Im not saying the market is wrong, it is what it is. You know, youve got millions of people trading all around the world. I just think everybody, whether youre an investor or whether youre, you know, ordinary, main street person, people should not overreact. Thats an important thing, to not overreact. This is in america we have an incredible Strong Public Health stu the d as i said to president has taken rapid fire, unprecedented actions to help protect in the event of emergency or, you know, further deterioration. I think these are very good things. Very constructive things. Reporter numbers on wall street for several days that the president would consider more extreme measures to respond, potentially even up to suspending the tariff on china as one emergency measure due to the virus. Is he considering that or any other measures . Mr. Kramer theres nothing definite i can report. Theres a lot of conversations in and out of the oval office. I was with him yesterday for quite a while talking about one thing and another. Were dealing this with were dealing with this mr. Kudlow this is sometimes a hard choice to make in the middle of this which is part psychology and part fact. I dont think anybody ought to panic right now. Were going to stay the course on our policies, tax cuts and deregulation and energy and ade, you know, and then its worked, the economy is sound. Im actually still watching china. China, people have moved from china to italy or other places. Im still watching china. And ive got ton know tim cook very well. C. E. O. Of apple. I was just really interested in the interview with him yesterday because he was rather optimistic about reopening factories and i guess the starbucks people are the same way. The other thing is, just on the economic stock market point, it may change and it may worsen but right now these sort of realtime, these Regional Bank surveys, people should Pay Attention to them. Theyre sending off good signals on the economy. The numbers we have in january exceeded expectations. Thats why that atlanta fed thing is 2. 7. Weve got another month to go for the quarter and then after that. So well see. But i dont think were going to tack any precipitous policy, at least not at the present time. Reporter how much can the market take before theres longterm effects on the economy . What do you think . Mr. Kudlow thank you. Ok, the market the market has short run correction. I guess 10 or 11 or something. Weve been through this many, many times before. And i dont think even though its a front page story and nobody likes to see their asset values go down, i just dont think at this point its going to have much of an impact. Ill qualify that, it depends how long it lasts, how deep it goes. But i can cite from historical experience. Remember i was a reagan cub scout way back when. , remember the 1987 market president reagan going up and saying its fundamentally sound, the economy grew by 3 or 4 the next couple of years after that crash. President trump said it here in this room two nights ago, we just think the economy is sound and therefore i just dont think the shortterm stock market plunge is going to have any ongterm effect. Reporter if you had a friend thinking of taking a cruise or going to china what advice would you give them . Mr. Kudlow stay home. Reporter what effect do you think this will have on the president s Reelection Campaign . Mr. Kudlow i think the way hes handling this will have a very pozzive effect on his eelection campaign. Im a longtime trump friend and watcher, ive been working for him, one of the best news conferences i have ever seen him give. Again really historic an unprecedented actions. This is a governmentwide effort. I think folks are going to look at that and say, you know what . Hes doing his job very well. And i think therefore at the end of the day its going to actually help him on that. Reporter what Emergency Powers does the administration have to ramp up Domestic Production of n95 masks and other Protection Equipment . Mr. Kudlow i wouldnt want to go into specifics. There are things we can do to help. Hings we can do to unclog, but ypt to go into details on that just a couple more. Reporter can you help clear up some confusion about communications having to be funneled through the Vice President s office. Many individuals are saying thats what has to happen. On the record the Vice President s office has denied that. Do Government Agency need to clear their Coronavirus Communications through the Vice President s office . Mr. Kudlow theres a lot, look, we always have coordination here. Always. The n. E. C. Has to clear things. The president is the ultimate clearance clearance authority. The Vice President is running this task force. Were just trying to coordinate our messages. The governmentwide operation. Its not an easy thing to do. Will say to you, no one is being stifled. No one is being told what to say. Youve got veterans, again, coy. I come back to this point, youve got veterans at n. I. H. And c. D. C. With immense knowledge of these things. Theyve been through this before. We are all ears. We want to hear what they have to say. We want to hear what they tell us. So theres a big difference between stifling and coordinating. I think you have to coordinate. Its a big government. So no, i dont see a problem there at all. I dont see anything wrong with that reporter officials on the record said that there is no approval process. Youre telling me there is . Mr. Kudlow um, theres no hard and fast process no. But people have common sense. Youve got a task force, actually, im a member of the task force. And theres a lot of coordination going on right now. Heres the thing. This may not be what youre looking for. But i just want to tell you. This is such a serious matter. That not only do we want all the information we can possibly get, we would like to have coordinated messages just to stop any confusion with the public. Its a real hard thing to do. But theres no hard and fast, you know, you cant say this, cant say that. Thats not the case. But were sharing information across multiple number of agencies and were doing it through that task force and were just trying to coordinate so were speaking with one voice as much as possible. Thats all im saying. Yes, sir. Reporter you mentioned in a fox interview that the president is on the phone quite a bit, has he spoken to c. E. O. s of Different Companies . Mr. Kudlow i have. Reporter which companies . Is it most in the travel industry . Mr. Kudlow its across the board. I have gotten to work with, meet and get to know at lot of c. E. O. s, many of whom are Just Brilliant people. Thats why i clited the tim cook interview. Tim cook is an amazing businessman, runs a Great Company and knows a lot about china. He would not have said what he said if it werent true or at least on the ground what he saw. But were keeping an eye on everything right now. We understand its difficult. Sometimes sometimes the psychology is a lot worse than the facts. I understand that. Its aa huge were human trait. You plan for the worst but that doesnt mean the worst will happen. Reporter anecdotal, the tim cook story, you said that before, sort of broadly, what have you done and what did you pack into those meetings weeks ago to try to deal with the supply problems . Mr. Kudlow the government doesnt run the economy. We can learn and report on it. We dont we cant control that. If china is taking tough steps an closed down factories or whole areas, we just have to live with that. As you know, in this room, i have said several times the president has from day one wanned to engage with china, hes talked to them, wants to help china, wanted to send experts over weeks ahead of when they went, were working with the World Health Organization as well. Were only as good as the facts. The facts may be harder to come by in some cases. We cant control that my point about supply chain, i understand economics world and the investment world is worried about that. Because it could, you know, slow down growth for a couple of quarters. We just i was scanning the wall street journal today for example, looking at various stories, north American Auto production is proceeding apace. There are problems overseas, especially china. China auto production is terrible. Auto sales are terrible. Theyre going to have a poor First Quarter g. D. P. But on the whole looking at these regional fed reports, thats the best i can do right now, we dont see any evidence of major supply chain disruptions. Im not trying to say nothing is happening. And i think there will be impacts. But to be honest with you, at the moment, i dont see much that may be ahead of us because the next few weeks in march will be important and well get new information on that. So far through february it looks ok and i think investors and ordinary families should, you know, take some comfort in that. So well take this a day at a time. Thanks very much. Appreciate it. Reporter finance minister [inaudible] mr. Kudlow summit is in mid june. We had meetings yesterday and finish up today. Go on. Stay tuned for more. Thank you. Appreciate it. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. 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