to answer your questions. pleased with your questions and we will try to get to them. ms. palmer: let's get started. thank you so much for joining us. right now oncused the coronavirus pandemic. we are coming from our own respective homes. there is a lot of focus on washington's response. how do you grade the federal response so far? has been: the response one of gross incompetence. it is an utter failure of leadership. this president knew around the first of the year that this was a pandemic in the making. because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he ignored the advice of professionals like dr. fauci. those eight weeks that were lost during this. o

i am jake sherman. i am joined by my colleague anna palmer to post a virtual aoc.ook with she will talk to us about how by thetrict has been hit coronavirus and what congress is going to do in the coming weeks and months. >> today's briefings are among the political events politico is hosting across the newsroom. , youu have any questions can tweak them with the # atpolitico. let's just set the stage for where we are today several weeks into this pandemic. this is different from a lot of the live events we have done. let's break it down from what is happening at the white house and this overarching effort on figuring out when the u.s. can reopen for business. catch us up to speed. room or my office. -- veryportant important things to think about. the white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the economy and his estimation economy, which wasn't a good position before the coronavirus, and the president wants to get it back in

i am joined with my colleague, jake sherman, who wrote the playbook with me. we have dnc chairman tom perez. thank you so much for joining us we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to the 2020 election, and how democrats are facing challenges relating to voting and the coronavirus, etc.. jake: these briefings are part of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. we would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the #askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. anna: let's get started. chairman, thanks for joining us. we are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. we are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. how do you grady federal response so far? mr. perez: well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. it is an utter failure of leadership. this president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the cent

i am right -- i'm joined by jake sherman. thank you so much for joining us.e are going to be talking about the response to coronavirus

jake sherman, thank you very much and hans nichols, thank you, as well.gain, as hans just mentioned, the briefing has been moved back to 5:30. >>> up next, we're going to talk to our medical experts about how we can possibly start opening the country without millions more tests. that is the theme of the day. >>> and late, a surprise from bernie sanders. he's now formally backing joe biden. but will his supporters join him? ♪ more than ever, your home is your sanctuary. that's why lincoln offers you the ability to purchase a new vehicle remotely with participating dealers. an effortless transaction- all without leaving the comfort- and safety of your home. that's the power of sanctuary. and for a little extra help, receive 0% apr financing and defer your first payment up to 120 days on the purchase of a new lincoln. that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, i just love hitting the open road and telling people so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and look, it feels like i'm jus

. >> joining me now, msnbc host and business correspondent david gura, jake sherman and former administrator of the small business administration karen mills. jake is also a political contributor. david, these numbers were more than double what economists had expected and probably worse because of the way that people are trying to file and crashing the loons. just help us understand the magnitude of 6.6 million people looking for work just two weeks into or just a matter of weeks into this crisis. >> yeah. these numbers are dismal and discomforting, as well. you talk about the magnitude, that is the thing here. economists trying to reckon with the size and scope of this and what complicates it so much is this is an event that doesn't have a time horizon. yes, final point of this is going to be when the epidemic is curved and we don't know when that will be and fumbling blindly through this. looking to history and theory and getting the lessons from that but the simple matter is looking back to 1918 and had that pandemic some parallel there is but not a lot of data for an indication of how si

. >> the next question is from jake sherman. hi,i, so you are saying -- how are you. hope you are healthy. good. the governors of both parties have said the opposite of what you are saying, which is we need money, money is running out and we need it now, according to andrew cuomo. what is your -- rep. mccarthy: i am not disagreeing that they need money, i voted for the states to have money. we have $150 billion about to go out to them. let's remember what we are talking about here. inside the cares act there are provisions about appropriate money. when i look at all of the funds, and this is why the administration only asked for this one, this is the only one running out of money. and today is out of money, so it was appropriate the administration as us say we could go so we would not be here today. ahd the democrats -- had the democrats not said no last week, none of this would be a problem. so if i look at the account, it is not empty for states. if they request money, money is going out to them. the only place that has a sign up that says do not apply, is for small

i am joined with my colleague, jake sherman, who wrote the playbook with me. we have dnc chairman tom perez. thank you so much for joining us . we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to the 2020 election, and how democrats are facing challenges relating to voting and the coronavirus, etc. jake: these briefings are part of several coming in the coming we

