Monitoring systems. What do i mean by that . Systems where we bring together act not only diagnose the symptom tick and proactively and interactively work with individuals that we know are higher risks. We look at states where the outbreaks occurred where theyre not in large metros. We see it occurs very often in places of closed settings among our native americans and among our longterm care facilities. So active Monitoring Program thats active, integrated and innovative. Combining us with the third element which is a Rapid Response program relying on cdc working with state and local governments to insure every symptomatic case and critically, asymptomatic cases are quickly tracked and traced so we cannot only control the epidemic but predicts outbreaks before they expand. Finally the plan using approach much science and technology to develop newer platforms, more efficient testing insuring antibody tests utilized an recommended by both the fda and cdc have high quality, predicting exposure to the virus and antibody development. Working on innovative test and hide through, point of care, an and point of care tests. Thank you. [inaudible] thank you, mr. President. Thank you ambassador birx. If i could have the next slide, please. Want to spend just a couple minutes about telling, going over where weve been but more importantly where were going. I think we all can understand how we can group this into three distinct phases. First is our launch phase, when we were really engaging the emergency epidemic and types of things we need to do. For example, mobilize the private sector to develop tests and have euas. I think you know over the past two months the fda issued 67 emergency use authorizations which is far outpacing anything that has been done or could ever been imagined. Galvanizing the Research Community in the commercials labs. Were here with acla labs having done 3 million tests because of that day when it was galvanized by the president and the Vice President. We also set models in the community. Those first communitybased at the timing sites that were federally supported. Really under the direction of the u. S. Public health service, people who had been in japan, testing people on the diamond princess to assure it would be done right and done safely for everyone involved. Then we really moved to scaling that phase was very, very important. We knew we needed to be at immense scale to enter the third phase about supporting opening again. This again, for example, a lot of my life is about swabs. It was, enhancing the production capability of a Small Company in maine called puritan you will hear more about, the swab provider for the country but also because of the fda actions and actions of the Scientific Community being able to broaden the types to spun polyester so u. S. Cotton can come in delivering next couple weeks delivering three million swabs per week of a different type t also did things like expanding the communitybased testing sites. Whereas we started small with the commercial partners you see today, right now we have 73 of this 2. 0 sites, going to 110. Very importantly, this demonstrated the model. 68 of those sites are in communities of moderate or high social volumer inability and 22 are in the highest social vulnerability communities so we can make sure testing gets where it needs to be. You heard that can be expanded this thousands of sites. Finally stage three which is very exciting, coordinating with governors to support testing plans and Rapid Response programs. Over the past week a Multidisciplinary Team from the white house, hhs, fda, fema has met virtually with Multidisciplinary Teams from every state, puerto rico and the district of columbia, to understand what their testing aspirations are and to make sure that we can meet those demands. Were going to have another round of those calls this week but as we talked about earlier today, we will be able to supply every state with the supplies and tests that they need that will dramatically increase the number of tests weve done to this point. Just to give you an idea, the supplies that we will be providing to states, the minimum, that were supplying to states is approximately double in that month than the republic of korea has performed in the four months to now accumulated, to give you an idea of the amount of testing that were going to be doing. So im very excited right now as we complete this ecosystem with the large reference labs, the lab corps and quest providing very high throughput largescale testing, galvanizing of the hospitals and academic labs that dr. Birx has done by a machine to machine understanding and promoting that with the governors and of course using point of care testing, when and where that is very important, to stop outbreaks or in remote areas like Indian Health service or in alaska. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you very much. Great job. Okay. So with that were here to answer some questions. Mike is up here also. So well answer, steve, please, go ahead. Reporter governors grapple with when and how to open their states what is the best advice from you on what we want them to do it. We recommend that they do it as quickly as possible but safely. We want everyone to be safe. And i think youre seeing that. Youre he soing a lot of governors get out and they want to open it up. Many are thinking about their School System. Not a long way to go in the School System for the season, for this year but i think you will see a lot of schools open up even for a very short period of time. I think it would be a good thing because as you see in terms of what this vicious virus goes after, young people seem to do very well, young people seem to do very well. I know there are some governors that are not necessarily ready to open up their states but they