90 of americans who have taken the test so far did not have the vice. While the president is strongly and at times combatively pushing alternative therapies to fight the covid19 virus, is he receiving some pushback from one of his top advisors. Dr. Anthony fauci is cautioning reports of success are antidotal and data needs to be collected. The u. S. Is closing its borders with mexico and canada to nonessential travel because of the coronavirus. The president s response coordinator says young people under 20 are being seriously affected but all have recovered. Dr. Deborah birx emphasizing today that no one is immune as she did last night on special report. The administration is pushing back the tax deadline from april 15th to july 15th. It is also waiving interest on federal student loans. At least 32 states have activated or plan to activate National Guard forces thats where we begin. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts begins our coverage live on the north lawn tonight. Good evening,. John john bret, good evening to you just a few moments ago announced some idea of some National Shutdown is on the way. Just a few moments ago the dhs secretary chad wolf tweeted out rumors of a National Lockdown are just that, rumors, and that there is nothing in the works. The administration is taking strict new measures to stop the spread of the virus. President trump today moved to close the border between the United States and mexico to all but essential travel and trade. Also taking steps to turn back people who cross the southern and Northern Borders illegally saying in the midst of a Global Pandemic, illegal immigration could create a perfect storm to spread infection. Left unchecked, this would cripple our immigration system, overwhelm our healthcare system, and severely damage our national security. Were not going to let that happen. John on capitol hill, negotiations will continue all weekend to come up with a massive financial package. That could top 1. 3 trillion. Democrats concerned it leans too much toward corporations and not enough toward individuals. Minority leader Chuck Schumer and the president speaking by phone this morning. All of that is being discussed right now. We talked about as an example buy back stocks buy backs. We want that money to be used for the workers and also for company to keep the company going. Are you on the same page with senator schumer. Not very far away i will tell you. We are not very far away. John the need for a stimulus growing by the hour. New york city joining california telling all essentia nonessentis to stay home. Today we are bringing 100 percent of the workforce must stay home. John from the podium at the white house today applause from Governor Andrew Cuomo from disease specialist dr. Anthony fauci. I want so say im strongly support what he is doing. John also in the Briefing Room whether hydroxy chloroquine might be quickly available to treat coronavirus infection. President trump bullish on it . I feel good about it. Its all it is. Just a feeling. Im a smart guy. I feel good about it. John dr. Anthony fauci saying it might be effective but more circumspect about its prospect as a treatment. We need to do it in a way as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work, you also are collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of covid19. John there was also contradiction in whether President Trump had started using the defense production act to build up inventories of medical equipment in short supply. At first saying he had. I invoked the defense production act and last night we put it into gear. But later indicating he didnt have to. So far we havent had to. Its an amazing thing that happened. We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that want to do the work. They want to do the job. They want to help us. They want to help our country. John at the Coronavirus Briefing today for the very first time the secretary of state mike pompeo who warned americans about disinformation regarding the coronavirus from bad actors overseas saying that elements in china, iran and russia are launching a coordinated effort to disparage what the Trump Administration is doing to respond to the coronavirus. Bret . Bret john roberts live on the north lawn. John, thanks. Speaking of coordinated effort a short message the head of the National Guard tweeting, quote i hear unfounded rumors about National Guard troops supporting a nationwide quarantine. Let me be clear, there has been no such discussion. The dow today plunging 913 Pope Benedict xvi to end its worst weeplunge the 13points. The nasdaq dropped 271. For the dow the dow hemorrhaged 17. 3 . The s p 500 lost 15. The nasdaq fell 12 and two thirds. Lets get analysis from susan li from fox business who joins us from new york. Good evening, susan. Good evening, bret. Worst week for the stock market since 2008 with the dow on pace now for its worst month since the great depression. The dow trading at its lowest in four years. The s p 500 lowest levels in three years. And the nasdaq down 12 in just five trading sessions. If you look at your stock market jea geniuses some are not geniuses they think they are. Once we defeat i think you will have a steep like a rocket ship its going to group. As americas two biggest states california and new york orders nonessential workers to stay home, that means job losses and lost paychecks. Goldman saks predicting jobless claims will hit a record 2 and a quarter million next week. More than three times the previous high of 695,000 back in 1982. Mostly the