As U.S. cases of coronavirus approach 8,000 across all 50 states, the pandemic is swiftly changing everyday life, rattling the financial markets and closing schools in 38 states. The impact clearly marks an inflection point in Washington, where Pres. Trump shifted from downplaying to the threat to declaring himself a "wartime" leader, while the Senate passes new legislation to boost testing and coverage for sick leave, as MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the latest in the public health crisis. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 03/18/2020.
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From 'Hoax' To War: Reversing Course, Trump Invokes 'War' Powers To Combat Coronavirus | MSNBC
Remember in November.
@N H did i ever state that the left doesn’t lie? No. You on the other hand, at no point admits that Trump is a habitual liar and has lied to the American people throughout this entire Pandemic. I know you and every other can’t defend this lunatic. It’s your MO.
@Jay Grewe When did I defend trump? I just asked if you cared about Leftist outlets lying
@Pamela Wiles they never take the time to do so until it hits home or close too it.its sad that someone can even be that gullible and even give a ear to listening to that man.instead of questioning trumps mentality,i start by questioning those who support and listen to this guy.
@Percy Johnson you hit it!! Stay safe
@elijah mikle hows that going for you now… it is much worse now and will get more serious as you go…. especially with captain orange moron in charge
Never thought only a virus could make people realize how incompetent this guy is. Not russia, not impeachmeant, but a virus!
Pamela Wiles he was falsely impeached and was acquitted.
@Karma 📺🐑🐑🐑 keep watching your fake news you sheep
@Dilbert Hogwash That’s because he’s chopping off his own head.
take a lot more yet it seems to wake all the delusional morons up… maybe they need to lose some loved ones to wake up to incompetance
@Ezeek falsely acquited by a corrupt party for real crimes
All of #45’s comments on coronavirus need to be recorded and broadcast in sequence so people can get a clear idea about his grasp of the subject.
Ellis James ugh I know. Just cringed at this stupidity.
@Ellis James I can see his followers in blind amazement… swallowing everything like they still at the gloryhole
@Victoria Drella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvE9hCZ-jaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvE9hCZ-jaU
aussie jim
Yes yes yes.. watch pandemic Don attempt to make sense of what he doesn’t understand..
That gross little con-man voice of his. Can’t listen.
Allan Burns I’d rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard..😖
Always sounds disingenuous – anyone he cons has got to be stupid.
He is gross and the market tanked within minutes of him throwing a fit at the media… FEMA level #1 is the Highest level? I thought 4 was the highest level, this is the second time I heard Trump say #1 is the highest. I think he just WANTS to be #1 in his pea brain. Can trump survive 3 days on the surface of this planet?
@JoAnn Holmes Liberals are the most miserable people on earth
@Michael G 💯👍
Ignorance and dumbness, that’s what the MAGA Maggots love about him.
No political experience, great! How’s that workin’ for ya now?
@Lebreda McElroy nice thanks better than being plastic bag. It means I am enviroument friendly.NO WAY I CAN POLLUTE THE ATMOSPHERE LIKE A BITTER TONGUE LYING LEADER
@Lebreda McElroy plus A fool and his money will soon depart. I have 100% health insurance got my own business. Dont need to beg thank GOD. I sow and reap well. Amen . I share with the needy GOD BLESS
@Lebreda McElroy right now am building another complex to rent. I just gave shelter to a family in need. I dont even take money from them for I am blessed. dont need a lying leader. I have God to provide for me to help others that really need.
And you consume lies: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/
So, the “dem’s hoax” has become the conservirus trumpandemic.
Russian collusion, talking to Russians, Ukraine quid pro quo, talking to Kim Jong-un, talking to Putin, trying to stop wars, and then trivializing covid. Trump was giving hope to people in the USA, was criticized for it, and now he is being criticized for not reassuring millions of people that things will get better. No matter what he does MSM will not support him and many have bought the lies.
@David Primeau Ooooh stop, you’ll have everybody in tears. Poor Donald. America doesn’t deserve him.
@Mikeom Olt
Yeah, sorry. Trump’s approval rating on dealing with corona is now close to 60%.
Wow.. you all are lazy at best if you believe this $hit. Watch real press conferences instead of reading BS articles and chopped videos. I swear you all cant see how they have mind control over you. Its pretty scary.
@this is me Since you talk about trusted sources, you can’t trust this channel.. He never sayd the virus was a hoax, he sayd the way the media is calling his handling of it is a hoax. It’s been on ytube for weeks
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to just have healthcare for all?
@Soggy mittens the best doctors in the world aren’t here
@Soggy mittens you haven’t gone to the right places
@Pamela Wiles That very well may be the case. However, as I veteran who has been to many countries have yet to find one. Point is universal healthcare will drive the quality of care down. Oh an when a loved one gets sick and really needs the ER good luck bc there is a good chance of a long wait.
