monopolies and the impact of corporate concentration. >> now there is essentially a couple of strategies if you're a tech startup. are you going to sell to facebook or are you going to sell to google? what that is done is warped the ability of innovators in silicon valley to actually innovate according to market needs and according to ideas. instead, everyone is guessing, how can i develop something that facebook will buy that google is noty, and that necessarily how we want the economy or the innovation sector to function. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> as we begin the program yesterday, the new york times had just published a lengthy up to thehe lead naming of the national disaster. was friday, march 13, president trump declaring a national emergency. this was a half-life in the new

york times in the newspaper, despite timely alerts, trump was slow to act. usa today has a very similar story in this morning's paper, online, obviously, and the online headline is "golf and mar-a-lago conga line: squandered week highlights trump slack of covid-19 focus." there is no escaping the fact that the spread of a novel coronavirus would soon up and american life, there were confirmed cases in two dozen states including washington where a state of emergency had been declared after a least 10 people died in the previous week in connection with a single nursing home. new york city was experience an alarming trend upward in cases, the crew should carrying infected passengers idled off the california coast waiting for a port to 11 to disembark, hospitals, nursing homes and health officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment. the annual music festival south-by-southwest was cancel that day. joining an array of scotland

movie releases and concertgoers the dowrt tours, plunged, the chief of the world health organization had explicitly warned leaders that the epidemic of the pushback but only with a collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of government. usa today writes that armed with all of that evidence, president donald trump spent the next weekend treating covid-19 in much the way that he had over the previous two months, he hosted large gatherings of mar-a-lago, went golfing, attended fundraisers, dispensed misinformation about the virus, slammed social distancing guidelines. the message was clear life could proceed as normal. they write that the declaration issued a month ago prompted a cascade of measures by governors and other officials that have essentially halted public life in the u.s. in a frantic effort to limit covid-19 spread,

although disruptive, the measures have been credited with limiting new covid-19 outbreaks in places that have not yet become a hotspot while helping the exponential rise in cases in cities like new york city where a crush of sick patients overwhelmed hospital. you can read all of that article, that is usa today.com. of tweets,n a series president trump responding to the new york times article saying the new york times stories are fake, just like the paper itself, i was criticized for moving too fast with the china ban long before others wanted to do so. secretary are told me nothing until later and peter navarro memo was the same. fake news. there's likely to be action this week in the u.s. senate, at least, on potential additional legislation on top of the $2.2 trillion passed into law, and

now in effect. we are joined by jennifer, appropriations and budget reporter. jennifer, tell us why there is additional money that congress needs to add on to the money passed back in march. large piece of legislation that congress passed back in march, about 2.3 trillion a package, there was a new program that included forgivable, small business loans, known as the paycheck protection program, and that was designed really to help small businesses that had been shut down by social distancing guidelines to really try to reduce the spread of the virus. it was designed to give the money to get them through this period and a big part of that program is that they continue paying their employees while their employees are home. in that big package, congress approved about $349 billion for this program which is a

substantial amount of money, and they really thought at the time that is the last for about two months if not more. but this program has proven extremely popular since it launched, and the trump administration is now asking congress for an additional $251 billion for that paycheck protection program, bringing the total anonymous funding to that to about $600 billion. so right now, negotiations are underway between the trump administration, republicans, and democrats to try to figure out a way to pass the legislation democrat what so many changes to the way that the small business loans are structured to make sure that money is getting to people and businesses that don't have those traditional relationships with big banks, and they are really counting that they want to make sure that the money is going to minority and women-owned businesses. host: that is the negotiation

going on now. we saw on the senate floor, friday, i believe, democrats, in particular ben cardin, senator warner objecting to what mitch mcconnell was proposing on the senate floor, is more of that likely had? guest: we aren't entirely sure what is going to happen this morning at the senate's session. we have not gotten good guidance from the look on loftus about whether or not republicans plan to try to, once again, bring up this hill that we just include any small money for the small business program or whether or not they are just going to let this be the standard where they come in and then they just adjourn immediately. so we are all very much trying to figure out what is going to happen this morning. we could see a repeat of last thursday where there is a unanimous consent request by republicans and then democrats

