animal welfare it has been horrendous in and for many many years in fact just 2010 year old office of inspector general issued a very doable report on how terrible their inspections were they documented inspectors walking by dogs and just leaving of there you know that writing up these people and putting them out of business suspended really really bad the inspector general found several major problems with them foresman of the a.w.a. including finding a massive loophole that allowed breeders to sell puppies over the internet without a license and delaying confiscation of suffering animals to give violators a final opportunity to take corrective action before confiscation can occur even in extreme cases where animals are dying it is called the animal welfare you know it's not the the kennel really well for it it's the animals and yes even some of the good inspectors were there were inspectors in made sure that the building was clean and they had good shelter from the extreme. temperatures but the dogs of. the photo a lot of the focus of that was on inconsistency in some of the things our inspectors wer

one to have the s we did this is because we realize that at the office of inspector general has an independent oversight bodywe ha a goal, we could take the information and give it a platfor deliver it right to the leadership of h.h.s. and other offices in federal government their decisions.o help them make >> woodruff: maxwell is the assistant inspector general, department of health & human services. we with thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> woodrf: governor andy beshear of kentucky is one of the many leaders across the country competing wi federal government and other states to secure critical medical equipment needed by oispitals in his state. governor beshear us now from frankfort. thank you so much for talking with us. give us an upkeate. i believucky is a state 4.4 million people.f, wht, give us an overall update on how you are handling coronavirus at this point. >> well, thank you for having me. let me start the way i start every time i talk to kentuckians at 5:00 every day, we will get through it and get through it together. battling the croaftion is our patriotic duty as k

department of justice office of the inspector general and that is. a position in which i investigate f.b.i. agents the agents u.s. attorneys and others. it's difficult to to handle both jobs well and i've been pretty successful of both areas. i believe that it's imperative for me to continue in my career in the federal government because. as a role model in both areas of life so people when they come to our church and they found out that number one i am bi vocational that that's impressive because they can hold it all together and secondly because i am a man. and i treat everyone fairly that. i believe that is our. responsibility. as a god of 2nd chances. i am so pleased that we have so many people. that have been rehabilitated people been formally incarcerated former drug addicts former prostitutes gay members and we accept everyone as they are and we let them know that hey they may have made mistakes in the past but they are god is a forgiving and a merciful god we're here to tell. what happens with so many people the wind up being homeless is that

he was saying he plans to file a complaint with the office of the inspector general at the department health and human services, so this is certainly a story, anderson, that is not ending here. it's going to continue to evolve and sources have told us to expect for a protracted legal fight. bright is still fighting to get his position back as head of that office, but what we do know, anderson, from internal emails we obtained is that the leaders at the hhs, at the office of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, they have been trying to paper over this issue telling staffers not to talk to the media, telling them initially there was nothing to see here but obviously, bright's allegations that came out yesterday have certainly changed the picture and again, this is a key division responsible for fighting this pandemic and this is all shedding a really serious picture of turmoil in one of those key divisions. >> jeremy, we're also getting some new insight into why president trump reversed course, spoke out against the georgia governor's decision to reopen some businesses

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the volunteer effort co effort comes as a new report from the health and human services office of inspector generaleveals more than 300 hospitals had major concerns two weeks ago about lab results taking too long and not enough staff to run those ventilators if they were to get them, problems seen across the country and now in detroit. >> at beaumont hospital we have less than three days until n95 masks run out. at henry ford health system we have less than four days, and at the detroit medical center, less than ten days. at all three health systems, there are less than three days until face shields run out. in less than six days until surgical gowns run out. >> reporter: in louisiana, hospital admissions trending downward. the governor there saying they may be seeing a flattening of the cu >> i don't expect somebody to snap their fingers and all of a sudden all these patients are gone. that flattening of the curve, it will last a while but we'll stay underneath the capacity line and be able to take care of patients that are coming in. >> reporter: and one more hopeful sign this morning. california

by the way, christi grimm started at the office of the inspector general in 1999. she's served under four presidents, republican, democratic and idiotic. jon karl wasn't the only journalist who took shrapnel. trump repeatedly refuted a report. a report put out by his own administration that said hospitals have a shortage of supplies and long waits for tests. which we all know they do. this report made him so angry he even went after a reporter for "fox news." >> i know you don't want to talk about the inspector general report, but testing is still a big issue in this country. when can hospitals -- >> put the slide up again, please. >> when can hospitals expect to receive a quick turn around of the test results? >> are you ready? are you ready? hospitals can do their own testing also. states can do their own testing. states are supposed to be doing testing. hospitals are supposed to be doing testing. do you understand that? we're the federal government. we're the federal government. we're not supposed to stand on street corners doing testing. we have a brand-new tes