may be ready to open up the School Systems well see. That is their choice. The word is safety, rapid but safety, please. Go ahead, please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. I have a question for you regarding one of the members of your Coronavirus Task force. Thats secretary of hhs alex azar . Yeah. Reporter on january the 28th he was in the Briefing Room, in the Briefing Room he told reporters that for the individual american the virus should not be an impact on their daytoday life. Three months later, more than 55,000 of our fellow americans have now lost their lives. Mr. President , why is he still your top Health Advisor . Why is he still serving as the hhs secretary . I think that is a very unfair questions, many great professionals, some you have Great Respect for, many people in the other party, mentioned alex azar, many people in the other party have said the same thing and with even more confidence. So a lot of people didnt get that right. I was, i was very fortunate whether it was through luck or whatever, that we closed the border. We put a pan on china other than our citizens coming in. We had our citizens. You cant keep out american citizens. Gee, you cant come back into your country. That is a little tough to do but we put a ban on china was very fortunate. I can tell you that nancy pelosi was dancing in the streets in chinatown. She wanted to go lets go out and party. That was late into february. So you dont mention that. But you could mention that. Go ahead. Any other . Please go ahead . Reporter please stand up. Reporter show he should have no complaints. Reporter mr. President , reappointed someone democrats quoted, inflated, the mortality rate of the coronavirus by underreporting the rate. Do you believe thats a true . There is some sort of Conspiracy Theory regarding the number of infections states are reporting . I can only say what were doing. Were reporting very accurately. If you look at other countries, other countries are not. You can look at china. You can look at numerous countries where i dont think those right numbers. I can only say what were doing. Very important for us to do very accurate reporting. That is what were doing. John, go ahead, please. Reporter retweeting, that mr. President . Thank you. Reporter mr. President i want to ask but the paycheck protection program, ppp plan to help small businesses. There are a lot of concerns today with the website just not working. In fact heard from the American Bankers Association saying that they are deeply frustrated, american banks will not be able to help struggling small business. I came out. I had under heard. I heard there was a glitch. Well find out whether that is so. Certainly worked out very well for the original amount of money this is the second amount and i will find out about that well, were relying on banks to go out and do an accurate job. Please in the back . Reporter thank you. Reporter all those that get aide, mr. President. I dont understand legal status of that. I would like to do that as far as im concerned. Im not involved in that process but i would certainly like to have it listed. I have to find out if theres a legal problem f there isnt i would do it gladly. Reporter mr. President , breitbart news. A majority of polls show that americans blame china for the spread of the coronavirus yet taking advantage of the crisis to make the world more dependent on their supply chains. How do you get, how do you hold china accountable and how do you keep our country there are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable. Were doing very serious investigations as you probably know and we are not happy with china. We are not happy with that whole situation. Because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stop the quickly, it would not have spread all over the world. We think that should have happened. So well let you know at the appropriate time. Were doing serious investigations. Reporter american businesses from relying on china for their supply chains, how do you fix that . We already discussed that especially having to do with medical supplies and others and others. If you look prior to this virus the deficit was coming way down under my administration because i put massive terrorists on china. We took in tens of billions of dollars. Five some of it to the farmers who were unfarly targeted by china. Nobody ever done that before. We never took in 10 cents from china. All sudden i think you know very well weve taken in tens of billions of dollars. I helped farmers giving them two years ago, 12 billion, all coming from china. We had plenty left over too. Then the following year, 16. This year were also going to hp our farmers but nobody has ever done a thing like that because they were targeted unfairly by china. Were doing very strong investigation. Well let you know what the result of that is. We should be able to get the answers too. Go ahead, please. Reporter as you talk about potentially reopening up america again as we see in the slide behind you what data will you look at in the future if you think restrictions will need to be reimposed . Were looking reliant on local areas, governors, that is the way it has been for me. Maybe not for everybody, but for me that is the way it has been from the beginning and from the beginning, governors some of them are doing extraordinary job. Not all of them. Some will have a chance to do that. Some will be a little bit different. Areas are much different. Manhattan is much different than montana. You have a lot of different circumstances but, obviously if you look at the virus, it hit some areas, hasnt hit very much other areas, not even at all, almost not at all. But the entire country has been affected. West virginia, as an example, i spoke to jim justice the governor of West