. >> new york city congresswoman aoc joined jake sherman and anna palmer through videoconference for a discussion on the coronavirus response and the 2020 election. she was a supporter of bernie sanders. she was asked about the presidential campaign of joe biden.

joining us is jake sherman. pretty substantive and fact-based critique of donald trump's response that's sort of backed by weeks now of investigative reporting from your news organization, "the new york times" and the washington post that his response has been abysmal failure and all he writes back is something about her being overthrown. what does pelosi even do with that? >> a few things are happening at once. nancy pelosi are becoming much more sharp toward trump. she got more sharp over the easter holiday in a letter she wrote to her colleagues, she said, she was praying for the president and he's been abysmal leader, her words not mine, number two, nancy pelosi and donald trump, nancy pelosi someone he long respected, he said he would make pelosi speaker if republicans -- if democrats abandoned her, he thought that she deserved the speakership. it's ironic, at this time, as donald trump is lambasting her and chuck schumer they're going to deliver another big package for the his administration is in intense

jake sherman, one of my colleagues who covers capitol hill every day, jake, you heard what congressman jeffreys said there. let's talk a little about how we got here. this negotiation has dragged out longer than perhaps many people thought. it's been in many ways colored stymied by personal relationships, inside the come, among the leadership that have not necessarily -- you can call a lot of them flat out broken. it does look like, though, they are prepared to do something going forward? how did we get here? and do you think that the stuff that they are kicking down the road, the money that's going to be needed for states and localitys, you think they're going to be able to figure out how to come together and get behind that or not? >> here's a crazy thing here, i was just thinking about this when listening to this whole thing. everybody agreed on the baseline of the issue here, which is this ppp, this small business lending fund needed to be refreshed. now, they disagreed on what it would ride with, what other things would be included in that bill, but even the things that they kicke

jake: i am jake sherman. i am joined by anna palmer to host an interview with new york democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she will join us to talk about how her district has been hit by the coronavirus, what needs to be done as far as economic relief and what congress will ngress will do, and the 2020 election. an

jake sherman quoting the governor about scott gottlieb, his experience being invaluable for how and whencan responsibly live restrictions will keeping marylanders healthy and safe. that news from politico this morning. up next on the washington journal, we will be joined by michele evermore of the national employment law project to answer your questions about applying for unemployment but if its as job losses continue -- benefits as job losses continue to mount. later we will be joined by jarrett dieterle to talk about changes made to alcohol laws amid the pandemic. yesterday during a world health , andization press briefing executive director spoke about what countries should consider before they lift lockdowns. [video clip] >> once you raise the lockdown, you have to have an alternative method to suppress the infection. a way to do that is active case finding, testing, and isolation of cases. tracking contact and strong community education, participation, and ownership around physical distancing, hygiene, and giving communities ,he power to control infection managing their own physical

presidential politics and the coronavirus pandemic with polito playbook co-authors anne palmer and jake sherman. this is about a

you know, willie, jake sherm hadn't a list yesterday of all the things we were told early on, jake shermaneing wrong about this pandemic and i guess a lot is natural if not done in bad faith by the federal government and leader of the federal government, executive branch, at least, but we've, one thing that's up in the air right now has to do with masks, has to do with whether this is transmitted via aerosol, and many people are starting to believe that it is. it doesn't mean if you -- i read this morning, it doesn't mean if you jog past somebody you're going to get it, or if you're walking past somebody, five feet away year going to get it. it means in the room with somebody, share the same air. talk to them for a while then, yes. people are starting to believe it's not just the droplets as zeke said, it's also the aerosol. that you could get this from. so now suddenly wearing masks seems to make sense. >> yeah. and the cdc is in fact, joe, considering as we speak making a formal recommendation that people not just people who have been infected or feel sick, anyone who goes outdoors wear