Transcripts For FBC Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 20240713

And as President Trump signs the latest 484 billion stimulus package into law, House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy in what the leader of the country will look like and devon nunes will join us with breaking news on the person he wants to interview as well as his china investigation, and also ahead an exclusive interview with new york city mayor bill deblasio on if the big apple will ever be the same. All that and a lot more as we look ahead, right here right now on sunday morning futures. And new information this morning , coming to light on what china really knew about the coronavirus pandemic. Including words that they drastically under reported the number of cases in the country. President trump in a stunning move questioning whether or not this was deliberate. President trump the question was asked would you be angry at china. Well the answer might very well but a very resounding yes but it depends was it a mistake that got out of control or was it done dehad in rattily, okay . And theres a dig birches between those two and in either event they should have let us go in. We asked to go in very early. I think they were embarrassed. Maria senator tom cotton a republican from arkansas first sounded the alarm about china here on this program months ago. He joins me right now live and senator its great to see you this morning thanks so much for being here. Good morning, maria. Maria so, you knew very early on and you questioned very early on the origins of this disease and you knew that it likely came from that lab, that level iv super lab in wuhan. I want to ask you about what china knew because you and i spoke over the weekend, this weekend and i asked you do you think its deliberate and you said you dont have any evidence right now but it should be investigated but we do know what china did once they knew how severe this coronavirus be. Tell us what you think china did so maria, i want to establish the origins of the virus and chinas reactions to the virus. Right now as you say the most plausible explanation supported by literally all of the circumstantial evidence is that the virus ridge thatted in one of those two laboratories in wuhan all the way back in january it was pretty well documented by chinese scientists that it did not originate in the food market. But wherever it originated, maria we know that the Chinese Communist party was both criminally negligent and then deliberately, deliberately in the way they responded this virus, for their own people and the world. As early as the second week of december it was clear at this virus was spreading from person to person, and by late december it was spreading to doctors in wuhan hospitals. Some doctors were trying to blow the whistle on these facts and the secret Police Arrived at their doorsteps in the middle of the night so only after china possessed up to the who on december 31 did the world know what was happening yet still they continued to deny it was spreading from person to person into midjanuary. That allowed millions of people to leave wuhan and then finally, china continued to pressure the who and other country not to stop International Travel from china. That meant that hundreds of thousands of persons left china after this virus was spread far outside of wuhan which allowed the virus to escape chinas borders and get to the United States and europe and get to essentially every country in the world. I believe that was a deliberate and conscience choice by the Chinese Communist leadership , because they did not want to see their relative power and standing in the world decline because this virus was contained within china. Maria so a deliberate move because they expected this virus to cause Economic Contraction in china. Tell me what they expected in china and what they didnt want to see , they didnt want to happen with the rest of the world being fined. So maria again it was obvious by middecember the chinese authorities that this virus was highly contagious , and very deadly. They also knew that once this virus began to spread out of wuhan it would reek economic havoc and in fact china had the first contraction in the First Quarter of this year since the cultural revolution ended in the 1970s. I believe the Chinese Communist leaders when they were aware of those facts by midjanuary made the conscience decision not to explain to the world that it was transmissible between human, not to shut down travel, not to ask for american or other kind of International Scientific help but to allow this virus to escape their border, because if they were going to suffer an Economic Contraction, they were not going to allow the world to continue to prosper and china be the only country whose economy was declining. They might see an absolute decline in their economy but they refuse to see a relative decline especially relative to the United States. Maria in other words they didnt want to see the chinese economy contract 20 with the rest of the world contract ing 2 . Thats exactly right. It was inevitable that we would have Economic Impacts all around the world because so much of the world has outsourced manufacturing productive capacity to china so it was inevitable if chinas economy was declining it would have effects all around the world but what was not inevitable is that we would loss 26 million jobs in america in a month. If china had been upfront about this virus from the very beginning, some studies suggest that they could have reduced the number of cases in china itself by 60 to even 90 . Imagine what that would have done for the spread of the virus not only in china but more importantly for us all around the world, but once they knew that it was spreading all around china, they were not going to take the responsible action of bringing in International Scientists and shutting down International Air travel, rather they were going to let the virus escape their borders so the rest of the world would suffer along with china. Maria so one of the issues weve spoken about in the past is this intellectual property theft going on for decades, the Chinese Communist Party Continues to steal intellectual property, you believe that they are stealing intellectual property right now as we speak. Lets