7488001. If you are recently unemployed, special line for you this morning 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning to you. President trump released his new guidance yesterday as the Labor Department announced another 5. 2 million americans have filed for unemployment last week as the Washington Times notes that raises the jobless claims for the month to about 22 million. Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s have so many people been thrown out of work so quickly. Reason, the white house argues, to get a plan in place to open the economy. This was President Trump yesterday. [video clip] believesam of experts we can begin the next front in our war, which we are calling opening up america again, and that is what we are doing. We are opening up our country. And we have to do that. America wants to be open and americans want to be open. Some timesaid for now, a National Shutdown is not a sustainable longterm solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy. Over the long haul, you cannot do one without the other. It cannot be done. To keep vital supply chains running, these chains have to be taken care of so delicately. They are delicate, the balance is delicate. We want to deliver food and medical supply. We must have a working economy, and we want to get it back very, very quickly. And thats whats going to happen. I believe it will boom. Was President Trump from the white house yesterday. The white house also releasing an 18 page guidance document that talks about how the economy could be reopened, noting that states must first achieve gatekeeping goals for things like symptoms and cases and hospital readiness. On symptoms, it would have to be a downward trajectory of influenza like illnesses reported in a 13 day 14 day period for states to even start this threephase process the white house has laid out. A downward trajectory of documented cases of covid19, hospitals within the state would have to show they could treat all patients without having crisis care in the state. Dr. Anthony fauci was available yesterday at the White House Briefing to talk more about this threephase opening up process. [video clip] first of all, in order to even consider getting into the phasing, you have to pass a hurdle. That is the hurdle we referred to as gating in. When you think about it and look at the map of the country and look at the differences in different parts of the country, you will see there are some regions, states, locations that are going to be almost already into some of that getting and have all most the fill of those criteria. Others, because of the dynamic of the outbreak in their area, will take longer to be able to do that. Get through phase one until you get through the gating. Surein order to make safety and health is the dominant issue, the design of the phases are just that. You go into phase one. If you get no rebound and you satisfy the gating yet again a second time, then you go to phase two. If you have no rebound and you criteria forating a second time, you going to phase three. There are multiple checkpoints of safety there. As i have set from this podium when we were talking about the first 15 days of the mitigation and then we extended it another 30 days, i essentially pleaded with the American Public to say, let us make sure we do the best that we can to accomplish that. In fact, mitigation works. You saw the chart that the Vice President and dr. Birx put up. It worked. What i hope and what i believe we will be successful is if we carefully do this again with attention to the safety and health of the American Public, we will be able to it will be staggered. Not every state, not every region will do it at the same time. That is clearly obvious because of the very dynamics of the outbreak. But we feel confident that sooner or later, we will get to that point hopefully sooner with safety as the most important thing, to a point where we can get back to some form of normality. Host dr. Anthony fauci from the white house yesterday, and from the other end of pennsylvania avenue, some reaction on capitol hill from members of congress to white house efforts to reopen the federal government, including speaker nancy pelosi. Here was her tweet yesterday afternoon, before the official announcement. She wrote on twitter to say if people will die, so be it. Instead of a science and testing based path to open the economy, it is deeply frivolous and wrong. Every life is precious, she wrote, each death is heartbreaking. For a family and for a community. This is something we are all in together. Adam schiff saying this is barely hospitals continue to report experience bottlenecks. If trump forces a premature reopening, even more and more americans will die. One more democrat saying yesterday on twitter, we cannot safely reopen the country until we have adequate testing. We still dont have that. President trump did not listen to scientists and doctors and did not distribute national testing. We are paying for that now. Republicans on capitol hill. This is scott perry, congressman from pennsylvania, saying it will be months until our nation can eliminate the threat of covid19, but with scientific evidence, common sense, and appropriate measures, we can start reopening our country. The president is heading the heading in the right dimension. And Governor Tom Wolf of pennsylvania saying, lets get pennsylvania back to work. Another republican on capitol hill, we need a balanced approach to reopen our economy during covid19. We cannot paint this response with a broad stroke. Trumpsesident leadership, states and governors have a reasonable roadmap to get america working again. That is just a flavor of the reaction from capitol hill yesterday. We want to get your reaction this morning on the washington journal. Opening up our phone lines to you regionally as usual. Central or eastern time zones, 202 7488000. In the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Of the latest Labor Department numbers, 5. 