I am convinced of that. Welcome to our viewers all around the world and in the United States. It is thursday, april 23rd. The virus is the virus. Thats what dr. Fauci and sanjay gupta tells us. Coronavirus kills. Thats what the numbers tragically tell us. Factbased Public Health saves lives. Thats what history tells us. Politics doesnt change this. Politics cant change this. But there is new reporting this morning that the president is trying. The doctor in charge of the federal governments search for a vaccine says he was forced out of his job for questioning the use of hydroxychloroquine. That was the drug that the president has been hyping for weeks. Dr. Rick wright claims hes a victim of political retaliation and hes filing a whistleblower complaint. He says science, not politics or cronyism, has to lead the way. Now when asked about it, President Trump insisted he doesnt know who dr. Bright is. Were going to speak to his former boss in a moment who says she owes it to the country to speak out on his behalf. The president tried to get the director of the cdc to walk back his quote. Dr. Redfield said he was accurately quoted and moments later, dr. Fauci contradicted the president about pretty much the same thing. May not even well have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that. So the latest models suggest that many states should wait to reopen until june. That includes georgia. The governor there does not want to wait. Ella lou gyms, hair salons, spas, tattoo parlors and more to reopen tomorrow. President trump claims he disagrees with governor brian kemps decision to do this so early. The president and Vice President called Governor Kemp this week to support and praise his decision to reopen. Why is the president now saying the opposite . Well get into that reporting. A new study on the effectiveness of the drug hi hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine. Its the biggest study yet and the results are in. Why are researchers not showing it to the public days after they promised . We have a lot of new developments. Lets begin with joe jons live at the white house. Whats the latest there, joe. Reporter good morning, alisyn. The significance is that its apparently the latest example of the Trump Administration disregarding science and the experts. The Trump Administration getting rid of a veteran point man on vaccines. He says its because he wouldnt buy into an unproven treatment that, by the way, the president until recently has been pushing hard. While scientists race to find a coronavirus vaccine, one of the nations top experts say he was abruptly ousted from his position. He led the department of health and Human Services department. He was reassigned to a narrower position at the National Institutes of health tuesday. The reason, bright says in a statement was in response to my is insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by congress to address the covid19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit. Adding, to combat this deadly virus, science, not politics or cronyism, has to lead the way. He claims his opposition to hydroxychloroquine contributed to his demotion. The drug typically used for malaria, lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis has been heavily promoted by President Trump as a coronavirus treatment dee sight evidence that it helps at all. Guy says he was pushed out of a job. Maybe he was, maybe he wasnt. I have to hear the other side. I dont know who he is. This major shakeup as President Trump makes the Health Crisis political, dismissing the science from researchers. Trump had the cdc director try to clarify his warning of possible difficulties caused if a second coronavirus wave hits during flu season. I think its really important to emphasize what i didnt say. I didnt say that this was going to be worse. I said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu and coronavirus circulated at the same time. Even after dr. Redfield reiterated he expects the virus later this year, the president made this bold prediction about the diseases potential resurgen resurgence. It wont be coming back in the form that it was. It will be coming back in smaller doses that we can contain. Experts leading efforts against the coronavirus are less optimistic. I think we are assured that the cdc what we are going to need in the fall so that we can stay in containment if potentially the virus comes back. We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that. Bright said he will file a complaint with the Inspector General for the department of health and Human Services and ask the i. G. To investigate. By the way, senator chuck grassl grassley, a powerful republican wrote a letter earlier to the white house telling the president not to interfere with the work of i. G. John and alalisyn, back to you. Joe jons, thank you very much. Maggie haberman is here. A White House Correspondent for the New York Times who broke the story about dr. Rick bright. Also with us, former assistant secretary for the health and Human Services department and dr. Brights former boss. Dr. Nicole leury. Maggie, i want to start with you. To remind people of who he is. He did oversee barta, the office overseeing vaccine research. He was in that office since 2016. He said the transfer was over his skepticism of hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine. You broke the story. Whats going on behind the scenes here and whats the white house response . Sure. So, john, its interesting. The white house actually said extremely little when i spoke to the the white house was saying that they didnt know a lot of what was going on here and were looking at hhs. At hhs officials have been saying on background, things that contradict dr. Brights