We talked about it. We talk about it all the time. The Third Quarter will be better than okay, larry thinks better than okay even more so than i do and i think Fourth Quarter will be great and i think next year is going to be a tremendous year for this country. Jennifer . Reporter [ inaudible ] responsible, as the secretary mentioned, what exactly yes, well be responsible. They have a team of people, theyll bring in additional people, and again, i want to assure the American Public and the american taxpayers, we will make sure these certifications were done accurately or the loans wont be forgiven and there will be liability. Reporter Mitch Mcconnell today told [ inaudible ] phone call does not want to Fund Infrastructure in a coronavirus stimulus bill. Do you have a reaction to that . I think mitch is looking at it as i do to an extent as the infrastructure he likes infrastructure, we all do, we have to rebuild our country. 8 trillion has been spent. I wasnt in favor of it, i can tell you that, in the middle east. 8 trillion, think of it. And you wanted to fix a pothole in a roadway or in a highway in this country and, uh, you couldnt do it, they didnt have the money because so much money was spent in the middle east. Its a whole different story now. We want to do infrastructure but a lot of people, a lot of the republicans would like to keep that as a separate bill so well see how that works out, jennifer, well see. Please. Reporter you said at the top of your remarks that the majority of the pandemic is behind us. Without a treatment and a vaccine, states now reopening, how can you be so sure . I think that like other things, uh, were going to be hopefully were going to come up with a vaccine, you never know about a vaccine but tremendous progress has been made, Johnson Johnson and oxford and lots of good things youve been hearing, the same things as i do. Tremendous progress has been made, we think, on a vaccine, you always have to say think, and then you have to test it and that takes a period of time. But, uh, a lot of movement and a lot of progress has been made on a vaccine. But i think what happens is its going to go away. This is going to go away. And, uh, whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, well be able to handle it, well be able to put experts, were very prepared to handle it. Weve learned a lot, weve learned a lot about it, the invisible enemy, its a bad enemy, its a very tough enemy but weve learned a lot. Its the in 184 countries as you hear me say often. Its hard to believe. Its inconceivable, should have been stopped at the source which was china. Should have been stopped very much at the of course but it wasnt. Now we have 184 countries going through hell. But i think that, uh, i think that, uh, a lot of good things are going to happen and i really believe that Fourth Quarter is going to be maybe tremendous. And the next year i think has a chance to be really, uh, getting close to record setting, we hope so. We hope we can be back where we were. We had the strongest economy anywhere in the world and i hope we can be back there again. Reporter mr. President , youve spoken about your friend who passed away. I was wondering if you spoke to the families of anyone else who has lost loved ones to covid19, if theres any particular stories that have affected you. Well, i have many people, i know many stories, ive spoken to three, maybe i guess four families, unrelated to me. I did, i lost a very good friend. I also lost three other friends, uh, two of whom i didnt know as well but they were friends, people i did business with, probably almost everybody in the room did. And its a, uh, its a bad death. Its a bad thing. It grips on to some people. Now we found out that young people do extraordinarily well. Thats why i think we can start thinking about schools but of course were ending the School Season so, you know, it wouldnt be probably you wouldnt be back for too long. I notice where purdue university, a great school in a great state, wants to open and have students come in. I think thats correct. Uh, some colleges, i think i saw harvard wants to have students come back in the fall. I would hope that they would have students. I think that the whole concept of computer learning is wonderful but its not tele, telelearning, but its not the same thing as being in the classroom in a Great College or a college of any kind, college, university. Theres nothing you cant replace that. So hopefully theyre going to be coming back. Young people do very well with this horrible scourge, they do very well. So i am going to, uh, see you tomorrow. And well have other things to talk about. We have a lot of interesting things. All right. President trump talking to reporters in the east room of the white house, i believe. Welcome to the lead. Youve been listening to President Trump talking about the latest in the coronavirus pandemic and the fight against it as the u. S. Reaches another grim milestone this afternoon. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has now topped 1 million. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house for us right now and kaitlan, President Trump, again trying to shift the blame. Reporter well, and jake, arteries no its notable that the president is taking questions in the east room. He doesnt normally take questions there. This comes during a divide on whether President Trump should continue press conferences after what happened on thursday with the fallout over his remarks about potential treatments for coronavirus and what he said about household disinfectants and whatnot. But the president is still finding a way to take questions for the second time today. You saw him there saying he believes were soon going to be at that benchmark that experts have said the u. S. Needs to hit a 5 million test per day. Of course a reminder, weve only just hit 5 million tests overall. I believe the Vice President said yesterday it was 5. 