>> look, we have four or five ways we can do it. four ways in particular. there is a fifth possibly. there is a way of getting the money out and getting it quickly. payroll tax is one way. it comes over a period of months. we want to do something faster. we have a way of getting money out quickly and accurately. >> can you talk about the timeline how quickly do you think you can get this done? >> the president has instructed me, we have to do this now. this is now. >> like in a week? >> we are going to work with the senate in session right now actively. we' we'll continue to have conversations with the house. i have spoken to speaker pelosi once today. the president instructed me this is no faults to american workers. we are shutting down part of this economy and we'll use all the tools we have and what tools we don't have, we are going back to congress.

>> i got to go back to -- >> we don't want to talk about it but it is substantial number. we are going big. the expression, we can do it two ways. we can go back everyday or every week. we are going big. that's where mitch mcconnell where he wants to go and i want to go, we want to get it done and a big confusion as opposed to going to meetings every couple of days. we want to go big and go solid. the country is so strong. this is what we'll be doing. >> we don't want people losing jobs and having no money to live and they were doing well four weeks ago. we are going big and that's the way it is going to be. any other questions? >> hairlines aairlines and hote there any emergencies discussed

even they are doing deliveries, they're not making much money as a full house. >> two comments on the restaurants, the president understands this. first of all, we want to make sure the states allow the drive-trus portion of these fast food to stay open. we are telling people don't go to restaurants. these companies feed a big part of america and i expect they're going to feed a bigger part of america. the second thing they ask me to emphasize and i was not going to do it now but many of these companies have asked. you can order ahead of time, that way when you get there it is as simple as they'll have it packed and they can give it to you with social distancing and it will be very fast. we expect that they'll be able to feed a large part of the population. and regards to support, i will say a lot of these businesses are small businesses, companies

franchises, 500 or less. we have a specific program we'll be unveiling that helps all businesses, small and medium size businesses of 500 or less. >> marriot corporation is announcing furloughing thousands of individuals because of the impact of coronavirus, will your legislation help those individuals? >> i hope so. that's one of the reasons we got to act quickly. we understand whether it is the airlines or hotels or for good reasons to protect the united states on medical issues. >> we'll yeuse all the powers w have, trillions of dollars into the market. of what we don't have, we are going to congress. there is a lot of bipartisan support for these issues. i am going to apologize because i have to go deal with some other things if that's okay with mr. president?

>> thank you. >> oh, i do want to comment on this. we believe in keeping the marks op marks -- markets open. after september 11th, the only way they were closed because technology was disrupted. everybody wants to keep it open. we make it to a point where we shorten the hours. americans should know that we are going to do everything to make sure that they have access to money to their banks and money to their 401-k. >> we intend to keep the markets opening. >> the banks are record setting strong. go ahead. >> you mentioned the army core

of engineer, people believe new york is going to run out of hospital beds. >> we are starting to process. it is a process. we hope it won't be necessary but it could be necessary. the state is working on it hard themselves. we'll supplement what they do. >> you have been given many of pharmaceutical comes from china. there is been supply disruptions, the supply chain has been broken to some degree. you expect we'll run into a shortage of prescription drugs. >> no, i don't think so at all. we make sure things are working very well. they have every incentive to do so. >> the governor of ohio called off the election, do you agree with that? what steps are you taking to ensure elections going forward

if this pandemic continues that elections will be able to happen and including -- >> the governor of ohio is doing a great job. he called it off and we'll see what happens. it is quick case. it has not been fully determined yet. if he called it off, i can understand that. he's definitely somebody knows what he's doing. we'll be seeing very soon. they're going by the rule of 10 as opposed to 50. >> i think the election is a special thing. i chose a different date. i think the date is sometimes inju in june. that's a decision that's made by him. he felt it is necessary. >> what are you doing for further elections? >> what i am doing is getting