of my head. >> let me know, okay? if you find me his name, i would appreciate it. >> reporter: but sir. >> reporter: the inspector general's office at health and human services is a bit up in the air. the main ig quit his job a couple of days ago, a principal deputy has taken over. marcus, it's four inspector generals in the news. >> scott mcgrew live for us, thank you, scott. >>> santa clara county district attorney's office is sending a strong message to anyone who commits a hate crime during the pandemic. >> when you attack a member of our community because of their ethnicity, the color of their skin, or where you think someone is from, then you have attacked us all. >> the office put out this public service announcement. this morning on "today in the bay" i spoke live with santa clara county d.a. jeff rosen. he says the county has seen an increase in hate crimes since the pandemic. >> we're trying to educate people. we're all in this together. and the message of that psa was to remind everyone of what our values are and what our shared humanity is and to say, look,th just attacked an asian person, you've attacked all of us in

and michael atkinson was carrying out his duties of inspector general in the office of director intelligenceth the type of integrity and honesty that we want of a public servant. but i also wonder whether or not in addition to punishing mr. atkinson, he may be trying to prevent other types of infractions that an inspector general might be considering, in light of the fact that we have somebody and he has sacked a number of senior officials at the national criticism center, and there are reports that he's thinking about cutting back significantly on the intelligence community resources. and so i think this is something that we have to be very concerned about, that the removal of michael atkinson might, in fact, be an attempt to prevent other efforts to expose wrongdoing within this administration. >> mike schmidt joins us by phone. you and your colleagues reported that donald trump wanted to fire the inspector general, the watchdog, basically, over the intelligence community, back in november. one also wonders what took him so long. >> yeah, as soon as the complaint came out, trump wanted to

people of the justice department who reviewed the whistle-blower complaint did not think that it deserved to be notified congress. they didn't believe that the inspector general that the officer, the director of national intelligence needed to tell the intelligence committees about this whistle-blower complaint. instead, the intelligence community inspector general, he decided that he did. and so that's one of the reasons why certainly the president, people around him were very, very unhappy with mr. atkinson and believe that essentially he had started a controversy that they believe should never have gotten there, don. so you can see why atkinson's days frankly were numbered from the time this inspector general decided that he needed to tell congress about this whistle-blower complaint. you can see that the president is saying in his letter to the intelligence committees tonight that he has lost confidence in this inspector general. and of course, don, the president, he has this power. he can tell the lawmakers that he has a right to get rid of these people because they serve at his discretion. so that is what he has done tonight. >> john, let me bring you in here. so this i

of the principal deputy inspector general is christy grimm. she previously worked in the obama administration, but she began working at the office of the inspectoral in 1999. with that report, was conveying concerns from people working in hospitals, doctors and nurses, who say they don't have enough equipment to do the job they need to do. that was what her report said. let's bring in nbc news correspondent carol lee. let's talk more about the memo from peter navarro. the first coming january 29th, warning of a possible pandemic. he, by the way, wrote another one february 23rd, where his concerns were raised even further. he's a trade adviser to the president. what was his particular interest and concern here? >> reporter: well, look, willie, we know that he has had an interest in pandemics. he's -- when you talk to some folks inside the white house, they'll say he is inserting himself in an issue he doesn't know that much about. that said, we also know that his memo that's reported by the "new york times" came at a time when the president was basically saying that everything was fine, that this wasn't an issue, and at a time when there were oth

woodruff: we now have the fitt national snapshot of w hoitals are facing around the country as this emergey escalates. a new survey from the inspector general's office at the department ohealth and human services sveyed more than 320 hospitals during the week of it found hospitals needing to train other staff to help patients on ventilators. the survey showed many hospitals waiting seven days or more to get test results.n' and some dhave enough basic cleaning supplies in stock. ann maxwell oversaw this as the assistant inspector general for evaluation and inspe. she joins me now. ann maxwell, tnk you very much for talking with us. not even eugh cleaning supplies. is this as bad as it sounds?h >> wrd of a number of challenges across the countries in hospitalse spoke to, and, you're right, we saw challenges in termof a lack of p.p.e., feeding supplies, thermometers, totally pper -- toilet paper, food. >> repter: people are oking at this and thinking, yes, coronavirus has come pop us quickly, but how surprising was it to you as somebody who works for the dew point of health and human services that the hospitals would be so orthanded. >> the emergence o

