Nationwide, we have passed the peak on new cases. Also attending the briefing was sonny perdue, who announced the cdc had created new guidelines for production facilities where workers had tested positive for coronavirus. Rus. Strategy is working, very strongly working. New cases are declining throughout the new york metropolitan area. Cases in detroit, denver metro areas are flat. D. C. , baltimore, philadelphia, and state lewis st. Louis are showing great signs of progress. New cases in new orleans are defining. The battle continues, but the data suggests nationwide, we have passed the peak of new cases. Hopefully that will continue and we will make great progress. These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines on states for reopening the country. We are going to be talking about that tomorrow. We will have a News Conference sometime during the afternoon to announce guidelines. We will be talking about various states. It is very exciting. It is a horrible time to see such death and destruction. Especially when you come out of what was the greatest economy in the history of the world. There has never been an economy like what we produced, but we will produce it again. And we will do it fast. The medical and Health Care Advances are critical to our continued progress. We rapidly developed the most expansive testing system anywhere in the world. And have completed more than 3. 3 million tests. We have authorized 48 separate coronavirus tests. The fda is working with 300 companies and labs to widen our capacity further. Today, abbott labs has developed an Antibody Test that will determine if somebody has been previously infected with the coronavirus, and potentially developed immunity. Its a great test. The company says these tests could be available to screen of to 20 people in a matter of weeks. My administration is distributing medical supplies to states across the country. Through project air bridge, which has been an amazing success, we have completed 44 flights. These flights are very large airplanes. Massive cargo planes. 44 flights of critical supplies as of today, and an additional 56 flights scheduled in the future. We have brilliant people working on this. Its logistically incredible what they have done. We have been working on this with the military. These people have been the genius of them together has been an incredible to watch. Through all channels, the federal government has developed and delivered 39. 4 million and masks, 431 million gloves, 57 million surgical masks, and 10. 2 million gowns. We ordered 500 Million Masks, and they will be coming shortly. We have distributed 100 Million Masks. Following the defense production announced the first ventilators come off of the Assembly Line in kokomo, indiana. Great place. They did it in 11 days, from start to finish. The ingenuity of the american worker. Gm will ship over 600 ventilators this month alone, with thousands more to come. We have other companies doing something similar. There is a brief clip sent to us by General Motors. I think they might want to play that for your benefit. Please. [video clip] [end of video clip] President Trump i know you got nervous when you saw there was a clip ready to be played. That was sent to us by General Motors. We thought it would be good to play. Its amazing for what they have done in a short period of time. They are making thousands of ventilators, and there are coming out of the factories rapidly. We have others doing it. These are highgrade ventilators. We are helping a lot of people, at this point, nobody needs them. Nobody has needed them for weeks. We are going to have them for other countries. Nobody is able to do things like we can do. We will be able to help other countries that are having tremendous problems. To put it mildly. My administration is using every available authority to accelerate therapies. So important, therapies. Ultimately, we want to come up with a safe vaccine. Therapies are important because it takes care of people now. Vaccines have to be tested so it takes a longer time. We have Great Potential therapies, and we will see how they are working. We can report them in the next week or two. Tremendous progress has been made. 35 Clinical Trials of promising therapies are now underway. 35 different genius companies. If you look at aids, if you look at ebola, if you look at so many things, they have come up with answers to so many things. We are very honored to be working with them. They include the antivirals. Something which is incredible, keeps the virus from multiplying. A mechanism that keeps the virus from multiplying. Immunotherapies that keep the immune system from overreaching to the virus. And convalescent Plasma Treatment that uses antibodies from the blood of recovered patients. We have a lot of patients who recovered. The first thing they do is say we want to give our blood. We have thousands of people who have recovered and feel like they have an obligation because they got great care. A lot of them did not think they were going to make it. As the u. S. Government works out as the entire u. S. Government works to combat the pandemic, its essential that federal agencies are fully staffed. We are not allowing that to take place through our congress. They are not giving that to us. We have many positions that are unstaffed because we cannot get the approvals. The democrats are holding us up, we cannot get approval. We have gotten judges because we go through