talk a bit about that because the whole world is looking for a vaccine, and i wonder is china trying now to come out of this trying to save face looking better than the rest of the world while coming up with a vaccine before the United States. Whats happening right now with regards to that kind of science . Well maria the Chinese Communist party has been steal ing americas intellectual property for decades and they arent going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic and almost every state in the union, there are active cases against chinese nationals in arkansas for instance they are accused of having stolen proprietary genome s, but in the middle of a pandemic whats the most valuable intellectual property in the world . Its the research the great Life Science Companies are doing on prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs and ultimately a vaccine so i have little doubt the Chinese Intelligence Services are actively trying to steal americas lint lect out proper, because of course they want to be the company that claims credit for finding those drugs or a vaccine and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world. Maria so i want to ask you about your three pieces of legislation that youve already put out to keep china accountable. Im going to get to that in a moan enter but just what you just said that is what you believe we should not be giving visas to Chinese Students who want to study advanced sciences. They want to get into the Gilead Sciences and the googles of the world to steal that research is that right . Yeah, maria its a scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist parties brightest minds to go back to china to compete for our jobs to take our business and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American People. So i think we need to take a very hard look at the visas we give the chinese nationals to come to the United States to study especially at the post graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields. If Chinese Students want to come here and study shakes fear thats what they need to learn from america. They dont need to learn quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence from america. Maria well theyre certainly making sure anybody in china is learning the culture of china you make a good point. Lets make sure people understand the culture of america. So youve introduced three piece s of legislation and you think bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to america is critical. You also think military spending and the measures there are going to actually keep them accountable as well. Real quick tell me about those pieces of legislation. So i think most americans are shocked to learn that so many of our basic drugs are made in china. We need to stop that and bring it back to the United States and get it out of china so we would give incentives to companies to build more plants here, create more jobs here so we arent dependent on china in a pandemic or even in any kind of health concerns. Second. China is continuing, even now, to take aggressive action throughout the region to break its commitment, its cracking down on hong kong in violations of its commitment to Great Britain when it returned hong kong its taking aggressive action to the South China Sea we need to invest more in our defense and Industrial Base to offset the losses were going to see because of this virus, we need more ships, submarine, bombers, fighters, the exact kind of systems that will deter china from aggressive action in the United States and our interest in the western pacific and ultimately all around the globe. Maria and by the way right now they are also capitalizing on the problems were having in this country on meat, a couple Meat Processing plants have been taken off line buying all the meat at discounted prices thats a problem for the u. S. Come next couple of weeks were going to see a skyrocketing price of meat, right . Yeah, we have a lot of our biggest processing plants that are going off line unfortunately , that may hit supplies in Grocery Stores in the weeks ahead. The meantime china is buying a lot of cut rate protein from the United States just another example of the way they are trying to take advantage of this crisis. They arent resting on their laurels, breathing a sigh of relief, they are trying to advance their interest and ambitions all around the world. Maria all right, we will leave it there senator do you think they are going to keep their promise to buy the 250 billion of stuff they promised President Trump in that phase i trade deal let me just say, maria im skeptical of any promises made by any communist and the Chinese Communists dont have a very good record of keeping their promises and they may not have the resources to begin with because remember even though the rest of the world is taking a big economic hit china is taking it as well so i would fall back here to Ronald Regans maxim of trust but verify. Maria all that and they lied again on the phase i trade deal. Senator thank you for your great work. We appreciate your time this morning, thank you, sir. Thank you, maria. Maria senator tom cotton joining us there. There is plenty of uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. When it will be safe for the United States to reopen the economy. Ill speak with White House Coronavirus response coordinator dr. 