Need both democrats and republicans to come together to get this legislation the legislation completed and it looks like its on its way but we need both and it should be for people that are working for the workers and if you look and you see we have a lot of people that are affected by that and its a very positive development so we have to get a bipartisan approval of that and hopefully that will happen today the department of education is also announcing the availability of more than 6000000000 dollars in emergency Grant Funding to assist College Students impacted by the cancellation of classes and the suspension of housing. A lot of people had. A lot of things suspended housing is one of them previously we waive student loan payments for 6 months of student loan payments have been waived for 6 months and will discuss it after that may go further although this medical war separated our citizens for a period of time its also united our entire nation i think i can say like almost never before americans are moving forward with common purpose and shared resolve determined to vanquish the virus and lift our nation to even greater heights. We are supreme lee confident in the magnificent future that awaits the American People and with that before i invite our Vice President our great Vice President and gene scalia to speak well take a few questions and then im going back into negotiations on oil and on airlines the out place. With president putin to yeah kind of version conversation if youre going to fall understand the problems are causing well yeah you know theres a lot of theres a lot of this so much production nobody even knows what to do with it thats how its working and saudi arabia and as you know russia its well known that were. Producing a lot and they were perhaps fighting with each other over the production and the amount of oil being produced and frankly theres not enough room to even store it our storage is now full going to be very soon our strategic. National storage is i said is a great time to fill it up load it up with oil that frankly is. At pricing that nobodys ever seen before i dont think weve seen this probably since the 1950 s. That was with big dollars so well see what happens the conversation was very good they are getting close to a deal thats opec and many other countries outside of opec and well see what happens. With you know i think that were getting along very well we had a very good we had a very good cause i think was a very good call were going to see what happens but it was a very good go theyll probably announce something either today or tomorrow one way or the other could be good could be not so good but i think one way or the other go ahead jim president how could you be sure you should discuss the possibility of reopening the country when the administration is not have an adequate nationwide testing system for this virus that you need a nationwide tunnels to from the virus before you reopen we have a great testing system with the best right now the best testing system in the world. But there are certain sections there are certain sections in the country that are in phenomenal shape already other sections are coming online other sections are going down and we in addition to that are giving out millions of tests and every day were doing it exponentially were picking up and what well be doing in the very near future is going to certain areas of our country and do massive testing its not necessary but it would be a good thing to have that person to make sure people are safe going back to work you know want to send people back to the workplace want to have it and were going to see if we have it if you need it no is it a nice thing to do yes were talking about 325000000 people and thats not going to happen as you can imagine and nope it would never happen with anyone else see their other countries do it but they do it in a limited form will probably be the leader of the pack please. Do what you say to 16 only americans more than 6000000 americans who lost their jobs and watched weeks or years of the how do you want to sound like you said well i think the economy is going to do very well now thats just my feeling its a strong feeling ive had good proper feelings about a lot of things over the years and i think were going to do well were doing very well it looks like were at the lower end of the curb in terms of death which is a terrible word a terrible dark were that weve experienced like nobodys ever seen before in this country where well have numbers that are terrible but when you look at the lower levels of 100 lower production levels of 100120000 to 220000 or if we did nothing up to 2200000 people were looking at a much lower level than the level of i hope than the level of 100000 so were going to see. Were going to have to you can never you can never do anything about the people that lost their loved one. And love the loss their friends and i mean the great friendships and im not sure a lot of people ever be the same but i think our country from an economic standpoint will end up being stronger than ever we have tremendous stimulus we have tremendous stimulus plans we have things in the works that are going to really i think fire the country i think that whats going to happen is were going to have a big bounce rather than a small bounce but we will be back and i think honestly i think our countrys going to be back from an economic standpoint again you can never replace the people that were lost and to their families certainly you can never do a thing like that but we will have succeeded in many ways hopefully keeping the number way below our minimum numbers and also from an economic standpoint you know we met with the Mental Health people today and that takes a true this is taking a tremendous toll mentally on a lot of people and i think were going to open up strong i think were going to open a verse successfully and id like to say even more successfully than before please. Well to spread the data about 23. 