These are horrible tests. And it was broken, it was all broken and we fixed it. And we are doing millions of tests. Sometimes we send out a test and its not used, and many cases it wasnt used. We worked with the states and the testing has been Pretty Amazing especially considering the fact that we inherited a very broken system. Jeff . Something is said before, are you considering a temporary ban on all domestic flights . President trump im looking at height spots, and some of those flights i didnt like from the beginning, its a very, very rough decision. We are thinking about hot spots where we go from spot to spot. We will let you know really so soon. What about railroad travel . Speak to similar thing. We have trains going back and forth, people dont think of trains but we do a lot of transportation business. Big decision to do that and we are pretty late in the process and you will start seeing i think over the next couple of weeks, you will start to see us at the top and start coming down so we will make those decisions. Those are very, very Big Decisions from the same point of the future of our country in a way. The future of our country, we have to get our country back and we have to start moving again. We have to start working again. They are doing very strong tests or airlines of getting on and getting off and doing strong tests on trains getting on at getting off. When you start closing up entire Transportation Systems and opening them up, thats a very tough thing to do. There continues to be a lot of public confusion about the masks. President trump i love the sterilization of the masks. The ohio company, you can sterilize the letter and 95 up to 20 times. And think of that. We are throwing them out and they are very expensive masks. They are throwing them out. I kept saying, one of the first questions i asked to dr. Fauci i said why are they not cleaning the masks, because it wasnt my thing exactly when i first heard about this, nobody else knew it either. Now we have a company, i guess a number of companies, and a great one in ohio that makes equipment that you can sterilize a mask up to 20 times. Not you and me, what about the public, should we bearing, could be Wearing Masks . President trump i dont think so, some people dont like it because you are taking it away from the medical professionals. Some people dont like it for other reasons. I dont see where it hurts. It doesnt have to be a mask, he could be a scarf. I think frankly if people wanted to do it, we dont want to do anything thats going to take masks. If you are talking about a tremendous amount of masks when you do that, we dont want to take them away from our medical professionals but i certainly dont see it hurting. What i do see people doing here is using scarfs. I think in a certain way a scarf is better, its actually better. I wanted to ask you about social distancing and how it applies to religious organizations. Some churches as you know how to continue hold Services Even though you have advised them to practice social distancing. There was a pastor of a megachurch that was attended by several hundred people. My question is, should pastors be Holding Services in the middle of this pandemic . President trump my biggest disappointment is that churches cant meet in a time of need. This is a great time for churches to be together, people to get together on a sunday or any day and meet. Yet if you do that, if you do it close you are really giving this invisible enemy a very big advantage. Its the single biggest disappointment, one of the reasons i said wouldnt it be great just to pick a date, as i called it, and aspirational date, which would be easter, and i will tell you its a very, very disappointing. But again, you get too close and if somebody is sick you will probably catch it so you have to be very careful. Joe bidens Campaign Came out with the Statement Today saying speak to it write the statement or did someone else . As far as i know the campaign is wide awake and he would be wide open to having a call about the coronavirus. Would you take his call . President trump absolutely. I always have to be a nice guy. I dont know him very well frankly but i think is probably a nice guy. I would absolutely take his ca call. He would talk to you about speak to it now you are starting to go are you working for c cnn . Im pointing out what you said and what they said. President trump fox isnt so easy either, dont kid yourself. What you just said is a false story in this doctor knows that better than anybody. You should be repeating a story you know is false. Who is next . Iran is struggling with the virus. Under which conditions would you consider suspending u. S. Sanctions . President trump while we have to talk to them. I think we could work out a deal with iran very quickly. All they have to do is call. I just think they are proud people and the leadership is proud to come like all of us, we are proud. You people are proud. They are having a hard time picking up the phone or setting up the meeting but they could fix their country pretty easily. And we dont want hostility but if they are hostile to us they will regret it like theyve never regretted anything before. As per todays statement. All they have to do is call or have somebody call. You know, there are channels where we can deal very easily. Again, i think that john kerry did a tremendous disservice and i think he violated the logan act 100 . Thats what i think. They were dealing with him for years, all of that money, 150 billion plus cash, plus cash. Plane loads of cash for a deal that was no good and essentially a shortterm deal. Who makes a deal for that kind of money . 1. 