that is what the trump white house said. let's find out more from our correspondent in washington. >> that was an externally state to come out of the trump white house. >> according to the statement, all leaders of the g7 agree there is a need for reforms and the white house continues to say that much of the conversation during this conference was focused on the lack of transparency and mismanagement of the pandemic. however, we have to say it is not quite clear how widespread this criticism was because we know not all g7 leaders have been a google and we got a quite different statement. the spokesperson said the chancellor expressed her support, stressing that such organizations are very important to combating the pandemic and i also have to say that having covered president trump for three years, it is not unusual to get a statement from the white house that is quite different than other statements issued by other participants of such meetings. >> true, but shocking. we know that the u.s. president spent the past week criti

that is what the trump white house said as find out more now from our correspondent in washington alexander phenomenons good evening to you alexander and that was quite an extraordinary statement to come out of the trump white house is it the total truth . well according to this statement on leaders of the g 7 agreed that there is need for reforms and the white house continues to say that much of the conversation during this g 7 conference was focused on the lack of transparency transparency and running mismanagement of the by the w.h.o. however we have to say it's not quite clear right now how widespread this criticism was because we know that not all the 7 leaders have been so critical of the organization and we go to quite a different statement from the german government and governments to spokesperson for the german chancellor said that the chancellor expressed her support for the agency stressing that such organizations are very important to combat the pandemic and they also have to set that to set to say that having covered president trump for 3 years now it's not very on a usual to g

so the idea that the trump white house did not know how bad this could get, when people like peter navarro, not to mention alex azar and tony fauci and others within the government were shouting that internally, it is simply not plausible at all. >> and just the resulting fallout we have seen, john harwood, i appreciate that reporting, thanks very much. let's talk about the british prime minister, boris johnson is in stable condition but remains in the intensive care unit at a hospital in london after his symptoms suddenly and rapidly worsened overnight. >> yeah, listen, it is a reminder that everyone is potentially at risk from this. clarissa ward joins us now live from london. do we know more about the prime minister's condition right now because there have been real questions about how widely information has been shared by the british government including with members of his own cabinet. >> that's right. you heard from michael gove, one

that is followed by president trump's white house coronavirus task force briefing. after that, new york governor andrew cuomo speaks in new york city. then, florida governor ron desantis holds his briefing in tallahassee. on friday, the house of representatives considered a coronavirus economic relief package. the $2 trillion bill passed unanimously. the global pandemic kept many members away from the house floor, including a significant number who stayed in their home districts. representatives participated in the debate. in light of the unusual circumstances, c-span offered any member of congress who wasn't able to speak on the house floor to provide us with a video statement on their views. to this date we have not received any videos from republican members. over the next 90 minutes, we will hear from 33 democrats who have submitted videos. up, california representatives barbara lee and mike thompson. then, dean phillips of minnesota, and marc veasey of texas. lee: i'mative congresswoman barbara lee. i am proud to support the coronavirus relief and economic secur

host: let me become -- begin with the mackics inside the trump white house.his is a global pandemic so how does all of in come together within the administration? guest: that's a really great question and i think one of the most rewarding things i did during during my time in the trump administration was working in the crisis center in h.s.a. there's a center where all the elements come together. it was during the time period we had three hurricanes back to back and there are some really, really tremendous professionals there who behind the scenes are working around the clock for the american people right now. my heart has gone out to them through this whole process because i know what that's like to see hose -- those tremendous professionals working all day, all night. literally they'll be working all night. i know it's been a sobering time. this is an unprecedented crisis in our country. i'm a little bit more optimistic than dr. wen in terms of how i see the trajectory moving forward. it's not going to be easy. these are sobering times for all of us but the

. >>> and fox news fingerprints are all over the trump white house's reaction to the crisis. i will show you how to spot the fingerprints and interview with the "new york times" reporter who was diagnosed with covid-19 and now recovered. >>> first, leadership in crisis. this week president trump was praised for his term. he sobberly told the country that the great shut down of 2020 is necessary because covid-19 could claim the lives of 2.2 million americans otherwise. so let's take quick look at what else he said and did this week. as we consider his tone. he celebrated the tv ratings for his briefings. he bragged about his popularity on facebook. he hyped up a drug despite concern about it from the government's top doctors. that was at saturday's briefing. you know, it's happened in the briefings here. they've been taking up more and more time and trump has been taking up more and more time than the task force's medical experts have been. he's getting lots of facts wrong. one day he said airplane and train travelers are being given strong tests for the virus before departure