of the so that is one things that we are all trying to figure out this morning. host: and regardless of whatever passes in the senate, or happens in the senate, eventually has to be passed by the house. viewsrd on how policy this -- on how nancy pelosi views this proposal? guest: speaker pelosi and chuck schumer, they have put out a few dual statements during this process the last week, they have said that they are unified in wanting these structural changes to the paycheck protection program. they also want additional funding for hospitals as well as state and local governments, and that's another thing that republicans are resisting. they say that those programs which already received one day in the previous package, they are not set to run out of funding, potentially as early as this week. the paycheck protection program, they are saying that those

negotiations should hold over to the next bill and so democrats want to have bipartisan negotiations, and we heard on schumerrom both chuck and nancy pelosi after they spoke with steve mnuchin, that the administration was on board with negotiating, but that on saturday, we got a statement from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house gop leader kevin mccarthy saying that they hope democrats come around to the republican view of this package and that they will just support a clean funding extension. so it seems like right now, we are very much at a stalemate heading into this week. quick thing,e we're seeing your reporting this morning, house democrats planning post-pandemic acceleration to appropriation process, the pandemic and congress being away has fairly gummed up the works here. any word on how they are going to proceed forward, at least in the house?

>> the house appropriations committee, they have both been doing a lot of telework with staff and things like that. one big piece of moving legislation on the house side is that the health appropriations chairwoman has given the 12 subcommittees their allocations, their total spending levels for the upcoming fiscal year. that is supposed to start on october 1. those committees are now going to be able to begin looking at how to draft the legislation and potentially even were fully drafting the legislation remotely so that when the house appropriations committee's are able to come back and meet again, they could very quickly move on that markup process. obviously, we'll have a timeline right now for when congress would fully returned to washington, d.c. in that capacity were committees are meeting and marking of legislation, because we don't get really know when all the

andes are going to start the social distancing regulations are going to relax. host: we appreciate you covering the story. jennifer covers the appropriations and budget process. read her reporting at rollcall, .com. back to your calls and comments, a couple of comments on facebook before your calls. this, asking all citizens to return to the u.s. on the same day with no way to process them at airports left new york in this emergency. lack of testing is still an issue, and andrew says anger, this was mismanaged and minimized the beginning and now many lives have been lost but could have been preserved and lisa and saying that the situation is unprecedented and everyone is trying to do the right thing. there is no history to look back on for guidance, it is the constant political bickering and the blame game that needs to stop. our leaders, all of them, are acting like children.

we are in this together. let's go to david first in texas. -- hi -- high there there. theer: apoplectic over policy move. i've got a small business, employing five myself, worked out of my office and my house for the last 20 years. the park in the plan where they refer to the fact that they want to make sure that the larger businesses aren't the only ones that benefit from it, i agree concept, from that because i've seen it, it's actually true that it happened way way because of the thanking structures are set up as far as this came down the pipe. this also confusion because there's three plans out there. there's the covid-19 disaster recovery plan which was out there for the payroll retention plan. that started on friday that week

officially, i've got a client who is actually up because of this and he got his stuff through and qualified and everything before i did. because he's got a banking relationship, which is really the biggest issue. he's got a banking relationship and commercial loans. those are the guys that were in the first position to have something happen. second position, you got to have a banking relationship of some sort, and everybody wasn't even accepting that in bank of america your they weren't taking anybody unless they had a commercial lending relationship with them first. i spent the better part of over a day just finding somebody to take my calls at my bank where i've had a checking account for 20 years. it took me a day just to get phone calls, two more days to get contacted. finally got contacted, i was

happy to see it was a local banker that i actually knew, but that after working with him that day and thinking i had gotten everything done that i needed to do, and contacted over the next myk telling me that application is going to be put on hold, and this is the scary part to me, because i filed a scheduled c. i looked this up this morning, 73% of business is sold proprietorship. the majority are going to file a schedule c at some point, and he's telling me i am being put aside because the fda didn't have clear guidance for them on schedule c. here is the thing that's here is me about nancy pelosi and the democrats. again, i agree with the idea that they make sure that the banks understand loan this to small businesses, loan this to the economy, loan this to the people that previously would not