the process. We are up to 448 federal judges. We got that because we focus on it. We take the maximum time because, no matter who the judge is, they take vast numbers of days and hours to approve it. Very unfair system. If a judge will be approved in one hour and one session, it will take the maximum number of hours and days to get one judge approved. We are close to 250 judges. Because of the way they are doing it, there is no time for anybody else. Many of these people have been waiting for two and a half years. We have a couple that have been waiting for longer than that. There are currently 129 nominees stuck in the senate because of partisan obstruction. Many are nominated for vacancies that must be filled, to assist with the coronavirus crisis, and the resulting economic challenges. I have read over the couple of years that i did not fill positions. In some cases we dont need the positions. In many cases we cannot get them approved by the democrats. The positions include the director of national intelligence. Two members of the Federal Reserve board of governors. The assistant secretary of treasury for the United States. And the under secretary of agriculture responsible for administering Food Security programs. Sonny perdue will be speaking today saying, please, can i have this particular person approved as soon as possible . He has been telling me that for a long time and the democrats wont allow it to happen. Every judge and every nominee goes through maximum, or at least they go through a long process. It takes days and days, and theres no time left. Its a concerted effort to make life difficult. Michael pack is my nominee for the broadcasting board of governors. He has been stuck in committee for two years, preventing us from managing the voice of america. Very important. If you heard was coming out of the voice of america, it is disgusting. The things they say are disgusting towards our country. Michael pack would get in, doing a great job. He has been waiting now for two years. Cant get him approved. The senate has left washington until at least may 4. The constitution provides a mechanism for the president to fill positions in such circumstances. , theecess appointment practice of dabbling into pro forma sessions where no one is even there, has prevented me from using the Constitutional Authority we are giving that we are given under the recess provisions. The senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees, or formally adjourn so i can make recess appointments. We have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government. Now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem. We have to do it. We have to do whatever we have to do. They have made it very difficult to run government. I dont think any administration has done anywhere near what we have done in 3. 5 years. But every block, every week, they put up roadblocks. Or the its russia impeachment hoax, whatever it may be. It is always roadblocks and a waste of time. If the house will not agree to that adjournment, i will exercise my constitutional bothrity to adjourn chambers of congress, the Current Practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American People cannot afford during this crisis. It is a scam, what they do. A scam, and Everybody Knows it. Its been that way for a long time. Never been done before, nobody is even sure if it has, but we need to do it. We need these people here. We dont want to play anymore political games. Ive been waiting three years. They are great people. They left law firms, jobs. They gave up everything to do it. They have been waiting for three years, two years, one year to get approved. Everyone knows they will be approved. There is only so many hours in the day when you go through judges and you go through lengthy hearings on judges they know should be approved immediately and could do it in one hour. Instead it takes them many days. To advance the health and security of our nation and all nations as we announced yesterday, the u. S. Government has put a hold on funding to the w. H. O. , pending a review of the organizations coverup and mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak. Over the objections of the who, we took lifesaving decisions to suspend travel from china. They were angry we did it. Took them a long time to realize what was going on. I know what other nations put their trust in the w. H. O. And i didnt do any form of ban. You see what happened to italy , spain, france. The whos guidance failed to control their borders. At a very crucial phase, quickly unleashing the contagion around the world. It was a horrible, tragic mistake, or perhaps they knew. Im sure they did not know the gravity of it, but perhaps they did. If they knew the gravity, it would be an even worse offense. To ease the economic pain of millions of families we have processed 300 billion in loans to more than one million Small Businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program. This action has saved millions of american jobs. It has been an incredible success. They want to replenish it, but the democrats dont. This is money that goes to the workers of our country. Phase one was 350 billion and now phase two we want to do more. Workers and Small Businesses so we can save all of the Small Businesses around our nation. Mike mcfarland from nebraska recently said this has been a godsend for his small factory and the 136 americans who work there, saved those