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Erin Burnett OutFront

Angry senate dems press Pence on testing, get no clear answers, Ohio governor targets May 1st to begin reopening state, as model suggests social distancing needed until May 18th, Trump appears to support protests against stay-at-home orders

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Trump appears to support stay-at-home protests, tweets it's time to "liberate" Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia, angry senate dems press Pence on testing, get no clear answers, key model lays out timelines for states on reopening; stipulates there must be testing and contact tracing, Trump calls for some states to "liberate" amid crisis; Washington governor: Trump is encouraging "illegal and dangerous acts"To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right. And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. You've been watching members of the coronavirus

0:34.9

task force giving the latest update on the pandemic.

0:38.5

The administration, well, trying to explain away the issues with testing in the United States.

0:44.8

Tonight laying out plans to beef up testing, which governors has said is needed before they can open up.

0:50.9

And it comes out as the president has lashed out at several governors, tweeting,

0:54.7

liberate Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota. Those attacks come as the number of deaths in the

0:59.5

United States today now tops 36,000 people. Out front now, the Republican governor of Ohio,

1:05.2

Mike DeWine. And governor, I know you were just listening to that. They were spending a lot of

1:08.7

time talking about testing. I just want to get

1:12.5

to this bottom line issue with you. The President of the United States a few moments ago said we have

1:17.0

tremendous unused capability in the labs. The governors are responsible for testing. I hope they'll be

1:22.9

able to use this tremendous amount of capacity. Vice President Pence says you have everything you need

1:28.1

for phase one reopening. Is that true? Is there a tremendous amount of excess capacity that you see

1:34.1

that you can use? Well, we appreciate any help. And it sounds like good news from the White House.

1:42.2

We do have excess capacity, but what that's a little, I want to explain

1:48.3

what I mean by that. We have six, seven major hospitals that can do significant testing.

1:55.4

But one of the things that's really holding them back is they do not have enough reagent.

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