Everybody and very importantly we are at the white house and the still place like the white house. And for those of you that this is the first time, i know exactly what you were thinking, because i was here first time and it was still something i will never forget. Its great to have you and a first lady and i are pleased to welcome everybody to this wonderful place to discuss the vital importance of safety in reopening americas schools. We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want it. The dads want it. The kids wanted. Its time to do it if you know, our mortality rate is right now at a level that people dont talk about but its down tenfold, tenfold. So you look at deaths are way down from this horrible coronavirus and its a disgrace that happen, shouldnt have happened but it did, and the economy is coming back. It is coming back strongly. Jobs are setting records for, two months ago they set the record and then give almost 5 million new jobs last month which is a record, and it broke our last record of the month before. So the numbers are happening much faster than anybody anticipated. The stock market, nasdaq just hit another record today and the markets of generally just really a a very small amount below where they were at the height of the market when we first had to do this about four and half, five months ago. Its incredible whats happened. When you look at education, my administration has approved 13 billion for state and local education. We have proved over 6 billion to support colleges and another 6 billion in emergency grants to students, very importantly. We waved standardized testing requirements, defer federal student loan and Interest Payments. So you take a look at the student loan program. We waived student loan and Interest Payments and that is something that people have been hearing about and nobody talks about it but its a big deal. We pioneered new treatments that are dramatically improving the health outcomes. Vaccines are doing well. There peters are doing very well. Well. The Therapeutic Research has been incredible and i think you can have a lot of big things happening long before the end of the year on both vaccines and therapeutics. Therapeutics i guess ill little bit of work we can use for on the way to iq or back they make you better. I need to meet the therapeutic is even more important than the vaccine at this point not because people will get better. But the numbers are, the testing numbers on the highest theyve ever been. Were up to almost 40,000,000 in testing, and 40 million people, which which is unheard of, or more than any other country many times more than any other country and, therefore, we have more cases because we are doing or testing. We have more cases. If we did have the testing would have far fewer cases, but people dont view it that way. What they have to view though is if you look at the chart and maybe mike has it that we look at before, if you look at the chart of deaths deaths are way down. So what we want to do is want to get our schools opened. Want to get them opened quickly, beautifully in the fall, and as you know this is a disease that is a horrible disease, but young people do extraordinarily well. I was with the governor of new jersey. We were talking and he said, and imagine a number which is a very high number, but its a number nevertheless, thousands of people if there was only one person that died that was under 18 years old in the state of new jersey and that somebody i guess had a problem with perhaps diabetes or something else. But one person out of the house the people, one person died who was under 18 years old, so thats Pretty Amazing stat when you think of it. But id like to now just give them mic to our first lady. Shes going to say a few words and then were going to go with mike and karen pence and then google around the room look at, say a few words. Kellyanne, you did a great job the smyrna, thank you, really great. So if i might, first lady, please. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. The first pillar of my two best initiative is still well wellg and taking care of children social, emotional and physical health. Its never a more important during the covid19 pandemic. The administration has worked around the clock to protect americans from the coronavirus, but many challenges for children and families can be just as invisible as the virus, and just as dangerous point when children are out of school, they are missing more than just time in the classroom. They are missing the laughter of the friends, learning from those teachers and the joy of recess and play. For children with disabilities, without access to technology or homes are not a safe place, the situation can be even worse. At the start of the school year gets closer, i encourage parents, teachers and schools to teach children about the importance of cdc guidelines and to implement them when appropriate. Childrens Mental Health and social Development Must be as much of a priority as physical health. The same is true for parents. Many will be forced to make stressful choices between caring for their children and going back to work. And we must address those needs as well as their own Mental Health and wellbeing. As we continue to come together as americans to tackle these challenges, im honored that you all be here today to offer up your thoughts. I i look forward to working with you to make sure that americas children and families can be healthy and thriving. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And governor, thank you. I see you sitting over there. What a job youre doing. Thank you very much for being here. Appreciate it. And thank thank you, melania, y much. We just heard, mike was telling me Governor Desantis did a terrific job if you Just Announced schools will be open in the fall and we hope that most schools are going to be open. We dont want people to make political statement or do it for political reasons. They think will be good for them politically and they keep the schools close on the way. We will keep pressure uncovers inability else to open the schools to get them open and its very important. Its very important for our country. Very important for the wellbeing of the student and the parents. So we will be putting a lot of pressure on open your schools in the fall. Mike, please. Well, thank you, mr. President. And thank you for your leadership. I have seen it day in and day out since usb to lead the White House Coronavirus task force. Todays one more installment in your commitment to make sure that our states and our families have all the resources indeed to meet this moment. Our healthcare workers are provided for but also understanding we had to reopen america and reopen america safely. But we can beat all of these great leaders from around the country today, mr. President , because you know that to open up america again we need to open up our schools again. I do want to thank all those gathered here for the efforts as well. I know i speak of hip of my wife sharon but also want to express our profound gratitude to the first lady speak for myself throughout this pandemic or regard for families, for children, for the emotional impact that this is that on every american is so admiral burke id like to invite anyone to show your appreciation for our first lady and the work she has done. [applause] mr. President , since the moment that we ask the American People to step up to take efforts to slow the spread, and we, in that 15 days the would be, 45 days, we encouraged, we encouraged people to refrain from attending school if possible, to engage in school from home never it was possible. There were two categories if heroes that emerged. One was apparent around america who stepped up as never before and those that are looking on, those that are represented here should know your president , the first family, your Vice President and our second family are grateful for the families of this country and everything you have done to be the teachers for your children, to create the structure at home where they could continue to learn even in a challenging time. I also want to say how grateful we are to the teachers, turkey and i am actually actually sitting next to one who ive been married to two for 35 years. As you know she actually teaches in a local school in the Washington Area a few days a week and i watched her go in and pack up crates of Art Materials that children could come by and pick up and take him to continue their learning. And so id like to invite everybody to show your appreciation for the parents and all the Great Teachers who have done the work of continuing to educate our children throughout this pandemic. [applause] and, mr. President , the American People deserve to know that while we are seeing rising cases across the sample at your direction we are ensuring states have the resources, the support of the supplies and personnel that are actually arriving as we speak in states like texas and florida and elsewhere to relieve healthcare workers, and to your point i hope the American People appreciate the point that you made yesterday on the National Stage and did so again today, and because of what our healthcare workers have done, because of the innovation and the medicines that we been able to make available, literally we have seen the chaldees decline by 90 from some of the worst moment of this pandemic and will continue working each and every day to continue to keep those losses low and steady. We will save lives as we open our country. Today we spoke to the nations governor on the topic of the summit and we reflected on the fact as now 47 governors and the governors of two territories have announced plans to reopen schools across america that its important to do so for a variety of reasons. The first lady to spoke of this. We ought to will be concerned about our children falling behind academically, and theres no substitute for in classroom learning or in Person Learning and thats been much discussed at the summit today. But as the American Academy of pediatrics so well represented here today recently reflected, there are social costs, emotional costs and even physical costs to our children across this country that we spoke to the congress today. Its important we reopen our schools as you have directed for the academic and intellectual development of our children that its also vitally important that we remember as dr. Katz told the governors today that 7 million American Children suffer from either Mental Illness or emotional disturbance, and a principally received the care from health and dental services at their school. And so they can sure we are meeting the mental and emotional needs of our children as well as making advances academically is what brings us here today. The last thing i will say to all those gathered here, mr. President , is from early on you have directed our task force and the cdc to equip families and schools and states with the resources to operate. It was as early as march 12th that cdc issued its first guidance for strategies for school and childcare services. We issued in the middle of may and just last week i am please report the cdc publish new guides for k12 schools and Higher Education regarding the type of testing that is appropriate and other strategies. Mr. President , we can bring our schools back. Next week the cdc is going to issue five new documents, how to prepare communities to return safely, decisionmaking tools for parents and caregivers, symptom screening, School Settings guidance and the rest. We are going to continue to float these resources and guides but as dr. Redfield told all the nations governor today, i do want to acknowledge governor parsons leadership and his presence here today, we