The million ventilators thus far that the media said we were in dire need of. Encouraging to be able to say that every single american who needed a ventilator ventilator. A and this administration has a hundred procure thousand ventilators to be days. Actured in 100 thats extraordinary. Thats three times the amount produced in the average year. Likewise, there was some concern about n95 respirators but the now administration has shipped over 90 million n95 respirators. Thats more than three times the average Healthcare Industry consumption n95 respirators in a typical year. Finally, the u. S. Now leads the testing. For weeks the media cited south korea has being the gold testing, but as it stands were now testing at a igher rate per capital than south korea. In fact, as this chart is going states, you, in all 50 were now testing at a higher capital than south korea. So a state in the country is a higher rate per capital than in the entire country of south korea. Thats pretty extraordinary i would say. Now i would like to provide the american beam an update on the Trump Administration support for underserved communities. As the president has said this country is at war with an and while we all fight the virus as one united its a fact that this virus disproportionately affected those in medally young served communities, and therefore the president has delivering economic support and quality care for individuals in distressed communities. He Trump Administration, as i announced last week, distributed relief ion in provider payments to 395 hospitals across the country that have been coronavirus. Y the many of these hospitals were in underserved communities, and to even more funding to these communities, 2 billion of hat overall funding was specifically targeted to hospitals in proportion to the amount of care they provide for income and uninsured patients. Additionally, the Trump Administration is investing nearly 2 billion in community ealth centers to help their 28 million patients in medically underserved areas that receive care and the testing they need. Thats what this funding is intended for. 583 ionally, there is awarded to Health Centers in all 0 states, district of columbia and the eight u. S. Territories specifically geared towards testing. Centers currently provide a hundred thousand tests per week and 59 of the patients tested last week were from minority communities. Finally, under the paycheck trump ion program the administration has done extensive outreach to the Development FinancialInstitution Fund across the country. And are known as cdfis they support revitalization in distressed communities and the ppp, 100,000 of loans have been districted to which are to mdis, known as minority deposit institutions. About ave amounted to 6. 2 billion, and finally, have been issued to smaller lenders and nonbanks to these loans have amounted 29. 9 billion. President trump will continue to fight for the health, safety and wellbeing of all americans, especially those impacted in low income and disadvantaged communities, and with that ill questions. President trump said yesterday the u. S. Has prevailed today we heard from senators both democratic and republican who say thats not the case. Lamar alexander, republican, says what our country has done so far in but not s impressive nearly enough. Senator pat murray, a democrat, says we need dramatically more testing. We dont have a National Strategic plan. Whats the white house response . First, i would note on the words of dr. Anthony fauci, is this, well have and there will e enough tests to allow us to take this country safely through phase one. I have sat in the task force where the admiral has talked to governors and pulled out his chart and said, governor x, here was your plan and request for testing in order to safely reopen. Can assure you that will be satisfied this month. So i have seen those meetings take place. American people in line with what dr. Fauci has said we do have enough for phase one. The end of the week well be able to say weve conducted 10 million tests. 150,000 testsdoing per week to now testing about 300,000. Extraordinary effort, not to also note that thats two times what other countries are look at americas testing. I would say thats pretty impressive and thats a work of this he administration and the hard work. First of all, reopening a lot of here were questions today on the hill about when indeed that can happen. And will the white house will the white house issue guidance, benchmarks, for various communities on when that can happen and how soon can that happen . There is a lot of concerned parents across the country. You know, in our uidelines to safely reopen, that there is an outline at the beginning to open schools, i directly to the guidance that currently exists and there is that cdc guidance thats in the works thats forthcomingta provide additional details. Vaccine,th regard to a if aion was asked when and vaccine becomes available regardless of income can, the resident ensure that everybody regardless vaccine of income . The president will go to great efforts. Want to get ahead of an announcement. The abilitynt have to be tested, this president , called in the private sector and companies to say yes, well cover both treatment and