have been qualified for the things because the economy has been destroyed by the standdown orders. " insuredant to also -- excuse me, they want to ensure minority and women-owned businesses. they should not have to do something special about that, that is going to cripple the ability to get these things through fast. there's very few lines on these forms, the present form, there's very few lines on them, maybe three that have to do with numbers that you are actually producing. if you've got to bury as proof of having to do with minority ownership, women's ownership, and if that has anything to do with the order in which these things get done, i cannot imagine how this is going to come up. my biggest fear is that they are going to say anybody whose applications has been processed yet, you are going to have to redo it. host: david, can i ask you one quick thing?

he said you have five employees, how much are you asking for in this small business loan? caller: attack elision for 2.5 months work septa $53,000. my employees are all for load -- furloughed,m they would be on the payroll immediately right now if i had the funding. host: appreciate it, i will let you go there. long beach, california next. caller: hello. i was a nurse for 42 years, hospital nursing, mainly. from did get a notice governor nixon's office through joined,n because i just i'm 66 and semiretired. to goo tried to get us and get the retired nurses to work for covid-19.

i just can't, really. i would, but i can't because i'm at the age i am, i told them to aside, in the loop, that i'm calling about the stimulus checks. is a mess, a hot mess, in my humble opinion. i just found out, because i was trying to research, i filed paper taxes, i'm 66. i filed in march. that all ofound out the irs offices are closed due to the coronavirus, covid-19. they're close. the only people that are getting stimulus checks are people did turbotax and the tax online. they are closed, you can go to those websites. i want to fresno, california because that's my federal place to send it. but all of the country, it is right on the irs website, their

closed, they are not doing any paper, mail-in returns. none. eventually, they say they will, but right now, they are all locked up in a lockbox somewhere due to safety concerns. they will get to them when they can. this more issues with that as far as dependence, i have a son with hype optioning autism, he won't get a check because he is still a dependent. host: have you tried reaching the irs? the toll-free line? you should the able to reach them through the national toll-free line. caller: i've tried extensively, i already know. i've contacted the union. i basically know what is going on with this, and it's nothing because he should be eligible and of course, i should be eligible, but unfortunately for papercause i filed the taxes before this became a big

crisis, now those are going to be delayed for months and months and months and months. int: fears t -- here is todd brentwood, california. caller: i am very disappointed in c-span. thingng c-span is now the -- the same as watching cnn. it is all about alarm and blame, but you are planning selective. if trump was slow to react to this, who was fast? the mayor of new orleans? cuomo cap the gates open, he welcomed from china. the mayor of new orleans was partying at mardi gras. you have people all over the world. treatmentse new offer false hope, a plasma transfer. host: your view on governors

reflected by joan texting is from minnesota who says don't cuomotrump for new york, dragged his feet and congress dragged its feet, trump was criticized for a ban on air travel, critics can't have it both ways. in illinois, this is charles. caller: to respond to the last caller, the president of the united states has well over a dozen intelligence agencies telling them what is going on all over the planet. the problem is donald trump doesn't listen to them. he spends more time talking to fox news tv personalities rather than imported people that know it's going on. reports are coming up now, president trump was told about this in late december and he chose to do nothing. upset thewant to stock market, he's more worried about himself than anyone else. instead of standing up and being a leader and taking it by the

horns, he is laying back trying to shock the blame and pushed the blame onto the governors. of course the governors have made mistakes, everybody makes mistakes. but donald trump is not being a responsible president. he has cemented his position as the worst president the united states has ever had. host: joe biden, the presumptive democratic nominee for 2020 with an opinion piece in the new york times today, an extensive piece. joe biden, i plan to safely reopen america. in that piece, here's a joe biden writes. first, we have to get the number of new cases of the disease down significantly. that means social distancing has to continue and the people on the frontlines have to get the supplies and equipment they need. second, you need to be widespread, easily available testing and a contact tracing strategy that protects privacy. trump's report from mr.

