The immigration changes the president has been seeking her once he has been pursuing without success for years and while they are only temporary, the president feels the timing is optimal to implement them n now. The beauty of spring time fills us with the peace and hope of renewal. President trump today using a symbolic earth day Tree Planting for the renewal of the American Economy and with his executive pen, shutting the door on new immigrants for a period of 60 days. The American WorkerMust Come First and he has a singular focus to help the American People and economic wellbeing. The order will apply only to green card acume applicants ove. Of programs the president has tried and failed to eliminate through legislation. It will not affect people come again temporarily including migrant workers, desperately needed to pick ripening crops. The farmers will not be affected by this at all, if anything were going to make it easier and well into a process to make it easier for workers to go to the farms where theyve been for a long time. Democrats sharply critical of the move, House Speaker nancy pelosi accusing President Trump from distracting from the real problems wrought by coronavirus. Instead of talking about immigration, its a distraction from his failure on testing. We have a big challenge in our country. There are new questions about treatments for the virus after a small study conducted by the va found a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was noneffective and increased the chance of death. The study was conducted on mostly older or sicker males. Fda administrator dr. Stephen hahn saying its too early to determine if it might work for other patients. What fda is going to require his data from randomized Clinical Trials to actually make a definitive decision around safety and efficacy. The white house also pushing back today on reports the cdc director dr. Robert redfield warned that coronavirus could come back this fall even worse than now. In an interview with the Washington Post, he is quoted as saying theres a possibility the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through. White house officials insist redfield was talking about the potential for a coronavirus resurgence at the same Time Seasonal flu kicks in and the burden that double whammy could put on the health care system. In a new development, the former deputy hhs secretary for preparation and response is filing a whistleblower complaint tonight claiming he was transferred to a lesser position at the nih after disagreeing with the white house over which drugs and treatment to spend billions of dollars on. In the whistleblower complaint, he says he insisted the money go to safe and scientifically bedded solutions and not into drugs, vaccines, and other technologies that lacks scientific merit. Bret hes asking for the department of health and Human Services to open up the investigation, nothing from the administration yet on his complaints. It will definitely be a question at the briefing coming up in a couple minutes. Bret will not bring that to you. If President Trump says hes ordered the navy to shoot down and destroy any iranian gunboats harassing u. S. Ships. This threat comes as u. S. Space command says iran has successfully launched its first nila terry satellite. The u. S. Military site and tying ranking officer said the commanderinchiefs tweet was crystal clear. I like that the president warned an adversary, thats what hes doing, he is providing a warning. If you want to go down that path, we will come and we will come large. The president fired off his tweet riding he ordered the navy to shoot down and destroy any iranian gunboats harassing u. S. Ships. This video aired showing small iranian gunboats circling warships in the northern gulf last week, the u. S. Navy sent ships for the first time in months. The president s tweet also landed hours after irans revolutionary guard launched a military satellite into space for the first time, the u. S. Resolution said iran has called upon but not forbidden from doing these tests, u. S. Officials have long warned the same Technology Used to put a satellite in space is the same used for making laundry edge loe missiles capable of hitting the United States. The embargo on iran expires in six months. Theyd consistently said the programs were disconnected for the military, i think todays launch proves what we have been saying all along. I think iran needs to be held accountable for what theyve done. Theyve had a military organization that the United States has designated terrorist attempt to launch a satellite. A spokesman has accused President Trump of bullying. Bret thank you. Tensions appear to be growing tonight between the u. S. And china over the initial reporting of the coronavirus. If Gillian Turner has the latest information tonight. As the inquiry into the coronavirus origins continues gathering momentum, the Trump Administration is considering options for holding the Chinese Government accountable. They include reordering u. S. Posture in asia and revoking visas including for chinese students. We strongly believe the Chinese Communist party did not report the outbreak of the new coronavirus in a timely fashion to the world health organization. Thats why we continue to insist this is an ongoing requirement for transparency and openness. Chinas Foreign Ministry rebutted that claim. China has started to regularly inform the United States have updated information since january 3rd. The channel for u. S. To obtain epidemic information from china is unimpeded. The u. S. Is also laser ring in on mishandling of evidence. It censored to those who tried to warn the world in order to halt a testing of new samples and it destroyed existing samples. The ccp has still not shared a virus sample from inside china with the outside world, making it impossible to track the diseases evolution. The responses up to President Trump, he will make a decision once the investigation wraps up but in