editor for "the washington post" david ignatius, and historian and author of "the soul of america," jon meacham. >> jon, i look through these names and there's dwayne valk from mission, kansas, a proud army vet who served in world war ii. mary santiago from evanston, illinois, who just loved being a mom. april dunn, a 33-year-old advocate for disability rights in louisiana. thomas reel from newton, pennsylvania, who was at peace most when he was on his harley. like "the times" said, they were us. a green bay packers ticket holder, the leader of a prayer circle, a college basketball assist winner, a tony award winning writer, an innovative high school principal, a nurse in the covid fight, an assistant pastor, and a dad who dedicated his entire life to his children. and, jon, there seems to be no historical parallel though i know a lot of people remember back in 1969 when "life" magazine showed one week's dead in vietnam and it jarred the nation to its core. i suspect this will serve as a wake-up call for those who thought we could just sort of turn our eyes and move on. >> i salute "the new yor

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is that it's going to require a kind of marshall plan of testing and rebuilding out of this. >> jon meacham, the new host of a quarantine essential podcast along with all of his other writing. jon, our thanks as always. >>> coming up for us on a friday night, an unfortunate consequence of covid-19 on a specialty industry with an enthusiastic consumer base when we come back. >>> a devastating trickle-down effect of this coronavirus for beer lovers. think about it. with most bars and restaurants still shuttered, think of the beer industry. their product goes bad. it's sitting in kegs in those bars and restaurants. think about sports arenas. it's a product that's been separated from its potential consumers, and in many cases it has to now be destroyed. it's bad for the big brands, yes. it's especially bad for craft brewers. we get our report on this tonight from nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. >> reporter: poured and stored in kegs all across the country, a growing dilemma for america's brewmasters. >> as a small craft brewer, the covid-19 crisis hit us pretty hard. >> reporter: brewery

is that it's going to require a kind of marshall plan of testing and rebuilding out of this. >> jon meachamthe new host of a quarantine essential podcast along with all of his other writing. jon, our thanks as always. >>> coming up for us on a friday night, an unfortunate consequence of covid-19 on a specialty industry with an enthusiastic consumer base when we come back. ♪ we hope you find our digital solutions helpful to bank safely from home. deposit a check with your phone or tablet. check balances, pay bills, transfer money and more. send money to people you know and trust with zelle. stay safe. stay home. together, we'll get through this. pnc bank daddy, i found you! good job. now i'm gonna stay here and you go hide. watch your favorites from anywhere in the house with the xfinity stream app. free with your xfinity service. now any room can be a tv room. stream live tv, on demand shows and movies, even your dvr recordings. download the xfinity stream app today to stream the entertainment you love. >>> a devastating trickle-down effect of this coronavirus for beer lovers. think about i

presidential historian, pulitzer prize winning biographer jon meacham is with us, the host of a veryhoughtful pod cast called hope through history so it's a five-part audio documentary series exploring other trying times of american history, how the nation dealt with those crisis and presidential historian is back with us tonight. two men with the best words and extensive canon of works between them, gentleman, thank you both for joining us tonight. hopefully you'll have better luck talking than your humble host. michael, as we head into a memorial day weekend in america, where do you put your country right about now? who are we and where are we? >> we are a country that's been through all sorts of calamities and difficulties and challenges all the way from valley forge to the first year of the civil war to depressions and natural disasters. what we usually have is leadership of the country is confident. in and i think what people are going to have to answer is this question about donald trump and his leadership through this in the last four or five months. did he do everything he co

azar and jon meacham including for the impromptu dork intervention. we can all use that from time to time. and bill, we're not done with bill kristol. that's all i'll say about that. i'm going to see him later on this hour. >>> coming up we do have some policymaker, including chairman adam schiff. i'm very excited to hear his views on this outgrowth of the mueller russia probe and the intervening in michael flynn's case. >>> also, the story we've been covering the arrest. an investigation of a third person now under way. >>> also, we have a special report tonight that i want to share with you about what we can do and learn about which states are getting it right, and also some problems in new york that may have helped spread this virus further around the nation. >>> and then later, by the end of the hour, a very special friday night segment with fat joe, and yes, bill kristol reunited, it feels so good. i'm ari melber. you're watching a special edition of "the beat" on msnbc. c and private clouds, and hybrid clouds- things can get a bit cloudy for you

coming up, jon meacham is in his own words on the end of an era of the consoleer in chief.y don't want to miss it. >>> plus, former congressman carlos cabell lo as the president pedals conspiracy theories and undermines elections. >>> and i will talk to senator gary peters as he faces a difficult re-election. we are back after this. ces a difficult re-election. we are back after this at's why i've got the power of 1,2,3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved, once-daily 3 in 1 copd treatment. ♪ with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to open airways, keep them open, and reduce inflammation for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes

as part of his great new podcast, the historian jon meacham spoke to the author david oshinsky about what it was like growing up during the polio outbreak. >> polio, of course, was the great summer plague, and i would come back to school, and i'd see kids in leg braces. i'd see kids in wheelchairs, on crutches, the occasional empty desk of a child who hadn't made it through the summer and had died of polio. >> it took decades before dr. jonas salk successfully developed an injectable vaccine that he first tested on his three children. >> it was a national fight against polio, and because it was funded nationally by things like the march of dimes as well as the government as well as foundations as well as drug companies that agreed to share the intellectual property, you could -- everybody could get the polio vaccine when it came out. and we all lined up for it. and of course salk didn't even patent the vaccine. >> who owns the patent on this vaccine? >> well, the people, i would say. there is no patent. this is -- could you patent the sun? >> for more, we welcome to the broadcast dr.