jobs. Another Small Business owner from oklahoma called the program a total lifesaver for his auto repair shops four employees. Stories like these underscore why Congress Must replenish the Paycheck Protection Program immediately. The republicans want to do it immediately, and the democrats are stopping it. A short time ago, cdc issued Public Health guidelines for critical industries. In a few moments, agricultural secretary sonny perdue will elaborate how these affect workers in the Food Processing profession. It is a profession, it is incredible what they do, Food Processing and keeping Grocery Stores full. The shelves are not bare like what i inherited when we took over the stockpile. The medical stockpile. The shelves were there, the cupboard was bare. Tomorrow i will be leading a call with elected officials who will consult with my administration as we work to restore our economy to full speed. We really think with all of the stimulus and pentup demand, we will have an economy that really comes back quickly. How would like to see it more than match what we had before. What we had before was a miracle. We think this will be more than a miracle. We can do it, because we have the greatest people in the world. We will be speaking to americas governors tomorrow and then we will be announcing exactly what is happening. We will be opening up some states sooner than others. Some of the states can open before the deadline of may 1. I think that will be a very exciting time indeed. Governors are looking forward, chomping at the bit to get going. Not all states are the same. Some are having little problems. Some have done such a good job and are ready to go. Vice president pence and i will be speaking with the governors tomorrow and discussing procedures. Today i spoke with the leaders of many of our nations most Renowned Companies and organizations on how to achieve the full resurgence of the American Economy. My discussions included top leaders in health and health care, transportation, technology, financial services, food, hospitality, retail, agriculture, construction, energy, and sports. We want to get our country open again. We want to have our sports leagues open. We miss sports. We miss everything. We want to get back. These experts and innovators provided productive feedback on how to reboot our economy. They gave us a lot of good ideas. We spoke to smart people, the highest of the high tech, the level of iq on some of those calls was the highest you have ever seen on a phone call. We have a lot of great thought went into those calls and a lot of questions came out and statements, strong statements of what they recommend. It was a great day. We did a lot of calling with prominent people but importantly smart people and people that love our country. They talked about the importance of the relief measures to relief the present crisis and how to move forward including on the role of protective gear, where we have tremendous amounts of protective gear coming in. Robust testing and the future use of therapies and treatment. They also underscored the crucial importance of strong supply chains and communications infrastructure. We are talking about infrastructure for the middle of our country, broadband and they dont have and have not had for a long time because politicians forgot about them. Cant forget about them. They are the heart and soul. We are talking about the telemedicine. It is a new thing, and it is incredible what they have been able to do. It is just growing but it has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five weeks. People are learning so much without the ability to see a doctor. They are learning so much. Going forward it will be important for our country. As we have seen throughout our proud history, people working towards a common goal are in unison. We will forge an even brighter future, along with other nations hopefully. We are working with other nations great we will be the comeback kids, all of us. I am proud of the people of this country. I am proud of the people i spoke to today. These are brilliant people and we have gained tremendous insight. This tomorrow we are speaking with the governors. We will have information on openings and we will have openings that will exceed our expectations. They will be safe, strong, but we want to get our country back. We want to get our country back and we will do it. We will do it soon. I would like to ask dr. Birx to say a few words, then secretary perdue and Vice President pence. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. President. Thank you for summarizing what we are seeing. We have seen declines in cases across the country and this has been reassuring for us. At the same time we know mortality and the fatalities we are facing across the United States. We want to recognize the Health Care Workers who are on the front lines and recognize how low the case fatality rates are compared to other countries. This is not only because of our technology but how that is utilized to save lives. Im inspired by the American People who continue social distancing. These cases continue to decline because of the strong work of the people. I wanted to let you know we have nine states that have less than 1000 cases and less than 30 new cases per day. We are looking at states and metro areas as individual areas. We talked about how each of these are different, each of the experiences are different. We have states like california and washington