the interim, americans nationwide are seeking legal remedies of their own. Missouri became the first date to file suit against the Chinese Government joining seven federal civil suits representing thousands of americans seeking trillions of dollars in damages. Outlets including the New York Times have reported chinese agents have been spreading disinformation and fake news about the virus on social media. Fox news has been reporting about chinese pandemic propaganda since march. Bret thank you. A couple of major developments tonight, a major food producing plant in the midwest shutting down and we are learning of a pair of deaths in one California Community much earlier than any other fatalities reported in the u. S. Jonathan serrie shows us what is happening around the country from atlanta. As virginia lawmakers met under a canopy outside the state capital, demonstrators and cars protest at governor Ralph Northams shutdown of nonessential businesses to control the spread of covid19. Its gonna run its course regardless of whether we stay open or shut. Protesters claimed the economic toll is worse than the disease pumping this response from new yorks governor. How can the queue or be worse than the illness if the illness potential death . But in georgia governor brian kemps plans to reopen hair salons and tattoo parlors friday is also getting pushback. Although his order supersedes local control, mayor van johnson is calling on citizens to stay home voluntarily. As your mayor, im telling you that you are the mayors and governors of your own households. Tyson foods closed its largest pork processing facility in waterloo, iowa, explaining despite our continued efforts to keep our people safe while fulfilling our Critical Role in feeding american families, the combination of worker absenteeism, covid19 cases and Community Concerns has resulted in our decision to stop production. We will be testing all of their employees, i think they are anticipating starting out on friday. Public Health Officials believe covid19 began claiming u. S. Lives before fatalities linked to a Washington State nursing home in february. Tissue samples came back positive for two San Francisco bay area residents who died in their home february 6th and february 17th. In january and february, we had the virus circulating but we want looking for it. Back then, the patients didnt meet the criteria for limited Testing Available because they had no travel history to china. Bret stocks rebounded today on the strength of Higher Oil Prices and the expected release package from congress. The dow surging 457, the s p was up 63, and the nasdaq jumped 232. Harvard says it will not accept money from Coronavirus Relief legislation, lets go to the briefing room. The president event of the states called on harvard to release that money, lets listen in. Cases in the boston area are now declining, the chicago curve has flattened and detroit is past its peak. These trends demonstrate our aggressive strategy to battle the virus is working and more states will soon be in a position to gradually and safely reopen. Its exciting watching and seeing whats happening and people are getting ready and theyre all excited. I do want to mention a man whos done a very good job for us, dr. Robert redfield was misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus. Totally misquoted, i spoke to him, he said it was ridiculous. He was talking about the flu and corona coming together at the same time. Corona could be flareups we will take care of, we will knock it out fast, thats what he was referring to, coming together at the same time. I think rather than waiting, i would ask dr. Redfield to come up and say a couple of words to straighten it out because he didnt say it was a big explosion, the headline in the Washington Post was totally inaccurate. The statement wasnt bad in the post but the headline was ridiculous which is as i say, thats fake news and cnn is fake news and they had the wrong story, which they knew. They were asked to change it and they wouldnt do that. It was false, ill ask dr. Dr. Redfield who was a professional to come up and explain, please. Thank you mr. President. I think its important to clarify this as we build the confidence of the American People. When i commented yesterday that there was a possibility of the fallwinter, next fallwinter, could be more difficult, more complicated, if we have two respiratory illnesses circulating at the same time, influenza and coronavirus 19 but i think its really important to emphasize what i didnt say. I didnt say this was going to be worse, i said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu and coronavirus circulating at the same time. We will continue to build the nations Public Health infrastructure to ensure we have the capacity to stay in containment mode, those of you who heard me talk before, i told you in january and february up to february 27th28, this nation had 14 cases, we were in containment mode and unfortunately the virus overwhelmed, we got into extreme mitigation. We are building that capacity now to make sure we stay in containment mode for the upcoming fall and winter season we will not need to resort to the kind of mitigation we had to this spring. I had confidence are Public Health response of early case recognition that we talked about, isolation and Contact Tracing combined with our plans for increased surveillance particularly for the most vulnerable will be on effective Public Health strategy, so our nation will be able to maintain itself in containment mode. Again, that will be supported by the American Publics continued cooperation, in the areas of personal hygiene and the types of social distancing strategies that may be appropriate. The key to my comments and the reason i really wanted to stress them was to appeal to the American Public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence. One of the greatest tools we have as we go through the fallwinter season is to get the American