Is doing as the head of that task force. However i have also been told that the president was a bit frustrated with the call that the cdc, the centers for Disease Control, had with reports yesterday in which they said the exposure or the risk for the coronavirus inside of the u. S. Is low, however, the chance for it spreading inside of the u. S. At some point down the line is likely. We are expecting the president here, to essentially address the American Public. The top Infectious Diseases doctor earlier today was asked what he thinks the president should say in light of all the messages that have been bouncing around and this was his response. Listen. At the present time things are under control here but realistically we need to be prepared for the possibility and maybe the likelihood we will see more cases here. The to the degree we can contain them women determine the impact on the country. Reporter liz, there is also a discrepancy on capitol hill the amount of funding needed to combat the coronavirus. The top democrat in the senate, Chuck Schumer, says he believes it should be 8. 5 billion, while the Top Republican in the house, Kevin Mccarthy that number is probably closer to half that, four billion dollars. However at the white house the request they have made of congress is even less than that at 2. 5 billion. Liz, speaking with Senior Administration officials earlier today about this im told that at this point they feel that 2. 5 billion figure is all they need right now. They feel it is the appropriate amount. They also believe if more is needed down the line they can eventually ask for more at that point. Liz great reporting, blake. Stay with me for a second. We know the debate going on with what the democrats are saying, it is important, critics say it is important everybody speaks with one voice out of washington d. C. , and not to try political score political points at the other partys expense. The question is what action will the president take . Travel ban for people out of china or the second outbreak in iran . Containing the outbreak is about decision making, hard choices. He is coming off a very successful tour of india, record breaking historic crowds, 110,000 people there. Blake, here is the point, the czars outbreak in 2003 was stopped eight months after the outbreak. The coronavirus is different. People are contagious even though they show no symptoms. As people reported it spreads quickly. It is in 39 countries t could likely spread here. Were reporting this, cdc is reporting, multiple organ failure, sepsis and septic shock in people that have it. That is what scientists are seeing. Again what do you think the president , do we have any indication what the president s reaction will be . Reporter we dont. It is a great question. Of course you remember the last time this coronavirus tack force actually came to the Briefing Room. It was the announcement they would be quarantining some folks and essentially shutting down some travel or at least keeping an eye on who comes into the country, where they have been going, coming from, et cetera. So will the president announce Something Else . Might he go beyond what is already on the books at this moment, we dont know . There has been some reporting today maybe there might be a coronavirus czar. That might come of this when i asked around earlier today, liz, there was really no indication that might be the case. Even the white house went on record saying at this point, that they are, that the president is satisfied with alex azar and thats what ive been told as well from sources who are close to, close to this issue. Liz youre close to the action in d. C. Again, i dont think people want to see a political response when people are getting sick and dying. Reporter yes. Liz politicians attacking each other. We know congress has not really helped. As of yesterday, only House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing. Today the house Energy Health subcommittee held a hearing. So congress can be criticized being slow to take action. People dont want to go there. In other words, you can play titfortat. Here is the issue, blake, go ahead i will let you speak in one second, the coronavirus is now the biggest challenge in decades to legitimacy of regimes in china and iran. The people there are going on social media blasting those countrys regimes. Go ahead, blake. Reporter i was going to say, health and Human Services secretary alex azar who we believe we will see on the hill, he was testifying last couple days. President trump involving funding number with all of this, no matter what number he put forward he felt Chuck Schumer would criticize it. If he came lower, schumer would say it needed to be higher. If it was higher, schumer would say it needed to be lower. Schumer put out his own number that 8. 