We must have a working economy, and we want to get it back very, very quickly. And thats whats going to happen. I believe it will boom. Sandra all of this as china raises wuhans covid19 death told by 50 among growing questions over its handling of the outbreak. We have Fox Team Coverage for you on this friday morning. Gillian turner standing outside the Chinese Embassy in washington but we begin with john roberts live from the north lawn this morning. Good morning to you, white house officials and dr. Anthony fauci said this is not going to be like flipping a light switch, this is going to be a rolling opening to get to these guidelines and they are going to be very specific state by state and county by county and city by city. First of all, these areas have to achieve what is called gating criteria, 14 day downward trend in infections and make sure they have adequate testing and place. They get through that gate way, they can then begin to enter phase one when people can go back to work and phases of telework still will be encouraged. In addition to that, schools and organized Youth Activity should remain closed. Minimize nonessential travel. Large venues including restaurants and some sporting facilities can open and operate with strict social distancing. Elective surgeries can resume on an outpatient basis. Bars have to remain closed and vulnerable individuals continue to shelter in place. After that there was another 14 day downward. Matt, they can get into phase two were nonessential travel can resume, schools and organized youth activities can resume, bars may operate though with diminished standing room occupancy, vulnerable individuals should continue to shelter in place and it would go through another 14 days of downward trend. We get into phase three were vulnerable individuals can resume public interactions, visits to senior care facilities and hospitals can resume and some unrestricted staffing of worksites can resume. Its almost back to normal but it would be the new normal. Heres what the president said about it yesterday. Instead of a blanket shut down, we will pursue a focus on sheltering the highest risk individuals, so important. We are establishing clear, scientific metric and benchmarks on testing, new case growth and Hospital Capacity that must be met before advancing to each phase. And thats each phase specifically in the reopening of our country. This is a gradual process. The guidelines leave it to the governors to come up with individual plans for their own states. North carolinas democratic governor saying there are still some hurdles to get over before his plane could be implemented in his state. This virus is going to be with us until we have a vaccine and we are going to live in a new normal. I want to live in that new normal, but the new normal is going to rely on testing and right now, we dont have the full capability to do it. We are working on it. The guidelines and recommendations did get the signoff from the president s three main medical advisors but has likely opponent in November Joe Biden all but dismissed the plan. Listen to this. I wouldnt call it a plan. I think what hes done is hes kind of punted. Hes decided that he doesnt have the right to make the call for the country. Joe biden may not like it but those markets certainly do. The dow futures are way, way out. Again this relies on this dating criteria, 14 days of a downward trend and there are a few states in the nation that already have met that gating criteria and could open a lot earlier than may the 1st. In fact, the president said there are a couple of states that could be in a position to open as soon as today if the governors have a plan Going Forward. Sandra it is going to be really something to watch this all play out. John roberts at the white house for us this morning, thank you. Ed meanwhile, the u. S. Intelligence community is now reviewing the material collected on chinas handling of the covid19 outbreak. Lawmakers calling for beijing to finally provide some transparency. The question the Chinese Government has refused to answer is whether they were studying this particular virus, the Novel Coronavirus in one of these labs and did it escape accidentally . They are stonewalling and refusing to answer that. Ed Gillian Turner is live for us outside of the Chinese Embassy in washington. Good morning, gillian. Good morning, ed pugh to breaking news overnight as you mentioned at the top of the hour. Chinas government now admitting that the number of people who have died from coronavirus in wuhan is increasing by about 50 from the reporting theyve been giving to the International Community over the last couple of weeks. Lawmakers, other u. S. Officials have been warning us about the numbers coming out of china saying theyre inaccurate. They are often incorrect and now we are learning just how far off they have been. We are also getting new details about the u. S. Investigation into the origins of the virus. According to our sources, and of evidence is continuing to release that it may have been released from an Infectious Diseases lab rather than a food market as china has long claim claimed. We know that china has a very sloppy history of laboratory safety. Some of our own diplomats at the end disease and china went to these labs has far back as two years ago and said the practices there were very alarming. Fox news was first to report yesterday the lab in question may not have been operating at the safety level that was cleared for it. Its whats known as biosafety level for making the lab unqualified to handle a highly contagious airborne pathogen like coronavirus. Here is chinas foreign minister responding directly to our reporting yesterday. Translator the head of