Public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimize the impact of flu to be the other respiratory disease we confront. [reporter questioning] President Trump he was totally misquoted, he said they could come together, they didnt talk about that and his whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot so that next fall, we dont have such a big season of flu and we possibly wont. Its possible, if corona even comes back and he doesnt know if its going to another do i appeared we spoke at great length and i think that dr. Will speak if it continues but we may have some embers and we will put them out but we may have a big flu season, flu is very from corona. Reporter the Washington Post quoted u. S. Saying theres a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation will be even more difficult than the one we just went through and when i said this to others, they dont understand what i mean we are going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time, is that what you said to the Washington Post . Thats what i was trying to say to you just a minute ago. The issue i was talking about being more difficult is that were going to have two viruses circulating at the same time, this spring we had a benefit of having the flu season ending so we could use all of our flu Surveillance Systems to say this is coronavirus, we need to foc focus. Next fall and winter, we are going to have two viruses circulating and we are going to have to distinguish between which is flu and which is coronavirus spirit of the comment that i made is more difficult. It doesnt mean its impossible, it doesnt mean its going to be worse, its just going to be more difficult because we have to distinguish between the two, what i was wanting to do and i want to do again his appeal to the American Public to recognize they can really help like they did with mitigation, they really helped, i need them to help now to best prepare us by getting the flu vaccine and taking flu out of the picture. President trump we may not even have corona coming back. Thats the quote from the Washington Post, you are accurately quoted. Im accurately quoted in the Washington Post as difficult, but the headline was inappropriate. The headline says cdc director warned second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating. President trump thats not what he said. I actually think its going to be i think the American Public is going to heed the request to look at their vaccine hesitancy, the vaccine with confidence with flu and im confident the Public Health infrastructure we are putting together now across this country so we can early case diagnose, isolate, contact trace, block and tackle, that system is going to be there and we are going to be able to contain this virus. Reporter why did you retweet the article . President trump you werent called. We asked about this yesterday, i want to emphasize to the American Public that when we first interacted with this virus for the first time in february and march time frame, we didnt have an understanding of the transmissibility, all of the symptoms, we do now. I think what we are building together when we talk about the Public Health infrastructure, it is very much working on the surveillance piece but i think we also know the strength of the American People and their ability to immediately understand how to protect themselves, not touching their face, making sure they are washing their hands but the other piece i wanted to talk about and we mentioned yesterday also, we have flu surveillance we can utilize, we have all of that time to prepare clearly the testing algorithm that you would need in a flu, potentially if covid came back. We are preparing for that potential right now and we spoke to you all about that and talked about how we are not only preparing for today and tomorrow but were preparing for six months from now, three months from now and making sure all of these pieces are in place. I think what dr. Redfield clearly was asking for, just like we ask for every american to follow the guidelines, hes saying please add to that guideline getting the flu shot. Is there a good chance covid will not come back . The great thing is, will not be able to find it earlier this time. I think thats what were talking about, well find those cases earlier. What dr. Redfield said, we will be able to stay in containment phase, what we are also hoping and we talked about this about four or five weeks ago, we are hoping the flu infections also go down because people are much more aware of respiratory illnesses and how to protect themselves. We want you to get your vaccine but we also want to protect individuals from getting the flu because the vulnerability we know in certain populations to flu in the devastating outcomes, we can prevent and decrease both of those things. I think we are assured of the cdc is putting in place today what we are going to need in the fall so that we can stay in containment if potentially the virus comes back. President trump if it comes back, it wont be coming back in the form that it was, it will be coming back in smaller doses that we can contain. What the doctor was saying and i spoke to him at great length, he was saying if it should come back, you have the flu and the embers of corona, but in my opinion from everything ive seen, it can never be like anything like we witnessed right now. Its nothing like what weve just gone through, we will not go through. You could have some embers of corona and a big flu system and if they combine and come together, its not great but we will not go through what we went through for the last two months. Is that correct . Reporter i understand the United States will be more prepared in the fall but how can you say you know it wont come back at the same level that it has today . President trump it might not come back at all, hes talking about a worstcase scenario where you have a big flu and you have some corona. If it does come back, its not going to come