rid of the virus. that's the only thing we can do. the market, simple solution, we want to get rid of it and few deaths as possible. this is a horrible thing. we don't want to be in a position like italy. a much larger because we are a much larger country, we don't want to be there. i think we have done very well. the best thing we can do is get the economy better. it will pop back like nobody ever seen before. >> just to follow up on john's question, how many new hospital facilities could the army core of engineers build, what measures are you taking to increase ventilators in this country? >> we have ordered massive ventilators. we have a lot of respiratories and ventilators. we have tremendous amount of equipment. compares to what we are talking

about here, this has never been done. yesterday i gave them a direct order if they want, going through the federal government. now we knocked out all of the broks bro bureaucracy. it was direct. it was misinterpreted by "the new york times" on purpose unfortunately. >> the president directed us to work. the governor at the office asked us to look at the army core of engineers to renovate existing buildings. the president has us inventorying of hospitals that can be deploy quickly. we spoke with governor anisley in washington state. as governors make the request,

we'll process them. medical supplies are national reser reserved. the president has tasked us to evaluate and consider every request from governors from either field hospitals, expanding facility oies or the y core of engineers. >> the army core ils ves very prepared to do as we say and we are looking at where we are going. the feel house is going quickly. we have them and we have all of this and we are looking at different sites and a few different locations. we are not going to need them. i guess so far they have none? west virginia. the governor he must be a good

job. >> i just see west virginia has little cases. the army core of engineers is ready and willing and able. we have to give them the go ahead. if we find it is going to be necessary, we think we can have quite a few units rapidly. i am going to work with governor cuomo, i am going to work with a number of the governors and governor newsom has been generous in his words and i am being generous to him too because we are all working very well. a lot of positive things are taken place. we are talking to california about different sites. we can have a lot of units up quickly if we think we need them. >> we have a few words on

telehealth. >> thank you, mr. president. we are doing an expansion of what's known as telehealth for those who are vulnerable to the coronavirus. we are acting according to the bill. this action is apart of our broader effort to ensure that government requirements, rules and regulations don't get in the way of patient care during an emergency. today's announcement builds on a significant progress that the president have made the past three years around telehealth services. we have been restricted to those in rural areas and established patients and just for those brief visits. medicare beneficiaries across the nation no matter where they live will receive a wide range of services via telehealth

without having to leave home. consider the implications of this, perhaps an elderly patient or diabetes need a routine check up. it is nothing to do with the coronavirus. with our new telehealth benefit who's at risk does not have to venture outside their home. they can talk to their doctor via skype. they can receive the healthcare

out of the safety of their home. this will allow care for those who have dire need and preserved equipment as well. state agencies can provide telehealth business. we ask private insurance company to expand and make it clear to their providers and members as what they cover. as our nation speaks to balance, it is imperative getting

americans the care they need and limiting the spread of the virus. the impact of this historic actions simply can't be over stated. in an emergency those on the front line should not have to worry about federal rules and red tape when they need flexibility of all else. we are doing everything in our power to make sure that does not happen. i want to briefly mention because of the president's emergency declaration we do have the ability to provide a lot of medicaid, waivers and florida was the first state to be approved. we were able to do that in a matter of days. >> thank you. >> any questions? >> where do you see your citizens go from instructions on how to do telehealth? >> they should call their doctor's office and they can tell them. some of our medicare members don't have access to equipment, we are asking family members to help with them but respecting the requirements around social distancing or any of those family members having symptoms.

>> you may be post it. >> they can call our 1800 medicare number and they can get information, those phone lines are open. >> thank you. >> admiral wi, will you say a f words of where we are going? >> as of today our public health laboratories, the cdc and the public health labs reported out 31,788 tests, almost 32,000 tests. the clinical laboratories have reported out about 27,000 tests and most importantly of those 27,000 during the period of time, 8,200 of them were

yesterday. this is showing the dramatic ramp of the hype of people that come in. we don't have the number from the american hospital association, all individual laboratories we'll have that upcoming in the next day or so and ambassador burke will have the whole process fixed under the legislation with the roll up by the end of next week. in terms of our drive-thru laboratories, these are blossoming all over the country, the one that we are involved in in pushing equipment to, we expect over the next few days begin setting up in 47 of these in patrol 12 states. the materials are being shipped to the locations. so we know it will be deploying at least 140 core commission