claim, not specifically why he was transferred. They dont disagree he was transferred. Their argument is he was transferred because he was difficult to work with or had confrontational management style. This had been in the works for months and abruptly came to a head now. That could be true. If there is an i. G. Investigation, i think that will all be looked at. I think, john, the timing is going to raise a lot of questions. Getting rid of somebody like dr. Bright in the middle of a pandemic, while youre still trying to find a therapeutic thats effective and a vaccine beyond that. Well know more in the coming days and it could be more complicated than the situation dr. Bright is complaining about or describing. But its remarkable that dr. Bright, again, is on the record saying all of this. We have not heard the same from hhs so far. Great point. He didnt do this off the record of the he used his name. Hes being as direct as he possibly can. Maggie, you pointed out that is often unusual for people in the administration. What he says, doctor is that this is about hydroxychloroquine. He wasnt willing to, you know, be as bullish and as fund it as much as the president wanted. He wanted to follow science. Ill read piece 16. Part of his statement. He says specifically and contemporaco contrary, i limited the use of the hydroxychloroquine which clearly lacks scientific merit. Thats why he says he lost his job and was transferred. But you hired dr. Bright years a ago. Tell us about him and his tenure there. Dr. Bright is a strong scientist. Hes a visionary leader. Hes able to make decisions. He gets things done. He believes and he stands on strong science. I think this was about something larger than hydroxychloroquine. I think it is really about listening to scientific opinions, scientific perspectives and standing up for strong science. Its interesting you say that. Obviously, this happened during the same time period where we saw the president on stage, more or less forcing dr. Redfield to try to walk back a statement he made that dealing with coronavirus in the fall could be more difficult. He did. He said he was accurately quoted. Maggie, the thing is, the virus doesnt care. The virus doesnt care what the president thinks about hydroxychloroquine. The virus only cares whether it works or doesnt. The virus doesnt care whether the president thinks its coming back in the fall. The virus is going to come back in the fall on its own accord. It just seems that we see ex examples of the president trying to push around science, essentially. I think thats right. Look, to the Doctors Point a second ago, our understanding is that this is part of a larger series of complaints. The specific incident that dr. Bright was talking about was related to the hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine and whether fda standards were going to be changed too much to make it up safe to prescribe broadly before it was tested on coronavirus cases which is not what its intended for obviously. But whether this is a pattern and culture created throughout the last couple of years. To your point, the president has a history of trying to will things into reality. A former adviser described it to me as his way of magical thinking. That was their term, not mine. Basically trying to make this reality come into existence. Hes done it with small protest that is cropped up around the country where hes trying to make them into something bigger and so far hasnt been successful. Hes not going to be able to make an antimalarial drug for covid just by talking about it. Is there more research to do . Im sure thats true. Were new into this. His concern as he put it, is that he wanted a certain set of criteria to be followed. Not to the idea he objected to in the first place. He objected to the speed in which it was being done and the regulations and standards put in place. Maggie, Something Else about your reporting and got my attention from dr. Brights statement. At least twice he mentions, quote, political connections to hydroxychloroquine. Ill read one portion. He said i will request that the Inspector General of hhs of the department of health and Human Services to Fund Companies with political connections as well as efforts that lack scientific merit. What are the political connections hes talking about . Hes not being specific in that statement. If i had to guess, it certainly sound as if hes talking about something broader than this incident. It relates in part to the fact there was an effort by the president to create a platform. It ultimately did go ahead in some fashion through the tech firm oracle where there are some influential political people who support the president or have worked with the president before, that this was coming at their suggestion. Again, i dont want to speak beyond what i actually know. We dont know what the details of those are. I assume thats what hes talking about. Dr. Lurie, i think what america should care about is whether or not this action makes them more or less safe. What is the impact of midpandemic, maybe even at the beginning of a pandemic, removing someone like dr. Bright from the job that he was doing . Well, first of all, i think that you need to let him execute what was a very good strategy to develop vaccines and to develop therapeutic. Once you have them, the public needs confidence that they were developed appropriately and that theyre safe. When this is going on, its hard for the public to have confidence. Thirdly, we can only get there with an appropriate investment of funds. The funds given to us are taxpayer money, not somebodys piggy bank to do what they want to with the projects. They need to be scientifically vetted before they go forward so you know at the end