senator john barrasso and senator devin nunes are here. plus, the mayor of d.c. is threatening to arrest people for going outside. dinesh d'souza and governor mike huckabee expose the latest attempt to make your life miserable. dr. judy hope from "the doctors" joins us later in the hour on what a recession could mean for your mental health. but first, america and shut down day 15. now today, we lost more than 800 americans who tested positive for the kind of virus. that's the largest single day number since this nightmare began. a stunning three quarters of our nightmare began, and the fellow citizens, with somed sort of stay home order issued by state governors, new york governor who will moan no even california are also offering some hope. >> the slide that gives us great hope and understanding about what is possible. on the bottom of the slide where that is consistent. >> that number , in california, . >> great admin understanding about what is possible in on the bottom of the slide where you can barely see the blue line at the very bottom, that is the current

part partisan grid lock on funding small businesses what will happen this upcoming week, senator john barrasso also here, a medical doctor himself on how the country can safely reopen all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on "sunday morning futures." >> and china coming under intense scrutiny this week amid mounting criticism of its early response to the coronavirus outbreak. my first guest this morning was one of the first to see the pandemic coming. we want to bring in white house trade advisor peter navarro. peter it's great to see you this morning. >> good morning maria. maria: thank you for all your early warnings and great work on this , peter i know you've been busy with the supply chain issues but i want to talk first about china and what we're learning this morning. pro-democracy activists were arrested over the weekend, peter , a further crackdown on hong kong, as china continues to exert author their yankeesism throughout hong kong, your reaction to what we saw this weekend and broadly speaking, what china has done in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. >

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still to come on the newshour: republican senator john barrasso on the economy, testing and congress' ongoing response to covid-19 an examination of the world health organization's haonling of the cirus pandemic and what funding cuts could mean, plus much more. >> woodruff: as the debate over reopening states rages acrossim the country, aar dispute is underway in the nation's capitol.e use of representatives remain in recess, but senators will return to washington in just a few days, for the first time in more than a month. b senator jorasso of wyoming se the third highest ranking republican in thte. he's also a physician and he joins us now from casper. senator barrasso, thank you very muchor joining us ain. it's good to see you. i want to start out by asking you, as a doctor, how encraged are yu by these latest reports about this antiviral drug a remdesiv a treatment for the coronavirus? >> well, i'm very encouged by this. i will tell you, judy, this is very important for all of america because that's what we need, a treatment for this virus. that's the way that we get beyond this t

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john barrasso from wyoming, senator, hard to hear that. tough to hear that from your state, you're just listening to chad's reporting there. what could you support next for millions and millions of americans need help? >> well, thank you bill for having me. i will tell you couple things. number one is that everyone in america has been impacted by coronavirus. everyone of wyoming, certainly everyone across the country. some from a health standpoint, others from the economic standpoint. we have been successful in flattening the curve here in wyoming. we have the fewest number of cases. this was our first death. we also know that it was predicted we would have hundreds and hundreds of deaths, we are now much, much lower than that in the predictions because of the things that people have been doing, in terms of socially distancing, staying home, washing their hands, all of those things. so we have flatten the curve. we have also flattened our economy. our agriculture, our energy, our tourism economy. so in terms of what we need to do right now

joining us now his wyoming republican senator john barrasso.te you being here this morning. i wonder how what you can do and how quickly you can ask not just to get more cash into this program but i continued to get more emails from our viewers saying they can't get through, they can't get this money. a lot of people have been helped so far but there are a lot of people in your estates and states around the country that can't get through. >> thank you, eddie. you are absolutely right. this is a very popular program and as a doctor i want to make sure that we stop the spread of disease but also speed up relief to american workers and that means paychecks. right now nancy pelosi is blocking these paychecks from the american public because it is blocking our effort to put more money to refill these paycheck opportunities come these paycheck protections, and she's doing it in congress. we need more money in the program even here in wyoming. we've had over 5,000 applications gone through, so $700 million which means paychecks for hardworking workers

on "sunday morning futures" i spoke with senators john barrasso tim scott on second wave of funding fork program they said they are ready, willing to vote yes today, watch. >> so you are going through the paycheck protection program you say it needs more money, it is run out of money; right? >> it ran out -- there are small businesses and paychecks needing to be gotten taken care of people still applying for these loans i see it in wyoming has been very successful, 350 billion dollars, already spent it helped -- 15 million americans stay on the payroll inoculated i like to say the democrats are hold this up realize you are not negatively impact businesses as much as negatively impact people's able to do to pay rent pay utilities feed kids this is a serious situation. that we should not have a elapse in funding for the tri. p are a program should tell nancy pelosi please give us our paychecks. >> so kevin i mean there you heard from two senators, who actually their state have been impacted worse from the economic hit than actually the coronavirus, i mean john barrasso in wyoming they had

the program we will watch the developments thanks so much. >> great to be with you. >> governor john barrassok about jam-packed news program former chief economic advisory to president george w. bush is here on covered 19's economic impact what is -- expecting. >> we will talk about labor secretary with howe long on first round of the virtual nfl draft don't miss a moment of it. big show coming up. has stood strong through every dark hour and bright dawn our country has endured. it has seen the break in the clouds before anyone else. for the past 168 years, we've also stood by you, helping you weather storms like this one, to protect your loved ones. and we'll do it for 168 more. maria: welcome back students suing over tuition two students at columbia pace universities filing class action lawsuits in manhattan federal court demanding refunds on tuition higher than only instruction. >> kevin we are lucky to have you to talk about this reaction to lawsuits? >> i talked to legal experts at campus right now subsequence seems probably won't go anywhere, because the fact universities right now have