8 billion in cash, i dont even know what that would look like. That room would have to be filled up five times with hundred dollar bills. Okay . Who makes a deal like this. On top of it the deal is no good. How about one or two more . Mr. President , theres a surgeon calls about Domestic Violence. A number of people are stuck at home and more Domestic Violence cases there could be. Do you share this concern and whats being done . Martha thats the cost of not getting our country working. Some people are getting along great. Ive also had the exact opposite question. People and families are coming together, they are actually coming together. They havent talked for a long time and now all of a sudden they are talking again and loving each other. Ive also heard Domestic Violence at a higher level. And drug use, because in this case they lose their jobs. They had a great job and a great life and a great family and all of a sudden a husband is told that he doesnt have a job anymore and he has no money. That brings drugs into it and suicide into it, its a terrible thing. We have to get our country going again. We did the right thing. We had no choice, we did the right thing and other countries tried to use the herd mentality. Its just something that doesnt work if you look at, i heard sweet and gave it shot and they would they saw things that were really frightening and they went immediately to shutting down the country. We did the right thing and we did it early and we stopped other people from coming into our country early. Ive been talking about that. People say what are you talking about . But you will have that. You have Domestic Violence and violence and you have suicide and drug addiction. We want to get this open as soon as we can and, i everyone in this room is happy. They will give me a decision and i think i know how to interpret those statements very well. That will be a great day. I have a question for mr. Wolf. Cases of covid19 are already and is there a contingency plan and, i look at it on a casebycase basis even well before covid19 in looking at certain detention facilities and determined on a casebycase basis. We also put them into alternatives. I. C. E. Is doing that in conjunction with cdc and other medical professionals. We do need to do that for the health and safety and wellbeing but thats a casebycase basis. We are not going to make any blanket statements that will release individuals of whole groups at a time. And the facility therein and at different facilities have different capabilities where its of facility, and we are doing that today. We have been doing that for the past several weeks. President trump did you talk about how tight that southern border is right now . They are continuing to build new miles of law. A lot of folks asked about replacement wall or a new miles and its a new capability on the southwest border that we havent had before. The Border Patrol agents, they like that capability unlike the impedance and denial that provides them and it provides the ability for the agents to focus elsewhere on parts of the border there are very difficult to patrol so we use our resources in a different way. We see a lot of and if its from the border wall system. The lightings and thats how mark to meet 400 or 450 miles by the end of the calendar year. There has been concern about farmers with migrant labor to keep the food supply going into harvest season. What are you doing about that . At the direction of the Vice President and the task force we are looking at some different options on how you extend the validity of the vsat were looking at a couple of different options. Nothing to announce here today but at the direction of the president on the Vice President , we are looking at a variety of different options. I think we will have soon. President trump im glad you asked that question because the farmers have wanted this for years, we want the farmers to be able to get the people who have been working those farms for years, and, we dont have to worry too much about the virus but we are closing the borders, two shifts before the everglades President Trump we are looking at the two ships. And we have americans and we have some people that are quite sick and im speaking with the governor about that. Its a tough situation. Its something you can understand but we have people that are sick on those ships and states have enough problems where they dont want to take them. But we have two from the humane standpoint. Its like i dont want to do that, but we have to because people are dying. We are going to do something. At a minimum we are sending medical teams on board the ships and we are taking the canadians off and giving them to canadian authorities. They will bring them back home. At the same thing with the u. K. But we have to help the people, they are in big trouble no matter where they are from. It happens to be largely americans but whether they were or not, i mean, they are dying so we have to do something. And at the governor knows that, too. President trump we are sending a lot of them home to their countries but you will see what we are doing. We are also putting medical staff onto the ships so we have to take care of the people. Mr. President , the irs is requiring people who dont normally file income tax to file a simple income tax return in order to get there 1200 check. Is that the way its going to be or is there something you will do . President trump i had heard that. Irs had issued some guidance. All right, one more. You spoke to President Trump i did, i spoke to him. Hes a great guy, from brazil. Just a very complimentary call. Hes working very hard and hes got a problem with the virus, a big problem. We talked about it today at length and we had a call this morning and brazil is shut down. They were going to shut it down but they had to so brazil is shut down. The world is shut down. No one has seen anything like this, the entire world to shut down. You go from having the most powerful economy in the world and from other countries that are doing well to being, everything is shut down. Its very sad. We will get it going and we will be stronger than ever. We will have a very big balance when this is gone and i just want to thank the American People and i want to think the is a great professionals