hutchinson in arkansas, make parson in missouri, who would do something in their states if the trump white house told them to. but the trump white house cannot get it together to do that. so behold these confused and denialist and delayed and inexplicable policies that will continue to push u.s. case numbers and ultimately u.s. deaths through the roof as states like those end up being reservoirs of infection and end up being engines of infection as they create mass numbers of people who are spreading the virus in an unchecked way in states that don't have statewide policies to stop it. i mean and then you look at a state like new jersey today. in new jersey today, the state health commissioner said that there are four new jersey hospitals that are already at maximum capacity. everybody's been focusing on new york for good reason, but new jersey now has over 25,000 cases, and they've got four hospitals maxed out already. and the new jersey death toll more than doubled in just the past two days. if you've been kidding yourself that it is only new york that's got this problem, wake up. in north car

also joined by congresswoman katie porter who is demanding accountability from the trump white house how the president is using powers under the defense production act. we begin with hope. now that the united states has more than a million reported cases of coronavirus and more than 60,000 deaths from coronavirus, we need hope more than ever. hope does not compete with caution. hope and caution can be two sides of the same coin. in real life in our darkest hours, hope does not arrive like a winning lottery ticket producing sudden full blown happy relief. hope arrives if it ever does as a tiny hole of light in the darkness that surrounds us. and that is how it arrived today. dr. anthony fauci delivered a ray of hope today about a possible treatment for coronavirus. dr. fauci wants us to continue taking all of our strictest precautions against the coronavirus. dr. fauci doesn't think anything he said today should change any of that but what he said today might change the treatment for coronavirus patients might make recovery slightly or significantly easier for some coronavirus patient

since we were discussing the white house specifically, this story we mentioned at the end of our program yesterday, here is the follow-up in the new york times. in president trump's early days in the white house, -- made a name for herself. she became a fixture at his political rallies. tuesday, she was named white house press secretary. her appointment by president trump's chief of staff mark meadows is the latest shakeup in a communications office that has seen constant turnover since 2017. she will replace stephanie grisham, a loyalist who was named press secretary last summer. ms. gresham did not hold a press conference moving during her time on the job. mcenaney is not expected to in the short term. will be designated to collect talking points to explain the president's decision making to the public. mr. trump is happy to spend hours a day doing that job himself. we are expected to see president trump back in the white house briefing room today at 5:00. announcer: we are going to leave washington journal. you can watch this and any programin

for three straight days donald trump live in fear of reporters' questions. at the next white house briefing on friday, donald trump didn't take questions and then america had its most restful weekend yet in the era of coronavirus because no one had to deal with the tension of king george, iii level madness being spread by the president at a white house briefing. donald trump gave the country a weekend off duty. a full weekend where no one had to watch donald trump saying crazy and dangerous and indescribably stupid things and the only people who could have been disappointed that donald trump spent the weekend silently cowering in fear of reporters were the people working on the biden for president campaign who so far have every right to believe that the white house briefings are the best thing that has happened to the biden campaign since joe biden secured endorsements from democratic rivals. a university poll shows joe biden ahead of donald trump outside of the margin of error 50-40 in the same poll 64% say donald trump is not honest and trustworthy. of the minority who find donal

whitsett landed herself in hot water with fellow democrats after a meeting with president trump in the white house last week and thanking him for his pandemic response. she also cited hydroxychloroquine for helping her beat covid-19. her doctor confirms that medicine helped. she tells fox news since that meeting with president trump, the governor has been unpleasant towards her, but she says she's unapologetic because quote black bodies are piling up in her state and her community is being underserved by the state's democrats. here's the representative explaining her thoughts about being censured after showing appreciation to the president. >> i started out with a simple thank you to the man that is the president of the united states. it's a thank you. i didn't know that thank you had a political line. i'm not going to stand by and be quiet nor will i be silenced by anyone when it comes to the people in my community. >> the chair of michigan's 13th

leads thent trump white house coronavirus task force briefing this afternoon. it is scheduled for 5:00 eastern. you can watch it live here on c-span. >> "washington journal" primetime -- a special evening edition of the washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. are wall street journal correspondent and foxbusiness contributor john held in my, on the government to combat incurred coronavirus. and an associate professor on her research into the pandemic's effects on the nation's gig economy workers. join the conversation tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> television has changed since c-span began 20 years ago, but our mission continues to provide an unfiltered view of government. already this year, we have brought your primary election coverage, the presidential impeachment, and the federal response to the coronavirus. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free radio app, and be part of the national conversation through the washington journal program or through our so