well cover testing and eventually inscribed into law. So this president , before it was even an issue on the hill, took with toasting and hell do the same for vaccines. Fauci just note, dr. Said on the hill today, there are eight vaccine candidates and on january 10, we received the 11th. Ic sequence the 62 days later we entered phase one Clinical Trials for a which is the fastest ever, in dr. Faucis knowledge. Thats a pretty good pace that i were on to getting that vaccine. Working withsident pharmaceutical companies, will he work with them and encourage hem to make sure vaccines are affordable to everyone . Absolutely. No doubt about it. Couple of questions. First on reopening. Dr. Fauci said today many times opening without following the more ines could lead to outbreaks and could turn back the clock. Does President Trump still in the federal guidelines and if so, why isnt he urging states to follow them of asking them to move quickly to reopen . He has encouraged states to follow the guidelines. Thats still consistently the ecommendation, follow the phased approach as outlined in the data. I do want to stress that the president has stressed we do reopen this country because there are consequences that run the other way when we stale closed down as a country want to run through a few of those with you. Hotline run by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health services aw a 1,000 increase in response in april as we kept the country closed. For ntments for screening cancer of the kerr vicks, colon 94 breast were down 86 and in march. There are real consequences for that. Braca2 aca2, i care a mutation, so i was someone for breast reened cancer until i got a mastectomy cancer i went to my hospital, it was quite frightening because the consequence of that is this. Iqvia ing to the institute, for human data cience, a total of 80,000 plus diagnoses of five common cancers n the United States are projected to be missed or delayed from early march to early june which is why this go to nt has always said your doctor, do your screenings. There is a way to safely do pain. If you feel chest go to your doctor. People from going to hospitals. People are scared to go to their doctor and there are and quences for that finally i would just point out, a recent cnn article from friday Health National public group that warned as many as 75,000 americans could die or alcohol rug misuse and suicide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Consequences to us staying closed, and its why, i elieve it was a medical group that came out with the statement, noting concerns that some people with symptoms of attack, stroke and cardiac arrest are avoiding hospitals. Thats why i said from the times today,st two youve got to go to your doctor, weve got to encourage this to safely reopen. Last year you said it would all nsensical to test americans and yesterday the administration celebrated of the population. In order to reopen 100 of the amount of testing does make sense to you . Nd whats an alternative to testing to contain the virus, to make people feel confident to normal . K to we actually engage in strategic at the timing which is what our experts have always said. The admiral said its a bad strategy to say you need to test testing a cause person now just means they are negative at this moment. A point also emphasized by dr. Fauci. If you get a test today that does not mean tomorrow or the you day or the next day might get exposed, which is why we acknowledge testing not preventative. Is preventative is wearing the mask. Whats preventative is social distancing. Is preventative is washing your hands. These are the measures we need reopen. To safely and they will well using testing strategically for for ct tracing purposes, example, thats the way it should be used and deployed and i stand by the comment i made earlier. Could you speak just a bit about the next round of bill rus funding, the what provisions are what can behind . Look, i wont get ahead of the president in negotiating, wont condition any future legislation on a certain proposal but i will say noted a president has payroll tax is something hes looked at, not conditioning it noting thats something he desires to see. Its smart policy. According to that means every worker in america get a substantial pay raise. Whats so promising about the payroll tax is its regresssive. Lowest wage workers are, in fact, the ones who would be most more because they pay payroll tax than they do income tax. Thats something the president has mentioned, not necessarily condition, i wont negotiate here with Speaker Pelosi but i encourage her to the president and help these low income individuals to et the tax cut that they deserve. Patton has a confirmation hearing on thursday. Can you speak to what the president wants him to do if to change the way the voice of america operates . Yeah, i wont get ahead of later in ng which is the week as you noted. I wanted to ask you about the detached force. The president and Vice President said last week that there would additions to the task force and those would be announced on monday. Yet vent seen those names and whether they are going to be there will be additions but that just ments on yet. Some k there is deaths in st. Petersburg today