officers by half of the site that reported their requirements. about 140 officers, we expect for it to go up. this is going on the way we expected. we did a trial site yesterday with a full mobile unit for drive-thru with full ppe. we had a lot of kick in the system. we do a test before we go out into the field, don't expect these to be 100% perfect the moment they come. they'll be adapted the state and local situation. we are confident these will add testing to be robust and healthcare system. >> this has never been done before? should we have something like this in the future? i hope we don't. they have done an incredible job and relying on the states. we have to because i think just

about every instance it is getting along really well with the states. dr. burke if you can say a couple of words, please. >> thank you mr. president. >> what you have been hearing from us is define solutions. those in on the governors' calls, we have been responding to those. i think that point of sustainability and quality is very important because as the president says we are creating a road map for a different level of functionality for future pandemics. our flu pandemic preparedness plan was a plan. now we are seeing where we have to rely. where we have to create new avenues of research and avenues of work to ensure the need of the american people can be reached. we were adamant about having a high quality tests based on our

commercial vendors. over the next few months, you will begin to see other tests utilized around the world were not of the same quality resulting in false positives and potentially false negatives. these tests were studied by the fda to ensure they are at that level of quality. we have given the states, the permission to ensure that same level of quality. i want to say one minute on the testing. testing should not be used as an assessment of your risk. we are asking every single american no matter what your generation from z and up to x and millennials and in between to ensure you are following these guidelines. we hear every night of people who are not in work moving that time into bars and other areas of large gatherings. if we continue with that process, we'll fail and fail in containing this virus. every single generation has a

role to play. we are asking our older generation to stay in their home and younger generation support in contact of videos or skype type function or telephone. we are asking the younger generation to stop going out to public places to bars or restaurants and spreading to asymptomatic on knobs and gr b grocery stores. we are now creating seniors only shopping time. i think other countries will learn from us about how to really protect seniors in this type of way. i am hoping it carries through. the next year when we have our flu epidemic where we can have a different profile of the

mortality that we have during the flu that we never talk about, anywhere from 15,000 or 45,000 individuals loss over year. if we learn how to do this well, we can change the way respiratory viruses and not only for this but the future affecting americans. >> it is a big thing. >> the question on the clinical data. we have 5,000 people tested positive, 90 deaths or so, when are we going to know the data of who those people are, who's infected and what the ages are and pre-conditions are, how serious it is. for those testing positive. >> you are singing my sheet of music, i am data oriented, i really want to applaud hhs, we had a discussion about this several days ago.

they made calls into california to really understand that. also importantly to understand how many of their patients needed ventilators or oxygen support or what they need it. could we predict early. someone who was going to have a more difficult force. these are all questions we are asking right and answering right now. we did get an early report from santa clara and see how we are digesting it. we are looking at it carefully, we think road map is important to other communities. we have not discussed this with new york yet. we know from other countries and all that is available online, that profile. you can see that mortality under 30 is extraordinary low. the mortally outside of wuhan is settling some where around .7. that should not be reassuring baa us it is much higher with people of preexisting medical conditions even if young.

people that are older with preexisting medical conditions. so we still want every american focused on doing what they can do today. >> we are committed in having a website where everyone can see in realtime. >> you are signaling the much mother or fath more aggressive posture of containing mitigation now. in many states have been aggressive. there are a small number of states that have not issued public guidance to their residence. is it important for the suck ce of the effort that 100% of the states be forward leading on this and if so mr. president, what would be your message to those states that have not. >> that's why the president and the vice president issued those critical guidelines. i said this morning on "fox and

friends," you can look at them as a guidelines, you can look at the president asking every american and state to follow them. we want to make sure every american knew what they can do today to change the course of this epidemic. i think it is empowering. i think it says all of us have a social responsibility to each other. that's why we believe that every mayor and every governor should be instituting these guidelines that came from the white house and the president of the united states. >> we have been very tough in those states. >> you have been telling us for days that millions of tests have been sent out. >> you will see different numbers this week. you heard of 8,000. remember all of these tests were approved last friday night and last thursday night.

