i covered a lot of white house briefings. a lot of these briefings going back years when i was a white house correspondent and the top infectious disease special iistn the u.s. government asked a serious question of the president of the united states basically pushing him aside and won't let him answer. i suspect the president knew dr. fauci is a straight shooter and he was going to say this drug hasn't been tested. >> that's right. we know dr. fauci has publicly expressed the fact there's not yet conclusive evidence to back the use of this drug in cases of coronavirus patients. so we can only assume that he's making the same case in private with the president. there's that reporting indicating he the got into an argument with peter navorro over this very drug. it's telling that the president wouldn't let dr. fauci speak. he said i'm just using common sense. yet he won't let dr. fauci speak to the merits or dismerits of this drug. >> you did an excellent job as usual. let's go back to john king. have you ever seen the presiden

>>> we standing by for the white house briefing. president trump and vice president pence and their team will give us an update. the white house is watching which city will be the next hot spot. philadelphia is one of them. >> the newer one that is we talk about in washington and philadelphia and baltimore looks like they their attack rate in denver and some of the other states we have been talking about are much lower than new york and new jersey. >> pennsylvania is under a statewide stay-at-home order until the end of the month. state health officials say it is not the time to let our guards down. there are spikes in some area. rachel levine is joining me now. thank you so much for being with us. you heard dr. birx talking about seeing a lower attack rate in philadelphia. how concerned are you and what are you seeing? >> we are seeing an increase in number of cases of covid-19 in philadelphia as well as the suburban counties around philadelphia and also in north eastern pennsylvania. as dr. birx said we have been able to bend the c

the trump white house went from no briefing on their schedule to having a white house briefing on the schedule to cancelling the briefing from the schedule before then restoring the white house briefing to the schedule. donald trump knew he would get a question about disinfectant but also knew he could just cut the reporter short and not answer the question. >> now that other states, governor larry hogan said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week. i know you said they were sarcastic. >> i can't imagine why. i can't imagine why. >> do you take any responsibility -- >> i can't imagine that. go ahead, please. >> mr. president, dr. anthony fauci says that we need -- >> that was it. no responsibility. takes no responsibility and once again, donald trump was able to count on the white house press core's tendency to not back each other up and change the subject when donald trump wants to change the subject and so that's what happened. change the subject. no other questions about it. about the single most insane thing ever spoken publicly by a president

we are standing by for the daily white house briefing. million new people have filed for unemployment. u.s. unemployment about 20%, nearing the 25% we saw during the great depression. the house is set to vote any minute now on this additional relief package that would release $300 billion in funds for small businesses. i want to bring in taylor riggs. i want to start with this news out of gilead. having the s&p 500 was some strong gains right out of the gate and then it dipped into negative territory two or three times the lot of the volatility and the weakness coming off the headline we got. it was a financial times seen the that they had who accidentally leaked results from a chinese trial. the drug failed to show a positive result. from thely removed it website but the damage was already done. gilead came out and said the study of the results accidentally published were mischaracterized. the trial had to stop because not enough patients could be found. the results are inconclusive. damage to gilead scientists and damage to the rest of t

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brady white house briefing room. he was angry about "the times" story, about the piece that myself and my colleagues at the a.p. put together. "the washington post" has done great reporting on this as well, illuminating that stretch where after he banned some travel from china -- and must be pointed out that since he put that into effect, more than 400,000 people still traveled to the united states from china. but afterwards, very little else was done, and the white house -- it was a white house plagued with infighting. chief of staff mick mulvaney was on his way out the door. the president himself was distracted by the impeachment trial. there was a dispute between mulvaney, who still headed the budget office at that point and the health human services secretary, secretary azar, about how much money would be needed to combat the virus as it started to reach american shores. when the president spoke in mid-january at davos, at that moment the united states had just one patient, a coronavirus patient, a lone figure in

when he played that propaganda video in the white house briefing, these are coming across like baghdad bob. like during the iraq war they claimed that the united states was not making their way into the iraqi capital. he is sounding like baghdad bob in not taking blame for this. he said it would have been so easy to be truthful. that was an exact quote from the president and yet this is a president who time and again has been playing fast and loose about the facts, lying about things saying the obama administration left the cupboards bear. >> hold on, jim. i want to go back to the president. >> a lot of great innovation is