5 billion figure and his office is saying, when you look at other recent examples in somewhat recent history, h1n1 the request for congress was 7 billion. Of the flu pandemic a few years before that in 2006 was 6 billion. Theyre arguing essentially this isnt politics. They say the numbers back up their request. Of course then youve got the House Minority leader saying maybe they need even less than that in 4 billion. There is a lot of different voices. I can tell you, liz, even when the white house put forth the 2 1 2 billion dollar request there were a lot of different voices in the administration pushing for different figures. It is one of those things, youre right, there is a big focus on this for a reason. At the end of the day it is a Public Health issue and some would argue a Public Health emergency. So you could say maybe there is some politics involved but those close to it would also say their figures have backing to it as well. Liz blake, youve been great. Since the 2002 crisis youve been debunking and getting truth out there to the people, even through impeachment, youve been breaking news and setting headlines straight. Blake burman doing it for us. Blake burman. Former Deputy National security advisor to Vice President dick cheney, stephen yates. Were in breaking news mode. The president is expected to speak in 23 minutes. He is coming off successful tour visiting india and stepping in to the handle the coronavirus outbreak and reaction for United States. What do you expect the president to say . I think the president will address the some of the issues with the coming and going of people and travel bans and other administrative tools to monitor is coming but there are a lot of different elements to the virus make planning, strategy, budgeting make it almost impossible. The fact people who have the virus show no symptoms for party make it almost impossible to track someone at risk coming into the country and how do you budget and plan for a response if you cant know or the location or magnitude of people bringing the risk in. I have some sympathy trying to get after it but the president will hopefully tell the American People, these are the things were doing to try to get ahead of this and reassure them. Liz to your point, lets back up, again the sars outbreak in 2003, stephen it took eight months to contain czars. You make excellent points, what measures can be taken with people who show no symptoms . There are 59, maybe five dozen cases here in the United States but stephen, there may be more cases that we know about here within our borders. The cdc diagnostic tests not yet up to speed. Washington post saying only about 426 people have been tested. Five states, nebraska, illinois, nevada, tennessee have the kits to test for the virus. Your reaction to that . Certainly numbers are much higher in reality than reported. That begins first and foremost with china who i think wildly irresponsibly used censorship and inteldation as a response to this rather than actually transparency, accountability and cooperation. So we never had accurate assessments out of china. It makes all the more impossible once it comes to our shores or say allied shores to try to get a handle on it. So weve seen responses in japan. Weve seen responses in taiwan. When you get to free societies with a free press, or open to international cooperation, there is some evidence the pace of spread slows down. So we should have some confidence that our medical system, our free press and collaboration we have in the medical industry will get a good handle on it but were flying blind given you cant tell who has this. Liz doing a recap, we are in breaking news mode. President is expected to speak in 20 minutes about the coronavirus out break. To your point, stephen, now at least 39 countries have cases. More than 80,000 worldwide, 27 now worldwide passed away or dead from the virus. Outbreak in china, stephen, could be 10 times worse than what officials are reporting according to a new study by ohio state and Washington University school of medicine. China has 76,000 cases, more than 2600 people dead. You make a point, stephen. I hear what youre saying. Iran and places like china, two focal points for severity of outbreak, worst case for outbreak there, they gave up their individual rights to the state saying, were giving up our rights. Youre supposed to make us secure. Youre not doing that. Now there is widespread unrest in china and india. Go ahead, stephen. It is going to have an Economic Impact. Of course our heart and soul should be with people who suffer physically and health risk and we hope that gets a handle on things but there will be a very significant Economic Impact of this outbreak. The fact that massive manufacturing facilities have been closed for going on a month, that will have a Ripple Effect in the chinese economy which some assess is at zero or below on current gdp figures for the quarter. That will affect our financial markets. That will affect our supply chains. So well have structural, economic and market choices to make that go beyond just the Public Health challenge in this. That is going to be a massive challenge for the administration. We have the small matter of president ial politics going through an Election Year too. Liz were watching futures ticked into the green ever so slightly. Nasdaq in the green. S p 500 futures are still in the red. Speaking investors, we had a stock market downturn, dramatic one, 1. 7 trillion in equity value knocked off s p 500. 10year treasury hit a record low. Final question to you, stephen yates, double blind capital of the bond world, Jeff Gundlach, he is not just saying it is the coronavirus. He is saying it is Bernie Sanderss rise in the national polls. He says is this stork market reversal only exclusively due to the coronavirus why is the big insurer, unitedhealthcare down more, plummeting down further than the s p 500 . Your final world . I definitely cant mess with the bond Market Analysis but geostrategically the uncertainty china presents because of the structure of its government and its failure to tell the truth i think it just brings on uncertainty to the markets that cant be addressed until we have confidence they have a handle on the truth and the virus. Liz and uncertainty in the democratic race. That is what Jeff Gundlach is saying. Stephen yates, great to see you. Come back soon. Thank you. Liz a week before tuesday the democratic debate was supposed to be the most consequential so far and they only have a week. It was encore inherrent mess, a lot of cross talk, no winners. Were waiting for the president s press conference coming up. Liberty biberty cut. 