but you, mr. trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership.o ultimately, you did not blame lil' jon or meatloaf. [laughter] you fired gary busey. [laughter] and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. [laughter and applause] well handled, sir. [laughter] well handled. pres. obama: say what you will about mr. trump, he certainly would bring some change to the white house. let's see what we have got up there. [laughter] pres. obama: so, yes, this has been quite a year in politics, but also in the movies. many people, for instance, were inspired by the king's speech. it's a wonderful film. [applause] well, some of you may not know this, but there's now a sequel in the works that touches close to home. and because this is a hollywood crowd, tonight i can offer a sneak peek. so can we show the trailer, please? washe following preview begrudgingly approved follow audiences by the president of the united states. [video] is rated u-unwatchable. the air is 2011, and opposition rises. >> congressional republicans could force the

nationwide, the us has recorded at least 570,000 cases and 23,000 deaths so far, but mr trump says thee in american cases has begun to flatten out. more on that in a moment. first, some other major international developments. president emmanuel macron has extended the lockdown in france for another four weeks. measures will now remain in place until at least 11 may. in the uk the government has revealed that virus outbreaks have been detected in more than 2,000 care homes, including 92 outbreaks in the past 2a hours alone. in spain, the lockdown has begun to ease. people in construction, manufacturing and some services have returned to work, as the number of new daily deaths continues to fall. in the us, the senior health expert, dr anthony fauci, has now said president trump did listen to his advice when he recommended mitigation efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. dr fauci had said in a separate interview that lives could have been saved if the country had shutdown sooner. after that appearance, trump retweeted a comment urging that fauci be fired. the first and only time

those congressional quarterly's of power well the issue is how serious charges to launch 'd against mr trump the calculation was a purely political one by the house speaker pelosi trying to save the seats of the half dozen or dozen democrats who won districts that otherwise voted for trump and there was no principle to the standards or the decision making whatsoever but also when we confronted big headwinds was precisely when we started to focus on charges that democrats and republicans were complicit in flouting the declare war clause flouting the oversight power flouting the treaty authority flouting the appointments clause flouting the appropriations clause all those kinds of things nancy pelosi yourself was complicit in some of those for example saying nothing when mr obama went to war with libya on his own expanded the war in syria on his own did what was really should have been a treaty with iran to constrain their nuclear ambitions without a treaty but just an executive agreement. which i would treat as was supposed to be approved by the congress exactly by the orders there is what is

january 30 one, mr. trumprdered travel restrictions barring foreign nationals who'd recently been in china for mentoring the united states. third, arch 11, mr. trump suspended travel from foreign nationals who had been in european nations. is that i've 16, stretch public resources, the president issued the 15 days to slow the spread. for many weeks he pushed for the innovative use of therapies to fight the virus. sixth, mr. trump announced the cdc would issue guidelines recommending americans use cloth masks. seventh, since the extent of the danger became apparent, mr. trump at his tina contracted with more than 10 ventilator -- team have contracted with more than 10 ventilator suppliers to fight production. guest: i think there are couple of things missing from that. testing is such a key component of this. the fact the u.s. was caught flat-footed on the testing front and made that crucial decision is a decision that will be looked at with some criticism. no question about that. the other factor here is the o

olivia, just on mr trump saying believe that or not.rtrump saying on believe that or not. olivia, just on mr trump saying on monday or tuesday saying that he would overrule the governors because he could, constitutionally i don't think that's possible. he's on a complete reversal on that one, saying in the last few hours that it is actually up last few hours that it is actually up to the governors to decide that. he tends to be picking the good aspects about how the country has been doing this and claiming it for himself, but when it comes to a sort of edge equipment, he blames the governors. it will be interesting to see what he says in a few minutes' time, given what he said about the who and everything else. let's move on to the new york times, because the crisis for hollywood accelerated here. i mean, forso the crisis for hollywood accelerated here. i mean, for so many industries this is the worst possible news. but evenif this is the worst possible news. but even if movie theatres were to be reopened, social distancing measures wou

