Force, of course seemed fine with doing away with the task force. Until today when the president said he didnt know how populari the task force was and said hes decided hes going to keep it or around. The virus continues to churn across our country in tandem with the trend of reopening businesses and entire states. Despite the Johns Hopkins expert who just today testified that none of the states reopening have met all of the white house guidelines for reopening. And despite opinion polls showing a majority of americans are not at all ready or willing to go back to life and events as normal as we knew them. Indeed, in the real world tonight the death toll across our country stands at 73,863 souls lost to this virus. There are now among the small percentage tested more than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number of new cases is rising in nearly half of our country. Those are the states in orange on this map. The green states are where the number of cases are falling. Some 36 states have now reopened in some form or fashion. Former director of the cdc was asked about that during a House Committee hearing this morning. It will be tragically at least 100,000 deaths from covid at the end of this month. As bad as this has been, its just the beginning. Is it irresponsible to open the economy without adequate testing . We need to continue to y rapidly ramp up our ability to do all of the four things i r mentioned. Not just tests but also isolate people who are infected, Contact Trace and quarantine. By having all of those things in place we can come out safer and sooner. And we start our economy without a risk of explosive spread. Dr. Fauci was supposed to testify at that hearing as well, but he was blocked by the white house. T new reporting from politico reveals that even as the president has pushed to reopen this country federal officials p are worried. Politico obtained audio recordings of three Conference Call meetings held between 24 april and 1st of may led by hhs and fema officials. They talked about medical supplies and a possible new outbreak as restrictions are lifted. Politico says a may 1st Conference Call started with the head of the cdcs Influenza Division warning the numbers of deaths definitely will be high. N while this afternoon trump was asked about the risk. Will the nation just have to accept the idea that by reopening there will be more i cases, there will be more deaths . S, so i call these people warriors. And im actually calling them, now, as you know, john, the a nation warriors. Hopefully that wont be the case but that could very well be the case. We cant have our whole country out. The we cant do it. The country wont take it, wont stand it. Its not sustainable. If somebody lost somebody, a parent or a wife or a husband or, you know, any brothers, sisters, if you lost someone, you can never make up for that by saying, wow, youre going to have a great year next year economically. A and so you can never do that. But i will say from an economic standpoint i think next years going to be a very big year. Trump made those comments during an oval office event to honor nurses where he was also asked about the need for testing. We have more case, were going to do more testing. If i dont do testing we dont have any cases. So as i do more testing, they g say, but you have more cases. Meanwhile, the White House Task force that we were told yesterday was going away, as we mentioned, came roaring back into existence today. I thought we could wind it down sooner, but i had no idea how popular the task force is, until actually yesterday. When i started talking about winding it down. I got calls from very respected people saying i think it would be better to keep it going. Its done such a good job. I would say by monday well be announcing two or three new members to the task force. Those new Task Force Members may be challenged on the darkest aspect of this pandemic, and that is the growing death toll. Axios reporting the president has complained to advisers about the way the coronavirus death et toll is being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower and that a number of his senior aides share this view. One highlevel official expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions for the final death count and damages him politically. Trump was also asked about that report this afternoon. The death toll figures in the United States, over 70,000. Do you believe those figures . Well, i think it is what it is from you saying its 70,000. Its approximately now 70,000. I dont imagine there would be a very big variation. No, its a big number. But its also a number thats at the lower scale. I think deborah, you could say its at the very lower scale of any number that was predicted. Because if you look at the predictions i guess they said from 100,000 to 220,000. Thats if we did the big shutins and if we went to the total shutdown. Tonight the nations most populous state preparing to reopen. On friday california will start lifting parts of its stayathome order, which has been in effect for nearly two months. This is happening even as the state grapples with rising numbers of cases in l. A. And the bay area. California reported more than 2,600 new confirmed cases of the virus yesterday. We begin our leadoff discussion in just a moment. But first, we are pleased to be joined live by Eric Garcetti, democratic mayor of the city ofo los angeles, california. Mr. Mayor, because to my mind the testing plan you have launched in l. A. County is the biggest and boldest of its type in the nation, i want to start by asking you to listen along with our audience to the new White House Press secretary and what she had to say about testing in this country. Well talk about it on the other side. Why shouldnt all americans who go back to work be able to get the test before they do to feel comfortable