state, oregon that never had a peak because of the work to keep populations down. So in the individual metros, they are being studied specifically. I want to highlight, and we are remaining concerns and have had discussions with rhode island. Providence is in a unique situation. They had increasing cases from new york city and now they have increasing cases from boston. They are caught between some incredible hotspots in the country. They are doing extraordinary job. They are caring for the individuals on the front lines of providence has new cases. We were with specific state that have pacific outbreak related to individual occurrences. I will remind the people again this is a highly contagious virus. Social gatherings, coming together, there is a chance an asymptomatic person can spread it unknowingly. We know if you are sick, you will stay home. Dont have that dinner party for 20 yet. All of the guidelines. We see as a country we are improving. Metro areas are improving, communities and counties and states are improving but that also still requires everyone to social distance. In the end we have states that have very few cases and very few new cases. These are ones the president is referring to, but have been silent throughout this epidemic and pandemic many had faced. These are the groups we are working with very specifically. Each of these governors and these mayors will have to make decisions after generalized guidelines are put out so they can do what is best for their communities. They are the front line. I want to thank our communities working throughout the world to ensure that africa and asia doesnt experience this level of affections we have seen. They have turned over capacities from their embassies. Our ambassadors are on the front line with local staff, working with ministries how to confront this around the world. They are investing in the health structures, laboratory and frontline care to ensure all of the work we have done against tb, hiv and malaria continues. Laboratories, clinics and hospitals built by the American People and the generosity of the American People to combat this covid19 around the globe. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Sonny, please. Sec. Perdue thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. It is an honor to represent you in leading the department of agriculture and represent the constituency who are crucial in maintaining our Food Security and giving us able to feed our families, wholesome and safe area i would like to start my remarks by echoing what my colleagues at the cdc have been saying. Food processing quickly and safely return to work after potential exposure to covid19, provided those workers are symptom free. Keeping critical functions working throughout the covid19 response. Any employee who develops symptoms on the job should go home immediately. The guidance is in line with the recommendations for Health Care Workers caring for those sick with covid19. We appreciate the dedication and commitment of the people working to keep communities fed and we will work with the cdc to keep those individuals as safe as possible during these challenging times. There has been a lot happening this week since covid19 is impacting reprocessing facilities. Americans who are worried about access to good food because of this, i want to assure you the American Food supply is strong, resilient and safe. The Food Supply Chain has shown tremendous agility in shifting production and logistics so suddenly from restaurant and institutional settings to retail settings. It is critical you follow cdc guidelines and guidance and best practices to keep your employees and people safe and healthy. To the employees and local Public Health officials, advising them, the cdc has issued guidelines on how to mitigate a situation if you have a positive case in one of your facilities. We need local Health Authorities and state Health Authorities to do everything they can to balance the demands of keeping facilities operational and keeping the health and safety of employees as a top priority as well as our communities. I want to take this time to thank our critical Food Supply Chain workers. We are depending on these individuals. These dedicated workers include obviously farmers and producers but also processors, truckers and Grocery Store workers. America is depending on what you have. We need to feed our families and you are the ones making it happen. We are truly thankful for the work you are doing and we recognize you are the true patriotic heroes during this National Emergency along with Health Care Workers. I want to remind you and all of us of one more thing. In the United States we have plenty of food for all of our citizens. The Bare Store Shelves you may see are a demand issue. The way food is packaged for a restaurant than the way it is packaged in the Grocery Store. Our supply chain is sophisticated, efficient, integrated and synchronized and it has taken us a few day to relocate the misalignment. That does not mean we dont have enough food in this country to feed the American People. You might think of it as an interstate. Way is going along well and you have a crash in one place, it backs up. That is what is happening, but we are working through that. Through all of this our Food Supply Chain has proven to be resilient, like the American People. The challenges we have, we continue to work through it all together. We will get through this with a whole of america