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Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Liz okay the democrat debate was advertised as the most consequential so far. Just a week to go before super tuesday. Democrats needed a good debate. Critics say instead it was quote, incoherent mess, lots of crosstalk, no winners. Once and for all. You got people believing something that is false. [all talking at once. New topic, senator klobuchar. If you could honor the rules of the debate. Senator sanders a Quick Response and then senator sanders . Moderator, it is my turn . Liz look who is here . Wall street journal editorial page writer jillian melcher. Good to see you. Good to see you. Liz what happens next, by the way . Debate chaos. This is already a really crowded field. Theyre trying to go against each other and to have this happen so close to super tuesday with such unstructured debate and unassertive moderator it felt like chaos. Liz did anybody look like commanderinchief on the stage . I dont think anybody came out as winner. Im surprised they didnt push after Bernie Sanders harder. I think you started to see him rats telled and attacked on saying nice things for cube bar. He didnt seem in control of the debate. He so thoroughly dominated progressive bench of the party, he is driving the Democratic Party further and further left. This made some other candidates shy to go after him too aggressively. That puts him in a real position of strength. Liz a crowd at a sanders rally in myrtle beach, south carolina, that is saturday, they cheered when sanders, speaker for sanders said how does it feel to be quote, radical revolutionaries and socialists . I want to move on to this, to your point it wasnt a good night for bernie. He was clearly rattled. It could been a worse night. Could have been much worse. Liz he was clearly rattled and got angry when he got booed. He doesnt like to be pushed back on. He dodges or gets angry or avoids it. James carville said he looked mad. Van jones of cnn said it wasnt a good look. That is nothing new following his career in vermont. In vermont when his wife was getting bad press over the Burlington College thing, his reaction to the media was hostile when media asked him bad questions. He is not used to the push brac. Liz he is branding his long documented history of supporting communism, he is calling himself a democrat socialist. Communist couplertries always use words like democrat or peoples. North korea is democrat peoples republic of north korea. China is the peoples republic of china. Soviet union, socialist party there. So he has been trying to change his story. To your point if he were really about the nordic model or denmark as he now claims, why was he defending virtually every communist tie rant for the last 50 years . I think that is a great question. Also look at some of the statements of his advisors on authoritarian countries pointing out venezuela as model for economic success. Saying things about all kinds of oppressive far left regimes. It is not just bernie but everyone behind bernie. Well look what the administration would look like in foreign policy. Liz show the Bernie Sanders sound bite. People are talking about this. Number one truth is truth. If somebody in saudi arabia or any country in the world teaches illiterate people to read, telling me that is a bad thing . It is not. Barack obama made the point that cuba had made Good Progress in health care and education. Liz heres the point. You dont need to turn your country into a gulag to get literacy or education. By the way, cuba blocks Internet Access for its people. It censors the internet. It tracks online behavior of the people. Sanders recently claimed chinas communist regime lifted a billion people out of Party Without indicating it was chinas communism that put people in poverty. Literacy is great. Not the same thing as education. They have propaganda. Liz why isnt he getting pushback on that, on any of that . Like to see push back on this. In china, under mao you saw famine and economic catastrophe. Particularly with many comments he and his advisors made deserve a lot more scrutiny. Hopefully something voters care about. This is not a track record of success. Liz jillian melchior. Come back . Were in breaking news mode. President speakses in ten minutes. Great to see you. Great to see you. Liz big news, trump 2020 campaign filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Times accusing the New York Times of defamatory, a defamatory column in 2019 that russia and trump were engaged in conspiracy to help each other and hurt hillary clinton. This is unfolding that the New York Times walked back a piece that the russians were helping the president. They walked that back. The fight next. Dont just plan to retire. Plan to live. An annuity helps cover your essential monthly expenses, so youre free to live the life you want. Find out how an annuity can give you Lifetime Income at protectedincome. Org whistling can give you Lifetime Income. Liz lets welcome fred fleitz. He is president of center for security policy. Fred, great to see you. Good to be here. Liz you have an opinion piece about congressional