in their own work environment, to be interacting with other individuals . Yeah, well, lets dismiss a myth about tests right now. If we tested every single rt l, american in this country at thi moment, wed have to retest them an hour later and an hour later after that because at any momeno you could theoretically contract this virus. So the notion that Everyone Needs to be tested is just simply nonsensical. Mr. Mayor, as someone whos in the middle of attempting to test 10 Million People, why is she wrong in this case . Well, its become a cliche on shows like this to say more testing, more testing, more testing. But its because Public Health professionals tell us this is a silent killer. Its not just about first le responders and medical personnel and people with symptoms who of course should always be our first priority. But its also about finding those people who are not a exhibiting symptoms, who can walk through us, walk through crowds and workplaces and spread this without us knowing. So thats why im proud los angeles was the first big city to offer widespread testing for people with and without symptoms, because it gives us a chance to know, find those folks, find who theyve interacted with and not just bend the curve but chase down those cases quickly, isolate them and help us get to a place where we can better protect from death people and better prepare for an economy that doesnt suffer so much. In new york the governor and the mayor have in plain english a horrendous relationship. You guys in california seem to rkdo have it much better. Though im guessing there are areas where as a city youre going to have to disagree with and supersede the governors slow rollout plan to reopen aspects of the economy, correct . We have a beautiful relationship, Governor Newsom and myself. Good friends, great working relationship. And that extends throughout the state with my fellow mayors and supervisors here in l. A. County. Where we disagree is not actually disagreement. The state says you can go this far, but its important for local leaders to know states will recommend you can but you dont have to go that far. If your conditions on the ground say your hospital admissions are up, your testing capacity, your tracing capacity isnt enough, go slow is my advice. Nobodys going to be overly criticized for going too slow even though we see protests and things like that. In the long term history will write the chapters of those who walk forward the right way. So were taking some baby steps this weekend in our parks telling people they can go back to trails but with masks on. Didnt change a single rule, you cant gather with a group of friends, just the people youre cohabitating with. G oecand were doing some pickup for retail. In the same way weve done for food well do that for bookstores and music stores but not for people inside those stores yet. So i think we have to get rid of this idea of black and white open and closed. Were going to be somewhat open and somewhat closed for the next year plus and you have to manage that carefully and dont be afraid to go a little slower than national or state regulations allow, but we have a great relationship out here in california. Another new york reference only because of the comparable populations. O n the mayor of new york guesses that hes going to have to lay off City Employees because of the gap between funding. Are you getting what you need from the feds thus far . How much do you fear youre going to need from the federal government . I want to praise the federal help weve gotten whether its the naval ship mercy or some of the help theyve given us to house our homeless or feed our seniors. And we need to make sure we get fiscal help, not just reimbursements for the costs of covid19 but local and state governments are 3. 1 trillion that is spent locally. Thats not only jobs for those workers who work for local governments, but those dollars , get recycled four or five times and the majority of that is in the social safety net to catch people in bad times like this so they dont suffer more. Public safety and firefighters and Police Officers need to stay on the front lines in this fight. And also folks like our Public Health workers who are literally the ones saving lives. A so we cant turn this into a partisan issue. Cities are run by republicans, independents, and democrats. And we are all together in pe saying we need to make sure that the next round funds cities and states for what they have lost so that we dont have more layoffs, we dont have furloughs like we proposed here in los angeles, a 10 furlough, that means 10 less service, 10 less people, 10 less economic engine here. Op and we have to make sure that part of our recovery is not just in the private sector but the Public Sector as well. Thank you for spending part of your 8 00 p. M. Hour with us tonight on the 11th hour out east. Mayor Eric Garcetti of the city of los angeles. Thank you so much for your time. And here now for our leadoff discussion on a wednesday night, phil rucker, pulitzer y prizewinning White House Bureau chief for the washington post, coauthor along with his post colleague Carol Leonnig of the u bestseller a very stable genius. Also with us, jill colvin, whits house reporter for the associated press. And dr. Kavita patel. She served as senior aide to Valerie Jarrett in the obama white house, advising on matters of health reform, financial regulatory reform, economic recovery issues. Also happens to be a clinical physician. Ic and among our medical contributors. And dr. Patel, you are the guest id like to begin this segment with. What about what the White House Press secretary said about w testing, that in effect it is merely a snapshot in time, you could test people an hour latern after an exposure and get a different result, the bottom line being why bother testing every american . Well, its just