It cant be real. It makes others believe it is more real handle the theyre telling us. We dont have great information. I do trust tony fauci. We know how people are sideways about government. It is really hard for us to be covering a story when we know it hasnt even begun yet. A tough thing to know is coming. We know the numbers are low because the testing really in essence hasnt really begun. Yep. It is spreading in different ways, through communities. You wont Contact Trace it. A lot of cases havent been identified. And heres the thing. I was talking with my executive producer. Maybe some people had had it have gotten over and it maybe the numbers are high and we might learn through all this that many people just get over it. They just barrel through it. And it is resolved. So once we get the testing and people are tested, maybe this will be Something Like the flu that well deal with every year and then the vaccine will come out and maybe it will actually help. What i feel is that ou
Campaign staffers to inform them of her decision. This decision, of course, was widely expected, given how she did not perform well on super tuesday and were also told that here in cambridge, massachusetts, were just standing outside of our house, she will later today come out with her husband bruce and speak to reporters. This is reminiscent of what she did some 14 months ago on new years eve of 2018 when she announced that she was forming an Exploratory Committee to make a run for the white house. And i just want to put this in sort of broader context the past couple of months, even as recently as the end of last year, this was a president ial candidate who appeared to have this kind of unstoppable momentum, but as voting got under way, as we now well know, in iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and then most recently on super tuesday, she did not perform well. And so this decision is coming even though some months ago she was widely talked about as having a real path to the
Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process to gather up personal protection equipment. You will hear about the extraordinary progress we have made in not just deploying the national stockpile, bullt identifying around the marketplace and world millions of n95 masks, gloves, surgical protective equipment. We have distributed some 7600 ventilators. You will hear about the states who have received those. This team has truly acted in an inl spie inspiring way and is working with dozens of people at the feem fema task force to make sure no stone is left unturned. You will hear today from Jared Kushner, someone the task force directed to work with fema on supply issues. He has been leading a working group in conjunction with fema that has identified millions of supplies around the nation and world. We are grateful for his efforts and leadership. You will hear from Peter Navarro about the action the president took today. You will hear about medical supplies
Here at the end but i think were going to come back. Were resilient. Were determined and we can get back up if we fall down. How hard has this been . You employ a lot of people and how hard has this been for them . Its been extremely difficult to not have the answers. We watch the news and try to see the unitpdates to see when citi are opening up. Some cities open now and some in july. Just to tell you, brianna, we could see two months before restaurants may even reopen in many parts of the country. Here specifically in new york, Restaurant Owners dont expect to own until august or september in some cases. Theres too much to be done but i spent a day here talking to the people who run this restaurant here. Also, they say, money is the big thing right now. They need more help. They want to open these restaurants eventually, but without the money, theyre not going to be able to do it and thats why they want to put pressure on washington, on the president to try to give them the money the
Okay. But our message is Crystal Clear this morning on new day. We wont let the fog impact our show. We start with our lead story. That is that President Trump continues to wage war on face masks turning them into a political statement. The president continues to mock joe biden for continuing to wear one in public. Now responding in an exclusive interview with cnn. Hes a fool. An absolute fool to talk that way. I mean, every leading doctor in the world is saying we should wear a mask in a crowd. Also breaking overnight, calls for justice in minneapolis. Hundreds of protesters clashing with police over the death of george floyd. Video shows him pleading over and over again that he couldnt breathe as a Police Officer pinned him to the ground with a knee to his neck for several minutes. Floyd died. The four officers involved have now been fired. This morning, we have new video of the interaction between floyd and police that began this deadly encounter. Well get to that in a moment. First