Soon. If you look at the numbers it could be that we are getting very close. And they said 5 million . Well, we will be there. But i didnt say it. I didnt say it. Somebody came out with a report saying 5 million. It sounds like a lot. Sure it would be nice. And we will be there. But again, we didnt say it. Who said sit a report. I heard the 5 million is totally unnecessary. That doesnt mean we are not going to hit it pretty easily. Again i think it is a media trap. On tuesday, admiral brett ju waugh who runs the task force Testing Program told the Time Magazine there is no way we can do 20 million tests a day or even 5 million test as day. The concern for the demand on testing comes amid one of the starkest pictures to emerge, the economic devastation. The nations gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced shank 4. 8 the First Quarter of this year. A bigger drop is expected during the second quarter, which is under way now and which lasts until the end of june. Today the white house announced plan to allow the federal 30 day social distancing guidelines to expire tomorrow saying the onus is now on individual states and their governors to draft their own guidelines. New york times chief White House Correspondent peter baker writes with more and more states ready for some semblance of normal life the message from President Trump sounded contradictory and confusing. The president is anxious to get the stalled economy running again as the election comes nearer and encouraged protesters even if it causes a second wave of the disease. Dr. Anthony fauci spoke about the prospects over the next couple of months. Now that our experts believe the worst days of the pandemic are behind us, americans are looking forward to the safe and rapid reopening of our country. 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. It could be a rebound to get us right back in the same boat that we were in a few weeks ago. This is going to go away. And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we will be able to handle it. We will be able to put out spurts. It is not going to peter out by itself because it is all over the world. So next fall or next winter it is not going to be a miracle where all of a sudden we wake up and it is gone. The president s most recent statement on testing came just over an hour ago. Over the next coming weeks, you will see some astonishing numbers. I dont know that all of that is each necessary because you have some governors that love the tests. You have others that like doing it a different way, an oldfashioned way with some testing. But we are going maximum testing. What will ultimately make all the difference when it comes to controlling this virus and restoring American Life to what it was is treatment, drugs to fight off the coronavirus or a vaccine to prevent it. On that critical front, there was an encouraging announcement today from dr. Fauci. Results from a Clinical Trial show that the drug rent des veer has a clearcut effect on diminishing the time it takes to recover from coronavirus. What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. Looking forward, this is very optimistic. We think it is really opening the door to the fact that we now have the capability of treating. I can guarantee you as more companies, more investigators get involved it is going to get better and better. For more i am joined by congresswoman val demings of florida, dr. Derek casse, of yahoo and associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University medical center. And peter baker chief White House Correspondent for the new york times. Thank you for being with us. Doctor, let me start with you. It is not every day we hear truly encouraging news coming out of dr. Faucis mouth. But we did today on the possibility of a potential treatment for this virus. Rent disveer. Tell us what it is, what it is apparently doing and what it could mean . There is a lot of drugs that we are trying to use on the virus and see how it affects the body. A lot of the people are getting the experimental treatments when they are hospitalized and very, very sick. This medicine affects how the virus replicates and it can shorten the duration a person is in the hospital. What we really need to know is that these are critically ill and hospitalized patients who are seeing a shorter duration of hospitalization. But its still late in the course of disease. I think it is encouraging that anything can short ten course of hospitalization, there are real economic and Human Health Care impacts for that. But i would say we are a far cry from declaring victory over this virus from a medication standpoint. To clarify, certainly no one is declaring victory from this. But what dr. Fauci seemed to say in that clip was basically this proves the possibility. It proves the possibility of eight tackling it with medicine. If you have established you can come occupy with some kind of a treatment thats not universally effective on this but it can have some effect what does it mean in terms of the near term future of developing treatments. Again it is still very early and it is not a double blind trial. It is a press release from the organization that developed the you go doctor. What it states is there are encouraging developments in treating the virus when it gets into somebodys body and starts making them very, very sick. We need more of those treatments and we need to make sure people dont get infected in the first place, which is why continuing to do the social distancing and ensuring that we have testing is critical. Remdisivir on the treatment front. The Trump Administration is organizing a manhattan style project style effort calls operation warp speed to drastically cut the time