The standpoint of even our constitution placed the president of the dress the source not what somebody who is running this person says today is. Right place weve got a different person here matter of bush look at your little boy to the oil meeting previously is the u. S. Willing to cut Domestic Oil Production what came out of the meeting was a concern well a lot of things came out its a great industry its an important industry its a tremendous job producing industry and its just vital and it was also very interesting because they all were given the test before they came into the room so you have the head of exxon mobil you have all these guys taking the test and they all passed with flying colors colors so it was good they left happy in that respect at least theres just an overabundance of oil right now or oil and gas tremendous over abundance and it was cause they were doing a great job they were producing a lot of energy but then you had the buyers come along. And it knocked another 35 percent maybe 40 percent off of the market so theres too much oil is a glut and these are Great Companies and theyll figure it out its free market well figure it out he spoke to president putin mean whats on the table here and the press if they were having a competition well see how it all works out i think its going to work out very well its going to take a long time to. To get rid of that this massive excess amount of oil and gas massive like probably theres never been so where that does work out well i guess you could say its for drivers i think in certain locations its down to 90. 95 a gallon right down the road but we have a tremendous industry a great industry a tremendously important industry from the standpoint of jobs and were Energy Independent we have to make sure we keep it that way all right place the president and senators running ministrations with the sort of fluffy life nonsense to do with ease the restrictions on certain donors including gay man for now a part of the outside 3 months as opposed to cost of going to have no i didnt know anything about that that was done by the f. D. A. Very capable people at the f. D. A. For this yes mr president to appoint the government of canada and 3 m. Are pushing back on this sort of d. P. A. Not to export and 95 rescuers on 3 am says i dont have one month they can push back i want were not happy with 3 am not happy and the people that dealt with the directly are not at all happy with 3 m. So well see whether or not we do i heard what he had to say today i dont know the gentleman but were not happy with 3 m. Go ahead and were his doctor found she i dont know but every time us that question whenever hes not here to look you say where is he and youll say is there a problem no problem whatsoever every time hes not here sometimes ill. Ask him to come because thats the 1st question that you and a couple of others from the fake news establishment ask is were stuck to fetch if were doing great together because were covering a different subject and they go ahead and so i go ahead and run it was president you have said nobody could have seen this pandemic coming but in fact secretaries are at a biodefense some of the neighborhood 2019 said of course the people of course the thing that people ask what keeps you most of it night in the via defense world endemic flu of worse i think everyone in this room probably sure is that concerned your own health and Human Services secretary was a weird this had potential of being a very big problem around the world a pandemic of this nature who dropped the ball well i always knew that pandemics one of the worst things could happen theres been nothing like this since probably 1917 that was the big one in europe it started actually here and went to year probably. Ive heard about it she is a woman let me finish ive heard about this for a long time pandemics you dont want pandemics and i dont think he was talking about a specific pandemic he was talking about the threat of a pandemic could happen and it could happen most people thought it wouldnt and most people didnt understand the severity of it this is very severe whats happened is very severe but id let you answer that i assume that he was talking about the concept of a pandemic thank you mr president act that absolutely for 15 years now this country is at a massive effort at the federal state and local level of preparedness for pandemic now the bet largely has been as i said in those remarks about pandemic flu preparedness we knew about sars we knew about mers which were earlier modifications or variants of the corona virus none of those achieved anything like what were seeing today but thats why for successive president sees including the leadership of President Trump there has been a great full. Its on pandemic preparedness in fact it was just in november i believe that the president signed the pandemic flu preparedness executive order that we have weaved and we have also updated the pandemic Crisis Action plan which has been the playbook from which weve been working the pandemic flu plan the again the action plan from which we have been working that coordinates the whole of government whole of the economy approach here so weve all been very focused on pandemic preparedness thats what we do but this particular strain of pandemic who would who would have known this particular strain this experience are here were preparing for them because this year we were preparing for the endemic why is it we dont have enough mass why is it we dont have enough medical were going to use it ministrations game has very little ammunition for the military and very little shelf space let me just tell you you know if you know the answer the Previous Administration. The shelves were empty the shelves were empty so what you should do is speak to the people from the Previous Administration jim and ask him that question because the shelves were all you know doused the military shelves were also empty we had no ammunition literally that was