Trump and Coronavirus Task Force Hold White House Briefing

We continue to see a number of positive signs that the virus has passed its peak. It has been very devastating all over the world, one hundred and eighty-four countries, probably more. This number was like it was a week ago. Burks will discuss some of these trends in a moment, but they are very positive trends to gain and close as we mourn the tragic loss of life and you can't cry any harder than we are mourning. The United States has produced dramatically better health outcomes than any other country with the possible exception of Germany, and I believe we are as good or better per capita.

Remember that per capita our mortality rate is much lower than other nations. Western Europe, with the sole exception possibly of Germany, this includes the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, for example, has a mortality rate that is almost four times higher than that of the United States, but you don't hear that we have more deaths. but we are a much bigger country than any of those countries by far, so when the fake news comes out and they start talking about the United States, it's not all of them, but we are not number one, China is number one, so you understand China. it's number one by far it's not even close they're way ahead of us in terms of death it's not even close you know I know they know it but you don't want to report it why you're going to have to explain someday I'll explain it since we published the guidelines To open the United States again and this was two days ago, several states led by Democratic and Republican governors have announced concrete steps to begin a safe, gradual and phased opening, Texas and Vermont allow certain businesses to open on Monday while still requiring safety precautions. proper social distancing and I can tell you that Texas Governor Greg Abbott knows what he's doing, he's a great governor, he knows exactly what he's doing, Montana will begin lifting restrictions on Friday, Ohio, North Dakota and Idaho have advised non-essential businesses to prepare for a gradual opening beginning May 1 during this crisis, my administration has taken unprecedented steps to accelerate economic relief to our citizens, as an example, you no longer hear about ventilators, What happened with the fans and Now they are giving you the other one, it's called a test, a test, but they don't want to use all the capacity that we have created.

We have tremendous capacity, dr. Brooks will explain that they know that governors know that Democratic governors know that they are the ones complaining through the paycheck protection program. We have already processed nearly $350 billion to 1.6 million small businesses across the country to support Americans. workers on the payroll, so we're asking the Democrats to do it, it should be bipartisan, there should be a hundred percent vote and it's been really incredible, the $350 billion that has been passed is so popular and it keeps the ballots open. companies. open, hopefully forever, our swift action is directly supporting 30 million American jobs.

Amy Wright from North Carolina, as an example, said that the program is a turning point for her and her family, they are cafeterias and have one hundred and twenty employees, many of whom have developed mental development. and intellectual disabilities and now everyone is staying and they will be paid and she has a dream that will be realized very quickly when she opens again so Amy good luck North Carolina great place Scott and Julie the whole track helped lead a church and owned a restaurant in South Dakota with approximately 15 employees. They were already starting to make layoffs.

The layoffs were moving quickly, but now they have rehired their employees and can keep their restaurant open and it will move quickly, very quickly, instead of not having it. anyone and probably not have a place to hire all these people, she would have gone out of business, you would be gone, the Paycheck Protection Program funds are now completely depleted, it's over, three hundred and fifty billion gone of dollars to small businesses and in turn, it goes to the employees of those small businesses legislators must stop blocking these funds and replenish the program without delay Democrats need to get on board I used to read that these were Democratic programs not Republicans it seems to have changed a lot as it has changed a lot the republicans want it I think the democrats probably too, but they also want other things that are unacceptable this is about kovat this is about the plague and what it has done to us this is not about of strange things they've done We've been trying to get the years our country doesn't want them to have as we enter the next stage of our battle.

We continue our tireless efforts to destroy the virus. My administration is taking steps to protect high-risk communities by providing funding for 13,000 community health center sites and mobile medical stations to equip them with the most advanced and robust testing capabilities. These sites are amazing. What they can do is incredible. The work they do is incredible. These centers provide care to 28 million people living without medical services. In urban and rural regions, including many African American and Hispanic communities, they are taking care of them and it is very important because everyone has been reading about the disproportionate numbers of African Americans and they are reading a little less about Hispanics, but also about Hispanics. communities, the numbers are disproportionate, in fact we are doing big studies on it right now, we don't like it, it's not right across the country, we have done over 4 million tests and Deborah will talk about it being double the number made by anyone else. country in the world, so it's actually more than double the number done by any other country in the world.

We hear a lot about testing. What we have done is incredible and the testing and I started with an outdated and broken system from a previous administration or administrations, but I would really say administration for a different reason because testing has become very advanced in recent years and we have the most advanced of all. I talked to other nations this morning, leaders and everyone is talking about our great testing capacity and some of them want to know what to do, how they can get involved because they need it for their own countries in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and others. critical points.

We have also tested more people per capita by far than Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. and every other major country, think about that in New York, for example, testing per capita is six percent higher than in Singapore, in fact, there's a typo, it's 67%. Hello, there is a big difference. I would say there is a big difference between 6% and six. was looking I said 6% doesn't look very good, it's 67% a good job in a higher place than Singapore, 64 percent higher than South Korea, 47 percent higher than Australia, so it's 67 per cent higher than Singapore, which is a very advanced place in terms of what we're doing in my administration has also been talking frequently to many of the governors to help them find and unlock the vast unused testing capacity. that exists in their states.

Burks discussed yesterday that commercial and academic laboratories in the states have tremendous unused capacity they can use. The governor should use it. I get along very well with them, but some like to complain, but I still come back because the hardest thing of all, by far, by a factor of 20, are the fans and now we are the king of the fans, we have fans, come on a We will be helping other countries very soon we will be helping Mexico. I spoke with the President of Mexico, he is a great guy and I told him that we will help him.