back and ive spoken to ten different people, its not going to be like it was. We have much better containment now, before nobody knew about it. Now if we have a Little Pocket here, were going to have it put out, were going to put it out fast. Its also possible it doesnt come back at all. I understand the containment but i dont understand how you know it wont come back. The President Trump i didnt say its not, i said if it does, its not going to come back on anything near what we went through. You could have a mess where they come at the same time and if they come at the same time, the flu is not the greatest thing in the world, its not the greatest thing either. If we have embers of corona coupled with the flu, thats not can be pleasant but its not going to be what weve gone through in any way, shape, or form. Reporter why are you still directing emergency procurement of ventilators . We have to have them for other reasons, Something Else could come, we didnt know about corona, now we know about corona, look at what happened. We had the h1n1 swine flu, we had that, we had other things that have happened. We had various forms of flu but nothing like we had here, nothing at all like what weve had here with the virus but something could happen. The stockpiles, we are making hundreds of thousands of ventilators, nobody writes about that. At one time all they talked about was ventilators because he didnt think it was possible for me to solve that problem and i solved it and nobody can believe it. I just spoke to World Leaders today who desperately need ventilators. They said the job youve done and we are sending 500 to mexico, another 500 to france, we are sending some to spain, summed italy, they are being made by the thousands. World leaders, i spoke i went through a lot of different calls today, i wont even tell you but i can give you a list if you want. I went through a lot of calls to a lot of leaders, i spoke to pakistan, they would like to have some ventilators were going to get them some ventilators but they all said to me one thing, it was incredible that you solved the ventilator problem, that was a big problem. The testing problem, weve done more than any other nation in the world if you added up the testing of every nation in the world and put them together, weve done substantially more than that. A few people arent satisfied. Lets say we had 350 Million People in the United States, lets say and if we gave every one of those people attest, ten times, 350 people attest, ten times, the Fake News Media would say he didnt do his job, because you have a lot of bad reporting out there, its very sad. Reporter its not true. President trump lets get onto another subject, i wanted that to be cleared up. We can get it on to it later but i want the Vice President to speak. If you want to get the news accurately, if you take a look at what you wrote about the ventilators and we became the king of ventilators, we are making different factories all over, ventilators by the thousands mike got back from wisconsin, the first thing he did i called up he said youre not going to believe, he just saw plant where they are making ventilators. I think i can say the words were unbelievable, he saw the quality of the equipment, the professionalism, a tremendous number how many workers would you say there were . We doubled production and are about to triple. Nobody thought this could be done, the fake news was very unhappy that it was done. But you guys dont ask me about ventilators. You never mention it, theres no what a great job youve done with ventilators, we are now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did. You should say thats a great story, instead you say trump was slow slow . We were so fast plus we put the ban on so much earlier when nancy pelosi as an example, when shes having her rally in San Francisco in chinatown, nobody wants to say that. Dr. Fauci said this, if we can enclose our country to china, we wouldve been so infected, like nobody has ever seen we were at the top of the list in terms of success, nobody wrote it, i said is anybody going to use that chart in terms of mortality, you saw that. Germany and our country, the most successful in terms of mortality, nobody wrote it. It would be great if you wrote the truth, lets get on with it i want mike to speak and then well take more questions. Its been encouraging to watch states begin to open up and it has been, its a beautiful thing to see as restrictions are lifted, we must maintain vigilance and continue practicing social distancing. I encouraged governors to follow a careful, phased approach and i want to remind all americans to adhere to our guidelines, very important. The governors are going to adhere or do what they think is best, i want them to do what they think is best wash your hands, avoid close physical contact is much as possible and where to Face Covering one distancing is impractical. We have flattened the curve and made tremendous progress but we must guard against the dangerous rebound. It is what we were talking about, we dont want a rebound, the doctor doesnt want to rebound, these people definitely dont want a rebound, you especially. We dont want rebounds after all of this death that weve suffered, death that was unnecessary, should have never happened. You know it and they know it. In our allout war against the virus we continue to make Great Strides on testing, famous testing, doing more than anybody else anywhere in the world, nothing funny about that, john. Most governors have never faced a situation like this before. We are helping them find unused Testing Capacity within their states, tremendous Testing Capacity governors didnt know they had and additional capabilities are coming online every day, we are coming up with new equipment like the Abbott Laboratories equipment onsite, 5 minutes, Great Success everybody wants it but you can only make so many of those machines. We have many other forms of testing, machines that do it quickly, by