We had a very big day today. Saying ourtart by love and prayers to every withcan continue, to be our fellow citizens who have lost a cherished friend or Family Member to the violence. Amidst our grief, we are making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy, thanks to our Aggressive Campaign against the virus and the extraordinary talent of our medical professionals. Our mortality rate remains roughly half of that of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the and that is due to a lot of things, but our medical professionals have been incredible. Since we announced our guidelines on opening up america, as we call it we say opening up america. I think we can add the word probably again. But that is what it is. We are opening up america again. 20 states, representing 40 of the population, have announced they are making plans and preparations to safely restart their economies in the very near future, so that is 20 states, roughly 40 of our country. Pretty quickly, three announced today, as you know, and they are going to be doing it safely. They are going to be doing it with tremendous passion. They want to get back to work. The country wants to get back to work. A short time ago, the Senate Passed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement act with additional funding for the paycheck hospitals,program, and testing, a lot of money for all of them, especially for our workers and our Small Businesses. My administration has worked aggressively with congress to negotiate this critical 482 billion funding package. We reached a deal that includes billion inl crucial funding, money to eight hospitals that really need the aid very badly. I am very proud of that, and 25 billion to support coronavirus testing efforts. I urged the house to pass the bill, and they are going to be voting on it, i imagine, very soon. While we are here he is a very busy man, as you know. Secretary mnuchin will be running back, so i think we will talk about that now and take a couple of questions on that, and then he can go and start phase four as the ink is drying. Probably, they will be voting in the house, but shortly, and we have tremendous support. So, steve, please come up and say a few words. Thank you, mr. President , and thank you for all of your work to get this passed. I would like to especially thank Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell and the entire senate for passing this and also Kevin Mccarthy and nancy pelosi, who have been working with us around the clock, as well, and our chief of staff, mark meadows, who was also very instrumental in this. Let me just comments. We have had tremendous support for the ppe, giving us another 310 billion for the ppe. We look forward to the house passing this tomorrow. It will be up and running quickly after that. This also gives us 50 billion for disaster loans that will allow the sba to make 300 billion of disaster loans for Small Businesses. It also allows us, as the president said, more money to hospitals and an unprecedented amount of money for testing, and again, i think we understand hospitals, not only the hospitals that have been impacted by coronavirus but more importantly many hospitals that have been shut down and making sure that the doctors and nurses get money. Now, let me make just one more comment on the program. We have over one Million Companies that have received this with less than 10 workers. So there is very broad participation in really small business. I will comment there have been some big businesses that have taken these loans. I was pleased to see that shake shack returned the money. We will be putting out some faq s. There is a certification that people are making, and i asked people, just make sure the intent of this was for business that needed the money. We will put out an faq, but again, the intent of this money is not for big, Public Companies that have access to capital. Mr. Secretary, will you request that those other companies obviously, shake shack was not alone in being a big company that got money in this. Are you going to ask them to return that money . They are going to be paying back the money. They should not be taking it. Harvard is going to. When i saw harvard, one of the largest endowments anywhere in the country, maybe the world, and they are going to pay back that money. Mnuchin i just want to clarify. The ppe has not been clear, so we will give people the benefit of the doubt. We will put out an faq explaining the certification. If you pay back the loan right away, you will not have liability to the sba and treasury, but there are severe consequences for people who do not attest properly the certification, and again, we want to make sure this money is available to Small Businesses that need it, people who have invested their entire life savings. We appreciate what is going on, and they are hiring people back. How are you going to assure that that those two small restaurants and bars who did not get the money last time around, that they will get it this time around . Secretary mnuchin like i said, there are a Million Companies that god and who are small. We are working with the banks. That gotion companies it and who are small. We are working with the banks. Thebillion and less, and big banks also, we want everybody to participate. There is no a lot of money back in the program, and we look forward to them getting access to the funds. Brett, great to see you. Do you estimate how long this is going to take . Secretary mnuchin well, let me just say. We are pleased with the success of this program and how quickly this got up operationally. We put out more money in these sba loans than in the last 10 years of sba, so i want to thank all of the banks who have worked really hard. We knew when we pass this originally if there was full take out, we would not have enough money. That is why we have worked with congress for more money. We have already impacted about 30 million workers. There will be a lot more, so i look forward to this being a big impact on the economy. The criminal convictions, having access to some of these programs, and update . Secretary mnuchin we worked with the white house on this. There were actually much more onerous restrictions in the sba program. There were people with misdemeanors who were not able to access the program, longer than five years, and we very much because of the criminal reform legislation that was passed and the work that has been done in the white house by jared and others, we have revised the program, so it is significantly shorter than it was before. We have already taken that into account. I want to emphasize, we did take this into account. There were a lot of people who would not have had access previously, and we changed those regulations. The president talked about a phase four. We all understand about businesses who need this, but how anymore phases can we afford to have or expect to have . Phase see possibly a five, a phase six, a phase seven . Secretary mnuchin first of all, i very much support the