@Pamela Wiles where are the best doctors? You have just been diagnosed with cancer. Where are you going to get treated? The ones from countries around the world who can afford where do they go?
@Soggy mittens You should know the only way to actually become a doctor now a days is to go through a rigorous education system if you don’t get accepted your not getting into the medical field period. Even nurses are required to be highly educated and skilled in their profession I used to be roomates with a nursing student there is no such thing as a non professional nurse.
When there’s a war don’t count on cadet bone spurs unless you want to retreat.
😂😂😂😂
V
Pandemic Don is the biggest loser the world has ever seen😡
V • I hope you’re staying healthy and safe, best wishes in these trying times! This time I think our Toddler, Tangerine, Tyrant has shot himself in the foot!
Well, we’re all POWs under this ‘wartime’ president. So it sounds about right.
@65Lkhj Lkhj65 how?
“It’s a THING that can do BIG THINGS. I think you know what I mean”.
Nope. I do not.
@manuel ramirez how many degrees you got?
@manuel ramirez you’re run on sentence was literally that if a 1st grader. Lol
@Derek Browning lol you played yourself my friend. Congrats
@manuel ramirez of course you’re from cali 😂😂😂 I’d turn that location off bud lol gives your address zip and everything lol not everyone is normal like me 😂😂
@Derek Browning Not hiding from anybody buddy. You wanna come find me? You have my location. I’m well prepared to defend myself and exercise my rights. The fact you took time out of your sad life to look for my location is comical. Good luck in life guy.
I hate to even hear his voice! It makes me cringe 🥴
@Byron Young how? He literally talks to comfort his people. So?
@Byron Young have you read your comments. Hypocrites!! All liberals
@Derek Browning It’s a mental disorder. You can’t treat it with counseling or reason. Just like you can’t talk a schizophrenic into believing the nature of reality, the reason that it is a disease is that reason or logic cannot help, counseling cannot help, group therapy cannot help, the only thing that can help is a n absolute surrender to complete intellectual honesty.
@Derek Browning I already kind of stat ed my case, it was easy for anyone to see that Obama was sneaky, master of lying and manipulating; if your complaint is that Trump is a worse liar on camera than Obama, then maybe you should take a look at your Moral objectivity.
@Derek Browning Actually I don’t ‘watch’ I lower the video and read the printed text across the bottom of the video so I don’t have to see Trump’s turkey waddle do it’s dance.
Might be a good time to give the Pentagon that wall money back.
Tc627 , maybe , cus I heard that now they want to pay for that wall to keep us out 😂
@jpb53ao MAGA: Morons Are Governing America.
@Angel Damian So, if Americans hurry to that spot they might be able to escape to Mexico?
Alex Mitchell , maybe but I tried talking to some on the other side and they completely ignore me 😂
Alex Mitchell right I will definitely take their water and cartel problems any day over COVID19 and TrumpVirus
so instead of making silly red hats and counterfeit shoes, trump’s and ivanka’s companies can be forced to make masks, sanitisers and toliet paper
Please don’t mock/tempt Trump and his family into manufacturing medical equipment for this or any other local or national health emergency. Enough American lives are already at risk. I can easily see Trump delivering trucks full of empty boxes and explaining to doctors that in each carton, there is a “trillion masks- and A LOT OF people are saying that the best thing about them is that they are invisible and that they work miraculously. Sign right here.”
And that’s the *best case* scenario. Who wants to depend on emergency equipment masks designed at *Trump University*?
Not WHO. That’s who.
Trump is a puppet for
these dark hair noses.
Oh that’s awesome
@81OH4Z4RD lol
@James Rice 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍👍👍👍👍👍☺☺☺☺☺☺
the biggest global health emergency in our lifetimes and your president went from hoax to war in 3 weeks. His incompetence has cost lives, please remember this when it’s time to vote
@C facts is something you know nothing about 😂😂😂😂
The swine flew was alot bogfer than this lol
So your president who I assume is Hussain Osama oops sorry Barak HUSAIN Obama is to blame for the 12,000 deaths for the swine flu? Then for not resupplying the Federal inventory?
@Mario Cadena https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/
Read a wheep. Guarantee you womt bc that’s the hate you people have for a man for literally no reason. He has proven all of you wrong and this is what he has done for this country. I’m sure you will all call it lies when its available from any source. Stop being misinformed liberals. You all have ruined our demecratic party. Glad to day I am not apart of it anymore. Being a libertarian you see both sides and who is really the ones ruining our country by dividing our people.
@Derek Browning
You know what. That’s a lie. And you know that. And people like you are low down and irrelevant.
