The current recommendations to avoid social gatherings and work from home expire. Heres what the president said during yesterdays briefing. I think we can say we have to be on that downside of that slope and heading to a very strong direction that this thing is gone. We could do it in phases. We can go to some areas which are much less affected than others but it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country, certainly most of our country, and i think well do that soon. I would say were ahead of schedule. You hate to say it too loudly because all of a sudden things dont happen, but i think we will be sooner rather than later. While the president is pushing to reopen the economy, the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, is expressing caution. Watch this. We need to have a plan nationally for reopening the economy. What we all want it to happen as quickly as possible, we all want to avoid a false start where we partially reopen and that results in a spike in coronaviruses cases and then we have to go back again to go to square one. We all want to avoid that. The president dismissed the idea that mass testing is needed before allowing people ton to work. How could the administration discuss the possibility of reopening the country when the administration does not have an adequate nationwide testing system for this virus . Dont you need a nationwide testing system for the virus before you reopen . No. We have a great testing system. We have right now the best testing system in the world. But there are certain sections in the country that are in phenomenal shape already. Other sections are coming online. Other sections are going down. Dont you need that, mr. President , to make sure people are safe going back to work . You dont want to send people back to the workplace we want to have it. We are going to see if we can have it. Were talking about 325 Million People and thats not going to happen, as you can imagine, and it would never happen with anyone else either. Other countries do it, but they do it in a limited form. We will probably be the leader of the pact. It appears the Trump Administration has reversed its diagnosis to end funding for Community Based coronavirus testing sites. Federal funding was supposed to end today, but npr, first to report the news, reports that the department of health and Human Services says local officials can choose whether to continue with federal oversight and help or run the programs themselves. Officials in the hard hit philly suburb of Montgomery County said their only testing site would have closed if the administration wept through with its plans. The Trump Administration reversed its decision after bipartisan pushback from pennsylvanias congressional delegation. Joining us Southeastern Health care reporter for Business Insider kimberly leonard. Good to have you this morning. President trump keeping his focus on the economy. How is this going to impact states which are continuing to press for the federal government for help . Well, ultimately its going to be up to governors whether to reopen their states. A lot of them are the ones who are telling states they need to, you know, stay at home, tellings the residents that they need to shut down certain businesses and so ultimately they will be the ones to decide. You have a new piece out about the economic impact, kimberly, on the Frontline Health care workers. What challenges are facing doctors and nurses and other Health Care Responders across the country . Well, doctors, nurses and other Health Care Workers are probably the last that you would expect to suffer from the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but, in fact, we found the opposite. Because so many states are asking doctors and nurses and hospitals to stop procedures that are not emergency procedures, that means that hospitals are taking a direct thoi hit to their bottom lines. Not only are some hospitals overwhelmed but others are actually facing a more desserted situation which they have fewer patients coming through their doors. Were seeing Health Care Workers being laid off, furloughed, seeing their hours cut and thats having a direct impact to their paychecks. All right. Business insiders kimberly leonard, appreciate you joining us. After nearly a month of Strict Lockdown measures, the curve of new coronavirus cases is finally starting to flatten in italy. Italian Prime Minister conte says that the country will gradually start to lift the restrictions if the spread of the virus continues to slow. Speaking to the bbc Prime Minister conte said quote this, we need to pick sectors that can restart their activity. If scientists confirm it, we might begin to relax some measures already by the end of this month. Businesses in italys hard hit region have urgeds the government to provide a, quote, road map to return to work which could require workers to have the right antibodies, a marker of immuneny to the coronavirus. At the Vatican Pope Francis is Holding Virtual services for holy week today, including good friday. Joining me from rome, nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley for us. Matt, good morning to you. Great to see you today. Italys a Prime Minister cautiously hinting that he could relax some restrictions by the end of this month. What more are you hearing about that . Yeah. Its a sign of how well things are going now, well into the fifth week of this nationwide lockdown, but the fact is, is that this was supposed to be lifted the day after easter on monday, april 13th. They will be extending that almost im almost certain will be extending that, they havent made that announcement, we will probably hear that this weekend, but thats the smart thing to do, of course, because one of the things theyre worried about isnt just that numbers are declining, and they really arent declining its not some precipitous drop, and so they the numbers are there, but what theyre really worried about is a secondary wave of infections. If you look at spain, france, britain, those people could bring in the virus once again or there could be latent cases, non asymptomatic cases here in italy that could respark the savagery of the virus that this country has experienced for the last several weeks. Thats a real concern and exactly what were seeing in places like china and other countries. We could see that again here, too. Extending this lockdown really is where the smart money is at here. Matt, pope francis expect to hold Good Friday Services today without crowds, as i was mentioning a bit earlier. Tell us more about that. Yeah. Well, were going to be seeing today on good friday the stations of the cross, which normally would be at the coliseum in public in huge in view of thousands and thousands of faithful, of pilgrims, tourists. Now its