This is half an [cameras shuttering] ms. Mcenany good afternoon. I have an announcement for you for hospital funding in the third phase of Coronavirus Relief. The Trump Administration will distribute 12 billion to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic. These hospitals have collectively cared for 70 of the 184,000 americans that required hospital inpatient care. 10 billion of the 12 billion will go toward hospitals treating 100 or more covid19 admissions. H. H. S. Is just to bidding an additional 2 billion to these 395 hospitals in proportion to the amount of care they provide top low income and uninsured patients. This is consistent with our effort to ensure americans who need federal government assistance the most receive it. We will be releasing a breakdown of the states receiving this funding and the counties receiving this funding, but new new york, new jersey, and illinois received the most funding by state, while new york, new york, the bronx , new york, and cook, illinois, received the most per county as determined by our metrics. Our health care providers, as President Trump has repeatedly acknowledged, are our heroes as we work to defeat the invisible enemy. This relief funding will help these heroes defeat this virus. I love what this one provider said he said thank you and god for this relief. I have tears in my eyes out of gratitude for these funds. Thank you so, so, so much. Additionally 100 flights as part , of project airbridge have been completed to date. These flights have expedited one million pieces of p. P. E. For our health care heroes. The third phase of Coronavirus Relief also included 320 billion in additional funding for the paycheck protection program, which as you know , provides forgivable loans to Small Businesses in order to keep their employees on payroll. This program has been extra nearly successful. During the first round of p. P. P. Loans, one. 6 million loans went to Small Businesses. Of those, one million were given to companies with 10 or fewer employees. So it has gone to Small Businesses and businesses that need it most. Justhe p. P. P. , it is not another government program, it is supporting Everyday Americans who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves in this predicament. We saw this first hand the white house on on tuesday, president tuesday. Trump welcomed Small Business owners and employees to the white house. These Small Businesses received p. P. P. Loans which helped them pay their employees during the pandemic. Gideon bowes was one of the businesses welcome to the white house. It employs 120 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is a coffee shop not far away from here. They had to temporarily close their doors, but because of p. P. P. Loans, gideon bowes was able to rehire all of their employees. Real honor of getting to meet michael, one of the employees at gideon bowes. He offered some words of country. Ment our they really touched my heart and i think they will touch the heart of america if you guys wouldnt mind playing those remarks. [video clip] thank you, President Trump and ivanka. Thank you mr. President , for having us. I love my job and i am excited about going back to work. At gideon bowes, we like to use called not broken. That means me and all my amazing coworkers are not broken, and we have lots to offer. I know the great country of the United States isnt broken either. So on behalf of myself, megan, amy and all the employees of gideon bowes, thank you for having us over. You guys are family. [applause] ms. Mcenany michael is an incredible young man. I gave him a call yesterday and asked what he was up to. He said he and his fellow employees were literally handwriting notes to put in with their coffee packages that they sent out to consumers. I received one of them from another company and it really puts it smile on your face. Michael is doing that every day. Gideon bowes, they represent the hope and opportunity on the horizon for americas workers as their business embodies the american spirit. Workers like michael show this country is not broken and that we will recover together. Michael, thank you. You are an american hero. Thank you for sharing that message of hope and with that, i will take questions. Kelly, if i could. Welcome to the podium for the first time as well. Ms. Mcenany thank you. Reporter the markets are down substantially after the president yesterday suggested in the east room but he might use tariffs to punish china over the coronavirus. Is there any serious consideration being given to putting new tariffs on china, or was the president just spit balling yesterday . Ms. Mcenany i wont get ahead of any remarks by the president , but i will echo the presence displeasure with china. Its no secret china mishandled the situation. They did not share the genetic sequence until the professor in shanghai did so on his own the next day. China shut down his lab for rectification, they slowwhat information of human to human transmission to the w. H. O. And did not let u. S. Health investigators in other a very important time. I certainly will not get ahead of the president with that announcement. Reporter is the president really considering forcing china to pay some type of reparations . Ms. Mcenany when it comes to retaliatory measures, i will not get ahead of the president on that. Reporter thank you. Welcome to the podium as well. The president says he has a high degree of confidence that the coronavirus originated in a lab in wuhan, china, yet his own intelligence agencies say they are still investigating. Does the president have information and has he drawn conclusions that the Intelligence Committee hasnt yet . Continueny where we to have very limited and dubious data from