In Mexico they desperately need ventilators and I told him we will be there. helping it very substantially, we are in a position to do that, we are now building thousands a week and they are coming quickly and they are very, very high quality, but we are also helping governors develop strategies to intelligently deploy their testing capacity to protect to vulnerable and underserved populations while getting lower risk Americans back to work safely, so again we have tremendous testing capacity now a lot of people like the Abbott test that we came up with, Pitts, brand new technology, brand new test, it's great.

Five minutes, you put it in and we are manufacturing thousands of machines. Abbott is making thousands and thousands of machines, but not everyone is going to get that one, but they can get others. We have numerous platforms that will talk about it for a minute, unfortunately some partisan ones. There are voices trying to politicize the issue of testing, which they shouldn't do because I inherited broken garbage, just like they did with ventilators, where we practically had none and the hospitals were mostly empty, the hospitals didn't have the ventilators that we had. to take care of the entire country and we did a job like no one else.

We put together an army of bright young people, mostly young people, a couple of older people, but mostly they were bright young geniuses who did a job like no one would believe. I wish they had seen it 24 hours a day and now the rest of the world comes to us asking if we can help them with ventilators because they are very complicated, very expensive, they are very difficult to build and we have They come in thousands, but you don't hear that even from the governors, no one complains about the ventilators and if there were a sudden increase we could have fans in a matter of hours because we have not properly supplied almost 10,000 fans, you can't hear it. about hospital beds when I started, there weren't any hospital beds, hospital beds, the governor of New York rightly asked me for hospital beds and we got the Army Corps of Engineers to build them, I needed a powerful new one, we asked ourselves , I know.

He said that we were projecting, we are not projecting New York, we are listening to the governor, he wanted them, he needed them and we gave him thousands of beds in the Javits Center, we brought the ship and then we had the ship converted into a kovat 19. and that It was a big problem by the way because of the ventilation and all the things we had to do but we did it and fortunately for him and for all of us they haven't used either one much because the numbers have gone down significantly, but it was there and it was built It was beautiful, two thousand nine hundred beds there, it was incredible what they did, they did it in a matter of a few days but unfortunately and it was very good, the relationship was very good and frankly I'm glad they don't need it, but they were there in Louisiana, the same thing.

I think the Democratic governor is a good guy and I think I'll tell you a story that we had more than enough and I said, well, we're supposed to build one more. I called. I said, "You know, if we don't have to build this hospital, there would be five hundred to a thousand extra beds, if you don't need it, we might not build it, I'd like to build it." somewhere else or not build it at all and save money, which is fine for the government to use it somewhere else and he called me the next day and said sir, we don't need it.

I told him that's great, did he say I appreciate it? and he didn't need it, but we were ready to go, we took good care of Louisiana, which took good care of Michigan, we took good care of every place we didn't miss, we didn't miss any tricks, and we're in great shape. in testing we have different platforms, we actually have nine different platforms and on Monday we will add one that will be 9 to 10. I don't like to count on them before they are available, but we will have them anywhere. 9 to 10 platforms with tremendous testing capacity and people can go and especially with phase one at the same time, just like with the ventilators, we are building the best ventilators now, just like with the ventilators, our tests are better and better.

I took the first one. test the first test was not pleasant this was not a pleasant thing I said you have to be kidding the doctor you have to be kidding by the nose and then we turn right and down here and then we'll move it here under your eye and then we'll take it out and there's no way that could happen, the way it happens, you're sure it was a very unpleasant test and then they tested me a few weeks later with the new test that I just left the abbot where they basically touch your nose and they put it in a machine there, literally a few minutes later they tell you if you're okay and I was lucky in both cases because I saw two harms that this does to people, but we have excellent tests that have really gotten better and better as that we're moving forward, but we have tremendous lab capacity across the country and, for some reason, the governor so many of them are just some of the governor likes to complain and they're not using it, we have tremendous capacity, we're ready for them. and as we go on, just like with the vet letters, we'll get better and better and we'll move forward and you know, that's how it will be.

Becapable of doing things that no one would have thought possible, but we started with a broken system, we inherited a terrible, broken system and I always say this, our closets were there, we had very little in our reserve, now we will load it up and we also filled these hospitals and already You know, we're talking about payments, we gave billions of dollars of stuff to hospitals and we're going to have to figure that out at some point, in fact, I guess they're going to figure it out. with Congress but we load hospitals the federal governmentwe load the hospitals with things to take care of people who are very desperate or not, we were not worried about payment at that time, we said you would take care of it at the right time, but we gave thousands of millions and billions and billions. of dollars in goods, medicines and medical equipment for hospitals and we will fix it with them, but people don't like to talk about it, so we have done a job that no one believed was a military and private company.

In March we marched and unfortunately with the other side because they see it as an election, how did President Trump do it? Oh, he did terribly, let's see, yes, he did terribly, oh, we just got him two ventilators that they didn't have. We should have gotten him thousands of hospital beds. We just gave them tests that they don't even know how to use. In some cases they have machines that only use 5% and 10% of the machine because they have an advanced machine and they don't know how to use it, they can use it, they can do much more, so we have had people explain to us how to use it, so I don't know, I don't think I would do that on the other side, no, not really, I think we have a crisis here, we have to work together and I hope we work together, but we are moving forward and we are moving forward, well, moving forward.