a conciliatory tone from mr trump, praising not just republican but democratic governors, including andrewone of the themes of this briefing. and of course andrew cuomo, he has sparred with trump during this current virus outbreak, but they have also agreed on a lot, with mr trump quite right in saying that the governor had praised him, especially as far as it goes to testing. and testing was really the dominant subject. there has been some criticism around the country regarding the slow process of getting testing kits out to the regions that need them. the message today was that every single state has enough testing facilities, one of the medical advisers described as a mosaic of different laboratories, different places where people could go to around the country to be tested for coronavirus. according to the vice president, enough for every state to move to the first phase of the federal government's plan to reopen the country. now there was a caveat to that — that doesn't mean that every single person in the country can be tested, those coronavirus country can be tested, those coro navi

people infected with the current virus should be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant mr trump made the remarks during a white house press briefing following a presentation by a government official suggesting heat and sunlight could weaken the virus. on its listen to mr trump himself now supposing we hit somebody with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light. and i think you said that has him a check that you going to test it and then i said supposing you brought the lady inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way and i think you said you're going to test that so i was interested right in that i see the disinfectant but not sure that in a minute when that is their way we can do something. by injection. or almost a cleaning mistress ideas would dismissed immediately by doctors present at that briefing now for more on mr trump's latest current recommendations i'm joined by john campbell he's a medical doctor who also works as an independent health and inist welcome to to the program what do you make of the u.s.

but mr trump says the rise in american cases has begun to flatten out. more on that in a moment.irst, some other major international developments. president emmanuel macron has extended the lockdown in france for another four weeks. measures will now remain in place until at least may the 11th. in the uk the government has revealed that virus outbreaks have been detected in more than 2,000 care homes, that includes 92 outbreaks in the last 2a hours alone. and in spain, the lockdown has begun to ease. people in construction, manufacturing and some services have returned to work, as the number of new daily deaths continues to fall. in the us, the senior heath expert dr anthony fauci has now said president trump did listen to his advice when he recommended mitigation efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. dr fauci had said in a separate interview that lives could have been saved if the country had shut down sooner. the first and only time that doctor birks and i went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a shutdown in the sense of really hav

mr trump was speaking outside the white house in his first briefing since friday.try will lift some restritions from next monday. parks, manufacturing and construction businesses will be the first to reopen. people will also be allowed to exercise outdoors. restaurants will be able to serve takeaways. dine—in services will be allowed injune.

said the talks focused on assessing the progress made fighting covering 19 but mr trump claims he was able to get g 7 leaders to agree to a thorough review and reform of the world health organization. well t w our correspondent alex hunter from naaman joins us from washington welcome alexandra this sounds like an extraordinary statement from the white house. well yes indeed and according to this white house statement much of the conversation during this g 7 conference was focused off their lack of transparency and a chronic mismanagement of the pandemic by the w.h.o. and all leaders according to what the white house is saying agreed to that to deserve anything. that reform is needed however we also know that not all the g 7 leaders are as skeptical of the w.h.o. as presidents trump himself and we are also getting a bit of contradictory information from the german government and the spokesperson of the german chancellor. merkel who stressed during this conversation today that international organizations such as the w.h.o. are very important to come with this pandemic and i have to say

david, despite what mr trump said and of course uncomfortable with mr trump standing next term, the directorthe centers for disease control and prevention standing by what he was saying? absolutely. and the washington post had got it correct, he was saying. although mr redfield did take issue with the headline. president trump then stepped up to say that this projection of possible occurrence of the coronavirus and the winter flu season was the worst case scenario and said the coronavirus might not come back. of the medical experts have remained convinced that it probably will. as far as the cdc director, robert redfield, is concerned and his approach to that article in the washington post, he cannot have been too displeased with it at the time, my, because he retweeted the very same article. many people have in mind of the statistic regarding the 1918 spanish lucy's and killing 25 times as many people as it did in its first wave —— spanish flu season. the president does not have medical experience and his background and this is politically inconvenient? is someone who wa nts inconvenient? i