china, analysts believe that current assessments indicate President Trumps statement is consistent with what analysts believe is where the virus began and i would note the intelligent statement you are pointing to makes two points. One, that this virus originated in china and two, that it began with contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan. So i consider that consistent with what the president said, that he has seen intelligence suggesting it could be a wuhan laboratory. Reporter he seems to be reading into the idea that this started in a laboratory where the as the statements from the dni say, we are still investigating those two options. As the president in any way creating mixed messages . Reporter let me remind everyone, intelligence is an estimate of essentially and it is up to policymakers to decide what to do with that intelligence. The president will make that decision at the right time. Reporter is a president deciding what to do about china question mark has he received any recommendations, is he ready to make that decision . Ms. Mcenany i will not get ahead of the president and his decision. But he takes this very seriously because the decisions of china that i referenced, slow walking some of that information, put american lives at risk and this president has one priority and that is the safety and wellbeing of american lives. Reporter welcome. It has been more than 100 days since a press secretary stood there. You say you have been planning to do these daily basis at one point. Also will you pledge never to , lie to us from that podium . Press i will never lie to you. You have my word on that. As for the timing of the briefings, we do plan to do them. I will announce that forthcoming, but we plan to continue these. Reporter welcome to the podium. Question for you on project warp speed . Can you give us more details . The president said ultimately he is in charge of the project but t will be the daytoday who will be the daytoday point person on this, what is the budget, and when con the American People realistically expect there will be a vaccine available to everybody . Ms. Mcenany there is a day to day point person, and that is the president of the United States, President Trump. With regards to the vaccine, i would note the words of dr. Fauci going into the phase of one trial within three months of getting the sequence is unquestionable. The world record. Nothing has ever gone as fast. What the president is doing under the pres. s leadership, phase one faster than before according to dr. Fauci, that should encourage a lot of people. Reporter there is really no other point person . I guess the buck stops with the president , but he hasnt put somebody on the staff . Ms. Mcenany i will not get into any details as to exactly how that works, but rest assured we are on an accelerated pace for the vaccine, at least for phase one of the clinical trials. Reporter the fed yesterday took an action that appeared to bail out oil companies. I am wondering if the president has spoken to chairman powell about this and if he is happy about the move . Ms. Mcenany i want to get into the pres. s personal discussions, but i will just note that the president is always looking out for the nearly 11 million workers in the oil industry. I will also note that we are filling the Strategic Petroleum reserve right now, and we will buy almost 75 billion barrels and thats the only announcement i have on the oil front today. Reporter thank you. The president tweeted this morning about the protests in michigan, he essentially said the governor of michigan should work with protesters, called them very good people and said they are very angry. Protesters, i am sure you saw, included heavily armed protesters, members of a militia group. I wonder if the president was speaking about those specific members who stormed the capitol of michigan when he was talking about very good people . Ms. Mcenany what the president was referencing generally is that in this country, you have the First Amendment right to protest, which is something we treasure here and you should. You have the right to do that constitutionally but you must protest within the bounds of the law. He encouraged everyone to protest lawfully and also engage in social distancing guidelines, which we think all americans should engage in. Reporter does he have any response to the imagery with guns,ople with long showing a Police Officers and others . Ting ms. Mcenany the president says we must protest lawfully and act within the bounds of the law. Yes . Reporter Jared Kushner talks about a Great Success story. They understand the reaction . Pres. Trump look, Jared Kushner has first of all done a great job for this administration. When heould say is that talks about a success story, he was talking about the story of this administration, the story of mobilization for the American People, the greatest mobilization of american industry since world war ii. Of course we grieve for every American Life that has been lost, but we want the American People to be confident in the response of this administration. That is what he was referring to. The fact that in the average year, the Healthcare Industry uses 25 million n95 masks, and we have delivered in this short time, 75 million n95 mask, more than three times what the healthcare sector uses in a year. That is extraordinary. It is extraordinary that some in the media were saying that we needed a million ventilators. Not a single american has died for lack of a ventilator. The fact that this president can say, i am producing 100,000 ventilators this year, alongside the private sector, 100,000 ventilators, three times what we produce in the average year, i consider that a Great Success on behalf of the