to the us, and president trump has told a white house briefing that the us death toll is likely to land 60-65,000. earlier mr trump appeared to increase pressure on state governors to reopen their economies — following the publication of federal guidelines to phase out lockdown measures. in a series of tweets he called for minnesota, michigan and virginia to be, in his words, "liberated". all three have democrat governors and are considered swing states at federal elections. some governors, including in michigan and minnesota, have announced plans to partially re—open their economies at the start of may. but others, including andrew cuomo, the governor of new york state, accuse president trump of failing to provide states with enough support. speaking at the daily white house briefing, president trump defended his online remarks, but didn't outline specific lockdown measures he thought should be withdrawn. i think some things are too tough. and if you look at some of the state you just mentioned, it is too tough. not only relative to this, but what they have done in virginia with respec

them all that are the white house correspondents association has removed a reporter from a mills outlet for. for what she did during a white house briefing early she's been kicked out of the white house briefing room now the association says that they corresponded violated the social distancing policy that was established there or to correspond to touch us we those were all those decision. yes he was in effect other than those things are. going back to your point how many clinical trials in the past steve perry would you like to see before you put a stamp on it because it gave her the trial seemed to take place the moral thing here which is the down part i made the case is that you like to say this was the last press briefing one american uses on attended on march 31st as you can see there are less seats available in the white house press briefing room to integrate proper social distancing loriot it does not have an actual seat during this time according to a media report she had said she was attending as a guest of stephanie gresham the white house press secretary so the white house correspondents association decided to remove away in s

could be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant trump by those remarks during a white house press briefing after a presentation by a government official suggesting that heat and sunlight could weaken the virus now trungpa since claimed he wasn't encouraging people to ingest disinfectant but his comments dismayed medical professionals present at the briefing. we're grateful to be joined by vice pres u.s. president donald trump stayed true to form on friday claiming his comments were deliberately misinterpreted by the fake news media he said his words had been taken out of context and had been misunderstood but i was asked to circle it has taken a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside but it does kill it and it would kill it on the head and that would make things much better that was done in the form of an sarcastic question to the reporters donald trump's claims the day before left health experts speechless during the white house press briefing trump suggested disinfectant injections and u.v. light could be used to treat patients and fecht it

reporters donald trump's claims the day before left health experts speechless during the white house press briefing trump suggested disinfectant injections and u.v. light could be used to treat patients and fictive with coronavirus supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it's. just very powerful late and i think you said that has to be checked but you're going to test it. supposing it were the lady you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way and i think you said you. could see the disinfectant if not in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something. injection. or almost a cleaning the remarks were criticized by health experts who say disinfectants like bleach a dangerous when injected or ingested. on friday trump tried to clarify his comments and explain away what he said the day before. ok so. of course all they had to see was just you know the way it was and so i was motivated you. once said. i was looking bill i was looking at the doctor i was looking at some of the reporters i don't know if you were there you know i don't think you were there

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coronavirus, and, in doing so, he shows this kind of campaign style video we've never seen at a white house briefing before. he was asked about it, he sid white house staff put it together, but it's clear the president is feeling very defensive because to have the reporting eric talked to you about and the reporting we have been doing on the "newshour" that shows he was very eager to try to get through this without doing mitigation.

stay with us, we're waiting to hear from the white house coronavirus task force briefing. you're looking at live pictures coming in from the white house. the reports aren't there, the president isn't there, neither is the vice president. they'll be there soon. >>> meanwhile, disturbing new questions are emerging as the numbers indicate coronavirus infections are much more widespread in african-american communities around the united states. ce adversity, we find a way through it. it's about taking care of each other. it's the small parts that make a big difference. at chevy, we promise to do ours. we're offering current chevy owners onstar crisis assist services and complimentary wifi data. to help keep you on the road, the chevy certified service experts are here and ready to help if you require parts, maintenance or repairs. you can even schedule your service appointments online. it's just our way of doing our part. >>> we're standing by to hear from the white house coronavirus task force briefing. we're looking at live pictures. stand by for that, we're told, fairly soon.

