the mayor, steven benjamin is at odds with the governor, henry mcmaster.he mayor supported a city wide curfew and pushing for stronger stay-at-home orders. the governor wants to start opening businesses by next month. mcmaster announced a task force that will get the economy, in his words, humming by the end of june. south carolina has more than 4,000 confirmed cases and rising as well as 116 deaths. joining us now is the mayor of columbia, south carolina, steven benjamin. welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk about the governor's plan to get everyone back to work. wants to open some businesses in may, all others in june. what will that take to make it happen? >> it's important we don't get stuck around dates, the president did it several times, talked about easter and different dates. we need to follow data, not dates. south carolina has yet to peak. may 1st is when we're expected to peak. we started slow in south carolina, like a number of southern states did. as a result we had significant infections, 4,000 cases, over 100 pr

his story is told in the book "rush" by author steven fried. >> benjamin rush was, first of all, sortnding father that people haven't found yet. this is the good doctor rush. >> reporter: author steven fried thinks it's high time america did. >> he had very quietly helped write the proclamation that set off the boston tea party. he had written one of the first majorwr within two years of the continental congress coming to philadelphia, he was in the continental congress. he was signing the declaration of independence at the age of 30. >> reporter: fried spent fivers writing the biography on ben jam inrush. >> this is benjamin rush's handwritten autobiography. at his disposal, rush's own autobiography and diaries housed at the american philosophical society in philadelphia. curated by charles gripenstein. >> about the year 1774, a certain thomas pane arrived in philadelphia. this is rush beginning to tell the story of how he met thomas pane, a local writer. they talked about write being independence which rush considered to be a very dangerous thing to even write the word independence.