rachel bitecofer, thank you for joining us here on bbc news. thanks for having me.ernment says it's looking at ways to lift the lockdown ahead of an announcement next sunday in which the prime minister will set out the how the country will get back to school and work. political correspondent chris mason reports. a portrait of the uk in lockdown. for well over a month, streets have been quiet, most shops have been closed. a pause button pressed on normal life. but if imposing these restrictions felt like a massive moment, easing them could prove much, much more fraught. at this afternoon's government news briefing, one of the prime minister's most senior colleagues told me local lockdowns might have to be reimposed. a phased approach is one which allows us to monitor the impact that those changes are having on public health and if necessary, in a specific and localised way, that means we can pause or even reintroduce there's restrictions that might be required in order to deal with localised outbreaks. trains won't look like this again for some time. but if we are to

rachel bitecofer, a political scientist from christopher newport university in virginia told me the presidentd claims. his demeanour was very similar in the town hall as it has been in the virus briefings, and, you know, it is bold, often times factually inaccurate information. you know, the death toll is that he's exciting now, just a week ago he was talking about how they would cap out in the 50s or 60s, now we're heading towards 70,000 dead here in america. so i think his effort to paint a positive outlook for americans, i think it's motivated a little bit by his need to, you know, come up with a real election strategy, but ultimately i do think he's setting himself up forfailure every time he leaves a benchmark like a vaccine by the end of the year, that is unlikely to be hit. of course this was broadcast, hosted by, fox news, a conservative news network and one that's generally friendly to the president. do these kind of events again much traction outside of the network on which they are aired? number one, i'll make it really clear that trump has given almost no interviews to any network