said by one of your favorite generals we have to say we have no ammunition guess what we had very little medical supply also arrived. Ahead what good is that it would take you back to beckley about that for him i said would get you better place the president s going to put in place he said that there would be a ban on exporting of all went to copper and so masks loads what else whose are we going to tell you about and somebody who are in italy if spain who has big problems these have these are countries with tremendous problems france if they ordered if they have long term orders and theyre in there and they want to get certain things ive let them go out in certain instances because i think its only fair they have problems that are. Proportionately are relatively bigger than our problems so if they ordered something and theyre waiting for as an example masks made here and going to italy im not going to be stopping that i think would be very unfair and by the way speaking about being fair and unfair to very big cruise liners as you know i allowed them to dock today we worked with the governor of florida as you know ron to santas and we worked on it and we had tremendous security and we took the sick people and were working with them we have doctors we have great doctors military doctors and for me your main stand point not that were in love with this these are 2 massive ships but we have to take care of people we have to take care of we sent. Many back to canada the candidate the canadians came and worked very closely with us as did the u. K. We had a lot of people from the u. K. And we take we took care of the americans we took care of the sick we had some people very sick i think we had 3 to 4 maybe 5 people that had died on the boat that one of the boats actually and we had to take care of these people so we couldnt let them floating aimlessly into the ocean looking for port as theyve been doing for a long time and i made the decision we had to take him in and Homeland Security in a lot of other people did a great ship but we had to help people these are people that were very very sick some were dying some died please i think. For the sake of your staff they said that people from close proximity to you when the Vice President will appear on a virus that i wonder are you concerned that the people youve been hanging around with may have the bars around are concerned i had a test yesterday the order for people to meet with you were talking while i mean at 1st i heard from the Oil Executives these are people most of them had not had the test and frankly i think they left the room feeling good about a lot of things but they felt good about the test this was a test to took i guess 13 minutes to have it finalized say. They took the test i dont know i didnt know they were doing that maybe they did it just for them i dont know but it seems that a lot of people because now we have tests that really work well abbott in this case abbott we have other tests being developed right now that are also fantastic the original tests the ones we inherited jim as an example they were they were broken they were obsolete they were not good tests and thats what we got stuck with weve developed some incredible tests but this took 13 to 15 minutes and they were all fine for you to finish finish of course and thats the problem some people have to raise is that if the u. S. Stop exporting what you have to other countries then deciding reciprocally the fairness of exporting and the result of that then will be and not decrease in the announcement by american doctors american hospitals have you addressed well id just sit in the following manner we really are very well supplied we are not the principal its the hospitals the states the cities this supposed to get everything they can and stock up in case Something Like this happens but nobody could ever of assume that Something Like this happened so we started supplying we brought the tremendous amounts to new york today and over the last few days we brought them to louisiana we brought them to michigan we brought them to los angeles lot of equipment you would read the amount of masks that we had i think i said over 8000000 masks the. 95 masks the you know more expensive more complicated better whatever masks the ones that we want to use in the hospitals. We have millions of them now and weve given them to a lot we sent to bellevue in new york today that was from here to bloods are 200000 of them but we have 8100000 were going to have more than that and were getting them from various sources including the military were rapidly then replacing them because we have to replace them in cases a in other emergency i would. Be a gallons to we have many gallons being delivered and have been delivered our people have done an incredible job most people have said now and i said this yesterday governors have said thank you very much great job of their democrat governor in some cases not all cases at all if i said heres a 1000 ventilators how many do you want we want 1000 his a 1000. You got him but you know were going to do were going to add another 5000 is that good they said wow thats great and then if jim acosta goes a says are you happy with the president no we should a given is 10000 and thats whats happening in a way because thats a standard political answer and thats a shame because we have done a job like nobodys ever done it but weve just delivered a lot of masks weve just delivered a lot of gallons and protective gear but you know youre talking about a massive it took in about a massive number but as of this morning people were very very happy steve victims ask you for a bailout you know this or bill this for. It was really more of a discussion than asking we discuss you know we did discuss the concept of tariffs because as you know this was a dispute among a couple of countries that i think. They want to be able to get itself that they had a dispute they had a competition but they want to get it resolved russia and saudi