federal government is going to underride probably 70 payroll in this country if the containment policies continue to be this nobody has ever thought of that before. Nobody has ever done that before. Its going to be a hell of a lot more trillion dollars. While some businesses are laying off workers, others are hiring. Walmart says they will need 150,000 more staff to keep up with demand in stores and also backlogs online orders. Walmart is not alone. Amazon looking for 100,000 warehousing and delivery people while dominos says they need to hire 10,000 to meet demand for pizza delivery. Meantime other companies are paying out bonuses. Facebook handing out 1,000 to every fulltime employee. Jp morgan giving a sweetener to its branch and Call Center Workers while walmart is handing out extra cash to hourly staff. Money that will be needed to weather the steep economic downturn. Goldman sachs is forecasting the u. S. Economy to shrink by a quarter from march to june this year. If that happens, that would be the biggest ever quarterly contraction since records have been kept. Bret . Bret susan, thank you. Businesses across the country feeling. This there is growing concern and uproar tonight in washington over news that several u. S. Senators may have profited financially from their early and inside knowledge of the coronavirus outbreak the head of the Senate Intelligence committee who is one of those named is now calling for ethics probe. Here is chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel. In the days before the coronavirus clobbered the markets four senators called off stock. Senate intelligence chairman richard burr sold 33 different stocks last month worth more than 628,000. Burr says it wasnt based on insider information. I relied solely on public news reports to guide my decision regarding the sale of stocks on february 13. Burr was sounding the alarm privately about coronavirus in february 27th audio obtained by npr. It is much more aggressive transmission in anything we have seen in recent history. Its probable more akin to the 1918 pandemic. California senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband sold more than 1 million in stock according to Financial Disclosure paperwork. Feinsteins Spokesman Says her husband made the trade. Feinstein tweeted today during my Senate Career i have held all assets in a blind trust of which i have no control. Senate Armed Services chairman james inhofe sold more than 50,000 of stock on january 27th. But inhofe insists it was not in response to a closed door Coronavirus Briefing which he did not attend. When i became the chairman of the senate Armed Services committee, i divested myself of all stocks because i thought some day that may come up. Georgias new senator kelly laugh ler is under fire for selling the stock same day as an all senators briefing. Her husband is chairman and ceo of the new york stock exchange. Love ler responded to the controversial today on fox. Im only informed of my transactions after they occur, several weeks so certainly those transactions at least on my behalf were a mix of buys and sells, very routine for my portfolio. There have been calls for them to resign. Burr asking him to open a complete review of the matter with full transparency. Bret . Bret mike, thank you. President trump says he is talking with one automaker about retooling its factory to make much needed ventilators to help deal with the coronavirus outbreak. And there may be more companies answering that call tonight. Its part of an effort to bring a wartime style urgency to the shortage of vital medical equipment. Senior correspondent Claudia Cowan has the story tonight from fremont, california. The ramp up wont be trivial. It wont be overnight. But detroit could wind up being the arsenal of life. From ford to General Motors toes at thela, automakers who recently hit the brakes on producing cars are offering to jump start production of ventilators and other desperately needed medical equipment. It truly is the american way. Its been demonstrated its not hypothetical. The challenge now has never been more urgent. And while urgent it wont necessarily be easy. Cranking out tanks, planes and ships during world war ii was a simpler transition for automakers while making Something Like a ventilator is more complex. Technicians would need training and the production of medical devices have high sterile standards. Any new facility would have to be approved by the fda, a process that could take as long as six months. Quality control in making sure that the produced items pass all that requirement of cleanliness as well as they have got to be 100 percent operable. That would be the biggest challenge. And not every part is currently made in the u. S. A. Disposable, single use tubes and masks are specialized medical Grade Materials that come from asia and central america. There are thousands of parts that are sourced around the globe. Its ensuring the supply of the parts. Its a complex job. General motors tells fox discussions and feasibility studies are still underway while teslas ceo elon musk says his other company spacex is, quote, working on ventilators, too. Bret . Bret claudia, thank you. Up next, we continue our segment this week answering your questions about the coronavirus outbreak with medical experts. First here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country is covering tonight. Fox 8 in cleveland as thousands of people lose power after severe thunderstorms roar through ohio causing flooding and knocking down streets across that state. The