department of health and human services may clear that we are far from achieving this goal. we should be running multiple times the number of diagnostic tests we are performing right now and we should be rated to scale up a second form of testing. third, - read all of that at nytimes.com. connecticut, good morning. on the air, go ahead. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] caller: good morning.

host: we will go to diane in ann arbor, michigan. caller: good morning, i'm just , please let's have national balloting by mail. voters should vote by mail and they need to begin preparation for this now. away andnd six months we have a system in place, everyone can get a ballot by mail. it's called an absentee ballot. let's have it every registered voter gets a ballot sent to them. be if weto this would have paper balloting, we have a paper trail so no one can complain or hold up the national elections results by saying

there was something going on. we have a paper ballot trail. also, we don't know the status of the pandemic and what it will be. get the ballot going, send them out, have an election and then call it from there. hopeneed to begin now so i they will do that and get ahead of the problem and let's move on. rate how would you governor whitmer and her response? enough goodn't say things about her. unfortunately, this pandemic is hurting people. it's unfortunate but it's where we are now. the people's governor. she has been great. through, sheings gets ahead of the problem and i feel in good hands with her. she is on top of it, she's a

great governor. host: we have several briefings by governor whitmer. our website, www.c-span.org/ coronavirus, is where we archive all the briefings and several will come up today but we don't have anything on the schedule just yet but keep it here for updates on that. the governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson, was on cnn's " state of the union" and he was asked if other governors made a putting stay in place orders in their state. here's what he said. [video clip] >> not at all, it reflects the fact -- the flexibly estate needs. i applaud new jersey and new york. they have had to really lock down and they have a high density population but we have less density in our population in arkansas. i think we can take this targeted approach which has proven to be effective. on the first day, we had one case.

i declared a public emergency and we proceeded to close the schools and other things. then we are targeting where we need to. look at the results. right now, we have about 80 hospitalizations. we have 8000 hospital beds. they are empty because we are not doing elective surgery. inare beating the trendline terms of our cases. testingncreasing our and right now, i would like to think we are at the peak but we are at least flat. hopefully, we won't peak later but sooner. there is a lot of open up to visit him -- and optimism this easter that are tough time is behind us and we will get better. >> i sure hope that's right but you talked about the density playing a role. i understand that arkansas is not like new york in that respect. little rock is and you are not letting different towns or

cities or localities in arkansas make their own stay-at-home orders if they want to. the mayor of little rock said that makes his situation more difficult. why not let mayors impose a stay-at-home if they want? >> we have a good partnership with the mayors. curfew negotiated the where it's helpful. they can close parks if they need to so those are some of the targeted responses. if you look at this, we want to take the long term approach to this. you are not going to win simply by a locked down because there is no such thing as a true lockdown where everybody stays at home and does not go out. in place a shelter order today, tomorrow we would have 700,000 arkansans that would go out on the street to go to work. the most important message is that you wear your mass, you do your social distancing and the people of arkansas have embraced

that. it has given us success. host: the federal coronavirus national emergency is now one month in your reaction to the federal response and how your state government is doing. we go to randy in michigan, good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to start by thanking you and all the other men and women it takes to bring us this program. i hope you were all safe and healthy. host:host: thank you. caller: you are welcome. the response to the federal response is what you could expect from a republican led government. i don't know why anybody is surprised on how they responded. money will always be first on the republican side. that's not knocking them but that's just the way their politics are. i will say there is a positive on this coronavirus 19. many people are

willing to embrace socialism right off the bat. we didn't hear the republicans standing up and turning down any money, did we? they were in line like the rest of us. maybe we will have a government after this and the younger people will make the government more for the people and not for the money. that's my hope. at 60 to come i have to depend on the ones coming up and letting them make this country better. i think this coronavirus will show them that yes, we need a government that's for the people. thanks, i appreciate your time. host: metairie, louisiana, you are next. caller: thank you for taking my call. i will try to be brief so bear with me. i am from louisiana, enough said. none of the governor's political persuasion but i think he is doing a good job. and i applaud him. on a national level, all this

