Sen. Tina Smith: Trump is treating pandemic like PR war

Coronavirus pandemic responses of Donald Trump and members of the Trump administration are critiqued by Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), who tells Joy Reid, 'If this is a public health war, we need a general, and what we have in Donald Trump is a pretender.' Next: Coronavirus testing will be critical to bringing the pandemic under control congressman from the highly-impacted states of Washington and California tell Joy Reid. How can the Trump administration use it's authority to increase the production of test kits and more? Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) join Joy Reid to discuss. Then: The coronavirus pandemic response over the next two to three weeks could be crucial according to health experts, who urge Americans to limit their activities as much as possible during this time. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, joins Joy Reid to discuss. Plus: Coronavirus pandemic-linked price gouging is addressed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who tells Joy Reid, 'I urge everyone to remain calm, and to listen to the facts.' And: Donald Trump's treatment by many in the daily press during the coronavirus pandemic is analyzed by MSNBC analyst and Vanity Fair reporter Gabe Sherman, who tells Joy Reid, 'They've surrounded him in a cocoon of normalcy that validates him as though this type of behavior is legitimate.' Finally: The coronavirus pandemic responses of Trump, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams are compared and contrasted by Joy Reid's panel, after Cuomo gives a press briefing on the status of the outbreak in his state. All this and more in the Sunday edition of AM JOY on MSNBC.