And good evening. A day that began with the director of the CDC expressing cautious hope

that the country's a whole is, quote, nearing the peak right now, the coronavirus outbreak.

Well, it ended in a very different place. One that revolves around the president, his

grievances and the credit he believes he deserves, but is not getting with more than 23,000

people in this country now dead and many hundreds still dying every single day.

We'll certainly focus on the hope tonight on the new effort by states to work on ways

of slowly getting back to normal, tempered by the enormous challenges that remain.

And the deep wound as the country continues to suffer day in and day out.

But the president today shows yet again to hijack what is supposed to be a briefing from

the coronavirus task force. Yet again, he hijacked this time with a briefing, very brief, excuse me,

a briefing with full of a very public diatribe and yet another attempt in a long line of attempts

to rewrite what has now been widely reported to be his late and incomplete response to this crisis.

Apart from the imposing, imposing a travel restriction on China, which, according to the

New York Times, still allowed 40,000 people to enter the country. It wasn't a ban.

Shortly after the press conference got underway, the president called Dr. Anthony Fauci to the podium

to explain their marks that Fauci made yesterday with seen end-shake tapper, but whether social

distancing efforts could have prevented fatalities had they been imposed in February, not in mid-March.

Here's what Dr. Fauci said on Sunday.

Obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started

mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. I mean, obviously, if we had right from the very

beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different.

Now, what he says is clear, and it's just a fact. He isn't attacking the president,

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