American People. Reporter [inaudible] ms. Mcenany we want to give the American People confidence that they have a government that is doing everything in our power to provide the necessary equipment to combat this invisible enemy. We grieve for the american lives i will echo that today. I pray regularly for those affected by the coronavirus, but we are going to give confidence to the American People that you have a president under donald trump that is going to step up and give the greatest mobilization of the private sector since world war ii. Yes. Reporter President Trump the situation in brazil two times this week. Are there talks in terms of sending assistance to brazil, sending p. P. E. Or ventilators. And is President Trump hoping to talk to president bolsonaro . Ms. Mcenany the president has mentioned he has sent ventilators across the world. Supply, we certainly look to help other countries. A specific announcement regarding brazil, i dont have any information for you on that announcement today. Reporter one of the most Important Press of your job is to have access to the president. Can you give us some indication that you have been named press secretary, what kind of access to you have to the president to get what he is thinking and relate it to us . Ms. Mcenany i can tell you i am around the president from is the entire day. I was just with him before i guys. Ut to speak with you my staff can attest to the fact that they have a hard time finding me because i am normally with the president in the oval office. I am absorbing his thinking. It is my mission to bring you the mindset of the president , deliver those facts, so the president gets fair and accurate reporting, and the American People get fair and accurate information. Reporter following up on hers jenna is blocking the World Health Organization for coming in to investigate china is blocking the World Health Organization from coming in and investigating how this started. Shouldnt external investigators be allowed into determine how the pandemic started and expedite a way of finding a cure for this thing . Ms. Mcenany there is no secret that 10. U. S. Investigators from coming in. It was of paramount importance that we got into china in an expedited fashion, but that did not happen. The United States, as the president has emphasized, provides about 400 million to 500 million a year compared to china at roughly 40 million a year to the w. H. O. The w. H. O. Appears to have a very clear bias towards china. When you look at the timeline, and you consider the fact that on december 31, you had taiwanese officials warning about human to human transmission. The w. H. O. Did not make that public. On january 9, the w. H. O. Repeated chinas claim that the virus does not transmit readily between people. That was quite apparently false. On february 14, the w. H. O. Again repeated chinas talking points about no human transmission and praised chinas leadership on the 22nd of generate and on the 23rd, and they said, this is incredible, the pandemic did not present a Public Health emergency of international concern. Even on february 29, you had the w. H. O. Saying that when the coronavirus was spreading around the world, they chose Political Correctness first by opposing lifesaving travel restrictions. The travel restrictions the president put in place, the travel restrictions dr. Fauci praised as saving lives. You have the World Health Organization that saved american lives, that is unacceptable. Especially at a time when the u. S. Was providing 400 million to 500 million. Reporter this time last week, the president was saying he was not happy with georgias kemp, forbrian beginning the opening process. There have been some peaks and valleys in new cases in georgia, but overall, the trendline is down. Do you know what the president is thinking about georgia reopening . Ms. Mcenany the president is resolute in saying that the state takes the lead here. Its the decision of governors to decide what is best for their states. That being said, i talked to experts, i talked to dr. Birx and to dr. Fauci and they say this president has always cited sided on the side of data. That is what he encourages all states to follow the data guidelines to reopenings. But ultimately, it is the decision of the states. One note i would make about the president in times of national emergency, we have a trend in this country where president s aggregate power at the federal level, but this president has devolved power. Principleested in a which is federalism, and i think that is the right decision. Reporter has he mentioned about how he feels about Governor Kemp in the last few days . Ms. Mcenany i have not spoken to him about Governor Kemp in the last few days. Reporter as the president is looking forward to opening the country, does that mean he will be campaigning in those states that will be reopening . Ms. Mcenany i would refer you to the Trump Campaign on that question. Yes. Reporter thanks for being here, you mention dr. Fauci amid ago. Are we going to have any more press briefings with Health Experts or has the white house shifted the message to focus more on the economy and less on . He Public Health aspect ms. Mcenany we will be back up and talk to you about how we approach disseminating information. When i talk with my colleague and we plan out the communication strategy for the white house along with the president , what we do is say, what is the best mode for the public to receive this information at this time . We allow the news cycle and the American People to guide us. What we see happening, and i hinted at this last week, you have 35 states and probably more at this point with plans to reopen. Americans are looking to reopen the country. We had dr. Birx at several