could would a show to a better president, history will decide. after reading the op-ed of the new york times with vice president joe biden, i am older than vice president biden. i think he is a nice man but he is an old man, i'm sorry. he cannot put a couple of sentences together and i don't think he has the stamina. when i look at our present president, i'm amazed at the strain he's under that he can bear up. that's my comment. i'm sorry, i think the president has done an adequate job under the circumstances and i think they should stop with this quarterbacking. thank you very much. host: here is the new york post story --

look at that tweet from president trump -- host: this is the retreated tweet with the time to fire fauci hashtag. dr.ant to remind you that

anthony fauci will be on have dr.ime we will anthony fauci. san carlos, california, go ahead. caller:caller: thank you for taking my call. all i want to stay is stop blaming trump. sense and our common do as each community should do. stop blaming trump. let's blame ourselves for not taking heed of what we were supposed to. thank you. that's it. host: patty in north branford, connecticut, good morning. caller: good morning, please give me time. 1n1 hendh was was late and many thousands died and not a word from the media.

keep your right hand off the button. calls,ime a republican your hand goes right to the button. and another thing, if biden wrote that op-ed piece, i will eat it because i don't believe it. i think his wife wrote it. and another thing i wanted to say -- you only get complement from democrats, i wonder why. that's all i have to say. host: we go to tom next in new york inmoriches, new york. caller: good morning c-span and good morning america. it's going to be for more years of donald j. trump. all right, dr. anthony fauci was on state of the union yesterday referring back to the new york times story on sunday about what led to the

declaration of the national emergency and what could have been done. there is jake tapper asking dr. fauci about the new york times report. >> the new york times reported yesterday that you and other top officials wanted to recommend social and physical distancing guidelines to president trump as far back as the third week of february but the administration did not announce such guidelines to the american public until march 16, almost a month later. why? times, we said many look at it from a pure health standpoint and we make a recommendation. often, the recommendation is taken and sometimes it's not. it is what it is. we are where we are now. you think lives could have been saved if social distancing, physical distancing, stay-at-home measures had started in the third week of february instead of mid-march? again, it's the what would have, what could have. it gets very difficult to go

back and say that. obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. no one is going to deny that but what goes into these kind of decisions is complicated. we are right, obviously, if had shut everything down from the beginning, it may have been different but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. john in georgia, texas says this -- here are the numbers from johns hopkins university.

worldwide, 1.8 million cases 114,000 total deaths worldwide. cases,u.s., 550,590 total u.s. deaths, 22,109 and that's in new york city at 6898. we hear from new york city next good morning. caller: yes, good morning. factncern basically is the that theyare saying the governor is in control. he's saying he is in control and it's a lot of bickering going on between him and de blasio. i feel like from the beginning, a lot of people are giving cuomo a lot of credit but he has been playing it safe from the very beginning. ofyou look at the numbers the pandemic in new york, new york alone, we are being hit very hard.

why is governor cuomo talking about a pact with connecticut and new jersey. unary dez you need to worry about home and i'm speaking as a government official and mother of a daughter who was a schoolteacher that had the pandemic as well. you want to worry about these need to worry you about this in a country that doesn't care about my life. you need to worry about the pandemic and get people together, rally people to stay out of the streets. i see people walking the streets rampantly in new york, in harlem. this is absolutely absurd. you need to have a curfew. you are talking about dr. fauci. he is a doctor, not a politician. he is giving his recommendations on how to save lives and it should be taken. if it was taken seriously from the beginning from these doctors

and experts, we wouldn't have this problem. trump as our president. now we have to look at our governors and say are they able to make decisions? are they scared of trump? host: the wall street journal this morning has a story about aboutgovernors'concerns getting rapid tests.

the governor of connecticut, phil murphy was on "state of the union" and was asked about health care workers in his state getting an of personal protective equipment. >> broadly speaking and there is more nuance to the answered depending on the specifics and the answer is no. for ourenough ppe heroic health-care workers but they are stretched thin. are testing only for symptomatic patients. that's a decision we made from day one. i think we have the fifth most tests taken of any american state and the 11th largest population. so we are punching above our weight we don't have universal testing and we would love to have that. we are trying to stay ahead on bed capacity, ventilators constantly running thin, the medicine you need for the ventilators, the personal protective equipment and the relief for air health care workers.