Well, this shouldn't be a partisan witch hunt, you know, like the witch hunt in Russia, which turned out to be a totally bogus deal, unfortunately some of these voices are trying to bring this into politics, whether it's tests, fans, hospital beds or others. dimensions of our broad Public Health response, we have had a broad response and speaking to the leaders of other countries this morning they said it is incredible the way they have done it so quickly, you know we are only talking about a few weeks since everyone I knew this was such a big problem and the rest of the world is watching and they respect what we've done because I don't think anyone else, I know no one else could have done what we've done and we started with the garbage like our experts said yesterday that the United States' testing capacity and capacity are completely sufficient to begin to fully open the country.

In fact, our system is by far the most robust and advanced in the world. By far the rest of the world will say that, I suppose, to a friend this morning. mine, President Moon of South Korea just won the election, he won by a lot, he had a big victory, which he made me happy and he was saying what a great job we have done in this country. I told him the same thing he said. what a great job we have done here in this country, so I appreciate that they had a great victory, by the way, and we are very happy with them from the point of view of our country, working very well with them, South Korea, since approach and the approach that we used, but as we get closer to, hopefully, the negative side of what's happening, I think you're going to see some incredible facts and evidence that what we did was right, there's a lot of talk about heard the word heard , no I don't want to show you graphs of people who took a different path, but it's scary, it's scary that we would have had.

I think millions of people would have died if we had taken a different path and I think numbers are just coming out where it is estimated 60,000 people. will die, that's horrible. I would say one person is one too many, especially in this case, when it could have been stopped in China, it could have been stopped in China before it started, it wasn't and the whole world is suffering because of it, but this concept heard. and everyone had to think about it at first because look at us, we had the largest economy in the history of the world, better than China, better than any country in the world, better than any other country, we had the highest stock market in the world. world. history from afar and I'm humbled by the fact that it has started to rise very substantially, that's because the market is smart, the market is really bright.

I have seen it and they see it as if we have done a good job. They look at it that way because if you had told me we're at 24,000 or so and the highest we ever hit was we never got to 30, we were getting close to 30, so let's say around 29,000 we're 24 and we were going down. I start to say, well, we may be heading into the territory where I started. I didn't like that we are so high now, but if you had told me that what we have gone through is not caused by our country or our people. or any, I mean, not caused by anyone within our country, but if you had said that after we went through this horrible plague we would have a stock market much higher than when I started, much higher than where I started and I think you know, I think that we have tremendous momentum, we have a big election ahead of us, but I think we have tremendous momentum, first we get rid of the blight and because of what we're doing with the PPP, what we're doing with the paycheck as we we called.

I believe we have an opportunity to get these companies back into action quickly, but our approach to testing is based on facts, data and very concrete evidence, not partisan agendas or coordinated political talking points. Mike Pence, who is a phenomenal guy who makes the start. direction right now at the Air Force Academy, where they are being very politically correct everywhere, being not 6 feet but 10 feet away, that's fine and it's very different. He made that speech less. Yes, I'm going to West Point. I think they're changing the date to June 13th because of what's happening in New York, they're moving it to June 13th at West Point, so I'm giving his commencement speech and they may have said why, but it's a great start that They are going to have.

Cadets may not have parents, but they will have cadets. The parents are very proud of them. I know that at the Air Force Academy, where Mike is speaking now, they don't have parents, they have cadets. They are very, very widespread and you talk about social distancing. I mean, they really are. I looked at it, they use 10 feet, so he's doing that, but they're having it, it's very important to have it and that's a great thing. That's a great start, so he's there right now and I'll tell you he's a gentleman. Mike Pence, a true gentleman, and yesterday they asked Democratic senators to request a phone call with him and I think for the most part they had them all like. about 47 I heard it was almost all of them, whatever it was.

I don't want to be wrong by one, two or ten and have the press say that he lied, that he told the lie, terrible, terrible, whatever it is, but they are 47. and I suppose most of them were very rude. I used the term I said rude and unpleasant, but I heard that they were very rude no matter what I said, which was very positive in terms of winning this battle against the invisible enemy. no matter what he said, they were new, they were unpleasant and it was that I heard something terrible and I said, Mike, that's politics, that's what it is if we walk into this room today and say the battle is over, we've won, it's been done. gone 100%.

Democrats would say the president has done a horrible job, he's done a disgraceful job, it's a shame how bad he is, you know, these are the talking points, this is political and it would be nice to not have that, especially when we've done the job, we've done all you have to do is look at the big V for victory or V for fan, check it out, everyone said they had us, they had a bet on what they had us, but we did it in numbers that no one would have believed and we used our act our act of production and we used it but we didn't use it we didn't need it like a hammer everything we had to do for the most part we actually used it is a number of cases, but the bus part, All we had to do is talk about it, all we had to do is say we'll use it if you don't do this and everyone knew that for the most part we used it a couple of times because it didn't work the easy way, but it worked the way. the hard way, but whether it was masks or ventilators, it was incredible what we've been able to do, so this is a very critical time for the American people. and the American people deserve real information and responsible, thoughtful dialogue from their elected leaders and the media.