simply not true, brian. First of all, i think we all have come to a realization that we simply dont even have enough tests for a percentage of americans, much less all americans. So the fact of the matter is that we dont have enough testing, period. And that to kind of offer this contrast that, you know, talking about testing is nonsensical when we clearly dont even really understand what the extent of the disease is in our country, we already know that in parts of our country we are woefully undertesting and if we are thinking about safely reopening you heard it from dr. Frieden and many other experts just today that we cant do that without testing. And at this point were testing about 200,000 people a day, and that is about at least half of what we need. So, you know, trying to kind of obfuscate the orth by talking about testing every american and it looking different an hour later, well, at this point, i d think we need to at least have s some sort of testing strategy, and, brian, to be really honest about it, what we need to do is ask the administration, why are we having such gaps in testing . We have been talking about this for weeks and months now. Av what is it we need to do to get a real coordinated effort and to deal with the shortfalls . Its a fair question. Weve got it that we now have a much larger supply of ventilators. Testing remains the outlier. Hey, jill colvin, it was a minor fleeting moment in the White House Press secretarys presentation today. She made sure to say that the job of the members of the Coronavirus Task force was saving the lives of american people. Maybe because the president earlier had mentioned its popularity as a reason for keeping it open. What do you know about the less than 24hour turnaround in the fate and fortune of the white house Coronavirus Task force . It was very much a reversal t in the past 24 hours. Urembe was you know, had the president yesterday saying and the Vice President also telling reporters that the plan was for the task force to basically phase out. They were giving us exact dates, saying some time between memorial day and early june they intended for it to sort of fade out as they entered this new t phase. But the president received a lot of pushback in the hours before he appeared in front of reporters today, including pp seeing some of the media reports critical of that decision. And that influenced calls he received, he said, that made him decide to shift his language. And he said instead that the task force would continue on in perpetuity. He said he might change the composition of the task force but that it would continue to e meet. Co i just want to say, though, that this is really seems to be ah rhetorical shift more than anything else. For weeks now we have been told that the task force was going to be given a much less publicfacing role. These individuals, theyre members of trumps administration. Dr. Birx will still be there. The Vice President , his staff will still be meeting, its just a matter of how they choose to present that publicly. Phil rucker, the virus is still growing. And as i mentioned, the latest concerning case spikes are in states like minnesota and nebraska. Is there any hint of a kind of perverse buyers remorse inside the Trump White House after it banging the drum for get out there and reopen as long as they have . Well, brian, theyre looking at data here that is quite alarming and disturbing. The rhetoric you hear from the president is that we turned a corner here, light is at the end of the tunnel, americans have been warriors by staying home for all of these weeks, and now its time to get back out there, spend money, go to restaurants, get back into your offices, go to hair salons and so forth. But the death count continues to climb. We now have, as you said at the top of the show, more than 70,000 people dead in america. Were likely to have over d an h 100,000 dead by the end of the move may. And theres not any sign of this ending anytime soon even as the numbers in new york city start to come down. Theyre going up elsewhere. And thats a real dilemma for this administration. But youve seen the president basically adopted a mantra this week that, you know, deaths are going to continue and thats a sacrifice that americans need to make to get back out there into the economy and reopen the economy and get these numbers reversed and get people back to work. Nd our whole gang has agreed to stay on with us for another round of questioning. Our thanks as well belatedly to l. A. Mayor Eric Garcetti for starting us off. Coming up as we approach our first break, the latest white house response to the latest warning signs about lost jobs and cratering businesses. And later, three months ago a prominent name in the Democratic Party told us he was scared to death about the coming election. 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But its been manageable. And we do what we have to do. Were nurses. And we learn to adapt. Sporadic for you but not sporadic for a lot of other people. Oh, no. I agree, mr. President. Because ive heard the opposite. Ive heard that they are loaded up with gowns now. She went on to say shes been using the same mask for days on end. A nurse who dared to contradict the party line was herself contradicted in real time by the president during an oval office event designed to honor nurses on this annual day on the calendar meant to salute them as an occupation. The president went on to talk about the economy, once again predicting it would rebound much sooner than people think. Hours earlier a new report out from adp said American Companies lost 20 million jobs in the month of april. Worst drop in payrolls in the reports 18year history. Still with us, phil rucker, jill colvin, dr. Kavita patel. Dr. Patel, to you, again, to start us off, your reaction to that scene in the oval office. The story line as the