bring in the chairman of the senate republican conference, wyoming senator john russelsenator john barrassoyou heard the president's reaction at the briefing to harvard receiving that money, although they didn't say they applied for those funds under ppp, it fell under the cares act for academic purposes. so do you think harvard should give back that money and how do you assure the american people that despite congress securing all this money that it's going to get into the hands of those small businesses that need it most? >> while the president is absolutely right. harvard shouldn't be getting all of this money. the focus of the cares act is to rescue the american economy at a time when we are under attack from a disease. my focus has been hospitals as well as small businesses. what we needed to do and did yesterday in the senate is basically put additional money into the paycheck protection plan. that's the program to allow small businesses to borrow money and to keep people the payroll. it has worked very successfully in wyoming and thousands of these awards, millions of dollars going o

wyoming senator john barrasso is going to weigh in as congress fights for a fourth round of stimulus.s in the next hour. and jobless claims, "mornings with maria," we'll be wright back. ...so we can spend a bit today, knowing we're prepared for tomorrow. wow, do you think you overdid it maybe? overdid what? well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. cheryl: good morning. i'm cheryl casone for maria bartiromo. it is thursday, april 9 your top stories 8:00 a.m. eastern time, updated on state of labor market amid coronavirus pandemic initial jobless claims coming out in a half hour economists expecting 5.25 million americans filed for unemployment last week, some estimates may have seen above 9 million range all over the place for today's number, and this number on top of the nearly 10 million who filed over the last two weeks. we will have numbers for you live 8:30 a.m. eastern time a

wyoming senator john barrasso joins us now.enator, senator warren wants special extra pay for vital workers and unlimited sick pay for vital workers. is that going to get in the way of this second relief bill? >> well, elizabeth warren is trying to hold hostage at gunpoint american workers' paychecks and what she's wanting to do it for, you look at that list of ten things she's demanding, it really is the ten commandments of the liberal left. it's a continuation of her failed presidential campaign. this at a time when the fund is running out of the money that can be sent to small businesses all around the country. here in wyoming, workers, farmers, ranchers, small businesses, so we can keep people getting paychecks. it's worked so far for 15 million americans who continue to get paychecks, about a million of these loans have gone out, it's been very successful but by the end of the week, we are going to be out of money so we won't be able to do more of this opportunity to keep those paychecks going and elizabeth warren is stand

but some republicans like john barrasso remains sceptical of the talks. >> he republican will want towe know they slowed down the cares act because they wanted their wish list included. reporter: mnuchin says state and local money won't be in this bill. we think it will take until the middle of the week to get this through the house and senate with a skeleton crew on board. if they move this they will have moved 2.5 trillion dollars in the last few weeks. that's why oversight will be key. they can't even have oversight hearings because they won't meet in session and they can't have hearings. jon: chad pergram, thanks, chad. a wave of rallies across the country demanding their state governors lift orders and open businesses as soon as possible. steve harrigan is live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta with reaction. a number of states are said to be opening parts of their economy. reporter: the cdc is under increased scrutiny for delayed in testing at the start of this process. was it sloppy procedures in cdc labs that led to contaminated tests? why were there faulty tests and why did

. >> sandra: joining us is wyoming senator john barrasso. the chairman of the senate republican conference and medical doctor as well. good morning and welcome. >> good to be with you, sandra. >> sandra: so do you believe that a fourth stimulus bill will be needed? >> before getting to that let me first say as a doctor and senator i want to make sure people are taken care of in terms of their health and well-being. this will be a critical and crucial week in america. the more people can do to stay at home, to wash their hands frequently, avoid touching their face the better it is going to be. with regard to a fourth stimulus i spoke to the president and senator mcconnell this week. first we have to make sure that this last bill the cares act actually works to get relief to the people that need it, which is just about everybody in america. to make sure that the healthcare providers get what they need and to make sure our small businesses are able to get these loans. we put out 17,000 loans already, about $5 billion. there is $350 billion in t

time to bring in wyoming senator john barrasso. don't get it, democrats blocking stimulus for small businesses. mitch mcconnell said yesterday all we have to do is raise out 350 billion, put in 600 billion and get that money out there for the people who need it most. why cannot everyone agree on that? >> because the democrats are blocking it. nancy pelosi is driving the party making the decisions for party and said no. this seems to be a no-brainer. in these very unusual times, the democrats are playing politics as usual. we need to get relief to the american people. this is the way to do it, through small businesses because they employ so many people across the country. we want the paychecks to keep going out through the small businesses, people stay tied to their jobs. you would have thought this would have passed unanimously because with the original bill, passed the senate 96 to nothing, all we've said is it's time to refill this part of the program that's been so popular, so successful, and right now is running out of money, w

is wyoming senator john morassio, the third ranking republican in the senate and medical doctor and joining us now from the great state of wyoming. thank you very much, dr. barrasso and senator barrasso. let's talk about, we know there are millions and millions of americans. we will talk about 17 million americans unemployed in the last three weeks. that's probably underreported. people who can get through the bureaucracy to file unemployment for jobless claims. at this point what can the senate do? we know there is a stalemate. democrats want more. they want a different allocation for these 250 million or whatever's going to be in this next unanimous agreement. there is no agreement now. are there any talks under way with the democrats? >> oh, there are talks that continue. i think we have to make sure this phase three works. when you take a look at it, you say what has worked the best? it's these loans to small businesses so people can stay on the payroll. they can keep getting paid. it's worked so well that we're exhausting and we hit almost a limit of how much is available for the program. so our goal was to just raise that, up that number from the $350 billi