anita kumar is the white house anita kumar is the white house >>> in connecticut the number oaf confirmedirus cases is continuing to surge. there are now more than 5,000 cases in the state. 165 people have died. officials say connecticut could be one of the next coronavirus hot spots in the country with the apex of the outbreak still several weeks away. joining me now democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. and of course connecticut for those of us who live in new york city it's parts of our area. it's not a separate place. many, many -- you know, some very large percentage of people who work in new york sleep-in connecticut. >> yeah, that's exactly, right, ali. >> and i've spent a lot of time in the last week speaking with administrators of fema and the vice president saying don't think of this as a new york crisis and oh, by the way you've got connecticut. we are from where i sit right here it's about 4 miles to the new york state line and of course we're showing, you put the numbers up, we have 165 fatalities. almost all right -- well, i should say we've got 20% of the populat

anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor over at politico. and robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs. peter, since you were last quoted, i'm going to ask you first, does the president seem closer to getting the gravity of this, closer to the realization that he's got to own this at some point? >> yeah, i think he is. i think that doesn't mean he's suddenly a different person. you played some of the sort of offbeat comments he made today about his popularity on facebook. he's still going to go after his enemies. he's still going to quarrel with reporters. but he does seem to be trying to come to grips with the enormity of the challenge and the scale of the disease and death that awaits this country on his watch. you're no longer hearing him compare this to an ordinary flu. you're no longer going to say this is miraculously going to go away, just be patient. he is going to continue to try to tell the country that this will pass at some point and the country will come back s

anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor at politico. and we welcome to the broadcast dr. steven sample. he is an e.r. doc at memorial hospital and health care center in jasper, indiana. anita, i'd like to begin with you. which president trump showed up, today, the defensive and angry president, the president eager to reopen american business? was he at all apologetic about these last two days' appearances from the rose garden? any letup in his insistence is this. >> well, like with any appearance of president trump you get a little bit of everything, right? but he did sort of pull back from the threats he put on governors earlier this week. he was telling them that he has the authority to do whatever he wants and he's going to force them to open. you had a lot of legal scholars wondering what he was talking about and a lot of states pushing back. a lot of governors who were going to say they're going to go their own way, they're not going to do what he says. so you saw him these last couple days really push back -- pull back and just say

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ani ani anita kumar from politico. peter, the president said this is the biggest decision he will ever have to make. and leads us to the question. does he have to clue what he is likely to do? >> it's a great question. the business of politics and reason are not necessarily the same business. he is tugged in lots of different directions, and he is tugged by advisers looking at the economic devastation. he has 17 million people an as a result olt of of pandemic, and a direction of health experts saying that the reason the death projection has gone down isn't because you succeeded. because if you let up the gas, if you let up dr. fauci's term, you will be right back to where you started. a new protection that my colleagues on stained yesterday, the department of health and human services know show if the to lift the restrictions by the end of april, as the president is talking about, we could be back to where we are in july with the same problem. that is the factor that the president takes into account. >> earlier this m