president prefers it is were good on ppe, weve been surging it to everyone who needs it and the brave nurse who begged to differ. Look, brian, in medicine we have to rely on facts. And the fact is that we do not have enough protective equipment. Certainly its improving over time. But there are still to this day on public websites, nonprofits dedicated to getting protective gear to health care workers. Still daily pleas for help. And as you heard, people are reusing their equipment, which is absolutely not the science. The science and data tell us that every time you interact with somebody, even the same patient, that the minute you step away you should be actually changing out your protective gear. We realize that thats just not possible given how many interactions there are between a caretaker, a professional and a patient. So it is troubling. And, again, the data is what it is. Not only do we not have enough but this certainly speaks to this issue around the globe about supply chain and just in general this leads to why we have a short in testing and all of the other issues that i think many Health Professions such as myself have been bringing up. Jill colvin, weve been showing for weeks now the aerial pictures, the lines at food banks. And you can go from car to car to car and almost universally people will tell you they never dreamed this is a situation they would be in. And im going to quote from a New York Times story. Among mothers with Young Children nearly 1 5 say their children are not getting enough to eat. According to a survey from the brookings institution, a rate three times as high as in 08 during the worst of the great recession. Jill, are they prepared for the human cost of this . And god forbid you reduce it to its bare minimum, the optics of this. Yeah, i mean, look, the numbers are horrible. And were going to be getting, you know, new economic numbers on friday. That Administration Officials like Kevin Hassett have now spent days trying to sort of prepare us, warning that these are going to be the worst job numbers weve ever seen. Or at least at any time in any of our lifetimes. And this is the drumbeat that the white house is looking at as they try to, you know, put together this balancing act of the economic costs of this, what it means to have people not being able to go to work, not being able to buy food for their children, and the opportunities and costs of opening up the country. The president , however, has really talked about some kind of economic snap thats going to happen, that as soon as, you know, the rainbow is lifted there will be this magical moment where everything will go back to normal and hes predicting, you know, a very good third quarter, a fabulous fourth quarter, predicting that 2021 will have even greater Economic Growth than last year did, and economists are telling him that thats just not how this is going to work, you know . Even if businesses begin to reopen, that doesnt mean that jobs that were lost magically will come back online. It doesnt mean americans will feel comfortable going out, going out to the Grocery Stores, resuming life like it used to be. Phil rucker, we started with a scorsese reference. Its time to transition to a coppola. What happens when the president goes to the mattresses . What does this Campaign Look Like if he is without his ace . His most effective tool in his toolbox is to run on a vibrant and humming economy. What will that Campaign Look Like . You know, brian, even when the economy was vibrant and humming we assumed that this was going to be the Ugliest Campaign in recent times. And thats because President Trump signaled as much, that now with the economy in freefall and him not able to run on the strength of the economy i think its going to get even uglier because what trump has to do now, what hes planning to do, what his strategists are telling us theyre working on is to really destroy joe biden, to run a campaign of character assassination against the former Vice President and disqualify biden in the minds of so many of these voters so that people will vote for trump. The polling that we have seen month after month through this pandemic has been very bad for trump. People do not approve of his Job Performance in this crisis. They do not approve of his leadership, of his character, of his compassion and empathy. And so in order to win trumps going to have to tear down biden. And we already see his Campaign Operatives beginning to lay plans to do so. Our thanks to our guests from medicine and journalism. Phil rucker, jill colvin, dr. Kavita patel. Greatly appreciate you hanging out with us tonight. And coming up, after declaring himself a wartime president , donald trump says his warriors are the americans he needs to get out and help restart the economy. Does that indicate an undue sacrifice by our sheltering masses . Assessing the political strategy of that particular approach, when we come back. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyre there. They have the tests. That was exactly two months ago today at cdc headquarters, when the president made that claim. It wasnt true on that day. It remains untrue as we speak tonight. And a reminder, just 2 of our populations actually been tested. And the press secretary today in the Briefing Room called the idea of testing everybody nonsensical. So on that note, we are happy to welcome back two returning veterans tonight. James carville, veteran democratic strategist, who rose to National Fame with the clinton president ial campaign. Cohost of the 2020 politics war room podcast. And eugene robinson, pulitzer prizewinning columnist for the washington post. So james, im glad we caught you before your fitting for your kevlar covid warrior suit. I want to read you this from chris majerian in the l. A. Times. And we quote. In recent days trump has begun describing citizens as warriors