leaks to the media. Can you explain it . Well, liz, im calling for the president to cut off sharing sensitive intelligence with adam schiff because that committee, the House Intelligence Committee, is no longer doing serious oversight. With all the directed leaks to hurt the president it has become a weapon to destroy this presidency. I think we have to stop the fiction that he is doing any constructive work there. He is hurting National Security and it is just time this committee be cut off. Liz do the leaks get worse when adam schiff became chair of house intelligence . They definitely did. In fact i did an interview with Gillian Turner in late 2018 on basically predicting when he became chairman the leaks were already bad when he was minority leader in that committee would get much, much worse. There are so many stories of him walking into the hallway during committee hearings, after hearing classified material to get on cell phone to call the press. So much of the material has been carefully leaked to friendly journalists to hurt the president. The taxpayers spend billions of dollars to collect this intelligence to protect our security. Theyre not paying for intelligence for political advantage for the democrats. Liz the president is accusing of adam schiff leaking to the New York Times a story that the New York Times has walked back that claimed russia was again helping allegedly the president get reelected. Those stories have been debunked. This story the times itself walked it back, saying House Democrats basically misinterpreted the intelligence assessment. So that was the New York Times basically walking back its own story but to your point, fred, it led to that interchange of, exchange rather between the president and Cnns Jim Acosta where Cnns Jim Acosta attacked the president in india. Your reaction to that . You know, i know the press lives for leaks. Every network does but this was a classified briefing. These congressman have sworn an oath not to reveal the information to the news media without authorization. Not to reveal people without clearances. They broke the law. They broke the oath. It is not okay. It obviously came from schiff and fellow democrats. I dont think intelligence should be cut off with the committee. President should punish the committee. Stop supporting wasteful travel by committee. Liz how can he do that . No longer make air force jets as intelligence tourism as they fly around the world on exotic shopping trips. Ive been on the some of the trips, liz, air force crew struggling to put all the loot House Intelligence Committee members put on aircraft. At one time there was a giant mirror had to get on the plane without breaking it. Maybe we could tolerate this if schiff was doing his job. I think that is actually debatable. As long as schiff is abusing this committee, the administration shouldnt cooperate with him at all. Liz Quick Reaction to the Trump Campaign suing the New York Times for libel, running oped, times says it has free speech rights. Opinion piece in march last year, max frankel, former executive editor, yeah there is quid pro quo with the president and russia . Go ahead. I love it but there is probably people on the hill told the times that it will be hard to win. Liz great to see you. Fred fleitz, well have you back on. Were in breaking news mode. The president is about to speak. Get to Edward Lawrence at the white house. Reporter the president is expected to come out to say exactly the steps the United States will take in order to help stop or try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading within the United States. Today the secretary of health and Human Services, alex azar was on capitol hill asking for 2. 5 billion. Some of the money diverted. Some new money in order to handle this. The risk of getting coronavirus in the u. S. Is very low. However he said, or the cdc came out yesterday said it is not a matter of if but a matter of when the coronavirus comes spreading into the United States. Of that money, . 5 billion, lawmakers were saying that might be too low 2. 5 billion. The language changed yesterday from azar to today. Today he is saying at least 2. 5 billions. There could be more coming down the road. Republicans and democrats believe that is possible. Liz president of the United States is about to take to the podium. We see various Health Officials believed to be the Coronavirus Task force now walking in. This is a high point of the day for us in the news cycle. When the president goes to White House Press Briefing Room. Again 39 countries have the coronavirus. Anywhere 59 to 60 cases here in the United States. The outbreak is being contained so far. Current Health Officials here in the United States, the question is, will the president be making even more decisions to bolster the cdc in their testing of the coronavirus . We have 426 cases only at the cdc tested. Will more money go to the cdc for testing, edward . Quick reaction in. Reporter thats yes. There will be more money. 1. 