unemployment skyrocketed to 14.7 percent up from 4.4 percent in march our white house correspondent kelly halkett says the numbers were expected but not welcome the u.s. president reacting.

monitoring board the other arms of the continuing let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly halkett so any reaction from the president on this drug that his tell to a successful. and the u.s. president has been out and about in the united states honoring those who died serving their country it's part of a memorial day tradition as he returned to the white house reporters tried to ask him but he simply didn't have an answer but there's no question that this is a drug hydroxy clark when the u.s. president has been a major proponent for weeks even taking it for himself he has just wrapped up a 2 week course of the drug he told reporters or last week that he was taking it and said he just wrapped it up as of yesterday this is something he said he did in consultation with the white house physician after there was an outbreak of covert 900 here in the white house campus not only did the vice president's press secretary test positive but also the u.s. president's personal valet and well this is controversial it caused quite a firestorm in the united states when the u.s. president said he w

unemployment skyrocketed to 14.7 percent up from 4.4 percent in march our white house correspondent kelly halkett says the numbers were expected but not welcome. the u.s. president reacting to them in just the last half hour speaking to reporters talking about these numbers and once again time trying to project optimism calling the shutdown that resulted in the loss of these jobs as a sensually being artificial in other words that this is not a bad economy is what he's saying the only reason these jobs have been lost is because it was this something that was necessary in order to save lives the stay at home orders that resulted in so many businesses being shattered now the president seems optimistic that later a light switch you can just turn things back owen but that's not what his own public health officials are saying in fact just the opposite as well as business experts because well many argue including from this administration that these job losses are temporary others believe that it will be some time in order that there is a need for this recovery and this economic recovery in other words