later, though, mr. trump told reporters he was unhappy with the decision, and on twitter today, he said businesses shou"" take a little slower path" to

mr. trump made the suggestion. he is not being sarcastic. >> and i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or in some other way. and i think you said that you will test that too. sounds interesting. and then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning. you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. so it would be interesting to check that. you have to use medical doctors, but sounds interesting. >> reporter: and the president was still trying to justify his comments. >> i do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. >> reporter: the president was reminded that he was looking at dr. birx as he made the remarks. >> i was looking at the doctor, i was looking at some of the reporters. >> reporter: even one of mr. trump's own advisers told cnn i wanted to hide, it was a tough moment to watch. d

the troubled with ration in the beginning mr trump and the president had no bad word to say about china now that has obviously changed and he's blaming china for letting this go out of hand and with this he transitions into it is the virus which destroyed his economy the economy the u.s. economy he had built which was so wonderful and which is now of course not that wonderful anymore as we are counting now 26000000 people without work now this was the 1st briefing mr trump has held since last week's disinfectant comments did the president do much to shake off the controversy. well i think no he didn't he's doing his best to ignore it he clearly caused it and as you remember he tried to peddle back a day after claiming that he just made sarcastic comments and that it was more or less jokingly what he had said that people should consider ingesting or injecting disinfectants inside their bodies to clean their lungs all ultraviolet lights of course the experts came out to say well please don't do this if the companies who produce this came out to say please don't do this because it will kil

trump has instructed his administration to hold funding for the wall of household and isolation mr trump say's the w.h.o. failed in its early response to the coronavirus the us president who has himself come under fire for his had been off the pandemic say that the w.h.o. should have done a better job off and. initial reports in china human secretary general antonio terrace responded saying that now was not the time to end support for the death he said it was absolutely critical to the global efforts to combat cliff at 19. the w.h.o. failed in its basic jussi to save lives those are the words of president trump a c.n.n. outs to freeze on funding for the u.n. agency today i'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the world health organization while a review is conducted as the organization's leading sponsor the united states has a duty to insist on full accountability well trump has repeatedly criticized the w.h.o. throughout the pandemic this time claiming its bias towards china is responsible for the virus his rapid spread to other parts of the world you had the w.h.o. done i

the trump administration in the beginning mr trump and the president had no 'd bad word to say about china now that has obviously changed and he's blaming china for letting this go out of hand and with this he transitions into it is the virus which destroyed his economy the economy the u.s. economy he had built which was 'd so wonderful and which is now of course not that wonderful anymore as we are counting now 26000000 people without work now this was the 1st briefing mr trump has held since last week's to subjecting disinfectants inside their bodies to clean their lungs all ultra violent lights of course the experts came out to say well please don't do this if the companies who produce this came out to say don't do this because it will kill you you cannot ingest anything disinfectant clorox still missed us a license or whatever the products are and now what is the president doing his ignoring any other and further questions he said today he will not be held responsible for a up search in calls to the poison center sea in the united states over the weekend and the days before peopl

earlier, mr trump retweeted a comment that called for dr fauci to be fired.ence of his administration's coronavirus mitigation strategy. play more on the website. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @bbcmaryam. it's been a pleasure to have your company. bye—bye. hello there. we saw a big cooldown in the weather over the easter period. sunday, the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures up to 25 degrees celsius. that's more than hot enough to melt some of those chocolate easter eggs. by monday, though, temperatures certainly dropped away significantly for many of us. top of the drops, manston in kent, with things 15 degrees celsius cooler on monday. now, temperatures will be picking up over the next few days, but that said, tuesday morning starting on a cold note for quite a few of us, with some patches of frost developing where the skies stay clear for any length of time. and that said, across parts of eastern england and also the south, there's probably going to be a bit too much in the way of breeze and/or cloud to see much in the way of frost. high p