the millions. Our task force issued its reopening guidelines earlier to give governors the time that they needed to develop testing capability and capacity and customize plans for their states which many of them did, we have had governors who did a fantastic job with testing and a lot of other things. We had a great conversation on testing yesterday and doing a really good job in new york. We are working closely with each of the states to help them succeed, i spoke earlier today with Governor Newsom in california, that was all about testing, that conversation. He has been scaling up really well, really good job. I agreed to help him get some of the critical supplies that california needs to make use of the tremendous capacity that they found, this is tremendous Testing Capacity and im going to do it very quickly. Could he get it himself . Yes, but i can get it faster, he understands that and hes done a great job. We will have a lot of them to him over the next two days, hes done a terrific job in california, some of the governors have done a fantastic job working with us. I told the governor of georgia brian kemp that i disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines for the incredible people of georgia, incredible people, i love those people. They have been strong, resolute, but at the same time, he must do what he thinks is right, i want him to do what he thinks is right but i disagree with him on what he is doing but i want to let the governors do if i see something totally egregious, totally out of line but i thinks bobs, beauty salons, tattoo parlors, barbershops in phase 1 we are going to have faced 2 really soon, its just too soon. I think its too soon and i love the people, i love those people that use all of those things, the spas, the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors, i love them. But they can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit not much because safety has to predominates. We have to have that. I told the governor very simply that i disagree with his decision but he has to do what he thinks is right. Im excited to announce in the coming weeks, the air force thunderbirds theyre incredible and the navy blue angels, equally incredible will be performing airshows over americas major cities and some of the cities that arent major cities, they are going to be doing a lot of work, a lot of dangerous flying. Its dangerous when you start going at massive speeds and your 18 inches away from each other, thats dangerous work. Your son is a great pilot could he be a thunderbird . I dont know. I think he probably could, from what i hear. I dont know if i would want him to be because its incredible what they have been able to do. We are doing is paying tribute to our Frontline Health care workers confronting covid, its a signal to all americans to remain vigilant during the outbreak. This is a tribute to them, to our warriors because they are equal warriors to those incredible pilots and all of the fighters that we have for the more traditional flights we win. When we want to win, we always win, sometimes we dont want to win and so we go to a standsti standstill. Thats not the way this country works. Operation america strong was the idea of our great military men and women. The thunderbirds and the blue angels who wanted to show support to the american medical workers who just like military members in a time of war are fiercely running toward the fight i want to see those shows. Ive seen them many times and i cant get enough of them. On july 4th, we will be doing what we had at the mall, it was a tremendous success. I would imagine well do it, hopefully i can use the term forever. That was a Great Success even though it was pouring, it was raining so hard, it was raining about as hard as ive seen in a while. It was an amazing success, it didnt bother the pilots or the military, didnt bother the crews that we had there. Our great military is operating at 100 during this crisis, thousands of troops are deployed alongside of civilians and the hot spots as you know you see them all over, i spoke with Governor Cuomo and i spoke with gavin newsom and many of the other governors, they wanted to know if we could have some military help with the medical and we gave it to them. In every case, they said its fantastic, just fantastic. New york city, mayor de blasio called me to say it was inspiring to watch, he said it gave everybody spirit when he saw the professionalism and the spirit they had, they walked in and helped a lot of people. Doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians and professionals, it was on incredible thing. Everybody who saw them going to work said it was something special. We are going to have tremendous airshows all throughout the country and thats in honor of what we are all going through together, the people who are helping us so much and unfortunately, the people who have passed away from something that should never have been allowed to happen. Following aroundtheclock negotiations yesterday, the senate answered my call to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program so that millions of additional American Workers can keep getting a paycheck, we just increased it by 310 billion. I urged the house to pass the bill without delay in our first round of funding we provided nearly 350 billion and it went at record speed to American Workers and small businesses. It has been on incredible success. I want to thank the banks, the big banks, the little banks, the commercial banks of all kinds. We had the community banks, fantastic, by the way. As you know, this was an interesting story in recent days. Ive called for harvard thats Harvard University which has 840 billion Endowment Fund to return the money it was under the cares act. Im pleased to announce harvard has announced today that they will not accept the funds, nor will Stanford University or many of the others that were involved on a university level, also on the company level, some