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Pandemic arrived, they should have been on the open market just buying there was no competition. you could have made a great price. the states have to stock up. it s like one of those things. they waited. they didn t want to spend the money because they thought this would never happen. and their shelves in some cases were bare. by the way, in some cases they weren t. they were beautifully serviced. they did a good job. but in some cases their shelves were bare. so the best thing they can do is when times become normal ides, and they will, hopefully soon, and actually, you re going to have a lot of excess material because so much is being done right now in terms of protective gear, protective outfits. a lot s being done. it s going to be within six months, it s going to be sold for the right price. they ve got to stock up for the next time. but the we are doing that. and the admiral has done a fantastic job. senator schumer wrote a letter today and you should put a military man in charg ....
Highly respected people in the military, the admiral. this what he does too. very professionally. and he s in charge. but chuck didn t know that. okay, jeff? mr. president, you tweeted this morning about your call with saudi arabia, mbs. we have some people say that the figures that you cited between 10 million and 15 million barrels per day is not what they re agreeing to. can you be more specific i don t know what they re agreeing to. i think they might have agreed to more than that. did they tell you, that sir? yeah. he did say that, actually. russia talked about 10 million barrels. russia and saudi arabia are fighting over this, as everybody knows. it s really killing an industry. hurting russia badly, hurting saudi arabia badly. i said this is an easy one. should it be an easy one. and it may be 10 and it may be more than that. i was actually told it may be ....
be very specific about that. it will be delivered tomorrow. let me be clear if i ask what jared announced, what the admiral just unpacked is that pallets are being loaded right now to send 200,000 n95 masks to new york city to the public health hospitals. to the public health warehouse in new york city. all the health care workers, help is on the way. based on the tools and the data you have available to you, where is the logjam? where has it been? how have you identified that? you can say we have millions more ppes going out the door, as you well know, the front line medical workers are not getting them. let me answer you this way. we put up lot of numbers. i said that if you re in a hospital and you re not seeing ppe, i would look up to the state level first. some governors are saying they can t get the medical equipment that they need. and the reason for that is ....
Beyond that, let me say that we have been working through fema s acquisition process, not only to deploy, but to gather up personal protective equipment. and in just a few moments, you will hear from admiral john palovcek about the extraordinary progress we have made in deploying not just the strategic national stockpile, but also in identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point, we ve distributed some 7600 ventilators, and you ll hear today specifically about the states that have received those ventilators. we re just this team has truly acted in an inspiring way. and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema stabilization task ....