storms that struck late last night and early today contained heavy rains and strong gusty winds. The flooding led to travel issues in some areas but no major problems were reported. Fox 2 in detroit where a 65yearold man was killed and two other people injured following a house explosion that may have been sparked by a gas leak and a lit crack cocaine pipe according to authorities. The deputy fire commissioner tells the detroit news the 46yearold woman claims she was lighting the crack pipe when the explosion happened. The woman suffered burns and was in Critical Condition at a hospital. Fox 29 in philadelphia where a funeral procession was held to honor Police SergeantJames Oconnor who was killed in the line of duty last friday. In his honor, city landmarks are lighting up in blue. Lincoln financial field was first to take action by lighting up thursday night. A Law Enforcement support group is asking that all landmarks participate after learning oconnors funeral will be postponed amid the ongoing covid19 crisis. And this is a live look at st. Louis from our affiliate fox 2 there. The big story colonel mary barton is named the countrys First Female Police chief. She has been with the Department Since 1978. Barton replaces chief john belmar who retires april 30th after leading the force for six years. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway. From special report, well be right back. We made usaa insurance for members like martin. An air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. Usaa insurance is made just the way martins family needs it with hasslefree claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. Because doing right by our members, thats whats right. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa Kelly Clarkson whatre you doing on our sofa . Hey there whatre you doing on your sofa . Try wayfair. You got this woah. Yeah let me try all alright, get it blow it up thats what im talking about. Except thats my seat, so. All right, so maybe after the movie lets talk about that bedroom of yours when was she in our bedroom . Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Bret okay, we are going to take your questions as we have all week. First i want to clean up something i just said. I said it was the First Female Police chief in the country. I meant county there in st. Louis. We obviously from seen female Police Chiefs in the country and especially in washington, d. C. Joining us tonight are doctor experts. Dr. Mardy makary John Hopkins Health policy expert and dr. Manny alvarez senior managing editor for fo health n. We have been doing this all week. There are a lot of Great Questions out there. Lets toss my first one and this is about school . Hi, bret, this is r morgan and bret. All we want to know is when do the experts think morgan and bret will be back in school . Bret i dont know who wants to know more, the dad or the kids . But we dont obviously experts are not telling us exactly. Its a case by case. But, dr. Manny, what do you tell families right now . Well, what i would say is, look, we know that this is going to be several weeks. Now, the president and the cdc has told you that they are going to give an announcement as to the curve by day 14. So, by day 14, you are going to have 10 or 12 or 14 days of data so far as the number and rates of cases in different communities around the country. At that point in time, you are going to have a better idea whether its going to be a four week, five week, six week type of period. But i would waited until that data. Its not going to be for the next two or three weeks the kids are going to be home. Lets start the lessons at home. Bret yeah. And break it to them or break it to the parents who are going to have to deal with that. Right. Bret lets toss to bill interesting question here about timing take a listen. Hi, bret, my question is very simple. There was something going around in october, november, december where people were having a cough, sore throat for 10, 14, 15, 20some days we werent testing for this back then. Can they absolutely say that covid19 was not here during those times . Bret dr. Makary what do you think about that. Common things being common we know the influenza virus was out there in the fall and thats typically when its going around. Most Global Pandemics with a novel virus strain last about three months and we know that first incident was probably in late november, back in the wuhan province of china. So, i think what were going to learn from this are probably some best hygiene practices and then we are going to carry on for years to come with the future flu epidemics. Bret okay. This one is from twitter. This is sandy about blood donations. If one dont United States blood and is a coronavirus carrier, unknowingly, does the donated blood get tested and if so will the donor be told . Dr. Many, do you know the answer to that one . Well, i dont think we are testing for coronavirus in blood donations right now. I think that there is a question and answer format that will include some of the coronavirus risk factors. Have you had a fever, which is typically when you donate blood whether there is any risk factors. You know, i think from that perspective, it is safe to receive blood and i think it is safe to donate blood. This is one of the factors right now that the red cross is saying do not be afraid to donate. Do not be afraid to receive because i think that mechanism of this type of virus is not going to be a factor in you donating or receiving blood. Bret and there are shortages. So thats