00 a barrel of your work would you want to see the price do you want it 34050. 00 a barrel i want to see it where there is a certain market but i also dont want to i dont want to sit where people are have no idea you know were opening up will be opening up areas for storage of oil mess of areas for storage of oil because oil today is not selling and what happened is the virus knocked out 40 percent of the market immediately you know that you know the number 40 percent now there was a lot of oil but it was very controllable all of a sudden they lost 40 percent you look at the road you look at the car you look at whats going on theres nobody driving theres no reason for it right now that will start coming back but we are storing. Millions of better barrels of oil the. Nobody thought it would even be possible frankly ships turned out to be a Good Business to some people because theyre filling up tankers sending them out to sea and not saying where to go theyre just sitting out there loaded up with oil so we want to save our energy in this country we want to make sure that our energy. Companies businesses and employees workers remain strong so thats how im involved and i think thats going to happen so right now if you look youre probably talking 2325 if they announce a deal we can get it out we need a minimum number so the companies dont go out of business so theyre not going to lay off all of these Energy Workers who are important to our country and you know were now Energy Independent we could do something where we only used our oil but i think the Long Term Benefit is to be able to just go with the market and. Its going to work out its all going to work out if you looked at 3 weeks ago as you know we talked about it 3 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago this was catastrophic i think its really hitting bottom and i think that i mean weve had a bottom but now at 23. 00 and 25. 00 and probably heading up at the same time we save our energy and we also produce great cheap energy and we save our jobs. Just about. Every Small Business owners are telling us that their banks dont know how to access this money theyre trying to apply they cant figure it out so where is the fault line model for the banks i dont think is a fault theyre doing record numbers of of dollars theyre dealing with Many Community banks are dealing with bank of america citi bank a lot of wells fargo as you know is very much involved and theyre dealing with the bankers cant go that quickly but im hearing its a very very successful roll out they did want changes in applications they want changes in in loan requirements etc but they are taking billions and billions of dollars worth of loans and in the very near future the banks will. Relieving the money theyll be paying out the money or are you still expecting the us and ca to take effect on july 1st considering the fact that the only industry is hurting these days you are ready to put foam the well we have done you know the deal is with canada would deal says mexico we have a deal and obviously the deal is different from the standpoint that production will be lower but we have a deal its a signed deal its a deal that say one of the worst deals that weve ever had was nafta one of the worst trade deals ever made by any country anywhere will be terminating that and the new deal is a great deal for a country so thats something now again we get hit by the virus and well see where that all goes but certainly car production is going to be down for a little while but ultimately good for a farmer is great for our farmers will be helping our farmers by the way we have money going out to our farmers in the pretty near future having to do with you see whats happened to farmers got hurt very badly by all of this people are. Even less from the standpoint that theres no restaurants are open no businesses are open no hotels are open theyll start to come back but were going to be helping out our farmers you have played us on the new are all covert minister bill white and are out there politics earlier you mentioned project sky bridge and were hearing that through that project a lot of the keep eat it was sent out to other countries coming back to this country do you do you know when well be able to bring a majority. And then are you frustrated that usaid allowed a lot of that aid to go out the door in the 1st place you know they have right now not because were were in very good shape well be speaking with mike pence about this a little while. You look at the hospitals you look at whats going on i spoke to yesterday i spoke with the governor of louisiana and say do you think we need that extra 1000 beds that were in the process of building we are really in good shape youre not hearing people in needing ventilators much in fact were going to start helping other countries with ventilators were going to end up having a lot of ventilators for future should something happen for hospitals ideally to keep and have but no i think were in very very good shape we have calls d with governors all the time and the governors in very good shape now we have help we have sent billions and billions and billions of dollars between ventilators equipment protective equipment masks we have 500000000. 00 masks coming 500000000. 00 from one group 500. 