Over time our guidelines to slow the spread are decreasing. And will result in fewer hospital admissions because of the people doing what they had to do. Great people. And working with elected representatives and the doctors, the nurses and everybody. Just everybody. Everybody has been so amazing. Lou President Trumps aggressive strong handling of the deadly chinese contagion has improved considerably his poll numbers. The fox news poll reaching a record high, up to 49 . The latest fox news reading. 79 say the nation is moving in the right direction in the fight against the pandemic. 101,000 worldwide have been killed. In the United States, almost half a million have been infected. 18,000 more have died. Dr. Deborah birx echoed some of the president s optimism that better times are indeed ahead. What has been encouraging for those of you watching epidemic curving every day. For the first time in the jeuts unite in theUnited States weo level on the rhythmic phase. This gives us great heart in specific places and we are starting to see that change. Lou dr. Birx adding quickly while there are many encouraging signs, it does not mean the United States has yet reached its peak. Thats expected to hit his easter sunday. As the curve goints flatten and the death toll projections decline. There has been great discussion about when the economy will reopen. The president announced today that he will unveil a new task force next tuesday to advise him on when to reopen the nation. He calls the decision the greatest of his presidency. President trump they are going to go back to work and stay healthy. When you look at what we are doing. We hope well be able to fulfill a certain date. But we are not doing anything until we know this country will be healthy. The facts are going to determine what i do. But we do want to get the country open. Its so important. Lou in order to assure that safety of the American PeopleVice President mike pence says most major communities must be as he put it at the end of their outbreaks. The country should have widespread Testing Available as well, as well as therapeutics and died yens from the center and guidance from the centers for Disease Control and return to operations and operate safely. My next guest is a member of the president s Coronavirus Task force and he predicted the economy will open in 48 weeks, larry kudlow. The Coronavirus Task force showing optimism even though we are so moved by the losses the country is taking as a result of the wuhan virus. Your thoughts about how will the president balance the safety of the American People which he assures, and ending this fight victorious against that virus . Thanks for having me back on. I think what the president said today is exactly what he has been telling folks internally. The decision to reopen the economy will be made on the basis of the numbers. It will be data driven. As debra and others have said, the numbers are coming in better. I guess ill stay with my 48 week estimate. Thats a combination of hope and prayer. But the numbers are improving. We have to be careful. This has been a terrible period. A lot of people are suffering health and economic hardship. Inside a lot of people share the president s view, we would love to get this economy open as soon as possible. And that will be driven by the numbers as it always is. Lou those numbers now are sobering. They are grave. We are looking at terrible tragedies for so many americans. The necessity, the urgency of returning the country to business. People to work. And to restore normla norm restore normalcy. I find it interesting some scientific wags talking about well never have the same normal. I think this has been a period throughout this entire presidency going on 3 1 2 years of it. This has been a new normal anyway. It seems as though that prosperity is something we all want to restore and sustain. I am not the health expert. But there is no question on the one hand certain mitigations, best practices will be observed for a long time. Washing your hands. Getting tested. Taking your temperature. It reminds me of 9 11. Afterwards we put up metal detectors in the airports. People thought it might be temporary. And it was permanent. On the other hand, i know the president agrees. We had tremendous prosperity before this virus took hold. Tax cuts and deregulation and energy and better trade deals. Very strong prosperity. So the numbers coming in on the economy are perfectly dreadful and they will continue that way. I see it as a pandemic contraction. Well get to our rescue package to ameliorate that. This is temporary. The virus will be defeated and america will go back to work. This is an incentivedriven economy and america will go back to work. I think people want to get out of the house if they can as long as they feel confident and safe. We want them to go back to work on the assembly lines. Its just a question when we get a green light from the good numbers. But america will go back to work. You know that and i do too. Lou i have confidence in this president and his economic director and the entire administration. I think these polls show most of america feel the same way. And we are also seeing great positives. One of them is, and its not a minor item, we dont have a nation of daffodils and buttercups that the left seems intent on speaking to. I dont think they exist in enough numbers to move towards the left to water in proposing this election year. I think its fascinating we are seeing a performance this week that is the strongest performance by the markets in the face of the pandemic and an aggressive chinese disinformation campaign. We watched the best performance in the market this week in 44 years. Did that surprise you . Yes, id did. But the market is picking up a few key points. The coronavirus numbers arent proving. I think the market trades off that. The second point is i think the market likes our rescue package in conjunction with what the Federal Reserve is doing. I want to read this Small Business assistance program, the payroll protection program. We are at 661,000 loans approved. 