arabia will actually want to get it i think they want to get it resolved i think theyre working very hard and they told me they want to get it resolved theyre working very hard thank you yesterday geriatrician or said then notion of the federal stockpile was its supposed to be our stockpile its not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then he use what did he mean by our are you listening to me the fact that whats already got to get done is there are our you know what our means United States of america thats what it means it means its day hour hour it means United States of america and then we take that hour and we distribute it to the states not a we have not supposed to be state stockpiles that because we need it for the government and we needed for the federal government but when the states are into no to also keep the. State to keep to keep for a country because the federal government needs it to not just the states but. Out of that we oftentimes choose as an example we have almost 10000. 00 ventilators and we are ready to rock with those ventilators were going to bring them to various areas of the country that need them but when he says our hes talking about our country hes talking to his me hes talking about the federal government i mean its such a basic simple question and you try and make it sound so bad good to be you want to be ashamed of yourself you know like you to be sure to check his simple question he said our and our means for the country and our means for the states because the states are a part of the country theyll make it sound bad theyll make it sound bad go ahead steve go ahead back your horse because he does this you question you just as your question in a very nasty tone lets go. Places mr president well give you a perfect answer you know what to call on that way with we have the. Stockpile i mean isnt that designed to be able to distribute to the station but its also needed for the federal government we have a federal stockpile and they have state stockpiles and frankly they were many of the states were totally unprepared for this so we had to go into the federal stockpile but were not an ordering clerk they have to have for themselves now some of the sates were in good shape some of the states were not in good shape thats probably something you could expect we have been helping states we have been spending a tremendous amount of time effort and billions and billions of dollars on making sure that they have what they have i mean take new york we built them hospitals they built them for hospitals built a medical centers sent a ship with a 1000 rooms and 12 operating rooms and and then on top of that gave vast numbers of ventilators and vast numbers of surgical gowns equipment masks Everything Else now they had a chance to order ventilators over the years they had a chance to order a very big but they didnt choose to do it we were there and we helped them and i think the governor of new york is very thankful for the help that we gave but. We have a stockpile its a federal stockpile we can use if a state so we can use it for selves we do use it for the federal government we have a very big federal government i did not use their powers to be essentially a traffic cop for all the settlement of the plaza or the traffic cop were humanitarian we help its like the ships do you think we wanted to take 2 big ships into our country that have obvious problems and you know the problems im talking about so i have a decision to make do i take him in or do i save lives ok do i take a bin or do i say if i decided to take a man and we have tremendous protection we have great doctors there to help the people they had 4 or 5 people that died and that was as of last night they died in the ships we took care of it and now the people are in the process of and many are already back in canada theyre back in the u. K. United kingdom and many of them were american citizens some were very sick were taking care of the sick people were testing all of the others very very carefully very very carefully they are being tested like you wouldnt believe and we solve a humanitarian catastrophe you know why because nobody else would take the ships nobody else would take them so we dock there been i think Court Ordered why why you dont say out where the federal governments and theres a shortage of massive visited a and were going to say that. We say and we use the act excuse me we do say that and we use the act and weve used it a number of times very powerfully and a lot of times we dont have to use it because we say were going to use it if you dont do this or that and then we also have companies that act incredibly well we have plenty of them mostly them but weve used the act very powerfully and a lot of times you dont have to exercise the act or you have to do is to. Look if you dont do this were going to use the act and weve done a good job with it may be a great. President there are reports that you want to soften the stimulus checks out here in several months is that right he said i know theres millions of checks im going to send him no. Its a trumpet ministration initiative but do i want to sign another people are getting the people are getting their money theres a lot of stimulus going in a lot of different ways is also stimulus going for companies that would if it werent for our government would and some companies who are very strong a month ago again we had the strongest economy in the world we had our best ever we had probably the best economy in the history of the world bigger than china bigger than anybody. And one day we have to say close it up stop everybody go home and you know what its pretty tough to do that. With these checks may not go out for another 4 months but if you dont have all i can tell you is this Small Business today is the way ahead of schedule there is a problem where and which i pointed out i said you shouldnt do this way with unemployment where 40 year old equipment by the stage were sending the money