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Fortunately after my letter and our discussion with her she has pulled back on that, but congress is essential. We have worked through the civil war, world war ii and others. We need to get to work and just as states wouldnt open up completely at once we need committees to come back in, like Arms Services to do the National Defense bill. You have appropriate or s making sure government is funded. You could bring oversight back to look at the who and the Current Administration is acting not like the World Health Organization but more like the wuhan health organization. We should actually get the facts and the answers and those committees could come back with not the entire congress to show that we are working for the American Public just as we watch these states phase in and a safe, health it manner. Maria but thats not what she wants right . She wants everyone to not come back until may . And is that right . And is that the plan . That is the current plan but after my conversation with the speaker, she put together three republicans and three democrats, myself and the majority leader and others to start working on planning on how we can do this. I dont think you should change the history of how Congress Votes to empower one side. Congress can work, we just proved it. We have passed some of the biggest bills in the history of conditioning researcher during this pandemic, we can open up in a manner and have committees working that can work in bigger buildings so they have social distancing, they can do it in a safe manner while all the members arent there and we can have product being worked for the American Public. Maria why is the speaker now talking about november elections must go on. She says the president may try to postpone it. How can we ensure a safe election and lets talk a bit about china. That has certainly been the dominant story but a number of your colleagues completely missed china as a threat as they continue to investigate russia and the ghosts of collusion. This isnt the beginning of nancy pelosi the speaker talking about novembers elections. She brought this up and held up the first cares act of more than 2 trillion. This is when she wanted to Institute Change election law, go for the green now deal, pay for planned parenthood. For every moment these democrat s have tried to held up each bill to play politics with it and i expect her to continue the same but we will move forward with the november election and not try to give advantage to one party or the other, but make sure theyre fair. You are correct, maria, you were one of the first that was showing what china was doing. I remember twitter people on twitter criticizing you because you were one of the first ones coming out there concerned about the laboratories in wuhan. Concerned about was china being honest with the American Public. Now we see own study by South Hampton that had china been honest with the world 95 of this never would have happened. What china has done has directly led to americans death and this is where we should have started long ago and President Trump has been correct about china long before when he was just a candidate about our supply chain, with regards to our pharmaceuticals, Critical Minerals and others and one thing we should learn from this pandemic is never put ourselves in this position again look what japan is doing. Japan is pulling back those companies from china. We should do the same. Our allies could as well and we can make the world stronger and never be in the situation again. Maria yeah, you make a great point, thank you for that. The president completely changed the conversation on china. Will there be a fourth stimulus package, congressman . What are you looking for in terms of putting in another relief bill even as , even mcconnell, your colleague on the senate, is questioning the debt. Now the debt that this country faces is higher than the actual size of the economy, 22 trillion. That is a real fear every Great Society collapsed when they overextended themselves. Weve just passed four bills more than 2. 7 trillion and you combine this with what the fed is doing, thats 7 trillion into the economy. Lets first look at the results before we want to go back and try to rework another bill. Id listen to the democrats but this is where their socialism comes out. They pick the dollar amount before they even know what needs to be done. Lets get this implemented into society and let the 7 trillion work, lets look at results before we react to anything else moving forward. Maria okay, well leave it there congressman great to see you this morning thank you so much, sir. Thank you maria. 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What do you say in terms of where we are and what was most important . Well i think what weve tried to convey to the American People is every metro area is different in where they are in the epidemic is when you look at new orleans theyre way on the downside and they have very low number of cases. When you look at detroit theyre moving on to the downside. When you look at boston and chicago were still very concerned about the rate of new infections and at the same time, were tracking every county, including rural america, to look very carefully about any outbreaks that occur at the county level and rural areas, and that together is really informing how we work with every governor and every state and local official to really ensure that they have the support that they need. Maria so i know that you have studied disease for many years across the world, and you look at data all day long, youre getting the very latest data every day, 2 30 in the morning and bringing it, studying it, analyzing it and bringing it to the task force and telling the public about it. Tell me what strikes you most about the data that youre see ing today, because i know that youve uncovered and identified some data about people who dont have any symptoms. Tell us why thats important and what strikes you most about the data youre looking at today i think were getting a lot of information out of these isolated outbreaks occurring whether they are in prisons or among essential workers in packing plants or specifically, gatherings that came together whether it was a wedding or an event and when you look at those epidemics, it isnt until you start seeing symptomatic groups so when you go in and test you find a lot of people have the virus and may not ever develop symptoms and i think were really starting to look at this in a very careful way to understand how we do surveillance and so in the guidelines that were put out , because we could start to see this even a couple of weeks ago, we are very careful in the guidelines to recognize two parts of monitoring this epidemic. One continuing to diagnose cases people who come forward with fever or other symptoms but secondly setting up surveillance what do we call this actually monitoring of specific populations that we know maybe of greater risk where you want to find those asymptomatic cases earlier. Long term care facilities, among native americans. Inner city metro areas where there may be multigenerational household, to really screen