Virginia and they were, long before anything hit, and they had numerous deaths even in West Virginia, they were really the last one to be hit. So were dealing with the governors. We had really great call today, as i told you. Very, very solid. These were not complaining people. These were people that, they had everything they needed. They had the ventilators. They have their testing. They see their testing us growing. Theyre growing their testing. Were helping them. Were getting them what they need. And, that was a group, i wish im sure some of you are on the line even though you were not supposed to be. I think you know what the result of that call was. You know the result of that call, go ahead. Reporter charlies question making chains in China Holding them responsible, send a bill to china for 130 billion, 130 billion euros for damages caused by the coronavirus. Would your administration look at doing the same . We can do something much easier than that we have ways doing things lot easier than that germany is looking at things. Were looking at things. Were talking a lot more money than germany is talking about. We havent determined the final amount yet. Very substantial. Look at the world, this is worldwide damage. This is damage to the u. S. But this is damage to the world. Yeah, please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. Attorney general william barr directed federal prosecutors to watch out for state and local officials that might be violating the constitution on stayathome orders. What is the strategy there . Will the federal government sue local authorities you have to ask attorney general barr, he wants to see like everybody. Wants to see people get back and wants people to get back to work. He doesnt want people to be held up when there is no reason for doing it. In some cases perhaps it is too strict. He wants to make sure people have their rights, maintain their rights very importantly. So a lot of people would agree with him. You have to ask the question specifically from a legal standpoint to attorney general barr. Reporter federal government suing states it would depends on the state. Depend on the circumstances of the state. Some states are perhaps a little early and some states are a little bit late and attorney general, i read that, and i saw that, frankly the attorney general doesnt want to have rights taken away there are some people not allowed to open up a store, they will lose their livelihood. By the way that causes death also between all of the things that happen. This has been a big study. You know the fact that people arent allowed to have their freedom causes tremendous amount of problems including death. So that is what he is talking about. Please. In the back. Reporter now that other states, governor larry hogan specifically said they have seen a spike in people using disinentech tant after your comments last week. I know you said sarcastic. I can cant imagine why. I cant imagine that. I cant imagine that. Go ahead. Reporter mr. President , dr. Anthony fauci says we need to increase testing double it, so us did the rockefeller foundation. When are we going doesnt really matter what they say there and we, just left him, we just had a meeting but, because were going to have much more than double it very soon. Now there are very big believers in testing. There are some governors dont feel as strong as at all, about that. You understand that they feel much different bit. Were going with maximum testing something were capable of doing. Well be much more than doubled. Mike i like you to answer that, well be much higher than doubled on testing very shortly. Mike, please. Yeah, please. Thank you, mr. President. I hope the American People looking on today are as proud as the president and i are of the incredible public and private partnership that you heard from today. It was two months ago that we had done less than 10,000 tests for the coronavirus in the United States. But because the president brought together these incredible commercial labs, brought together the bestknown retailers in america, now, mr. President , we have 5. 4 million tests. And as you said earlier today, weve done more than 200,000 tests in a single day. Since we met with governors today, i sensed enthusiasm among governors for the way that testing is scaling all across the country and, we assured them on the call today that were going to continue to directly partner with them to make sure that all of the resources you heard about today continue to be expanded. But i want to asked a myrl giroir working day in, day out with the governors, describe numbers where well be exactly be. Were north of five million tests done now. Remarkable to think of the pace of acceleration, but, admiral, maybe you can speak exactly when well reach point some experts say we need to be at, whether that would be 300,000 tests a day or 500 thousands test as day. What is remarkable to me as a layperson, mr. President , because of this partnership you forged were almost there. Well be there very, very soon for the American People. But everyone who is as anxious to see america reopen as this president and our entire administration should know that the threefaced approach that the president outlined 10 days ago, we believe, and i believe increasingly governors understand around america, that we have a sufficient amount of testing today for every state that qualifies to enter phase one, to begin to reopen their economies. Mr. President , with your permission i will asked a myrl askadmiral giroir ask much you think of testing because of partnership you see here today. Thank you, mr. President , mr. Vice president. The number of tests that need to be done depends on the state level. Places where there is high virus circulating will need, many, many more tests. Places with not