168 billion dollars. 168 billion have been approved by the government guarantee. As long as you keep your payroll intact you will be forgiven the loan. Our estimates are we are going to run out of money for the Small Business thing april 17. Thats why we would like the congress to help us with an additional 250 billion. On the rescue package well be reaching 175 million americans. Cash and liquidity to get through the period. Lou when do those direct payments to woking men and women in this country the assistance, the direct loans will be out next week. The Small Business loans, the actual cash flow is coming out now. Yesterday and today as we speak. Its a gargantuan achievement and we want people to get through hopefully the last few weeks of this problem. The last point i want to make. President trump has done something no other administration has done. Hes using the private sector to help hip, assist him, whether its testing or medicines and therapy, whether its retailers or bio tech. The private sector has come through. It shows you the strength of america. Once we get this reopening well go back to work and restore prosperity. Lou that is a mess and thats critically point for all of us to hear in the country, larry. I want to turn to china very quickly. Its clear they are committed to a disinformation cap pain the likes of which we have not seen, not by the russians, and not previously by the chinese. Now its important to see the u. S. Chamber of commerce in the face of this threat and all the pain and suffering and loss of life that has been the result of a virus that originated in china. Its time for the Business Community and wall street to line up with this president and let no daylight be between them and this president as he moves forward against so many threats and so many challenges. Do you aguy . I do agree. And i thank you for it. This is a kudlow Economic Policy thought. We want as American Companies to come back home. One way to do that is 100 immediate expensing. Plants, equipment, i. T. , structures, renovations. In effect, immediate 100 expensing would pay the moving costs for American Companies to come back home. Thats one constructive way. While we are at it, lets help the companies that stay in america with immediate expensing, too. To me thats the best way out of this dilemma. Lou i think the idea of decoupling business with china. Thats a great idea. And of course retaining American Business in this country. And as you say, absolutely essential. Larry kudlow, always good to talk to you. We appreciate it. Happy easter. The World Health Organization giving another oppressive regime cover in its reporting of the wuhan virus. The representative to north korea, edwin salvador defending north koreas report that it has ask zero confirmed cases of the virus, despite sharing a border with both china and south korea. The w. H. O. Says its receiving weekly virus updates from the north korean regime. So who could question that. This is the World Health Organization that supported chinas contention that the wuhan virus was noncontagious. British scientific journal nature apologized for its association of the wuhan virus with china. Naturing writing naming the virus covid19 was a reminder to those who had been erroneously aassociating the virus with wuhan, including nature. Can you imagine nature falling on its ins in this fashion. Those polls from harris found at least 52 of americans agree with using the term chinese virus to describe it. We prefer wuhan since that is the exact place it began. For that reason we are calling it the wuhan virus. Forgive us, World Health Organization. Kt mcfarland, former Deputy National security advisor to President Trump joins us. Author of the new book, we the people. We commend your book highly to all. Lets start with trumps poll numbers. He has been a formidable and his tore egg force. Now with these and historic force. But now with these poll numbers hes a force the democrats havent had to deal with before. There will be a reckoning. He has these poll numbers in spite of the fact he has 100 disapproval ratings from the National Washington press corps. Fox news is the only network that is showing the press conferences in their entirety. The other cable net objection arent showing them at all. They have bitter ankle biters sitting around talking about trump. Do you want to watch the network telling you information thats going to save your family or tune into the bitter little angry ankle biters bitching about trump . The officials and the people dealing with it on a minutebyminute basis. Lou i have to say, and i love the language you have chosen, and i couldnt disagree with a single word or letter. This president is now being well, i love the idea that there is a group there are several