i went to harvard oh that's ok too i guess right so you were to harvard there was a great student at harvard is doing a fantastic job and the young gentleman is was very very successful but he wanted to help the country who want to come into the country and we appreciate it very much it was a big success big big success. let's do here and there he next ok will say good players from the top as we're talking here meeting tomorrow with governor cuomo he mentioned is there a reason he's coming all the way down here i don't know he wanted to win and her only believe it or not have to get along. ok he was very generous yesterday in particular. said we did a quote phenomenal deal i don't know anybody wrote that but he said that and i appreciated it because it's not about me it's about these people and thousands behind mike and the admiral and all of the other people that are working with us i mean when you say look i don't understand when when i see the. polling in approval ratings for the job i've been this this group should get at 95 it really should

and we're really helping the governors a lot and the governors call me the ones i know or the republicans but the ones i know and they say it's incredible the job you're doing again that me the job this group is doing. and you sit here and i just i'm watching from. from the corner and i'm just saying boy it's incredible stuff when you watch the general give a general seminar and talk about a boom boom boom you don't see that you don't see that when you hear the ad most speak about the testing how good it is and yet people don't like to say it but remember it was all about ventilators a month ago ventilators vessel and then we fixed it you don't hear about dental where is the ventilator jeff you haven't asked about ventilators recently what's going on what about ventilation we're helping other countries now because they can't have their very hard to come by and they take a long time to make like yours it's incredible the job they've done that our people

have done and also private companies have done you know you talk about the act we don't like to use the us we have to rule out a times just the fact that you have it get you everything you need so you know we don't want to embarrass any of the companies but we have used it on a number of occasions and it worked but it works just as well before you have to use it because they don't want to be embarrassed and i don't want to embarrass them because they've done a great job the please go ahead. fund no i think rick behind you i promise i can't i cannot tell a lie so would you next up here are you getting something not only to me ok well thank you so much and. my question i have to question the 1st one is on testing he talked about the idea that 1st it was ventilators now it's testing you seem to be probably be applying talking about testing as a personal attack on you can you explain why i think that's the argument that the person tack given that the apathy testing have been an issue for a long time there's bipartisan outcry still today that that's not enough that's why

the it's a personal attack on you know well it's not a bipartisan it's mostly partisan but more importantly than mostly partisan it's incorrect you have you have the experts look at these maps i mean you have the maps with so many different locations in the case of as an example. governor hogan he didn't really know he really it was very obvious to any of those listening on the call today even though you weren't supposed to be on it i'm sure that some of you were or representatives were he really didn't know about the federal level or tories would you say that's correct my p. didn't know he didn't know and might is it likely that the stuff he's less controversial than i am but he didn't know about it and if he did know about it he would have been happy no we've done a really good job in testing now with that being said we have tests coming out perhaps over the next 2 weeks that will blow the whole industry away now a lot of people love the abbott test sort of why you know the abbott test is great because it's bull it's they touch they put it in

a 5 minutes you have the problem is that doesn't do massive numbers like the big machine but the big machine takes a day takes a day and a half you know with delivery and everything else but we have tremendous testing tremendous testing capability remember this we've tested more than any country in the world by far in fact i think i read where if you add up every other country in the world we've tested more but remember this we're dealing in politics we're dealing with a thing called november 3rd of this year do you know what november 3rd represents right you know better 'd than anybody in the room. november 3rd of this year is called the presidential election no matter what i do no matter where we go no matter how well we do no matter what if i came up with a tablet you take it and and this plate is gone they'll say trump did a terrible job terrible turf because that's their sound bite that's the political sound bite. they know the great job we've done but with all of that being said and

also there is a thing that somebody could talk to if they want but i don't want to bore you with it but everybody believes we should do so much testing you don't need so much we're talking about maximum x. of the reason that the democrats and some others maybe because it in a they want to maximum because they want to be able to criticize because it's almost impossible to get to the maximum number and yet we've been able to do it already. but with that and you'll be seeing this over the next i think over the next couple of weeks or soon we have a test if it comes out it will revolutionize the whole world of testing it will be for it'll be something really special so i don't view it as personal at all what i do say is it's something that's not fair to thousands of people that have done such a good job. that your in your language and how you approach the run of the beginning i interviewed someone said that his family got sick they went to a funeral in mid march it means that being late because the president went to take

