Morning Joe

As the president is set to announce Thursday his plans to reopen parts of the economy by May 1, Republicans including Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana are publicly discussing the need to reopen despite the consequences. The panel discusses.

The president on Tuesday accused the WHO of 'severely mismanaging and covering up' the coronavirus crisis, specifically the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China and then announced he was halting funding. The panel discusses.

As New York State edges closer to 200,000 cases of the coronavirus, the state is now recording over 10,000 deaths. The panel discusses.

'The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly' on the coronavirus, according to new NYT reporting. Reporter Eric Lipton joins Morning Joe to discuss.

During Thursday's coronavirus press briefing, Dr. Fauci said that social distancing could reduce the U.S. death toll to 60,000. The Morning Joe panel discusses the importance of having experts speak during the briefings.

Wisconsin voters on Tuesday braved long lines and waits while defying the state's stay-at-home order to vote after two courts ruled that the primary election couldn't be postponed. State Democrats sought to delay the contest but failed.

The president on Sunday used his daily press briefing on Sunday to again endorse unproven drugs to battle the coronavirus. Meanwhile, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said this week would be the country's 'Pearl Harbor' moment.

As the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. continues to grow, more governors are issuing statewide stay-at-home orders for their residents, including Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis. The panel discusses.

On Monday, the White House coronavirus response coordinator warned that the U.S. could see up to 200,000 deaths from the outbreak 'if we do things almost perfectly.' President Trump called the figures 'sobering.'

The number of deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 passed 3,000 on Tuesday, according to NBC News' tally, and there are now more than 160,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The panel discusses.