people before they develop symptoms, to really understand if the virus is in the community and increasing or decreasing, this is a novel approach. We havent had to do this often with respiratory diseases and so were bringing together those two aspects to really have a comprehensive plan working with each and every governor and state and local official to make sure that both components, diagnosis, and monitoring for the populations at greatest risk simultaneously. Maria so that means were going to have to see more Antibody Testing to understand who is Walking Around who has it or had it with no symptoms. And i think that who had it is very important to understand and youve heard a lot about these antibody tests. What weve been working on with cdc and with the fda because theres other diseases where we try to find asymptomatic cases whether it be chlamydia or hiv or hpv, we know how to do this and so with an antibody test, you often want to do two. That increases what we call the specificity and sensitivity of the test to make it more cabbies aso weve been waiting and its why we havent come out with a specific algorithm although we think well have it by the beginning of this week to talk about how you do one test followed by if youre positive you confirm that with a second test and that increases what we call the positive Predictive Value of that test. Maria let me ask you dr. Birx, youve been doing this for so many years on a scientific level here its a little bit of a new game for you with the politics getting involved, right . How difficult has it been in terms of politics getting through all of this . Theres controversy over hydroxychloroquine, the fda issuing a warning on friday that hydroxychloroquine that this warning about this drug, the president is getting slammed for calling it a miracle drug a couple weeks ago, and then of course this week, the president tweeted this. What is the purpose of having white house news conferences when the lame street media asks nothing but hostile questions and then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately, they get record ratings and the American People get nothing but fake news, not worth the time and effort. Are you going to stop these regular daily press briefings, dr. Birx . I would say dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield and i, all come from a place where another disease was highly politicized, and when we were working on the frontlines of hiv aids, we understood two things that were absolutely critical. Communicating early scientific facts because communities can understand them and it gives communities the ability to have knowledge to protect themselves and that is really extraordinary then also communicate about what were studying and what were not studying and why and those are in Clinical Trials and other evidencebase and any time we hear about something that could be hopeful to let the American People know that were studying that. That were not leaving any stone unturned to really figure out what can really help the American People, but i think that communication to communities is essential, because a knowledgeable community is a protected community, and we know thats important and i think we understand that those messages of science and policy need to continue to be brought forward to the American People in a non political way. Maria so do you think its best to do the communicating when you have something new to communicator do you think you should be doing these press conferences every day putting the president out there, and fielding these questions in some regard that may not have anything to do with the science . Well every day we discover something new and important and i think the American People should understand that we have no experience with this virus until a few weeks ago anywhere in the world and starting in january, different information started coming in, but not in a country like the United States. We are probably the most gently diverse, we have the most different agegroups that have not seen this virus before, were a younger country than much of europe, so our outcomes and knowledge are going to be critical for all the countries moving forward and weve really been delving into why do our younger people have a different course than we saw or have them reported in other countries . Is it a genetic issue . Is the way we respond to the virus is it an antibody response to the virus . Were uncovering really important pieces and i want to acknowledge the healthcare workers in the frontlines who are getting this information back to us on an every day basis maria youre doing it, dr. 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Maria that was california congressman devon nunes, the Ranking Member of the house Intel Committee, back in 2018 when he was the chairman of the committee, when it was becoming more widely known that china was stealing intellectual property, and congressman devon nunes joins me right now and i want to thank you, congressman because ever since i started at fox i was talking to you a lot and over the first couple of years that id been here, ive been here six years but by the time i was here three years or so, i was knee deep in studying in the fbi and its wrongdoing, the coo to take down donald trump and china because of your investigation. Youre still investigating china youve been doing so since 2011 and now its topic a. What have you learned . Well the concern that we had back in the beginning of 2011 2012 was that china was trying to take over the Global Communications architecture, so we looked into Companies Like huawei that were somehow under bidding every company in the world. They were giving things away for free and as we know the chinese dont do anything for free. Thats why then they started they moved in from communications architecture, which i do believe now thats given them a global footprint to listen in and grab a communications across the globe and to spy on not only people within the United States, but also our allies, so we warned way before anybody else we warned about those challenges. You also look at what theyve done in giving money out to other countries where theyve now owned their financial infrastructure and they own their energy structure, and ill just finish on this that the next