Reporter. All i can say is, mom, he is never going to. It is not my intention to say bad things about the president. I just dont think its in him, chris. I am not sure we should look to him for that. It is just not in this man to do it. I think we should look to the experts, yes, we should hold him accountable, but i think he should play traffic cop at these conferences and say here is dr. Fauci. Here is what we have done and what we plan on doing. And now for the latest, let me turn it over to the vice president. Let me turn it over to this doctor and this. Every time he opens his mouth the dial goes down. Every time he answers a question he takes it personally instead of trying to help the american people. He should take cues from your brother. I am just saying. One of the most dangerous thing to say for andrews wellbeing is that the president should take cues from him. The president does what he think is right and he will be underfor it. Making tony fauci a foil to trump. He is not telling the truth about china. The numbers dont match up. You are putting fauci in a horrible position. You know the president isnt telling the truth, doesnt understand the numbers, is overwhelmed. Dont put fauci in a position to have to be the check because we may lose him. You heard my brother and everybody says fauci is pivotal. It is an unfair question in the context right now. We need fauci. The president is not going to change. He does what he thinks works for him. That is the test at the election hopefully we have. We need comfort, accurate information, someone to help us get through this and i am not sure that is happening, at least on the president s part. Andrew is getting some attention because hes being clear and consistent and new york matters. Accurate information and hes being proactive and not taking anything personally. He is saying here is what we are doing. These are the issues we have. This is what we need. This is how you can help. This is what we need from the government. This is what i need from you. Lets move on and the next day we will have more information for you. I agree except for one exception. Andrew is a tough guy, knows the ups and downs of politics as well as anybody. It moves me when they say my father would be proud of him because i know they are right. I must take exception. He has attacked me as a reporter and not been truthful every time he has done that. Your brother sf. He has never been right anything negative he has said about me. According to our cnn reporting, the Fastest GrowingCovid Infection rate in the world. It is a red state. We will talk to the governor and see why that is happening. Stay safe. Here is our breaking news. The coronavirus outbreak getting worse by the hour. President trump appears to be wishing it away. I am going to explain why. It is abundantly clear he is wanting to ease up on social restrictions when the 15day period and that is a week from now. Certainly this is going to be bad and we are trying to make it that it is much less bad. Thats what we are doing. I think we are doing a very good job of it. Its bad and the numbers are going to increase with time and then they will start to decrease. We are going to be opening our country up for business because our country was meant to be open. So at that same press conference, his official expressed the importance of social distancing to prevent the numbers from increasing. What are those numbers . They are not numbers. They are people with coronavirus. More than 42,000 cases in the u. S. That is a jump of 10,000 cases from this time last night. The Surgeon General issuing this dire warning. I want america to understand. This week its going to get bad. You dont think people are taking it serious . I think there are a lot of people doing the right things, but a lot of people think this cant happen to them. As of tonight coronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 541 americans. That is more than 100 deaths in this country in just the last 24 hours. When asked tonight if he agreed with the Surgeon Generals prognosis, the president brought up the flu and car accidents. Again, i say we have a very active flu season, more than most. It is heading to 50,000 deaths, not cases, which is a lot. You look at automobile accidents which are far greater than any numbers we are talking about. That doesnt mean we are going to tell everybody no more driving of cars. We have to do things to get our country open. We have gone full circle now. The president s own experts has said this is not like the flu, it is deadlier and more contagious. Last week it seemed like the president got that concept. This week although we are just at the beginning of dealing with the crisis, the president said he expects social distancing to be gone soon. You say weeks not months. Have any doctors on your team said this is not the right path to pursue. I spoke to them today. Dont forget if it were up to the doctors, they may say shut down the entire world. We are up to 150 countries. Lets shut down the entire world. That would be wonderful. Lets keep it shut for a couple of years. You cant do that with a country especially the number one economy in the world. You cant do that. Worldwide there are more than 372,000 cases and more than 16,000 deaths. Direct director Surgeon General said it took 67 days to hit 100,000 cases, just 11 days to hit 200,000 and just four days to hit 300,000. Lets bring in kate. I saw social distancing in the briefing room. The president says things might get worse in this country and he is itching to scale back social distancing. What is the latest . He said he agreed with the Surgeon Generals assessment. It will get worse before better. The deadline when they will be making the decision is a week from today. They will decide whether to move forward with the guidelines or assess them. The president made clear in the press conference that hes leaning towards easing them. He said none of the doctors endorse it. He said they discussed it and he thinks they are okay with it, but he made clear it is not something they have pushed for. We know behind the scenes it is not something dr. Fauci and others said they feel comfortable. Are there details what they would do if the virus is not contained . They would say limit yourself to ten people or fewer. They want some businesses that shuttered their doors to reopen. If the state guideline is pretty strict, and they are in certain areas, not just new york and california, but pretty strict in North Carolina and others. Do they follow the state governors guidance . So many schools have closed until the end of the year. If the president decides to send people back to work, how does it work for those families whose children are not going back to school for the rest of the year . There are a lot of unknowns. You heard the conversation chris and i had. Do we know where dr. Fauci is . They said he was a briefing. He has missed them before. Standing on the stage for two hours is not the most effective move. But you cannot ignore this comes after dr. Fauci did that interview that sometimes he has to contradict the president when he says things that arent true or says things he hasnt advised him to do. Dr. Fauci has come forward to contradict the president even when they are in that