support. s talking about infrastructure since the campaign. Roads, bridges, broadband. Especially broadband has been very important. We have talked about restaurants, sports, entertainment, because these have been impacted. The president has talked multiple times about a payroll tax cut, and we are talking about in the case of states, in the states we have heard from the governors and the fiscal issues of the state. I think phase four will be, i think based upon what we are seeing the reopening of the economy and the amount of money we are putting in and working with the federal reserve, i think you will see a lot of the community, and we look forward to business rebounding, especially later this summer. This program, is this the last tranche of money you will need . Secretary mnuchin we expect this is the last trot, but we can reevaluate. Let me be clear. Billion here 310 and another 300 billion in loans. That is over 600 billion put into Small Businesses, which is the backbone of the economy, 50 of the payroll. And to comment what the cost is, we will work with congress on that and will consider it. It could be a big investment. Taxpayer dollars that are going out the door. Oversight,r independent oversight, on behalf of the taxpayer . Secretary mnuchin we supported it in the last legislation. Let me be clear. We have a new inspector general. The president has already picked someone for that position. We look forward to that person being confirmed. Many have been appointed. Lastet me say, we put off week for full transparency. We didnt have to do this. Gov. An go to treasury you can go to the website, and no lender did more than 4 . It showed the businesses. Again, the president and i very much believe in full transparency. We are spending a lot of money and want to make sure it is done effectively and fairly. You started by thanking the leaders in the house and the senate. Can you tell us how easy or hard it was to deal with oversight . Secretary mnuchin we have been working aroundtheclock. I think there has been very good, bipartisan support to get this done. Congress is coming together, understanding the importance of this, and we have been working around the clock for days, so this is important legislation. It is a lot. We spoke to a lot of people. Mark meadows has been fantastic. Like i said, it has been great to have him at the white house. I could not have done this without him working with me, and the president and Vice President have been available to me aroundtheclock. We could not have done this today without unanimous consent with the democrats being on board, and we look forward to this being passed on a bipartisan basis tomorrow. This is a real example of the country coming together to fight this virus. Your best understanding of what Mitch Mcconnell wants . Secretary mnuchin again, i think we are not at the point of designing that. Like any other bill, we will work with centers on both sides on a bipartisan basis. I can tell you there is a lot of support, particular for things like broadband, especially with what is going on today. I was on the campaign with the president. We have been talking about bridges and tunnels and rebuilding this country for years, so the president would like to make a big investment in this. Secretary, 17 billion reserve for openings critical for National Security, and also, the Oil Companies fitting into that, according to the president s tweet . Secretary mnuchin we are in the process of putting out guidance. That part was really designed for National Security companies that were either major suppliers to the department of defense that have topsecret clearance, so that National Security clearance, that National Security provision was clear when we did that. Me toesident has asked work with the secretary of energy. The energy is important to us. This has National Security issues but different. We look forward to looking at what existing capabilities we have and that may be something need to go back to congress to get additional funding for. This be anill Airline Bailout . Sec. Mnuchin its a different situation. What you have with the airlines is we had a very good airline industry. The virus, they basically shut down. We have a situation now with the becauseness, partially demand, but, less partially also because of too much supply. The president is determined. Ourant to the maintain Energy Independence and the president has asked me to look at all of our options and were doing that. Obviously its a pretty extraordinary situation where of oil the front month futures trade negative. Fourthhe issue of the stimulus bill and aid to local governments, any thoughts on that money should be proportionate to the rate of infection in states . Sec. Mnuchin interesting but way too early to consider that. Do on a we do well bipartisan basis. The president has listened to the governors. Opportunity on multiple videoconference calls with the president and Vice President. Out to a lot of people. There are a lot of states impacted but way too early to that level. Reporter you mentioned if a Large Company applies for one of these loans and they manipulate or work the system to get it, are the consequences if a Large Company tried to do any you do . Oans, what can sec. Mnuchin you used the word manipulate. To give people the benefit of the doubt. Were going to put up very clear guidance so that people understand what the certification is, what it means if youre a big company. A provision where there are multiple affiliates that but thean access this intent was not for company that have access to plenty of sources. And other again, to the extent these companies didnt understand this they repay the loans, that will be ok. If not, there will be other consequences. Reporter can you talk about those consequences . Sec. Mnuchin you can look at the certifications. Theyre quite significant. Reporter do you know how many saved in how much p. P. E. Sogone out in far . Sec. Mnuchin the p. P. E. Is 30 million jobs. That doesnt account for other money weve sent out. Were pleased, the direct deposits have gone out. Started sending out the checks. Were going to is supplement our out prepaidd send debit cards to get money out to quickly to people. Everything the president is working on has provided significant stability in the economy while were dealing with difficult time when, for medical reasons, weve closed down major parts of the economy. Much. You very thank you. Pres. Trump good question. So the noble fight against the has inflicted a steep toll on the American Work force, as we all know. Americans have sacrificed their jobs in order to battle the virus and save the lives of our fellow citizens. We have a solemn duty to ensure unemployed americans regain their jobs and livelihoods. Therefore, in order to protect American Workers, i will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the united states. Last night. Out that by pausing immigration, well americansnemployed first in line for jobs as america reopens. So important. And unjust forng