of the companies were bigger than people had represented or bigger than people had thought, Strong Enough that they didnt need the money. Theres a certain amount of money that we are not sending. As soon as i heard it, i said stop the funds, for the most part, i guess they stopped at. Theyre not accepting the money, thats great. I want to thank harvard, stanford and other companies its broken differently between the colleges and companies but i want to thank the companies and other great universities. Legislation passed by the senate yesterday reserves 30 billion for small Financial Institutions we are determined to protect our africanamerican, hispanicamerican, and minority workers who have been hit so hard by this hidden enemy. My administration is pursuing a comprehensive strategy to address the full spectrum of needs in these communities, supporting health and economic revitalization. My administration is committed to providing the testing that is needed to fight the virus in distressed communities in the last month alone, we have already sent over 1. 4 billion to our nations 13,000 Community Health care centers to increase testing and treatment in underserved areas, we are also expanding access to telehealth. Because of this, its become a big thing, people cant leave the houses, they didnt want to leave their houses for various reasons including they wanted to follow the guidelines. The legislation passed by the senate yesterday and i want to thank everybody, a great vote as you know it was a unanimous vote, how often do you see that . The legislation passed by the senate includes an additional 25 billion to further expand the testing and provides even more funding for Community Health centers for various forms of epidemics and pandemics and will not be working on that. We want to work on that for the future, we hope this doesnt happen again. 1917, thats a long time ago. We want to be prepared and we are prepared. As i told you we are building up hospitals, not only are stockpiles but hospital stockpiles, we are getting them what they need, we are working out cost arrangements with them. We are getting them a lot of ventilators which is the hardest thing for them to get both from a cost standpoint and a technical standpoint, at the same time we are supporting the establishment of new testing sites focused on these communities. 40 sites have launched so far and there are plans to launch dozens more in the next three weeks. We are coming up with testing apparatus and testing plans that are incredible when you look at the numbers. Some people are very big on testing. Some people are much less big than i am, i will tell you. We want to have it so that nobody can talk about i wish we had more testing. Nobody has done it like weve done it, we have incredible professionals doing it. My administration is working closely with governors to ensure they have the testing infrastructure in place to reduce the further spread of the virus. If they are so inclined to use the testing apparatus, including strategies for older individua individuals, low income americans, minorities, native americans as part of the effort, the White House Task force headed up by mike west on incredible, i will say it to anybody who wants to listen, mike pence has done an incredible job. Really an incredible, thank you. He is providing Technical Assistance through oneonone phone calls as they develop and implement their plans. In addition my administration is committed to restoring black and hispanic communities to full economic health. We want to be healthy economically and physically. Im directing the white house opportunity and revitalization council led by secretary ben carson to focus its effort supporting the underserved communities impacted by the coronavirus. Ben carson is working on that with mike and myself and a lot of other people. I want to ask tim scott whos been helpful with the opportunity zones, he was fantastic. Im going to ask him to get involved with you and im sure hell be willing to do it. I also asked the council to identify what additional funding will be required from congress beyond what has already been provided. We are building ourselves a strong base and building ourselves a wall thats different from the kind of wall even hearing me talk about. It performs the same function and hopefully its going to perform it equally as well. The council will seek input from the private sector and Community Leaders on how we can best support minority and distressed communities. As president i am absolutely determined to deliver a great future for americans of every race, religion, color and creed. Before our nation was attacked by this horrible enemy, our africanamerican and hispanicamerican citizens were prospering like never before, best employment numbers ever. Not only africanamerican, asianamerican, hispanicamerican, every american. We were breaking records at every level. We were breaking them economically, highest stock market numbers, highest numbers of every kind. I think we are going to be back there and i think its going to be much sooner rather than later and we will surpass those numbers including our employment numbers. I will not rest until the prosperity has been restored and again, i believe were going to lift those numbers higher than ever before, it wont be as long as people might think im a lot of smart people are looking at that. You just have to look at whats going on with the stock markets. In order to protect our great American Workers i signed an executive order temporarily suspending immigration into the United States. This will ensure unemployed americans of all backgrounds will be first in line for jobs as our economy reopens. Crucially it will preserve our health care resources, we have to take care of our patients, we have to take care of our workers and thats what we are doing. I just signed it before coming into the room and a very important very important. As to amending it or extending it, that we can do at