4 million tests done in general in the United States. Now the president is saying he hopes they can up their daily basis of those tests. And of course the question is really going to be how are they going to do that. The new guidelines they talked about yesterday didnt specify how theyll ramp up testing, and governors say thats key to reopening their states. The president didnt mention a deadline of 5 million a day. We should note were not close to that at all right now. Right, and were going to talk to dr. Anthony fauci later in the show about that and other issues pertaining this. Thank you, kaitlan. Joining me now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, lets talk about the fact that these experts who have these projections of what the death toll and the infection rate will be, they have again revised the death toll, this time up, to 74,000 by august. Partly, they say, this is because states are relaxing social distancing guidelines; is that right . In other words, are the governors making decisions that will theoretically lead to more deaths . I think that thats feeding into this for certain. Going up, you know, as high as it has, you know, keep in mind, jake, weve been talking about this particular model for some time. About a month ago, i think almost exactly a month ago, the toll was around the projection, i should say, for these tragic deaths, around 90,000 people. And then i think you and i both saw it go down to 60, 68,000 people. And i think at that point the point was that the stayathome orders were having an impact. We were starting to see that impact. And now as they start to get revised upwards i think theres two things that are feeding it. The point youre making, if you start to relax, something we know has had a positive benefit, youre going to start seeing the numbers go another way. I think the other thing, jake, i follow these curves. We talk about flattening the curve but it was still supposed to be a curve. With a youre seeing in some of these places is more of a plateau. It almost seems like in some of these places people saw a certain amount of benefit and either are relaxing it and were not seeing the numbers start to come down as they should. The curve is just staying plateaued for a while, which i think is also feeding into these module models. It should be going down in some of these places and it hasnt yet, the concern is were seeing a little bit of an upward trend as well as a plateau. Were following that very closely. But i think those two things are driving that increased sad death toll. Of course theres a big difficulty here for leaders, whether President Trump or governors, how do you balance the economic catastrophe going on versus the risk to lives. I guess the question i have for you is would this type of spike that the modelers are projecting, would that occur no matter when economies begin to reopen, at least until theres a vaccine . I think there would be an increase no matter when, because, you know, this is a contagious virus, its still out there. When we start opening things up, there are going to be people who get infected that otherwise would not. But not a spike like this, not a spike like these imhe modelers are predicting. This is a significant spike, a 25 spike, if you go from 60 to 75,000, roughly. So its significant. So i think your point being that the virus is still going to be out there is true, and you are going to have to have a calculation at some point. But i think, jake, what has struck me is that there were very specific gating criteria here that were based on, you know, the best data. We need to see a 14day downward trend. The reason you say that is because you get down to a low level of enough infection that you start bringing what is called that rnot, the likelihood of spreading it to someone else, you want to bring it down to below 1. Thats how you make this virus start to fizzle out. Were somewhere around 3 right now. If you can bring it down below 1, youll start to see significant impact. Thats what the 14day trend in part was based on. Many states arent following that. That was federal guidelines, guidelines, admittedly, but pretty easy to follow and understand but obviously a lot of places not following them. Sanjay, ive been told Health Experts would expect anywhere from 2 to 4 of those tested for the virus to be positive. But the numbers that were seeing are much higher than that. 8 in california, 19 in georgia, 35 in new york, 17 across the u. S. Is this just a matter of who is being tested . Whats going on here . Yeah, i think its in part because, you know, we still havent doing good surveillance testing. You know, people who are getting tested for the most part are going to be higher risk people. And you are more likely to get positive results in that population. But i think theres two things here. In order to get real prevalence, like out of 300 and whatever, 45 Million People in the country, how many people actually have this, we dont know. We dont know the answer to that question. And obviously to really know it you would have to test everybody which were not going that would be very hard to do. But you can start to extrapolate what the number is likely to be in terms of prevalence. And according to some of these studies, some of these antibody studies, you know, you start to look in new york, for example, they said the number was 15 , the city of new york, closer to 20, 25 . We dont know what it is in other places. But for the time being, the virus testing, instead of focusing on the numbers, which i get that people want to say how many tests a day do you need to perform, what you really want to see is that the Positivity Rate drops below 10 . Thats not telling you how many people out there have it. It tells you youre starting to test enough. Youre seeing enough negatives. That means your penetration of testing is starting to feel more adequate. In georgia where i live, were closer to 20 , double where we should be, yet thing are still reopening. It means we still havent done enough testing. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you so much. As always, coming up, the leading model, revising the death toll upwards, whats behind that. Stay with us. Hey friends i got up, i put make up on. I have jeans on, who is she . Family run sometimes you like modify a recipe and its so good your girl, is still losing, this afternoon, the u. S. Passed another grim, tragic milestone. More than 1 million in the nation have been confirmed infected with coronavirus. And the death toll in the United States from coronavirus now stands at 57,812. At this time a month ago the death toll was 2,043. For context, about 58,000 americans died in the vietnam war over a nineyear span. Were close to losing that Many Americans to coronavirus in only three months. And now the leading u. S. Coronavirus model from the university of washington has raised its projected deaths, predicting 74,000 lives will be lost in the u. S. Just by august. Cnns erica hill takes a look at how these new projection models show reopening states too early could bring negative outcomes. In my mind, its inevitable that well have a return of the virus or maybe it never even went away. When it does, how we handle it will determine our fate. Reporter at least a dozen states pushing forward as new models suggest the country could face a major setback if change comes too soon. Our forecast now is for 74,000 deaths. Theres a lot of unknown factors there. But our best estimate is going up. Reporter the updated model often cited by the white house also predicting there could be longer peaks ahead if restrictions are eased too soon. If we are unsuccessful or prematurely try to open up and we have additional outbreaks that are out of control, it could be much more than that. Reporter harvard researchers estimate the u. S. Needs to test 5 Million People a day by early june to safely begin reopening. The white house testing czar disagrees. So we dont believe those estimates are really accurate nor are they reasonable in our society. Reporter many areas around the country looking to Antibody Testing to better understand the spread. Nearly 15 of the thousands tested across new york state were positive for the antibodies. That number is closer to 25 in new york city. A lot more people were getting infected before it actually started to show up. Reporter in addition to random sampling, states and cities also testing First Responders and front line workers for antibodies. As officials weigh the data, americans are trying to figure out what the coming weeks and months could look like amid new warnings about the economy. I think by june, you know, i think that were looking at numbers between 16 and 20 . The Unemployment Rate at that point will be something thats about as high as something that we havent seen since, you know, the 1930s. Reporter the president suggesting in a call with governors that schools should reopen even if just for a few weeks. Yet 39 states have already decided children will not return to the classroom this school year as concerns grow about a deepening divide. New york city trying to bridge the gap with nearly 250,000 ipads and internet access. Meantime at hospitals, grocery stores, and on the streets of america, front line workers push ahead. Along the east coast today, grateful cities pausing for a flyover. To honor their sacrifice. It was a beautiful tribute. No better place than new york city for them to do this. Reporter jake, just another reminder, as you point out, were reaching these grim milestones certainly in the number of americans who have been lost to this virus. There are also those on the front lines who deserve the recognition for everything that they are doing to keep this country running on a daily basis, jake. Amen. Erica hill, thank you so much. This afternoon President Trump claimed he was not sure if he was warned by intelligence officials about coronavirus in january or february. Despite u. S. Officials telling the Washington Post they sounded the alarm in more than a dozen classified briefings known as the pdb, the president s daily brief. Remember, after those warnings allegedly happened in january and february, exactly two months ago today, in february, this is what thenactingwhitehouse chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told a conservative conference about why journalists were covering coronavirus and the administrations failures to adequately prepare. The reason youre seeing so much attention to it today is that they think this is going to be what brings down the president. Thats what this is all about. I got a note today from a from a reporter saying, what are you going to do today to calm the markets . I said, i might tell people to turn their televisions off for 24 hours. How embarrassing. As cnns Kaitlan Collins reports for us again now, all of these new questions come as the president you do states to start trying to get back to normal. Reporter facing questions about what he knew and when, President Trump says he isnt sure if his Intelligence Briefings earlier this year included warnings about coronavirus. I have to check. I would have to check. Im going to look as to the exact dates of warnings. Reporter the Washington Post reports that trumps daily Intelligence Briefings in january and february tracked the viruss spread and warned that china could be suppressing information all as he continued to publicly downplay the threat. The questions about whether warning signs were ignored come one day after the white house released new guidelines about testing. Were continuing to rapidly expand our capacity. Reporter many governors have said for weeks they dont have enough tests or supplies needed to make the difficult decisions about reopening their states and need the federal government to step in. But the new white house game plan leaves the states in charge and says the federal government should only be used as a last resort. The testing is not going to be a problem at all. Reporter the