The media has been some very honest but others very dishonest. I even recorded where Mark Meadows, the tough guy, was, he was crying, he was crying there. it was Maggie Haberman, you know, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Russia, but she got it wrong on Russia, just like everyone else, everyone should get a Pulitzer Prize again. In fact, it turned out that the crime was committed by the other side. The crime wasn't committed by this side, it was committed by the other side, a bunch of bad people, as you saw the reports that came out over the last two weeks, they got caught, so Maggie Haberman gets a beautiful Pulitzer, a third-rate reporter from the New York Times and us.

Put her name in here last week, you saw people thought it was a commercial, it wasn't a commercial, it's like a commercial, but it wasn't a commercial, it's just clips and because we exposed her as a bad reporter, what passed? She came out and said Mark Meadows was crying and they blew it. I said Mark it and it's okay if he did it. You wouldn't know it. Look, but I think he was crying, probably for the wrong reason actually. They had it written, but he is not a. crybaby and if he were, he would know it was Freud's.

I could tell people, did you know that there are very famous people who cry and that's okay, but it was an unpleasant story in many ways, it was fake nerves and she only did it because we exposed her. she is a terrible dishonest reporter she is I have known her for a long time I have not spoken to her I made the mistake I took a photo with her at the desk a long time ago every time just one story yes I say I have not spoken to her in many months , maybe years, I don't talk to her, she is fake, a lot of people are fake, a lot of people receive a lot of fake people, but what if she writes this story? as Retribution says in the New York Times and the New York Times is a very dishonest newspaper, it's my opinion, it's not an opinion, it's actually from my point of view, you know, it's a very difficult thing to understand, although most of People wouldn't know, but I know. because I know the facts and they invent I said it today they invent words the sources say it most often your sources say you know what the sources say man the sources say it means they have no one and they invent it well and they have some other types statements that they mean the same thing, but the sources say they are the most used, hoping the Washington Post, the New York Times, especially CNN fake news, CNN, they should really have the mandate, and I mean, the mandate to use a name, if there is a source, use the name, say Caylee Caylee.

Mackin and he said or someone and you would find out that number one the source wouldn't say it the sources don't exist I don't think the sources exist and I try to say this you know the beautiful thing about doing these conferences is that we have a large audience and I can reach to viewers without having to go through fake news where they turn a good story into a bad story, so with all that it's been an incredible period of time. I've done a fantastic job with other nations' conversations. Leaders of other nations are asking us for help.

They are calling us to ask for equipment. They are calling us to test capabilities. Now with the tests we go further. Debra is going to talk about that. Now with the testing, we have other testing coming up that will be phenomenal. They're going to destroy everything as soon as they get out and we'll get them out as soon as possible, but I'd like to. to ask dr. Burks come up and say a few words about where we've come, how far we've come, and most importantly, where we go from this point because, honestly, it's pretty amazing. Thank you very much, mr.

President, if we could have the first slide, I wanted to give you an update on where we are as states, counties and cities. I know you're all watching closely the numbers have changed in the last few days, what happens when nations, when states change. the report from confirmed to probable, so all probable cases are now included, they had to add them back even though the cases may have been confirmed in March, they were added during April 14, 15 and 16 in the states , they may continue to add them eventually. We are hoping that they will be counted on the day that the suspected cases and the probable cases were counted, but right now they were added and in one fell swoop, so this is New York and New Jersey and I think we all know how difficult and how what is it.

They've had a tough time over the new New York and New Jersey. I draw your attention to the axis that goes up to 250,000 cases so you can get an idea of ​​how we are doingtalking about some of the other metropolitan areas on the next slide. 25 metropolitan areas are the top 25 metropolitan areas and you can only see the New York metropolitan area on this slide again the axis goes up to about 300,000 includes the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area as well as part of southern Connecticut on the next slide , but if I take out New York and the reason I wanted to do it is that now the axis is 1/10 of the previous axis, so the previous acts, the previous slide 300,000, this slide 30,000, that will give you a frame of reference for some of these other meters.

The reason I wanted to show you this is that these are cumulative cases and we are still following very closely the problems in Chicago and Boston, but on this slide I hope you can see the yellow line that is Detroit in Detroit and how it has actually made the mayor of Detroit. extraordinary job and the people of Detroit have done an extraordinary job with their social distancing. The other line I want to call attention to this is New Orleans and I think, frankly, I was worried about New Orleans because they had a lot of pre-existing comorbidities, they only have two or three major hospitals, but they cover a very large geographic area and that other blue line that you can see is the Seattle line and you can see that their response because of the nursing home alert was one of the first states and the first metropolitan areas to actually move to social distancing and therefore never had a spike.

Like many of the other metropolitan areas on the next slide, I just want to show you some of these new graphs of cases that were cumulative cases, these are daily cases and obviously there is a lot of variability and variability and reporting, but over time you get an idea when look at the daily cases so that New Orleans is in the panel on your left and Baton Rouge is on your right. You can clearly see New Orleans about a month ago, very low levels probably less than 50 cases, a big spike and it spiked in early April and they've come down and brought it down to very few cases again.

I showed you earlier how the two cases of ik syndrome have gone down, as well as their actual number of cases on the next slide, this is Seattle, so you can see they had a much lower number. peak and this is when we talk about flattening the curve, this is what flattening the curve looks like, it becomes a longer, slower decline, but sometime it goes up a lot and then it goes back down the next night and then this is Detroit and always We look at metropolitan areas. As a consolidated whole, this is Wayne and Oakland in Michigan and we really want to thank the mayor for the incredible job they've done to make sure everyone gets proper health care and testing, and they've done a pretty good job. with testing in Michigan, but all of these states, Louisiana and New York, have tested 30,000 per million population, those are some of our highest numbers across the board and the next slide, so the president talked about the case fatality rates and we have really lost. many Americans to this disease and we pray and hope for every one of them that are in the hospitals and the excellent care that this graph illustrates is the incredible work of the American people to really adhere to social distancing.

