Lawrence: ‘Donald Trump Is Not In Charge Here’ | The Last Word | MSNBC

we start tonight with the numbers as of tonight the United States has 43,151 reported cases of corona virus and 533 reported deaths from corona virus today the president repeatedly said quote we cannot allow the cure to be worse than the problem Donald Trump said that on Twitter We cannot allow the cure to be worse than the problem. He said it repeatedly at his White House coronavirus briefing, which he substitutes as his new version of a campaign rally. Anthony Fauci did not comment on what the president said in that briefing today because dr. Falchi was not present at today's briefing.

Donald Trump Drone Don doctrine repetitively and pointlessly at today's White House briefing to the point that this network and other cable news networks and all the major broadcast networks NBC ABC dropped coverage on live from the briefing. CBS all dropped live coverage of the president's briefing today, so not as many people as the president expected were able to hear him say we can't let the cure be worse than the problem, the problem with the coronavirus is death, That's the problem, t

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is no cure. that's worse than death, except that apparently in Donald Trump's imagination, the White House press corps today posed to the president the idea that he was giving the very clear implication that maybe within a week the president will declare that America is ready to get back to work America will be back open for business very soon long before three or four months anyone suggests luck sooner we couldn't let the cure be worse than the problem the problem for Donald Trump is that he is not in

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has not closed anything within the united states

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has not closed a single business in this country not a single school has not closed anything are the mayors of the united states and the officials and governors of the county who have done that mainly the governors of New York and California have closed their states and t

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is nothing Donald Trump can do to prevent the governors of New York and California from controlling more economic activity combined than most of the rest of the States United of America together and they are not going to reopen their states because of anything Donald Trump says Donald Trump did not close anything and that is why Donald Trump cannot reopen anything Donald Trump is not in

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here the governors are in charge and that is good news and that includes Republican governors who have shut down their state's governor, Gavin Newsom, whose state controls more economic activity than any other state and has more people than any other state governor.

California won't listen to anything Donald Trump says about when Gavin Newsom should start returning California to normal. Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has more coronavirus cases in his state than any other state and in the largest city in his State Governor Cuomo has a street called Wall Street and it will be Andrew Cuomo and not Donald who decides when the State of New York York and New York City and Wall Street are back to normal and fortunately from New York Andrew Cuomo is smart enough not to listen to a

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that Donald Trump says about it, but Andrew Cuomo has said publicly many times that he Let yourself be guided by medical professionals, including Dr.

Anthony Fauci, who for some reason was not present at today's White House briefing and rally, The Washington Post reported today that Dr. Fudd is telling Donald Trump that it's too early to think about sending people back to work. He quotes Falchi, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the president's coronavirus task force, and other leading public health experts as telling the administration. Republican officials and lawmakers that prematurely reducing social distancing measures would hamper efforts to mitigate the virus and devastate hospitals, according to people with knowledge of the conversations in an interview with the scientific journal published this weekend by Dr.

Fauci was asked what it's like to be there, in the White House briefing room, when Donald Trump says something that isn't true. Fauci said I can't jump in front of a microphone and push it down, okay, he said he, let's try to correct it for next time in that same interview, dr. Feld said that he will never refer to the coronavirus as the China virus, which is Donald Trump's preferred term, and in that same interview Dr. Fudd, was asked if he had been criticized within the Trump administration for a moment at

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Friday's press conference when he covered his face with his hands when Donald Trump referred to the deep State Department when asked in the interview if was criticized within the administration.

At that moment Dr.'s response went viral. filiz was quoted without comment also in that interview in the scientific journal dr. Geez, they asked him what happened, what happens before each of those Trump press conferences in the briefing room and the doctor fell down, he said we're in the task force, we sit for an hour and I go over all the topics of the agenda and then From there we proceed to an anti-room right in front of the Oval Office to talk about what the messages will be, what are the types of things that we're going to want to emphasize, then we go see the president, we present our There is consensus for him and someone writes a speech and then he gets up and improvises his speech and then we are there to try to answer questions.

The medical professional on stage with the president was asked today if they would recommend that. People will be encouraged to return to their jobs within a week, which would be the end of the appointment announced by the Trump administration. 15 days to end the spread, which is really just a PR campaign. It had absolutely no laws, rules or regulations. Dr. Deborah Birx said they will still be collecting data over the next few days and could not say what recommendations he would make a week from now. She would never do that. She said Donald Trump was repeatedly asked if he would follow Dr.'s advice.

Anthony Fauci at the end of that 15-day period that will be next Monday and Donald Trump repeatedly refused to answer that question