i think if i could talk to therma fisher and the other groups that had these platforms out there do not rely on a full technology to push out those tests. we can only make it available and groups have to make it available. we have been talking to the one of the key platforms to push out tests based on need and not wait on orders. >> are you getting a test out or getting it conducted? >> that's a great question. i know part of it is getting the tests out right now. admirals and others are working to get the issues related to get the tests conducted. it takes time. he's working on innovated solutions that are creative and sustainable that'll be a game changer in testing. we don't have the data yet. that is critical comparer, can you do it yourself or sample yourself. these are the kinds of things we

are working on right now and he's getting the data for us. >> the states are doing a lot of it. the governors and the states are doing a lot of it with even our tests. can you speak to the people -- >> models are models and they are based on input and infectiousness without any control. we are looking at that and having a model meeting tomorrow. that's going to be important. i dealt with a lot of modelers in my time, they're wonderful

people. they all have their favorite input and favorite integration functions. >> we can integrate and create the best model for the united states based on the best data. the first set of recommendations you saw were based on what we could do today to prevent anything that looks like that. if i can say one other thing to the hospitals and dentists out there, things that don't need to be done over the next two weeks, don't get it done. if you are a person with elected surgeries, you don't want the go to the hospital right now. there are a lot of distractions and people doing a lot of other things to save people's lives. let's all be responsible and cancel things we kanako satcan free up hospital beds and do everything we can to ensure that we don't need the ventilators because we protected the people who needed to use them. >> are you looking at the possibility of more actions like

limiting travels within the united states? >> it is possible. >> wwhl.e'll see how it goes. >> it has been great cooperations with the local government and states. it is going great, pretty well. >> are you following that? >> can you invoke defense production to get more medical supplies? >> we are able to do that but right now we have not. if i want it, we can do it very quickly and closely, two weeks ago we'll make that decision pretty quickly if we need it. it is a big step. >> in particular three states need some help and some states, two or three people, no people in the case of west virginia. we are looking at it closely and we are taking apart in 15 different ways and difficult thing to do.

it is a big step. >> first question, a lot of people travel to places that are hot spot and caribbean and mexico over the next few weeks, would you recommend they follow through this? >> i would say enjoy your home, stay, i would say right now. we have to get this problem fixed and we'll get back into business. we'll open up our country and society, the world will hopefully open up. we see areas of the world that are have not done well and we see areas that are doing very well. that'll put us in the category of doing were well for a country that's so big. >> i think i would recommend they just enjoy their living room. >> what would you say to people who are not heeding these guidelines of the white house

and i have question on asimil asymptomatic s. >> i am not happy with those people. there are a couple of instances where people are not happy when they see others who are doing what they are not supposed to do. we have to get rid of this ideally and quickly. the longer it takes, it is not a good situation. i am not talking about the academy. i am talking about the lives of a lot of people. >> i am going to ask mike to answer that question. >> i think it is all a working progress with president trump. he has made clear industries around the country, we are going to do whatever it takes. we understand this is an extraordinary moment in the lives of our nation. that's the reason why the president brought in leaders of financial sectors and airlines industry and we'll need it all.

tour ricism and hospitality. he has tasked the secretary of treasury to work with members of congress in both parties to make sure we can struck the kind of economic support that'll allow those industries to whether the period of the coronavirus and come back stronger than ever before. >> we had such incredible -- i don't know if the the word spirit is the best word. banks are coming in and banks are doing things they have doner done. copay with regards to the insurance companies for them to be doing. they were in my office, i would say the 11th biggest in this country, probably the biggest of the world. they're all the big ones and they did things on copay that nobody would be doing that they would not have done in a million years but they are doing it.