theirs and he said i think the president had a mask on and he was saying we should stay home and i would have stayed well i know that anything is just going to the that he didn't family members were sick because they were but they were the things he would feel like very concerned downplaying the fight with me down there and a lot of people love trump a lot of people love me see him all the time right i guess i'm here for a reason you know to the best of my knowledge i won and i think we're going to win again and i think we're going to win in that a landslide but just so you understand you're talking about march right yet and yet excuse me excuse very i understand and yet in january a certain date you know the date better than i do we put on a band of china which china can't come in and before march we put on a banner in europe where europe can't comment so how could you say i wasn't taking it seriously you know i put a ban on china before anybody in this country died i put on

a band and so you tell me nancy pelosi was having she wanted to have a street party in chinatown in san francisco at the end of february that's a month later. and then they tell me it's only a political talking point but you feed into it because you're too good a reporter to let that happen really you are a good reporter you too good a reporter to let that happen remember this so at the end of january put on a band people that were in that room will tell you that i think there were $21.00 people i was the only one of the whole room that wanted to do it what you i was the one that counted for that purpose we put on a band because i was reading bad things about china world health organization should have told us but i was reading it with or without them they should have known all they had to do is read it that didn't have to even be there but they tried to cover up for china world health coverage for china but no no way already you can say there you are 5 put out of ban in other words i stopped china from coming to the united states i stopped europe from coming into the united states

long before the march date that you're talking about so people should say i acted very early that was a very hard thing to do doing that was a very hard thing i didn't want to do that but i did it because i thought and dr found she said that by doing it president trump saved tens of thousands of lives so i did take it very seriously in february and in march and there are so many more i don't know i don't know where else i really don't know about rallies i don't want to think in fact where i haven't left the white house and months except for a brief moment to give one devotion of the comfort in march and doing the that i haul around i'm sorry i hold a rally did i hold a rally in january when i did this you had virtually no cases and no deaths and yet i put it on so how could i not why was that simple out of see right there is the policy is holding a street fair she wants

a street fair in san francisco in chinatown to prove you know what the purpose of there was to prove that there's no problem many other politicians did the same thing i want to prove while i was no of course not. been people are amazed at how early i acted and i did act airily with that being said it's very hard to say let's close down the greatest economy in the history of the world i had to close down. i and everybody else that works with me and and 300 and close to 350000000 people built the greatest economy in the history of the of best employment numbers best stock market numbers best numbers in virtually every category even good manufacturing numbers the previous administration said manufacturing was dead for a country even great manufacturing numbers and you know what i did that and somebody walked into my office insists there you can have to close down the economy you can have to close the country but you know what i say to you we're going to rebuild it and we're going to rebuild it better and it's going to go faster than

people think i built it once a bill to the 2nd time place the president the. only other cities but i believe in going back to the topic of friendship when i 1st said america is not the exception close the issue mary ann romney american sounds rather than their hearts cooperation on a flip over. are 1st going to stand much significance on a normal. democrat. and changed america i think it's a great who should because there is bipartisanship look we're getting the paycheck plan it's already 350000000000 was approved essentially unanimously and we have another 250 which i think you're going to find out is going to be a higher number than that ok i want to say it now because i don't know if they're relieved that it up is going to end up being more than 250000000000 and this is

going to small businesses and it's going to workers and these are really bipartisan players it's a great thing that's happening so i think the fact that we're able to do all of this in a bipartisan way is great now the tax cuts that the republicans did we had no help from the democrats so you can say that's bipartisan but this whole thing the country hi i'm carol you are watching al-jazeera live and doha where as you can see we have been covering u.s. present donald trump and the white house david coronavirus press that briefing trump they're stressing reporters on the latest developments sort of pandering this cost quite across quite a few topics testing and he talks a little bit about the drastic slump we've seen today in u.s. oil prices talking about the november election. and responding again to criticism that he didn't take the coronavirus 10 demick ferrous lay enough early on let's go live now to our white house correspondent come to help that who is in washington d.c.

to bring us up to speed kimberly there's a lot to say ken from that press briefing just give us what are the what are the highlights there. yeah almost 2 hours and still going the us president really covering a wide range of issues one of the big focuses of this has been the u.s. president's attempt to deflect criticism over his crony virus response here there where he has taken the tact that much of this criticism is partisan in nature he also has said that he has he believes his administration has risen to the challenge when the criticism was ventilators he ramped up the defense production act got in place ventilators he says even shipping them to other countries that have a shortage now he says the criticism has shifted to testing where there were repeated questions about the testing the number of tests that are currently available for the so-called 1st phase of reopening the u.s.