americans laid off by the virus with newlaced immigrant labor flown in from abroad. Take care of the American Worker, take care of worker. Ican this cause will be in effect for days, after which the need for any extension or modification will be evaluated by myself and a group of people, Economic Conditions at the time. This order will only apply to permanents seeking a residency. In other words, those receiving green cards. Big factor, will not apply to a temporaryng on basis. As we move forward, well examine what additional related measures should be put in place to protect u. S. Workers. U. S. Nt to protect our workers and i think as we move forward, we will become more and of them. Ective this pause on new immigration to conserve vital medical resources to american citizens. Break from new immigration depending on the time were talking about will protect the solvency of our Healthcare System and provide relief to jobless americans. Today, Vice President pence visited the hard working men and women of General Electric healthcare in madison, who are working three shifts a day to quadruple their production of ventilators. Ahead of schedule on ventilators, as you know. Thats why its never brought up by the media. They dont like to bring things up when were doing so well. G. E. Is also working with ford make 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days, more than our entire country typically produces in a very long period of time. Doing that in a matter of a few weeks and a few days. Had a veryay, i productive meeting with governor saw, tos you probably discuss his statewide testing strategy and how we can work withher to help command it the goal of doubling testing in and new yorkweeks state will be continuing to control the testing of their citizens and will also manage state and local laboratories. They have a lot of great laboratories there, more than anybody would have ever known, frankly. Federal government will work along with the state on the manufacturers and distributors. Together well all Work Together help them secure additional tests and we hope this model states,k with the other as well. I think it will for the most part. Veryork has a lot of exceptional laboratories but most of the states do. You saw the chart yesterday. Most of the states do. Im proud of the relationship my has forged with say veryand i can honestly with new york state and new york city, theyve been work with. The new york metropolitan area thebeen the epicenter of outbreak here in america and the federal government has spared no expense or resource to get new yorkers the care they the care they deserve. We sent over five Million Masks. Five Million Masks and now that number as of about two days from than doubled. Re thousands of ventilators. Ventilatorsmany that the governors going to be sending up some to massachusetts of other locations. We have a great deal of ventilators which people thought be impossible about a month ago. Andsands of hospital beds was sent, asort you know, to new york, and it was originally for more of a normal medical purpose and we changed it over so that it could the care of people that had unfortunate circumstance of going through the problem that so well. Unfortunately, that we know so well. Thatd from the beginning no american who needs a ventilator would be denied a ventilator and we have kept that promise all over the united states. Think of that. Countries are desperate for ventilators. They have many deaths because they dont have a ventilator. Our vast andrew, if we could bring the comfort back to its we can virginia so that have it for other locations and he said we would be able to do that. Javits center has been a great help to them but well be bringing the ship back at the earliest time and well get it its next mission which will im sure be a very important one, also. But it was an honor. It gotconverted it after there into handling an event expecting toe not be handling. Authorizedhas now more than 50 diagnostic tests including, as of late last night, the first test that a patient can take home. It at home. E its highly accurate. Make theintends to Home Collection kits available to consumers in most states with doctors order. In economic coming weeks, we have four different Antibody Tests authorized. Tests will help identify can donate who convalescent plasma, thus lifeding potentially saving a. W. S. Antibodies to patients. Dr. Hahn will provide updates. We continue to gain ground in the unseen enemy and i see light at the end of the tunnel. Of late atsee a lot the end of the tunnel and were the process. Were starting a very, very powerful, important process. Gettingthat people are very anxious. They want to get going. They want to get back to their jobs. Money. Nt to make they want to take care of their families. So the light is getting brighter brighter every day and with that, if i could, ill ask come up and then dr. Hahn. Thank you very much. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. President. So, looking at all of the the united across states, we do see improvement across all the large metros. I know you know that we have been talking about the new york city, rhodenew york island, connecticut, long island. And really we do start to see improvement there and we see in rhodent even now island and connecticut. The Detroit Metro is doing quite with significant declines now. To orleans is nearly back their baseline of where they started for new infections. We also are seeing improvements in chicago and boston and that for usn a great concern over the last several weeks. Flattening now to be , both, also, philadelphia and houston, atlanta, nashville, baltimore, indianapolis and st. Louis, also flattening. The d. C. Metro area, we dont see a decline yet so hopefully of you are still social distancing and doing everything you can. Remind everybody of two points. When we brought up and the president put out the guidelines opening up america again, it was very clear to use data and to really Work Together to mitigate against any resurgence. Also critically to protect the vulnerable. And what were seeing across america and some of the smaller population states is seeing outbreaks in longterm care facilities and we asked everyone in phase one to make sure that they continued their social distancing in ensure that the vulnerable with comorbidities and other conditions, among the elderly were staying at home and making sure we were still to them but asce individual americans as we begin to open up, we also made it very that individual americans need to continue all of their ensuring social distancing, washing hands, not touching their face and making theyre not bringing the virus home to vulnerable individuals within the household were tomber those continue through all three phases. Peoples want to call attention, again, to the guidelines. We are continuing to see outbreaks in Nursing Homes and in confined spaces and i think stopericans we want to that and we have the ability to do that by really paying guidelines that were to