needed to create a Coronavirus Vaccine with the goal of making enough doses for most americans by years end. There is no precedent for such a Rapid Development of a vaccine. This comes as various groups have said this week they are pushing for a vaccine to be available by the fall. Congre congresswoman, what this bloomberg report is saying about the Trump Administration potentially prioritizing this, do you know anything about it . What role should the federal government be doing when it comes to a vaccine . It is great to be with you. Let me say the news from dr. Fauci is certainly exciting. We know that a vaccine is really the ultimate answer to the covid19 pandemic. However, our role is to make sure that whatever we roll out, that information is factual, that it has been tested, that it has been approved in terms of safety and other reasons. And we have to proceed with very cautiously and be as they say cautiously optimistics. Our role is to also make sure that we continue to stay focused on developing additional testing, particularly in those areas that have been hit the hardest and those areas and those areas and thats black and brown communities where we have seen an unbelievable number of those testing positive. And make sure that we from a federal level have the resources and the coordination that we need to effectively deal with this crisis so we can reopen in a strategic, timely, but very safe way. Peter baker, you wrote about the messages the white house, the messages the president has been sending when it comes to states and beginning the process of reopening. You have we said the administration saying, the president saying they are not going to extend those federal guidelines, putting the onus on the states. You also had the president last week castigating the governor of georgia brian kemp for as trump said opening too soon. Is there tonight a clear message coming from this white house to the states about how they should be proceeding . No, not really, because you did hear today a president who was much more leaning in the, were over this message, we are past this, or we are moving past this. He is talking about traveling again. He is talking about Football Games in the fall, perhaps. You know, the other day he talked to governors about maybe reopening schools. Nobody actually seems to be following his lead at least this semester. The question is now the fall. To listen to him today was to hear a president who thinks they are past the worst and the states i think as they begin to open them are going to move the economy back out, get it moving forward again, get people back into work even with precautions and conditions and so forth that the doctors and other Health Experts would like them to use. You heard him say for instance he is going to travel himself next week. It will be basically the first time in more than six weeks i think other than a trip down to norfolk that he would leave the white house. He is planning to go to arizona and he is going to go to ohio. He sounds like he has a little bit of cabin fever like a lot of americans. But the question is whether or not he and dr. Fauci and dr. Birx and other experts are on the saim same page. When you hear from them they dont see this as being over. They see this as being one step and making progress. But with a lot of pain possibly still ahead. We had 60,000 people today who reached that landmark of deaths. That is top the vietnam war in just eight weeks. It is tough to be positive but the president is trying to put the best lite on it . A new poll shows almost 3 4 of registered vote e 73 , say americans should practice social distancing as long as needed even if it means continued damage to the economy. Only 15 said americans should stop social distancing in order to stimulate the economy even if that means spreading the coronavirus. Another poll shows that without testing a large percentage of registered voters say it is a bad idea to return to normal life. Two thirds say it is a bad idea to return to work. More than 80 say it is a bad idea to return to school, attend sporting events in large groups, and eat in restaurants. Congresswoman, we are talking about the conditions under which states could begin the reopening process. Your state, florida, the governor, governor de santis today announced what he calls phase one of reopening will Begin Next Week in all of florida except for miamidade, broward, and palm beach counties in south florida. We were talking about this yesterday. 60 of the deaths in florida are in those three counties. The governor says next week that phase one will start in every county except those three. Phase one means six feet of distance for outdoor dining. Restaurants can operate at a maximum of 25 capacity for indoor seating. Retail stores can reopen at 25 capacity. Elective surgeries can begin again in all of the counties in the state except those three. Are you on board with that plan . Steve, let me tell you we are all anxious for our businesses to reopen. We know that serve hurting, not just here in florida, but across the nation. But the governors primary responsible is the safety and security of floridians. So we are not ready. On march 1st, floridas Surgeon General declared a Public Health emergency. Yet it wasnt until april 3rd that governor de santis issued a stay at home order. It would put us behind the 8 ball, if you will and terms of our response. I am sure you and others saw during spring break our beaches were wide open and young people were partying as much as they wanted to when we should have been practicing social distancing. We have had 32,000 people in florida to contract the virus. We have had over 1,000 people die in florida. Yesterday, just yesterday, we had