2 billion will be diverted to testing as well to make the vaccine once they get it going. Liz to your point, edward, decision making, tough choices now, this is what this is about. Testing isolating, screening, blocking, quarantining, will we hear the president touch on that tonight . Reporter if the president does not touch own that, clearly folks in the room will touch on it. Secretary azar and part of task force could mention things related to that. Cdc Preparedness Fund is out of money that has been spent or obligated. The reason the administration is going to try to getth done as we await the president. Liz here on evening edit were hearing countries shutting their land borders. Why is such a drastic action . It is not just pneumonic respiratory failure but multiple organ failure with the coronavirus and also sepsis and septic shot. When you see individuals in hazmat suits in china, when you see 14 countries closing partially or fully their land borders with china, including russia with a 2600, 2hundred mile land border, mongolia did it, north korea did it, edward theyre seeing things there maybe people in the United States are not yet seeing. Your reaction, edward . Reporter that is some of the things secretary azar was talking about. We may not get the whole picture out of china. We may not get the amount of people contaminated in china. He wants to get that information, being able to see the original genome or strain of the virus, in the original place. These are things we want to get from china, not yet gotten with china. That is part of the concern. You mentioned borders. European union came out basically they will not close borders between the countries. You see what happened in italy. Cases have exploded threefold going in italy. There is concern, in germany there is some cases. It is spreading throughout the area. Basically they said, try to use good hygiene. Try to wash your hands. Theyre making the decision not to close their borders at least in the eu. Liz to your point, new study out of ohio state and Washington State university that the cases in china could be 10 times worse than what chinas reporting. Edward, youve been following geopolitics as well. This is a real test of iran and china and their regimes compact with their people. People give up rights saying we gave up our individual independence and our rights for you to take care of us. Now that the regimes there are being tested, people going full bore on social media in china, in iran attacking the regime. Go ahead, edward. Reporter certainly would be pressure on president xi at least in china because, the fight, talking about finances, when it hits the financial wallet of the people around president xi, that might be where they say, hey, we might need to look at this. There might be pressure on him for his leadership going forward. The factories still not putting out what they should be putting out. In fact the masks, 65 of those masks were looking for are made in china. China is using them for themselves. So eventually, not at this point according to secretary azar but eventually there could be shortage of those masks because china is not exporting those. That could be pressure internally on president xi. In in iran you saw the up rising in there, this might intensify if Iranian Regime cant get this under control. Liz to your point, edward, we showed astounding video, seen nothing anything like this, irans Health Minister in charge of overseeing the outbreak in iran, physically at a press conference physically started to get ill on camera with the coronavirus. He is now quarantined, edward. Reporter that is something. Cdc says this is very easily transmittible virus. It is airborne and can live on surfaces for hours at a time. It is being transmitted very quickly from persontoperson. Sustained transmission is what really bothered the secretary of health and Human Services especially seeing in italy. It is not slowing down. It is accelerating according to the w. H. O. Seeing more new cases outside of china than inside of china. So it is spreading faster around the rest of the world. Liz lets go to steve yates, worked with dick cheney on National Security. Stephen, would the president go so far to say if youre visiting from china, iran, whatever the outbreak is, you have to tell the United States Border Security officials your travel history . I think that would be reasonable. Liz here comes the president. Forgive me, stephen. Well come back to you. Here is the president of the United States. Thank you very much, everybody. Before i begin i would like to extend my deepest condolences to the victims and families in milwaukee, wisconsin. Earlier today a wicked murderer opened fire at a Molson Coors Brewing company plant, taking the lives of five people. A number of people were wounded, some badly wounded. Our hearts break for them and their loved ones. We send our condolences will be with them and it is a terrible thing, a terrible thing. So our hearts go out to the people of wisconsin and to the families. Thank you very much. I have just received another briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going around to various parts of the world. We have through some very good early decisions, decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning, we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas. Areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard and we did it very early. A lot of people thought we shouldnt have done it that early and we did and it turned out to be a very good thing and the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the American People and that is the way i viewed it when i made that decision because of all weve done the risk to the American People remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world, really in the world right here. People that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. We, were ready to adapt and were ready to do whatever we have to, as the disease spreads, if it spreads. As most of you know, the level that weve had in our country is very low. Those people are Getting