be in all three phases. Im calling on the states again to note that an informed community and knowledgeable community is a protected community. So make sure all of your states have your cases up visible to communities so they can make decisions and understand where the virus is in their community understand how to tackle it with their state and local governments. Be absolutely critical. And the surveillance that we asymptomatic find before people get sick, as an Early Warning signal, we asked be in the federal clinics, in our inner city, more areas, among indigenous populations and facilities and prisons. We really want to support state and local governments to move on these critical monitoring to protect individuals that may be in the critically vulnerable states. We will continue to see ourality and death among american citizens, particularly in the cities, as they begin to because deaths will lag so we really need to and really,unite really, really support our Healthcare Providers who are still on the front lines. On the frontn lines now for weeks and weeks whateeks and so no matter city they have been in, they have not seen the relief that we about,en able to talk the light at the end of the tunnel, because of the delay in hospitalizations and deaths. So to our Healthcare Providers, our respiratory therapists and lab, thank you for the work that youre doing to protect americans and give us one of the lowest mortality rates in the entire world. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. I want to echo what dr. Birx said. A few short months ago i was one of the doctors on the front lines and you know how terrific wellre working and how theyre doing for the American People and a shout out to them for the wonderful work they do day. So President Trump asked the f. D. A. To remove all unnecessary that were in place to help with the development of both diagnostics and we have doneand that. Im here to give you an update arounda. s efforts serologic tests, Antibody Tests, detect in the blood someone might develop in response to covid19. These arent diagnostic tests but tests that detect the indication that one has had the infection and has responded. I think its important for to understand that the timing of the response of the antibody to the infection isnt completely known but we know it takes some time to develop that and theres two types of antibody responses that can be detected. And the Antibody Tests are just the larger response thats occurred in america plan that theork president has with the task force has developed. And this pandemic is truly unprecedented in nature and around worldports of different Antibody Tests that have been used and i think thats a reflection of the fact that were just learning and beginning to understand what that response looks like and haveof these tests different characteristics that detected at different points in the infection. I want to address one issue were focused on at the f. D. A. In an effort to provide laboratories and healthcare the early access to tests, we issued a policy early in march that allowed test toelopers the opportunity quickly get their tests to market and address the needs of the nation posed by the epidemic. In march we provided this regulatory flexibility to manufacturers and heres what we required of them. The manufacturers had to selfate the tests, called validation, similar to what Test Developers in the world have done. Notify f. D. A. They performed that validation and then they had to label their products appropriately in the package insert with information about the validation as well as ae fact that its not diagnostic test but an Antibody Test and the bottom line here is still expects manufacturers and Test Developers to validate their thisody tests even under revised policy. Weve done a couple of things to users, to help laboratories, providers, et cetera, states, in terms of use of these Antibody Tests. One is that were working with actuallyd n. C. I. To validate some of the more than 90 manufacturers who have brought us theyve their tests to market, to do independent validation and that process is going. We expect to hear more information this week about that and we will provide that a transparent manner. Anyone want to go after who is saying that the test has been authorized or has been f. D. A. But the actually hasnt. Weve authorized four testsations for antibody and 140 Test Developers are pursuing applications for us as so its not ok for someone to say that a test has been authorized or approved by hasnt and we are pursuing them both by in direct contact with the but also at the border. So we have increased these and we will efforts continue to outreach and do that with the manufacturers to make sure that we provide the most information to the end user of these products and we will continue to make all of our reference work and diagnostics and therapeutics to help america open up again. Thank you, mr. President. Reporter dr. Hahn, youre speaking of 140 different of theses, how many tests actually work . Dr. Hahn the 90 that have come forward, theyre required by us to have self validation and required to label that appropriately in the package insert and what were doing is with folks around the country but here at home, the u. S. Government with the n. C. I. C. D. C. , to validate some of those tests that have come forward to us. Were doing some independent validation. We dont have those results yet. Expect more results this week but we will be transparent about because its very important. Your question is superb in that testmeone wants to use a thats come to market, its important to read the information in the package cases but often in some its important for the independent labs to do the haveation also and you may seen reports in the press of labs around the country that have done that. To them and weut will include that information in the information we generate, as the, and provide to American People. Reporter while we have you a study on was hydroxychloroquine that found rate comparedty to the standard of care. I know this isnt a largescale trial but since this drug is out from and people are using it, can you give some takeaways from that study . Did that change your thinking on hydroxychloroquine . A small this is retrospective study at the d. A. Similar to the data we talked with the french study, this is something a doctor would decisiononsider in the to write a prescription for hydroxychloroquine. Before, whatd f. D. A. Will require is data from randomized Clinical Trials. Hydroxychloroquine placebo to decisionfinitive around safety and efficacy but preliminary data are helpful to providers and doctors, we want to ask them to incorporate the data as it comes forward. Definitive, doesnt help us make a decision from a butlar point of view, doctors should incorporate that in the decision they make on a oneonone basis. Reporter a timeline on the Clinical Trials . Over 30 we have Clinical Trials. Theyre in outpatient setting, setting and importantly, in what we call the