in the battle against the pandemic and suggested some of those fighters might have to die if that will help boost the economy. The new language shows trump appears to view people as Collateral Damage to salvage the economy, says joshua levy, economist at George Washington university. James, is this why youre suddenly optimistic about the democratic chances six months from now . Well, i was optimistic because every election since hes been elected weve won. Every poll were ahead. Theres nothing but overwhelming evidence. And look what his campaign is doing. Theyre a pack of grifters. His Campaign Managers got two condos, a ferrari, a yacht, a range rover. And theyre all just fleecing the campaign. Its just about making money. And theyre going in and giving him fake polls. This whole thing is just like a crumbling empire right before your eyes. Everybody is trying to take everything they can get on the way out and theyre trying to prop him up so they all can make money. And, you know and, james. Its amazing to watch this unfold. And, james, when phil rucker talks about when you remove the economy as something for him to run on, do you worry about what folks are going to resort to in this campaign, which we already know isnt going to look like any campaign we in the modern era have ever seen . The only thing i worry about is them messing with the right to vote. As long as theres anything close to a level Playing Field i really dont care what theyre going to do. They were going to lose before this hit. Theyre just going to lose worse now. And they all know it. And theyre all getting profiles written of themselves, i saw blaise pascal, campaign manager, whatever his name is, all over the New York Times magazine posing for pictures. I mean, this whole thing is gone. I mean, oracle of orangeburg can tell you that. Hes right there with me. Crumbling right before our very eyes. Eugene, in addition to having the best kitchen ceiling in louisiana, the guy does have a way with words. Eugene, you yourself wrote this week that the new normal is already here. Tell our viewers who didnt have the privilege of reading your column what you mean. Well, look, were set adrift by this white house, right . The white house has abdicated its responsibility to dot kind of surveillance testing, the kind of real testing we need to move toward to reopening the economy on a on a scientific basis, on a safe basis. And theyve checked out basically and said just let the states handle it, let the mayors handle it, and let the individuals handle it. And were just going to have to make decisions ourselves about what we consider safe, what we dont consider safe. State and local governments, some regional compacts are getting together and they all move forward send move forward sensibly, i hope, and gently, at least some of them. But this is just a scandalous abdication of responsibility at a critical moment. One other thing. This administration is not participating in a global effort sort of combine to find a vaccine. Were trying to find a vaccine on our own and whatever, but there are powerful nations with great scientists joining forces. The United States should be leading that international effort. But of course this president is not capable of that sort of thing. So you know, based on the vaccine first, were at the back of the line. This is just this is absurd. I agree with everything captain carville said. I mean, i think hes absolutely right. We are the democrats are in a great position going into this election. As we go to break, ill read this from a frequent guest of ours. Tom nichols. He said this tonight is the worst of all badfaith assumptions in this pandemic to assume that those of us obeying our states restrictions and supporting the making of sciencebased policy are enjoying it and dont care how long if goes on. It speaks to my contention the people are indoors not because theyve been ordered to, because they dont want to get this. Were going to fit in a break here. Both gentlemen have agreed to stay with us. 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New Monmouth University poll from my home county in the great state of new jersey shows more people would prefer that person nationally to be joe biden than donald trump, 50 to 41 . Still with us, James Carville and eugene robinson. And, james, i want to ask about your side and the notion of punching back. Should the Biden Campaign be holding a daily or thriceweekly call it a resistance briefing, call it a medical briefing . We havent heard from the task force in over a week as it is. Right. On days when the president suggests maybe injecting disinfectant or inserting uv light where the sun normally dont shine, should there be some reaction from the campaign . Should the biden group be putting out ads as biting as the Lincoln Group, a bunch of lapsed republicans . Well, first of all, i wrote a piece on mpc. Let me tell you the Lincoln Group and the bulwark, these never trumper republicans, the democrats could learn a lot from them. Theyre mean. They fight hard. And we dont fight like that. We dont fight like that. The way that you run a president ial campaign is youre a pirate ship. Youre always calculating. Youre always taking wind speed and direction. You seize and you loot and you burn. And thats just the way it is. And theyre ineffective. Theyre just riding low in the water. Theyre all fat. Theyre all rich. Theyre all scamming. Theyre all making money. And my advice is get ready. Hit them, hit them, and then hit them again. Because it dont matter. If the dow is 35,000. Hes not going to win. He wasnt going to win when unemployment was 3. 