and i want to think the media because for the most part the media has been very fair. Thank you very much everyone. Martha all right. There is President Trump at 717 eastern leaving the Coronavirus Briefing for this evening. A lot of information put on the table tonight that we will talk about here. Good evening everyone, i Martha Maccallum and this is the story. So if you watch this closely, the president changed his tone a bit on his answers on china. When he was asked about disturbing new u. S. Intelligence that was reported by bloomberg that revealed that chinas reporting on cases and death is intentionally incomplete. The president said this. President trump the numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side, and im being nice when i say that as to whether or not their numbers are accurate. Im not an account from china. Martha a little bit different tone than what we heard a couple of weeks ago. President trump it could have been contained to that one area in china where it started and certainly the world paying a big price, for not letting them come out. Everybody knows that. Martha so it appears that some of the approach of coming down hard on china about this is motivated in part by this answer. President trump i spent 50 billion buying our product. 200 billion to other things and they never did that before so we have a great trade deal and we would like to keep it. Martha that will play a big factor in how all of this is approached. Lets go back to the numbers here and the role that this information from china played in where we are today. How is it that china, a country of 1. 4 billion people reports to only 82,000 cases and 3300 deaths. Take a look at italy. 60 Million People. 13,000 deaths. So if just for example china had a similar death rate in proportion to its population, they would have had more than 302,000 deaths according to the italy model. Obviously there are factors that differentiate but that makes some sense. The report that came out also suggests that the virus that began in Hubei Province earlier than anyone in the world new, possibly november last year, dr. Birx here on the significance of the story to what we are seeing now. Watch this. So i think the medical community interpreted the chinese data as this was serious but smaller than anyone expected because i think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data. Martha missing significant amounts of data as she. So perhaps the reports of long lines and stocks of urns at Funeral Homes in wuhan paint a more clear picture of what china has known for a very long time now. Its a story that dr. Doctors desperately tried to tell the world. He was called a liar and he died of covid19. The other doctor after trying to warn young doctors that they needed to wear protective gear, she has disappeared. Tonight i speak with dr. Michael pillsbury on that story and also this evening we will bring in louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards about the challenges he is facing is his status hit very hard by this virus. Also tonight Geraldo Rivera and Donna Brazile on the politics of this pandemic. We begin tonight with their introduction and dr. Michael pillsbury, director of the center on chinese strategy and of course the author of the book, the 100 year marathon. China secret strategy to replace america as the global superpower. Dr. Pillsbury, great to have you with us. I want to start with the story at these two doctors which we have talked about quite a bit. I think the fact that they tried so hard to alert the world to what was going on is very significant. You know china as well as any american, youve spent an enormous amount of time there working and studying and working there as well as i said. What do you think happened to dr. Who disappear to . In both cases the doctors tried to make Public Information that makes the communist party of china look bad. They dont have the kind of election we do where we can safely be joe or say bad things about trump, its a crime. So he was taken down to the Police Station and forced to recant his true. This is part of a larger problem. The first thing you are taught is about the chinese belief in the power of deception, that nobody ever tells the truth and everything is done for a principal, a larger goal. And that seems to be whats going on. These doctors got in the way, because they are medically trained and respond to western values, they think telling the truth will help the whole world to combat the virus better. There are several specific things that we now know china was lying about. Probably the most shocking was when they told the w. H. O. , there is no human to human transfer with this virus. So many people postpone social distancing based on that statement. It was taken back later on when it was proven to be false but this is part of chinese expert one oh oh one that the just dont tell the truth. When we depend on them so much, dr. Fauci has talked about how he is on the phone with china or the last couple months, a lot of the data we get for the models that deborah birx has been talking about, that data comes from china. So we are vulnerable to what they may be doing. Martha just to tell people about dr. Ai fen, this woman who has disappeared, she took a photo of a patients test results and she circled in red sars coronavirus on it. That was one of her first crimes that she committed. Then she tried to get medical students to wear protective gear after she treated several patients who were coming in from the local wet markets so she definitely had a sense of what was going on. Now what we are hearing is that china is saying this is over and its now a foreign problem in other countries and despite the fact that they claim they have closed these markets which we now know three different epidemics generated from, they have now reopened them. Is that your understanding . Yes. They passed a law where they said they were going to ban everybody from eating wildlife