every minute of every day, on all of those fronts, we are doing everything we can to stay ahead of it. >> you closed schools on march 18 and issued a statewide stay-at-home order in both of those came after ohio closed schools. told new york times at the death toll in new york city could have been cut in half if closures could have been put in the half -- put in place a week or two earlier. should new jersey have acted sooner than it did? >> we acted about as soon as any american state along with ohio, california, washington, new york. we were among the first and we are probably the tightest. we will do a poorest -- a postmortem. hopefully we do a national postmortem that asks the tough questions we are asking like the 9/11 commission. we will need to do the same thing in our state. the would've, should've,

could've deserves an important focus right now. the houses on fire and we have to put the fire and the house out and then we have to begin to get back in her feet and then we have to look back and say what could we have done differently. c-spanon twitter we are @ wj. host: the president said this to governors, texting this yesterday -- back to calls and new bern, north carolina. president, president

donald john trump, needs to go right now national television and say that he intervened at least 60 days late. the medicalr. birx, experts of already pointed out that we should have intervened very early. admit john trump will not any fault whatsoever that he intervened late. host: what does that accomplish if he were to do that? have onect does that the country if he says something like that? if he would have intervened and had a national emergency january 30, governor cuomo of new york and all the other governors throughout our country, would have been ready. asphaltt even get our together on testing. retiredroperty manager

from the federal government for 10 years and all those ventilators in the strategic stockpile, warrant -- why weren't they biomedical he checks? we find out those ventilators were sent to states and not even operational, not even working. that's a waste of time. we wasted time, at least 60 days in our president, president donald john trump should get on national tv today and admit that he did not intervene early. host: marie is next from peninsula, ohio, go ahead. caller: hello, i've been a democrat forever. first of all, i want everybody out there to be safe. but i've been watching c-span and it has become nothing but ignorant people blasting off what they don't know about these testings. guess what, it was set up during obama that the cdc would create all the testing. if you want to point problems to testing, point to obama who said it up that the cdc would perform

all the testing. allowedur congress that all of our pharmaceutical product and reagent supplies and everything else to go to china and taiwan. 90% of our drugs are made over there including the reagents which are necessary in order to be able to read those tests. we cannot get that material from china to be able to read it. the last caller who apologized 60 days late -- in january and in march, it was the world health organization that was saying from china that we were not -- that this was not passed from people to people. that's the kind of information the donald j. trump was getting. if you want to point fingers, point to congress for allowing all of our drugs, all of our masks. taiwan makes 90 million masks per week. but when this hit, taiwan shut

down the borders and said we are not shipping to the united states. only makes 33 million in an entire month and most of that was shipped overseas. the rest of the masks come from china. i have heard democrats say buy the supplies from china and from india and everything else. they have shut down the shipments to the united states. here in usa today on other supplies.

next is sean and columbus, ohio, go ahead. caller: i think one of the major issues with this whole area is the economic impact but also the federal government has to be in charge. don't -- i know we don't like to hear the word socialism but writing to trillion dollar checks and 350 million is going to the people in 500 is going to small business, is that not socialism? pandemic but we

love to down play big government when a tragedy like this hits, only big government can solve this problem. people that when things are going good, you don't spend money on things like that pandemic or whoever got rid of it. you leave gaps of communication between the states. this will be a problem if we don't have federal hospitals, federally run programs and federal pharmacies. host: homestead is next. caller: i have a couple of items i want to go over. i will try to be quick. i was watching the television in pittsburgh about a week ago. university of pittsburgh said they had a virus vaccine ready

to go and they had preliminary testing done and have a delivery system and they were waiting for the fda to give them approval to do clinical testing. they said it would take 4-6 weeks. i can't believe that the fda did not take four-six minutes to do that. might beomebody called, we are no/with vaccines here. why the fda is telling them they have to take 4-6 weeks to approve clinical trials, that's the first thing. the second thing, in answer to that lady who said she was a demo rat and then spoke everything republican, i'm tired getting out there saying they are republicans. in answer to one of her allegations of what trump heard. his own from infrastructure, his national