room. The president is commenting on potential drug solutions. People say they would rather hear from someone like dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci wasnt there, but the attorney general was there to talk about price gouging and hoarding of supplies. And i want to turnabout the stimulus bill. Where do things stand now . There are intense negotiations happening all day long into the late hours. It has been going on since this past friday, every night going late. Steven mnuchin and others are meeting for the fifth time today. They are trying to narrow down their differences. They have met with Mitch Mcconnell as well. Both sides are signaling there could be a deal as early as tonight. Reporters were told it could be done tonight. This was done on a day of high tension on capitol hill. Both sides are pushing to get this done. But these two sides are at war with Mitch Mcconnell accusing the democrats of acting recklessly and democrats saying they are trying to make it better. It is a sweeping bill of 2 trillion dollars that would help individuals and companies hurt by this crisis. What would the provisions look like, we should have a better idea what it would look like. What has been the hangup in these talks . Several provisions, but one of the things that has been a central part of negotiations is roughly 500 billion provided to the government to dole out to states, localities, companies that need that money. How does that get structured and oversight. That is one of the big things, but it sounds like they are getting closer to resolution. You spoke to House Speaker nancy pelosi today. What did she say . She was open to making this through. She say the if the senate bill was to the satisfaction of her and her numbers, they would be open to passing it. D democrats did propose their own bill today, 2. 5 trillion. She is trying to get the republicans to move closer to her direction. We expect them ultimately to be on the same page and vote. The question is will the house members return to washington to vote or do it by vote. That is another concern, the coronavirus has hit capitol hill. The president says he wants social distancing to end in weeks, not months. We will hear from dr. Sanjay gupta, next. Feedback that helps you drive safer. And that can lower your cost now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . And sometimes, you can find yourself heading in a new direction. 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The time interval from the time someone is exposed to symptoms, it takes a while. Do we think the spread in the country has gone down for some reason or that it has continued to go up . I think its clear it has continued to go up. The numbers are going up because we are doing increased testing, but it is clear the numbers are going up because there is more spread. Hong kong, a week and a half ago, they did a good job, but as soon as they let their guard down, you saw the numbers double within a few days. Its painful to do what we are doing. Its tough for the entire country, but if you dont do it, absolutely the numbers will go up. A Public Health official who says otherwise is probably not thinking it. It has hurt the economy. Everyone is worried about it. If we stop the social distancing and stop it too soon and the virus spreads like crazy again, will this all have been for naught . Will it go up and what we did was an exercise in futility . That is the concern. Look, its not just we know that younger people now are also needing to be hospitalized. 20 in the hospital are younger people. Don, this term has been used for several weeks, flattening the curve. I think there is this belief that over time, over the next year or so, most of the people, 40 to 60 of the people in this country are likely to get exposed. It is far more contagious than the flew. Flu spreads to 1. 2 people and this spreads to 2. 5 people. Its more contagious. The question is how fast does it occur . If you slow it down and not all of the people are rushing into the hospital, you are saving lives. You will get people out of the hospital and they are immunized or protected from the virus for a while. Thats the sort of goal here. If you dont do that, a lot of people will access the Health Care System quickly and that is the worstcase scenario. Some say this is a health emergency, some say an economic emergency, some say both. Listen to the president on this, dr. Sanjay. We have learned a lot. We have learned about social distancing, washing hands. You look at nebraska, iowa, many countries that are handling very well and not affected to the same extent, or frankly, not nearly to the extent of new york. Dr. Birks said herself only a few places havent had any. How do we know iowa wont have a surge down the road. People travel to big cities more and more, eventually it will get to smaller towns and places. We are talking about a little virus here. It doesnt respect borders or boundaries. Once it takes a foot hold, it will start to spread because it is a contagious virus. Maybe transport. Maybe it doesnt become as widespread as in new york city, but i think it is clear over the next couple of weeks, we will see communities around the country that will have more and more cases. Sustained Community Spread is something happening in the united states. Luckily, there may be measures in place to slow down how quickly people need medical care if they need medical care. Don, thats an important point as well. If you look at the united states, most of the people inl effected dont need to be hospitalized. Its around 12 or 13 . Most can recover at home. For those 12 or 13 which ends up to be 30 or 40 million people, you need to be sure they are not all accessing the Health Care System at the same time. As you are hearing, hospitals are already starting to run low on some of these supplies. Also testing. There may be more cases in places, but they just have not been tested. They may be there and they dont know about them. Lets talk about the possible drug that the president has been it outing a touting and talking about. Does it sound like they have enough drug to let people in less hard hit areas go back to work . Are they right about those things . I dont think it will happen that quickly. Everyone is hopeful there will be some sort of therapeutic like this. It takes time. Its an existing drug. It has been around for 86 years as an antimalarial drug. It does have some side effects, but it is wellknown. The only studies on human beings were on 26 people and 6 were excluded from the study. When we looked why the six people were taken out of the study, one person left the h hospital on their own. One could not tolerate it. Three people left and three people died. About 4 died. Small study. You wouldnt look at that at first blush and say thats going to be it necessarily. Maybe it is. Maybe in larger populations it ends up working really well and i think everybody would love that. I think now you will see those trials take place. I think what governor comeau talked about today was 10,000 treatments going to new york city as part of a clinical trial, see what worked. Compare them to similar patients that did not get the treatment. See if there is a benefit. 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