Again, thank you for being here. It we look forward to your remarks. President trump thank you very much. It is great having fema involved. We have had tremendous success working together and we appreciate all the people here. It is an honor to be here with all of you and you are doing a fantastic job, by the way. As of yesterday, when we gave a lot of progress is being made. I look forward to speaking with the governors. From what we understand, we have close to 50 governors. We have just about everybody showing up. That is very nice. We will put them on the screen as soon as you want. Mike, you want to Say Something . Pence thank you, mr. President. Thanks notdd our only to fema, because fema takes. He lead on the policies but as you do, continually, mr. President. And i want to thank the governors today, talking about the progress we are making on mitigation. On testing, on supplies. As femas mission, this effort through fema will be executed and state managed and federally supporte
Thank you. So thank you all very much and for the great job you are doing. It is real incredible frankly. Many of the states are stocked up. Some of them dont admit it, but they have we have sent just so much so many things to them including ventilators, even though theres a question as to hoarding ventilators, some hospitals and independent hospitals, and some hospital chains as we call them, they are holding ventilators. They dont want to let them up. We need them for certain areas. Theres big problems. Cant hold them if they think there might be a problem weeks down the road. So we delivered a lot, and this group has been really fantastic. We want to thank you. Ups and fedex, in particular, youve gone absolutely out of your way, so we appreciate everything youve done and delivered. The federal government continues to mobilize every resource to make sure our front line doctors and nurses have the equipment needed to save american lives. Yesterday i visited naval station norfolk as th
Very nicely. Thank you for being here and update you on the progress weve made after a week of extraordinary mobilization. Its our war against the virus. Governors, mayors, businesses, charities, and citizens are working with urgency and speed toward one common goal. That is saving american lives. We are in communication with foreign countries. Now at 148 foreign countries. Can you believe that . You talk about a spread, a violent spread. 148 countries. Not even believable. There has been a week of National Action and Great National solidarity. People are getting along. Democrats, independents, liberals, conservatives. Its a very nice thing to see. We are all one beautiful american family. That is taking place right now. Last night, i approved a major disaster declaration for the state of new york. I work very closely with governor cuomo. Is the first time in our nations history that a president declared a major disaster and response to a Public Health crisis. Never happened before. Im
Watch briefings and hearings with Public Health specialists anytime, unfiltered next, President Trump leads a briefing by the Coronavirus Task force updating the governments response to the pandemic. He was joined by Vice President pence as well as other medical health professionals. Pres. Trump thank you. A lot of things going on. We are going to be going over the hill. We are having a lot of meetings. From the financial, this is a medical situation, not a financial situation. Financial is moving along very nicely. Thank you for being here and update you on the progress weve made after a week of extraordinary mobilization. In our war against the virus. Governors, mayors, businesses, charities, and citizens are working with urgency and speed toward one common goal. That is saving american lives. We are in communication with foreign countries. Now at 148 foreign countries. Can you believe that . You talk about a spread, a violent spread. 148 countries. Not even believable. There has bee
I also spoke with our nations governors. This afternoon we are announcing new guidelines for every american to follow over the next 15 days as we combat the virus. Each and everyone of us has a Critical Role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus. We did this today. This was done by a lot of very talented people some of whom are standing with me, and thats available. Dr. Birx will be speaking about that in just a few minutes. Its important for the young and Healthy People to understand that, while they may experience milder symptoms, they can easily spread this virus and they will spread it indeed, putting countless others in harms way. We especially worry about our senior citizens. The White House Task force meets every day and updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation that this has become all over the world. Its incredible whats happened in such a short period of time. In consultation with governors, we have made the decision to further toughen the