approach and the Critical Partnership of local, state Health Officials. We will meet any challenge we face by working together. Thank you for the opportunity. Pres. Trump i wanted to say, china has many billions of dollars in tariffs which we have distributed to the farmers. We have many billions of dollars being held by sonny and i have told him to distribute much of that to the farmers. They were targeted and now they are benefiting by the amount they were targeted. We are very honored to do that. You will start that process soon. You will let the farmers no. Nobody can take advantage of our farmers. We have a lot of money we have taken in from china. We will be submitting that money from sonny to the farmers and is tremendous money. That was paid directly into the treasury of the United States. This has never happened to china before. They never gave us . 10. Now they are paying us billions of dollars. We appreciate it. Vp pence thank you, mr. President. The White House Coronavirus task force met today. It was reported to us we have conducted and completed 3,324,000 tests across the nation. 619,000 americans have tested positive. But as you reflected yesterday when we welcomed rhinovirus survivors here to the white house from across the country, more than 45,000 americans have fully recovered. We mourn the loss of more than 27,000 of our countrymen. Our hearts are with their families and the families of all of those who continue to struggle. As dr. Birx just reflected, despite the heartbreaking losses, we are getting there, america. Because of the efforts of people across this country to put into practice the president s guidelines, because of adherence to the direction of state and local authorities, as dr. Birx reflected, we see great signs of progress on the west coast and the east coast. President trump has directed our team to develop new guidelines that will be presented tomorrow to our nations governors and released to the American People thereafter. The people will be encouraged to know that 24 of the counties of this country have no reported cases. Half of the states in america have less than 2500 cases per state. This is a great tribute to the efforts by the people of those communities. As the president suggested, when we unveil the guidelines the team has been working to present tomorrow to our nations governors, we will reflect on the fact that there will be areas of the country that will require continued mitigation and strong efforts. There will be other areas of the country that will be given guidance for greater flexibility. The president has directed our team. When we think of 619,000 americans having tested positive, 45,000 having recovered, we want to announce the fda has announced efforts to facilitate convalescent plasma. People have antibodies that have recovered which can attack the virus. The mayo clinic is working with the red cross to make sure the coronavirus patients have access to the convalescent Plasma Treatments and more than 1000 institutions have joined this program. We want to urge every american who has recovered from the coronavirus for at least two and preferably four weeks to contact your local asthma Donation Center and donate. It is one more way people can do their part and step forward. Thousands have already done so and tens of thousands will join them. On the subject of supplies, i will be brief, because you detailed a great amount. The air bridge has completed 44 flights. 56 more are scheduled. On the subject of facial masks which are important for critical infrastructure, pleased to report the average daily delivery through the commercial network is 22 million facial masks coming into the marketplace. The average inventory over seven days is 80 Million Masks. Fema is working to move facial masks to priority infrastructure. The will be 6. 5 Million Masks they go out and additional 20 million before april 20 and then we will be adding 6. 5 million each and every week. We will ensure that all of those that work in food supply, First Responders have access to masks. We are increasing those every day. I speak for the president when i say how proud we are of our Health Care Workers across the country and how proud we are of the men and women in uniform, our radical professionals who have been deployed across the nation by the thousands. 576 doctors, nurses and other military medical officials have been deployed to 13 hospitals across the nation, 10 in new york, one in connecticut, texas, louisiana. Because we did not have the demand on the Javits Center and the comfort in new york city, we have deployed doctors and nurses from those facilities to hospitals. The president and i were speaking to mayor de blasio before we came out. He expressed his great admiration and appreciation for the relief these medical military personnel have provided to incredibly dedicated people in our hospitals. 