economy ministration maintaining that it is quickly ramping up those tests and will are already does have the appropriate number of tests necessary for any state that wants to put its work force back to work but that is the point that is continuing to be challenged by reporters now you also heard from the u.s. president there the claim about why he thinks this criticism is partisan it has to do with the fact that we are months away from the next u.s. election where of course the u.s. president is trying to win a 2nd term you heard there him talking about the fact that it was painful for him to have to close the u.s. economy which did have historic as employment near almost anybody who wanted a job in the u.s. could have one that's certainly not the case today now tens of millions of americans over night lost their jobs in the numbers filing is still growing with each week so the u.s. president there saying he built what he can build to get build again that's his

promise although see a campaign pledge if you will as many people have pointed to these briefings well they're supposed to be out coronavirus that at times they have really. and into the replacement for donald trump's make america great again rallies they really have. president trouble sort of spoke as various states and looking to reopen in the coming weeks various states doing different things in terms of their reopening schedules what do you have to say about gas. if you don't. well it really is a complicated as and you saw the president struggling to answer it you saw dr burk's one of the top public health officials struggling to answer because there's no sort of one uniform answer for how this is going to happen they've defended the fact that they have allowed certain counties to open up you heard dr brooks talking there about jacksonville florida and a lot of criticism about people out of the beaches there but she defended the

action of that city's mayor saying in fact that they had very low infections in contrast to other parts of the state of florida like miami that have been struggling one of the other things i think we need to note in all of this that's not coronavirus related but it is part of this briefing is the fact that the u.s. president was asked about one of the top stories we've been following here in al-jazeera and that of course is the historic climate in the price of oil the u.s. president saying at the top of this briefing that he found the price interesting which is certainly maybe not the adjective everyone would use but making the announcement that they would be filling that national petroleum reserve to capacity essentially $75000000.00 barrels to tough it out that in fact this would be significant because he says they would be getting it at a good price he went on to elaborate a little bit about that but also making the point that he feels that this is not something that can't be overcome that is certainly not however one and washington

is feeling but once again the u.s. president trying to cheerlead the country and even the nation with respect to the price of oil right now which of course has plummeted to an. arklow as of today thank you for that sent our white house correspondent across developments the committee held in washington d.c. but if we just get now this all comes as for the 1st time in history the price of west texas international crude oil has gone into negative territory that is from a delivery although the june price does remain in positive territory i believe around $21.00 a barrel this is unprecedented let's bring in john hendren now who is live for us in chicago on how the markets have reacted to the crash and the oil price john so as this the price of oil took a nosedive the markets of course responded wiping off some of the gains we've seen in recent weeks what more can you tell us. that's right we

started the year with $60.00 a barrel oil and now you have it where if there was in some points you could actually require people to pay you to have to pay to have someone take it away. and there are reasons for that essentially it's a vote of no confidence in the u.s. economy in a realization that this coronavirus isn't simply going to end and have people walking out of their homes and going back to business as usual it's going to happen in phases and that means that those vacation sights the beaches hotels are going to open up all at once and that means during the summer driving season particularly here in the u.s. where so much of that oil is consumed people aren't going to be using it you can buy gas for a $1.50 a gallon here but you can't go anywhere with it so what happened is there was a contract that was due tomorrow on tuesday and people were trying to unload the oil before that contract hit oil doesn't get back up to 30 dollars

a barrel for futures purchases until august and it doesn't get to 40 until 2022 and there's a storage problem but these companies are storing oil above ground below ground in ships offshore this is really just a realization by the market that the coronavirus is going to draw out the inactivity of the economy for longer than people expected. as you say demand is just gone no one is going anywhere thank you for that john hendren live for us from chicago. well some a bit of a design for us now in doha to give us a regional perspective oh summer just tell us what does it well proselyte mean for oil producers in the gulf across the middle east. welcome it has a number of repetitions for the gulf economies predominantly for leaders to to saudi arabia which has been trying to control the way the markets have been acting to the amount of war that it has been getting in the last few weeks you've seen