important. Absolutely. Bret next video question is from michelle about preexisting conditions. We have heard a lot about people who are more at risk with this virus, namely the elderly and people with preexisting conditions. But what exactly does preexisting conditions mean as a threetime cancer survivor myself living with chronic limb deem that as millions of other americans can who should be more careful than others . Thanks. Bret dr. Makary . Thats a good point. We need to distinguish not all put people at higher risk. Particularly those where your immune system is weakened and also those where the lungs and the respiratory system may not have the same strength and health to expand big. Thats why people are severe disabilities may not have a great lung capacity and be at increased risk. Thats why older people may not have are at higher risk because their inmoon systems are weaker than younger people. An encouraging study just this week American Academy of pediatrics only one child has died from this in any documented form thats out of 2100. This virus for some reason spares kids in its case fatality rate. Bret but there are kids that are getting it and dr. Birx has said they are not immune to your pointe. But they are in low low numbers the question about immunity. Dr. Manny take. This this is about stress. And this is from juliet, final one. Hi, bret, still afraid in fullerton, california. Im wondering how all of this stress is affecting our immune system when we are all alone . Im an exthrow vert and i find it a happy thing to be out and about im wondering how exthrow extrovert. If you listen to the governor of new york. He basically said, look, we dont expect people to stay in their homes for five or six months at a time. Never come out. If you do what i call responsible social distancing, can you go out for a walk. Find a path that you can walk by yourself. Get a little sunshine. You know, go into the balcony. Can you go into your backyard. You can do some gardening, if you have Something Like that. So you can sort of, you know, have a social aspect of social distancing that you can be safe. But, also, can you enjoy the outdoors. I think thats going to be part of the overall solution to deal with. So stress and some of the fears that people have. Which is very important. And its going to take a toll. Indeed, excessive stress can lead to, you know, your body not feeling right and immune system be compromised. Direcbret dr. Mccrary. When you are eating well your immune system is strongest. Look at kids studying for exams and pull all nighters and dont eat well. They break out with acne. Good sleep and nutrition is the best thing can you do for your immune system. Bret all right, doctors, thank you as always we will continue it next week. Up next how the response to the virus is throwing americans out of work in alarming numbers. And what that means big picture. First, beyond our borders tonight. Afghan afghanistans military says at least 17 police and Army Personnel were killed today in an apparent insider attack at a joint military and police base. The Defense Ministry statement says the taliban carried out the attack with the assistance of Afghan Police and Army Personnel inside that base. 11 soldiers, six Police Killed a dutch court has convicted a radicalized and sentenced him to life in prison for opening fire on a tram killing four people last year. The defendant walked on to that tram, used a pistol to shoot passengers at a close range and then jumped out of the tram and shot a driver sitting behind the wheel of a car. An olympic torch event in japan drew hundreds of spectators as the flame arrived today. The greek part of the torch relay began last week but a day later the remainder was cancelled to avoid attracting crowds. 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If you recently had a heart attack, ask your doctor if brilinta is right for you. My heart is worth brilinta. If you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. Bret here are a couple of the democracy 2020 stories making news tonight. The virus has forced the postponement of another primary election. Indiana is moving event from may 5th to june 2nd. The announcement came shortly after Indiana Health officials reported the state had 23 new cases of covid19 raising its total count to 79 including two patients who died. Meantime, former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg is transferring 18 million from his failed president ial campaign to the Democratic National committee. Its the largest single such transfer ever. Bloomberg ended his Campaign Last month after a lackluster showing in the march 3rd super tuesday primaries. Since dropping out, the billionaire businessman has given tens of millions of dollars of his own money to various democratic groups and causes. Talks between the Trump Administration and congress are proceeding tonight on a 1 trilliondollar economic rescue package amid the pandemic it. Would include payments to Many Americans who are no longer working, forced from their jobs and shutdowns triggered by the response to the outbreak. Correspondent matt finn looks at the situation tonight that is quickly becoming desperate for many people. Coast to coast americans are shocked with the sudden reality of lost jobs and perhaps no longterm relief in sight. My income is zero for the rest of the month likely. Julia rossenwinkel personal trainer and bartender. Both of those jobs are suddenly gone. Julia and her husband have two children and bought a new home. Cancel everything that is not absolutely