of the day you end up with something thats going to be effective or can do its job for the american people. Dr. Lurie, when someone speaks out against the administration and leaves in this sort of abrupt fashion, often we see their reputation besmirched somehow. We see people at hhs around dr. Bright start to go say this isnt the first time that he clashed with colleagues. So because you know him, because you hired him, are you surprised that hes willing to risk his career and reputation to do this . To make this statement . You know, the last question i asked dr. Bright before i hired him is whether he thought that he was tough enough to resist political pressure to use taxpayer money for things he thought were inappropriate, whether they came from a senator or a lobbyist, whether they came from somewhere else. And he said yes, he was. So this doesnt surprise me at all. Hes a person of incredibly high integrity. Dr. Lurie, that is really helpful to get your personal take on who this man is and maggie, thank you so much for all of your reporting as always. Be sure to join Anderson Cooper and dr. Sanjay gupta tonight for a global town hall. Their guests will include the fda commissioner, new yorks governor and singer songwriter alicia keys will debut her song for the heroes of the pandemic. Join us for facts and fears tonight. Only on cnn tonight. We are learning new details about the First American to die of coronavirus. This was in early february. Much earlier than we had previously known. 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Were talking about 57yearold patricia dowd. When she died suddenly on february 6th, her family just assumed that she had a heart attack. But now they know the truth, that she did in fact have the virus. They are shocked according to dowds brother, who spoke with cnn. This is somebody who is active, did not smoke, was seemingly healthy. No underlying conditions. But according to the l. A. Times, she had some flulike conditions in january. Then she seemed to recover. She was working from home and actually taking calls from colleagues the morning she died. Now, her brother says she was a frequent world traveler because of her job. She worked for a Semi Conductor company. He doesnt know exactly where she traveled in the days and weeks lead to go her death. Santa clara authorities believe she got the virus from Community Spread. The bottom line here what her case shows and what weve been reporting is that the virus had been in the country, specifically in Santa Clara County longer than anybody previously thought. John and alisyn. Really interesting, dan. Thank you very much. So some states are retracing their coronavirus time lines after the discovery of that first death, which was february 6th. Joining us now to talk about this and more, we have dr. Colleen craft, the associate chief medical officer at emery hospital and a senior scholar at johns hopkins. Dr. Kraft, some states want to retrace their time lines. How will they do that . How are they going to figure out if people who passed away in february actually died of coronavirus but we just dont know that . Yeah. Many of us rounding in the hospital, especially during february, are going back through our paces and look to go see if there were things that sin droem i cannily looked like coronavirus, like covid19. Some of this will have to be a clinical suspicion. As i said yesterday, we had an individual that we strongly suspected did have severe covid in february. But in testing her serologies 2 1 2 months later, they were negative. It doesnt show that she had been exposed to covid19. But indeed, we do think there probably were people in our hospital during that time. What does it mean for us now . How does it change our understanding of this virus and the pandemic that it was here earlier and killing earlier than we thought . I think that one of the things that it tells us is that we you know, we have a lot of Community Transmission that was really unknown. Our efforts in the beginning to sort of contain and mitigate, it was definitely out of the bag at that point. So dr. Watson, that leads us to where we are now, right . Were trying to retroactively, basically trace the first cases at the same time that i know youre involved with and now new yorks governor and new jersey and connecticut, moving forward Contact Tracing. Tell us what this is going to look like. Now that Governor Cuomo announced theyre going to engage in this ambitious future Contact Tracing, how is this going to work for us . Right. By adding up to our workforce and adding training for Contact Tracing in new york and other places around the country, this is how we really get a handle on the Community Spread as were seeing. Theres been a lot of Community Spread around the country as well. So we do Contact Tracing in order to manage this on a case by case basis. Once we can do that, then we can break chains of traps mission and stop this from spreading widely enough so that we can maintain a steady state until hopefully we have a safe and effective vaccine and manage this pandemic going forward. How much tracing do you have to do . How many contacts per sick person . Right. We need to find every case, so every person who is symptomatic and we know is infected and trace as many contacts as possible because the more people we have out there who infected and dont know it and are passing it along to others, the worse these efforts will be. Just explain to me how thats going to work. Lets say, heaven forbid, tommy get sick. You go back how far in time to try to figure out exactly how many people i crossed paths with and then do you or i call them all and how far out does that circle go . Right now the standard is two days. We think thats when youre