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Asked about this, Adams saying he's directing his message to people of all races. Fauci then interjects to say he knows Adams and the language was not offensive. https://t.co/fxzRxXTch1 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Experts have emphasized that you need widely available rapid testing to safely reopen. Haven't heard experts say you don't need testing in lower-density states that don't have major outbreaks. https://t.co/aRCw80y6zH — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump asked about need for testing: "Certain sections," like Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho, are very "capable states" with "lot of land" and few cases. (Idaho, Iowa: 1300+ confirmed.) He claims, "You don't need testing there" to say "let's get the tractors moving and let's get the corn" — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, talking about business interruption insurance policies, says he is very good "at reading language." He adds, "I did very well on these subjects, OK?" — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump says he's not really looking at growth this quarter. "Third quarter we start to think about it and I think fourth quarter is going to be at a level that maybe we haven't seen before." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump notes that the NY death toll from this is more than double the death toll there for 9/11. He says this by way of leading to saying: With all of this, "What would lead you to believe" we would have the best stock market week. in 50 years? He claims it shows pent-up demand. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about a dire JPMorgan prediction about the second quarter, Trump says his economic team is interested in the third quarter and the fourth quarter. He adds: "We have a chance to do record fourth-quarter numbers." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he advised Fauci to move to New York "and run against AOC," saying he would win easily. He says Fauci said no. He adds that he is joking. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked what he'll do if the doctors say the country is not ready to open up at the beginning of May, whether he'll listen, Trump says, "I listen to them about everything. I think they're actually surprised." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Asked about NYT report about new fed projections that lifting restrictions after the 30 days would cause more deaths, Fauci/Birx/Trump say they haven't seen. Trump says we're not doing anything until we know the country will stay healthy, don't have to choose work v. health. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked how we'll know if the virus is in full retreat without more testing, Trump says, "We'll know, because people won't go to the hospital...get sick..." He says we're doing "tremendous" testing, but we'll know the virus is gone when "nobody's getting sick anymore..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence encouraged people to donate to their churches even if they aren't in the pews this weekend, since their ministries continue. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump, opening the floor to questions, says it's Good Friday so "let's be nice." — PolitiTweet.org

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Adams: There's nothing that makes people of color biologically more likely to get the virus; there's nothing "wrong with you"; but they are more likely because of social factors. — PolitiTweet.org

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Surgeon General Jerome Adams is talking about the virus's disproportionate impact on black and Hispanic people. He shows his own asthma inhaler. He talks about how African Americans are less likely to be able to work from home, many Navajo homes don't have running water. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci: We're starting to see "leveling off" and "coming down," but this is not the time to feel that we need to be "pulling back at all." He salutes governors in states without big spikes that are working to prevent them from occurring in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @peterbakernyt: Birx hails "encouraging signs" but adds, "as encouraging as they are we have not reached the peak" and Americans should… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump touts this week's stock increases (which, of course, followed declines). He suggests the rise shows investor confidence in his work: "This monster came and worked its horrible horrible spell over the world...we've done well, and I guess the market thinks we've done well." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump: We won't need many of the ventilators being made now, but we'll put them in our stockpile; we'll also be building up state stockpiles, "which they should have had." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: There'll be an announcement "sometime next week" about WHO funding. "We'll have a lot to say about it." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump repeats his announcement from yesterday that more than 2 million tests have been conducted. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump: "We're getting very few calls from governors or anybody else needing anything." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump is talking about what he says are his efforts to help farmers - reading out his own tweet about this from yesterday. He talks about money available to farmers because of tariffs. That money was paid to the Treasury by other Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump is touting progress in different cities and states. He says that in Washington state, "we've made enough progress" that the governor (Inslee, whom he repeatedly slammed and said he didn't want to talk to) can return a field hospital. https://t.co/7QzABdVCdH — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I think we'll be substantially under that number" (100,000). He says "you can never be happy" with 60,000, "but that's a lot fewer than we were originally told, and thinking." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "We've saving so many lives compared to what it could've been. Nobody knows what the number is, but we had a number of 100,000 lives...and that was the low end, with a tremendous amount of work and a tremendous amount of -- you can call it many different things." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump boasts about building "168 miles" of wall. As of the official April 3 update from CBP, it was 151 miles, 2 of which were erected in places where no barrier had previously existed. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump on oil negotiations: "We are trying to get Mexico, as the expression goes, 'over the barrel.' And Mexico is committing to do 100,000 fewer barrels." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump begins at the briefing by acknowledging Good Friday and Easter. He says, "We pray that God will heal the sick and comfort the heartbroken and bless our heroes." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump appeared to just arbitrarily pick 17,000, but it’s not as wrong as most of his arbitrary numbers. The CDC’s headline estimate is 12,469, but it says its estimate range goes up to 18,306, so Trump’s figure is within it. https://t.co/HSWveSqd77 — PolitiTweet.org