going to be quite a sad sight. Its going to be pope francis alone doing this ceremony in front of st. Peters basilica in st. Peters square. This is how this has been going the last several weeks. The pope has been taking advantage of social media to beam his daily masses from his home to the world and thats exactly whats going to be done this weekend when we start to see the easter celebration. Ive been speaking with some people at the vatican, they were saying this is for them something of an opportunity because were seeing the entire world going in to their homes, staying there, speaking to their families and friendsi, having moments of meditation, contemplation and prayer. Theyre hoping there could be for this easter a resurrection of faith that goes along with this and thats something that when all of this is said and done, the Catholic Church might be in a position now to go back to the faithful and see, you know, a renewed affinity for this institution. I think a lot of people are having moments of faith across the world, whatever their faith may be. Matt bradley, thank you for that. Want to mention, by the way, weve been having some technical difficulties at the top of the show. I believe we are back on track but i apologize for that. Still ahead, what attorney general bill barr has to say about trumps firing of the Intelligence Communitys chief watchdog. 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The New York Times reporting a gop lawmaker and Administration Officials want the president to limit his briefing appearances an concentrate on both economic recovery and his reelection. Mr. Trump, quote, sometimes drowns out his own message says senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina, also telling him, quote, a once a week show could be more effective. Senator Shelly Moore Caputo of West Virginia said the briefings were, quote, going off the rails a little bit and suggested that he should let the Health Professionals guide where were going to go. Now reports from multiple outlets showing mounting republican frustration over the president s inaccuracies and rallylike performances during the National Health crisis. A top adviser told the times the briefings are giving former Vice President joe biden ammunition each night by sending the president out to the cameras. In an interview on fox news last night, attorney general bill barr defended the president s decision to fire Intel CommunityInspector GeneralMichael Atkinson who flagged the whistleblower claim that led to trumps impeachment. Watch this. I think the president did the right thing in removing atkinson from the Vantage Point from the department of justice, he had interpreted his statute, a fairly narrow statute, that gave him jurisdiction over wrong doing by intelligence people and tried to turn it in to a commission to explore anything in the government and immediately report it to Congress Without letting the executive branch look at it and determine whether there was any problem. He was told this in a letter from the department of justice and he is obliged to follow the interis pretation of the department of justice and he ignored it. I think the president was correct in firing him. Joining me now msnbc legal analyst danny sa valleys. Lets talk about what we heard from the attorney general saying the Inspector General with was required to follow Justice Department interpretation of a narrow statute. Is that statute, danny, as narrow as barr is saying . You heard the attorney general there basically saying he thinks it was okay or that he supported the president s firing of the Inspector General. Respectfully to general better hes got the law wrong, i believe. The statute speaks of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community having i guess you would call it jurisdiction over anything that would fall within the purview of the director of National Intelligence. Perhaps the interpretation is that president cannot be within the director of National Intelligence because hes above the director of National Intelligence. But the statute speaks very broadly of anything that is within the dnis authority. So the jurisdictional element is satisfied. The second part, generale barr says that the i. C. Of the i. G. Opened a commission into the president and thats not really accurate. Under the statute the Inspector General is essentially a robot, like a triage doctor. He receives the complaint, he forwards it. If he disagrees with the director of National Intelligence the statute authorizes him to report it to some committees, the intelligence subcommittees, of congress. That appears to be what he did. So respectfully to general barr, he may have gotten the law wrong on this one. Does congress have any effective oversight here . Senator grassley issued a letter condemning the firing of the Inspector General, but respectfully to senator grassley, i think they got the law wrong too. Heres why. They cited a prior firing by the Obama Administration of an Inspector General and said that stood for the proposition that the president needs to give more information about why he fires or dismisses an Inspector General but the d. C. Court of appeals in that exact same case said that as long as you use the magic words lost confidence in which is exactly what trump did, somebody who is clearly in trumps sphere, that alone will satisfy the statute. While the senator grassley letter may have gotten the sentiment correct that the norm over the years that the president s dont dismiss inspectors general, but senator grassley in the law didnt quite get right. Danny, thank you as always, my friend. Coming up, everybody, we have a lot more ahead. The latest news from the uk as brish Prime MinisterBoris Johnson gets moved out intensive care. Y me . Absolutely. They are both very much hand in hand. So you should really be focusing on both and definitely at the same time. The new sensodyne sensitivity gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. 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He spent two nights in the icu and was moved out last night. According to johnsons office he received oxygen treatment but did not need to be put on a ventilator. The number of coronavirus cases in the uk continues to tick up, as britons brace for several more weeks in lockdown. As of thursday over 65,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 8,000 people have died. Want to bring in meteorologist bill karins who is standing by for us. Staggering. Always tracking the weather. It is incredibly staggering, bill, bring us up to date as to what has happened here in the u. S. Over the last 24 hours or so. I will. Just commenting on that, thats a 12 fatality rate in the uk per positive case. To put it in perspective were at 4 . Maybe theyre not doing as