prophylaxise meaning if youre a frontline provider and have been exposed to the virus, take the drug to see if you can prevent the illnessent of the related to the virus and all earlytrials are in stages. Pres. Trump i want to say in addition to the tests that we have tested and we more people than anybody anywhere in the world by far, by very far. Hydroxychloroquine, i wonder if youre concerned, study showed that more people died that used the drug wondering ifnd im Governor Cuomo brought you back any results . Discussump we didnt it and i dont know of the report. There have been some very good reports and perhaps this ones good report but well be looking at it and have a comment on it. Of experts atnel the n. I. H. Is recommending against the use of hydroxychloroquine in combination with zpak, something you have recommended. Pres. Trump ules always willing to take a look. Executive order . Pres. Trump the executive order is being written now as we speak. Probably tomorrow some time. Reporter will it have exemptions . Pres. Trump it will have exemptions but well notify you tomorrow. Well sign it most likely tomorrow. Being drawn now and tonight and its something we have to have country. Reporter who are the people who say it doesnt track with opening up the country to shut down immigration across the board for companies that and the pipeline thats already in place . What do you say to them . Pres. Trump i think it really does. I think its very strong and its countrywide as opposed to specifically like china or some ive shuter ones that down. Were going to see it. Youll see an accurate itsition tomorrow after completed by the attorneys. Reporter north korea, what can status ofs about the kim jongun . Pres. Trump these are reports that came out. We dont know. We dont know. Ive had a very Good Relationship with him. I wouldnt you know, i can animal say this. Only say this. I wish him well. If he is in the kind of say,tion that the reports that the news is saying, its a very serious condition. Wish him well. Weve had a Good Relationship. Ive said it many times, if in this else were position, we would have been right now at war with north at war andware not were nowhere close to war with north korea. Say to kim to jongun, i wish him good luck. They came out with serious medical reports. That. s confirmed it was cnn that came out. I dont place too much credence in it. Reporter did he convince you of testing,r expanded Governor Cuomo . Pres. Trump we have an understanding on testing. They have tremendous labs, as know, in new york, especially in the manhattan area but all over the state. Great, great medical schools and federal labs. A very good understanding. Were going to do very significant testing. Wants to not everybody do such significant testing. Testing is good in some cases and in some cases its not. Have governors that dont want to go allout in the testing because they think they can do it better. We have a very good meeting. The governor and i had a very good meeting. There more federal aid that can be used to help governors that want to expand testing . Pres. Trump thats a tremendous amount of money. Thats far more money than in my opinion than well need and again, already were testing more, by far, than any country. I think i read yesterday a thant that weve done more everybody else, every other country combined and i think our people should be getting a lot for that. Weve done a lot, more than combined and you never hear that in the news. Unfortunate. Reporting that that [inaudible] pres. Trump well give you an exact report tonight or tomorrow. I think its been covered accurately in this case. I think most people know what it is. Be able to getl in. We have to do that obviously, humane standpoint, there will be some people coming in. Its a strong order. Its a strong order. It involves a big circle, as you know. Reporter people already in the country, are they at greater deportation based on this order . Pres. Trump i dont think so. Are you saying theyre here illegally . Reporter for example, an here for a court order . Are they at risk pres. Trump you have to go to so the judge would make a determination as to whether or not theyll be staying but if have a court order, they wont have to leave until they through that process. That means they have a trial coming up. Reporter obviously, the you raised order, concern for a long time even in good Economic Times that immigrants taking americans jobs. Under what condition would you consider lifting this halt on anigration or is this opportunity to address what youve seen as a problem for a long time . Pres. Trump right now, obviously, theres never been we have the greatest economy in the world and one day we had to down. T we did the right thing because i think we would have had a mayben or two million or more than that deaths. We did the right thing. Wouldrtainly this pertain. When you look at it right now the last thing we want to do is workers jobs. Its one thing when we essentially used to call it full employment. And its another thing right now. Right now we have people that hopelost their jobs and we theyre going to come back and come back fast and we can have discussion but right now we have to have jobs for americans. You have a sense, if unemployment gets to 4 or 5 . Pres. Trump we have to see. Hope were in a position to have that debate. Down the weve closed greatest economy in the history of the world. Its the most successful economy. The stockook at market, breaking records virtually every week, sometimes day. And the stock market is still not doing badly considering what countrys been through, which tells you how strong it was in the first place. But, no, i hope were going to be able to have that discussion. I hope were in a position. Thats a good discussion to have later. T will be reporter dr. Birx, the c. D. C. Director said in an interview wave ofhaps the second coronavirus in the fall could be worse because its timed with the seasonal flu. I wonder if you could talk about that in context of opening up guidelines and the youve laid out. Dr. Birx we were very clear in the guidelines that we believe can monitor, again, monitor communities, at the Community Using the influenzalike illness and respiratory and ghast components ofal this particular virus. Obviously, when you have flu and working on an algorithm testing for flu and testing for covid and making sure were building the Testing Capacity to be able to do that because i think its very important that able ong to be the surface, a patient when they come in with early flu and early can look very close, identical. So we we need to have testing in place to be able to separate and ensure those patients receive the best treatment. Were also hoping by that time that we have additional Treatment Options for people with covid19 so that there will be additional treatment available in the fall. Beorter your message would to prepare for that time . Dr. Birx the president has made it clear that we have the emergency, which we have been working on, the openingup