big challenge here is going to be 5g. Our companies here in the United States are so far behind china is giving out free 5g products. We are getting lapped by the chinese over and over and over again and were going to have to take some, were going to have to make some changes if we want to deploy 5g across this country and beat the chinese. Maria congressman youre doing a great job youre investigating the real important things to the American People and to the National Security of america so thank you for that. While youve been doing this your colleagues have been charging the president with collusion with russia, which you had to take slams for because you investigated that it was actually a coo to take down the president. Lets go back to your reporting there and your investigation. Where are you on that . I know this upcoming week is going to be an important one for general Michael Flynn. What can you tell us . Well as everyone has been watching the coronavirus our Investigation Continues and most critically, there is a lot of new information that has come out in terms of things that were redacted or kept classified by someone, i dont know who, in both the horowitz report and stuff now that is finally being declassified and the real question here is why was this stuff being classified . Why were the American People being kept in the dark still being kept in the dark . We finally just got to see the fisa warrant that was used against carter page. Theres still a lot of black marks in that fisa report. We need everything declassified so that we can continue this investigation. Why is general flynn important . Because on friday night, thankfully attorney general barr appointed a u. S. Attorney out of missouri to look into what was going on in some of these investigations and now we dont know what was submitted to the court on friday evening but we believe that its possibly exculpatory evidence that the government had on general flynn, okay . And remember, in our report, the report which the House Republican report from 2018, its the Gold Standard of reports. If you look at all of the other reports whether its the Intelligence Community assessment, whether its the mueller report, whether its the steele dossier, those are all a joke, right . And the media has been promoting this russia hoax for so long and the reality you have, the former head of the dia, who has been strung up here for year after year after year, and what was now likely, were going to find out, he was framed. Imagine that, being framed by our own government and by political operatives who dont like you and i think thats what were going to find out. Maria and we have a timeline here that shows exactly the Michael Flynn situation. Of course he met donald trump in august of 2015 they were already looking into Michael Flynn at that time, because i guess he wanted an audit of the department of defense and of the pentagon. He didnt understand where the money was going and we see that some of the money was paid out by the office of net assessments, stefan halper, an informant awarded several contracts up to 1 million for socalled studies that he was writing but we know he was also was running into Trump Campaign people, so theres that you want to investigate and talk to a certain russian individual. You say this is going to be very important for your investigation who is that and what do you want to know . Well what ive talked about is were looking into what i call the three dossiers, were drilling down into those , but because of the new information thats come out from the horowitz report thats now declassified weve been talking about for a long time, and the fisas, we now are targeting what appear to be three russian americans. I think the most important one is somebody that we actually asked to come to our committee, named sergey million. He is hiding somewhere around the globe, we dont know exactly what country hes in but we really would like sergey to come forward and talk to us because either he was, you know, working for fusion gps and the clinton campaign, and dirtying up trump people, or its quite possible he may have been framed. We dont know which of those is true, but we want to find out and we really need him to, you know, he can call my office, well be glad to hes afraid to come back to his home country the United States of america, we can make sure that he can guarantee his safety but we need to hear from him because he is the source. He is Glenn Simpson and fusion gps he is one of their major sources and guess who never interviewed him maria . Robert muellers team. Maria okay. Why would you not interview a person like this . Maria unbelievable, congressman thank you. Well be following this story and we are waiting for accountability and to hear from john durham hopefully this summer. Congressman devon nunes. New york city has been hard hit by the coronavirus. Well speak with the mayor, mayor bill deblasio is maria welcome back. New york city the epicenter of the covid19 pandemic in the country, now, as things are slowly beginning to look better there, how will the city handle the reopening . Joining me right now is the new york city mayor bill deblasio. Mr. Mayor its great to have you this morning thanks very much for being here. I want to ask you that question right here. How will a reopening of new york look . What industries are poised to open first and when do you see that happening . Thank you, maria. Well first of all maria you are a proud new yorker, proud brooklynite by background you know how tough and resilient this city is so first thing i want to say is we will be back, we will be strong in fact we will be stronger and were going to create a city that builds on our previous success and comes back stronger and fairer, i believe we can do this and i already see the naysayers out there saying new york city wont be able to come back. New york city fought back after the fiscal crisis, fought back after 9 11, and after hurricane sandy. Maria so how do you do it . Theres no question in my mind we must have the support of the federal government to do this because right now to be able to have a Strong Economy again and really restart, we have to be able to provide the basic services that have made this place work, police, fire, sanitation, health care, education, the things that have made new york city strong and allowed us to get through this crisis are now in the crosshairs because weve lost 7. 