the appropriate time. Earlier today, the first lady and i planted a tree on the cell phone of the white house in recognition of the 50th annual earth day. I announced we will begin to reopen our National Parks and public lands, we want americans to be able to satisfy that safety is gonna happen and it will happen. Maybe even at a level like never before, we have learned so much. We want them to enjoy these Great National treasures as we continue to take reasonable precautions and hopefully they will be just reasonable. My administration has directed more than 7 billion in federal funding to support the development of treatments, diagnostics, and therapies, thats something i hope you can really work on, something so powerful and so important. The fda, nih and Industry Leaders are establishing master Clinical Trial protocols to test multiple promising new drugs at the same time. More than 1,600 locations across the country have signed up to administer convalescent plasma to patients, infusing them with antibodies of those who have recovered. And i said it last time, practically the first thing they say is i want to give my blood so i can help other people. They are laying in bed, they are still in pretty weakened conditions. They say i want to give my blood and its happening all the time. If you recovered from the coronavirus, i ask you to consider contacting your local blood or Plasma Donation Center to arrange a donation that could potentially save many lives. We would love for our nation and loyalty for our fellow citizens, we will safeguard our family, care for our neighbors, heal the sick, protect our workers and build a future for a country that is the greatest country anywhere in the world. We are only going to get greater, thank you very much, mike pence please. Thank you, mr. President. White House Coronavirus Task force met today and despite the fact that there have been more than 843,000 americans have contracted the coronavirus and we grieve the loss of more than 47,000 of our countrymen we continue to see encouraging signs because the American People have been putting into practice the guidance that has been issued by the president and this task force and they have been taking to heart the guidance of state and local officials. This president as we learned today, we are continuing to see declines in all the major metro areas around the country that had been the most impacted. The numbers remain low and steady on the west coast, the new york metro area, new jersey, connecticut all appear to be past their peak. As our scientists may reflect in a few moments, we also are seeing the positive rate going down. Which is as encouraging as the declining cases. The metro area appears to be past its peak, the Seattle Metro area remains stable, new Orleans Metro area is the most stable of all the large metro area outbreaks. We are continuing to see stabilization and declines in houston and atlanta and nashville and baltimore and indianapolis and elsewhere. This is a tribute to the American People. And the fact the American People have taken to heart the guidelines. The social distancing, the personal hygiene, the recommendation that you use the drive through at a restaurant rather than going in a restaurant avoiding groups of more than ten. On the president s behalf and on behalf of the entire Coronavirus Task force, what we want to urge all the American People to continue onward. We want to reopen america and reopen our states and our communities as soon as it is safe and responsible to do so and i want to say to my countrymen, the fastest way to reopen america is to continue to do what youve been doing. Thats the fastest way as President Trump has said many times, we have to put coronavirus in the past and we are on our way to doing just that. From early on the president called forth not only the full power of the federal government but the full weight of the American Economy. I had the privilege to travel to madison, wisconsin, and see american industry and American Workers at their very best. I want to thank the g. E. Health care team in wisconsin as well as the union machinists i spend time with all day yesterday. It was extraordinary and earlier this month use the defense production act to ensure supplies could flow to g. E. And General Motors and ford and other companies that were prepared to repurpose manufacturing lines and hire new workers to construct ventilators. At this particular plant, the union sat down, the Machinist Union sat down and in less than one week negotiated a new contract with g. E. Health care that allowed them to continue to bring in workers from around the country. They doubled their work line in one week, they are about to triplets, they have been going 24 hours a day, three shifts, seven days a week. The president promised that by harnessing the power of the American Economy we would have 100,000 ventilators and 100 da days. Thanks to the ingenuity and the hardworking americans i was with yesterday, we are going to have 110,000 ventilators in 100 days. They were all wearing tshirts, but simply read Union Machinists Save lives. All of america is proud of you and grateful for you. We are grateful for all of our Health Care Workers at every level in the work they are doing and we are proud that our National Guard and American Military are at their side. More than 31,000 National Guard have been stood up around the country and the president and the last day extended whats called title 32 authorizations for all National Guard personnel through may 31. We are going to continue to partner with states as the National Guard plays a vital role in testing and cleaning Nursing Homes and in standing up states response. Military personnel, we have more than 5,500 active duty military personnel including as of yesterday, 964 medical professionals working in 17 hospitals in seven states around the country. We are very proud of our team at the va, the va has addressed its capacity issues, its not seeing cases