about a month ago. Then they announced exceptions. Live dogs and live cats, apparently things from Traditional Medicine like bats are exempt from this band. So some reporters, in one case a daily mail reporter went in and took pictures of these live markets and that seems to be the place with a virus transfer from animals to humans takes place so, they are open according to the reporters who took the photos. This is really terrible. Martha when you look at the number, they said that 3300 people died in china which is, just based on what we have seen in other countries has to be a very low number. You saw the estimate that we extrapolated and we are making it very clear, its just an estimate. It is if you apply the italy numbers to china it would be in the 300,000 range. Do you think we will ever know how many people died in china and do you have any estimates . The estimates are coming from some very aggressive reporting from radio free asia. They are telephoning into wuhan and getting figures on the cremation urns and at the number of people being buried. It looks like from their reporting ten times more people have been dying in wuhan than the government has reported. But that may not be the worst of it. 60 years ago china had a huge famine and they said only about 60 people died. Later on books in the archives revealed 45 million chinese had died in this three year period. So they have a history of this kind of thing coming out later. What worries me the most is how much we have to rely on them. So President Trump is right to be on president xi to use euphemisms. Hes not saying you are a liar, hes trying to get the most out of china because previous president s have let him become so dependent on them. They are so powerful, almost three quarters of our own economy. As a very powerful country lying to us. Martha thats my last question for you, and its a big one. I think a lot of people look at the situation and they say, this is it. This is the moment when we have to break away. We have to be less dependent on china and find other sources and we have to let them understand that we cant do business this way. There was that feeling in the beginning of this and then we heard President Trump today and then, and basically saying, we got a huge deal for our farmers from china and we are not going to sacrifice that. Where do you come down on that dr. Pillsbury . I agree with the president. I think a great deal depends on the trade deal being implanted. The trade deal phase one has a lot of specific metrics that china must perform. Many of them actually start today, april 1st. So if they cheat on the trade deal than i think you will see an angry donald trump who will feel hes been cheated and the deal includes that we can withdraw from it. Its an appeals mechanism if we think they are cheating but if they dont agree to it or pay penalties or both then we simply withdraw and that will really change u. S. And china relations. Right now the president is giving them a chance. He has this wonderful trade one deal to cut the trade deficit and open up china in many ways to our companies for the first time in a reciprocal way. If they cheat on that, we have to add this line about the virus to the cheating on the trade deal and i think you will see a very different donald trump. He will be angry. Martha i think a lot of americans want to see a lot more produced here and less dependence on china and other pharmaceuticals and other industries. What im hearing is there is one more chance for china in terms of this trade deal and obviously its a very tenuous time in terms of our own economy and i understand all that but i think theres a tremendous desire in the country right now to see a much more distant relationship in whatever way possible in terms of manufacturing and interaction. Michael pillsbury, doctor, thank you. Always great to have you. The United States now surpassing 200,000 cases of covid19 with new projection predictions thats could go deeper into the summer. We will speak to a doctor who says that drastic measures, some of what the president was just asked about are what need to happen to get this to slow down and finish. He is next. Keep you connected. Through the resilience of our network and people. We can keep learning, keep sharing, keep watching, and most of all, keep together. Its the job weve always done. It is the job we will always do. 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He says that we need a couple of big things right now, including, and this was just discussed at the briefing tonight, a federally mandated nationwide lockdown. And many people agree with that including bill gates who is outlining three things that he says we need to do to stop the spread. Heres what bill gates is suggesting. He suggests a consistent nationwide shutdown which lines up with what we are hearing. Massive testing and aggregating of those results so we can identify volunteers for Clinical Trials and a database approach to developing treatments and a vaccine. A lot of that is being done but the two big issues are in question. In recent days, bill gates 2015 ted talk has gone viral. Maybe you havent seen it but people are saying that what he said in 2015 about what would happen in the United States and that pandemic was o uncanny warning. If anything kills over 10 Million People in the next few decades, its most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. We have actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We are not ready for the next epidemic. Martha that was five years ago. This is an Infectious Disease specialist and chief inspector at osmosis. Thank you very much for being here tonight. Explain to everyone at home why you think a nationwide of federally mandated shutdown is so important . Thanks for having me. The first thing is we know it spread persontoperson and that means that when we isolate ourselves in our homes there is really no chance for that to spread beyond of the household. So