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The rink out back. 30 rockefeller plaza, mostly vacant, bathed in blue tonight in honor of First Responders in new york. And with that, good evening once again. Day 1,183 of this trump administration. 201 days to go now until our president ial election. And at todays White House Briefing about the coronavirus, our president said today, quote, people should have told us about this. Be that as it may, today he said, our country has passed the peak of the illness. And by his thinking, as he put it ...

That. All along he had the right instincts. At first he tried to block the virus coming here with travel restrictions. When it did get here in low numbers he tried to contain it. The media screams, what did you do in february . He did what he was supposed to do. Its called track and containment. Only when there was a breakout did he move to the containment and shutdown. When he saw problems with equipment he ordered a businessled emergency response. The dynamic ventilator reserve. Our Health Sys...

But first, heres my take. Something important has happened over the course of this crisis. Estimates of expected deaths have gone down by a lot. On march 31st, the white house estimated that even with social distancing policies in place, between 100,000 and 240,000 americans would die of covid19. Dr. Deborah birx, the white houses Coronavirus Response coordinator said that that was, quote, our real number. Dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease expert, recently indicated he now be...

A growing debate about whether its too soon to ease restrictions on social distancing and just as that is happening, breaking overnight, President Trump publicly signaling his frustration with the man seen by some as the Public Health conscience of the country. The president highlighted a message on social media that called for the firing of dr. Anthony fauci. Its coincidence this comes after dr. Fauci told cnn if the Trump Administration acted earlier to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, it w...

Come . We are not on a stalemate on the republican side. The only problem here is democrats are denying the ability for Small Businesses to get their loans from the fda to pay their employees. We have the speaker being a late night tv, more important showcasing her gourmet ice cream than securing the funding. We now ran out of money, 350 billion. More than 1. 6 million Small Businesses out of 5,000 banks got this loan. But as of today, we ran out of money and now we are in jeopardy of all the ot...

Those tests. Were also watching congress where there is a deal on more funding for Small Business loans after Small Businesses and some not so Small Businesses soaked up about 350 billion in just two weeks. So we expect to see a vote here on that in the senate in the next hour. And then we also just learned that results of one study on hydroxychloroquine, that drug touted by the president as a miracle for coronavirus, but this study found no benefits and, in fact, even higher death rate in patie...

Infectious disease expert with Johns Hopkins university. Kristen, i want to start with you. You had the reporting that todays briefing is supposed to be focused on test, and i say supposed to, because lets be honest, two days ago it was about the voice of america and we didnt know that was coming. I dont want to presume that this stays on track. What would the focus what is the announcement that theyre hinting at to you about testing . I appreciate the caveat, chuck. Its an important one. Youre ...

Million people justin last five weeks. Just to give you some context. Thats about the entire population of florida and South Carolina combined. First lets bring in cnns martin savidge. Hes live for us from atlanta. Health experts are cautioning against states reopening but thats not stopping georgia or colorado or texas. Reporter no. All those states either have a plan or are going to announce a plan. Here in georgia just tremendous controversy still it was heightened yesterday by that tremendou...

Up produced there they are. He also says there is progress on funding for more tests and hospitals and for Small Businesses devastated by the pandemic. Now, the president also defended protesters who are fed up with the coronavirus restrictions, restrictions that his own administration has put into place. He called them great people who have cabin fever and denied inciting such protests to, quote, liberate such states. Now, the president touted his own record, praised himself, and lashed out at ...

Brian yeah, i dont know what the drama was about. The president is targeting may 1st. Dr. Fauci says thats in bold letters too optimistic and the u. S. Isnt there yet. Steve just hours after those comments Vice President pence revealed the fda is expected to approve a new immunity test in the coming days. Over 600,000 cases have been reported with over 26,000 deaths. Nearly 50,000 people, however, have recovered. And, good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, april 15th, thats right, april 15th....