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Claims before this crisis, which was back at the absolute depths of the great recession. Our best week in ten weeks is still more than twice as bad as it has ever been before. Thats how bad things are. The economy is officially in recession. The fed is predicting not only a severe 6 plus Economic Contraction for the country this year. The fed is also predicting that unemployment will stay above 9 for the year and will stay high beyond that. And, you know, we have spent all of this breath and ink having these frankly sort of stupid substancefree, reductive arguments about whether we as a countr...

Economic advisors. This morning, they are looking forward to the reopening and opening that that in the months to come does provide an economic bounce back, but admitting it might be a slow one. That staggering jobs report on friday, the white house was expecting it to be particularly brutal, and now theyre even conceding that mays job report will probably be even tougher, but take a listen to how treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin talked about the tradeoff on the sunday shows this morning. Here he is. Do you agree that there is a considerable risk not say you shouldnt do it but a considerable...

Today we learned there are newly discovered problems with the data some states and more importantly the federal government may have used to help determine whether it is safe to open the valve as widely as some states have. Reporters at the atlantic which runs one of the most widely cited coronavirus Data Tracking projects discovered the cdc along with a number of states was for whatever reason combining two totally different kinds of testing metrics into one big number and this is a problem. Let me explain. When states test for the virus, they can test for who has the virus or who apparently h...

Flu pandemic, which is what he calls the 1918 flu pandemic. He said in many cases you fight through it but, quote, what wed like to do if we can is the vaccine. Speaking of the vaccine, the president further raised hopes today that one will be available by the end of the year even though so many experts and Doctors Today immediately cast doubt on that. And whenever there is a vaccine, the president felt the need to say today, quote, not everybodys going to want to get it. He said the white house has managed this so well in dealing with the nations governors, quote, weve made a lot of people lo...

Union reopens, its now considering blocking americans from entering because of the continuing spike of coronavirus cases here in the United States. Lets begin our coverage this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Hes traveling with the president in arizona right now. Jim, testing remains a huge issue months into this pandemic. And the president is creating a lot of confusion. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump is on his way to another event with supporters after visiting his border wall earlier today, the president is in damage control mode today trying to clean ...