think of that as your unit. The problem right now is its all voluntary. Some states are doing it and others are not. Alameda county is the first county in the nation to do this lockdown and there are plenty of people still Walking Around outside and hanging out at the park and doing this kind of stuff. Its all voluntary. As long as it continues to be voluntary and not mandated we will continue to see the cases arise. Martha so you would shut down all air travel. We heard john roberts questioning that president about that thing there still a lot of planes going between hot spots and the reaction is, you cant completely shut down everything, the economy is in such tough shape. It feels like we are almost all the way there but not quite. Let me tell you something that you and your viewers might find inspiring witches, if we did do the shutdown, if we shut down rail and airlines and did it the way im suggesting and really kind of police it and had one squad car driving around making sure everyone is in their homes, we would see a drop off in cases within two weeks. Within two weeks the number of cases would start to fall and the entire country with breathe a sigh of relief. But we are not doing that. We are seeing cases continue to rise exponentially and we are panicking about the dow jones but the truth is if we just did this for a consistent period of time, a couple of weeks, he would see the number of cases fall off and continue to go down. This is a two week solution. We can do this. You dont want to put the pressure off the moment you kind of started to win the fight but we could do this and it has to happen right away. Martha you also recommend massive large scale testing. What we hear every night is that there are millions of tests available and yet, we dont have that pinprick blood test that you can just sort of get at your local doctor and know in 15 minutes, but they are working on it. They are working on it. They should have been working on it for months. We know about this when the w. H. O. Went. We knew it was respiratory and we knew it was persontoperson. Why is it that this week the fda finally approved these new abbott lab testing which by the way as one test at a time. Its a great test but its one test at a time. This is a wonderful test, dont get me wrong. But its a one test per 15 minutes. Its wonderful but its not the same volume that you need. This is better for Outpatient Clinics and things like that. We needed this months ago. You look at korea, south korea and the u. S. Had their First Official confirmed case on the same date, january 19th. January 19th. You look at what south korea did and what we did. Their population is 16 that there hours, look at the cases and mortality, its a trifle, because we had a very weak response in a they had a very strong response. Martha doctor, thank you. Very interesting to talk to you and i hope you will come back as we move through this difficult. Period President Trump warning americans that ahead we do have a very rough couple of weeks. Geraldo rivera says the somber tone of the white house left him with a sense of dread. He is here next. President trump we will be over this relatively quickly but it will be vicious for a period of time but hopefully, we will are going to be over this. With relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. Plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. Feel the clarity and live claritin clear. Martha tonight, reports that the pentagon is seeking 100,000 body bags for possible civilian use. This comes on the heels of yesterdays very sober projection from the white house that comes as a 120,000 americans could sub dome i can succumb to covid19. The president s tone was somber with this news as you can imagine. In the seven years ive covered the white house that is the most stunning briefing that ive ever sat through. This was President Trump changing his tune on the coronavirus. Sitting in the room that close to him i have never seen President Trump like this and i think to some extent he is scared right now. And we could all feel that in the room. You and i have been, you know, pretty critical of him from time to time but this was a different donald trump tonight. I think he gets it. Martha so lets see what everyone thinks about that. That. Geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at large, Donna Brazile, former chairman of the dnc and fox news contributor. Geraldo, what do you think about jim acostas assessment . He says the president now gets it. I think it was fair. I wouldnt have used the same language, i think the president is deeply troubled and profoundly unsettled. Weve lost under 5,000 americans in the minimum projection is 100,000 will die. The president has embraced these statistics that come from dr. Fauci and dr. Birx, two eminent scientists, which means we have so much more dying to do. The president understands that his presidency has been inexplicably interwoven with how he handles this crisis. He gets that. But this is bigger than that, its bigger than politics. This is an epic extraordinary tragic event and he is the president presiding over the nation and heading toward this catastrophe. It is something, its one for the history books. Martha it is. And we all know that president s have historic issues that are thrust upon them that they never anticipate. I think its a little unfair to say that the president now gets it and have the sort of assessment of him as coming around on this issue because weve been watching him every single day through the course of this and i think he has tried to be as optimistic as possible and as realistic as possible. You dont want to bring everybody down every single day as the numbers come in. He got this data and its unmistakable the seriousness of it. As geraldo says, we have a lot of dying to watch in this country. Im sure the president has received a lot of advice. Some hes probably embraced and a lot of advice hes probably ignored but we