This is risk manager in a special interview. I think the right thing to do is to kind of push in the direction of opening up the

economy.

What coronavirus recovery could look like and how soon we can expect it.

Now some people express this as dollars versus health but that's

not fair it's really health versus health because you know poverty GDP is also

the health issue and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on ending the

pandemic hopefully with China's help. The question that the Chinese

communist party has to help the world answer is have this come to be. Where

did it come from? How did it get in the while? Where's patient

zero? It's Thursday, May 7th, 2020, Squawk Pot begins right now.

Good morning everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box here on CM if you have been Becky quick along with Joe

Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin and let's take a look at the

another week and another three million Americans have filed for

unemployment the rolling total now sets a 33 and.5 million people out of work.

It's alarming and it's likely to grow, but maybe at a slower rate.

This is the lowest the weekly number has been since mid-March

when the World Health Organization first declared the COVID-19

virus a pandemic. These statistics are just a day ahead of the Labor Department's

monthly jobs report which is expected to reveal another grim picture of the

American workforce. Banker grim picture of the American workforce.

Bank of Minneapolis, Neil Kushkari, spoke on the Today Show this morning about

just how dismal those upcoming unemployment numbers could be.

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