of coronavirus test supplies. with cases rocketing toward their expected peak, the health and human services inspector general's office reports a shortage of tests and long waits for results throughout the route of mounting problems for hospitals. the office is nonpartisan but the president questioning whether it's conclusions are skewed by politics. meanwhile, people in wisconsin must decide to vote in tuesday's provincial primary election, or heed the warnings and observe social distancing. democratic governor tony evers issued an effective order postponing the election for two months, but the wisconsin supreme court sided with the public in saying he didn't have the authority to do so. i am jackie ibanez, and now back to "the ingraham angle." >> laura: there is some good news from louisiana, another covid hot spot not hearing nationally, and we go to contribute a raymond arroyo who joins us from new orleans. >> luis and not john bel edwards announced the state secured 75,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets and 8,000 cpac z packs, that can the new orleans pilot -the governor says state wide, they are beginning to see a f

general -- >> what's his name? >> i don't know his name. >> if you find me his name, i would appreciate. >> the office is a bit up in the air. the inspector general of quit his job a couple days ago and is now the deputy inspector general who is in charge. the study the president and reporter is discussing is old by coronavirus standards. it was done in the end of march before the peak. the situation with the acting secretary of the navy you can follow me for updates on twitter. i'm scott mcgrew. >>> and the pandemic is impacting the legal system in all sorts of ways. here to talk about the challenges is district attorney jeff rosen. d.a. rosen, thank you for being with us this morning. >> it's my pleasure. >> i know your office put out a psa on hate crimes. a moment to take a look at a short part of that. >> and if you hurt or threaten someone because of those things you'll have a lot more to worry about than covid-19. the color of their skin or where you think someone is from then you have attacked us all. >> i actually wrote down that last part because i wanted to talk to you about it. i thought it was powerful to use the attorneys in the office

glenn fine chairman of the panel had been serving as acting inspector general for the defense department since before trump took office. however, donald trump announced the inspector general for the environmental protection agency would now serve as acting pentagon watchdog which in doing so rid fine of his position. another inspector general out. this one replaced of trump's choosing. the latest step in an abruptly unfolding white house power play over semi-independent inspectors general across the government, end quote. >>> frank, this is something that doesn't surprise any of us who have watched donald trump rail against the rule of law, attack anyone investigating russian interference, collusion with his campaign, but it's still a shock to the system, a system that's not equipped for someone willing to corrupt every aspect and element of the federal government. >> right, you hit right on the head. we still find it shocking. here we have a president who's exploiting a national crisis to move forward his own agenda, his own revenge, his own profit and it's the very concept of what an inspector general stands for, ni

of his disposal in the oval office to try to get re-elected. that's the reason he's trying to get rid of the inspectors general, the reason he's making it clear if you criticize him and you're a governor you're not going to get as much equipment as governors who say nice things about him. this is a president who is getting ready to use every official power he has at his disposal including the lectern in the briefing room to argue for his re-election. joe biden's name didn't show up on that individual by accident. they will start talking about joe biden from the briefing room through the president's official channels constantly and we all have to be ready to deal with that. >> do you think that is an abuse or misuse of that government taxpayer funded ven knew? >> not only is it a sort of ethical abuse but a legal abuse. you cannot use official resources to campaign for office. every single one of us who serves in the federal government is exceedingly careful about making sure we are not using anybody who works for us or any phone that's been given to us by the government in order to run for re-election and the president is throwing all of that ca

officers by sounding the alarm about covid-19. in the case of michael atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community is actually there to make sure that the intelligence community is doing their job. so in both cases we have instances, in one case u.s. sailors being in danger, but in this latter case all of us being in danger by virtue of the fact that our intelligence community is now a little less safe than it was 12 hours ago. >> absolutely because, look, the i.g., the inspector general's job is not just to make sure that things are carried out in accordance with the laws of the united states. they are also the people who can root out corruption within the intelligence process through individuals who may be committing crimes in the intelligence community, and may also be cognizant of crimes that are being used by the consumers of that intelligence, so you know everything that we do in the intelligence world really stems not to the whos, whats, whens, wheres and hows, it is always the whys we are looking for. whenever we see an incident or an act, it is the why, once that is answered that is the peak of u.s. intell