We hadn't tried to do anything as a nation and the world hadn't tried to do, but they were able to get the number of cases down so that, overall, most metropolitan areas never had a problem of full crisis care for all of their hospitals in one region and so you can see that our case fatality rate is about half to a third of many of the other countries. I put China in there so you can see how fundamentally unrealistic this could be when the UK's highly developed healthcare delivery systems in France and Belgium, in Italy, in Spain, with extraordinary doctors, nurses and equipment, have rates of case fatality between 20 and 45 years and Belgium has an extraordinarily competent healthcare delivery system and then China, at point 3 3, you realize that these figures, even then, include the The number of people outside doubled from Wuhan, so I really want to put it into perspective, but I also wanted you to see how excellent the care has been for every American who has been hospitalized.

I am an extraordinary work of our doctors, nurses and our laboratory. There are people on the front lines who have been doing excellent work on the next slide and then we wanted to show and that's why on television that's why reporting is so important and I think you remember almost six weeks ago, maybe a month, I was telling them. You know what Italy was showing us and what France was telling us and the warnings they gave us and said to be very careful, there is extraordinarily high mortality among people with preexisting conditions and we used their information to bring that to Americans.

The people who came with that alert even before we had significant cases came from our European colleagues on the front line and that's why we keep coming back to how important it is in a pandemic and a new disease to have that level of transparency because it changes the way in which we work as a nation, allowed us on March 15 to alert about vulnerable people and there really is a need to protect them and my call to millennials to really protect their parents, protect their grandparents and get that information to everyone who there were pre-existing conditions that put people at greater risk that the information came from our European colleagues that we ourselves are in the middle of their battle and therefore there is never an excuse not to share information when you are the first country to If you have an outbreak , you really have a moral obligation to the world to not only talk about it, but also to provide that information that is critical for the rest of the world to really respond to this credibly and I really want to thank our European colleagues who worked so hard to give us that information even in the midst of their own tragedies and I think that really shows how important transparency is and we go to the next slide, we will show you this great and really encouraging news so that we know that the deaths will continue there is a delay because people are still in hospitals and some are still sitting in intensive care units, but these covert illnesses are our hospitalizations that are related to looper 100,000 Americans this is this year's flu season and you can see Ovid's arc type illnesses and this is all of them probable and confirmed cases, our hospitalizations are declining now that I showed you metropolitan areas that have made tremendous progress and we've been here many times talking about it's going to be six ten fifteen additional cities and now we're really just focusing on Chicago and Boston and Massachusetts and really some issues that Providence is starting to improve now in its relationship with the two big cities with outbreaks, but this is really reassuring for us because the progress that we are making across the country against this disease and I really want to To To conclude, I thank the American people again for making these types of graphics possible.

Thanks to the data team who prepared them for me, so they are working on them until 3:30 or so every morning to make sure we have the most up-to-date information. Information is the data that reaches individuals in our supply chain to ensure that every hospital in every state and every community has what they need based on the data and to make sure that we meet the needs of the American people in the most effective as possible. Thank you. Sir. President, the fact is that we have been learning a lot from Deborah Tony and many of the PEPFAR director's professionals.

We are spending that aid in the United States, as far as I know, mainly in Africa, six billion dollars a year and that's it. AIDS what we have done for AIDS in Africa is incredibly spend six billion dollars a year, that has been going on for a long time, no one knows, you have never heard that I have never heard that six billion dollars a year millions of people They are living right now and living very comfortably by the fact that we have found the answer to that horrible horrible plague that was a plague but we spend six billion dollars a year and from what I hear, it is very well spent by professionals, including this great professional.

Right here, what was it that you worked the hardest on and something that was very close to his heart? So, you know, it's something that I think people should start listening to the World Health Organization. We are encountering more and more problems and we pass this. money really well, there are other ways that we can spend the half a billion dollars, that is, 500 million, this is six billion, but we can find other ways to spend it that people will be helped, we think in a much bigger way , in a much greater way. We're doing research on certain people who take a lot of credit for what they do and the NIH is giving away a lot of money, a lot of money that we gave away for years for many years, they give away a lot of money and some people complain. and some people don't, some people are extremely happy, so we're looking into that and they're also giving away approximately, as I understand it, recently over thirty-two billion dollars a year, thirty-two billion, and we've been looking at that . for a while and we're going to make some statements about that thirty-two billion dollars a year, it's a lot of money and we want to make sure it's spent wisely and by the way, we've been doing that and I'll have some statements about that and those are much larger numbers than what we are talking about nationally.

I think it can be a look with friends from wherever they come, you know, five hundred and five billion is a lot of money. but it's not much compared to the amount of money we give. I think over the years it's averaged about thirty-two billion dollars, thirty-two billion, so we've had our eye on that for a while. We also talked about the laboratory. in China, where I guess three point seven million was given some time ago and we are watching very closely that the chief of staff has that pretty much under control, but it is a shame that the money is spent there, but that was spent in what year It was that one. milk was four or five years ago, approximately six years ago, so we are looking at that and that is the laboratory that people talk about, so we are looking at many things, this tremendous waste in our government we find it in many different ways and in many different ways and this is one of them we can spend hours talking to dr.