258 medical personnel were deployed off of the ship and out of the Javits Center into new york. With that, i will step aside. It is remarkable to think that overall we have accomplished since you first issued the president ial guidelines for america. The truth is, because of what the American People have done over the last 30 days, we are slowing the spread. We are ensuring every American Family have access to the health care we want any member of our family to have, with the greatest Health Care Professionals in the world. We are saving lives and healing our land. We want to thank the American People for all you have done. Tomorrow, we will be presenting a new guidance to the governors of the country about how to build on our progress and reopen america in a safe and responsible way. Thank you, mr. President. You mentioned the possibility of adjourning both chambers of congress. What did you mean . Pres. Trump if they dont act on getting these people approved that we need because of we need them anyway, but we especially need now because of the pandemic. We are going to do something that will be something i would prefer not doing, but which i will do if i have to. [indiscernible] testing has got to be ramped up significantly before they feel they feel comfortable reopening. Isnt that what Health Officials pres. Trump we want the states to administer these tests. We have great tests, dunmore we have done more testing than any country as you know by far. We have the best tests of any country. Nobody has the quality of tests. If you look at abbott, they have been incredible, roche has been. We have the best tests in the world. We will be working very much with the governors of the states. We want them to do it. We are not running a parking lot in arkansas. We are not running a parking lot where you have a walmart which has been great, walmart has done a fantastic job, but where you have a Testing Center and running that from washington, d. C. The states are better equipped. We are working with the states, standing behind the states. We will work closely with the governors in terms of that, getting additional equipment. It used to be three or four weeks ago, get more ventilators. We got them and you dont hear that anymore. It has been amazing what we have been able to do. A lot of the Testing Centers are still for First Responders, healthcare workers, when will it be widespread where the Companies Feel more comfortable being open . Pres. Trump the governors of the companies will determine that. If we are not happy, we will take strong action against a state or a governor. If we are not happy with the job a governor is doing, we will let them know about it. We have strong action we can take including a close down. We dont want to do that. We are working closely with the governors. The relationship has been good. The Vice President has had a lot of conversations with almost 50 governors on every conversation. They have been really positive conversations. We have the right to do whatever we want. We would have the right to close down what they are doing, but we dont want to do that and i dont think there will be any reason to do that. We have the right to do that. Why did you have your name added to these Coronavirus Relief checks . Pres. Trump i dont know where they are going, how they are going. I do understand it is not delaying anything. Im satisfied with that. I dont imagine it is a big deal. Im sure people will be happy to get a beautiful check, and my name is on it. Go ahead. Dr. Birx said rhode island is seeing an increase in cases from boston and new york. You said you would like to reopen the states before may 1. How will you stop a second wave of cases if people are traveling state to state . Pres. Trump the governors can control that flow. I saw a little while ago it was reported certain borders are being controlled by states. They are taking control, and they may do testing for people wanting to come in. I have read that about rhode island. They have to be very careful. You said along with other nations, what form would it take . Are you considering relaxing the border between canada and the u. S. . Pres. Trump our relationship with canada is very good. We will talk about that. It will be one of the early borders to be released. Canada is doing well, we are doing well, we will see. At some point we will be doing that. In the meantime, nations that are heavily infected, we have a lot of nations that are heavily infected. Some are getting better, some are still on the way up. We are keeping strong borders. With canada we are talking about different things. The evidence suggests we have passed the peak. What is your evidence . Where are the numbers . Pres. Trump we are looking at graphs, models, getting a great response from deborah and tony, and many of the professors we are working with. We have many professionals working with us. Based on that, we are doing well. Looks like we are heading in the right direction. Some states are looking at other states and they are saying, i cant imagine what they are going through, because they are not in that position. They are in very good shape. I would say we have 20 states, but you have 29 that are in good shape. You have others that are getting better. With a few exceptions you have every state that is either doing better or on the way to doing better. On your threat to adjourn congress, article two, section three, that would be quite radical to do. You said now is not the time for partisanship. Act lower the partisanship in this town . Could it hinder your ability to get something done on coronavirus . Pres. Trump it has been a very partisan government for a long time. You can go back into the last two administrations and you see a lot of partisanship. Even now, you would think we wouldnt have as an example, the paycheck plan, that is going so well, so smooth and beautiful, almost without a hitch. The money is being distributed to Small Businesses. They are giving it to their employees. It is keeping them ready so when we reopen. It has been so