necessary which i know impacts our economy, even our local economy. July kwraps husband is a chef partner at a popular restaurant. He is trying to keep the family afloat without dinein customers. Steven is trying to work some delivery mode but its not going to support his staff. And it may or may not keep the restaurant open for more than two weeks. Brigitte wheeler has stage four Breast Cancer and just gave birth to 3 month old child. She has a low white blood cell count a compromised immune system. Its not a joke. Its very, very rear. Brigittes husband building engineer only real income. So far he cannot work from home. Brigitte says he scrubs down when he gets home but they worry what he might bring in the house. He checks on her wellness nonstop. My husband calls me every half hour asking me i have taken my temperature today . How am i doing . How are you doing . You are not coughing, are you . Every half hour and its scary. There are plenty of go fund mes to help people who have lost their jobs but there are always bad apples. The attorney general has instructed u. S. Attorneys to be vigilant for fraud brett . Bret matt finn in chicago, thanks. Bret many churches in the u. S. Have cancelled services for this weekend and last weekend. And are, instead, seeking to preach to the flock through different means. Tonight religion correspondent lauren green reports on the lengths the faithful are going to keep the faith. We are being forced to think outside the box. Online sermons are the new reality for people of faith as countless houses of worship in the u. S. And around the world have shuttered and closed their physical buildings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But there is a silver lining. The kingdom of god does not depend upon church buildings. And this is a good reminder for us. Technology is fast becoming a tool for a higher calling. The number of houses of worship switching to Online Services has quadrupled, the platform sharing company Life Dot Church added 6,000 churches to its free service last week. A few days later it jumped to 10,000 and is still climbing. Its not only the once a week service and sermons going online, a jewish on long island is web streaming a prethin presi can answer questions how do the weekly sabbath. We may not be in our synagogues but we have built sanctuaries in our hearts. There are online prayers, face time and youtube chat. Lauren even hymn singing online bringing people closer as people must isolate themselves. Webinars are also popping up teaching churches and temples how to use the latest tech. Buff one maryland priest has gone low tech with drivethru confessions. He is one of many who are praying and hoping these changes are only temporary. The church will always be a place that people gather, where they convene and congregate. That said, this is probably going to be disrupt things in a way that is even hard to visualize right now. Lauren many churches are also learning what the platform sharing site says that a church is so much more than a building. It is a shared experience. Bret . Bret lauren, thank you. Up next, the panel on the response of the coronavirus pandemic. D telling people that Liberty Mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need [squawks] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Anna could only imagine a comfortable nights sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. Now, that dream. Is her reality. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Billions of problems. Dry mouth . Parched mouth . Cotton mouth . Theres a therabreath for you. Therabreath oral rinse and lozenges. Help relieve dry mouth using natural enzymes to soothe and moisturize. So you can. Breathe easy, theres therabreath at walmart. Bret breaking tonight we have just learned a member of Vice President mike pences staff has tested positive for the coronavirus. A statement just released says neither the president north Vice President had close contact with this individual; however, they are saying that this person did test positive. Dont have a name as of yet. The president today talking about a shutdown along the north and southern border. The centers for Disease Control and prevention has decided to exercise its authority under the title 42 of the u. S. Code to give customs and Border Protection the tools it needs to prevent the transmission of the virus coming through both the northern and the southern borders. As we did with canada, we are also working with mexico to implement new rules at our ports of entry, to suspend nonessential travel. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce. Bret as we look at the map of the u. S. , every state, the washington, d. C. As we have said has a positive case at least one total cases over 17,000 total deaths 224. Worldwide the number of cases over 259,000. Almost a little over 11,000 deaths. And total recovered 87377, important number. The markets not a good day today. Actually the worst day in a while. Since the just earlier this week the big drops. Buff you can see the dow this week how it took a major drop and continues to slide even though had some come backs there throughout the week of news on action on capitol hill. With that lets bring in our panel Marc Thiessen fellow at the American Enterprise institute. Kimberley strassel a member of the Editorial Board at the wall street journal and charles ellayna opinion writelaneopinioe washington post. Kimberly, your thoughts how this is shaping up. There is this balance about the health of the country, concern about, you