4 billion, thats our projection from our budget, 7. 4 billion in lost revenue, 3. 5 billion in new expenses to pay for the coronavirus and the fight to save lives, over 10 billion combined. The federal government must make us whole for us to be able to be in a position to restart. If were not whole and new york city is not whole it will drag down the entire region and it will holdup the entire National Economic restart. If we are whole maria so how much money do you want . Mr. Mayor how much money do you need from the federal government all the money thats been lost and will be lost, lost revenue and this is true for new york and the cities and states around the country, we need 7. 4 billion thats how much we lost and thats how much we need to get back. Just like the federal government bailed out the Airline Industries at 258 billion, the largest city in the country so we can restart and be able to be strong leaders in an economic revitalization in this country. We get that maria let me ask you this , are you using this crisis to take us into socialism . I just saw you on the press conference and you said this. The bigger picture, a fair recovery for all confront structural and racial inequalit ies are you looking to change things that have nothing to do with the coronavirus and were not impacted by that, mr. Mayor . Maria im looking at going after the very things that the coronavirus has dredged up and we see it all over the country there are vast healthcare disparities that must be addressed for the good of all us of us, its the right thing to do but also have a strong, Healthy Society but maria in the first instance when we talk about just getting on our feet again i think we all can count here if were missing 7. 4 billion and now we heard today there may be additional state budget cuts looming on top of that that will hit new york city and the whole rest of the state, we wont be able to provide the basic services and have the personnel we need who do that amazing work. Were talking about the heros the First Responders the health care, woulders the essential workers. These are the folks who need to keep their jobs Going Forward if well have a healthy recovery and if we are missing billions and billions of dollars how on earth are we supposed to do that maria okay, do you know what i want to talk more about this. People are worried about the air in new york, worried about the hospitals and want to know when they can get back to work. Lets take a short break because i want to take a look at new york even before this , you were having issues even before the coronavirus. 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Maria welcome back. Im back with new york city mayor bill deblasio. Mr. Mayor, honestly i need an hour with you theres so many important things to cover in new york. You made a very good case just there. You said that the city needs to be made whole. Number one, how are the conversations going with President Trump . Are you going to get that money and number two, mr. Mayor something that you know ive been talking about, about the inmates being let out now coronavirus is ripping through our prison system, and now youre letting inmates out and the New York Post with the headline, dozens of new york city inmates back in jail after Coronavirus Relief. Youre letting them out, theyre committing crimes and going right back in even before this between january and march on the heels of your bail reform law. Car thefts up 65 , robberies up 24 , burglaries up 22 , we know you have your hands full, mayor. What are you going to do about it . Well to come to your question about the president in a moment, maria real quick, there was a bail reform law passed by the state of new york, not the city, but the state of new york. There was some things i thought needed to be better in fact, a lot of us agreed Governor Cuomo and i and many others agreed there needed to be changes and the state legislature did make important changes a few weeks ago and i think its going to help us fight crime but remember the nypd has done a remarkable job. Crime in new york city today the last time it was this low was the 1950s so weve had some challenges the last few months but overall crime continues to go down in new york city and nypd has done an amazing job. In terms of the folks who were in our jail system we let 1,400 out who either had very low level offenses or had Immediate Health danger because of the coronavirus. Theyre being monitored when the jails are able to and the court system gets backup and running, well bring back anyone that needs to be brought back. Some have done the wrong thing and will pay the consequences the vast majority havent but it was about protecting lives and correction officers and inmates in the humanitarian crisis. President trump and i have spoken several times about the stimulus. Look, ive given President Trump credit when hes helped new york city and sometimes he and his team have done a great job at that. You and i, maria have talked about Peter Navarro and the effort to get us supplies and equipment thats been deeply deeply appreciated and ive thanked the president for that. Where ive been in disagreement with him is hes still not spoke epidemic up for the stimulus to help cities and states and he needs to speak up with energy to move the senate. He understands the economy, he understands new york city, if we cant pay for basic services we wont have a Strong Economy. We need to hear the president s voice were not hearing it so far. Maria mr. Mayor i want you to come back to talk about what new york city and new york will look like when we get out of this. I want to know what the subways are going to look like. Are they going to be different . I want to know in terms of getting back to work will you come back soon so we can talk about that because we havent covered enougugugugug this is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. Shes confident, protected, her strength respected. Depend. The only thing stronger than us, is you. Shes confident, protected, her strength respected. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. 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