We have some shocking news about the origins of the coronavirus, all while 22 million Americans

are thrown out of work. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. Senator, just in our prep call, I feel like there's so much information that there is no way we're going to be able to get to everything.

The topic on everybody's mind is restarting the economy from Michigan to North Carolina all around the country.

The presidents talked about it.

Even the liberal governors have talked about it.

I know that you are on the restart the economy task force.

I know you spoke to the president yesterday.

What did you talk about and what is the plan?

Look, we got to get Americans back to work.

Americans are ready to go back to work.

Texans are ready to get back to work.

Yesterday, I spent over an hour

on the phone with the president as part of the restarting the economy task force talking about two

things really that I emphasize to the president. Number one, testing, we need to continue to lean in

and do even more on testing. The Abbott Labs quick test, you know, when I went up to meet with

the president a couple of

weeks ago and the energy CEOs on energy, they required, actually, that was the first day they

required everyone going in to meet with the president had to be tested for coronavirus. And I got,

they had just gotten one of those Abbott quick test situations.

You know, and it's interesting that the, I know a number of people had been tested on the old test.

And the old test, they'd stick it up your nose and like way, way, way up your nose.

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