2 million americans filing for unemployment last week, we want to keep the line open for those that are recently unemployed. We want to get your thoughts on reopening the economy, how that could happen, and when you think that might happen in your community and how your governor is doing. 202 7488002 is that number for recently unemployed. Jeffrey is up first out of beltsville, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning, how you been . You for atalked to while. We got things open, but here in maryland we have to wear masks in every store we go in, and even some of the grocery stores, they have lines where you stand out and they hand the food out to you. I do not know why it is so hard for the rightwing people who are going to have a rally about this stuff, michigan, kentucky, north carolina, i dont know why they want to act like a fool about no masks, standing in a crowd, mad because they have their stayathome thing i do not know if they are not happy at home or what it is, but it is dumb. They should let things go with the flow, because somebody is going to get sick and they are going to sue the governor. Understand, i watch your show every day and yeah, we need to open up. But why dont they just make it mandatory that people wear their masks or gloves . Host speaking of governors, how do you think larry hogan is doing . Caller oh, im a democrat but i am proud of larry hogan. I am proud of what he is doing. I am a stubborn person. Where no masksme in a grocery store, it is hard to breathe, but i follow the rules. I do not understand why these rightwing people are not following the rules. Host larry hogan putting out his own tweet and video in which he speaks to how a reopening would work in maryland. This was his tweet from yesterday. [video clip] and aggressive actions and because of the extraordinary sacrifices of marylanders, we are now in a position to move from containment and mitigation to a gradual rollout of our recovery phase. Our numbers are still rising and we are still heading up that curve, so we are not quite there yet. But we are seeing positive signs of cautious optimism. Over the last several weeks, we have been consulting with experts and developing a roadmap for the reopening of our state and our economy, and consultation with our Coronavirus Response team of doctors and Public Health experts. I can assure you that those plans will be well thought out, gradual, and safe. There is clearly a light at the end of this tunnel, but exactly how and when we will get to that light is going to be up to each and every one of us. Governor larry hogan yesterday, his tweet he put out after the president s briefing, after president s briefing, after the president spoke with the nations governors about this plan he has put out, the opening up america again plan. That is what we are talking about on the washington journal. We have a line for those that are recently unemployed, and dennis is in lebanon, virginia on that line. The morning, dennis. What kind of work did you do . Caller good morning. I did manufacturing. Host dennis, are you with us . Caller yes, yes. Host what kind of work did you do . I missed that. Caller sorry. Im in manufacturing. Host and when did you lose your job . Caller i was for load about two furlougo for load hed about two weeks ago. Host and it is something you think you might get back down the road . When do you see that happening . Caller i have a return to work date, they just furloughed me because of the outbreak. Host what is your return to work date . Caller april 27. Host what kind of manufacturing . Caller it is farm equipment. Host do you think you will be able to hit the april 27 state, date, you said . Caller yes. Host why are you confident about that . Caller i think the cases in pennsylvania have declined, and i think we are beyond the issues. You think it is time that this opening up america again plan, we saw some it is his and that we read from democrats on capitol hill about the need for more testing and more science driven guidance here what are your thoughts on that . It is yeah, i think unfounded. Listening to the doctors at the president s press conferences, they are all saying we have hit the apex and are on the downward side of the bell curve, and i think its time to get back to work. And to the previous caller who andioned about the protests the things going on at the capitol, i dont want to characterize this as a rightwing thing. I think this is more of an american thing. It is not right or left. People want to get back to work. People want to get the economy back together. This staying at home is not its just not good. Looking at the demographics of , it the virus is attacking think we need more information out in the public of who needs , and thaterned demographic needs to be closely monitored. But for the majority of americans, i think it is time to get back to work. Host that is the vulnerable population we heard the president and the white house referred to in their guidance on how this threephase process would work. Before you go, dennis, have you filed for unemployment amid all this . Caller i have. Host where are you in that process . Caller im still waiting on the state to reply to my initial application. Wolf is really behind the curve on this. He is not been communicating with the constituents. Hes really hiding behind the desk, looking for assistance from other democrat governors. I think our president has really showed great leadership through situation. Whole i think Governor Wolf needs to take the lead from President Trump and do what needs to be done for the state. Host dennis, thanks for the call from pennsylvania. On the line for those who filed for unemployment. Here is the vision from the New York Times today, each one of the dots in all of these fields, orange, field, green, and bluefield made up of individual dots, every dot in 1000 fields represent new unemployment claims. The red bar is in the past week, the five. 2 million claims that were filed by the week ending april 11. 