mr trump was speaking outside the white house in his first briefing since friday.fficials to adopt tough new measure as criminal gangs seek to take advantage of the pandemic. more than 50 people have been killed in three days of violence in the tiny central american country. nearly half of the deaths were reported on friday. as we heard, borisjohnson urged people not

corona virus should be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant mr trump made the remarks during a white house press briefing following a presentation by a government official suggesting heat and sunlight could weaken the virus strums ideas were dismissed immediately by doxes present at the briefing. donald trump's claims left health experts beach listeria and the president's own advisers scrambling to undo any potential damage before it's too late which if they're in the white house press briefing trump suggests that disinfectant injections and u.v. light could be used to treat patients infected with the coronavirus this is. supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light. and i think you said that has him a check that you can attest to and then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way and i think you said you can attest to so i was interesting to are able to put right in that i see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute one minute and

is in reality it does help russia on the other hand because you know you know the united states mr trump he tried to put sanction against against russia and nord stream and now they. gave a gift in and a sense to the restaurant because in a way this will eliminate some of the competition in direct plea for or for the russian by having a probably further investment in the shale gas in the united states if it's going to be a very impossible to continue as mr trump tried to do today i think amplification is going to be tough for the sudanese they're going to face the bleeding of their financial resources there are there. down meant it's going to be depleted gradually that's what what we will see those $500000000000.00 actually they cannot be at least is going to be affected by this downturn in oil prices and i think it's going to be a lot of anger in the in the in the united states the situation is very bleak for him personally because that gamble at this point a doesn't help him it doesn't help his reputation it doesn't help aramco stocks and it doesn't help that international economy in t

. >> reporter: the president's doctors have been differing with mr. trump all week. on testing -- >> i'm not overly confident right now at all, but we're not in a situation where we say we're exact 4ri whely where we be. >> reporter: and on a second wave of the virus -- >> may not even have corona coming back. >> there will be coronavirus in the fall. >> reporter: and on whether the doctors are being misquoted. >> he was misquoted, totally misquoted. >> i'm accurately quoted in the "washington post" as difficult. but the headline -- >> this comes as the debate intensifies on when and how the states should open. for more about that, i'm joined by dr. peter dryback at the university of october forward. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's take what president trump said and all of that brouhaha and leave it there and move on with the science, okay? >> sounds good. >> so here in the state of georgia, the governor has cleared the way for some businesses to reopen. they did so friday. but here we go again, and it always comes back to testing. without wide sbrspre

mr. trump also criticized the w.h.o. for not supporting his travel ban, people coming from china. >> they said there's no big deal, no problem, no nothing. ultimately when i closed it down they actually said i made a mistake in closing it down, and it turned out to be right. >> reporter: a cnn fact check found that although trump is correct that the w.h.o. didn't support his travel restrictions with china, the w.h.o. opposes most international travel restrictions and sees them as ineffe ineffectual. he's calling on u.s. and china to cooperate. >> the united states and china should come together and fight this dangerous enemy. they should coming together to fight it. >> reporter: mr. trump also repeatedly said the w.h.o. had been china centric. the director general said they don't play favorites. >> if you look back over the years even, they're very much -- everything seems to be very biased towards china. that's not right. >> we're close to every nation. we're colorblind. we're blind. we don't see. for us weak and strong

president of the united states because it's going to backfire not on em it's going to backfire on mr trump himself because he had built his his reputation as he's going to make the us independent in terms of oil and gas and today there is screaming in the united states from all these oil oil company who is actually the most of the there are stocks in the red some of them is down 50 percent some of them down 70 and 80 percent and some of them have really in that basically they're going to go into bankruptcy protection saw i think they probably somebody from those oil lobby they wanted to mamak been some man had because they but a mental business of this is a in reality it does help russia on the other hand because you know you know the united states mr trump he tried to put sanction against against russia and nord stream and now they. gave a gift in and a sense to the restaurant because in a way this will eliminate some of the competition in direct plea for or for the russian by having a probably further investment in the shale gas in the united states if it's going to be a very impossible