the most deadliest day in florida. So i just dont see how the governor could possibly be talking about today, after the most deadliest day in florida, rolling out a plan to reopen. We are just not ready. Congresswoman, i just want to following up on that. We were tracking the statistics yesterday. You know, and a statistic yesterday about the deadliest day in florida. The number was 8 for the day. Obviously it is a terrible number but it appears that that number was a product of the data reporting system, they dont report at love deaths over the weekend. They report more on tuesday. I say that because todays number came out and it was half of that number, half of 83. If you look at the sevenday averages on these things, currently for the most recent week it is 41 per day. A week ago it was 45 per day. So it has week over week ticked down a bit. Again, i just in light of that, outside of those three counties, 25 capacity. You say no to that, though . I do, steve. I do say no to that. You know, this is like nothing we have ever seen before. And it requires us to respond like we have never responded before. And so as i say and i will say it again. The safety of floridians is the governors numbers one concern. What we have seen, if we can learn anything from other states we have seen those governors who basically defy what medical experts have had to say and what scientists have had to say and reopen. But when you look at the response of the American People, they are still afraid. They are still worried about their health and the health of their family. I dont believe we are there yet. I dont believe were there as a nation. And we just have to be strategic. We have to be smart. And when we roll there is also talk about a possible resurgence, god forbid, in the fall. We just need to be smart in how we roll out reopening. I dont believe we are there yet in florida. I dont believe we are there yet in the nation. Congresswoman val demings from florida. Dr. Derek casse, and peter baker from the ims. Thank you for being with us. 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And i think that we have achieved all the different milestones that are needed. So the government, federal government rose to the challenge and this is a Great Success story. Welcome back, that was the president s adviser and social, Jared Kushner today with his characterization the administrations response to the pandemic. Republican senator mitt romney takes an opposing view. Speaking to students at Georgetown University last night, he offered this assessment. When it came to ppe, when it came to testing, and just the speed of our response, looked slow. That first phase was not one that will stand out i think as being a great moment in american leadership. As the debate over the administrations response continues nbc news is reporting that quote the white house has ordered intelligence agencies to establish whether china and the World Health Organization initially hid what they knew about the emerging coronavirus pandemic. The story notes that, quote, the move coincides with a public effort by the white house to focus on chinas inability to contain the virus. Heres the president on that investigation today. Mr. Predator, what are you hoping to learn about china and the World Health Organization with this investigation you have commissioned with the intelligence agencies . Right, it is coming in, and i am getting pieces already. And we are not happy about it. And we are by far the largest contributor to w. H. O. , world health, and they misled us. I dont know. They must have known more than they knew. They seemed to work for china. And they should have been in there early. They should have known what was going on. And they should have been able to stop it you talk about stopping the spread or stopping the embers, that could have been stopped there. Nbc news is also reporting tonight that the president , quote, lashed out at his Campaign Manager last friday after advisers briefed him on internal polling showing him trailing joe biden in multiple key states. Ip joined by former congressman joe walsh, republican of illinois and noah rothman of commentary magazine. Thanks to both for being with us. Noah, we have this nbc news reporting on the president being apprised of some internal polling there. I am curious that we stopped seeing the nightly two and a halfhour briefings. We had the rose garden event the other day. But the president has been quieter this week. Have you seen a shift in strategy from the white house . Almost certainly. You saw the president sort of defer to his desire to saturate Media Outlets and present himself as a figure who was on too much events because he was dictating the terms of news coverage. And that certainly seems to have backfire on him at least in the most recent couple of weeks. Scaling back the press briefings is something he has been disinclined to do. And he did so only after what we can fairly rationally assess as being a complete disaster, the notion when he began extemporaneously ponder being the effects that disinfectants could have when injected. That became a news cycle that ran away with him. And it certainly has had no great effect on his polls. We can talk about whether or not this president would have or a different president would have responded better to this crisis. I am skeptical of that, the entire western world was taken off its back feet in this one. But you can say in the absence of this president we would not be having a news cycle about the efficacy of ingesting caustic chem confirms thats going the cost him in the polls and going to cost him in november. Joe, you have been a trump critic, and you have made it clear you have limited expectations. With th