white house correspondent for abc news and the current president of the white house correspondents association even though the president predicted he'd never make it. he was in today's white house briefing as he is most days. he's the author of a new book you should add to your quarantine reading list as we have, "front row at the trump show indication. also with us tonight, kimberly atki atkins, senior correspondent for -- and dr. kavita patel is back with us. she served as a senior aid to valerie jarrett in the obama white house, advising on health reform, financial regulatory reform, economic recovery issues. she's also a clinical physician and among our medical contributors. so good evening and welcome to you all. and, doctor, with medicine top of mind, can you clear something up for us? these predictions certainly in the realm of possible and the realm of the feared that we could be looking at a second wave, a second curve when the weather turns cold. is allowing or preventing that up to us in terms of relaxing social distancing too early, these stating opening that may in retrospect be too early, or is this an organically-occurring second wave that we fear? >> well, it's not clear

yes it is, it's for men but i like the smell of it laughs ♪ >>> the white house podium right through. the white house briefing in an hour. we have seen it in numbers day after day. coronavirus does not discriminate no matter how young or old you are. mark ca campbell is an example. he grind it out and beat the virus, instead he says, "bleeping kicked my --." >> joining us now is mark. even in this tough times, i am a new england guy, that hurts a little bit. i know he's your fellow wolverine. i wish him the best in tampa bay, i wish it were not so. back to why we are here. i want to get to your professional experience with the testing company in a second. first, i want as a guy who played in the nfl, tough guy and tight end. you said coronavirus kicked your ass. explain. >> well, it is simple. first off, say hi to dana for me. hope she's doing well. it is all with the x-athlete mindset. i had this grinder mentality and still do today. when i got it. i went through a drive-thru screening process. they told me hey, you probably have it, we are not going to test you because you don't have any autoimmune issues o

. >> we go live now to the white house for today's briefing with the dent trump on coronavirus response. >> and a live look at the white house briefing room where shortly president trump will be the ing reporters on coronavirus response. we expect vice president pence and members of the task force to join the president. until then, here's some of today's "washington journal." host: looking to vote on this latest economic aid package on are day, and they also considering a measure for remote voting. joining us on the phone is daniel friedman, former council for the amentarian house judiciary committee. served from 1979 to 2007. fellow for the center of ongressional presidential studies. what is it they are considering with proxy voting? how would that work? the : well, i don't know answer to that because everybody's using loose terms. ne of the things i first learned in law school is define he problem and i don't know whether they're talking about proxy voting or remote voting. things. two different proxy voting would be and we used to have this when i worked on the hill when i first got

we are waiting for the white house coronavirus briefing from the white house briefing room. we will bring you that live when the president comes out here on fox. up next, we answer your questions about the coronavirus with our medical expert. here's what some of our fox affiliates on the country are covering tonight. fox in seattle, boeing says it will restart production of its commercial airplanes next week in the seattle area. that will put about 27,000 people back to work after operations were suspended because of the covid-19 pandemic. boeing is washington state's largest private employer. fox montana, in missoula, a federal judge cancels a key permit for the keystone xl oil pipeline. he says the u.s. army corps of engineers failed to adequately consider effects on endangered species that live in rivers the pipeline would cross. that ruling does not however shutdown work that has begun at the u.s.-canada border crossing in in montana. fox 5 in new york. president trump's former lawyer michael cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his senten

amy, in our line of work, we watch these white house briefings every day. there is a flurry of numbers. i swear there are some days if mike pence said we have made a trillion masks and gowns, it would just go by unreferenced in the flood of other numbers. tell us the reality in terms of ppe and numbers where you work. >> where we work, i took a straw poll recently to see what is going on with our staff. and there are some people reporting that they get masks every day, some people report that they haven't had a new mask for six weeks, some report that they haven't had a mask for seven days. and that message that we put out, the governor put out an executive order stating that all new york health care workers should get a mask every day. and according to the responses from my staff and other staff in this area, the answer is still no. our current issue is not just masks, but also with gowns in suffolk county. we don't have adequate protection for our bodies from bodiily fluids that she shouldt shouldn't be exposed to. and the cdc as diminished the guidelines

