Pres. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Begin, i would like to offer my condolences and best wishes to the people all across our great south, who have endured deadly tornadoes and other severe weather. Mississippi,ana, alabama, florida, georgia, tennessee, and south carolina. My administration will do Everything Possible to help those communities to get back on their feet. We are speaking with governors. Fema is already on its way. They got there as soon as we heard. I said, get out there. You know the great job that fema does. It is really something, very special. We just want to say, warmest condolences and we are with you all the way. It is a tough deal. That was a bad level five. That is as bad as it gets. That is a bad grouping of tornadoes. The power, the horrible, destructive power. Americans continue to make critical progress in our war against the virus. Over the weekend, the number of daily new infections remain flat nationwide. Slowing intions are new york, new jersey, mi
Governor hogan, thank you for joining us. How is your state doing . Weve had one of our biggest tolls in the number of people getting the virus and weve had some pretty difficult situations but like the rest of the country, we are come to deal with the best we can. President said earlier today we are in for a painful two weeks ahead. You are talking to the experts. How painful . I think it is going to be pretty painful, and we believe here in the maryland, d, and virginia area, maybe about two weeks behind new york and we think we are going to see some pretty dramatic escalating numbers in our region, and we are dealing with the same kinds of issues everyone around the country is faced with with looking at hospital surges and the lack of availability of ventilators and personal protective equipment and masks, testing. We are working around tk with a dedicated team of incredible we are working around the clock with a dedicated team of incredible people that are trying their best to save
Just how painful . Guest i think it will be pretty painful. We believe that here in the maryland, d. C. , and virginia area, we are about two weeks behind. We think we are going to see some dramatically escalating numbers in our region and we are dealing with the same issues that everybody around the country is faced with, looking at hospital surges and the lack of availability of ventilators and personal protective equipment and masks, testing. We are working around the clock with a dedicated team of incredible people that are trying their best to save as may lives as we possibly can and keep people from getting sick. Host there was a story in the Baltimore Sun that at least one pastor is going to continue to hold Services Despite the order you put in place this week in maryland. What do you tell that pastor and others who defy the order, the stayathome order . Guest i havent heard that report, but we will make sure that does not happen, because it is against the law for them to hold
We are fighting and enduring all of this together. We are making a lot of progress. I spoke with Governor Cuomo. To getworking hard additional things to the states. We took care of the hospital. 2500 beds that we built just recently. We opened it up. It is something we did in louisiana and we are doing it in dallas. Now we are manning the hospitals. One of the most important issues is delivering supplies throughout the nation. We have the best health care and disaster experts anywhere in the world. 151 nations are going through it. Telling governors we cannot go there. We will continue to do it. This will probably be the toughest week. There will be a lot of death, unfortunately. But a lot less death than if this was not done. Focus. Looking for a you looked at what is going on in new jersey. Every decision we make is made to save lives. That is our sole consideration. We want as few lives lost as possible. It is critical that certain Media Outlets stop spreading false rumors and creat
I first want to express my appreciation to our leadership. I have been in daily, almost hourly communication with senator schumer, and i know how hard hes worked to make sure that package really reaches the medical emergency that we have, that deals with the workers to make sure that they are protected and they are protected and whatever we do that provides the help for state and local governments, that provides the much needed attention to these particular issues and that we have accountability on any of the moneys that are going particularly to our Largest Companies in this country. So i want to express my appreciation. And i am very pleased that our First Priority, our very First Priority is to deal with the Public Health challenge. This is included in whats happening in my state of maryland and whats happening in every state in our nation. So i am pleased that in our state its team maryland. Our congressional delegation is working very closely with Governor Hogan and his cabinet, a