On this good friday. Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death of jesus christ. On easter sunday, we will celebrate his glorious resurrection. Our nation is engaged in a battle like never before. While brave doctors, nurses and first responders, responders of lives,e fighting to save our workers are racing to deliver critical medical supplies. Working scientists are aroundtheclock the clock to develop lifesaving therapeutics. I think they are doing really well. Our people are making tremendous sacrifices to end this pandemic. Though we will not be able to gather together with one another as we normally would on easter, we can use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection and growing in our personal relationship with god. I ask all americans to pray that god will hear our nation, to bring comfort to those who are grieving, to give strength to the doctors, nurses and health care workers, to restore health to the sake and to renew the hope to the sick and to renew hope for every person who is suffering. I think the many families who have prayed for me and for my family. Your prayers are felt. I am forever grateful. I would like to thank our great Vice President and his wonderful wife who we all know very well, karen, for the incredible job they do and their service not only to the country but for their service to god. Almost 3000 years ago, the prophet isaiah wrote these words, darkness covers the earth, but the lord rises upon youand his glory rises upon for the lord will be your everlasting light. As our nation battles the invisible enemy, we reaffirm americans believe in the power of prayer. Majestythanks for the of creation and for the gift of eternal life. Place our trust in the hands of almighty god. I would like to wish everybody a very happy easter. We are going to be celebrating the very special day. It is going to be hopefully a good weekend and a productive weekend. I want to thank everybody in our country and beyond for all they have had to put up with. 184 countries as of this morning are fighting this enemy. We pray for them all. With that, i would like to introduce Bishop Harry Jackson from maryland, highly respected is a member of our faith and a person we have tremendous respect for. Bishop, please. Thank you, mr. President. Let me say, thank you for the job you are doing. Churchesincluded the in the relief efforts. Any churches would have had to close down had it not been for your insightful leadership. Thank you both very much. Prayer. Prepared a it is one of the darkest days in the Christian Faith in that christ stood in substitution for our sins. The resurrection is our victory. It parallels with the passover. Im going to read two verses and pray out of them about what we want to have happen. We want this plague to passover. We want everyone in america to be safe. He brought them out with gold, silver and gold and there was none feeble among his tribes. Cloud for covering and fire to give light in the night. Let us pray. Lord, let the death angel passover. Let there be a mitigation. Let medical science come forward. Come out with a thriving economy. Thats thats silver and gold, let it be our fortune. As we face other challenges in cover us with a cloud by day and a fire by night. In this great land that was set up to glorify your name, we want to break. We come against the spirit of division. Unum be a banal a reality among us. Heal the divide between race, class and gender. Man,again, give this great our president , and this Vice President wisdom beyond their natural limitations. Can them insight so they lead us and bless us. Bless them and america in jesuss name. Hope is on the way. Amen. Pres. Trump that was a great honor. Thank you all. Have a great good friday. Youre going to see you in a little while. If i do not see you, have a good easter. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Happy easter. Pres. Trump happy easter, everybody. Tonight at 9 00 eastern on afterwards, netflix director of inclusion and former u. N. Official Michelle King with her book. We are often in denial about though challenge women face. People assume workplaces are meritocracys. There is this belief everyone is the same because everyone is treated the same way. So people do not have different experiences of work. We are not only denying difference, but we are denying equality. Watch afterwards with Michelle King tonight at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan two. During his coronavirus briefing, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed two executive orders. The first directing employers to provide essential workers with a mask if they are interacting with the public and another expands who can be tested for antibodies. The governor also said it is his decision whether to close schools for the rest of the year. On saturday, mayor bill de blasio said new York City Schools would not reopen. Other new york state officials joint Governor Cuomo for this rethink. For this briefing. Gov. Cuomo good morning. Great to see you again. Some of you for the second time today. Easter for all those celebrating. Happy passover. Happy holy week. Right, we have dr. Jim. Thank you all for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Start with the good news because we deserve some good news. Lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching because the great fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Capacity. Ded the great fear was always capacity of the raw the hospital system. The number of beds. Netnumber of additional beds was always important to track. That is what we see here