. >> mr. trump also insisted that as president he has the ultimate authority to re-open the country, but governors in these ten states disagree with that assertion. they are now discussing plans to restore the economy and lift travel restrictions without the president's help. caitlyn collins has more now on president trump's contentious and often misleading white house briefing monday. >> reporter: yeah, it was a really extraordinary briefing in the white house. when the president came out he played this campaign style video of media clips where he said they were downplaying the virus after he sought to defend his response after "the new york times" showed how slow he was to respond and how he resisted calls from senior officials to take more aggressive measures sooner. the president denied that report but not specifically anything included in the report, including about how his hhs secretary came to him in january warning of a possible pandemic but instead the president focused on others' response

at the daily white house briefing, mr trump said there were signs that the virus had passed its peak.round the country, demonstrators have been demanding an end to the stay at home orders. professor bhramar mukherjee, professor of global health and epidemiology at the university of michigan, said the us would have to be careful as it eased the lockdown. i want to filter out the political biases and agenda from the scientific conversation. so what i am interested in is working with my colleagues in economics and policy to come back with an optimal route to get back to normal. the fact is, we just have slowed down in our case counts, we have not turned the corner in many places and there are new peaks coming up, so it would be quite short—sighted to open in a hasty way and really undo the social distancing work that all of us have done together. humans are finally, ultimately, beating the dire model projections, so we have to be really careful as we reopen. i think we have to go through a step of stabilisation, and then reactivate the workforce. that's my own opinion. it's not a questio

mr. trump's single best advantage as an incumbent. phil rucker joins us, vin gupta and former top state department official steve. ph phil, friday, take us through everything that has transpired since that statement on the part of this president that will go down as sort as significant as good people on both sides in charlottesville, grabbing women in the bleep, his suggestion that people might inject dis disinfectant to clean their lungs. >> politically damaging that moment was for the president, look at how it's taken on three full days for the administration to come up with an explanation for what happened. at first, the white house accused media outlets of misrepresenting the president's comments even though they were plain to the naked eye on videotape. then the president claimed he was trying to be sarcastic, but no trace of sarcasm in the exchange. and then we heard from dr. birx over the weekend say this is just how the president likes to have these discussions out loud. he was talking to the department of home land security o

earlier, mr trump mounted pressure on state governors to reopen their economies, following the publicationral 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 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 — are accusing donald trump of failing to provide the necessary support. let's speak to our north america correspondent david willis. those tweets sounded like something more that che guevara would say more than the president of the united states. what did he mean by that and what has been the reaction? the reaction has been particularly swift, especially from democratic governors who have accused him of goading the protesters in those states. a white house press briefing is still ongoing, i might add, and this after a day which has seen some pretty tes

at a white house briefing, mr trump insisted he had pursued an aggressive strategy to contain the pandemic cases and deaths than any other country, as peter bowes reports. it started with some welcome news — president trump said america was making critical progress in its war against coronavirus. over the weekend, the number of daily new infections remained flat. nationwide, flat. hospitalisations are slowing in hotspots like new york, newjersey, michigan and louisiana. this is clear evidence that our aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working. but mr trump has been strongly criticised by us media for not having a strategy to combat the virus during the first few weeks of the outbreak in the us. in a tv interview over the weekend, one of his senior medical advisers said earlier mitigation efforts to slow the spread of the virus could have saved more lives. anthony fauci took to the podium to explain that he'd been answering a hypothetical question and he did not mean to imply that mistakes had been made. he said the president always took his advice. are you doing this voluntarily,

mr trump said his vice president will call governors on monday to discuss ways of responding.so said he was prepared to use the defence production act to get medical swabs produced at a facility. that's an important act because that gives the president the power to compel production at any facility and it a law that certainly a lot of people in america have been calling on president trump to use. it looked like he is prepared to use that law in that particular area to get swabs stop because —— get swabs. because there have been a shortage of swabs to carry out tests. he says 4 million tests have been carried out was that he also said there would be guidelines to resume elective surgeries in hospitals and that was essentially the president trying to look forward to a time when americans might enjoy fewer restrictions. he also, interestingly, gave some praise and appreciation for the governor of california, gavin newsom, who is of course a democrat. governor newsome has not i was had the most harmonious relationship with president trump but those were rare words of praise for th