good that it is almost depleted and we want to replenish it, and we cant get the democrats to approve it. That is a program they and everybody else admit are great. You do have partisanship. We have been trying for years to get people approved for positions. People one man left a law firm. One man left a big chain. He was a very successful executive. It was two years ago. We have people that have been waiting three years, and we cant get them approved by the democrats in the senate because they are taking so long to approve our judges. I am in favor of what mitch is doing with judges, because it always seems to be a priority. It is a very important priority. It is one of the great trademarks of this administration. We have approved record numbers of federal judges and appellate judges, and two Supreme Court judges, but rather than approving someone who is highly qualified, someone Everybody Knows will be approved, rather than go quickly, they take the maximum amount of time, whatever that time may be. What they are doing by doing that is taking days to approve somebody that could be approved in a quick vote. People that get phenomenal reviews in committee are going maximum number of hours. There is only so many hours in a day. We could have said lets stay. I would have been in favor of that. They didnt choose to do it. I have a very strong power. I would rather not use that power, but we have over 100 people we badly need in this administration that should have been approved a long time ago. One of them is the head of voice of america. If you look at what they are doing and saying about our country, it is a disgrace. We have somebody that is really good, talented and loves our country. I want to get these people approved. We have professionals. Sunny, how long have you been waiting for the man we are talking about . 2. 5 years. Sonny perdue, just happens to be here talking about something else. You have been waiting for one of the most important positions as secretary of agriculture, distribution. We need it now. Talking about shelves and cupboards. He has he didnt know he was going to get this question. You have been waiting 2. 5 years. The person is exceptional. That person left a very good job and it is embarrassing. He says do you think you will get that man approved . It is because of the democrats. What we are doing, judges are a priority. A federal judge will sit for 50 years, young judge. That is always going to have to be a priority. Because they are taking so much time in approving, they are trying to put us through the mill. You talk about partisanship, and it has never happened before. Look at every administration in the history of this country. Nobody has ever had hundreds of people not approved after 3. 5 years. What is the timeline . If congress doesnt pres. Trump they have been warned and they will be warned right now. If they dont approve it, we will go this route. We will probably be challenged in court. We will see who wins. When the court hears that we arent getting people approved for a position we need, we needed these people before but now we really need these people. When you talk about the numbers, jobless claims will come out tomorrow, likely around 5 million more americans putting their names in for unemployment benefits, but there are still a couple thousand people dying a day because of coronavirus. When you talk about opening up the American Economy now, how do you balance that decision out given both of those figures . Pres. Trump there has to be a balance. There is also death in keeping it closed. I have gone over this with you. I believe in this so strongly. When you look at mental health, suicides, suicide hotlines which are exploding, people losing their jobs, look at drugs and people that did not take drugs and now they are drug addicted because they are going through a problem. They have no job, no money other than what we have been giving them, we have opened up the coffers to some extent. I wish the democrats would help us a little bit, because they should. It is partisan what they are doing and bad for our country. There is death by having this strongly closed country. We have to get back to work. With all of that being said, we will start with states and governors that have done a great job and they will open it up as they see fit. We will be right behind them. We will be working, supplying them with things if they dont have them. We are helping them with ventilators after this is over so they cant say the federal government we want them to have there are a lot of options. Many governors have had a lot of options over the years to buy ventilators. They didnt choose to do it. We will helping them build up stockpiles. We will have plenty. I am very proud to do it. We will be helping other nations, italy, spain, france, helping them strongly. Russia is going to need ventilators. They are having a hard time in moscow. We will help them. We will help other countries. You see it with General Motors and companies producing. We will have hundreds of thousands of ventilators. It is a great thing to have. Is anybody freezing . It is very cold out here. We can leave early. Why do we have 20 of the worlds deaths in coronavirus when only 4 of the World Population . Pres. Trump do you think you are getting honest numbers from these countries . Do you believe the numbers in this vast country called china, that they have a certain number of cases does anybody believe that . We report