With new fallout now over his suggestion that injecting a disinfectant could prove effective in Fighting Cove in 19?

Here's NBC's Rachel Scott.

After abruptly ending his Corona virus press briefing on Friday without taking questions, President Trump now says those White House news conferences are not worth the time and effort blaming the media for hostile questions.

At times he has clashed with reporters.

City You know you're a fake.

You know that you hold network the way you cover it is fake.

You will never make it go ahead.

And on Thursday, after hearing research about ways to kill the virus on surfaces and in the air, the president tossed out this idea.

And then I see the disinfectant, knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we could do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

So we'll see.

But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute that Z pretty powerful, Then, turning to one of the top experts on his task force, Dr Deborah Berks.

Ever have you ever the heat and the light relative to certain viruses?

Yes, but wrote to this virus that isn't treatment.

The president later said he was being sarcastic, and birks today push back against the media's coverage.

But I think it bothers me that this is still in the news cycle because I think we're missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing.

The president's comments put officials and companies on alert, issuing warnings not to ingest disinfectants across the country.

Some poison control centers reporting an increased number of calls about household cleaners fighting the virus.

Some recent examples include the use of a detergent solution for a Sinus rinse and gargling with a bleach and mouth watts mouthwash mixture in an attempt to kill Corona virus in Maryland.

After hundreds phoned into the state's emergency hotline, the Republican governor asking the president to keep to the fax.

The president's got to focus on the message, stick to a message and make sure that these press conferences are fact based.

Tom, the president, has held nearly 50 briefings since February.

Gets went up to two hours behind the podium for weeks.

Some aides have pushed him to make them shorter, just completely stopped doing them.

But the White House press secretary says that decision is entirely up to the president.

Tom.

OK, Rachel, Thank you.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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