Better, or we think almost all cases theyre Getting Better with a total of 15. We took in some from japan. You heard about that because theyre american citizens and theyre in quarantine and theyre Getting Better too. But we felt we had an obligation to do that. It could have been as many as 42 and we found that we were, it was just an obligation we felt that we had. We could have left them and that would have been very bad, very bad i think, American People. And theyre recovering. Of the 15 people, the original 15 as i call them, eight of them have returned to their homes to stay in their homes until fully recovered. One is in the hospital and five have fully recovered and one is, we think in pretty good shape and its, in between hospital and going home. So we have a total of, but we have a total of 15 people and theyre in the process of recovering with some already having fully recovered. We started out by looking at certain things. Weve been working with the hill very, very carefully, very strongly. I think we have very good bipartisan spirit for money. We were asking for 2 1 2 billion and we think thats a lot but the democrats and, i guess senator schumer wants us to have much more than that and normally in life i will say well take it, well take it. If they want to give more, well do more. Well spend whatever is appropriate. Hopefully well not have to spend so much because we think we have done a great job keeping it down to a minimum. And again weve had tremendous success, tremendous success beyond what people would have thought. At the same time you do have some outbreaks in some countries, italy and various countries are having some difficulty. China you know about where it started. I spoke with president xi. We had a great talk. He is working very hard, i have to say. He is working very, very hard. And if you can count on reports coming out of china, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days as opposed to getting larger, it has actually gotten smaller. One instance where we think we can be somewhat reliable, it seems to have gotten quite a bit smaller. With respect to the money thats being negotiated they can do whatever they want. Well do the 2 1 2. Were requesting 2 1 2. Some republicans would like us to get four and some democrats would like us to get eight 1 2 and well be satisfied whatever, whatever it is. Were bringing in a specialist, very highly regarded specialist tomorrow who works actually at the state department, very tremendously talented in doing this. I want you to understand something that shocked me when i saw it, i spoke with dr. Fauci on this. I was really amazed and i think most people are amazed to hear it, the flu in our country kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year. That was shocking to me. And so far if you look at what we have with the 15 people and their recovering, one is, one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover. But the others are in great shape but think of that, 25,000 to 69,000. Over the last 10 years we have lost 360,000. These are people that have died from the flu. From what we call the flu. Hey, did you get your flu shot . And thats something. Now what weve done, we stopped nonu. S. Citizens from coming into america from china. That was done very early on. Were screening people and we have been at a very high level, screening people coming into the country from infected areas. We have quarantined those infecterred and those at risk. We have a lot of great quarantine facilities. The vaccine is coming along well. Speaking to the doctors, we think this is something we can develop fairly rapidly for the future. And coordinate with the support of our partners, we have great relationships with all the countries were talking about. Some fairly large number ever countries. Some it is one person and many countries have no problem whatsoever. Well see what happens but were very, very ready for this, whether anything, whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not were, you know, were at that very low level and we cant to keep it that way. Were at the low level. As they get ther we take them off the list so well be pretty soon as only five people. We could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So weve had very good luck. The Johns Hopkins i guess is highly respected, great place, they did a study, comprehensive. The countrys best and worst prepared for an epidemic and the United States is now, were rated number one. Were rated number one for being prepared. This is a list of difficult countries. I dont want to get in your way, especially since you do such a good job. This is a list of the different countries. The United States is rated number one. Most prepared. United kingdom, netherlands, australia, canada, thailand, sweden, denmark, south korea, finland, this is a list of the bestrated countries in the world by Johns Hopkins. Were doing Something Else that is important to me abuse he has been terrific in many ways but he is also very good on health care and we really followed him very closely, a lot of states do, when mike was governor, mike pence of indiana, they have established great health care. They have a great system there. A system that a lot of the other states have really looked to and changed their systems. They wanted to base it on the indiana system. It is very good. Around i think, and hes really very expert at the field and what ive done, im going to be announcing exactly right now, that im going to be putting our Vice President , mike pence in charge. And mike will be