high virus circulating may need less tests. Lets assume dr. Fauci was talking about a four million per month number, sort of a week ago where we are, so, we will, according to governors plans for next month we will easily double that four million number. We will have over 20 million swabs that were going to send out. We will have over 15 million tubes of media. We have all the tests matched, machine to machine in a focused area. Weve gone state by state and understand that. This is not even including, what you just heard, the five million per monteses by labcorp and quest or the point of care tests by abbott, or all the other tests that are out there. So in may, we are going to be doing more testing in this country, people talk about, south korea a lot. The states, the states with the least amount of testing will double the overall cumulative number per capita that south korea has done in four months to give you that understanding. Go ahead, john. Reporter this sounds incredibly promising, walgreens, cvs, with the drivethrough tests, but we sat here in the rose garden back on march 13, these companies were here, some other companies were here. By my count, only 69 drivethrough test sites set up by companies that were here. Im wondering, of course mr. Vice president , back in early march you said we would be at four million tests by the following week. Were just now got there in the last few days. So what have you learned about what went wrong, a month 1 2, over the last month 1 2 or two months, and what is going right now . What lessons have you learned from the mistakes over the last, you know, month 1 2 or so. John i appreciate the question, but it represents a misunderstanding on your part and, and frankly the, a lot of people in the publics part about the difference between having a test versus the ability to actually process the test. I mean the truth was when the president tapped me to lead the white house Coronavirus Task force two months ago we saw the production of lots of test kits going into the marketplace but as the president has said many times, what he understood early on was the old system would never be able to process the tests at the massive volume that we would need in the midst of an epidemic. Thats why the president brought together these extraordinary commercial labs you heard from today. Literally sat them down in the roosevelt room, said we need you to turn all of your energies loose on doing the kind of highspeed testing that would be necessary for us to reach numbers were at today. So there was no disconnect at all. There were, there were lots of test kits out there, admiral. Frankly there still are today. Literal millions of tests could be run in the oldstyle, slow laboratory, are still conducting tests today, whether at the cdc or state laboratories but what the president brought about with this Public Private partnership has brought us to the point where weve done 5. 4 million tests to date and literally you just heard that, by next month it could be doing as many as two million tests a week all across the country to give the American People confidence that we can reopen and get our economy moving again. Reporter when you said four million tests seven weeks ago, you were just talking about tests being sent out, not actually being completed . Im a little confused . John i think the precisely correct. That in my first week own this job we were informed hhs, i believe idt, was the vendor, admiral giroir, was distributing a million, distributing another four million. We believe they did. Much these were tests frankly but for the president s leadership we would still be waiting for the tests to be done. They were tests designed to be run in the Old Laboratory model. Early on in the president s direction, we partnered with commercial labs and extraordinary retailers. Literally, one day last week, more than 200,000 tests in a single day. About the time we were making those comments we had done less than 25,000 tests in the entire country but we met this moment with American Ingenuity and we could not be more proud. I think it is very important to know, unless you can get from any other country, if theyre being honest, not only do we have the most testing in the world by far but we have by far the best testing. Oen, please. Reporter president , thank you. I would like to switch gears, talk about general flynn. There are reports circulating now that he may well be fully exonerated this week. If that were, if that were the case, is there any reason why you would not bring him back into the administration . I will only say this. I think that general flynn is a wonderful man. He had a wonderful career and it was a disgrace what happened to general flynn. Lets see what happens now. But what happened to general flynn should never happen again in our country. What happened to other people should never happen again in our country. What happened to your president of the United States should never again be allowed to happen go ahead, please. Reporter mr. President , thank you. Today one of your top economic advisors said that the u. S. Likely to experience a 20 to 30 decline in the gdp in the second quarter. The worst since the great depression. Do you agree with that assessment . I dont know but i can tell you the third and Fourth Quarter in particular are going to be i think spectacular. We were talking about it, with the executives. I think well have a phenomenal Third Quarter. Nobody, you know, except one country can be Health Accountable for what happened. Nobody is blaming anybody here but were looking at a group of people that should have stopped it at the source but so what happens in second happens in second. What we are doing, i think well have, youre going to see a bug rise in the third, but see an incredible Fourth Quarter and youre