everything. We are reporting the cases. We are reporting every death. I see this morning where new york added 3000 deaths because they died. Rather than heart attack, they say heart attack caused by this. If you look at it, that is it. Everything we have is documented and reported. What they are doing is just in case, and that is ok. We have more cases because we do more reporting. We have more cases because everything is done. Does anybody believe the numbers of these countries . Then it is like they didnt have the big thing. There have been some really, really bad, heavily some countries that are in big trouble. They are not reporting the facts. That is up to them. All i know is we report the facts and we are a country that is getting better. Multiple sources are telling fox news today the United States government has high confidence that while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus, it emanated from a lab in wuhan. Because of lax safety protocols, an intern was affected, and it went to the wet market in wuhan, where it began to spread. Does that correspond with what you have heard . We will see, when you say multiple sources there is a case where you can use multiple sources. But you can use the word sources. We are doing a thorough examination of the horrible situation that happened. In your many conversations with president xi, did you ever discuss with him state department concerns that had been reported to the state department from the embassy in beijing about that laboratory . Pres. Trump i do not want to discuss what i talked to him about. It is inappropriate right now. Been calls in our country for Prime Minister scott whoison to make funding for conditional on reforms to the organization. Wanted to get your thoughts on that and if you have any advice for mr. Morrison. Pres. Trump i feel very badly for the World Health Organization. It has been a tool of china. It has been totally china centric. You take a look at everything that has happened, i was all for it at the beginning. I said, isnt that wonderful . And then you start to see all of the mistakes. They did not want us to close our borders to china, to wuhan specifically. Mike was there. We were all there. They are criticizing me for closing the border. Nancy pelosi was trying to have parties in chinatown because she thought it would be great. She wanted to show this thing does not exist. We have some politicians on the other side that do not know what they were doing. You have to look at some timelines. Health organization does like the world trade and ideation, they have been treating the United States for decades so badly. They have been so in favor of china. China took off when it joined the wto because of what has happened. They are considered a developing nation . Toore a developing nation in my book. We are developing too. The fact is we have been treated so badly by these organizations. We are winning a line of lawsuits right now that we never won in the past. We are winning a lot of money we have never won in the past. With the World Health Organization, what happened is a disgrace. We pay 400 to 500 Million Dollars a year. China is paying 38, 30 nine and 40 million a year. And, it is like they control this group. I could do that if i wanted to it. Ote fulltime with i have some capable people. I could do very well with that. There is something going on that is very dead. The 5 that is very bad. The 500 million that we save, we will make a determination over a time. They will either have to make massive changes or we are going to give money we want to help people. Aids,e do in africa with people have no idea what we do and the money we spend. We were talking about it the other day. We are spending billions of dollars to help people in the case of one that dr. Birx is very much involved in, aids. Millions of dollars. Nobody talks about it. Nobody gives us credit. We do it very directly. We are spending billions of dollars to help people live. All over the world. Millionre spending 500 to the World Health Organization and there is something very bad going on. Ive gotten very much involved. It has been going on for a long time. We do not want to be the suckers anymore. It is called out. A big day tomorrow. It is cold out. A big day tomorrow. Today on cspan at 11 30 a. M. Eastern House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy holds a Conference Call with reporters to discuss the Coronavirus Response and the houses legislative agenda and then at 12 15 p. M. Eastern speaker of the house nancy pelosi holds her Weekly Press Conference also by a Conference Call. The senate meets today at 3 00 p. M. Eastern for a brief pro forma session while most lawmakers are back in their home state during the coronavirus pandemic. It is possible Senate Republicans might ask for unanimous approval for additional funding to help Small Businesses with loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. The p. P. P. Was created in response to the coronavirus and is reportedly already running out of money. Last week Senate Democrats blocked a unanimous consent request from Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell who then objected to legislation that Senate Democrats were offering. As always, you can follow the senate live on cspan 2. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer spoke about the influx of medical splice to her state and stockpiles and stressed the need for more medical staffing and addressed