5. 2 million unemployment claims. For comparison, georges entire workforce is 5. 1 5 Million People georgias entire workforce is 5. 1 5 Million People. For comparison, illinois entire workforce, 6. 4 Million People. Theweek ending march 28, orange bar, 6. 8 Million People filed for unemployment. Pennsylvanias workforce, where the caller had called from, 6. 5 Million People. Just a chart showing a visualization of all those people, the 22 million americans who have filed for unemployment over the past four weeks. We will stay in pennsylvania. This is mary out of erie. Caller good morning. Host mary, go ahead and turn down your television. Your thoughts on the reopening the opening up, america again plan is what i guess it is officially called . Caller good morning. My name is mary lee. [inaudible] people want to get back to work because they have families they need to take care of, and trump is doing a marvelous, magnificent job. I feel like tom wolfe is, the more he keeps pushing this whole thing, the more people are going to feel like they dont have money to take care of their families. I think it is ridiculous. Host the more he is pushing this whole thing. What do you mean, pushing this whole thing . Caller Wearing Masks and gloves. Dont have the coronavirus, you know, that are not being affected by it, you know . Trump really is trying to do his best and i am proud of him. Tom wolfe is hiding behind his desk. He doesnt care about the american people. If he did, he would have stood up years ago and got on top of this before it got to this point. Like, honestly, i think we still need a little bit of work, but i think it is time for us to get back together and get the economy going, because if not it is going to crash. Host do you think the federal government should have stepped up years ago and got not top of this before it got to this point . Caller yes, definitely. This is not safe. People cannot go Grocery Shopping without being afraid. Honestly, i am proud of trump, but tom wolfe needs to know people are fed up. This is not ok. We should have got on top of this before we had this problem. We should have dealt with this issue back in 2013, and from 2013 on we would have been on top of it. Host that your point. That is mary in erie, pennsylvania. This is linda out of delmar, new york. Caller good morning. Host go ahead, linda. Caller i was listening to the 5 00 a. M. News. Local new york news, and we are still on the pause, so i thought i would listen to the news early in the morning. Astoundingast an develop and. A doctor had developed a treatment that would bring about immediate movement to recovery. So we now will have a treatment says will not only be valueds to the United States valued to the United States, but to the entire world. Host we will be talking to helping leadzo, some of the response and the university and the state of alabama. We will talk about the latest in treatments coming up at 8 00 a. M. This idea of reopening america. When do you think that can happen and specifically for new york, your state . Yes, we get daily reports from governor cuomo, who is doing a very good job, and although we are pausing until the 15th of may, i believe that if there truly is a treatment that will immediately cure to end we may be able this whole thing a lot sooner than we anticipated. So thats why i called in. I hope you will be able to bring marrazzo. Dr. Jeanne it sounds like a very simple treatment. They show the needle and the vial, one drop under the tongue, sublingual, and you are on your way to recovery. I dont know how long it takes, but host got your point. Linda bringing up the stayathome order brought about by andrew cuomo yesterday. Here is a bit from his Daily Briefing yesterday. [video clip] the new york pause has worked. Closing down has worked. Not there yet. We are at. 9. , so we havewn to. 3 to continue doing what we are doing. I would like to see that infection rate get down even more. The new york pause policies, the closedown policies will be extended in coordination with other states to may 15. I dont want to project beyond that period, that is about one month. One month is a long time. People need certainty and clarity so they can plan. I need a coordinated action plan with the other states, so one month, we will continue the closedown policies. What happens after then, i dont know. We will see, depending on what the data shows. What does that mean . Tell me what our infection rate spread is is it. 9 . Is it one . Is it seven . Tell me what the hospitalization rate is. The experts will tell us the best course of conduct based on that data. No political decisions, no emotional decisions, data and science. We are talking about human lives here. Host Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday at his Daily Briefing, as we are discussing what was released yesterday afternoon, early evening by the white house. R opening up america again plan, to bring business and production back online, although some companies are taking those steps already. A story out of the New York Times, boeing plans to resume marshall aircraft production in Washington State by bringing about 27,000 employees back to work. Most will return by the end of next week. At athe first attempt largescale resumption of Business Activity by a largescale corporation in the u. S. 66 currentlyut confirmed coronavirus cases. Boeing employees who returned to work in the coming weeks will find new health and safety precautions, such as staggered start times, spread out work areas. A Company Spokesperson said boeing would not test employees for the virus, but face masks required and provided to people who do not have their own. Floor markings will remind employees to stay apart. Cond