Burks, we can spend half a billion dollars using everything much more efficiently if we choose to do so and it will be for the good of many more people who are not understanding it right now, but you look at the mistakes that were made, I mean, very late, long after I said we had to close our country, they were actually against us closing our country to China, when I did it, they were against it because they didn't like the idea of ​​closing Norfolk. They said it was actually a bad thing and they've since taken it back, but it was very lucky that we did it, very lucky, we would have had significantly higher numbers.

Tony Ouchy said he said it would have been significantly higher if we hadn't done it, so we made a lot of moves that were good moves, but it's still a very depressing topic because there's a lot of death and if it stopped very early at the source before it will begin to flow into these In proportions, there are 184 countries that would have been in much better shape, but our country is recovering and I hope we are bigger, better and stronger than ever. I will answer some questions that clearly suggest that the data has not been good and when you tell me do you think dad is good?

When you see that do you think that that's right? Do you honestly think that's right? So my question is more like yes, it takes too much why wasn't what. They are the press, why didn't you guys realize that? Why do we have to choose? They are the numbers of the past. It's an impossible number to reach, but why didn't they come and say it's okay to operate with the United States to find out what happened and what they want from them now, well, they said they're doing an investigation, they're doing an investigation, so Let's see what happens with their investigation, but we are also doing investigations, yes, go ahead.

Each country has the responsibility to tell the rest what is happening in the world. You have repeatedly talked about how this could have been stopped in the past. I know you don't want to telegraph what you would do, but do you think there should be some consequences if in the end you know that China was responsible for all of this, well, if they were knowingly responsible, certainly, if they did it, if it was a mistake, a mistake It is a mistake, but if they were responsibleknowingly, yes, then there should be consequences. Speaking of which, you know it potentially lives like no one has seen it since 1917 and you know the other thing if we hadn't done what we did in terms of closure because there's that concept of let's let it go, but at some point I'm going to have to.

I don't want to embarrass the countries that I like and the leaders that are like that, you have to look at some of these numbers, in my opinion, you know, we are talking about approximately 60,000, there are a lot of people, but that is a hundred thousand. minimum that we thought we could reach and we will be less than that number anywhere from London to 220,000 people, but I really think it could have been billions of people if we hadn't done what we did, we made a lot of good decisions, but one of those things are good, the situation if you literally know nothing.

I want to see the facts as they appear. I want to see the facts. Thank you very much, mr. President last week you claimed that you are in charge of everything, but the American people don't understand why you are not willing to use the awesome powers of your presidency to make American companies make the PPE and also the testing equipment that you knew that I would implement. your recommendation, you know, but who are you and how did I get recommendations for GM and when the time comes, maybe it's my name, Doug Christian, with news from the media, go ahead and read your question, the question is how to make it companies build these test equipment. so you can do what you want by doing better, we are doing it right now with ventilators, we have General Motors or General Electric, we have 11 different companies, great companies that build them for us all over the United States, we are starting to make our own dresses , as they call them, we are doing some amazing things and as far as testing goes, most of that is now done in the United States, we are doing it in the United States on our different platforms, so we just I don't think they were listeners we're complaining to what senators vice president what senator day what son well, independent senator angus king, he's not independent, okay, angus king is worse than any democrat, go ahead, he was, he was limited, in fact, she said that because he's a democrat, okay, angus king is not an independent, he uses that term for a reason, it's a waste of time, it's not a reason, yeah, you haven't seen it, okay, you haven't seen it.

You know Angus King is a Democrat and that was totally staged. I heard that and it was totally organized just like you read the question, he read his question, yes please ask him about one of your retweets, the one you retweeted from Paul Sperry, let's see the authorities and they

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d social distancing orders for the monster in Ramadan like the churches did during Easter, I wonder, I would like to see that and you know, I just talked to leaders and people who love mosques, love mosques and I'm all for that, but I would say there could be a difference and I have to see what will happen because I have seen a great disparity in this country.

I have seen a great disparity. I mean, I've seen a strong anti-Israel tilt in Congress with the Democrats. Seven, eight or ten were unthinkable. years ago and now they are into a completely different thing between Omar and AOC, I say AOC plus three, add them up, I mean the things they say about Israel are so bad and I can't believe it now, just a minute, so I would be interested to see that because they go after Christian churches but they don't tend to go after mosques and I don't want him to go after mosques, but I do want to see what his inclination is.

Yes please. back I think I just had a call with moms. I just had a call with rabbi ministers. We had a tremendous fight with the religious leaders. No, I don't think that's it at all. I am someone who believes in faith and it doesn't matter what your faith is. It's that our politicians seem to treat different religions very differently and they seem to think and I don't know what happened to our country, but the Christian faith is treated very differently than it was and I think it's treated very unfairly. Yes, please, go ahead. the support program please saved about 15 million jobs ran out of money the specific democrat specifically Nancy Pelosi has been blocking that funding you know why Speaker Pelosi okay she thinks it's politics I don't think it's good politics Nancy Pelosi has Schumer has been blocking it and I think they think it's good politics.

I don't think it's good politics. I think it's bad politics, but I don't care about politics. It's great for our country because we're going to have. all these companies that are good, you know, it's a larger employer, let's say it's the same thing, but essentially it's the same power, all these small companies added together like the big companies about 50/50 and it's very important and they will be dispersed if we couldn't do what we're doing and we're essentially giving these small businesses that won't make it, they can't because they're closed, we're giving them money to take care of their clout, so when they open, they can go back to doing business, It has been a very popular plan even among Democrats.