guidelines and as we talked he has us veryr, 90, working on the next 60, and on with fall and thats why hes not stopped with the ventilator orders. Its very important that we have a refreshed and comprehensive going into the fall and i think thats why weve continued to bring in those work on thed ventilators so that those would be available not only for the but certainly if other partner countries have tragedy. L of reporter follow up on that. You agree this could come back, actually worse, in the fall . Dr. Birx i dont know if it will be worse. Been pretty has bad. When you see what has happened in new york, that was very bad. I believe that well have Early Warning signals both from our surveillance that we have been talking about, in the vulnerable populations. Were going to continue that surveillance from now all the way to the fall to be able to warningthe early signal. I think what weve learned is how good americans are about ofediately reverting to all those issues that they need to do to ensure theyre protected and their families. Reporter mr. President , what do you say to the concerns, like georgia is opening up barber and bowling alleys and the like and you say Lindsey Graham concerned georgia may be going too far, too fast, and account affect people in south carolina. Obviously people travel back and forth between states. How do you protect the people of carolina, for example, from potentially bad decision by georgia . R in pres. Trump hes a very capable man. Doing, hest hes governor,d job as georgia, and south carolina, governor mcmaster, also. Have two capable people, were going to find out. Im scheduled to speak to the in a littlegeorgia while. Reporter Lindsey Grahams happened int what georgia . Pres. Trump we have those concerns. If they do come back and they could come back together heavy on the flu i really put outwell be able to the fires. Its like fires. And weve learned a lot. Weve become very good at this. Whatsu look at happening. When you look at the numbers coming down. A lot of states are in really great shape. Youll see a lot of openings but ill be speaking to the governor while. Gia in a little the American People need to to sociald or go back distancing, even if things relax the the summer but not in fall . Pres. Trump i can see them and ill speak for the doctor and if either of you, to say. But i would say you keep away gone. This thing is its going to be gone at some point. Its going to be gonegone. I would say you keep away and you do the social distancing until such time as you know its gone. When that time is. Reporter your executive order is to last 60 days. How will you decide whether to extend it . Pres. Trump well see where we basically,e economy, and i think ill have a very easy decision to make. Economys going to be great by that time but well see. Right now in light of the fact that americans are out of jobs, i cant be taken in. Reporter another 60 days . Pres. Trump i could roll it 30 than 60 days. Ore but well be looking at 60 days and see what it is. Reporter the immigration order, secondng you may sign a order to limit more extensions you were talking about. Confirm pres. Trump if i want, but i wont be doing it tomorrow. Ill sign the primary order and we have a secondary order that that, ill make that determination. We can do that at a different we want. Secondary orders, yeah. Reporter i have two questions. From me and one from a reporter who couldnt be in the room. My first question is about your order. Tion you campaigned on reducing legal immigration. Your speech in phoenix in 2016 reducing immigration. Pres. Trump ive always said you have to come into the country legally. Not legal. I campaigned on was people flooding our border and stopping. And speaking of that, we have miles, almost 170 miles of and powerful border wall up its moving rapidly, very quickly, and its having a tremendous impact and its our job a lot easier. Mexico has 27,000 soldiers right our southern border that we share with them and mexicos been terrific. Theyve really helped. Reporter you also campaigned on reducing legal immigration. Wondering if some critics are saying you are using the virgs now in this crisis to that promiseh on to reduce legal immigration. Pres. Trump no, no. I want people that are in this country, i want our citizens to get jobs. Them to have competition. We have a very unusual situation where something came in that has seen for many, many decades, probably 1917 would be the closest analogy if you look at it, when you look at the of contagione kind were talking about. Im not doing that at all. I want the American Worker and the american citizen to be able to get jobs. I dont want them to compete right now. Theres a big difference when we have a full economy and frankly where some of the companies, we have Many Companies moving in where they need actually, they need workers. Thats a big difference between that and where all of a sudden a lot of people lose jobs. Farmers rely on seasonal migrant workers. Pres. Trump thats an important point. The farmers will not be affected. Thats very important point. Point, actually. Im glad you brought it up. No, the farmers will not be affected. Went out ofers business, they were literally out of business, you remember that, it was not long ago. Its easier to stop everything sod than it is to plan it that the farmers have the people that have been working in those farms for many years and thats what were doing. No, the farmers will not be affected by this at all. Going to makeere it easier and were doing a process that will make it better for those workers to come in to to the farm where theyve time. Or a long reporter a question from the reporter from the washington times, why hasnt the c. D. C. Publicfacing role in the pandemic that its held buty media calls earlyol has not since mid march . Pres. Trump i cant tell you that. C. D. C. Has been terrific. We worked with them very closely. They were very much involved even in the broader decision that i made last night. The directors are doing a good job. Whether itss, tony or deborah or steve, we of people upa lot and certainly as youve seen the lot,tors been here a right . Hes been here. Speaking sitting here, a lot. C. D. C. Is very much involved in weve done. Reporter the director of the protests of the stayathome orders are not helpful. Encouraged these protests. Pres. Trump people want to get watchedwork and ive some of the protests. Not in great detail but ive seen that and theyre separated. A lot of space in between. Theyre watching, believe it or not, theyre doing social if you can believe it. And they are and theyre protesting but theyre the ive seen have been very much spread out. So i think thats good. People, they want to get back to work. Theyve got to make a living. Care of theirake family. They dont want to do this. One way or thee other. Both of unfortunate. But you have a lot of people out there that are anxious to get back. Yeah. Reporter people are actually more concerned, more people are the virus spread and they dont