Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
On friday, President Trump declared a National Emergency to deal with the coronavirus. Members of the White House Coronavirus task force and Industry Leaders joined the president for the press conference in the rose garden. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden, appreciate everybody being here. Today, i would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our very vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus, weve been working very hard on this. We have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, its pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and the closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as the hotspot right now and we closed that border it a while ago. So, that was lucky
Pres. Trump thank you very much , everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden. Appreciate everybody being here. I would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus. We have been working very hard on this, we have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, it is pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as a hot right now. And we closed that border while ago, so i was lucky, through talent or luck, call it whatever you want, but through a very collective action and shared sacrifice, national determination, we will overcome the threat of the virus. I announced wednesday night, following the advice of our medical professionals, who are doing a tremendous job and we appreciate it very much, that we are suspending the entry o
Market rs doing because they did see a significant bounce around about midday when the president said he would be addressing the nation at 3 00 p. M. And with it came the eck peckation that he would declare a state of emergency. That took us off the lows of the session. Were splitting the difference it was up 1339s at the high, 85 and currently 865 points lots to discuss. Straight to eamon javers who is outside the white house. Eamon, what are the key things we might be expecting from this from the president well one of the things were going to be looking for is whether he makes any mention of the bill na that nancy pelosi said hes going to pass as early as this afternoon in terms of dealing with the virus a Senior Administration official told me that the white house still objects to several provisions in that measure will the president embrace it or discard it thats a key question. Lori ann is reporting that Steven Mnuchin was on the phone with speaker of the house nancy pelosi shortl
We must take all precautions and be responsible for the actions that we take and that we see other people take. We want to prevent the spread and transmission of disease. Its incredible to watch whats happening with the sporting world where so many of the sports weve gotten so used to at this time year, they wont be competing. Theyve done a Great Service and thats another way problems could because for this is why i outlined in wednesday night my administrations, the fact that weve issued requirements suspending all medically unnecessary visits to various places, but in particular Nursing Homes. We should all be working off the same playbook when it comes to protecting americans. We need to be consistent in adopting measures to limit the spread of virus. The same way its spreading in cities, towns, rural communities, the tools and tactics are similar no matter where you go. There were some hotspots throughout the world that people would never thought possible and there being very serio