event this week. Dr. Birx and dr. Fauci out on the airwaves. Incredible people and they have done a Great Service to the country. We allow the news of the day to guide us in what the American People want to hear. Right now we are a reopening face which is why have seen the president with Small Business owners, employees the great , heroes that have emerged from this pandemic and have done a lot of the hard work. Every day we approach this as how can we disseminate information . That is why i am here, supplementing the efforts of this president to get the message out. I would also note, he is the most successful president in history. He took questions twice yesterday and twice today. You hear from him quite often as well as the medical experts. Stiller is a Task Force Meeting . Haverole does a task force versus Economic Advisory . Ms. Mcenany the task force meets regularly. I go to the meetings. Dr. Birx is meticulously reviewing the data in granular detail. I watch them spend sometimes upwards of two hours in these. Briefings so. Those are still ongoing, rest assured him that we want a safe reopening. We are prioritizing the help of the American People as well as looking forward to reopening the country. Reporter [inaudible] the statement yesterday, there is a quote i would like your response to that says, the International Community also concurs with the consensus that the covid19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified. This was from the dni statement. How do you knew this statement, how do you understand it . In thehere was a piece new york times, senior trump demonstration officials have pushed the intelligence agencies to hunt for evidence of the theory that wuhan . Id19 was made in ms. Mcenany i can assure you no one is pressing the Intelligence Community to come to that. The Intelligence Committee stands in perfect concert with what the president said. So i encourage the media to convey the facts of the American People, which is that we are in line as an administration and we stand by the Intelligence Community, completely in concert with what the president said yesterday. That is a most everyone. Round two, that is great yes. From a viceoday President Joe Biden denied allegations of sexual misconduct. Does President Trump take him at his word given he has denied , allegations against himself . Ms. Mcenany we are pleased to the former Vice President has decided to go on record. Than 16 hoursss to follow the advice of the president of the United States to come out and publicly address those claims. We are glad he is on record about this. Reporter he said that tara reid is four more compelling than anything they had with respect to brett kavanaugh. That, what mean by is far more compelling . Ms. Mcenany i would point you back to his words. I think it was a great miscarriage of justice, what happened with brett kavanaugh. There is no need for me to bring up the salacious, awful and verifiable he false informations made against justice kavanagh. But was an embarrassment for the Democratic Party to have sullied the name of a very respectable man like that. Word that thee is decision to release michael prison to home confinement for covid19 has been reserved. Is the white house directly or indirectly intervening here . Ms. Mcenany absolutely not, i would say. But i am glad you brought up justice. Because, look, again, there is a case of injustice that is yet to be brought up today. I certainly would like to bring it up. The case of general Michael Flynn. What we have all learned from that should scare every american citizen. The fact that he had jim comey admitting in december of last year that he violated a protocol by directing agents to confront flynn, something that he would gottenote them have away with under previous administrations. The f. B. I. Told flynn he didnt need a lawyer when he came to meet with them. Mccabe told fbi agent he did not think he was lying. And the information we have learned the last months and years culminates in the fact we have a handwritten fbi note that says, quote, we need to get lie and get himd ge fired. Target on theair back of general Michael Flynn that should concern every american. Anytime there is a partisan pursuit of an individual. At least those questions are raised with regard to general Michael Flynn, and honorable man who served his country. Reporter when the president fired Michael Flynn, he said he was doing that because he had lied to the president and lied to the f. B. I. Given all you said, is it still true that the president Still Believes Michael Flynn lied to Vice President pence and lied to f. B. I. . Ms. Mcenany Vice President pence is on the record. He said he is inclined to believe flynn did not intentionally mislead him. I would turn the question on you and ask, does it trouble you that the f. B. I. Said we have to get flynn to life . Doesnt it trouble you as a journalist and a journalist and not only that, as an american citizen . Therter the bottom line is president said point blank that flynn lied to the f. B. I. Tend to the Vice President. So i am asking a direct question, does he still believe Michael Flynn lied to the f. B. I. And lied to the Vice President . Ms. Mcenany again, i point you to the Vice President s statement that he is inclined to believe Michael Flynn did not intentionally mislead him, and i ask that all of you in your coverage and ever to report a very scary story, when the f. B. I. Is saying, let us get someone to lie. I have seen very scant coverage to that. It is an important story and i hope the American People are getting to hear from the very first time. Reporter the south china sea, we had an issue come up this morning, where you had the ship crossing International Maritime sea. S in