groups of obviously superior intellects and forces of nature in their own right operating in journalism who condescend to give the president great counsel saying dont use twitter or social media. That diminishes our relevance and enhances your own base, and the because hes understanding of what you are doing. Dont speak truth as he does. These are the same people that didnt want him to in any way participate in his own press conferences on the coronavirus. Its just stunning to see time after time. The biggest advice that they can offer, the most frequent is of what you do, dont communicate with the American People. How can we preserve our lies and our own interpretation if you do that. Its absurd to watch. The media has a lot to answer for. They were useful idiots. The people who were advancing the cop tonight agenda without meaning to do so were not aware they were doing so. They were advancing russian disinformation. Now they are advancing chinese disinformation with the chinese propaganda campaign. They hate trump so much that they cant see through to the truth or care about the American People. Useful idiots. The only word i would quibble with is useful in just how useful they are. I think the American People have caught up to them. There is a reason the president s polls are moving this high. The useful idiots exposed themselves to the American People. They know exactly what they are. But to look at Nature Magazine apologizing to china for referring to the wuhan virus as the china virus. They capitulated on a matter of fact which is the virus originated in wuhan. We have seen a movement in the leftwing media trying to suggest that because some cases in this country originated from europe secondarily, the second place from wuhan. That suddenly its a european virus. This is madness what im watching in socalled journalistic organization. And china is using this opportunity to buy at fire sale prices Tech Companies and resource cop any. When we are through this and the world recovers, are we going to wake up and find out we are in a new world order with chinese characteristicsistics. China is moving out to purchase supply chain companies, and they are buying them at Bargain Basement prices to our longterm detriment. Lou so the question becomes why isnt the worlds greatest super power doing precisely that. Why is not the strongest economy and richest establishment in the world doing just exactly that . I think there is no excuse for wall street or the chamber of commerce round table to sit here and disregard the fact that china is a communist authoritarian nation hell bent on domination. Anyone who doesnt get that in my view is an abject fool. Small businesses around the country and medium size businesses are lining up to help saying well change our assembly lines. We are all in this together. I hope some of the wall street titans get the message and understand that a chinese world order isnt going to be very good for them in the long run either. Lou there are plenty of useful idiots in swank offices on wall street. But you know that. Kt mcfarland, we thank you very much. We appreciate it. And as you say, in it together. Great to have you with us. Attorney general william barr says there was no basis, no basis for the corrupt fbi socalled crossfire hurricane investigation. You know, for the fbi investigated a president ial candidate, then a president of the United States. Will we see anyone prosecuted . Anyone in power during that apex of political corruption in the fbi and the Justice Department . Investigative journalist john solomon joins us. And one of the countrys top hospitals launching a plasma therapy trial in hopes of curing patients with the wuhan virus. Stay with us for that and much more, straight ahead. At Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. We tailor portfolios to our clients needs. But you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right . We dont have those. So, whats in it for you . Our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do better. At Fisher Investments were clearly different. 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An improvement of oxygen was observed in 68 of the patients and more fat 13 over a median followup of 36 days. The may oh clinic is the mayo children i shall is conduct trials for people who may have an immunity to the wuhan virus. Joining us tonight, the president of mayo clinic laboratories, cochair of the mayo Clinics Department of medicine and pathology. Can i get your reaction to remdesivir and how you feel about it, its prospects as a therapeutic. The whole question of effective therapies for covid disease, the sars covid virus, is it an important question to be answered . The trials show great hope. Well need more extensive studies of these drugs to understand their true efficacy in helping control this disease. But these give us glimmers of hope. In the laboratories we are making sure we know who has the disease so we can measure the effect of these drugs. Lou we are all excited that a children wict prestige of the that a clinic with the prestige of the mayo, that you are working on a blood test on someone who has the disease or has overcome the disease. Tell me where you are in that effort. There are two types of tests in battling this illness. One is a molecular test. That test measures for the presence of the virus itself. What we have developed and introduced is a blood test which doe