and you know, i think jon meacham there, one of my favorite writers, said he makes richard nixon looke a goodwill artist, or you know, somebody coming into your, greeting your children in a very friendly way. and i just don't -- i don't think it's easy to get out of it, and i think it's not going to be solved, frankly, until after the elections, until we have one or the other side wins, and even then it's going to be difficult. but having a president that makes richard nixon, you know, look in a way he does now is stunning. >> as we've been discussing -- >> mr. rogers, come to your neighborhood. >> you think that he makes richard nixon look like mr. rogers. >> looks like mr. rogers. i was stumping there for a second. >> i want to play what we heard from dr. deborah birx, who was expressing her concern this morning about some of the images that we've been seeing this weekend. watch this. >> out of respect for each other, as americans that care for each other, we need to be wearing masks in public when we cannot social distance. it's really critically important. we have the scientific e

maybe we need to get jon meacham or michael beschloss here to explain this to us. >> indeed. i just read the entire book on the 1918 flu pandemic and searched throughout for 1917, and there it is, 1918 right there in the title. i can't thank you three enough for joining us after another long week that we've all experienced late on a friday night. susan page, shannon pettypiece, dr. irwin redlener, our great appreciation. >>> coming up for us, what will our new normal look like in this country? our next guest says it will all come down to three r's, recovery, restoration, reopening. >>> and later, a group of screen legends with a very special request for congress, and here's a hint. mitch mcconnell's probably not going to like to hear it. "the 11th hour" is just getting started on a friday night. there are times when our need to connect really matters. to keep customers and employees in the know. to keep business moving. comcast business is prepared for times like these. powered by the nation's largest gig-speed network. to help give you the speed, reliability, and security yo

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. >> jon meacham, thank you very much for joining us tonight.hope through history history." it's on my phone. you should get it on yours. and, jon, join us whenever you can to give us some hope through history. we really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, a very special last word in song to commemorate this memorial day. personal auto premiums. learn more at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] so here's to the strong, who trust in our performance and comfortable, long-lasting protection. because your strength is supported by ours. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. unlike ordinaryrength iwmemory supplementsr? neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. it's just that it's... lavender, yes it is. old spice, it's for men. but i like the smell of it. [music playing] >>> on this memorial day, "the last word" goes to bob kerrey, who was awarde

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i see a jon meacham back there and ed mcmorris just to start the conversation. rose, enjoy domestic life as much as lack of sleep will allow you. >>> when we come back, u.s. supreme court justice back at work electronically despite being hospitalized. an update on the condition of ruth bader ginsburg. our justice correspondent pete williams will join us for that. e williams will join us for that

i've got to ask you, jon meacham style, is there historical precedent to this, that a white house, stillnths later, 70,000 deaths in, still oblivious to the danger looming out there, and talking about the economy like the economy isn't going to be affected by doubling of deaths between now and june 1st? >> we've had terrible crises. obviously, the civil war, world war ii, the quality of leadership that we had then was extraordinary, not least in the ability of presidents lincoln and franklin roosevelt, to keep the public focused on its task. on the grim task that lay ahead. neither lincoln nor fdr ever tried to minimize the degree of suffering and sacrifice that was required. quite the opposite. franklin roosevelt in 1942, really on his own, went to meet with his allies and said, "our goal in this war is unconditional surrender of our adversaries." that was at a time when the brits, others thought, maybe we can cut some deal with the germans and get out of this with some sort of settlement. fdr said no, unconditional surrender. everybody knew that was lead leadersh leadership. we knew wh

. >> you're like jon meacham, we go all 27, we don't live just the last decade.caskill, you know who knew how to win world series in the 20th century as well as the 21st century. your st. louis cardinals. that's our baseball for a second, actually because we've already been talking it ten minutes, i just saw that varitek picture, that a-rod picture and i couldn't stop myself. but what's the latest that you've heard about major league baseball? does it look like we're going to get some games in maybe in july, starting in july? >> i don't know. i don't know if they're going to play without fans. i just know this has been one of the most pafl momeninful moment life sitting here listening to you guys wax on without being able to break in. this is where i miss the table. >> this is one of your worst moments. go ahead. >> i would talk about 1964, 1967, 2008, 2011, we can talk about how many world series championships teams have won in this -- without a huge payroll, by the way, in this -- in this century. so, hey, you know, this all began with the president refusing to

again, i'll ask you what we ask jon meacham all the time, are there any parallels in american historymerican president doing this? >> i think the parallel that is breaking my heart right now is to think about -- and i was there -- in the '60s when we had civil disturbances in newark and in detroit and in watts. there was a commission created by lbj. they thought, originally, it'd come out by saying they were provocateurs and agitators. instead, it had this conclusion, asking, what happened? why did it happen? what can we do to make it bet r better? >> we were moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal. it talked about the lack of right policing, the flawed justice system, poverty, condition in which people were living. this was 52 years ago. it makes me so sad as an historian and person, to realize we are still at a situation. we know what's happened during the covid situation, the disproportionate number of blacks and latinos who have been affected. and we ask the question why. it has to do with the conditions under which they're living, the overcrowded,