I think the first section, which is 350 billion, was basically passed unanimously twice, so we're trying to get 250. Nancy Pelosi is blocking it, she sits at home in San Francisco looking out at the ocean and she doesn't want to. come back, you don't want to come back, you don't want to come back to DC, you have to come back and pass this, very important, please, three weeks, what passes for your Keep in mind that when you see these jokes, a girl is probably going to the beach in Florida, no worry, we've stopped seeing some of these restrictions lately, as I described, we're going meter by meter, county by county, so you would have to tie that to a specific county and look at their case rates, I think the governor and the public health system that Florida has has some of the best public health people in the county that I have had to deal with, they are incredible, but since I had to work with them under HIV-AIDS, If you could help the directors county health officials, they think that's appropriate for their county, so I'm not going to second-guess an individual's approach to this because I can't look at every county and charge the low rates that I can see. there are no cases so I don't know if it's a county with very small cases or not, but I think the County Health Department officially, although you know, is really free of this horrible enemy, so we are opening up and you will see many .

This country is starting to open up pretty quickly. Yes, please, President, you mentioned the importance of social distancing, but, for example, Stephen Moore, when he named his opening

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, the country is organizing a protest in Wisconsin, but isn't that in a sense? ? protesting their own guidelines, well, we have flexibility. I didn't see what Stephen said. I can tell you that he is a very good economist, he has been making decisions, I'm sorry, I said we have to be the Rosa Parks of the government and the judges. Well, there is a There is a lot of injustice when you look at Virginia, where they want to take away your guns, they want to violate your Second Amendment.

When you look, I mean, look, I get along great with the governor of Michigan, but she has things you don't buy. paint, don't buy roses, don't fly, I mean, she has all these crazy things. I really think someone sitting in her boat on a lake should be fine, people shouldn't be arrested. Some of them are being reasonable. I really think we're not being reasonable, but I think Virginia is a great case, not because they're using this to try to take away guns in Virginia and people in Virginia aren't careful, that's what's going to happen to them, so yeah, I mean, I could see. where it's coming from, I think it's a strong statement because I hope this ends very soon for all of us, but some have gotten carried away, have gotten carried away completely, buying into that they were social distancing guidelines.

I mean, I know there's a lot of protests and I think some of the governors have gotten carried away. You know, there are a lot of people who don't need to be told to do what they're doing. They've really been doing everything we've done. I've asked around and we have some states where, frankly, I talked to the governors and I could have gotten it if I wanted to do what maybe would have been politically correct, but anyway they've been doing it incredibly and there's one of them who said that all doing exactly the same thing, in fact our record is better than the states where they are under a mandate or you know where they have agreed to do certain things, we have some fantastic states now, we have amazing people in our country and mostly It's partly a blunt statement, but I understand where you're coming from and I think one of the big ones would be one of the really important places where people really have to start looking at what's going on in Virginia, because that's a mess with the government. really a governor who is under siege anyway, yes, please, you know, with a beautiful head of

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hair, go ahead, I'll tell you if I like that we're here about a minute after he asked the question on that point, although the tweets about the case. of Virginia and tying the Second Amendment to some of these issues about lifting some of these restrictions in these states, fortunately is not a concern for governors and civil unrest and potentially not the faces.

I have a second question, well, I think just for that question, I think. that's easy, not even politics had the right to a second amendment and he is trying to take the second meaning, that state is trying to accept the Democrats in that state, the republicans are fighting, they are trying to take that second amendment, TRUE? second amendment right away to me that's Freedom that's when I say free Virginia I would say free Virginia when that kind of thing happens and where it all ends so I think that's a very good analogy go ahead sir I want to say, is this the right time to I think when they talk about taking away guns and if you realize at the beginning of this pandemic that more guns are being sold, I think then at almost any point in history, because obviously it's a big problem and Then you have them working and signing documents trying to eliminate your second amendment essentially, so I think it's an appropriate time to bring it up.

Go ahead, go ahead, second, we have a kind of extraordinary series of events from the adversaries North Korea, Russia, you know? China and Iran reject US policy or play with US military forces. What are your messages in these countries? Who may be trying to take advantage? I know we had a very good relationship with Russia. We worked together on the oil deal. I was with one on the phone and the king of Saudi Arabia and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, we reached an agreement on oil. There was a very important agreement for them and for us and for Saudi Arabia.

I was at a stalemate. Do you know what you covered very well? Actually, Wall. Street Journal covered that very well. I worked with Putin and with the King on that and President Putin was a total gentleman and it was very important to achieve it and the King was great and in fact we had to bring Mexico because Mexico was alone. I showed great flexibility, you know, the sewer, no, I think we're doing well, yeah, it's North Korea for sure. I see they are testing short-range and long-range missiles. I've been doing it for a long time. I received a nice note from him recently.

It was a good grade. I think we're fine, look, if I wasn't elected, you'd be at war with North Korea right now. Okay, I'll tell you for your people who don't understand the world and don't understand how life works if I If I weren't elected, I would do it right now, maybe the war would end, hopefully, with a victory, but if you remember , when I first came in, we had no ammunition, it was not a good way to fight a war. President Obama left us no ammunition. He practically left us no doctors or ventilators, he left us the closet was dry right, the closet was dry no, I think right now you would essentially be at war in some way, it's over, I would be furious with North Korea if I weren't president and we it's going very well with North Korea, very good, let's see how it all ends, you know, meanwhile they said that everyone Trump gave up and then he said, oh really, what is he giving up on and they said I don't know?

