good afternoon, i m chuck todd and here are the facts at this hour: just moments ago president trump signed the paycheck protection program and health enhancement act at the white house. this bipartisan bill really an addendum, if you will, providing an additional $500 billion in virus aid to employers and hospitals. the president also walking back sort of his comments about injections of disinfectants. he still is claiming some uv light could be injected but claims on the disinfectant front he was being sarcastic. new york governor andrew cuomo maintains hospitalizations remain flat and likely had 10,000 cases of kocovid as earls february. and the death toll tops 50,000. we are going to kwaequal or surs the death toll of the vietnam war. and scientists say hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to heightened risks of heart rhythm problems. we have got a team of reporters here to help break all of this down right now. w
war time president, fighting a war against invisible enemy, and he s telling people to defy the guidelines that he himself has set out, liberate their states from democratic governors, i mean where do things stand with states reopening? governors and president not on the same page certainly in terms of testing, and no sign of further embrace of testing by this president. reporter: we ve been wondering all week if the president has been hearing concerns about testing. tonight we saw at least his officials were, came out to lay out where they were with testing. he believes there are some states that need to meet the criteria to start phase one and some states have the testing levels that they believe will lead to start the reopening phase. didn t say which states they were, didn t want to encourage that, leaving up to the governors. we didn t really get a clear picture of what they are going to do to ramp up testing. dr. fauci said testing is not only criteria, we know that
single law enforcement source that she had left florida and we understood she was visiting relatives possibly in mississippi. for some context, it is not unusual in fbi investigation once they have done multiple interviews with a subject and they have gathered information to, in effect, to cut them loose to see where they go, who they talk with and who they asoishate with and whether that is consistent with or conflicts with the information the subject gave them during the interviews. i am reading between the lines. i suspect the attorney general has a fairly good handle or fix on where the wife is. it was not something she was willing to discuss in that very public setting, charles. you can understand perhaps the theory of cutting them loose but trailing where they are going. the american public already upset about the mishandling of this thinking that, wow, this is a tragedy that could have been prevented. now this. it is just not a good look. i can t really speak for t
i m trace gallagher in for shepard smith. donald trump is entering with the largest major disadvantage of any party nominee in recent history and he s calling on republicans to step up their support to help level the playing field. according to filings with the federal election commission, hillary clinton started this month with $42 million in the bank. donald trump had just $1.3 million. the report also shows clinton s campaign raised $26 million last month, even though she was still fighting bernie sanders. trump s team raised just $3 million, even though he spent most of that time as the presumptive nominee. of course donald trump has said he self-fundied his primary campaign because he didn t want to owe any favors to donors and he claims that he can win with less money than a traditional candidate. donald trump tells fox he may spend more of his own millions if he doesn t raise enough money, but he s also facing an organizational disadvantage against clinton. the new yo
appearance on capitol hill. here he was moments ago, recapping his hearings, including eight hours today alone. and he discusses whether the democrats in charge do accept the testimony he gave against trump. the hearings went very, very well. i believe that all of the members were satisfied with the statements and the responses that i gave to them. i told them that any additional information that they would want, they should feel comfortable to reach out to my counsel and i would continue to cooperate to the fullest extent of my capabilities. completing that house cooperation today which we should note, today is michael cohen s original date to report to prison. a former federal prosecutor representing cohen told us in our reporting this week they do hope this cooperation all of it together might reduce his jail sentence. he s been hit with leaks from all sides. some allege he could have misled congress about pardon discussions. trump s lawyers may have crossed their own