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at the white house briefing today, dr. birx was asked about validating these tests and how the fda is basically allowing them to rush out with tests, saying that the companies who are producing the tests have the job now of validating themselves, and i don't think there was anything in dr. birx's answer that we could make sense of. she seemed to be saying that when you get that test, if you get your hands on that test, the manufacturer somehow has to have a document on it that will, to some extent, indicate the reliability of the test. but it was all so vague, it was hard to tell what she was saying. >> yes. lawrence, we need independent validation of these tests. and even from a single manufacturer's performance result, you want to compare different kinds of tests at the same time against standards. because we're going to be using these different tests in different parts of the country, and we're going to need to know is the result in place one, using test "a" meaningful and similar to place "b" using test "b". so we need

he said that in a tweet today and said it again repeatedly at the white house briefing today. he said it in a letter to senator chuck schumer. we're a backup. remember when president franklin roosevelt said we're a backup in world war ii? that's not what war-time presidents say. the day after pearl harbor was attacked, president roosevelt addressed congress as they voted on a decoloration, of war and said we will not only defend ourselves to the utter most but will make very certain this form of tretry will never happen again and people and our territory and interest are in grave danger with confidence in our armed force, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. today with more americans dead from the coronavirus than died at pearl harbor, donald trump said we're a backup. at the darkest hour of world war ii for the british before the united states entered the war, it seemed that a successful nazi invasion of britain was inevitable. at that time, british prime minister winston churchill was advised to negotiate some form of surrende

the biden campaign strategy of letting donald trump talk circles around himself at white house briefingseness the last time the president stood in the white house briefing room on friday. >>> joining our discussion now, president and c.e.o. of voter latino, and the former director of the national economic council under presidents obama and president clinton gene sperling. so, we went through a weekend without the president coming up with ideas of how they can kill themselves as he did so famously in the briefing room on friday. and that left us with the grimness of the statistical picture of what's happening out there without the extra madness being funneled our way from the white house. the l.a. times reporting now that covid-19 has become the leading cause of death in l.a. county, surpassing fatalities from cancer, flu, emphysema, and heart disease. and that is the reality that we are not going to be free of any time soon. >> the deaths have surpassed, sadly, the deaths in the vietnam war, lawrence. and this is where the president has been so cavalier with his suggestions that even whe

today's white house briefing featured a large cast of characters.mes the president and vice president apparently feeling that social distancing is something for them to ec are mend if not follow themselves. when the vice president is talki talking, it sure sounds like he's in charge. jared kushner sounded like he's in charge. ditto the admiral talking about the supply chain and sounding in charge. a number of the daily speakers make it a point to reference data perhaps because it is a huge problem right

we will take you to that white house briefing momentarily.he cohost ofg in what you miss -- we are having some technical difficulties. tolier today, i did speak the ceo of the third-largest health care network in the country. they have more than 50 hospitals across the country, more than 1000 clinics, and 120,000 health care workers fighting this virus. they are located in california and washington. i sat down with the ceo to talk a little bit more about what they are doing and what they are seeing. take a listen. >> we started with our first index case two months ago. the minute we had that first case, we started getting ready. knowing what was coming and really getting organized. what we knew is if you can keep , youate of rise in cases can get in front of this. so far, that is what we have seen. ready.ly got our systems we have not seen massive overloads. we have seen a steady progression. over the last five days, we have seen the same number of cases on a day-to-day basis and we are hoping we are starting to see a decrease. predictou 80,0

question came up at today's white house briefing, should georgia really be allowing hairstylists, tattoo artists, and massage therapists to go back to business considering those three occupations, for starters, depend on close proximi proximity, human-to-human contact? dr. birx when asked about it took a pass. she said she didn't want to pre-judge. the president said he presumes customers will be tested on their way in, and of course the truth is our nation has nothing close to that capacity. dr. birx said she doesn't know if a second wave could be deadlier than this because, quote, she thinks this has been pretty bad. for his part, our president said he sees, quote, a lot of light at the end of the tunnel, and it's getting brighter and brighter every day. he said again today, not everyone wants to do significant testing. he said in some cases, it's not good. he said he really believes, quote, we'll be able to put out the fires if this disease pops up again because he said we've gotten really good at this. elsewhere during the briefing, he wished kim jong-un well, and as he does every da

watch white house briefings, track the spread throughout the u.s. and world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. at the daily coronavirus white house briefing, president trump spoke about congressional efforts to pass another relief bill to help small busines

there was also a bit of a kerfuffle in the briefing room. a white house staffer tried to get cnn to give up their seat, to move further back in the briefing room. the reporters involved in this potential switch refused, and let's point out it's the white house correspondents association that's in charge of that room. they set the seating plan, not the white house. and after 21 minutes, the president stalked off. now, we should note as a final thing, the president's been one to change his mind. he has not officially signed off on a plan to give up doing these daily briefings but is at least in consideration. there's going to be meetings about it over the weekend, and it should be noted at least for now, there is not a briefing on his schedule for tomorrow. >> operative term, annie karni, "at least for now." first of all, point of order. kudos to kaitlan collins for standing her ground and doing so well this week under withering fire to boot. annie, your piece late this week painted a portrait of a brooding, television-obsessed president, up 'til all hours