law enforcement officer of being a trompe l'oeil list and unfairly criticizing the fbi for parts and gains. the president's critics point to the justice department's own inspector general. he found fault with the fbi's handling of a sensitive matter but concluded the bureau was justified in launching the probe and not driven by political bias. but the u.s. attorney who was appointed by bar may reach a different conclusion. >> the evidence shows we are not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness, there's something far more troubling here. and we will get to the bottom of it. >> so far the interred in general hasn't given an investigation into when this will wrap up or whether any fbi officials are ultimately going to be charged. he also says when it comes to election security china poses a much greater threat to the united states. >> bret: jillian, thank you. in the past few minutes we have a release from senator chuck grassley. talking about the footnotes, the classified footnotes in the inspector general report about pfizer abuses. and and that's part of the russian conspiracy to spread disinformation. the fbi's blind pursuit of the disinformation despite exculpatory

the heads of the house and senate intelligence committees tonight he has lost confidence in inspector general michael atkinson and that he is using powers as president to remove him from office that removal will take effect in 30 days and democrats are just furious about it. there is statements from adam schiff, mark warner, the ranking democrat, just absolutely mad about this move, ali. >> so this may well be retribution and may well be michael atkinson did nothing wrong, however, this is a position that serves the pleasure of the president so the president can do this? >> that's right. under the law -- but this -- the inspector generals are designed to be somewhat independent. they are confirmed by the senate. he was appointed by donald trump in 2018, so we can expect i think some blow back not just from democrats but perhaps even republicans. one complicating factor is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee is under fire right now, under investigation actually for having dmp evumped that stock. he's a wounded animal and otherwise, he would normally be seen as somebody who would fight this and stand up to president trump potentially because he believes in the in

the cook county sheriff's office says hundreds of gallons of bleach and disinfectant is distributed. but the conditions aren't exactly unique. that's why the inspector generaling a review on federal prisons where throughout this pandemic over a dozen inmates have died and hundreds more have gotten sick. >> we're battling a threat here that is unseen. that's not normal for anyone. >> reporter: back in chicago, the specific populations infected are emblematic of a reality that already existed. over 70% of the jail's population is black. and black chicagoans account for 60% of all the deaths in the city despite making up only about 30% of the population. while many at the cook county jail have recovered, the elevated risk for spread is as high as ever. continuing stories shared by prisons across the united states. cnn, chicago. >> thanks, omar for that great reporting. we've got w. kamau bell, the host of "united shades of america." he has more on how this is impacting communities of color across the country. i've been working with reform alliance trying to get masks in, people out. you've got your own effort, why should people care about what's happening to p

office. but when the president was asked about this yesterday, he said, we have a lot of obama administration era inspector generalsnd he hinted that he might even fire or get rid of or sideline more of them. he said that there's questions about whether or not there's bias there and we've seen the president being willing to do this in the last five days. he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community. he was highly critical of the acting inspector general for the health and human services department who came out with a report from about hospitals and their needs amid coronavirus that said they weren't getting everything they needed. and so what you're seeing is the president, you know, even though as he's dealing with coronavirus and a pandemic, and is very preoccupied with that, he's got his sights set on who in the administration may or may not in his view, be out to get him. >> there's also that resignation from acting navy secretary thomas modly, what more can you tell us about that. that happened quickly. >> reporter: it was a lot of whiplash. the firing of the navy captain and then the acting n

of the inspector general. it's the fact the president has appointed somebody from the white house counsel's office to help oversee this process which raises questions about that person's independence. he's also suggested that he won't comply with some of the oversight requirements that congress wrote into this law. so i would strongly suggest this congress continues thinking about relief bill four and five that they try to tighten some of these things up. you have a president who is intent on trying to run around this system, spending money, who knows where, as the amount of money that's going out the door continues to rise. >> who knows where, and we're going to work on finding out. chris, ben, thank you. >>> still ahead -- we just talked about the economic need to reopen the country. but here's the question. what will it take medically? i'm talking public safety, to get us to return to work. we're going to take that question to the former director of the cdc and a public health expert, dr. tom friedman. >>> first, more states seeing a surge of coronavirus cases. the guidelines on ventilators in massachusetts th

office said hundreds of gallons of bleach and disinfectant is disputed weekly. but the conditions aren't exactly unique. it's we the u.s. justice department inspector general is launching a review in federal prisons where throughout this pandemic, over a dozen inmates have died and hundreds more have gotten sick. >> that's not normal for anyone, certainly isn't normal for us. >> reporter: back in chicago, the specific populations are emblematic of a reality that already existed. over 70% of the jail's population is black. black chicagoans account for more than 60% of all coronavirus deaths in the city, despite only making up about 30% of the population. while many at the cook county jail have recovered, an elevated risk for spread is as high as ever. continuing stories shared by prisons and jails across the united states. >> thanks, omar, for that great reporting. >> and we have w.kamau bell. he's been keeping an eye on the prison population. i've been working trying to get masks it and get people out. you have your own effort. why should people care about what's happening to people behind bars with everything else that's going on? >> that's one of our mos