security team that there was a problem in china. china was lying about it and he knew from very early on that there was a virus coming and it was not the who, it was his own intelligence. she is lying on that point but i could go everything else she was lying about. i want to go to the testing next. i think they are giving trump too much of a break on this. he keeps saying we've done the most testing ever. we test everything. the only problem is if you do it by percentage and you test 2 million people, that's less than 1% of the population. that means 320 million people have not been tested. if anybody came to visit donald trump, if they would test only 1% of the people coming into

visit him, do you think he would let that happen? cst: on facebook. om/c-span, the federal response has been outstanding. silent springs, arkansas, go ahead. caller: thank you, good morning c-span i good morning america. hope everybody had a good easter yesterday. trump is doing the best he can with what he has to work with and 92% hostile media that's going to bash anything he does. response,the federal the biggest inconvenience i have had as their church. we have had to go to online

church. i appreciate it but i miss the fellowship and actually being with the folks at church. our governor has deftly done a great job. i have hardly seen any panic around here. i think the governors doing the best he can. everyone knows that trump from the beginning has been put america first. american people come first with him and that's why he has broken these trade agreements that were unfair to us and done so many things to help american business. having the stock market go from of000 down to 20,000 1,/3 our economy is tanking. it's got to be agonizing for him, too. i think he is doing the best that he can and like one of the previous caller said, the hostile media is just making it worse and causing more panic and putting doubts all over him.

they are trying to make people andt him, his competence his truthfulness, his honesty. everyone knows that trump, from the the r: we have photos with article in cities across the orld easter of solitude and photos from the vatican with the ope and sparse audience and scenes from brazil and juvenile as well. tedla in queens, new york city. good morning. i'm very close by that elmhurst area. me tell one thing. attacking this president for not he did and what he did turns me off. there is no media in any country

that is attacking the leader. that is a disgrace. cuomo and mayor are doing a fantastic job. err before were in in march we got through that but cooperating with the government and everything is available. doing much better than anyone expected so we are good. there's is ening, also the federal government and tates we are going to do it wisely. ut bashing the united states testing, all those things is hard. was made but this is not presidential error. cover-up was w.h.o. and china. the media want to give them a cheat. to they are still bashing trump. at thisit or not, trump

moment has were more support in new york than he had before. you. thank a couple of different approaches a similar story. the national emergency is a onth to old declared by the president friday march 13. --e is the "washington post" "washington times" reporting his seems t to reopen worst to be over task force seems to normalcy. to i will show you the "washington ost" similar story but reopening u.s. economy by may 1 and fromrealistic stay jeff bennett on nbc news has be , new trump appears to determined to reopen the economy early next month according to we are all rces, expecting our planning for may 1. a senior administration official nbc news. next up we hear from -- we are

by -- we will go ext to bob in old fort, tennessee. bob, go ahead. north: yes, i'm down here of chattanooga where all the tornadoes hit. host: how are you doing? you ok? caller: yeah, we are doing fine. we have some places in north got hit and but any way going to be is and these unanimously people that just hate this guy, at our alternative if we go back to liberals and democrats. all they stand for is murdering pitiful andnd it is ell the house and don't allow nflourish.y to

all i see a fighting and hate -- -- hatred. we have to get rid of these idiots. the representative of the representative of welcome to "washington journal". i want to get your thoughts on how your community is doing? we hear so much about new york, new york city in particular. tell us about it. know, too many neighbors and community leaders people laid and off at unprecedented rates. nd i have spent too many hours

on the phone trying to access nemployment and insurance benefits. many businesses are suffering, have trict offices received hundreds of calls and who ls from constituents can't keep their businesses afloat. others trying to get unemployment. what we have done so far in the congress. with three bipartisan bills that the appropriations committee helped shepherd hrough congress and this provided trillions of dollars to families, businesses, communities. but we have to do more to protect the lives and of the american people. hat is why we are working on a new package that would be $250 illion in assistance to small businesses, $100 billion for health s, community centers, health systems