00 itll be 300000000. 20 over a short period of time now i think were in very good shape please president speaking of testing some experts including scalia talked about 750000 tasks per week being needed before the economy is opened can you address that do you agree with those numbers if not how many tests per week do you think we should have put food. I dont like his in the word needed because i dont think its needed but i think were going to try and hit a number like that thats a very high number but were going to be trying to hit it and we probably might be able to do that please go ahead protests are good thank you mr president today the democrats pushed for more rescue money worth stealing from hospitals in which are complaining that they needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic do you think hospitals and states need this money when you so i do and i do support something but i support of for the next phase its much simpler in the next phase whether that phase is infrastructure or whatever so im going to leave you now with mike pence and with Eugene Scalia and if you would. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow see tomorrow we have a lot of i think a lot of very big news to report weve had a tremendous day between i believe whats happening with the Energy Industry and i believe whats happening with airlines i look forward to seeing you thank you very much it really thank. You. For a good afternoon everyone. The present moment we have now cleared more than 2000000 tests across the country. And im pleased to report were testing more than 100000 people a day now. But were working around the clock to scale up the new types of tests that the f. D. A. Has approved in record time. And every american can be confident they will continue to build out that structure Going Forward for the weeks ahead in the months ahead. The present moment theres more than 450000 americans who have tested positive for the coronavirus and sadly more than 16000 americans have lost their lives. And as President Trump just said. Our hearts go out to the families that have lost loved ones. And i want to assure you. That all of us working at every level understand these are not numbers these are lives and our heartfelt condolences during this heartbreaking week go out to every American Family thats lost a loved one to the coronavirus it has been a difficult week but as dr burks will reflect in just a few moments as we look at the data literally on a county by county basis every day we continue to see evidence that. That in areas where the epidemic has impacted most the Greater New York city area. Louisiana the Detroit Metro the denver metro we continue to see evidence of stabilization. And and it appears as dr bird suggests that we are we are close to the peak in each of those areas so impacted we also express gratitude and appreciation for the people of california and Washington State who continue to be low and steady in the number of cases that are emerging there were watching the chicago metro area are watching the boston metro area. And as dr burkes will discuss we we just continue to urge every american to put into practice the president s coronavirus guidelines because all evidence indicates from the west coast what were beginning to see in major outbreak areas on the east coast its working america and its working because youre doing it and we encourage you onward in that. Today the White House Coronavirus that task force met but most of the team also met with republicans and democrats in 2 separate conference calls. Of the United StatesSenate Secretary miniature Health Experts admiral polow of czech dr hahn and joined us as we discussed a broad range of issues the treasury secretary touched on the Paycheck Protection Program now in day 5 reporting 125000000000. 00 has been approved so far. 30000 new individual users and 3900 lenders are participating we also discussed that Treasury Department will issue a new frequently asked question document tonight and f. A. Q. As theyre known to clarify how seasonal businesses can participate in the Paycheck Protection Program as well with regard to direct payments to americans the treasury secretary is sure senators and were sure every american that we remain on a timetable where the 1st payments in direct deposits will go up by the end of next week for the average family of 4 d that will be 3400. 00 in direct Financial Support and will no doubt be welcome news anyone who is interested in Additional Information on any of these programs can go to treasury dot gov or s. B. A. Dot gov since we last spoke i spoke with the Governor Laura Kelly of kansas governor and he bashir of kentucky also spoke to governors of texas and rhode island i assured each one of them as we continue to work through the process of making sure that we distribute the resources at the point of the need is it at President Trumps direction our objective working through thema is to make sure that states have what they need when they need it. And to see the progress that weve made president just reflected on in new York New Jersey louisiana and the partnership we forged with governors in those states california and Washington State before. We trust gives confidence to governors and leaders of states across the country most importantly our dedicated Health Care Workers that we will be there to meet that need should that need arise present moment fema reports the president has approved 54 major disaster declarations and states around the country of stood up 29000 National Guard 11000 of which are fully funded by the federal government under title 32 also speaking of our military at the present