possibly most infectious. So Public Health will contact you. Try to understand where youve been. Who you were in close contact with. What the quality of those contacts were. Were they very close, were they passing contacts and then trace them down. Ask those people to selfquarantine at home for the duration of the incubation period, which the maximum is 14 days. And hopefully they wont pass it along to someone else. Dr. Watson im sorry, dr. Kraft, one of the things were so hungry for is facts and data. The journal of the american medical association, jama, published a large study for passing of data over the last 24 hours about patients in new york city with coronavirus. Showing that high rates of hypertension, obesity, diabetes, those are the preexisting conditions that i think we knew made things worse for people. Here you see it on paper. The thing that jumped out for a lot of people, in 88 mortality rate. 88 of people put on ventilators ended up dying. So what do those numbers tell you . I think the numbers tell us that we hav being introduced into a population that doesnt have any immunity to it. There are a lot of individuals that are going to have bad immune reaction because their body is trying to fight off this disease. Thats leading, actually, to a lot of lung inflammation leading to people needing to be on the ventilator. I think that it tells us that we need to be very careful with this. We need to continue to improve our diagnostic testing, improve our Clinical Care and Contact Tracing as dr. Watson is saying to make sure were finding people early enough to be able to support them during these different phases in of disease. Nearly nine out of ten people who ended up on the ventilator, it wasnt enough to save their life. Youre going to see as we collect more data, this is variable across the United States. So there is a large Critical Care group that continues to meet nationally, if not informally to try to figure out the best way to support these individuals. We are seeing that people are very rapidly infected with severe lung disease at times that they become that severe and really getting them on the ventilator as soon as possible has been helpful. Thats not typically what we do for people with these types of lung disease. Were so grateful for the steep learning curve that you are tackling and sharing the information by the hour and day with us. Thank you both very much, dr. Kraft and dr. Watson. Breaking overnight, a deadly outbreak of tornadoes across the south. It continues with a Tornado Warning at this moment in mississippi. We have the breaking details, next. Unpredictable crohns symptoms following you . For adults with moderately to severely active crohns disease, stelara® works differently. Studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or flulike symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. 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Its what weve always done. Its what well always do. Breaking news. Tornadoes ripping through oklahoma, louisiana and texas killing at least six people. Look at these pictures. The storm system causing widespread damage in polk county, texas. As many as 30 people were injured there. There is a Tornado Warning at this hour in mississippi. So lets get right to cnn meteorologist chad myers tracking it all for us. Chad . John, very close to waynesboro, mississippi and to the east of there into alabama. Were going to see this continue for much of the day. It was a deadly day yesterday. These were very large tornadoes. We talked about the ef4 from easter weekend. These are the same size as that. 26 tornadoes so far. Well see what the Weather Service has to say. Were still seeing the Tornado Warning right now. The biggest potential for it will be spread all the way across much of alabama, florida and even georgia. Tornado watches are in effect. It means watch out, you could get something. Warning for thomasville, alabama. That means its there. 10 00 in the morning, things are still firing. We go to 3 00 and things are farther to the south and southeast. We move you farther along all the way to 7 00, 8 00, you can see all the colors on the map. Alisyn, thises going to be another very active day. Yesterday, we had 26. Today, i dont think well see that many. We certainly could. The same type of event and area that was hit on easter sunday. Scary, chad. Thank you very much for tracking that for us. Lets get a status report on how the virus is affecting people in every state. There have been at least 842,000 coronavirus cases in the United States. Nearly 47,000 deaths. Cnn has reporter across the country bringing the latest developments. Im Stephanie Elam in los angeles. California governor gavin newsom is saying anyone in the state with symptoms of the coronavirus should get tested. On top of that, anyone who wants to be tested for their own peace of mind can now get the tests done. The state look to go ramp up testing for coronavirus and also for the antibodies and the governor has said that tracking, testing and tracing of where this virus has been in the state is a key component to how theyll decide whether or not the state can return to a sense of normalcy. The governor is saying, he knows people would like to know when that will happen. At this point, theres just no date. Im athena jones in new york. Two cats came the first in the United States to test positive for coronavirus. Both cats had mild respiratory symptoms and are expected to make a full recovery. Only one in a home where a human tested positive for the virus. The cdc say pets limit with to limit their own interactions with their pets if theyre sick. Federal officials said there is no evidence that pets play a role in spreading the virus. Im in miami. Schools