going to have an incredible next year. I think you will have a recovery, look, i built, they were just telling me inside and its fact, i built the greatest economy with the help of 325 million people, i built the greatest economy in the history of the world. One day, because of something that should have never been allowed to happen we had to close our corntry, we had to close our economy. I built it. We had the best employment numbers and the best unemployment numbers for hispanicamerican, for africanamerican, for asianamerican, for everybody, best stock market numbers. By the way the stock market was up very substantially today. And people are seeing a lot of good things. A lot of very smart people investing in the stock market right now. It is a 24,000 approximately, approximately 24,000. And if you would have said with the tragedy that this country had to endure and go through with all of the death and the people that died and were so badly hurt by what happened and you can only say god bless them. But if you would have said that our country would be in the position were now, were ready did to move forward. Well never forget loved ones, well never forget these great people that sacrificed for a reason of incompetence or Something Else other than incompetence what happened at a point where they could have protected the whole world, not just us, the whole world, but we had the greatest economy ever, in the history of our world and i had to turn it off in order to get to the point where weigh are today. Now were making a comeback. I think well have economically, from a economic standpoint next year an unbelievable year. And i think that i think you will see a fantastic Fourth Quarter and the Third Quarter will start to build. But the second quarter, obviously youre going to have gdp, lack of growth, im looking at head of walmart, what a job walmarts done in going through something. They were, they were doing yeomans work, including getting us millions of really, very, very protective outfits and, i mean the job that doug and walmart did was incredible. Millions of outfits and those are high quality. Ive seen them. Those are high quality. That is what we need. People stepped up to the plate. I think well have a really good, i think it will start building. I think it will build fast. I think tremendous, tremendous comeback. You know, so i say, i built the greatest economy with all of the people that helped me and all of the people in this country, we built the greatest economy the world has ever seen and were going to do it again and it is not going to be that long. Okay, yes. Please, go ahead. Reporter mr. President , opening up the country, how long will you keep up the travel restrictions for europe . Were looking at that, it depends how long taking europe to heal. Italy is starting to make a comeback. Im happy to see that with my friend the prime minister, tragic what went on in italy and spain and france and germany, frankly, every country over there. Its tragic. Well be looking what is happening in europe. Certainly they want to do that, they want to do it too, do it very badly. Reporter kim jonguns health . Say isnt. Reporter any update on kim jonguns health . Has he responded to your letter from march . From kim jongun . I cant tell you exactly, yes i do have a very good idea but i cant talk about it now. I just wish him well. I had a very Good Relationship with kim jongun. If i werent president you would be in war. You would have been in war with korea. You would have been in war with north korea, that i can tell you. He expected that. That i can tell you. I, i hope he is fine. I do know how he is doing relatively speaking. We will see, you will probably be hearing in the nottoodistant future. One or two more. Go ahead, please. Reporter question about the 2020 election. Yeah. Reporter likely democratic opponent joe biden recently suggested that you were considering changing the gate of the election, you might try Something Like that. That is first question . I never even thought of changing the date of the election . Why would i do that . November third. It is a good number. I look forward to that election. That was just made up propaganda. Not by him, but by some of the many people working writing little statements. I see all the time statement made. Statement made. Per joe biden, sleepy joe. He didnt motorcycle those statements but somebody did. But they said he made it. Let him know im not thinking about it at all. Not at all. With yes, please. Reporter Senate Intelligence committee came out with fourth installment of report. It concluded that russia interfered with 2016 legislation and there was not political bias. I havent seen the report. I havent seen the report. Go ahead . Reporter [inaudible] you have Good Relationship with kim jongun, but he mentioned fox news, he interviewed he didnt say anything last saturday. Nobody, nobody knows where he is obviously couldnt have said it. This is breaking news. That kim jongun made a statement on saturday . I dont think so. Okay, go ahead. Lets do, do one more please, in the back . Reporter american president loses more americans over the course of six weeks than died entiretity of the vietnam war, does he deserve to be reelected. So, yeah, we have lost a lot of people, but if you look at what original projections were 2. 