white house correspondence association, jonathan karl. we'll talk about his experience in the front row of the trump white house.brooke baldwin is about to be back behind the anchor desk after weeks at home suffering through covid-19. she will share her experience with us in just a few minutes. and later, "the today show's" carson daly will talk about

government should respond to a pandemic he says the trump white house has disregarded that advice. what it contained was a sort of checklist a set of triggers to identify when the disease was posing a risk and when the united states government should begin triggering preparedness and things like it coronavirus novel coronavirus were specifically cited in there the risk of a respiratory virus with the fish and human to human transmission and a significant significant fatality rate was specifically cited in there as a concern and then it listed a number of things that the country should begin to do work on diagnostic testing check the p.p. supply and make sure p.p. supply is sufficient to begin planning for mass casualty events in our hospital system you know all of that was in there all of that based on that playbook should have been triggered by the january on the january 30th date when the public health emergency of international concern was declared but that was disregarded and that's why i think it really isn't it really isn't quite right to blame the w.h.o. for our own lack of

trying to deflect blame that he waited too long to prepare for the outbreak is this statement trump white house spin. there's a lot of spin going on and there let's be clear there's a lot there's more than enough blame to go around for all all of these organizations the world health organization is not perfect it was carrying water for china in the early days when when the chinese government was covering up the human to human transmission the world health organization was passing along chinese data. in an uncritical fashion and they know better but it's hard for them because china is also a major donor to the w.h.o. of course the trumpet ministration has had more than its share of mistakes in the way they've handled the us i mean everyone got the same information from china at the same time right but the south korean and german responses to the pandemic or a lot more effective than the american response you want how come trump is going to blame obama or he's going to blame the governors or the mayors but he's not going to blame himself you look and let's also keep in mind that this is an electi

certainly not a priority for the trump white house untrue do you see a connection between the increase in sort of nationalist rhetoric from many governments perhaps from the u.s. from some in eastern europe a little from china from other parts of the world as well as a correlation with that increase in military spending i do i think that randomly here more national stretch or can we see more nationalist chauvinism and world stage i think what that fuels is very often fear and there's a difference one industry which drives on thier it's the arms industries and and history which is entirely based on their feeling of conflict and they're at a feeling of war and the fret of war and conflict and when we see governments who are preaching this the agenda we've got it has theater china rivers of russia they are also government see they are very cruel military don't tend to get nationalist right wing populist governments who are taking a less militaristic line and i think that is very concerning i think the whole nationalist narrative we're seeing right worlds and not just in the u.s. but beyon

no one in donald trump's white house or treasury is taking the kind of board action required to make sure that those without prior wealth, without prior wealth prior connections get a priority -- wealth or prior connections get a priority. if the banks wonder would, to go back -- won't do it, to go back to your point, they will process the loans for small business regardless of their size, then wartime authority should be used to compel them to do so. otherwise, in six months, we are going to look back and see this crisis has only made inequity worse in america. i set it from the beginning of our conversation, we can't just think about building back to the way things were before. that is not good enough. we need to build for a better future. that is exactly what these taskforces have put together to focus on. i will have a lot more to say on that. first, i want to thank you for your question. bernie,if i don't mind, how do we, over the long haul, if i may ask, make sure we strengthen the economy to work for all people? ,eyond the $15 minimum wage what else should we be doing, bernie?

she balanced the state's recovery with the trump white house. >> do you care what president trump cares about you? >> i just care about i'm able to deliver for the people of michigan anticipate i'll work with anyone. who is in the white house in toward do that. >> you held your tongue a little bit. you've not perhaps said things publicly that you may otherwise have. >> yes. >> why? >> because i got to get things done. >> reporter: now governor whitmer and other governors from across the country are on the phone right now with fortunate. he's telling them he wants to re-open states by may 1st. but governors say they will do it on their own timeline. regional governors including several seven mid-western ones are saying they will form an alliance to open together. >> great report from michigan. new zealand, taiwan, iceland and germany all have relatively low coronavirus death rates and all of their leaders have one thing in common. we'll discuss. i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind,

donald trump has proven in his twitter rages that he is aware of and often infuriated by haberman's reporting. he has known haberman since she was a local new york city reporter. everyone in the white house knew that donald trump was going to be asked about maggie haberman's report about dr. bright's statement and dr. bright's statement to maggie haberman in the "new york times" and we can imagine what happened to donald trump's rage level when he read the last line of dr. bright's statement safety must always trump politics. now if you were working on the white house staff and trying to prepare the president to comment on a statement like that, it would be a very difficult thing to come up with something to counter dr. bright's strong statement, but if it's the trump white house, the staff never has to worry about that. because the boss knows exactly what to do. just brush it off with a lie. >> i want to ask you about rick bright, the head of the federal agency in charge of getting a vaccine out to americans once it's ready. he says he has been pushed out of his job because he raised questions about hydroxychloroquine and some of your directives on that. was he pushed out of that job? >