saudi arabia going from the production cut to the glut to a cut again and now you see that this massive drop in the we are at a point in oil prices which wasn't seen in the last time we saw the likes of it was in 1046 that was right after the 2nd won't war there is a perfect storm right now for the oil economies because it is not just an oversupply of oil it is also a really massive drop in demand as well there's about a 3rd of that has been taken off from global markets and from from a demand from the demand side and from emerging economies it is india and china so it is going to have a major repercussions as in a few hours these markets in the middle east open to realize how the w.t. i reacted but we're not going to at some point and minus $40.00 a barrel it is going to have an impact on economies such as bahrain in oman which do not have the kind of deep sovereign wealth funds that other countries have it is

going to have an impact on opec 2nd largest producer show such as iraq which has been struggling to pay salaries for its employees these are state employees which have not been paid in full it is going to have an impact on the soldiers on the front lines that iraq is going to have to find money not just to continue its fight against isis but also to continue its fight against the current of ice and demick you have to remember that iraq is already asking foreign donors to chip in to help it meet this crisis so it is going to have impact which is going to be far and wide in terms of economics but it also going to have an impact on the political economy of saudi arabia which is seen as a regionally. because of its currency that it has and not just with america and the russians but also in terms of how we don't mix the reach i think that giving us that regional picture there is some of been devalued live for us in doha we can speak now to an ash that is a research fellow and an oil analyst at the cato institute that's

a think tank based in washington d.c. thank you for your time how unprecedented is this that may delivery for west texas international has gone into negative territory just put into context for us we've never seen this before certainly and in that respect it's entirely unprecedented i'm like i strongly suspect that there are are many people out there who expected that this might never have but i do think that we should probably draw a distinction between that the very strange thing that happened today which is that some nearer term futures contracts traders were basically caning people to take off their hands versus the fact that if you go out a little further into june futures july futures while out there is still worth something like $20.00 a barrel this is very much about the fact that near term futures require people to take delivery and with so much oil on the market right now still in a storage tanks all over the world there's just not the storage space to take it

it's a very strange situation why is it that we're saying just the near term future is in this negative territory but as you say during july or it is still worth you know sort of 20 dollars a barrel why is that is that people guessing that the world is going to go back to normal or we're going to be using oil again. i think it's a little bit of that that the traders assume that some economies will start to reopen i mean if you look at the u.k. if you look at a strictly a new zealand there's a bunch of places where it looks like the lockdowns might be easing in the next couple of months from the krona virus but there's also the fact that traders feel perhaps that contracts that are a couple months out they can probably still trade those back and forward and they don't have to worry necessarily about teaching physical control of the oil in the way that they do for a futures contract she went less than 10 days. in a prison donald trump said just in the last hour he said he believes that oil decline is largely

a financial squeeze and that the oil price drop is short term what do you think is the right i mean he may be correct about this sudden extreme drop that we've seen just in the last day but on prices have been declining for weeks at this point longer than that ever since china started to shut down factories in late january early february we are in a period of unprecedented low demand all around the world and when you add to that the fact that the saudis and the russians effectively engaged in a month long price or pumping as much as they both possibly could even the fact that they've achieved a deal not a means but they're still a massive oversupply of oil out there so i don't believe that the oil price is going to go up at least not significant. in the near term and just finally your research focuses on the politics of reason losses and oil producing countries which

is fascinating who has the most power in the situation is that the countries who can turn their production on and off quickly or those for whom production of oil is cheap i mean who's going to be the winner here. you know all oil producers are in a very bad position in this environment some are a little better off than others so states like saudi arabia which has very low production costs per barrel they're taking less than be earning a profit all that oil that they're actually selling some states with higher production values that's not necessarily chase it is just that all oil producers are going to be suffering even in the short term from even us producers shell producers here everybody's going to be taking some credible lost me is just some will be suffering more than others thank you for your analysis that is the m.m.s. should their research fellow and an oil analyst at the cato institute. some

european countries have started taking 1st few steps to ease coronavirus lucked out and norway children have been allowed back to nurseries and small businesses have reopened in denmark but as more and more countries begin to ease restrictions the world health organization is warning against complacency in fact reports. morning one of their own medical staff at a hospital in madrid. the chief of surgery contract to the virus was treating patients. after the silence of. these medics is spain's best hope in the battle to save lives a fight the country believes it's slowly starting to win. arriving in the capital 2000000 protective masks purchased from china by the spanish government they'll be