is needed now more than ever, but mr. trumpsing the organization of severely mismanaging the pandemic. >> had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death, very little death, and certainly, very little death by comparison. >> as mr. trump tries to deflect blame onto the w.h.o., the trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic is coming under increased scrutiny. cnn's sara murray takes a look at the mistakes made by the trump administration in tackling the pandemic. >> we think we have it very well under control. >> reporter: in the month since president trump assured workers at a detroit area factory that his administration had a handle on the coronavirus -- >> we think it's going to have a very good ending for us. >> reporter: -- a handful of the factory workers have fallen ill with covid-19. the plant ceased production, laying of

and his actions so we criticism of mr trump and his actions so we came criticism of mr trump and hiss c0 nfe re nce actions so we came out now and the press conference and said i may be the words i chose one of the best words but basically there was a lot of talk about medical experts about the pros and cons of a strip social distancing but the first time i am my counterpart went to president trump with a formal request, he said yes, that was a 15 days of distancing. and then the second time we went with a formal request, that was the 30 days of a shutdown order and again he said yes. so doctor fauci came out and basically sort of defended donald trump and said his comments have been taken out of context comments have been taken out of co ntext a nd comments have been taken out of context and after that president trump really has used that to kind of justify his own trump really has used that to kind ofjustify his own actions. he has shown video clips of people praising him and of course taking out the clips of those people who also criticised him and saying that he done a job that w

mr trump said they were making progress against coronavirus.the weekend the number of new infections remained flat, nationwide flat. hospitalisations are flowing and hot spots like michigan and louisiana, this is evidence the strategy to combat the virus is working. mr trump has been strongly criticised by us media for not having a strategy to combat the virus during the first few weeks of the outbreak in the us. in a tv interview over the weekend one of his senior medical advisers said early mitigation efforts to slow the spread of the virus could have saved more lives. anthony fauci took to the floor to say he was answering a hypothetical question and did not mean to imply that mistakes had been made. he said the president always took his advice. were you doing this voluntarily? everything i do is volu nta ry, voluntarily? everything i do is voluntary, please. don't even imply that. mr trump said he had no intention of firing dr fauci because they were on the same page since the beginning. instead the president turned on the media, lashing ou

mr. president. pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you, mr. president. pres. trump: thank you, mr. president. ok, please. thanks, thanks. ok, yes? [question inaudible] pres. trump: it is moving now. >> it will go to the house on friday for the same approval process. addition tod be in a separate round of direct payment? sec. mnuchin: that would be a separate issue. we will come back on that issue. right now we are focused on execution and making sure small businesses have all the money they need. pres. trump: they are looking at the unanimous vote, and that is something. they were talking about negotiating a phase 4. we will see how that works out. we will have a news conference in a couple of minutes, so we will do that, ok? we will talk about it at the press conference, ok? i would like you to focus on this because this has been a tremendous success. what we are going to do is have 5:00,s conference at 5:15, and we will talk about that. [question inaudible] there are a lot of new users coming onto the system, so we will get everybody approved. thank you, everybody. pres. trump: we

does that correspond with what mr. trumpdon't say that, but i will tell you that more and more we are hearing the story. >> there is an institute of virology just a half-mile away from where the wet market was. the united states government is working diligently to figurebu this out we really need the chinese government to open up. ros:e h a picture of the lab in question from a government website. >> according to the institutes website, its subjects of study it also houses a lab fors.s. viru they also have developed different super labs around the world that study the most dangerous viruses. it is worth mentioning that such allegations are not unique. in february, there w a story trending on social media that the first covid-19 patient was a researcher working at the lab, but the institute quickly denounced that rumor and said the researcher had left the lab yes ago, and no one working there was infected with covid-19. ros: well, today we heard this from the chinese government. i>>ould like to remind you that who officials h