of nationaloduction rapid testing. we still don't have that which me.riates $150 billion for state and local governments to manage this crisis. a 15% increase to the maximum snap benefit to help families food on the table. these are common sense policies everyone, democrats and republicans, can get behind, and hope republicans will come to their senses and move this once -- there won't be the last word. host: you surprised out quickly seems to business fund be tapped and in addition ing?ing a replenish >> i'm not really surprised is happened what n phmy community westchester ad rockland. stores are closed, everything is the d up, and the lines,

calls -- and i'm talking about phone lines -- trying to get is what o unemployment i hear about over and over again. this last package that we have to pass won't be one.ast we are going to have to have a erious long-term conversation about the investments we can revitalize sure we like onomy and things infrastructure, investments to create is jobs is so important. in addition to legislation we also have to ensure that the tax this crisisitted to are spent carefully and well, pleased that speaker pelosi created what we called a day truman commission. his is bipartisan and it is a house select committee on the coronavirus crisis. we will get through this.

this is the united states of america. i'm new yorker, particularly pleased with the is handling omo this. he is giving a report every day that is solid and based on facts. so we will get through this, but this is the most difficult time a member of r as congress. host: we know in the past you ave been instrumental in pandemic preparedness legislati legislation. fter all of this is through looking ahead what do you think the u.s. needs to do in terms of more prepared for potential future pandemics? a good question. it shocks me that the federal government, led by this and his remarks where he's arguing on the phone with asks a thoughtful question and when he does his conferences, if he doesn't understand that we are the we ed states of america and

were not prepared, why should nursing -- i hear this all the and see it on the news, especially local news in my hospital -- have to worry about masks, have to worry about the equipment that they need? they are so brave, the nurses, doctors that are hear going into the hospitals, talking to communities that ave set up drive-in places, that we are not prepared and we are still scurrying around equipment? what kind of preparation is this? o, although this president thinks he is the great leader i democrat everybody and republican, can learn a lesson from the inability of us is eally provide what necessary to our people. i cannot tell you how much time just to go back to the issue of unemployment insurance.

the phone and they dial and dial. one person who called me said on the phone for about eight hours and they had heir two kids taking turn, the husband taking turns, they can't get through. i think, improved in new york. i'm not sure about the rest of the country. is due back by schedule next week the 20th. you had think you will be back in the nation's 20th?al the week of the >> i certainly do not think so. i don't think it is possible. working. all today i have meetings starting long ou and going all day here. so we are working, but i have no now.rest in going back how do you get there? train? plane? last time e i got -- i got there i drove for about five hours and people across the not going to take a chance.

it is safe, i think we are better off doing the work as e are passing bills by unanimous consent and hopefully there is a bipartisan will to focus on what we need and leave partisan politics aside. speaker and leader schumer released a joint calling for the passage of that relief legislation. happen innk that will the senate this week? >> i would hope so. not a time for partisan politics. the speaker and certainly our schumer have really been working together with a focus on needed out here. this is not a time for leader to say i don't like i don't like that bill. we have to work together to help then we can people and have to look back after this is ver and i hope it is soon and

see why we were not prepared. why the president of the united could marshal all the people and equipment to do what is essential. glad that he had the at lligence to have fauci his side. i worked with are dr. fauci for years and he understands there out.de and so, we have to put politics aside and do what is necessary anything that goes through the senate with house us consents in the -- unanimous consent. loyew epresentative nita lowey. >> andrew cuomo briefs his state at 11:30 with the defiant pandemic there. live coverage and bring you this afternoon's briefing with the georgia 4:00 and president trump will lead the coronavirus task force briefing from the

start ouse scheduled to at 5:00. live coronavirus coverage on c-span, c-span radio and online at c-span.org. >> tonight a special evening edition of "washington journal" federal response to the coronavirus crisis at 8:00 even dr. fauci dr. fauci -- and he director of the infectious diseases division at university of alabama at birmingham school medicine. conversation about the coronavirus crisis "washington prime time tonight 8:00 eastern on c-span.

watch white house briefings, from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and interactive maps. watch on demand any time at ltered c-span.org/coronavirus. julie rovner to look at the coronavirus and in health insurance. want to start by asking the healthcare system overall and the u.s. healthcare system and to absorb the patients, not just in new york city but nationwide. of that?our sense in t: the healthcare system general is fairly robust but the hospital system is n