2 million, were probably heading to 60,000, 70,000, far too many, one person is too many for this. And i think we made a lot of really good decisions. The Big Decisions was closing the border or doing the ban, people coming in from china, obviously other than american citizens. You cant come in, cant come back to your country. I think we made a lot of good decisions. I think mike pence and the task force have done a span fantastic job. I think everybody working on the ventilators, you see what weve done there, have done unbelievable. The president doesnt talk about ventilators anymore. They just dont want to talk about them and thats okay. The reason they, that was a subject nobody would get off of, they dont want to talk about them. Were in the same position on testing. Were lapping the world on testing and the world is coming to us as i say, what are you doing, how do you do it. Were helping them. So, no i think weve done a great job. And one person, i will say this, one person is too many. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Reporter why do they have to go to south korea to get 500,000 masks. Liz President Trump wrapping a News Conference with key Business Executives on new testing guidelines and federal role moving forward in supporting the states. White house pivoting to testing after the president got roundly criticized for talking at a press Conference Last Week about injecting quote, uv light inside of the body and saying quote, then i see disinfectant where it knocks it out. He was asked a question about that again tonight. He brushed it off. Lets move on. Welcome former louisiana governor bobby jindal. Great to see you. Thanks for having me. Good evening. Liz okay, governor, we have at least 23 states now with specific plans to reopen. Tonight the president , at his press conference, really making the big push about testing, so we had cvs, walgreens, rite aid, talking about drivethrough testing. People across the country could go to drugstores and do that. This is the way forward. You think this is a positive development or do you think it cant be done . No, i think this is a great development. Im glad to see states are reopening. Im glad to see theyre doing it gradually. Based on science and Public Health but i think the American People are ready to get back to work in a safe manner. I think testing is a key part of that one thing impressive, if you step back how much progress we made in matter of weeks. When this started we didnt have the tests. Then we had tests. They were the tests took several days to process. Now we have 15 minute tests. Now were developinger is rolling tests. Developing toes based on saliva. We need more of that. President an Vice President is exactly right this is great Public Private partnership. Testing will be very important. As we reopen the economy. We monitor spikes. We can respond to spikes. We dont have to get back to where we were in the spring, shut down the entire economy. It is great sign states reopening responsibly. You have private and public sectors ramp up the public capacity. That is great American Ingenuity. Well have great Testing Capacity in new tests we dont have right now well be able to process results more quickly and more accurately. Liz yeah. So this is the headline, this is big news, cvs, rite aid, walgreens, talking about pharmacies certainly here in new york state, the governor of new york is talking about now with executive order, saying yes pharmacies should do more testing of covid19. That is the big push forward. Because cbo forecasting u. S. Gdp over all could drop 40 from the pandemic. That is a huge hit. Small businesses, big businesses on the brink of collapse. Talking about virgin atlantic, jcpenney as well. New york governor saying one in four new yorkers are infected. Way more people may have antibodies and immunity. Were hearing out of india, governor, india, serum institute, biggest maker of vaccines in the world talking about moving forward before the fall with a vaccine developed by oxford university. Good news on that front. Your quick take on that . Dozens of vaccines in testing phases. Normally takes year, yearandahalf, to mass produce, develop a safe vaccine. I hope we do it more quickly. You have companies racing against the clock to get it done. Obviously once we have a vaccine we can get back to our normal lives. We certainly cant wait for the vaccine. There is great hope and optimism. We gradually need to reopen the economy. We need to be smart. Even if the economy reopens we cant go back to the prepractice social distancing, be aware of surroundings. Im a big believer in competition. Big believer in Public Private competition. The progress weve seen last few weeks has been remarkable. Im extremely optimistic we get it back to the soon sooner than the experts predict. As soon as we get our lives back to normal. Liz the state of michigan with the draconian orders against doing gardening or lawn care, now the state legislature there has an oversight body of the democrat governor of michigan. She is pushing back saying i may do, extend the quarantine of the state even longer because of what is going on with lack of social distancing, things like protests. She is saying, basically world war ii, you didnt see protesters lining up at the state capital. We have democrats pushing back we want now, nancy pelosi talking about guaranteed income. Big push of renters in cities like chicago, detroit, los angeles not to pay rent, as governors are shutting down. You see this pushing forward, governor. Your take on all of that . Look a couple of things. I was governor during hurricanes and other public crises. Obviously you want to protect human life look what the michigan governor has done, look what louisville mayor has done, some of these officials are not practicing common sense. People are frustrated. Michigan she eventually backed off, you can go fishing with a boat without a motor but cant go fishing for with in a boat with motor. You cant go to store to buy seeds for garden. This is not protecting them. It is nan at this state. Louisville mayor told them they couldnt drive in cars on easter sunday, go to church, even if they want to stay in the cars to listen to their pastor. That is completely ridiculous. Violation of our rights as