the w. H. O. Has stated many times that there is no evidence that the new coronavirus originated in the laboratory. Many prominent medical experts in the world who also believe that the socalled laboratory leak has no scientific basis. Last night, we were able to confirm that the u. S. Intelligence community is involved in this Ongoing Investigation into the wuhan lab, but now were learning more details about what its going to look like Going Forward. Right now, intelligence operatives and analysts are looking at the labs looking at the numbers, what chinas government knew and when at a certain point in the nottoodistant future theyre going to present those findings to the White House White house. President trump is going to use that information to make a decision about how to hold china accountable for the spread of this pandemic. Ed a lot of people waiting for those next steps. Thank you for the reporting period sandra as you just heard, President Trump laying out that plan to reignite the u. S. Economy starting with guidelines for some governors to begin rolling back restrictions in their states. Lets bring in a former speechwriter for president george w. Bush and a fox news contributor. He joins us now. Good morning and great to see you. I want to start off with larry kudlow was speaking from the white house a short time ago on fox news channel. He said this is going to be fazed by phase, this is going to be a gradual transition. These are all his words. Data dependent, they will have to be a climbing trajectory he said. These things we will have to look at is a transition basis. So there is going to be a lot of numbers that have to be looked at, a lot of response to reopening the economy that has to be assessed. How do you see this all playing out now that weve heard from the white house on a . First of all, a few weeks ago everyone was criticizing President Trump for reopening the economy and now we all agree its a good thing to do. President trump knew from the beginning that we needed a sustainable strategy to defeat this virus and the current lockdown is unsustainable. We just had 22 million americans in a matter of a month file for unemployment. Thats the worst since the Great Depression and a happen faster than the Great Depression so we cant go on like this forever. What the president laid out with his Public Health officials is a very carefully calibrated phase plan to slowly open up a little bit at a time, to have metrics which is basically do you have a 14day period where deaths have continued to decline and cases have continued to decline and if they do, then you open up a little bit more. If things like that, then you can shut it down again. So this is the kind of plan that we need to take steps to get the economy moving again so people can get back to work and get back to their lives. Sandra he says this will be a transition month looking at may. As far as the pushback in some states that we have seen, michigan grabbing a lot of headlines there with the governor Gretchen Whitmer. In she has had very strict restrictions for her state, and she is getting a lot of pushback. Youve seen the protests to those. Some sheriffs now saying they will not enforce those restrictions. She went on tv this morning reacting to those sheriffs opposing her stay at home heres the governor. Making a point, thats fine. I can take it. It makes people feel better to take their frustrations out on me, thats fine. All i ask is lets not get overly political here. Sandra so while we do see or we will see some areas of the country reopening, some will not, and theres growing anxiety about that. How do we handle it . Its very opportunistic for her to say this is political because i havent seen protests against Governor Cuomo who was a democrat in new york. I havent seen protests against avenue seven or the democratic governor of Washington State so this is a political. This is two things happening. One, her measures have been so arbitrary that people are reacting to them because you cant go buy seeds at a garden store but you cant buy marijuana. Is just completely arbitrary and people are hurting. People have been their families and lives are being destroyed. They dont know how theyre going to pay their rent or anything and so she is in contrast to President Trump laying out a phase careful return to normalcy for this country which is what the American People want. Sandra and she has called some of those protesters irresponsible. Fear is one of the sheriffs explaining his opposition to her orders. Listen. We just want everybody to pump the brakes a little bit and say you know what . Were going to get through this. This is america. The constitution still matters. Sandra so i want to transition to the reporting that we are now seeing out of china, the origination of covid19, and you have a brandnew piece in the Washington Post on how china stifled taiwans attempts to warn the world about covid19. Whats your message in this . You have a really interesting Clinical Study thats happened because we have two chinese societies, totalitarian china and a free china and taiwan and they both handled this situation completely differently. Communist china lied to its people, try to suppress evidence of the virus, covering up the origin story of the virus and spreading disinformation that there was no persontoperson transmission and the result is not only has china been devastated by the virus, but millions of people around the world have caught it because of chinas irresponsibility. Taiwan by contrast should of had the second largest number of cases in the world, it is 80 miles off the coast of china, has 3 million visitors a year from mainland china. They have only had 393 cases and theyve had only