Trump on schools: 'We're opening our country'

President Donald Trump is calling on goverrs across country to  reopen schools closed because of coronavirus, pointedly taking issue with Dr. Anthony Fauci's caution against moving too quickly in sending students back to class.

"We're opening our country; people want it open," President Trump says. " schools are going to be open."

president met with goverrs of rth Dakota and Coloro Wednesday and told m schools should reopen.

president's tone suggests he's butting hes with nation's top infectious disease expert, Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller says.

"He thinks you can't have an ecomic reopening without schools reopening, and n he believes that testing and and or preventative measures that ministration have taken will be eugh," Miller says. "y don't think this is any longer same sense of urgency or emergency or was two months ago."

Fauci urged caution in testimony before a Senate committee Tuesday, although he me clear that he believes reopening decisions will likely differ from one region to next.