in florida could open as early as this summer in a hybrid fashion. Thats according to comments made by floridas education commissioner, Richard Corcoran during a Task Force Meeting to reopen the state. He didnt define hybrid learning but could include distance learning. This hybrid method could be used into the fall. A final decision on reopening schools has not been made per corcoran. The task force is due to deliver recommendations to Governor Ron Desantis on friday. Our thanks to all our reporters. The newest unemployment numbers give us a snapshot of the jobs crisis today. Christine romans is going to tell us what to expect next. I wanted more from my copd medicine thats why ive got the power of 1, 2, 3 medicines with trelegy. The only fdaapproved oncedaily 3in1 copd treatment. Trelegy the power of 1,2,3 trelegy 1,2,3 trelegy man with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, im breathing better. 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This is the worst job loss weve seen since the great depression. The hope here, of course, is that this is temporary. That you keep people out of the labor market, you send them home and then you get the virus under control and then you send people back to work. We just rant clear on the reopening picture yet. When you say this is the worst from the great depression, what do you expect the Unemployment Rate to be . So i think when the government calculates the unemployment statistics again, it will be at least 15 here and youre knocking on the door of that 20 number of the Unemployment Rate. Just the volume of jobs loss. Weve lost ten years of job creation in four weeks. Ten years of job creation, the longest expansion in american history, all those jobs, john, are gone in four weeks. Again, this an mates the reopening debate. You look at these numbers and it causes terror among Business Owners and politicians and working people. They say we got to get these people back to work. Wait, if you dont do it the right way, you cause real damage to the labor market and these are not temporary job losses. This becomes something more damaging. Romans, were watching that very closely. Less than two hours from now, well get those numbers. They will not be good. One major city where unemployment is a major issue is detroit. Local businesses and officials there rising to the challenge. Cnns omar jimenez live in detroit with the latest. Omar, what are you seeing . Reporter john, well, of course, as we know, one of the biggest impacts from this coronavirus pandemic outside the health aspect is on the economic way of life from layoffs to uncertain futures for businesses. The people in detroit arent taking it lying down. State and city officials put in place programs to fight back. At least the people weve spoken to have been through a lot over the course of the past decade and a half. One thing they know how to do is survive. Quiet downtown streets. Economies grinding to a halt. All too common sights across america amid the coronavirus pandemic. Detroit is no different. Planning for a place like this takes years. And then here you are weeks away from opening. Yeah. We would have been ready to go at the end of march. Now that timeline is up in the air while he navigates unemployment for the first time after also being laid off. Things arent great all the time but weve always made it through. For many, these are uncertain times. Officials hope part of the solution is a better understanding of the present. Detroit is the first major city in the country now opening coronavirus testing to aulie sengs employees regardless of symptoms. That was the thought behind us. Those at the grocery stores. Those at the pharmacies and restaurants operating with carryout services. Theyll make their appointments beforehand. Their information will get radioed in to this tent here where the masked and gloved workers will direct them to one of 12 tents where these employees will get their actual coronavirus tests. Detroit is trying to get back to work. Thousands in the city are unemployed as are millions across the United States. Michigans overall Unemployment Rate soaring to 20 , even affecting companies doing lifesaving work. Die tech and engineering in the grand rapids area is working as a partnership with General Motors to help make venlts. The owner says even they had to lay off 20 of their staff. Even though my guys are working and my company is operating and we might be one of the least affected companies, well, nobody is safe. In detroit, city officials have been working hard to make sure the current climate doesnt become a permanent one. The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation and others have helped to give out grants to over 1,000 businesses. The city of detroit is literally paying restaurants to help make food for first responders. We can bring it right to your door so they have no contact, okay . Hugh smiths jazz club is now a fulltime kitchen for survival. Emblematic of a larger picture in detroit. 86 years. Never shut down through all crises. I dont think there will be anything greater and i dont wish that. Were here to survive. Were survivors and we will beat this. Reporter looking ahead, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says they are now looking at ways to reengage as she says the daytoday its time to reevaluate the stayathome order currently in place and keeping people home. As weve seen, keeping businesses trying to figure out what comes next. She says that announcement should come by the end of the week, john. Detroit has been in an economic battle for years, omar. This is a new twist in that battle. Terrific report. Thanks for being with us. Omar jimenez in detroit. 