He said he met oh I'm a man now I have a good relationship with Kim Jong-un that's not bad to have a good relationship Obama wanted a relationship you wouldn't meet Obama wouldn't meet him okay have a good relationship with him we met on the line I crossed the line the first time something like that so good so good it's just it's good but when they say stupid people I call them stupid people or the haters say abandoned trips so much they have really increased sanctions, China has been very good at the border, in fact, right now the border is called near stone between China and North Korea, our relationship with China was good until they did this, once we found out, once we found out, look, I just made atrade agreement with China.

We will have to buy 250 billion dollars a year for our product. 50 billion from farmers. Between 40 and 50 billion of farmers. The relationship was good when we signed that, but suddenly you find out about this. so it's a big difference, you know the question was asked, would you be angry with China, well the answer could be a very resounding yes, but it depends, if it was a mistake that got out of control or it was done deliberately, okay? It's a big difference between those two either way they should have let us in you know we asked to come in really early and they didn't want us and I think they were embarrassed I think they knew it was a bad thing I think we were embarrassed but you know we're not I think we're doing it very good, so you said Russia, you said China, you said North Korea arrived when I came in or it was a terror, we had 82 points of fighting, we had 18 points of major conflict the first one.

Last week I said, tell me about Iran, sir, we have 18 conflict points, that is, Yemen, Syria or Iraq, they were entering Iraq from all sides, there are very different nations at the moment. I stopped that horrible deal, horrible deal and they want to talk, except Kerry. he violated the Logan law, he made the deal and he doesn't want them and I could negotiate because in my opinion he would have made a deal except John Kerry was the one who made the original deal which is a stupid deal to make him 150 billion. dollars they gave him 1.8 billion in cash in green that would be more than this room ten times with hundred dollar bills you could fill this room ten times with hundred dollar bills and isn't that room so small and I say he violated the Logan Act I think It was a major violation I think we would have reached an agreement if it weren't for John Kerry, but he doesn't want to be number one, he's ashamed, no, but two, he said, let's wait for the left of the elections, he may be sleepy.

Joe Biden is going to win and if sleepy Joe Biden wins, you will own the United States and China will own the United States. China has paid us, you know, for the Wall Street Journal, hundreds of billions of dollars in each tariff and we gave them a lot. that money is a small percentage but a lot of money for the farmers and it kept the farmers doing very well, but hundreds will get it, we are getting tens of billions of dollars in tariffs and by the way, for those of you who say, oh , we are Choose China, devalue their currency to pay them.

We do not pay China. Pay. They don't like to write. They also added money to their system, so they paid for that. No, I think there are numerous countries waiting to see if Sleepy Joe wins or not because Sleepy Joe won, they own our country, they will take over our country. You know, we had to go back two. months we had each other and China was supposed to get us, you know that better than anyone, the Wall Street Journal, four years, I hear, by 2019, China will get us, there's just one problem, Trump was elected in 2016, that was a big difference and we were jumping and jumping over China and before the plague problem, China was having the worst year it has had in 67 years, that was before the plague, now they are getting hurt a lot and everyone is getting hurt .

I do not want it. getting hurt but everyone is getting hurt everyone is getting hurt it's a horrible thing that's happened but we had the largest economy in the world by far China isn't even close go back two months and we're going to keep it that way but when you mention Iran, Iran is a Very different country than it was when I first arrived. Iran was going to take over the entire Middle East right now. They just want to survive. They are having protests every week. They were burdened with the plague that I do not want, I have offered to help them if they want, if they need fans, which they do, I would send them fans.

We have thousands of surplus ventilators that are arriving and we have a stockpile of ventilators here and we are starting to ship them. so hospitals can fill their stocks, which they should have done. New York had the opportunity to get 16,000 ventilators and they decided not to do it and I understand that is a difficult decision for something that may or may not happen. I completely understand it. I'm not even complaining about that. I'm just saying that Iran was a terror when I took office right now. They don't want to mess with us. They don't want to mess with us.

Two things. North Korea is the same. sanctions that we have always had, except that we have not given anything. I think hopefully they'll take that to the Wall Street Journal because they don't really understand it, they really don't understand it and by Iran I mean it's different. country right now and they want to make a deal, the only reason they don't is they are embarrassed because the guy who gave them love didn't want to meet him many times he should have never met him and in my opinion, they are selling, don't wait, maybe

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loses and then you can negotiate with a scapegoat with a weak guy and take charge between you and Russia, no one has been tougher on Putin, he knows it better than anyone, no one has been tougher . about Putin, I look at the sanctions, look at what I did with his oil pipeline that goes to Europe, no one knew, I exposed it now, everyone is talking about it, I think it's a terrible thing for Germany to do, but at the same time I have a very good relationship with Putin and I was able to make a deal with Russia and Saudi Arabia and OPEC and they also call it OPEC plus that is going to save us Texas North Dakota Oklahoma other states energy states are going to save us hundreds of thousands of jobs and, in fact, their newspaper wrote an amazing editorial for a change, the truck did a lot for our country, that was a good thing.

I was surprised to see it appear in the Wall Street Journal. Thank you very much to all. See you tomorrow thanks Hello