among veterans in its facilities increase, they are deploying teams to focus on Nursing Homes. In massachusetts, the va personnel disinfected two differencdifferent nursing homey deployed 90 doctors and nurses and in florida we are sending 16 teams to assist in nursing home operations. As the president also mentioned in addition to what i saw yesterday in madison, wisconsin, we continue to build our Strategic National stockpile. Its growing again, 901 new ventilators will be added, transitioned in the near term and every american can be confident should the need arise for your Family Member facing serious consequences from the coronavirus, to need that equipment to help them breathe. As we said yesterday in wisconsin, i think it should be a great comfort to every american that no american who has required a ventilator in the United States has been denied a ventilator and that is a testament to our Health Care Workers, a testament to every american putting mitigation principles into practice and its a testament to all these great companies. Speaking of great companies, american businesses are stepping up. It was on april 1st, that i traveled to a Walmart Distribution Center and the president reached out to the president and ceo of walmart to ask walmart to get in the gallons business and mr. President , im glad to report to you that we heard today at the task force walmart is producing 8. 4 million gallons and they will be delivered into our commercial supply, to Health Care Facilities around the country by the end of june. Honda is producing 500,000 face shields, new balance is making 100,000 masks a week. In a very real sense, the American People have stepped up to make the sacrifices and endure the hardship that social distancing has required american businesses at every size have come together to respond to the president s call. It has been a whole of america approach. Our message from the president s white House Coronavirus Task forces to tell the American People its working, we are getting there. We can see light at the end of the tunnel. We can see the data, reopen and put america back to work but its gonna take all of us continuing to make the sacrifices necessary to practice those disciplines to get us to a place where we can reopen safely and confidently. With that, ill call dr. Fauci up for his reflections and well move on thank you, mr. Vice president. Im going to take off from where i was at this podium a few days ago to kind of reiterates some of things the Vice President said but to connect the dots from where we were, where we are now, and where i think be. A coo we talk about the fact we were going to have a really bad week because the deaths, particularly driven by the situation in new york, were going to get worse and worse. But yet as that was happening, we are starting to see some turn around, some flattening, some coming down. As you have heard from dr. Birx and will likely hear more, that is continuing. So what has happened is that the mitigation that we put in with the first 15 days and then the 30 day Mitigation Program of physical distancing worked. So it got us to where we are today. It is a successful formula. It is the basis for our being able to say that we can now think seriously about reopening america. For that reason, we put together a carefully thought out and i believe well delineated program for opening up america again. You know what it is. Its the guidelines that we announced a few days ago. Those very guidelines are based on a version of the successful formula that got us to where we are. So what im trying to say is that the program is not one that is going to be turned the lights on in america, we are finished. We are not. We have to proceed in a very careful measured way. If you look at the guidelines, they are careful, and they are measured. There are certain checkpoints before you can even think about going into a phase one. And then things relax hello as you go into phase two. And relax a little and you go into phase three. We live in a big country and it is heterogeneous and there are different dynamics of outbreaks in different parts of the country. So the speed with which one can go from one to another, the point at which you can even begin to think about the phase is going to differ. To the one thing that i know, the urge we all have to get out there and get it over with. Lets get back to normal for a lot of good reasons, because theres a lot of suffering, economic and otherwise in the country because of it. As i pleaded early on, weeks ago, i plead with the American Public, governors, mayors. Although i know one has the need to leapfrog over things, dont do that. Do it in a measured way. This is a successful formula. The problem is if we dont do that, theres a likelihood we will have a rebound. The one way not to reopen the economy is to have a rebound we cant take care of. Please again, let me just close by pleading with the American Public in general and those who are responsible leaders to carefully consider how we get back to normal. Thank you. Reporter dr. Fauci, can you talk about your expectations. We heard from dr. Redfield and dr. Birx. What do you think for the fall . Is it going to be embers or no return of the virus . As ive said before, when you look at an outbreak, its two Dynamic Forces opposing each other. If you leave the virus to its own devices, it will take off and you can do nothing to stop it. If you put into place the kinds of things that we talk about, first containment and then hopefully you never get to have mitigation but containment is important. Those forces are going to determine whether youre going to have a big outbreak. What dr. Redfield was saying, first of all, is that we will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that. Because of the degree of transmissibility that it has come of the global nature. What happens with that will depend on how we are able to contain it when it occurs. What we are saying is that in the fall, we will be