want to go out. Pres. Trump there are two groups. Theyre big groups, both of them. Reporter my question is, what good is it for business that would reopen if the customers pres. Trump at the same time we have to build back our country and im going to make our andtry bigger and better stronger and we have to get started. Theres a big difference, haveh, because people really been through a lot and they understand what to do now. Before, nobody had heard of a this, wouldnt you say . Nobody ever heard of a thing like this. Distancing, social distancing, what does that mean . Washing your hands every 15 minutes . What does that mean . People had never seen or heard about anything like this. Now they really are. Only have they done it but theyve done a good job of it. But you cant break the country. At some point you have to go back. Now, hopefully the governors are i want the governors and ive always wanted that. You can call it federalism, whatever you want. But the governors, i want them to do it. Doing something we dont like well stop it quickly but theyre doing a good job. Theyre being careful. Some of the governors, frankly, theyre in a position where they it sooner or a little bit later and thats ok. Want le they dont they need money. They need help. Were going to lose and we break our country over this. We cant do it. We have to get going. With that said, some are going soon and some are not. Reporter pardon me. Hair salons, nail salons tax too parlors. On birx, can you weigh in this . The people of atlanta want to hear from you, as well. Safely hairpen salons and nail salons and tattoo parlors in georgia where have to be close together . Dr. Birx what i have been trying to communicate over the is its reallyys important that the governors and mayors communicate critical information to their communities and show very clearly the data. We wanted this data and evidencebased. That they utilize to make decisions and the data the mayors should use in each of the because it will have to be on a communitybycommunity opening differentere are communities in different places, even in georgia. So i believe people in atlanta would understand that if their cases are not going down, that need to continue to do everything that we said washing yourcing, hands, wearing a mask in public. Peopleheres a way that can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things. Know how. But people are very creative. To prejudge but we have told people very clearly and the president s guidelines very clear about the expectations of phase one and includedphase one also social distancing in restaurants, social distancing in every place that was entertainment and keeping your own individual social groups to 10. Than we have been very clear in the guidelines and i think its up tothe governors and mayors ensure that theyre following the best they can each of those phases to make sure that the public is completely protected. Mayors governors and also need to communicate very clearly on the data that was making andcision make that transparent and available to their communities. Pres. Trump the example you just gave, are they doing testing before they go in . To find that out. Thats why im speaking to the governor in a little while and asking him those questions. Reporter trying to get a sense of what you have left in the tool box. The deal with opec pres. Trump the biggest thing in the tool box is to get our country open. Thats by far the biggest thing there is. If we can open pretty well and i think were going to over a piece,of time, piece by puzzle, remember. If we can open well, i think far. S your biggest part by thats where the engine is, more important than any other thing on. We can work reporter in your meeting with was there talk about providing states like new aid in the fourth stimulus package, wondering if you have thoughts on whether tied to should be infection rates, whether states like new york, new jersey, that been hardest hit, should receive more money and wondering have thoughts on mayor bill that he wants to host a ticker tape parade to honor the healthcare workers. Like arump that sounds good idea to me when its all over. They deserve it. Theyre warriors. Done an incredible job. We mentioned briefly state aid. We talked about that, Governor Cuomo and myself and i agree with him on that and i think most republicans and democrats agree, too. Thats part of phase four. I think infrastructure is a big part. To rebuild our country. You take a look where we spend and we go over this all the time trillion in the middle east. We want to rebuild our country and that means our bridges, our tunnels, even schools. Were doing something with schools. Do our roadways. Whats happened . Much money on other countries, they dont appreciate it. They dont appreciate it. Were going to spend money now on our country. Its going to be our jobs and its going to be our equipment. Made, much ofbe it is going to be made here. Hopefully at some point all of its going to be made here. John . Reporter at that podium back on president pence said that over a million tests distributed and he said, an exact quote, before the end of this week another four belion tests will distributed. As you know, now, six weeks later, we still arent at four million tests. Pres. Trump i dont know what his statement are you ready . Again, ill say it for the fifth time. We have tested more than any country in the world and some of the countries are very big. More than any country in the world. Have one of the most successful, if you call rates, because one person and i always say that for you in particular, one person is too many. But weve done very well, our testing. If you add them all up, weve tested more. What mike pence said but im sure he could answer that question. Reporter he said four million tests pres. Trump weve tested more than every country in the world, even put together. All i can say. As far as mike, hell answer your question. Tomorrow. Ack reporter i wanted to ask about china, phase one still in place. How incumbent is it on you that the chinese are not going to Natural Disaster use pres. Trump were going to see. Look. Theres nobody ever been tougher on china for me and that means for 20 years. You go back 20 years. Elected at least partially on the fact that i have been very tough. I said chinas been ripping us off for years. Id go into michigan. Id go into pennsylvania, make to being anrelated politician. Id be invited, id be speaking which i like to do because i love the people, i love the people of this country, speeches. Ke nobody id say, how did you let this happen with china . I even asked the leaders of china, how did this ever happen tens ofr country loses billions of dollars a year and i dont mean just tens. Look, 200 billion, 300 billion, 400 billion, 500 billion a year . How did they let this happen . If you look at last year, the deficit went way down. Im talking about even before. Now its much different. Were happenings except all of a sudden out of invisible enemy and we think we know where