americans. Constitutional rights. It offends public common sense. When you see politicians overreach like that, it undermines the legitimate efforts to keep us safe. They legitimately are telling to us practice social distancing to avoid large crowds, should be doing that. If we telecommute. Many of our heros cant do that. Required to be on a front lines. When politicians overreach it undermines confidence in the government and truly common sense Public Health measures. Talk about speaker pelosi, democrats, you remember what rahm emanuel said never waste a crisis. Would like to grow the role and scope much government. She delayed relief for small businesses, talking about ridiculous items. Earlier version of the house bill, cares act, do things mandate to Airlines Green new deal requirements. Mandate Corporate Diversity requirements on the boards. Unrelated items. Theyre undermining publics faith in our leaders in our government. Reality this is Public Health crisis. Lets have a narrow, targeting government response that addresses this. The best way to help people pay rent. Best way for people to put food on the table so they dont go to food banks is get the economy going again. We do need targeted emergency assistance. That is what the administration has been doing but the idea well create permanent government programs, lets not kid ourselves, the government is borrowing trillions of dollars it doesnt have. Nobody in d. C. Will talk about paying it back. Lets help people in emergency. Best way to help them, get them back to work. Liz governor, great to have you on. Come back soon. Thank you for having me. Liz okay. Great to see you. Sure. Okay the president just surprising the media critics. He did hold a press conference, just wrapping up moments ago on more testing. That is now the focus. Next up, more on the growing backlash against joe biden. New evidence is mounting. It is coming forward that supports tara reades claims that biden sexually assaulted her in 1993. Well show you what this fight is all about and the latest developments. Stay with us. Liz welcome back. Lets bring in our next guest, independent womens forum kelsey boller. Great to see you. Great to be here. Liz first lets get your take on the growing backlash against joe biden. This is a story that now has legs. Possible new evidence that supports tara reades claims against biden of Sexual Assault. Also two individuals stepping forward to say yes, she told us contemporaneously she was sexually assaulted by joe biden in the early 90s. Listen to this sound bite, august 11th, 1993. It is larry king live, anonymous caller who tara reade identifies as her late mother calling in to talk to larry king about, quote, problems her daughter faced while working as a staffer for a senator. That senator is joe biden. Watch this. Sand louie obispo, california. Hello. Hello. Im wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington . My daughter just left there working for a prominent senator. Could not get through with her problems at all. The only thing she could have done was go through the press and chose not to do it without respect for him . She had a story to tell but out of respect for the person she worked for, she didnt tell it . Thats true. Liz kelsey, your reaction . Liz, i can tell you as a mother that phone call is devastating to hear. You can hear the desperation in it, in her to find some sort of accountability and help for her daughter. I will say, tara reades story has been very credible from the beginning and slowly, more and more witnesses are coming forward to corroborate it. Just today Business Insider reported on two, two witnesses who said that they had been told by tara reade years ago about the, sexual abuse allegations against joe biden. One of them is her former neighbor who actually is a joe biden supporter. She corroborated the story, she actually said she is still supporting joe biden. So this is very credible and there is clearly a double standard in the way that democrats and the media are handling this story. There are basic media blackouts for weeks regarding this. I think these two new witnesses coming forward that were learning about today are really going to break the tide and joe biden, democrats and all the media, who have been trying to cover this up and ignore it are going to be forced to confront it. Liz yes. So the pushback is, you reported and the pushback was against Brett Kavanaugh but why not joe biden . Because tara reade filed a public incident report with the Police Department in washington, d. C. , saying she was the victim, lets say it again of a Sexual Assault. When you read details of the Sexual Assault allegation it is shocking. Bidens president ial campaign adamantly denied these accusations, given what kelsey is saying the story now has legs. Lets move on to this, nancy pelosi now getting pushback from both jake tapper at cnn and bill maher. Lets listen to these sound bites. Watch this. So cuomo says he would have insisted on states funding in the last bill. And now senator mcconnell is saying he wants to push the pause button. Was this a tactical mistake by you and senator schummer. Just calm down. We will have state and local and well have it in a very significant way. Liz okay so that is nancy pelosi talking about, yes now the federal taxpayer will bail out the states. Watch bill maher pushing back on nancy pelosi, youre approving a lot of Government Spending that could help send the country into a bigger depression. Watch this. I dont know how you can just keep indefinitely writing checks. We were 20 trillion in the hole to begin with. And all World Governments who are, you know already in debt are doing this. How can the whole world be writing this funny money . This is more of an investment and lives and livelihood of the American People. We