Ahead we will be covering all aspects of this health crisis. We want to begin in the first hour with the Financial Impact it is having on you, your family, your loved ones. If you are recently unemployed as a result of the coronavirus, 202 7488000. For all others, 202 7488001. You can join us on social media, we will read your tweets at cspanwj. We are also taking her text messages, tell us your first name and where you are texting from. 202 7488003. A lot to talk about in the next hour. The Johns Hopkins sobering numbers across the years across the world now, 670,000 confirmed cases, approaching 31,000 deaths around the world. Here in the u. S. , close to 125,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States. We want to get your phone calls. Again, if you are recently unemployed, tell us your situation. That number is 202 7488000. The headline from cnbc, the u. S. Economy has come to a. Ndstill host yesterday on fox news, this conversation with Vice President pence on when the u. S. Economy will reopen. [video clip] a tough decision, there are risks if he opens the economy up too soon there is a risk. If he doesnt open it soon enough, there is another risk. What are you specifically looking at and basing your decision on and then formulating a recommendation to the president on. Right question. Short answer, we are following the data. The president secured with massive commercial labs around the country we are literally doing tens of thousands of tests today and we have gotten a great deal more understanding about, about where people have contracted the coronavirus, who has recovered, who is the most at risk, and the regions of the country most impacted. While the president has said he would like to open the country up in weeks not months, we are going to be bringing that data forward to the advice of not the best Health Care Experts in the country, but the best in the world are working on the task force and ultimately the president will make a decision that he thinks is in the best interest of all the American People. The full interview is available at cnbc. Com. Joining us on the phone is jeff basin, White House Reporter for reuters. Thank you for being with us. Want to begin with some of the backandforth yesterday with the president , the governors of new york and new jersey in terms of a quarantine. The administration seem to back away late in the day. Explain how this unfolded. Guest they certainly did that late in the day. The longterm answer to your question, not putting in place a president dide dabble in the possibility. When he was leaving the white house yesterday he went to virginia, his first outing outside the white house in about two and a half weeks, speaking to reporters on his way to virginia, saying it was something he was looking at and , receiving in generating quite a bit of criticism from those governors. He ended up tweeting last night that there would be a travel warning. But that a quarantine itself was not necessary. Bottom line, does the president himself have that authority . Guest thats a terrific question. There was back and forth about that, some believed that he did but others on the state level who believed he did not. It raises a broader question, honestly, about what the federal government and president can do on things like this. Some of it was referred to in the clip that you just played over when the president will reopen the economy. Last week he said prominently that he would like to do so by easter, but it is worth noting as we studied the debate and watch what he decides that the guidelines of the federal government, these 15 days that Vice President pratt right Vice President pence and others have in talking about, those are just recommendations. Its really a local level discussion where they have been discussing keeping places, businesses closed. That is not to undermine or downplay what the president can do, but i think it is important to note that a lot of those aings are recommendations at federal, local, and state level. Host is that another example of the met mixed messages coming from the white house . Absolutely. The president has wanted to take thatt and has been saying the task force is doing a terrific job, but there is a lot of criticism about his response specifically from the beginning. He did downplay this at the very beginning of the outbreak. A came around to showing great deal of seriousness about the problem, but then sort of went back to downplaying it early last week by comparing it again to just the seasonal flu. At the end of the week, to the question the Vice President was , saying theng decision to reopen the economy would be based first on lives, safety, and then economic health. He himself has gone back and forth publicly in his own response to this and there have been. Mixed messages. Talking with the White House Correspondent for reuters and former president for the White House Correspondents association. Jonathan karl has that position with a lot ofling changes inside the white house in the Briefing Rooms. What have you seen in recent days, recent weeks, what can we expect more, if anything . Guest we have seen a determined attempt by the reporters to practice social distancing. There was a time when i walked into the Briefing Room one morning and there had been new seating assignments made basically for fewer journalists to be able to sit in the Briefing Room. That was changed up a few days later to make it an even smaller number, so that there were greater numbers of seats in between the reporters who were sitting there and to have become almost in what had become almost Daily Briefings. They reduced the size and virginia of the normal 13 member press pool of reporters and journalists that travel with them. These are all temporary measures. They are measures to increase social distancing and to protect reporters as well as the