of my head. >> let me know. if you find me his name, i would appreciate it. >> but sir -- >> the inspector general's office at hhsa bit up in the air. the previous ig quit his job actually just a couple days ago. now the study the reporter and the president are talking about are arguably old in the days of coronavirus. it was last month that that study was studied and the numbers reflect it. we're tracking everything happening in washington particularly the situation with the acting navy secretary. you can follow me as we follow them right now. a federal judge is refusing to block los angeles from shutting down its guns stores declaring them nonessential during the shelter at home order. the judge says it fits. the ruling is the second time federal judges in california have declined to intervene in challenges made surrounding rules of the shutdown. >>> something good from one famous actor letting singers know things are going to be all right, all right, all right. >> i-24. i-24. >> i love that. matthew mcconaughey helping host a virtual bingo session. they joined in to entertain residents. how fun is that? >>> a

be consistent is inspector generals doing the work, providing evidence and facts about failures, misconduct and in the case of the way your house determined, potentially abuses of office and he goes on the attack, goes on the attack of the people doing fact-finding. does that concern you with regard to the health report that came out today? >> it extremely concerns me but what is more troubling is that it ought to concern everybody. insect topector generals are interested in numbers and facts. with the purpose of really trying to make our country better, more efficient, more effective and for this president to fire the inpespector general michael atkinson and the new report looking at how we can better serve our health care professionals and our hospitals as they are all about to reach capacity, i'm extremely worried this president will try to take the numbers and do what he's done, cover them up, deny them and the people that need help the post, help may be slow coming to them. >> so what is the solution when i saw this story break, some people online said well, what are you going to do quote i impeach him again? that's not where congress is at this week with everyth

inspector general who is from the white house counsel's office. from the same office that you last saw in the impeachment tri trial. we need oversight ofge -- this is huge. this is three times -- and by the way, there was very good oversight with t.a.r.p. there was fraud that was revealed. some people didn't like that. some democrats didn't like it. but there was. and we need that here and we can't -- but the president showed during the whole process leading up to the impeachment, i'm not going to honor any subpoenas. so we -- i mean, we have governor whitman, it's great to be on with you, governor. she mentioned this sort of shaking down of the governors and making the governors afraid to say anything. this is how he runs the government. and this -- he threatens people, and he's using -- and won't honor subpoenas from congress. this is extremely dangerous where we're going, where this administration is going. we need -- this is so much money. this is increasing our national debt which republicans talk about all the time. and you asked governor whitman about republicans. i think it's disgraceful that they have not stood up to this pres

of reporting. waste, fraud,e is and abuse. inspector generals and the governor accountability office have written those reports. think the biggest issue for fema when it comes to -- i don't want to say fraud and abuse, but waste -- is the issue that fema spends a lot of time and a lot of money responding to what i'm disasters.ll routine i note that is kind of an oxymoron. law sets damage thresholds so low that fema ends , you know,people to big snowstorms in new hampshire that because $3 million worth of damage. there are a lot of people, including those in fema who said that fema is wasting its time and wasting his money. responding to, again, what i call teen disasters. and what fema really needs to do is just not deal with these routine disasters. beate in new england should able to handle a major snowstorm and fema should be focusing on the catastrophe, you know, the hurricane maria's, tornadoes in tennessee. the ones that caused tens of millions of dollars of damage. the ability of local governments to handle. i think that is the biggest issue with fema. the problem you get into his when fema says, we are

fires inspector generals, who replaces them with cronies who work in the white house counsel's office during impeachment, when you have a president who every single time congress erects some sort ofrification that money is being spent appropriately and he knocks that down and says outright he's going to ignore it. he says he's not going to abide by that or cooperate. you have to question, if money is being spent the way it should, why are you trying to hide from that process? what are you doing with this money? we have a president who hasn't revealed by the way his tax returns, his financial state. we don't know how he's profiting or how his businesses are profiting from this. it raises a lot of questions, and at the end of all of this once we get through the urgency of corona, there's going to be a thorough review of how this money was spent and where it went. >> robert gibbs and kurt bardella, thanks for coming on. >>> still ahead, a look at one nonprofit working to make a differenceby helping those on the front lines and small businesses at the same time. actor jeffrey wright joins us to discuss his new initiative. keep it right here on "morning joe." and we are here, actively