briefings. quote, a number of trump's most trusted advisers -- both inside and outside the white house, have urged him to stop doing marathon televised briefings. they've told him he's overexposed and these appearances are part of the reason polls aren't looking good for him right now against joe biden. axios adds that conversations about this were under way at the white house before yesterday's briefing. that's the one where trump seemed to suggest injecting household disinfectants and inserting ultraviolet light into covid patients. today with the don't try this at home warnings from disinfectant manufacturers, state and federal health officials piling up, the president was trying to tell us we saw something different. he tried to say he wasn't being serious. >> could you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant? >> no. i was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. i was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. but it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands, a

white house briefing room into a sort of campaign rally. we've heard from people close to the president he likes doing these briefings because he knows a lot -- millions of people are watching but to play that individual that was essentially a campaign-style individual shows and underscores that president is really using part of these briefings to really talk about his own image because he's worried his election -- his ability to be re-elected will be tied to what some see and i will say many see as his failures when it comes to coronavirus and this idea of absolute power he was talking about is to me the complete opposite of what the republican party stands for, that's the party that's usually of small government in the tenth amendment of the constitution still stands, states have rights and the president is not acknowledging that. >> well, you just said it. i think for people who follow the news, we've seen them play fast and loose, but it is striking to hear you say this was the most overt use of the briefing in that manner and emphasize

briefing. given the seating assignment is under the jurisdiction to have white house corners association, white house, the reporter refused to move. there was no task force briefing on saturday but reporters did hear from white house senior advisor kevin hassett, who stopped for a few minutes to take questions on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. insaid unemployment numbers the u.s. could reach 16% nationally and and the paycheck protection program had been helping to lunt those claims. >>[inaudible] >> i'm supportive of the view that each state needs to make the call themselves. the -- a lot of places it is easy to social distance and new york city it is really hard to social distance. the path in new york city very routes.lowed subway one of the things a we have seen in the data that we have been analyzing is that there are a lot of counties in the country where they have a lot of essential workers so the percentage over the worse force is pretty high of people who continue to go to work and at the beginning of this crisis, the disease spread more rapidly where people were still g

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the tweets came in place of a white house briefing sunday. according to "the washington post," president trump has spoken for 13 hours at coronavirus press conferences over the past three weeks, and during that time an analysis by the "post" shows the president spent two hours on attacks, 45 minutes praising himself and his team, nine minutes promoting the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and four and a half minutes offering sympathy for the victims. and we expect the white house briefings to resume at 5:00 this afternoon, the first since friday. kenneth? >> ines, thank you. >>> many students applying for college are left in limbo this morning wondering what the future will bring. they're now just days away from a crucial deadline. >> reporter: this morning with college admissions deadlines looming, students across the country face uncertain futures. >> is it worth it for me to go to college? >> i'm paying for all the facilities. >> i know that online school doesn't work for me. >> reporter: the coronavirus pandemic has already cancelled the

. >> there was no white house briefing on saturday. the president later tweeted, what is the purpose of having white house news conferences when the lame stream media asks nothing but hostile questions and refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. the american people get nothing but fake news. not worth the time and effort. >> c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal reserve wants to the chronic -- the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread from the u.s. and around the world with interactive maps. atch on-demand any time c-span.org/coronavirus. tonight on q&a, wall street journalist chris are 90 on his book called dignity about the play of those living on the margins of america. >> it was empty because all of the semi's were going should she was in the industrial part. intelligenceher came right through. we spoke for about an hour, half an hour or so. she told me her l

host: that is tom in california talking about the press briefing at the white house yesterday, and we expect another today. speaking of california, california's governor, gallo -- gavin newsom, has been holding his own briefings. here's a bit from his briefing yesterday talking about coronavirus cases in that state. >> let me first give you the updated numbers. individuals are currently tested positive for covid-19. increaseesents 10.7% over yesterday. ofpitalizations in the state california and icu beds, these are the numbers i look out first thing every morning. the hospitalization numbers went up to 2611 yesterday. that is about a 4.1% increase from the previous day. cu's went up-- i about 201% over the last 24 hours. -- 2.1% over the last two hours. that is too many. we want to see that number go down, not up, but these are not the dead -- double digit .ncreases we see that is not to suggest by any stretch of the imagination that we will continue to see these declines. it is only to reinforce the importance of maintaining physical distancing and continuing our stay-at-home policy,

