Good evening. This was the deadliest single day of the coronavirus outbreak in this country,

more than 200 new deaths reported today. And at the end of this day, President Trump is

continuing to push to reopen parts of the country against the advice of medical and economic

experts. And despite evidence, as we'll tell you about in a moment, that in New York,

Cardiff's hit of all so far, staying at home appears to be, or may be, working. Though he did not,

he did not briefly at tonight's task force briefing to social distancing. He kept returning

the president did to the notion of a quick reboot in the workplace, with a rather jarring twist.

He signaled it first in a tweet this afternoon, claiming that the media is hyping the pandemic

to hurt his election chances. He was then asked about it at the briefing.

And that's the president tweeted earlier, linking the closing of the country to your election

success in November. Is this these two timeline based on your political interests?

What do you mean by that action success note?

You tweeted. You said that the media wants the country to remain closed to hurt your

country. No, no, I think the media, yeah, no, the media would like to see me do poorly in the election.

I think, I think, all makers and a couple sides of the aisle have said that reopening the

country by Easter is not a good idea. What is that plan based on? Just so you understand,

are you ready? I think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly.

I think there are certain people that would like it to do financially poorly,

because they think that would be very good as far as defeating me at the polls.

And I don't know if that's so, but I do think it's so that a lot of that there are people

in your profession that would like that to happen. I think it's very clear.

I think it's very clear that there are people in your profession that write fake news. You do,

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