. >> bill: president trump set to speak at the white house about protecting america's seniors during the pandemic bread he will be joined by tennessee governor bill lee at that event. more on that in a moment from washington. so good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. there are developments on two big stories we are watching at this hour. first, what is known as cross fire, new documents that were just made public moments ago that pertain to former national security advisor michael flynn. showed the fed try to set them up three years ago. today, president trump weighing in on the possibility of a pardon for flynn. >> he is in the process of being exonerated. you look at those notes from yesterday, that was total exoneration. these were dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi, and you know their names better than i do and they were dishonest people. now we have to see what's going to happen. but general flynn was treated like a nobody should -- and i'm not talking about generals, but no one in this country should be treated. >> bill: also today, the former vice president facing a new pressur

and democratic leadership are pushing to have a snap food stamps increase in this bill and the trump white house and congressional republicans vetoed it the increase would have equal about $0.20 a meal $0.20 a meal the average snap food stamps allotment now is a bit out a $1.34 per meal this would have risen it to the princely sum of a $1.50 for a meal and in the last week of repackage it was 2000000000 dollar bill and the food increase would have been about one percent of the total package and so honestly republicans were more interested in getting money to luxury steakhouses than they were to ensuring that working people who are hungry and unemployed people are hungry can feed their own families yeah absolutely and concern is obviously being raised not only about from from that from this bill but about the food supply chain and whether america will actually run out of food driven in part obviously by the sight of these empty shelves those are artificial shortages because this is just what it looks like but the code that outbreak at blue plants like smithfield in south dakota you're seeing farm

i served in trump's white house as the deputy director of the domestic policy council, which basically means i was number two in domestic policy as well as the director of budget policy, all in the west wing. i joined the presidential transition in 2016, and i went into the white house on day one. i left the white house in early 2018, a couple days before my second son was born. knew that kid number two was coming, i told my wife i would take a step back, but i continue to help out wherever i can. federal policymakers, state and local policymakers, democrats and republicans, whoever is and to workisten towards practical public policy solutions. host: to richard out of philadelphia. good morning. caller: yes. there wason i have is a large group of workers displaced from the economy, even though the economy was doing well. because of this pandemic and the virus, i'm wondering, how will the economic structure change, as it relates to workers, because the skill-based disconnect -- is there going to be a skill-based disconnect? heard theyructure, i are looking at rolling out something in re

white house economic adviser. the messaging coming out of the white house has been really steady and very upbeat. we know president trumpas said on multiple occasions that the economy's going to have a big bounce back. and even earlier today, treasury secretary steve mnuchin painted this much rosier picture. >> i think as we begin to reopen the economy in may and june, you're going to see the economy really bounce back in july, august, september. and we are putting in an unprecedented amount of fiscal relief into the economy. you're seeing trillions of dollars that's making its way into the economy, and i think this is going to have a significant impact. >> reporter: so, i do want to make one thing very clear before i break that down. i don't think there's a single american who hopes or who doesn't hope that that is what's going to happen, that the economy will not bounce back. i think everyone is looking at this, they know that there is a high level of unemployment. most people know someone who is unemployed, and people are watching their businesses and wondering if they're going to survive this. but there are a lot of

early warning signs in january and february and the white house released a statement counting his accomplishments to help the american people, president trumpn two days on tuesday will announce a bipartisan commission to help reopen the economy. chris: david reporting for the white house. thank you for that. joining us now from baltimore, doctor tom ingleby, director of the center for health security at john hopkins university. let's start with the new york times report that from january on top public health officials were warning the president about the threat from the pandemic and that he did not take action until mid-march. one, what is your reaction with the report and how much did those lost weeks kostas. dr. tom: i cannot say who in the administration knew what and when, i would say that the article reinforces what we have heard along the way which is many in the administration were very worried about this as early as january and february. that seems pretty clear right now. i would also say if we had acted on some of those warnings earlier, we would be in a much better position in terms of diagnostics and possibly masks and personal p