six deaths and theyve done it without the lockdowns, without the Community Mitigation measures and without destroying their economy because what they did is they didnt listen to chinas lies. They acted in december. They started shutting down travel and had trouble shut down through the month of january and early february and as a result theyve been able to defeat the virus without destroying their economy. What we want to get to is where taiwan is. Which is isolating individuals, without isolating entire populations. Sandra great to visit with you this morning. Thank you. Ed good to have mark back as always. And now the fight in congress over funding for struggling Small Businesses. Without an agreement to shore up the Paycheck Protection Program which has now basically run out of money. Joining is now a Senate Majority whip john thune. Its good to have you, sir. The wall street journal calls this a jobless claim tsunami, that youve got 22 million of our fellow americans out of work in the span of a month and yet nancy pelosi is still saying this morning shes not going to sign off on more Small Business money without you agreeing to money for the states and hospitals. How do you get a deal . Youre right. All these people this is about workers, obviously, and more workers who dont buy jobs, the more theyre going to be hitting the unemployment lines of the more those numbers will go up. The Paycheck Protection Program was designed to allow these employees to continue to work and its been very successful obviously as evidenced by the fact that we need to reload the Funding Authority for it, and i think its just unconscionable that washington democrats are playing political games with peoples lives. This is about American Workers and right now, weve got a crisis, we have an emergency and the democrats in washington dont seem very interested in helping to put out the fire. They always want to attach other things which are not related to this issue. This is the crisis we have in front of us it all it takes is a little bipartisan cooperation. We could move this thing and it be done. We could get the dollars back out on the street, businesses applying in workers keeping new jobs. Ed when you mention other items, a lot of people in this country are still fired up about the fact that the Kennedy Center and other folks got money when it seemed unrelated to the emergency at hand as you suggest and is not just your fellow republicans saying it. Max rose, a Democratic House member was on this program yesterday and he had a direct message for Speaker Pelosi. Watch. If for a second you think that this is an opportunity to insert some random tenants of the green new deal, some random things that support the Kennedy Center or anything else that the far left calls for, that is not the time. I hope youll have me back on. Ill be the first to come back on and say no. This is not the time to do this. This is wrong. Ed you can, and they are on democrats taking on the speaker but i hear from a lot of people in our audience who say why do Republican Leaders end up signing off on some of this . I know theres leverage they are in these talks and you have to get the money moving fast but can you guarantee our viewers that none of this other stuff will be in the next round of funding . It wont be if the democrats will just agree. Senator mcconnell went down to the floor last week with a very simple ask. All that was was changing a number in the bill. Increasing the amount of Funding Authority. Nothing more, nothing less. And the democrats objected to it. With the democrats always try to do in circumstances like this is try to hijack the process to get unrelated agenda items included. Speaker pelosi does this all the time. Thats why the last round of funding got slowed down by several days is because they bring these things to the table and attempts to try and accomplish their more permanent liberal agenda. And we dont need that right now. This is a crisis. We have to put the fire out and get these dollars out there so these businesses can keep operating and keep their employees employed. This is about American Workers on their economic livelihoods. Is not a time for political games. Ed quick answer on china because your colleague ted cruz said that china has clearly been stonewalling our colleagues here at fox, bret baier has done some outstanding reporting about the what the u. S. Intelligence community is putting together here. What is your bottom line on how you hold china accountable . First off, we know there has been misinformation and disinformation coming out of china from day one. That is finally coming to the surface. Eventually, it was going to come out that they were understating the number of deaths on the impact of this world wide. I think of nothing else, hopefully its a wakeup call to the world about how they operate, the lack of transparency, the censorship of journalists and its going to take a Global International response to hold them accountable. And i think there are a lot of ways in which you can do that but obviously its something the president has put on his agenda and the president to his credit even before he was president while he was a candidate was talking about bringing the supply chains home, these critical capabilities that we need in this country and not something we need to be focused on as well. Ed we certainly hope you and your family are doing well in these tough days and we appreciate you coming on, thank you, sir. Thank you, same to you, ed. Sandra larry kudlow meanwhile sing the Second Quarter will be pretty awful for the u. S. Economy. What will that mean for the president s plan to reopen the country . Plus, new yorks governor sending the states stay at home