donald trump has threatened to freeze funding to the world health organization at his daily white house briefing trump criticized the w.h.o. his handling of the crisis saying the u.n. body was china centric they called it wrong they call it wrong they really they missed the call they could have called it months earlier they would have known. they should've and they probably didn't so we'll be looking into that very carefully and we're going to put a hold on money spent to the w h o we're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see it's a great thing if it works but when they call every shot wrong that's. when all of a salad is following developments for us in washington all of a president trump and his coronavirus task force have given their daily briefing what were the highlights. well tell me you've just mentioned the president. essentially saying that he will put a hold on the u.s. funding to the world health organization that's a very bold move you heard the sound bite he said they missed the call so and he's partially right because the it world health organization was in

white house together for a long time. if they think this is big enough deal, they're truly making progress and they wanted to highlight it, you could use the white house briefing room, if you wanted to bring in the attorney general as well as the defense secretary as well as other people in1r5u6b8ed, sure, you could use the white house preefing room. but announce you're making a major announcement on anti-narcotic efforts. don't announce you're coming out at the beginning of a task force and again we're in an election year. the country is dealing with an pandemic, this should not be a time for politics. but the president knows what the coverage has been the last 24 hours, reminding people of what he said in february, reminding people of what he said even in early march, dismissing the threat of the coronavirus, and this in the context of the sobering numbers they gave yesterday. a, change the subject, b, get some praise. so he brings in three members of his cabinet, the defense secretary, the attorney general, the national security advisor. again, we should salute the united states government and military if they were making substantial progress on the war on

thick'r lawn 3-in-1 solution. >> dagen: we are just moments away from the white house white house coronavirus task force briefingfternoon today because it's good friday, but we are back with our panel of medical experts. dr. long, when you listen today, as we watch the team come out, what are you listening for? what would you like to hear? >> dr. long: dagen, our president yesterday said that he would like for some people to get back to work, and that is what i really appreciate. i hope to hear more on that in this press conference, because we do need that strategic release of people. by their role, by their community. whether you live in a hot spot or not. and by your serologic testing, if you may have already had exposure and immunity. if we are strategic about how we release some people at a time, we can make sure all this locked down we've been in has been wasted. >> dagen: dr. plescia, what are you listening for? >> dr. plescia: i would like to hear some better news about protective equipment for health care workers. this is the thing that we are struggling with right now. it's really concerning to all of u

there are reports this weekend that president trump is going to cut back on the number of white house briefingsappearances at them. do you think that's smart? do you think these briefings have begun to backfire politically on the president? >> i think that it does make sense to cut back a little bit on these briefings as much as we do get some information out of them. and many times we've seen them just go off the rails in back and forth and battles between the president and those in the press. but i think what we really need at this moment is seriousness, and we need more seriousness from these briefings. just quinn your interview with oklahoma's governor right now, i think that a lot of people are still operating under false premises about the challenges we're facing. the idea that a vaccine is going to come within the next few months as opposed to 12-18 or even more. and that's something that i think we need to start wrestling with not just a at the gubernatorial level, but at the presidential level as well giving tough talk to american people about the trade-offs and risks we're going to fa

the whitending by for house briefing which was initially canceled. now it is back on. the white house issuing a strategy to expand testing for the coronavirus. they say they plan to release enough tests so all 50 states can free at least 2% of their residence. joining us from amazon's home seattle,he mayor of jenny durkin -- jenny durkan. we doubt that seattle was one of the early epicenters but early moves prevented seeing some of the dismal numbers we have seen elsewhere. give us a status update in terms of the testing capacity. mayor durkan: on the good news front, at the height of the outbreak, we had a transmission rate of about three. we were seeing cases rise really quickly. we were able to do our measures pretty quickly, first by having the tech companies telecommute as well as the cities and larger employers. today, the transmission level is below one, so every person who gets the virus is not even transmitting it to another person. all of the epidemiologists are saying that is where you need to be for a significant period of time. i think probably the worst news is tha