staff. And the president himself. Mason, his work is available at reuters. Com. Thank you so much for being with us. Want to share this headline with you from the New York Times co. Testing blunders costing the a month. Th a vital largescale testing did not happen because of technical flaws, business as usual bureaucracy, lack of leadership. T multiple levels that according to interviews with 50 current and former Public Health officials, lost months when the worlds richest Country Armed with some of the best specialist squander their best chance of containing the spread of the virus here in the u. S. We want to focus on the impact it is having on your finances. Victor joins us from silver spring, maryland. Good morning. Guest good morning. I have been buying into the stock market and while others freak out, i have been buying in. I did this in 2001 and 2009. I know im going to come out of this ahead in the long run. But i would like to take a couple of minutes here to salute the truckers out there. Wen i cant sleep, i call w l in cincinnati and they have a show called the American Trucking network with Steve Sommers and riding the wave with son of the truckers i have spoken with personally on the ande, he hauls woodchips horsefeathers, propane to various places. There are others. , spaceman. Grunt my handle on there is known as blind man. Alex, good morning. Caller good morning. Im actually not really affected by this economically at all. Reason for this is that i am actually an essential employee. Thettle over a week ago website fortune. Com posted a short article with about 14 points of who is considered an essential employee, according to the United States government. Couple of the usual suspects are on there. People Like Health Care workers, police, fire department, people who work at grocery stores. Some media companies. I imagine you guys are such. Ered the last bullet point at the bottom, number 14, department of defense contractors. Im not going to mention which company i work for, for security reasons, but i actually wound up being under one of those categories of working for the inartment of defense manufacturing, working for a company that produces military equipment. The militaryart of industrial. Its ironic to me in a sense, i go into work every day and i even come off work just now, taking overtime hours, keeping of production. Its kind of ironic that the department of defense contractors are still going into work producing military equipment for who knows what we will use it for in the future, but we keep in touch, myself and. Ther employees core veterans we keep in touch with colleagues who are still serving in the u. S. Armed forces and because of everything going on there, like in the navy and army and such, they are all getting, contracting the virus in stuff, shutting down. They are not really Running Missions or doing anything along those lines. The actual armed forces is shutdown by the virus, but the militaryindustrial complex roles on. Thank you for the call. An example of how quickly this is spreading in nursing homes, hogan, mountlarry airy, maryland, with 66 residents it tested positive, the governor saying it took three weeks for the National Capital region to go from zero , three days for the region to go to 1000 to 2000 in washington, d. C. , maryland, and virginia, adding the is is a rapidly evolving emergency surrounding the. Ions capital we have a new primetime edition. The washington journal we hope that you tune in, phone in with your questions or comments for Governor Hogan on tuesday night, 8 00 p. M. Evening edition. Jamie is joining us, recently unemployed from hialeah, florida. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Thank you for letting me speak. I will give you a perfect example of smalltown america. Hialeah, florida, i happen to fall into the first category. I got recently hurt on the job, im ok because i got a steady check it coming in for right now, i dont have to worry about how im going to feed my family, but the people next to me they will only get a mere 2500 check and they have to worry about what they are going to do from then on. But the people across, stiffing them, hes got a Small Business and hes got everything, hes up to his neck on credit. Hes got a Small Business with three little trucks. So, now hes going to go and get out of his credit to be able to buy inventory, to be able to sell the inventory and get his money back. Who is going to regulate the Small Business owner . Change it out to his employees, sure, 600, but no one is talking about how much money the Small Business owner is able to get. Im not worried about big business. They are going to keep getting what they are getting. Im not worried about the small guy. Hes not getting nothing. The Small Business guy, we are letting them get ahead. No ones talking about regulating. I keep hearing about free money in america. Keep on going, guys. Host we appreciate that. Steve, next, roberts will, maryland, good morning. Caller appreciate you taking my call, steve. I have been watching you in the evenings there. I like the show in the evenings. Im a kind of semi retired truck driver. I think we need to prioritize where we are giving this money that they are putting out. We have got to have the front my workers, the hospital workers, the Truck Drivers hauling and prioritizing food, keeping the shelves filled up. The unemployment, we need to beef up the unemployment. They spent about double the amount of money they needed to. If you are going to give a bunch to businesses and say it will trickle down, thats just stupid, because that dont work. Fewbig arrogant tax cut a years ago, why dont they repeal that . That will at least pay for the money they are spending now. They are already talking about another 2 trillion three months from now. I think our priorities are wrong and we need to start