. >> mr. trump leaves the decision but not money to governors. >> you're going to say i'm providing no help. no assistance, no financial money. >> and offers only limited plans for increased testing. >> today, we have sufficient amount of testing to meet the requirements of a phase-one reopening. >> but health care proeflgs are deeply skeptical. >> i don't understand why they would even consider it. not until we're in the clear. >> this as the president encourages anti-shutdown protests. >> i don't think that the government really has any business telling us what we can and cannot do. >> plus, the economy in fr freefall. 22 million file for unemployment in one month. >> the average working family is only comweeks away from not being able to pay bills. >> why some americans are faring so much worse than others. ply guests this morning, vice president mike pence and two governors, republican mike dewine of ohio, and democrat gretchen whitmer of michigan. >> also, joe biden's big week. three key endors

another federal agency is now warning about two drugs often touted by mr. trump as potential coronavirus treatments. the fda now says they can result in serious side effects and possibly even death. meanwhile, georgia and oklahoma are allowing some businesses to reopen. starting today, even as the number of cases continues to rise. i'll speak to the mayor of atlanta in just a few moments. first let's get straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is standing by. jim, the president has repeatedly trying to downplay some of his most outrageous statements by claiming he was simply joking or being sarcastic. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and as you just mentioned, the centers for disease control posted a tweet today contradicting the president's suggestion that people could inject themselves with disinfectants, warning americans in a tweet from the cdc that household cleaners and disinfectants can cause health problems when not used properly, that warning from the cdc. president trump is doing some damage control after suggesting t

but in this tweet -- take a look -- from january, mr. trumpas actually thanking china for its transparency, saying, "it will all work out well." here's what he's saying now when asked about those comments. >> you were criticizing the w.h.o. for praising china for being transparent, but you also praised china for being transparent -- >> i don't talk about china's transparency. >> in january -- >> well, you know, if i'm so good to china, how come i was the only person, the only leader of a country that closed our borders tightly against china? >> and after just one day after claiming total authority to reopen the country, mr. trump then backed off that comment, acknowledging that it would be up to the governors to make the call about lifting their own restrictions. >> the plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized, and we will soon be sharing details and new guidelines with everybody. i will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly, and i will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a

president trump said mr redfield was totally ‘misquoted'.hat we just went through, we had the benefit of having the flu season ending. so we could use all of our flu surveillance systems to say that this is the coronavirus and that we need to focus. the next fall and winter we could have two viruses circulating and will have to distinguish which is the flu and which is the coronavirus. so the comment that i made is it's more difficult, does not meet its way to be more impossible, it does not mean that it's going to be, as some people have said, worse, it'sjust going to be more difficult to distinguish between the two and wanting to do it again here is to appeal to the american public to recognize they can really help like they did with mitigation, which they really helped, i need them to help not best prepare us by getting the flu vaccine in taking the flu out of the picture. let's speak to our north america correspondent david willis. the president was livid about the fake news is he put it. the listening to what doctor redfield said, it di

mr. trumpvernors. >> you're going to say i'm providing no help. no assistance, no financial money. >> and offers only limited plans for increased testing. >> today, we have sufficient amount of testing to meet the requirements of a phase-one reopening. >> but health care professionals are deeply skeptical. >> i don't understand why they would even consider it. not until we're in the clear. >> this as the president encourages anti-shutdown protests. >> i don't think that the government really has any business telling us what we can and cannot do. >> plus, the economy in freefall. 22 million file for unemployment in one month. >> the average working family is only a couple weeks away from not being able to pay bills. >> why some americans are faring so much worse than others. my guests this morning, vice president mike pence and two governors, republican mike dewine of ohio, and democrat gretchen whitmer of michigan. >>> also, joe biden's big week. three key endorsements. >> i'm so proud to endor