know, the health aspect of things and obviously the economic aspect as we are seeing these shutdowns affect Small Businesses in particular across the country. Yeah. I mean i think what we are beginning to see now and we are starting to have this debate is that we began this by saying, you know, listen to the doctors, listen to the science. And they have been giving their absolute best estimates of you who you handle this and their best advice on how to contain and get us ahead of the curve a little bit. Flatten that curve and ramp up for what may come. But at a certain point you also have to have somebody thinking about the economy and that overall balance. And i think people are beginning to look at this and say, you know those 14 days, maybe we need to start getting ready for what comes after it. Maybe more aggressive use of drugs. Maybe more isolating those most vulnerable. But, the Current Situation from an Economic Perspective is simply not sustainable. So what comes next . Bret mark, i guess part of the problem here is the Testing Backlog beginning not knowing who is testing positive and who isnt. They are trying to remedy it but it is taking a long time. We dont know how long this is going to last. We may not be able to end the social distancing in 14 days. It may take longer. Thats why the economic package that congress is considering is so important. We are what we are trying to do, bret, we are trying to create a v shaped recession and by the way we are creating a recession. It is a government mandated recession. We are telling businesses to stop functioning and telling workers to stay home. We want that to be rapid and fast and the decline so we can get ahead of the flatten the curve of the virus. But then we want to have a v shape recovery. We want to have a very rapid recovery going up. And so the only way to do that is to make sure that the businesses that are caught in the middle are survive between the v. So we need this package that the senate is putting together is very important. What it really needs to do and not enough of it is grants to small and medium sized businesses to cover their lost revenue if they dont lay off workers. These businesses can never make up that revenue. If you are a factory, you will fill back orders. If you are a restaurant or a store or a hotel, you are not going to be able to do it. We need to make sure that these businesses survive by covering their revenues during this period so that they are there to lead the recovery. Bret thats a big number. I want to play this soundbite. The president , chuck, is very optimistic about these other treatments and medicines for malaria. And there is a little bit of pumping the breaks, brakes froh officials in the data is there. Take a listen. We are trying to strike a balance between making something with a potential of an effect to the American People available. At the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if its truly safe and truly effective. Im probably more of a fan of that than many than anybody. Dr. Fauci said there is no magic for the coronavirus right now. Maybe there is. Maybe there isnt. We have to see. Bret chuck, what do you say. I think the president knows even less about drugs than i do and thats not very much. Its unfortunate that he would engage in that kind of speculation. On the other hand, its a little bit understandable. I think everybody in this country is clutching at straws right now. I want to underscore. So things that marc and kim have said about the economy. One of the down turns on wall street is a lack of confidence in the Solutions Coming out of capitol hill. There is a kind of cumbersome nature to this big package, which has a lot of rules attached to it. Its it addresses the sectors airlines here. What Business Needs right now, bret, is liquidity. They need a loan they need financing to get them from here to the summer still alive. The best way to make that happen is not by a Small Business program that you have to sign up and prove that you have only 500 or fewer employees. Massive liquidity backed by the Federal Reserve with the Federal Reserve fund approved by the congress and i really hope that kind of thinking starts to take hold soon. Bret its going to be something to watch how that comes together. Panel, stand by. Thank you. Next up the friday lightning round. It is friday. The political implications of the virus plus, winners and losers. Can match the power of energizer. Because energizer ultimate lithium is the longest lasting aa battery in the world. [confetti cannon popping] energizer. Backed by science. Matched by no one. whistling you know whats good about this . Your signs pointing at my sign, so people are gonna look at my sign. Switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. You know, like the sign says. 