to the states once the money is sent to the states in the states whether theyre republican or democrat have to get the money out to the people hopefully that will be able to do it but many of those states have 40 Year Old Computers i dont know that theyre equipped i wanted to give the money directive thats what youre talking about i wanted to give the money out directly would have been much easier but the democrats and some people said no lets do it the complicated way more stimulus checks like oh well i was joking about it every day i was talking about you know good if they were ok with thanks very much asking questions book for myself and some of the other reporters who are in the room social distancing 1st of all this is pretty solid dr byrds. What percentage of the population do respect to be asymptomatic and disappointing so i waited to figure that out like easy body might be able to assist and to me. Thank you so while were working diligently in the midst of the crisis to make sure that the Health Care Workers and everyone who is sick gets provided for at the same time were working on tests and assaye is that will be critical for surveillance and at the same time working on plans for what we need to do as this moves through the population and we get on the downside which are not there yet and hopefully most of the states will say like california and washington and what we need to do to be prepared for fossil all 3 of those. Are happening simultaneously and theres people working on each one of those work streams the antibody piece is critical as you described because at this time we cant if we have lets say asymptomatic status is inversely symptomatic status is inversely related to age and so the younger you are the more likely to be asymptomatic we have to know that because we have to know how many people have actually become infected so when we talked about 5 days ago i think on monday i called on universities to work on and allies a base test to test for their Health Workers and really get through that at the same time the private sector is working on test and what do we want those tests to be we want those tests to be like what we use for hiv area finger prick onto a cassette you get a line if youre positive and you get a control line negative the line isnt there and theres the control line thats what thats our dream assaye because its a finger prick in the meantime were not waiting i mean were pushing for that at the same time were asking to develop an ass a the allies a base assaye which requires a 2 blood and thats why were also talking about could we use dried blood spots we also put out called directly out to the military because of the roosevelt to really test all of the sailor is on the roosevelt with an Antibody Test to get to this critical issue of asymptomatic and already preexisting antibody that would be if the 1st responders knew they already had had it and they had protective antibodies if the nurses knew the doctors knew if your School Teacher knew that its a very different dialogue so we understand the importance of that and we understand how important it is in relationship to understanding this epidemic one other comment because i know are always saying who knew what when i just want to make clear theres 150. 00 plus countries working on this collectively together its devastating for every single country. When we get through this we can go back and look at what happened where and what this is epidemic look like then when you get through it then you can validate every model there is known to man when youre in the middle of it you have to concentrate on serving the needs of each american and what that need looks like at the same time you have these other work streams on surveillance and how to be prepared both scientifically and therapeutically and vaccine wise for the next fall if that happens again so i think these things are happening together but i just want to us to really concentrate on the fact that all around the globe country after country is dealing with this and we can talk about why didnt italy do something or spain do something or germany do something or we can really say right now we calc and do something we can do the social distancing and all of the pieces that we know is starting to work around the globe in country after country and then when we get through all of this we can ask the questions about could we have done some piece of this better as a Global Community i will remind you that on february 3rd the head of the w. H. O. Said there was no reason to ever do a travel ban. You know wasnt until january 14th that we knew that there was human to human transmission remember saying this was going to go away its because this president this president said it was going to go in a way before you said you know the president s going away or this is going away ok thank you for. That answer to your question no no no no no a lot but a very good answer there was enough to give the president on the Insurance Coverage for treatment. Where government is going to try to make sure that people are covered on the treatment were going to does that include 11000000 people who are in this country illegally. They could be covered as well well be talking about that at a different place mr president ok so we have been listening to the Coronavirus Task force and the press conference that followed that since the top of the hour several points coming across there more questions but masks in the c. D. C. Guidelines on wearing cloth masks voluntarily. More on the d. P. A. At present time saying hes not happy with 3 am there the people who manufacture those sought after and 95 respirator masks we also had. A claim there from the president that the lack of preparedness maybe in the Previous Administration was so good a sense of whats been happening from shepparton so hes been following that press conference with us she what do you make of all of this. Well we can take those points one by one have you thought wrong by the way