. >> kaylee mcenany. again, no one suggesting every single american has to be tested in order to reopen. that's sort of a false premise. but i am wondering what is your perspective on testing? you spoke about the need for more testing today at the hearing. >> that's right. last week, the united states ran about 1.6 million tests, which is a huge improvement over what we saw in march, and even in early april. but it's still not to the level that many spertexperts recommen. recommendations start at 3.5 million tests per week and go up from there so there is a gap to close. and i think our first priority should be putting together a plan, and identifying how we will get from here to there. i think understanding what the timeline is and what our expected future capacities will be is really important for helping to guide our next moves. and so that's one of the recommendations i made at the hearing today. >> sanjay, i mean, is the federal government still, you know, are they still doing anything about -- i mea

. >> reporter: yes, before kaylee mcenany became president trump's most prominent and modest defendersly on our network a couple of times, she criticized him pretty harshly, saying he had made hateful derogatory racist statements when he launched his campaign with those comments about mexican, he made about the first campaign rally. at times, she says he didn't deserve to be polling so high and said this was not welcome rhetoric in the party. let's take a listen to one of those statements from her. >> how sick are polls of people in new hampshire right now? >> probably very sick especially when they see donald trump is number two and doesn't deserve to be there. donald trump has shown himself to be a showman, i don't think he's a serious candidate. >> kaylee, this is your guy, he's number two in the polls. >> hey, i don't want to poll for this guy. to me a racist statement is a racist statement. i don't like what donald trump said. i don't like what al sharpton said. at one point does it expire and be something that it's not? >> yes, so all those comments came in june of 2015. she woul

the mixed signals coming from the white house on the coronavirus, white house pretty secretary kaylee mcenany tweeted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19, that came one day after dr. anthony fauci said the drug is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus. as for the president's war with twitter, mr. trump just said a few moments ago he would shut down the social media platform if he could do so legally. obviously, he can't do that. and, wolf, he also said he's not about to delete his twitter account. getting back to the coronavirus task force, the one thing we should point out, the task force did hold a meeting and white house officials said that task force is not going anywhere. when you talk to administration forces, they say this task force is much less invisible and much less busy, just not as active as it once was. wolf. >> they're certainly not doing daily briefings for the news media and the american public. thank you very much. >>> let's get some more, joining us our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta, and dana bash. cases of this virus are clearly rising across