ventilators, russian ventilators that exploded. Im wondering if you can tell us what happened to the russian ventilators that were sent to the United States, and whether been usedilators have and if not, if so, they are commission . Out of thats the first time ive heard that story so i dont have any updates on that other than note were way ahead of where we should be on ventilators as i remarks. My opening a hundred thousand ventilators in a hundred days is good, no died from not having a ventilator but thats the first time i heard that story. The president indicated he might be communicating with Vice President phone for a while, the Vice President keeps some distance. Can you give us an update on whether or not those two men are in g to see each other person, i know the Vice President has been working at the white house. Is he keeping his distance from president for a while . The Vice President has made the choice to keep his distance few days and i would just note thats his personal decision to make that, as to how again, s he does it, thats a decision for the Vice President. Yes. I have a related question. Is the next time we might birx and dr. Fauci in this room giving us an update on of the Public Health regarding coronavirus . Weve heard from dr. Fauci pretty much the entirety of the day. He lad a hearing so you probably heard from him more hours today han youve ever heard from dr. Fauci. You hear from these experts regularly out on division and next time they are up here in this capacity, but we certainly have valued their time we continue to value their time. Its been a while since weve seen dr. Birx, for example. The coordinator of the Coronavirus Task force. When might we see her and be get an update from her and be able to ask questions of her . Yeah, again, i dont know when in this capacity you will see her but i talk to her regularly. Fact, i talked to her before i came out here because i had some questions about some funny i heard from senator Elizabeth Warren and she helped me to correct those numbers to correct d like here because i think under the circumstances fair to men people o give inflated numbers on mortality, because it leads to americans to not getting a the cancer screenings that they need. Erroneously ren said there were 25,000 new cases today. In fact, there were less than 20,000. Senator warren said there were 2,000 deaths. In fact, there have been less a thousand. I spoke to dr. Birx about that. I would encourage our democratic and all americans to make sure were putting out good information because it does have consequences. The Justice Department is considering bringing federal harges against the two men charged with murdering does the president think thats appropriate . Ill refer you to the of justice statement, which is this, that were considering the request of the and ney general of georgia have asked that he forward to federal authorities any information that he has about the handling of that investigation. Well continue to assess all information and well take any appropriate action thats facts and the e law and the president , i have heard him say to it me breaks for his heart the family, and we want to see justice in that case as the to us that place. Yes . Were house staff Wearing Masks arent the west wing. Youre not wearing a mask. Whats the reason for that . No, its because im distanced from you. Hard obably would have a i e hearing from me should have a mask on and muffled. Negative test today and yesterday and im in an okay place. Yes . I may anistan, if [inaudible] did President Trump speak to him and what does that mean for the u. S. Peace process . Not that im aware of and i information y new on that. Were seeing a white house locations to watch with increased cases. Can you hear me okay . You said locations to watch . To watch with increased cases. Were seeing spiking in several spots in the midwest including kansas city. A concern of yours . Can you address it . Di speak with dr. Birx just i think ming out and youre referring to a document that was put out, it wasnt a document, a fema document that looked at what was going on in the midwest and she the point to me, she showed that these are isolated utbreaks, where there are specific instances, lets say, in a Meat Processing facility or prison, where we isolate there is a problem, were able to Contact Trace and resolve the situation. Pointed out that in des moines there was a dairy county meat packing facility and that of where we ample were able to do that. So i would just say, and this that quote, this is proof the system is working. That were able to identify with are the president said embers and put them out on the system at work. An example oned as the risk of not closing. People not going to medical appointments. How do you extend that argument restaurants, nail salons, you know, barbershops and beauty kind of essential things youre talking about . What im talking about is we have a phased plan to reopen and guidelines ow those and the restaurants are in phases, entertainment facilities, as you noted are in phases, in accordance with declining cases but as a whole with the totality of the you have a s, when society thats shut down and people are locked in their homes isolated, it leads to the very suicide