it came from and well be talking lot butat probably a came the invisible enemy. Theres been nobody tougher than me on china. You have no guarantee that they are going to go ahead with pres. Trump if that happens well do a termination and well thanat i can do better anybody. Please. Reporter u. S. Intelligence analysts told you they think the virus escaped from a Chinese Research lab. Pres. Trump what kind of a that you want me to tell you what they told me. Look, they told me plenty. They told me plenty. Reporter you said about the program,iness harvards going to pay the money back. How confident are you that you money back pres. Trump ill have to look. I dont like what harvard billion endowment, some incredible amount of money, gets some money . I want harvard to pay the money back. Ok. Wonty wont do that, we do something else. They have to pay it back. I dont like it. I dont like it. Meant for workers. This isnt meant for one of the richest institutions, far beyond the world. Theyve got to pay it back. Back. Them to pay it reporter your clubs have had to workers. Have you thought about keeping payroll the dural, youren not allowed to have golf courses open, you cant have the clubs open. Its a big hotel and resort and i think theres probably 700, 750 people. So you cant have anything opened and you say what are we going to do . Noe tropez roll and theres income coming in. Everyones home and theyre supposed to be. Second of all, florida, you cant use golf courses. That one im not sure i agree with. You have parks and golf courses with open space but thats what it is. So i have others also. Then i have others in different states. I have a lot of different properties. Again, my children run them and i love my children and i well. Hem i look forward to comparing my childrensmy numbers. I think ill do better. Property, you have to close them up and hopefully when well justbetter, open it up but you cant have many hundreds of employees around doing nothing. Theres no customer. Youre not allowed to have a customer. Its very places strict. New jersey is strict. Is strict. And you have to do what you have to do. And its too bad. I feel so badly when i see that. A tough policy but i go by whatever the policy thats a state policy in the case of florida. Reporter youve communicated regularly with kim jongun, the north korean leader. To you going to reach out him to check on his condition . Pres. Trump look, i just hope hes doing fine. Ive had a very good with kim jongun and thats to the benefit of the country. Thing. Not a bad thats a good thing. And id like to see him be well. Well see how he does. I dont know that the reports true. [indiscernable question] pres. Trump i dont want to ask him that. Have asked him that but its not my purpose to tell you that in all fairness. Does well. Reporter can i follow up with dr. Birx for a moment. Follow up on the question we were asking you about with social distancing in states. With georgia opening back up, parlors,ke tattoo getting a massage, social there are, maybe creative ways but do you have a message for people in georgia who will have a choice about nail to the hair salon or salon or getting that tattoo if apart, not six feet unable to follow social distancing guidelines, whats your message to people in a state like georgia . Dr. Birx we made it very clear in our message to all the American People with opening up america again, the criteria that we want the states to follow. Are careful criteria. There were only six. Carefullycarefully, selected in conversations with epidemiologists around the world c. D. C. To really pick things that people could platforms and use that people have utilized in the past but it was built on the premise that it needs to be data driven and it needs to protect vulnerablere most and then it went through the phases and the very first thing phases, allall individuals need to continue to wash hands, protect the ensure the safety of others. But if phase one it made it wasr that social distancing absolutely key and i think its on the white house website. We ask every american to read it and to use that as their guidelines. Also asked governors to create countylevel information see thecommunities can information and understand why they may be different than a different county so that its very transparent and understandable. I had a question here a couple of days ago on a jacksonville beach. Dramaticallyis different than miami and i think that was reflected in why had a different set of information and regulations. To second ing judge anyone about their Decision Making. Is we wereing to say very clear in what we really believe protects the safety of that is clearly laid out in the opening up america again. Reporter i have a question. Got data that increases cases in singapore. Looking at china and then back into this area of the world. Here were talking about a going up. D then cases that seems to take out of whats happening in this area, asia, after we put our attention somewhere else for so long. Pres. Trump theyve got to be very careful. We dont want that to happen. It could happen. We stamp it out if it does happen. Were not going to be doing any mass closings, i hope. So i think we could. Them burning embers and we put them out and i think weve gotten very good at that but well see. We dont want that to happen. Reporter with a reopening happening, we dont want to go back to reclosing. Pres. Trump i dont want to do that, nobody in this room wants. O do that the room seems so empty this way but its one of those things. Go ahead, please. Reporter mr. President , thank you. Supportopic of public and u. S. A. Today poll came out 80 of americans are supportive of the immigration halt. Did public support have any your Decision Making here and are you surprised by those numbers . A high number. s i did not see that number. I heard there was a poll. People wantamerican to make sure they have jobs for the American People, not for in manyhat come in cases illegally into our country. Were doing that. I dont know what the numbers are but i think just common sense tells you thats where we american and where the people want to be and were going to build our country back and im telling you, with all that were doing and infrastructure, which we desperately need, its going to be an incredible thing taking place. I think its going to be a renaissance. Were going to have something be a lot of people will go to work building those roads and bridges and tunnels thehighways and all of other things were going to be building and broadband for the west. The farmers havent been treated fairly. Lets face it. Treatedhave been terribly when it comes to the internet so were going to take care of that. Were going to make them very happy. Well see you all tomorrow and well have some interesting things to put out tonight and i being here and its an honor to have bret baier here. Used that slot a lot, john. Back soon. Have you thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. 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