are truly grateful, is that, that what you have instructed our task force to do in the cdc to do in this moment is to stay to states around the country to local communities we are here to help. The cdc has issued guidance but that guidance is meant to supplement and not replace state, local, territorial or tribal guidance. In a word, mr. President , you made it clear to us. We dont want to be the reason any school doesnt reopen. So are word to the parents that are looking on, to teachers that are looking on, administrative, leaders in your community, is that we are ready to work with the leaders in your School System at in your state to find a safe and responsible way to reopen your schools. Thats our commitment. Mr. Mr. President , we continue to move out on that, on the belief that to open up america get whipped open up americas schools and the American People are taking important steps every day, including the summit today to do just that. And im truly grateful for all those represented here for being part of this important work. With that id be happy to recognize mrs. Pence for a few comments. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, mike, and melania. I had the privilege of addressing this Group Earlier today kind of opening up your summit, but i do want to say thank you to all the teachers. I know at my School Everybody quickly learned how to do online teaching. It wasnt something that our teachers across america were familiar with, and i just applaud them. They have worked so hard. And the parents really are the unsung heroes. They really had to quickly get up to speed, it was that easy to do. But you know, our kids are struggling, and they need their friends, and they need their teachers, and indeed their routines. This decision to open up the schools greatly impacts our children. It impacts them academically. It impacts them socially, and it impacts them emotionally. So i applaud what you doing here today, mr. President , because our kids, for the Mental Health and academic health, they need to be back in school, so thank you. Thank you very much, karen. I appreciate it and i see dr. Redfield over in the audience and appreciated at a dont you like to see everybody coming back and getting back to school in the fall, and ive Read Everything youve written at appreciate that very much, doctor. Thanks very much. Appreciate it. Governor, please. Maybe well go around the room real quickly that will go quickly and will get everybody to say a few words and we will start with our governor. Thank you, mr. President. As you said when you come here i am just honored and humbled to be here to stay with you, the Vice President , the first lady of the second lady. Those strange you think that someday, you never imagined them being reality so its an honor to be here today. End up conversation with governors across the state. The Vice President has been almost there for 18 weeks or so. The one thing that was stressed, on those phone calls every week, there are trying to do the best thing for this country. Every day people out there they were trying to make their full support to the governors across the state. I just want to thank you for doing that. And for leaning as what good leaders do in times of crisis. I just want to thank you for that. The present study was 1 foot pressure on the governors, to open these upcoming will tell you this a few phone calls i had with him, he put low pressure on me. I will say that. Sometimes we all need a little push to get things going. What the first lady said when she talked about the kids were so important to me as a grandparent and a father, i sat there and i think of all the kids that need to be in school. There are the ones who have the privilege to go everyday a lot of school kids is a safety blanket. It is a way to get nutrition. Gov. Mike parson and it is a way for people to help them when they cry out for help. And that is the reason why Getting School back open is so important and if you want to take that one step further. In making sure the people will be qualified for the workforce of tomorrow. This virus cannot shut our country down interstate down. We have to deal with it. As we would anything else that we have dealt with in this country. We have to move forward. An economy and the life goes on. Education is part of who we are in kids need to get back to school. Parents need to get more involved in their schools. I heard speakers today speak, it is a part of who we are. It is how we build the future. That is so important. I also wanted think the second lady for giving me inspiration on a couple of key mills we signed in missouri. I want to give you a little credit today. We did full reciprocity in the state of missouri yesterday. Full military reciprocity and the second lady gave me inspiration for that. And also my daughters are a schoolteacher. And most of the time we have a father Daughter Relationship except when it comes to teaching and she becomes a Senior Advisor to the governor. And we talk about those issues on that but again i just want to thank the president for his support. And for our state and the people appreciate it mr. President. I want you to know that. And the first lady for where we are headed in this country. We have gone through hard times before and we will continue to do so. We will be stronger for it. Pres. Trump and you will not be changing the name st. Louis value. Gov. Mike parson no i wont. Good afternoon mr. President. I am delighted to join the first lady and you in the second lady and the Vice President today. My name is doctor sally and im a pediatrician from georgia. I am president of the American Academy of pediatrics. Jonah get much more than an education at school. Being away from peers, teachers, and School Services have lasting effects for children. This will not be easy, pediatricians strongly advocate that we start with th