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The power of prevention. Call now to learn more. My whole focus has basically been how we deal with this crisis. And, quite frankly thus far, its been less about how i campaign. I would hope that governors listen to the Public Health experts. Im thinking about some of the elderly people sitting behind the desks, registering people, doing all that stuff, does not make a lot the of sense. Im not sure that does. Going by the rule of 10 as opposed to 50. Its pretty tough. I would say you probably could violate that if you wanted to for an election. I have thought election is a very special thing. Bret well the 2020 election taking a huge turn in just a few days because of the situation we are in. Back with the panel. Phoeurbg marc, it seems joe biden has wrapped up the democratic race but Campaign Something not going to be like it has ever been before and its going to be an interesting way forward. Nobody cares about the election right now when they are stuck in their homes and they are not sure where their next paycheck is coming from. So, i think with what everybody really needs to do is focus on solving this problem and getting us through this crisis. If we have a v shaped recession and v shaped recover contain the economic damage to spring in a bipartisan way. Voters are going to reward the people who did that. If this goes on and people see mismanagement. Then they are not. Trumps approval in axios harris poll came out 56 approval of his handling of the covid drivers. 47 disapproval. He needs to remain president ial and focus on that answered will be okay. Bret yeah, kimberly, that is a big, you know, bully pulpit he has every day of some political writers are writing this is the new rally in the white house Briefing Room from the past couple of days different tone than the first part of the week. What do you think about that . The president s ability to command, obviously the attention but also in this environment . Well, yeah, is he using that bully pulpit. And you also see him over the past week really seeming to embrace this new position as sort of war time commanders as it were in the middle of a crisis. I think that that probably helps him in the near term, but i actually believe sort of what marc was saying that the kind of measure of this is going to be what comes next. How does this sort of hit an end game and thats going to be as big of measure of white house performance as anything thats happening now. Bret chuck, quickly before we hit winners and losers. This story about the senators selling stocks after getting briefed. You have four senators so far maybe more put up the full screens there thoughts on that story. Its a bad look. No matter how you slice it. Each of them had their own individual explanation. Frankly, i think some of their explanations are probably valid this calls to mind if it is a war time situation back in world war ii. The most hated people in the neighborhood were the people who went out and bought extra meet over the. Super lightning winner and loser. My winner Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mariucci de blasio stoking fear and partisanship is a picture of calm and bipartisan. My loser is the Chinese ForeignMinistry Spokesman spreading this rumor that it is Conspiracy Theory that the u. S. Army started. This china is responsible for the Global Pandemic through its mishandling and trump should send him the bill for all this legislation when were done. Bret kimberly, winner around loser . Private industry is my winner for its remarkable effort its making right now to help with the testing for drugs, everything else. Its an impressive thing to see. My loser opposite of marc is actually mayor de blasio. We have seen some good leadership this week and we have also seen guys talking about how were about to go into the next great depression. Not helpful. Bret quickly, chuck . My loser is obviously bernie sanders. He lost three primaries and he is pretty much done. My winners are the folks at the shed aquarium out in chicago. This is the only bright spot in an otherwise extraordinarily dismal week. Those penguins got the run of the place. They gave the whole country a laugh and we all loved it. Bret all right. Panel, thank you. We had some bright side throughout week. We brought at the end of the show. Panel, thank you so much. When we come back, notable quotables. Restaurants have always been there for you. A place to celebrate, to take a first date, to grab a meal between soccer practice and piano. And even though tables are empty at the moment. The kitchens are full, prepping everything so its just right. Keeping customers safe. And making the food as delicious as ever. Theyre still there for you. Now you can be there for them. While the doors may be closed, the kitchens are open for delivery. Bret finally tonight, notable quotables. We have an invisible enemy. We have a problem that a month ago nobody ever thought about. [bell] tomorrow i wont go to work for nobodies until when. The millennial generation, our largest generation, our future generation. There may be disproportional number of infections among that group. This is so unintelligent and reckless, i cant even begin to express it. I was in new york city on september 11th 2001. And i know what the new yorkers can do. We need a main street recovery. Not a wall street bailout. Dont touch anyone. Dont hug. Dont kiss. Were human beings. Why do you keep calling this the chinese virus. It comes from china. If you are running out of toilet paper dont dial 911. The number for that is 922. You just committed your running mate if you get the nomination will be a woman. Yes, i watched the debate. Not too exciting. Thank you all. Thank you all for listening. Oh. [laughter] thanks. Thanks. One week, thats it for us, fair, balance lensed and unafraid. Heres martha. Martha good evening, everybody. Good evening, bret. This is martha mccallum, and this is the story. Tonight it is all about the balance between hope and reality and the economy and cascading shutdowns. On this friday as more states shutter nearly everything, and week one of containment, folks, is almost behind us. The wall street journal says that it is time that we balance the shutdown with the realities of the u. S. Economy. This as the president tries to