working with the professionals, doctors, everybody else that is working. The team is brilliant. I spent a lot of time with the team over the last couple of weeks but theyre totally brilliant and were doing really well. Mike is going to be in charge and mike will report back to me but he has got a certain talent for this and im going to ask mike pence to say a few words. Please. Thank you. Mike . Thank you, mr. President. President trumps made clear from the first days of this administration we have no higher priority than the safety, security, health and well being of the American People. And from the first word of an outbreak of the coronavirus the president took unprecedented steps to protect the American People from the spread of this disease. He recounted those briefly but the establishment of travel restrictions, aggressive quarantine effort of americans that are returning, declaration of a Public Health emergency and establishing the White House Corona Task force are all reflective of the urgency that the president has brought to a whole of government approach. As a former governor from the state where the first merz case emerged in 2014 i know full well the importance of president ial leadership, the importance of administration leadership, and the vital role of partnerships of state and local governments and Health Authorities in responding to the potential threat of dangerous Infectious Diseases and i look forward, mr. President , to serving in this role. Im bringing together all of the members of the Corona Task Force that youve established. Hhs, cdc, dhs, the department of transportation and state. This team has been at your direction, mr. President , meeting every day since it was established. My role will be to continue to bring that team together, to bring to the president the best options for action, to see to the safety and wellbeing and health of the American People. I will also be continuing to reach out to governors, state and local officials. In fact in the recent days the white house met with over 40, state, county, city Health Officials from over 30 states and territories to discuss how to respond to this, to the potential threat of the coronavirus. Well be working with them in renewed ways to make sure that they have the resources to be able to respond and as the president said, well be adding additional person until here at the white house to support our efforts on the president s behalf. Well work with members about congress to assure resources are available for this whole of government response and well be working very closely with secretary azar and his team that have done an outstanding job communicating to the public to insure the American People have the best information on ways to protect themselves and their families and also that the public has the most timely information on the potential threat to the American People. Mr. President , as weve been briefed while the threat to the American Public remains low of the spread of the coronavirus you have directed this team to take all steps necessary to continue to insure the health and wellbeing of the American People and the people of this country can be confident that under your leadership we will continue to bring the full resources of the federal government in coordination with our state and local partners to see to the health and wellbeing to the Effective Response to the coronavirus here in the United States of america. With that the president has asked me to recognize the secretary of health and Human Services, alex azar and also the Deputy Director of cdc, dr. Ann shoca for remarks. Well thank you, mr. Vice president and thank you, mr. President for gathering your Public Health experts here today and for your strong leadership in keeping america safe and i couldnt be more delighted that you asked the Vice President and my old friend and colleague to lead whole government approach on Emergency Support function number eight. As of today we have 15 cases of cove individual 19 coindividual 19 in the United States. Covid 19. We have 42 cases among americans repatriated who had been stuck on the diamond princess in japan. The president s early and decisive actions including actions have helped us buy valuable time. This helped us contain the spread of the virus, handle the cases we have, and prepare us for the possibility we will need to mitigate broader spread of infections within the United States. The president s actions taken with the strong support of his scientific advisors have proven to be appropriate, wise, wellcalibrated to the situation. Were grateful for the hard work, health care workers, firstresponders, communities, state and localed leaders put into the response so far. Because of this hard work and president s leadership the immediate risk to the American Public has been an continues to be low. Our containment strategy has been working. At the same time, what everyone of our experts and leaders have been saying for more than a month now remains true, the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States. That is why weve been reminding the American Public and our state, local and private sector partners that they should be aware of what a broader response would look like. Cdc has recommended that the American Public, especially state and local governments, businesses, and other organizations should refresh themselves how they would respond in the event that the situation worsens. Were encouraging americans to learn what future steps might be necessary to keep themselves and their communities safe. Knowing