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One trial study on hi hydroxychloroquine has concluded in new york. But we still dont have the finding. Elizabeth cohen ex mains. Coronavirus patients desperate for a cure. Including this one. Hydroxychloroquine. One of the biggest studies so far at the university in albany in new york. But theres a mystery about that study. Hydroxychloroquine has been heavily politicized. President trump is the cheerleader for you. Were having some very good things happening with it. It will be wonderful and so beautiful. It will be a gift from heaven if it works. But doctors say it needs to be studied first. On april 12th, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a date to expect preliminary results from the albany study being sponsored by the state. I think were going to get actual reports on april 20th. Well get preliminary results on april 20th. But april 20th came and no preliminary results. The next day cuomo was asked about it again after he visited the white house. Do you have any indication what the state results have been . You said they were being sent to washington yesterday. I have no i do not know. I do not know. The researchers say hell be releasing final results as early as the end of next week in the hopes of helping Covid Patients as soon as possible. Were hoping that by next week, we will have reached the final phase of this study. This study is really important and its important that we quickly get to the final phase as fast as we can. So far the most recent studies have not looked good for hydroxychloroquine. The largest thus far is the Veterans Health administration. 368 coronavirus patients. Those who took hydroxychloroquine had more than twice the death rate as those who did not. A french study said it didnt work and some patients taking it developed heart problems. Neither study has been Peer Reviewed or published in a journal yet. The patients had a lower viral load after taking hydroxychloroquine. But that studys methods have been questioned add the journal that published it is reviewing it again. For coronavirus patients and their families, more waiting to see which drug might make the difference between life and death. Elizabeth cohen, cnn, reporting. We all need a big Peer Reviewed control group study on hydroxychloroquine. So one of the most anticipated nights every year in sports, it will actually happen tonight. But it will look way, way, way different. The Bleacher Report is next. First to put others lives before your own. And in an emergency, you need a network that puts you first. That connects you to technology to each other and to other agencies. Built with and for first responders. Firstnet. The only officially authorized Wireless Network for first responders. Because putting you first is our job. Im a talking dog. The other issue. Oh. Im scratching like crazy. Youve got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. 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Dont look for drama to happen. Joe burrow expected to be the first name called. Hes from lsu. Hes one of the greatest College Quarterbacks of alltime. Burrows former teammate, chase young expected to go second to the redskins overall. Big question, where does alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa go after the draft starts. Its official, tiger woods and Peyton Manning will face off against Phil Mickelson and tom brady on the golf course. The champions for Charity Takes place next month. All proceeds going to coronavirus relief. Youre going to be able to watch it live on our sister station. Speaking of brady, he posted footage on instagram of how he got Rob Gronkowski out of retirement to join him in tampa. Gronk reporting. Im a little tired. That video great. John, i wanted to ask you. As a lifelong patriots fan, how do you feel about gronk now joining brady in tampa. Whats gate grate about the video . I missed the part about it being great. I dont know what to do. I dont know what to do. I have such deep feelings for both tom brady and Rob Gronkowski. Like a decade worth of deep feelings. I dont know what to do now. Im still processing. Nfc team. I guess. I dont know. I mean, i dont know what im supposed to do yet. Andy. Im processing it. Im not there yet. Watch the nfl draft tonight and maybe that will make me feel better. Thank you for rubbing it in my face for 7 00 a. M. Appreciate it. So many new developments in the pandemic. New day continues right now. Rick bright says hes been pushed out of his job because he raised questions about hydroxychloroquine. You mentioned a name. I never heard of him. We have to distinguish between which is flu and which is coronavirus. The comments i made are more difficult. Im accurately quoted in the washington post. I told the governor of georgia that i disagree with his decision to open certain facilities in violation of the phase one guidelines. I think this is too early. I think its too soon. Into phases where you should not be. I would advise him not to do that. This is new day. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. This morning, the doctor in charge of the federal government search for a vaccine for coronavirus says he was forced out of his job for challenging the use of hydroxychloroquine. Thats the drug President Trump has been hyping for weeks. Dr. Rick bright claims hes the victim of political retaliation and hes now filing a whistleblower complaint. He suggests hes being punished for focusing on science rather than what he calls political connections. When asked about this, President Trump said he does not know who dr. Bright is. The president also tried to get the director of the cdc to walk back comments about a second wave of the virus this fall. But dr. Robert redfield said he was accurately quoted