coming up in just a few moments, starwood capital group ceo and chairman barry sternlick my special guestjoining me to talk about the reopening ott american economy. and later on, eric edwards joins me to talk about bringing drug manufacturing back to the united states, taking the supply chains out of china. but first, americans are slowly getting back to work as all 50 states are now open in some capacity, some states requiring that visitors and residents who are returning from other states self-quarantine before they actually enter that state. joining me now to talk about the reopening of america and the real and permanent changes to the country that we can expect is the chairman and ceo of the starwood capital group, barry, always a pleasure to see you. thanks for joining us this weekend. >> great to be with you. maria: so now we've got all 50 states open in some capacity. i know you were out and about this weekend. what can you tell us? assess this first week of the reopening. how do you see it? >> you know, i was on tv march 13th, and i was fairly bullish on the speed of the recovery

coming up in just a few moments, starwood capital group ceo and chairman barry sternlick my special guest about the reopening ott american economy. and later on, eric edwards joins me to talk about bringing drug manufacturing back to the united states, taking the supply chains out of china. but first, americans are slowly getting back to work as all

states to self-quarantine before they come in, joining knee right now the chairman ceo of starwood capital groupank so much for joining me, tell me how you see things what is increased travel mean to businesses across the u.s. how would you characterize reopening across the country barry. >> good morning, maria. i think you know, i was fairly bullish on recovery i thought we would have a cure faster than people thought i think markets are convinced that is going to happen one way or the other ten activevenes human trials critical to travel industry it is the question of a slope from here to there when we have a vaccine people feel comfortable get back on planes international travel allowed again until then we are not going to have -- we are having very uneasing recovery in travel market what you are seeing amazingly, everybody locked up in wherever they were wants going on vacation don't have to be in offices can work from anguila or colorado, in mountains aspen, so this is going to be a really strange summer because we are opening offices but not mandating people come to the office only about 2