5 . Hes certainly not going to win now. But the idea is not just to beat him. It is to end the scourge of trumpism in this country forever. And we can do that. Its within our grasp right now. Right now. Theyre just fleecing this thing. All theyre trying is to make money right now. They know whats going on. Everybody knows whats happening in this country. Eugene, a great man once reminded a victorious president ial campaign its the economy, stupid. In your view, is it still the economy and is the risk for this president , a guy who has pitched himself to neighborhoods of color in this country the same way he has pitched himself to potential takers of hydroxychloroquine, what do you have to lose, does he have to worry now that people are going to sit down and figure out what exactly it is they have to lose . He has to worry a lot. Because, look, i think if the economy were roaring, it was not as donald trump claims the best economy in the history of the United States, but even if it were he would be in trouble in this election. Is you know, he and the Republican Party would be in trouble, and polls are showing that not just nationally, but in battleground states and senate races, and so im i think james is right with his sort of jack sparrow strategy for what the democrats ought to be doing. Hes absolutely right. And i may steal some of those for a column because we can learn a lot from that Lincoln Group ad and what theyve been doing. They are really good at this. Ive preached for years that the republicans are much better at this sort of punchy, you know, request emotional, hardhitting impactful advertising. They pare down issues to simple simple sound bites that people can understand. Democrats are not known to do that. They like dependent clauses and rambling on, rambling sentences and they do bring in blaise pascal. So they can definitely learn a lot from what the Lincoln Group is doing. This is no time to let up. This is time to put pedal to the metal. Because i think the opportunity is there for a blue tsunami. I really do. You know, brian, churchill said ill have what these two gentlemen are having. Hey, james, ill give you 30 seconds. What have you got . Churchill said if all you neocons, exrepublicans, never trumpers, bulwark people. Come in, show these guys how to fight. Democrats get off the Conference Calls, get out meeting and go in and take it to them. But anyway, i love being on with you, eugene. No south of the mason dixon line. Thats right. Thank you both. James carville, eugene robinson. Ask gentlemen, its always a pleasure. Thanks for coming on. Coming up, one company struggling to keep up with demand because their product has suddenly become a prized possession during a pandemic. There was one night on this broadcast early on before quarantine started, before the death toll really started to skyrocket. We mentioned that an analyst on cnbc one afternoon said the one stock he was going to watch during this pandemic was clorox. Indeed, if your family is like ours, like so many others, youve been scanning the internet and Grocery Store shelves for clorox wipes. One of the products during this covid era that we never could have dreamed we would need, right until we needed them. Tonight, we hear from the head of the company that is struggling to make up for demand. We get our report from nbc news correspondent blaine alexander. Reporter for shoppers scrambling to find disinfectant wipes but greeted by bare shelves, this will be a welcome sight. Clorox factories working overtime to meet a 500 spike in demand. In some cases, we sold as much in one week as we normally sell in one month. We are in unchartered territory. Reporter this is the ceo of clorox. When will people be able to go to the stores and find products in stock on the shelves . We know that right now we cannot make enough products for everybody. We think we will be in a substantially better shape by the summer. Reporter june, july, is that what youre thinking . Were ramping up supply. The other component, however, is the consumer demand, and that today is outside our control. Reporter the company says it has increased production of disinfectants by 40 , but thats still not enough. We are shipping products to stores every single day, whether thats physical stores or online stores, but theyre gone pretty much right when they arrive. Reporter our cameras were not allowed inside clorox facilities because of health and safety concerns, but the company shared this video with nbc news, a rare look inside its largest factory, churning out giant bleach drums that can clean 14,000 hospital rooms each, and the wipes and sprays that we all use at home. While clorox is ramping up production, they say that the safety of their nearly 9,000 employees is the priority, so, they are making changes at factories line this one, including staggered breaks, face masks and temperature checks. Do you consider your employees critical front line workers, too . Yes, we do. Reporter Jessica Matthews is one of them, responsible for making sure the trucks are loaded. You really see how valuable we really are. Before, its like, okay, we just make wipes and clean up, but now were saving lives, were making a difference. Reporter Carlton Mitchell oversees beach production. Even though we know that were potentially at risk, we are willing to take that risk and make that sacrifice, because were helping to save and protect many lives, thousands of lives. Reporter clorox is hiring more than 250 employees, increasing base pay and giving a bonus to lower level workers. Were sorry that we cant help as much as we can, given the unprecedented demand, but we give our hearts every single day to do better and help is on its way and it will be better starting this summer. Reporter until then, he says these factories will be running around the clock. Blaine alexander, nbc news, atlanta. More essential workers to think about. Coming up for us, an act of kindness from 173 years ago that has come roaring back for people who need it right now. Yes. The first word to any adventure. 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