these potential steps now can help keep the risk to you and your community low. Americans can find useful information at cdc. Gov covid19. Were working closely with government and private sector partners to educate them about preparedness. Finally we begun working with congress to secure the funding we need. There are five major priorities in the white house request to congress that the white house made on monday. These priorities are first, expanding our surveillance network, second, support for state and local governments work, third and fourth, development of therapeutics and vaccines and fifth, manufacturing and purchase of personal protective equipment like gowns and masks. As chairman of the president s Coronavirus Task force im committed to providing regular updates from our coordinated interagency process. Weve had our top Public Health leaders like those joining me here today speaking to the media many times per day to inform the American Public. The Trump Administration is going to done tin to be aggressively transparent keeping the American People and the media apprised of the situation and what every up with can do. With that i will hand things over to dr. Ann shoket. Doctor shoket is senior career official at centers for Disease Control and prevention, the principle Deputy Director with over 30 year career at cdc with Public Health and member of the United States Public Health service corps. Dr. Shoket i will turn it over to you. Thanks so much, mr. Secretary. As you know this has been a difficult and challenging time and our hearts go out to the individuals who have been directly affected by the virus and to all those who have been working tirelessly in responding to it. Our aggressive containment strategy here in the United States has been working and is responsible for the low levels of cases that we have so far. However we do expect more cases. This is a good time to prepare. We, as you heard, it is the perfect time for Businesses Health care systems, universities and schools to look at their pandemic preparedness plans, dust them off, make sure theyre ready and we have lots more information at the cdcs website and in partnership on how to do that. But it is also a really good time for the American Public to prepare and for you to know what this means for you. The coronavirus that were talking about is a respiratory virus. It is spread in a similar way to the common cold or to influenza. It is spread through coughs and sneezes. So those everyday sensible measures we tell people to do every year with the flu, are important here. Covering your cough. Staying home when youre sick, and washing your hands. Tried and true, not very exciting measures but really important ways that you can prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. So this, the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but many of the steps we have taken over the past 15 years to prepare for pandemic influenza and our experience going experience through the 2009 h5n1 pandemic influenza remind us steps of health care systems, our communities, businesses and schools may need to take. Were in this together, all of government, the public and private sector and the cdc wants to make sure you have the best information every day. Thank you i want to give you a quick update. My name is dr. Tony fauci. Im the director of National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases. We have of number of vaccine candidates and want to give you the time frame for a vaccine and what its impact may be now and in subsequent years. I told you we would have a vaccine we would be putting into trial and see if its safe in about three months. I think it will be a little bit less than that. It will probably be closer too two months. It would take three months to determine if its safe. Then you have six months. Then you graduate to a trial to hundreds if not low thousands of people to determine efficacy. That would take an additional 6 to 8 months. Though this is the fastest we have gone from a sequence of a virus to a trial, it still would not be aapplication be to the academic unless we wait a year to a year and a half. That means two things the answer to containing the Public Health measures. We cant rely on a vaccine the next 7 months to a year. However, if this virus will go beyond just a season and come back and recycle next year. Thats the case, we hope to have a vaccine. There are a number of antiviral drugs that have been tested. We initiated a ran domsized trial of a drug called remdesivir. The good news is at the trial thats randomized as pla see boao placebo and drug standarf care. If it works well have an effective therapy to distribute. Thank you. Mr. President , [inaudible] i am sure they will keep america safe. Mr. President , where do we go from here . Liz thats the president of the United States at a rare Briefing Room appearance. The white house clear in its messaging. They stepped in early, january 29 to stop flights from china to stop the virus from spreading in the u. S. Lolou dobbs is next. [ ] lou good evening. We join President Trump holding a News Conference on the coronavirus. That News Conference is in progress. Here is the president. President trump we would rather talk about this right now. The cdc said yesterday they believe its inevitable that the virus will spread in the United States. Its if not when. President trump i dont think its inevitable. But whatever happens we are totally prepared. We have the best people in the world
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