moment we received a report today from the department of defense that 4100 active duty military medical personnel have been deployed in new york d new jersey and connecticut and they are personnel that are working on the ground at the Javits Center working of course at the u. S. And its comfort ship but because it at the present moment the utilization of both of those temporary facilities has been fairly modest. The d. O. D. Actually worked with the city of new new york to establish what amounts to a uniform temp service they called the bullpen and today they literally deployed from the ship and from the Javits Center 75 medical personnel to relieve a dedicated Health Care Workers within the Hospital System in the city of new york and well continue to do that when to make sure those federal temporary hospital in Javits Center is fully staffed will make sure the u. S. And his comfort is staffed but but the physicians those military personnel. Are going to be also be deployed across the city to bring much needed relief. To our Health Care Workers in our system from the v. A. Standpoint weve opened up a v. A. Facilities in new york city east orange new jersey detroit michigan and we are opening up the v. A. Facility but there coronavirus patients in shreveport louisiana. Finally i mention that today we exceeded more than 2000000 tests that have been performed across the country and also literally working with the u. S. Public Health Service states around the country have stood up hundreds of drive through testing sites and just this week fame and the u. S. Public Health Service announced that we will give an option to states to transition from a federal testing site to dozens of which have been assembled around the country to a state managed site i want to emphasize that this is an option we believe it gives states greater flexibility to style sites or manage sites in areas that they think are most important but but were also processing requests for continued federal participation in states from new jersey to louisiana to illinois colorado and texas and we want to assure people in communities all across the country that will continue Vice President to mike pence the outlining the progress on testing in the u. S. On coronavirus he said that 2000000 tests have been performed to date and then are testing 100000 people a day ahead from president chimes saying that he was very pleased with the testing operation he says the most sophisticated the best anywhere in the well he thought that were at the top of the hill in terms of coronavirus and the cases are going down on a downward cove he also said that he would be have been discussing a package to help the Airline Industry which he said badly hit by a coronavirus and progress also on therapies to be used to treat coronavirus at reagan john hendren whos joining us from skype from chicago as are quite a big emphasis on the testing angle today. Thats right laurin the president claims that the u. S. Is in good shape for testing but we hear from governor after governor any state that they simply dont have the tests they need and the president was pressed on that i reporter who said if people arent if we dont really have the widespread ability in the United States to test people how can you send them back to work when you dont know who has this virus and who doesnt the president said that the u. S. Testing system was strong nevertheless but thats going to be a big question the governor of illinois where i am here in chicago right now said earlier today he did not see any public gatherings here through the end of this summer that means concerts and other events like that until there is a vaccine for the virus which there is not now and despite the president s efforts to put a rosy face on how things are going here in the United States and there there has been evidence that that socalled curve has been bent. The unemployment is at 6600000. 00 over the past week alone those are new unemployment claims a total of 17000000. 00 people in the past 4 weeks putting the u. S. Unemployment rate at 12 to 13 percent now and according to some forecasts as high as 15 percent in the near term future one analysts called it the Great Depression 2 those are huge numbers numbers we have not seen since the 1930s that the testing issue continues to go on there have been 16000 deaths here in the United States so the president s saying what he can about the positive effects it is true that the growth of the virus seems to have slowed but in many ways it does seem to be on the upswing just briefly to the promise of a package to help out the Airline Industry that thats been really where there has been hardest hit as innit. Thats right of course youve got the biggest exporting manufacturer in the United States is the airplane maker boeing theyve been heard as well but what hes really talking about is the airlines that have it have canceled and many perhaps most of their flights have very few people on the remaining flights at they havent the president says the u. S. Is going to help those airlines a lot he says and its important to him to make the Energy Companies strong as well but not on a detail on exactly what is going on there and of Course Congress is still negotiating the latest aid package and theres a succession of them and we dont know when theyre going to end john hendren thank you very much indeed and thats it for me Lauren Turner has extended coverage the latest on corona virus pandemic around the world and the latest in the United States according to sendai our beheaded governments with more news thanks for watching. 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