pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 10:00 a.m. today.

c spa n president's unwillingnesso push face coverings and social distancing as he held rallies, mocking people who wore masks. one of the things that came out from his comments yesterday was the idea of testing in the united states. you can find host: you can find more on our website at c-span.org. here's a portion from yesterday. e achieved a nearly fourfold capacity of testing, we are successfully identifying more asymptomatic and mild cases. some cases so mild that you don't even really treat them. some cases with children where they don't even know that they are ill. i guess they are not very ill because they recover almost immediately. per capita, the u.s. is s, andting 50% more test

as manly as three times more than other countries in the western hemisphere combined. tests. million this allows us to isolate those infected, even those without symptoms, so we know exactly where it is going and when it is going to be there. we are also working to reduce turnaround time. my administration has aggressively responded to cases in the sunbelt, and we continue to do so, working close with all governors. right now, in particular those governors. host: that full event is at c-span.org. (202)-748-8000 free democrats -- for democrats. (202)-748-8001 for republicans. independents, (202)-748-8002. you can text us at (202)-748-8003. some posting on twitter and facebook this morning. bill king off of twitter says, it is going to get worse before it gets better, from the president yesterday. the president seems unwilling to

take steps to curtail it, such as national mandatory masks and stay-at-home orders. sean o'neill adds, sure, it is going to get worse before the election. democrats are counting on there from the virus and they will be ramping up the propaganda machine the closer we get. saying theacebook president made the comments because of polling. and then anita said on facebook, we were told this from the beginning, and especially with increased testing. common sense, folks. common sense. commentsake those available on our social media feeds and the phone lines are available, too. we start off on the democrat's line. guest: good morning -- caller: good morning, pedro. today. speak with you i am calling to say that i think it is too little, too late. the president has had months to take this position and has not done anything. people are dying because of donald trump.

people are fighting in the grocery stores because they will not wear masks, and that is because of donald trump. it is all donald trump's fault. host: don't states and cities had responsibilities when it comes to mask orders on the light? caller: if we had federal leadership, the localities not have to fight so hard to get it done. why are people fighting in the grocery stores and at restaurants? because there will not wear masks. that is because of donald trump. it is all his fault. host: anthony is next. he is from hyattsville, maryland. democrat's line. pretty much i was echoing the same thing. it is too late. 3.5 months before the election, he changes and wants to be presidential. when 3.5 years ago, he promised a better health care, a cheaper health care for everybody. and all those who follow this

guy and still follow him and believe all the lies he tells every day, now that you have egg on your face, he is deciding to wear a mask and he is deciding to say that things are going to get worse. it makes no sense. himeveryone who follows looks as stupid as donald trump. host: glenn -- lakeland, florida. good morning. go ahead. it,er: well, the way i see this is all about trump playing politics. he knows every strategy he tried since the virus came in that he wasted 2.5 months before he started doing anything in the first week of march. nothing works. now the virus is worse than what it was. he cannot go out and campaign, so now he wants to use that platform that he had before him, and now he wants to change his willbecause he think it cause americans that he is basically mixed message of not wear a mask, a washer hands, and

now he wants to change that but it is too late because people already made their minds up. host: so what do you think should be done going forward? caller: what needs to happen is that the only thing he needs to do is let the medical people, like yesterday, you had the conference but no medical people talking. it was just him. he still refuses to give them the leadership role they had in the beginning to manage and control this, and then he backs them up. he did not do this. host: what do you think the medical people added from previous briefings as far as information or results? caller: what they did is provide information that was needed, and it was put out there, where the mask, quarantine, washing hands, social distancing. they have been saying that per day one, and trump did not support that because his agenda in his mind was different. i want to be the one to control everything. you do what i say you do. it backfired on him.

now, he wants to pretend, well, it is not my fault. now he wants to rewrite history. host: i asked the previous inler on the roles of people charge of localities and the responsibility they have in their own states. do you think there was a responsibility there? caller: the responsibility has to come from the top to the governors. the trump administration has the federal responsibility ensuring each state has what they need as far as masks, supplies and ventilators. that is how the supply system works. you provide them with what they need, and they proceed to do what they have to do in their states, via hospitals or businesses, to provide what people need. what happened in the beginning as trump did not do those things in the beginning, and was out there trying to grab the same thing that the governors were trying to get to their states and hospitals, say now we have supplies. that is not the way it works. host: when it comes to governors and the like and they put a face mask orders and, don't they have

responsibility here? caller: yes, they do. they did their job, but at the same time, if the message at the top, for a lot of these republican governors, they decided they were not going to do or they needed to do for their people. they waited on trump to tell them what to do. that is why they were out there protesting democratic governors who are trying to do the right thing, but trump, when he did that liberation tweet to his supporters, they were protesting and againsttes these democratic governors in the state. he screwed things up. host: when it comes to the event of the briefing yesterday, the first one in many weeks, it was the senate's top democrat chuck schumer who took the microphone to talk about resuming of that event. here's what he had to say. [video clip] well, i don't think people should take leach. i don't think hydroxychloroquine is a cure. i think warm weather does not make this go away.

the president has called it a hoax.he misleads people . when you look at foreign countries in europe and east asia, developed countries, why are they better off than us? because they have leadership. this president shows no leadership. when he gets up, he speaks mistruths, he tries to muzzle scientists. better stay away. we do better without him. host: senator schumer profiled nations and how they handled it. "the washington post" looks at two states at how their approach differs, arizona and new mexico. they said it appears both states were in a comparable spots and saw similarly low caseloads. on march 24, with cases taking up, the governor of new mexico issued a stay and in the arizona governor followed suit. on april >> we're going to leave this segment at this point to fulfill commitment to r

live congressional coverage. you can continue watching this on our website c-span.org. house about to gavel in. four measures on the calendar repeal cluding one to the president's travel ban. another to remove confederate busts fromtatues and the u.s. capitol. and now live coverage of the u.s. house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. lord, our god, thank you for giving us another day. we ask your blessing on all the members of the people's house during these rare days of coming together in this chamber.