are in a period of rapid escalation of this virus and its time that we all understand the dire consequences if we do nothing or if our First Responders in the hospitals and Health Care Facilities do not have the equipment, the masts and the surgical ventilators, the respirators. So in many ways from day one i would say we are all in this together. This virus is not looking at me as a democrat or republican or american, its trying to grab all of us. So i want us to think about not just our policies but our families and our friends. Its impacting every person i know in some way, other its my students who im talking to every day, my family who is struggling down in louisiana, but also my community where i live here in washington, d. C. We are all coming together. We are going to support one another and thats what we should do in times like this. President trump martha i a sound bite from joe biden. Heres joe biden talking about the summer. Can you really envision every prominent dominant market democrat from all 50 states inside a hot arena 150 days from now . Its hard to envision that and we should listen to the scientists. One of the reasons why the Democratic Convention was going to be held early was because the olympics were coming after the Republican Convention but theres more time now. Martha geraldo . Martha, i think if we were extremely lucky, maybe the traditional allstar break and Major League Baseball would be the start of the baseball season, thats if we are lucky. That is in july and i think thats a long shot. I think our world is totally turned upside down. Now its already you mentioned that, i felt a sense of dread watching yesterdays presentation. That is so true. Ive seen everything. Ive covered wars and hurricanes and volcanic eruptions and coded taws, you name it. Ive covered everything but ive never covered a kind of societal homicide like this. Where so many are going to be lost, so many, and donna correctly pointed out, we are all in this together. But the fact of the matter is its literally true. Every one of us know friends and family members that have been lost to this awful plague, this epidemic. People say, he should have seen it earlier, or maybe it was the democrats fault because they went ahead with that impeachment and they distracted everybody or that the chinese lied to. Whatever it is, we have to deal with it and its very profound. We have time to deal with everything when this is over with but we have to stick together right now. Martha a good message. Donna brazile and Geraldo Rivera, thank you so much. Good to see you both tonight. Be well and stay well. Some patients including nba players are stepping up now to donate their own plasma as a treatment for those battling virus. 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She says take my blood to come and take my plasma. Swap my nasal passage over and over again if i can potentially save a single life. It would be nothing less than a miracle. This is called convalescent plasma treatment. Doctor, thank you so much for being with us tonight. How is this going and is it promising . I think the data right now is pretty promising and right now we are just at the beginning. So hopefully as more people have recovered we are gearing up to collect more donors. Martha how many donors do have so far . Right now we have a handful. You have to be at least 14 days after symptoms, with the first cases in the new york area on march 1st, we are just beginning to get there. Martha obviously one of the issues here is the testing of asymptomatic people because that could expand to the people that you could draw upon dramatically. We talked about this with the previous doctor, how soon until we can all go in and be tested . I know people who said i think i had it and i think i got better, when will that happen . Im going to say probably weeks but a number of companies are working on getting that Antibody Test up and running. And it you are exactly right. With that, we can test a lot of people to see if they were exposed. Martha so as anyone seen very positive results . Can you give me any anecdotal story about someone who has been treated with this and how they are doing . It has been used in china and theres a few case areas from china where the patients got better. We are still really early for the u. S. , i think the first patients received at just over the weekend. Martha so how long do you think it will be before you see wild widescale widescale use of this . We were just on a call with the fda earlier this evening and the u. S. Government with all of us are working hard to expand this as soon as possible. So hopefully within the next couple of weeks we will really be able to ramp up collections, particularly as the number of people tested has increased and the number of people recovered has increased. So we are hoping to be able to collect thousands of donors. Martha that would be great. In the nba players, a lot of people were upset they got tested at all in the beginning but lets hope they can turn that into a positive by helping other people as well and encouraging others to do so. Dr. Beth shaw, thank you so much, good to see you. So that is the story. April 1st of 2020. They say april is the coolest month and this one looks like its going to be pretty cool. Story continues and we will see you back here tomorrow night. We will see you tomorrow morning actually when we put together at town hall, the global covid19 pandemic. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. We are beginning tonight with the the way we have the last couple of evenings or so. Trace gallagher joins us now with the latest numbers on the spread of this pandemic. It appears the numbers have finally convinced ron desantis to issue a 30 day stay at home and mandate beginning tomorrow. The state Health Department now reports that covid19 cases in florida have doubled over the past four days. There are now 7,000 plus cases statewide with 101 deaths. Broward and