the south china chinese officials are saying this will be a dead end and ever. Deadend endeavor. Withhe president spoken the chinese as far as what they will be doing . Did the u. S. Navy ignore these threats and keep going through this international has the chinese navy ignored in these threats and keep going through International Waters . Ms. Mcenany i have no news to report as far as the president s conversations. For specifics about it, i would be directed to the nsc. Reporter in a broadcast interview, the president said democrats would, have to give us a lot of paid for the states. A . Specific idea what the president governor for secondly, cuomo said, the president already told me a few weeks ago he supports this kind of assistance, and why are we bailing out airlines or defense contractors but not the states that pay teachers . Ms. Mcenany you brought up Governor Cuomo, a good time to remind everyone that Governor Cuomo has raised the president s response on covid19 crisis, saying that what the president achieved is a phenomenal accomplishment. We thank Governor Cuomo for his kind words. On that note, with regard for funding for the states, it is something we want to start negotiating one immediately and get to work on. The president has said, look, i will certainly look to consider helping the states who have coronavirus reasons for the financial situation they find themselves in, but he doesnt want this to be an excuse of decades of decades bad democrat of governance that have run the states into a financial predicament. He has mentioned that. In terms of the types of things statess to see in the bill, i dont want to get ahead of negotiations, but i want to emphasize he has mentioned sanctuary cities. That is an important issue that has cost american lives. Last year, our brave i. C. E. Officers arrested 20,000 withnal aliens charged nearly 10,000 burglaries, 5000 sexual assaults, 2000 murders, and in the last year, and egregiously Human Trafficking , 5000 episodes. American lives matter. Our brave i. C. E. Men and women matter. It is something he would like to see in phase four. Reporter are you specifically conditioning state aid to states that are that have sanctuary city policies. Ms. Mcenany that is not conditioning anything but something the president will certainly bring up. Reporter the president has in the past denied any of the allegations from the many women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. But from the podcast, he suggests the allegations tara our more credible than the ones made against brett kavanaugh. What makes them any less credible than the allegations from tara reade . Ms. Mcenany the president has swiftly denied these allegations that were raised four years ago. He has always told the truth on these issues, he has denied them immediately. You are bringing up issues from four years ago. That were asked and answered, and the American People had their say in the matter when they elected President Trump as president of the United States. Leave it to the media to take an issue about the former Vice President and turn it on the president and bring up accusations from four years ago. Reporter to johns question, Kellyanne Conway suggested the other day that two things could betray the same time. We now how the Vice President saying it is his belief that general flynn may have unintentionally mislead him, that is three years after the fact. That two things that could have been true at the same time were that flynn lied to the Vice President and also led to the f. B. I. If you remove the f. B. I. Piece of this, with the president still have fired Michael Flynn for lying to the Vice President . Ms. Mcenany i will not engage in a hypothetical. I would equity again that this was a great miscarriage of justice. I am very glad that the f. B. I. Kept a paper trail goes what many have said for a very long time pointing to the first few facts i shared with you culminating in the hand written note, i am glad they kept the augmentation of their attempt to slowwalk general flynn into a trap and essentially create a grave miscarriage of justice. The f. B. I. , at least we can thank you for the great notetaking. Reporter john does bring up a point that general flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. Ms. Mcenany i will not get the you in a matter not consider it an immense miscarriage of justice when you , wethe f. B. I. Writing want to get someone to lie . Isnt that a miscarriage of justice . Reporter but in the end, he pleaded guilty. Ms. Mcenany you know what the yes. R is, the answer is i would encourage the medias coverage because i watch a lot of your networks and i have read a lot of your papers. I have seen a lot of scant information about Michael Flynn. When there was a lot of speculation about russia, russia, russia, culminating in 40 Million Dollars of tax money lost and the complete exoneration of President Trump. Thank you very much. I will go and see my little five month old here in a few hours. Let me say this, the president at 5 00 p. M. These for camp david. He will be working the weekend, talking with head of states and elected officials. We have a great event coming up this afternoon. Everyone, just watch of the fox news stone hall with the president from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. It will be cantmiss. Television thank you. [cameras shuttering] [reporters asking questions] washington journal time a special evening edition of washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our guests, and infectious professorysician and at the university of alabama at Birmingham School of medicine, joins us to discuss the latest in Clinical Care for covid19 patients. 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