putting first things first. Especially the frontend. I will close with this, all the people that are sick, you know, it and areng for hoping for a steve speedy recovery. Host we have this statement lines,ell, along those this is the headline from nbc followingrting the host norman is joining us this morning from glenn hope. Tell us your situation. On youri called him unemployment thing. Im a contractor, we do get laid off. I have all the information i need to work on my claim, my pin thaty cant even get , they are so down and out. You know, i try to open my claim, which took a long time. Its open. This is the first week we are and theto sign up Computer System was to open at 6 00 and it crashed at 6 05. The people that never did this before, what they are going through, not knowing what to do or how to devise it. Host thank you for the call. We will go to joanne, next, joining us from schenectady, new york. Good morning. Im a Service Clerk from shoprite supermarkets. Good, doing pretty keeping the customers as much as we can. I have a pension from the government to supplement my pension. So far we are hanging in there. I think trumps trying. The only thing, the thing with the dmv, my husband, it was too late for him to get his identification, his license, he doesnt have a current one. The state ise providing an extension, is that not the case . Caller we were waiting for the decision to be male back, we never got it. Host whats it like at the shop right where you are working . Have food. Its just a Paper Products and cleaning products sometimes we get a load, sometimes not a big one. Sometimes get a few of this or that. Tissues. Host joanne, thank you for the call from schenectady. Mike on the text message line saying host this from the associated press, one of the headlines in the boston herald, off the charts, virus hotspots growing. N Middle America are next, goodou morning, from caspian, michigan. Caller good morning. I feel for everybody around the entire world that has been affected by this, the inaction affects everybody. The anxiety thats out there when you get met mixed messages from world leaders, they dont know which way to turn. You just dont know whats right and whats wrong. I know that forethought is tough to handle. I just thought about this last night or yesterday, but if it ever comes down to where we have to stay in our homes and theres people directing us, i would like to see us, you know, everybody get respirators. Theres nothing wrong with passing out, passing out respirators should have been done to her three weeks ago to every person in this country. Think, you know, i mean i wish i wouldve brought that up maybe earlier, but you know, really that is the wise solution. Totead of telling people stay in their homes, along with that passing out respirators for everybody. Get respirators to everybody, every human being in this country. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Host thank you. Coming up at the top of the hour, the founder and ceo of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will be joining us from westchester, new york. Tell us your comments. You can also text them. We are approaching the bottom of the hour and if you are just tuning in, or listening on cspan radio or potus, channel 100 24, which carries this every sunday morning, or the Parliament Channel in Great Britain on the bbc. We are asking that the impact this is having on you, your finances, and we have one line set aside for the recently unemployed. Ed, indiana, you are one of the hot spots. How are you doing . Caller thank you for taking my call, thank you to cspan. Theres one thing, the unemployment that im getting is 247 a week. My rent around rent alone is 1280 a month. Thats not even close. Why cant they give a little bit more to the people . Also, i would like to say that when i see those chem trails in the sky, like the next day theres a large spike in cases. Im wondering if thats connected to it. I would also like to say that there is a depopulation agenda for 2025. People need to look at that, too. Thank you for taking my call, have a good day. Host ernest, are you with us . From massachusetts, good morning. Yes, this has impacted us a lot. We are retired, ok . My wife and i. It has impacted our family. We cant see our grandkids. I was just in the hospital almost three weeks. I see how dedicated these Health Care Workers are, the doctors, the nurses, the aides and everybody else associated with the hospital. Hospitals should be considered strategic. Nurses and doctors should be and their tuition should be paid. To our very strategic country and we are seeing the results of that. We have to have doctors, nurses, and aids. If we had more doctors and more nurses and more material safety equipment, maybe the spike in this virus wouldnt be here. This is just as important as our military. I have seen this. I seen how hard these doctors, nurses, student nurses by the way, they work in a hospitals also. We have to spend money there. I have seen this firsthand. They are very, very hard workers. They are very dedicated. They put their lives on the line. I think we have to look at that. Host ernest, i would agree. My wife is a nurse, she is on the line with so many others. As she points out, you need the ventilators but also the medical staff to operate it. Yes, i think, i think this has to be looked at. This is something where you cant really blame politicians for this. This is something that just developed over time. We have to look at things differently now and consider this part of our infrastructure, just as important as the military. Thank you for weighing in, ernest, i completely agree. This is from carolyn. Ost susan is next tampa, florida, good morning. Taking myank you for call. First and foremost, i just want to express my my extreme medicale for these nurses, these doctors that are in fro