line increase in calls, it leads to abuse. There are consequences to eternally staying shut down which is why you have to find balance which the president does, in consultation with from dr. Fauci and dr. Birx and he makes the best going forward. He made the right decision to shut down the country at the time he did because there were lives at stake and a lot of american lives were saved because of that decision but at the same time its a balance out the why we put phased guidelines to reopening. I would also like to ask you about a statement that dr. Fauci today. Heed is i think were going in the right direction. Does notight direction ean we have by any means total control of this outbreak. How does that square with the president s statement yesterday we have prevailed . The president made it clear he was talking about testing. The fact that we can say were double that of any country, the fact that we can put up that south korea with a small red bar of testing per capital, an every bar beside sit american state or territory outdoing what south korea has done, and lets note that south was the Gold Standard for testing. In fact, on march 13, the head line was t south korea is doing 10,000 per day. Us tests the u. S. Is struggling with a small fraction of that and here may 11, the administration keeps bragging that u. S. Testing now is better south koreas was a month ago so you cant demand that we reach south korea and say were when we do. This is a moment where the American Private sector succeeded. This administration mobilized testing. Every state is better off than south korea at this moment, and good thing and something to be celebrated because its American Innovation with 92 emergency use authorizations. This administration under working. T trump does the president agree with dr. Fauci that we do not have total control over this outbreak . The president believes in the phased guidelines to reopening on h dr. Fauci signed off along with dr. Birx and we encourage every state and governor to follow. You, president said on monday that florida has so much esting the testers are literally sitting around waiting for people and there is a great overcapacity, yet the reality in the state is there is reports d criticism of desantis who testing in thegov is doing a phenomenal job talked about how there was over testing ability at the sites. There were extra tests, there was not enough demand, there were not people showing up to use it. He says that has a route that has happened around some sites in the state. We are able to fulfill governor desantiss plan involving he has laid out as necessary to reopening the state in florida, which happens to be my great home state. Reporter is the president listening to the governor or is he looking at the data . Sec. Mcenany hes looking at the data. The admiral had the charts of everything governors plan and said we will fulfill every governors plan. Governor desantis was reporting what he had seen at facilities and drivethrough testing sites. Reporter with the restarting of with both sides of the u. S. And canadian border, you know how much trade is essential for communities. Can you update us on the plan for reopening . And also a timeline for reopening the border . Sec. Mcenany no announcements on that front today. Reporter thank you. When the release of the transcripts related to adam isiffs probe this week, there any information you can share as to what the doj has shared with the white house on whether it is investigating the Obama Administration officials on this matter . Sec. Mcenany i dont have any updates because that is a doj matter. You did refer to transcripts and i think it is an important moment to talk about what was in some of those transcripts released prior to today. Not this specific one you are asking about. We learn from newly released transcripts a few things. We learned that what some obama officials were saying publicly was much different than what they were saying privately. James clapper was out there saying he had evidence that this was worse than watergate, when in fact a few weeks later he was saying privately, i never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump Campaign or someone in it was plotting or conspiring with russia. Samantha powers said im not in possession of anything, im not an possession and didnt read or absorb any information that came out of the intelligence community, suggesting collusion. Ambassador right, i dont recall intelligence or. Evidence to that effect former attorney general loretta lynch, i cant say that it existed or not. I dont recall that being briefed up to me. It brings the question to light, why then did we have many years of investigating collusion that these Obama Administration officials never existed, they never saw any evidence of, but for three years, the American People were dragged through the mud and told their choice for the president of the United States might have been a russian asset based on no evidence at all. This president was exonerated by the mueller report. There are several questions for these individuals who are saying one thing publicly and another thing privately. Thank you so much. I think i got to all of you. We will be back soon. 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