i mean i know its its clear that the trumpet ministration was worth the unprepared didnt help by dismantling various so maintenance mechanisms to ensure pandemics wouldnt spread it clearly did nothing defectively for 2 months after the w. H. O. Warned that the pandemic may be spreading and while we were watching china it really didnt seem to be doing anything but having said that they were going to become very clear is that over 3 administrations maps the ones who believe that this is kind of a pandemic were becoming another of these administrations actually really to its all stocked up on things so its not entirely wrong for him to spread some of the blame around where were looking at this particular pandemic right now its pretty clear that 2 months were lost when the u. S. Could have been preparing we would necessarily be in the state were in the u. S. And so has what was the other issues including its war Proper Health care system which doesnt help which is one of these reasons why insurance is coming up quite a bit interestingly hes now saying that people who are uninsured get treatment in a hospital but the trouble to the station also the hospital track thats how the flaps actually joe biden and the democrats democrats and reply insurance exchanges that Insurance Companies get involved and so on dog shows us like Bernie Sanders that frankly forget about the charts companies we basically nationalize which were giving them state health care which is amazing solitary left to dig into deeper small print beppe its actually because there are 2 main points i thank you oil the oil industry now the last few days weve been covering Donald Trumps but thats all from treated that oh ive tried it with mom and been silent my friends and hes a chap that it was you know that sort of price war on oil dont try to have a meeting with on executives this afternoon he was pretty clear what the truck was and he didnt get anything well let me make clear earlier on friday was all right well talk about reducing the production of oil if the u. S. Gets in. If we coordinate with the u. S. Something kind of unheard off with opec and russia of us who want major Oil Production but then say look well cut our own production if you cut production and there was some expectation that might be what would be discussed at the meeting between out of the truck and on executive the white house friday afternoon in the end all from perry doesnt seem to go anywhere that its at all like free market well see what happens but you know clearly he feels that we have been through to no and that moment when someone want to sort something out so we basically weve got no theres no nothing that. The other story that locations as you mentioned defense. Production act which has been invoked now on mosques and things like this this has been a fight 3 and weve seen bubbling away last few days ministration basically accusing 3 have profiteering of exporting moused and so on and then in the in the last day we had these reports that the trouble ministration has not only asked the 300 not to export mosques to mexico and latin america that have been produced in india u. S. But also us through to export all masterpieces elsewhere to the u. S. Has an enormous implications because again it was retaliation from other countries the entire Global Supply of mosques our equipment will dry out you know it will be behind walls but then he immediately as is often the well of this very briefly he seemed like backtracked he initially announced were going to prohibit the export of medical supplies by unscrupulous manufacturers but then in question he said yeah but if the insane the stuff they can get so you know as usual im not sure we are any clearer as to ok actual policy see habits and say thank you so much for helping some of that briefing. He with aljazeera quickly minds are over the headlines for you this hour the governor of new york says people will die soon if more ventilators are not finds the states is the worst affected by the corona virus in the u. S. With nearly 3000 deaths within the past few minutes u. S. President dont trump has said that he signed the defense production acts directive to stop the export of mosques and other medical equipment see also the ones that hospitals streets and uninsured patients will be brehm bursts by the government today i can so proudly announce that hospitals and Health Care Providers treating uninsured corona virus patients will be reimbursed by the federal government using funds from the Economic Relief package Congress Passed last month that was as per the question yesterday and actually the day before yesterday this should alleviate any concern uninsured americans may have about seeking the coronavirus treatment im also signing a directive invoking the defense production act or prohibit export of scarce health and medical supplies by unscrupulous actors and profiteers the number of deaths in france is increased by more than a 1000 in the past say neighboring spain its also number of confirmed cases has now exceeded its lease the 1st time Hearing Commission is struggling to procure large numbers of ventilators quickly and as a Member States are theyre scrambling to manufacture their own. And then london the 4000 bad tempered hospital temporary hospital has opened in a Conference Center just 9 days after work on it began with a 3 and a half 1000 people have died in the u. K. In iran a further 134 people have died from the current virus in the past 24 hours bringing the death toll to over 3200 so that also number of infections that has risen so over 50000. 00 president Hassan Rouhani issued a stark warning to the country and thursday cautioning that the outbreak could last a year. Well those are the top stories and aljazeera count in the costs is up next. We understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. Zone imagine. Bringing the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Aljazeera. 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