have to think big about that. Liz okay. What you do think of that, kelsey . Pushback against nancy pelosi and democrats here . You can hear Nancy Pelosis frustration there and bill maher is absolutely right. If we spend too much, we will make this problem worse, and any problem, you know, i was former governor bobby jindal just said in your earlier segment, any aid needs to be temporary, targeted and flexible and the programs that were hearing democrats call for, are not, are going to potentially lead us into an even greater depression. Liz because it will lead to higher taxes. That is the big thing. Kelsey, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Liz kelsey bolar of the independent womens forum. Next up, President Trump just weighing in just moments ago on the speculation now swirling that north koreas communist dictator is either in a vegetative state due to a heart operation or he is dead. Well put it to retired Army Lieutenant colonel james carafano. Well take it up next. Stay right there. For nearly 100 years, weve worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. And now its no different. Because helping you through this crisis is what were made for. Liz okay. Lets welcome our next guest, retired Army Lieutenant colonel james carafano. Colonel, great to have you on. Thanks. Liz okay. The news just moments ago, President Trump said this at the White House Press conference just moments ago. Nobody knows where the north korean communist dictator kim jongun is. He is saying quote, i have a very good idea of what is going on, the president said. You will hear about that shortly. There is escalating speculation coming out of japan and south korea, that he is, the north korean dictator is in vegetative state from a botched surgery operation on his heart. Your reaction to that . Week were mailinging a le were playing a giant game of clue. Obviously the president has intelligence and sending a signal, he is isnt worried. That is important. Our strategy works whoever is in charge of north create. Maximum pressure. Mission sill defense, conventional deterrents. Sanctioning, blocking north korea and pressuring to dedenuclearization. I think were in good shape regardless whether the truth comes out, i dont think were in crisis with south korea. Liz south korea is denying the reports due to a stent operation, the north korean communist dictator kim jongun is in a vegetative state, denying that. Right. Liz the president is saying well hear actually what what the story is. In north korea it is a story of succession. This is patriarchal state. Men lead the country. All eyes turned to kim jonguns sister and his closest confident. Kim yong she runs Propaganda Machine in north korea. Shy is just as ruthless. She is sitting next to Vice President at Winter Olympics in pongyang. Your reaction to this. Three changes of power in north korea. They have been relatively stable that is the only real state today we have. So presuming how we think a transition would work, we just dont know. The other thing is, regardless whos in charge, the cadre of people running this country only have one vital interest and that is to keep themselves in power. So i just dont see scenarios right now, we have no evidence for that, that were going to see any kind of catastrophic change in the leadership of north korea, regardless of the state of kims health or not. Liz so she, all right, so stay with this, because this is a major breaking story, what is going on in north korea. There is talk maybe china would step in and take over north korea, in the event there is a catastrophic i hear what youre saying this leader, the leader of the regime is known for massive human rights abuses. Kim jonguns sister has been sanctioned for just that. She pushes north korea propaganda. She does rigid censorship. What youre saying regardless of this inhumane and oppressive behavior that will still continue no matter who the leader is, right . If that is to be believed. Like the old saturday night live cartoons what do you want, coke or pepsi it, doesnt matter because it tastes the same. Well not see big shifts. If you think about it, the reason for that is, this country is built in a very weird way. It is all designed to keep a couple of people in porno films and whiskey. They cant take big, risky changes and without putting themselves at risk. So it is very unlikely well see a dramatic, dramatic shift. That is what i always loved about the president s strategy it is designed to work no matter who is in charge. It is not predicated what the north koreans do. It is designed to protect us from the worst things they might do. Liz what do you, what do you think happened to kim jongun . What do you seriously think is going on . Thats a great question because exactly the wrong question for people to ask, because ive heard people answering this question all day long, it is literal speculation. You might as well ask what the chinese are doing on the back side of the moon. We simply dont know. The United States might have hard intelligence but were just guessing. This kind of speculation, it really, it really doesnt inform us so much as anything. And again the point is, it is irrelevant because north korea is probably going to be a very similar actor a week from now than it is today. Liz okay. Colonel carafano. Thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Good to see you, colonel. Come back soon. Im elizabeth macdonald. Youve been watching the evening edit. Thanks for joining us. That does it for us. Hope you have a great evening. Join us tomorrow night. Well bring you latest on developing stories for you, bring you the latest. Have a good evening. Back here same time tomorrow. Lou dobbs tonight starts right now. Lou good evening, everybody. 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