the trump reelection campaign has been based, in part, on the trump white house briefings being, in parte his rally audiences enjoy. but new polling shows joe biden ahead of donald trump in some important swing states. the biden campaign strategy of letting donald trump talk circles around himself at white house briefings reached peak effectiveness the last time the president stood in the white house briefing room on friday. >>> joining our discussion now, president and c.e.o. of voter latino, and the former director of the national economic council under presidents obama and president clinton gene sperling. so, we went through a weekend without the president coming up with ideas of how they can kill themselves as he did so famously in the briefing room on friday. and that left us with the grimness of the statistical picture of what's happening out there without the extra madness being funneled our way from the white house. the l.a. times reporting now that covid-19 has become the leading cause of death in l.a. county, surpassing fatalities from cancer, flu, emphysema, and heart disease.

trump. but a source close to the white house says the president has been fretting over fauci for a while now. trump surrogates have been pointing out fauci initially said americans shouldn't be afraid of the virus back in january. >> the american people should not be worried or frightened by this, it's a very, very low risk to the united states. but it's something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously. >> reporter: but in the weeks that followed, fauci has been willing to publicly disagree with the president. >> it's going to disappear one day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear. >> we would hope as we get to warmer weather, it would go down. but we can't proceed under that presumption. we've got to assume it's going to get worse and worse and worse. >> reporter: and there were other warnings. "the new york times" obtained emails between top administration officials and alarmed public health experts. one of the so-called "red dawn" emails was explicit. "we need actions, actions, actions and more actions. we're going to have pockets of epicenters around this count

you've been watching a white house reaping led by president trump, a daily briefing residents sump andrried out at the white house. let me catch you up with what the president has been saying. he says that congress has been getting closer to a deal with the republicans and democrats on another stimulus deal. you may remember there has already been one stimulus deal past, it has been decided another one might be needed. the president said it may be on its way to conclusion on monday. mr trump said his vice president will call governors on monday to discuss ways of responding. mr trump also 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

donald trump abused his access to a white house microphone and urged people to indiscriminately take a drug unproven to have any effect on covid-19 anded ed a d that is dangerous for many people, especially anyone with any heart issues but that didn't stop donald trump from recklessly prescribing that drug. >> now, a drug called chloroquine in some people would add to it, hydroxychloroquine. it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. it's very effective. it's a strong drug. there's never been anything even close to it. it's been out there for a long time. so it's tested in the sense that you know it doesn't kill you. it's a very strong powerful medicine but it doesn't kill people. we have some very good results and some very good tests. >> in fact, that drug can kill people and the doctors there in the white house with the president knew that when he was saying that. it is anti malaria drug designed to prevent malaria or treat malaria. i've taken it many times to prevent my travel to mar

in a few minutes, we'll be taking a look at some of the front pages from donald trump at the white housethe coronavirus pandemic. donald trump is expected again in the rose garden of the white house. but before that, let's catch up with some of the national and international papers in our paper review. hello, and welcome to our look at what the papers will be bringing us. with me are the whitehall correspondent for the financial times, sebastian payne, and the chief leader writer for the observer, sonia sodha. welcome to you both. in the uk, the times leads with comments from england's chief medical officer, who says he believes that the number of new cases of coronavirus reported is beginning to flatten out — he didn't actually say that the peak had been reached, but beginning to flatten out. with 761 deaths reported today. the heartbreaking news of the death of a pregnant nurse leads the front of the uk's metro paper. doctors managed to save her baby, who is said to be doing well. the nurse herself died as a result of coronavirus. the financial times reports that america's allies have

words notably different in tone than what we witness on a daily basis from the trump white house. president trump also likes to say that nobody saw the pandemic coming. really? well, here's a warning from president barack obama back in 2014. >> there may, and likely will, come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly. and in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure not just here at home but globally that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly. so that if and when a new strain of flu like the spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we've made the investment. and we're further along to be able to catch it. >> and guess what. the former president was not politicizing the possibility of a pandemic on the horizon. he was sending a message to congress at the time that a deadly pandemic is not a partisan issue. >> i cannot think of a better example of an area where we should all agree that passing this emergency funding to fight ebola and to set up some of the public

visit ncicap.org] announcer: president trump leaves the white house coronavirus task force briefing to serve them there -- this afternoon scheduled for 5:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch it live here on c-span. c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/ coronavirus. announcer: next, louisiana governor john bel edwards updates his state's response to the coronavirus outbreak. gov. edwards: welcome to midcity. welcome. and i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government , and with the military. each one of these hearts behind patientsents a covid who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. we have about 40 hearts. we hope that