shared across the country helping parts of spain's economy to reopen. builders are back to work some heavy industries operating again. these are carefully controlled steps spain's infection rate is now stable but the number of people diagnosed with the virus passed 200000 a 2nd only to the u.s. . the world health organization urged countries to act fast on limiting the spread of the virus. without national unity and global solidarity classed as the worst is yet ahead of us let's prevent this tragedy it's a virus that many people still don't understand. the slowdown in deaths in spain and italy has returned some optimism to europe's financial markets share prices

edged higher on monday from their lowest since the 2008 crash but businesses are bracing for a lengthy global downturn. in russia the crisis is deepening with a lockdown entering its 4th week chairing a video meeting with the regional officials president putin's when the worst is still to come. if. the peak incidents is still ahead and now we need to do everything to flatten this pete. the french government says it's making progress restrictions remain in place until at least may the 11th but there were social consequences to france's strict lockdown rules over the weekend police in new this clashed in paris his poor suburbs mediators have been sent in to soothe tensions. the u.k.'s lockdown remains in place with the government saying it's waiting for the right data before easing restrictions the country hopes to start clinical

trials for a vaccine next week. as countries consider their options here in portugal a reminder of how virulent coronavirus is a total of $138.00 refugees out of $175.00 house at a hospital in lisbon tested positive there are concerns about infection spreading quickly in other hospitals where social distancing is difficult. europe's shuttered societies on very different paths relaxing things too soon too fast could risk a 2nd spike in cases governments are struggling to balance the health of their economies with the health of the people need parker al-jazeera. german chancellor angela merkel has urged people to stay disciplined in some shops were allowed to reopen on monday that leader of europe's largest economy says a 4 shutdown will be inevitable if the number of infections rises again from

britain has done mccain. for many weeks germany has been in lockdown the possibility of inadvertent infection too high to allow most every day life to go on but now in some states many shops are open once more as here in cologne on monday the 1st step by the government to test how safe it is for economic life to resume that's your issue fed us shia of course it is difficult but if we now ease restrictions then we don't know exactly what the repercussions will be and that's why we have to take it slowly and a step at a time it would be tragic if we knowingly relapsed and if we knowingly endangered these 1st successes and perhaps because of that fear not everywhere in germany has reopened for business some states want more stringent protective measures in place before opening stores so far at least federally the government is only encouraging recommending people to wear these masks in public but certainly some parts of this

country that is changing in the eastern state of saxony masks are now mandatory for people in public and the conservative heartland of the various is about to follow suit you know what i'm asking for just as of next week we'll introduce a noise mask obligation this will be in place for all public transport for all shops including those that have been open all this time we have the 1st station with germany to do this. and then there's the dilemma of how to reopen schools safely most will remain closed until early may but some have now gone back to allow teenagers to sit important end of year exams now police in a get was born which of course i'm somewhat worried the more students there are in the building the more complicated it gets to stick to the framework conditions ultimately we're talking about youths here who might not always be in a position to evaluate the dangers 100 percent which sounds very much like the

dilemma ministers are facing right now easing restrictions should help the economy but it could cause a 2nd wave of infection dominic came out just 0. coronavirus related deaths in the us have passed 40000 with nearly half of all casualties in new york state meanwhile boeing and other major manufacturer have resumed business around 30000 people returning to work at factories in seattle and north dakota or than 22000000 people in america have filed for unemployment benefits synth quarantine measures again. nurses in new york is suing the state to hospitals of the what they call dangerous working conditions in new york state nurses association says its members haven't been given enough personal protective equipment and were forced sometimes to work while sick while the 900 new york public hospital staff have tested positive for the virus. across latin america the

number of corona virus infections and has the past 100000 in brazil which is the region's worst affected country the president says he wants to end nationwide restrictions this week which i have also been openly critical of lockdowns saying the economic cost of imposing restrictions is much higher than the threat of the virus but several state governments have defied the president and imposed quarantine measures which remain in place there are more than 40000 reported cases of corona virus with over 2800 deaths in brazil so far. state officials in mexico say a number of migrants have tested positive for corona virus in the northern states of mali past switchboard is the u.s. 14 people staying at a migrant shelter with tested positive the cases include a man who was deported from texas restrictions on non-essential border crossings between the u.s. and mexico have been extended by 30 more days let's get the latest on the situation across latin america.