Trump has handled the coronavirus situation at the highest level of lunacy!
I think he’s handing it bigly.
@Dave Goodwin, bigly beautiful failure
Good Day
America can expect nothing sensible from pandemic Don …
@Phyllinda I Am, and 50% of American haven’t figured that out yet
But it was ok for 1000 people to die before Obama did anything with the swine flu? You people are a joke. The media has you by the balls.
The willful ignorance, the deliberate misinformation and the absolute shirking responsibility has never been witnessed in any other American president. Remove President Degenerate Maximus
@Sentinel_Spyder. exe So you’re saying Trump has NOT spread misinformation about the virus? That’s what it seems like you’re implying with your whataboutism.
Whaaat? You aren’t tired of winning down there?
Feeling great again?
Sentinel_Spyder. exe wrong, wrong, wrong.
Sentinel_Spyder. exe we don’t go to the rallies. I take it you do. Pathetic.
@Anne Rodgers Aloha
The only ‘wartime president’ who proudly announced he will not take any responsibility. Pffft….
@EcClair Mayo
The buck doesn’t stop until it ends up in Trump or one of his cronie’s pockets preferably Jared’s , I’m sure.
If you’re not talking about trump them my b. If you are then yeah.
@Chloe Key what violence?
@bleebleeblahblah house people still preach false information 😂😂😂😂
@J Wigh making fun of people insee?
It’s a HOAX!…………Until it wasn’t. Trump cannot lie his way out of this one.
@Tan Yew Hock Matthew if as many people got infected with this as got infected with with the flu, millions would die per Trump’s own “experts”, I really don’t get how you idiots don’t realize the difference.
Oh yes he can, ALWAYS, a natural born LIAR ☠️☠️☠️
@Phyllinda I Am you mean the chinese flu? I didnt know trump was Asian lol hes an orange faced, handsome, amazing president who everyone loved besides the 300 thousand people in our entire country lol
@Phyllinda I Am hes literally expected the break Regan’s record this election lol insure you people dont even know wtf I’m talking about 😂😂
@Sentinel_Spyder. exe notice how they all know this but wont challenge a man w knowledge? Lol they know. It’s just something for them to get stirred up about lol
If the Coronavirus pandemic is a war, then Little Donny Bonespurs is once again a draft dodger.
@Susan Sullivan he’ll give himself a medal
Great observation. Spot on.
It’s a set up… they are preparing for an attack on the citizenry using vaccines as a biological delivery system … not everyone will die… but enough will that they can continue justifying martial law and all they can do under those circumstances… of course all the people who die or get sick from the disease will be presented in the msm as those who were not vaccinated … to keep people lining up … the deaths will be random and many will not put two andvtwo together… the elderly will be dropping like flies… they already are with flu shots … they got my dad that way and I’ve talked to nursing home workers and the care company I hired and they said many of their clients were put on their death beds immediately following flu shots… it’s beyond ‘coincidence’ and ‘rare’ … the doctors will all deny it because they sre indictrinated and lies to themselves, they are like cult devotees worshipping at the temple of vaccinia, any suggestion that this miracle of modern medicine might be dangerous is blasphemous and heretical … interestingly, when I heard about the nasa war documents found on the nasa website in 2001 and I’ve heard as little as six years ago it was still there, it spells out possible attacks, essentially, that USA citizens might endure… the wording is considered a cover up for a planned attack by the tin foilers, but it says that there could be an attempt to reduce the USA population by 80% by 2025… I thought it was far fetched and chiefly ignored it but many things the tin foilers have talked about, seem to be happening… at any rate, they’ve got a vaccine coming soon and all this global hoopla will surely drive most of humanity to line up for it… the de populists will finally get their wish and the pharmas will make out like bandits … I hope I’m wrong, unless it’s worse than what I’ve predicted… those who manage to evade the vaccines probably have the best chance of survival
He got a medical leave for flat foot lol flat foot stops the greatest soldiers from living their dreams. Yet your a liberal.you wouldn’t know anything about facts lol
@Derek Browning Classic….. how ignorant you are to trumps treachery
This Country is dying to get him out of office.
Literally
@Mario Cadena f*** you you leave everybody hates you that includes your family and friends
@Mario Cadena
You’re sad. Pitiful.
@AlexYounger
True . The deficit is at it’s highest in history.
@Mario Cadena
You’re a self hater. What that man has done to your homeland. And you support him. SMH.
@Mario Cadena domt forget a higher black approval rating that any president to ever run for office lol this term is an easy win. Everyone who’s for America and keeps themself educated love this man! Only the hypocritical butthurt pansies hate him lol
When trump says “you know what it is”, that means that he has no idea what it is.
It means someone just told him and has no way of explaining as he doesn’t understand himself.