white house correspondence association, jonathan karl. we'll talk about his experience in the front row of the trump white house. plus cnn's brooke baldwin is about to be back behind the anchor desk after weeks at home suffering through covid-19. she will share her experience with us in just a few minutes. and later, "the today show's" carson daly will talk about anxiety and the struggles so many people are experiencing now with this quarantine, staying at home, staying away from loved ones during these trying times. let me start here. we're all learning what it's like to live in the time of coronavirus. we are all adapting, adjusting, trying to figure out what the months ahead will be like. key word there, months, could even be years. if only we could get certain politicians and media personalities to realize this pandemic is not about them. it's about a collective fight, a fight based on medicine, not magical thinking. it's about those we lost and what we're losing and what we can try to keep. so would someone please tell the president? his administration's top experts say this virus will be with us for many m

donald trump's claims left health experts speechless here and the president's own advisers scrambling to undo any potential damage before it's too late which i fear in the white house press briefing trump suggested 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 very powerful light. and i think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it 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 sounds interesting very good right and then i see the disinfectant if not to go out in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like that. by injection. or almost depleting their marks were criticized by health experts who say this infect and slick bleach are dangerous when injected or ingested when i said supposed is not the worst time that trump has made claims that even scientists in his own administration have had to debunk and only a month ago trump promoted the use of hydroxy clora k

. >> josh, you know because you covered the trump white house very well. president gets a lot of his rhetorical suggestions from his friends from fox news. i would say you don't have to weigh in. some of those are not helpful at times. in the case of this economic panel, a second task force to focus on the economy. the former george w. bush's white house secretary is now working at fox news. he tweeted i think we need a second task force assembled at direction of potus. and the president replied good idea. >> dana promoted and the president amplified that. the president this week according to our reporting has been more fixated of getting this set up. the president feels that a lot of the discussions so far has come from dr. birx and fauci and they pointed out of health concerns and the charts and graphs and talked about how contagious this is and how difficult the disease is. he feels the economic problems are not getting enough attention and he feneeds to build momentu to open the government. gladiator style fights coming forward in the white house the n

white house. here's what we've learned at cnn. that president trumpa phone call with his campaign manager, set off largely by sliding poll numbers. with me now, david chalian and gloria borger. do you have any ideas which polls set the president off? >> well, yes. jeremy diamond reported this, brooke, it was the internal polls, the trump campaign and the rnc, their own internal polling in specific battleground states critical to the president's chances of reelection that set him off but let me just say, the internal polls match what we've seen publicly. we saw a recent set of polls out of michigan and pennsylvania and florida that the president is at a deficit. he's at a pretty big deficit in michigan and pennsylvania and in florida, he's running behind joe biden too. what we see publicly is what his own tell him but also public polls. >> what does it say about how he handled the pandemic? >> look at the latest pbs news hour poll that asked the question. 55% disapprove now, up from 49%. only 44% approve of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. so

trump make clear to our governors today, that our administration will continue to work day in and day out through our task force... less move away briefly from this press conference at the white house president trump talking with the successes but saying very much that the us was ready to open up much that the us was ready to open up againfor much that the us was ready to open up again for business but it will be done on a sort of rolling phased way. he is talking about this as a science —based plan, knotting there to the scientists in the room around him. and it is a phased plan and states have to see a decline in cases in 14 days before they can even start to reopen most of no us states are quite there yet but that will be monitored as well. the key thing that is missing and it is important because it is what governors are calling for and it is what business leaders are calling for, there is not in this plan a call for widespread testing of the american public and widespread contact tracing of people who have come into contact with people who have tested positive. without those two things, business leaders and governors around the country and health officials don't think america

about the virus in january and february, the white house released a statement to fox news touting his accomplishments to help the american people. president trumptwo days, on tuesday, will announce a bipartisan commission to help reopen the economy. chris. >> chris: david spunt reporting from the white house. david, thanks for that. period of joining us now from baltimore, dr. tom inglesby, director of the center for health security at john hopkins -- johns hopkins university. let's start with that "new york times" report that from january on top public health officials were warning the president about the threat from the pandemic and that he did not take action until mid-march. one, what's your reaction to the report and how much did those lost weeks to cost us? >> dr. inglesby: so, chris, i can't say who in the administration knew what and when, but i would say that that article reinforces what we've heard along the way, which is that many in the administration were very worried about this as early as january and february. that seems pretty clear now. and i'd also say that if we had acted on some of those mornings earlier we would be in a muc