there is a great spirit going on right now in our country. >> dr. fauci, you said you like being accused of over reacting because that's an indication that we need to do things necessary to beat this than the curve. how long do you think it will take for you to be confident yes, we are bending the curve or no, we are not. >> i can't give you a firm number on that. the dynamics of outbreaks in some respects are predictable. you do this and that, we don't know because this is really unprecedented. i mean all the outbreaks that i have been involved with over the last at least 36 years and going historically back, we never had a situation with mobilization and all different components and travel restrictions and internal containment, mitigation, financial assistance, public health assistance, testing - so

we don't really know. if you look at models with all of there, if you input in the kind of mitigations and things we are doing, we are going to see a hump instead of a peak. i would be surprise of all the things we are doing and this is a comprehend sisive approach. i am a scientist, i am a health person and i am a physician who sees patients. i look at it from one particular standpoint. but, when i am being oppressed by is a comprehensive thing, we'll succeed if we get to the end point that i have described multiple times from this podium. i hope that if everyone does their job, i will give you a

number, we have seen the in fluctuatio influction going down. >> i the ink we need to say it over and over again. when i was young, i feel vulnerable the way many of us feeling vulnerable. when we ask the young people to help us with this mitigation strategy by staying out of the bars and restaurants, really trying to distance yourself, don't get the attitude, well, i am young, i amless vulnerable and however, what you may do and you don't want to do that is you don't want to put your loved ones at risks, the ones who are elderly and the one who have compromised conditions. we can't do this without the young people cooperating. please cooperate with us. thank you.

>> there is a new study of china found the mass majority cases of 86% of mild symptoms -- >> that question keeps coming up and i am not going to evade the question but i want to make a point. >> we tend to think we'll not be able to mitigate or contain, they complement each other in some respects, even if we had no testings, we should be doing what we should be. the question specifically, would it be important outside of a doctor patient coming together of knowing what's out there and what's under the radar. the answer to your question is yes. let me tell you what the cdc is doing right now.

they're going out there and part of their program to get a feel of what is there and what is initially thought to be coronavirus but thought to be something else. when you do that you will get a feel of what it is in society. we are heading with things people are hearing about to get an answer to your question. >> governor cuomo says this morning, -- >> it is possible. the governor has been reall really -- i believe doing a really good job trying to stay ahead of this. 45 days is not unreasonable. you have to be careful. when you get a number, you own the number. if the number does not come out then you are in trouble. that's the reason why from our standpoint and the federal government, we are talking about a range. within that range, you don't want to be wet to something and

then you have to back off. >> when is the soonest that we'll know new guidelines are lowering the curve? is there a point in time the next couple of weeks where you will be able to tell the president more measure is needed. >> it is kind of like a race against the rvirus. it is left to its own devices. we'll do this and us trying to somehow blunt that. you can see the virus going up and up. your effect and work which you are trying to do pay maemay hav effect. you may not see it because it is going up. as you are trying to implement your interference with the virus, you may not realize that you are actually -- wait a minute, it is still going up. what's going on? you have done nothing.

you don't know whether it will do this verses that? it would probably be several weeks and maybe longer before we know whether we are having an effect. it may be at the end of the day we'll see a curve that would have been way, way up but i would not put us to test every single day, wait a minute, it is going up and is it working? that would be misleading if we are doing that. >> the guidelines which were announced yesterday. one of those guidelines is recommendations against gatherings of 10 or more people and today the governor of alabama issued her own guidelines and recommendation against gatherings of 25 or more people. what is your recommendation of people across all over the country and as far o f tf the

guidelines. >> we don't want to get hung up between 10 or 25. when we give guidelines, they're only guidelines, we sit down and look at the data. we are data driven and we say on different models, ten looks good. if someone want to do 25, we are not going to fault them but if someone wants to come from us and ask us what we think the best is, we standby the numbers. it is not perfect. it is not precise math. it is assumptions and it is data that make you get your decision. >> but would it be more effective that every state plays by the same rule. >> this is the united states of america and people do their own thing. i don't think it is a big deal difference between 10 or 25. we have many more important things than that difference.

>> talking about preparedness for the future and larry kudlow says there is an idea floating around the administration cutting taxes who'll be bringing the supply chains back to the united states. would you endorse an idea like that? >> you are looking at many ideas. we are looking at creating incentives and companies. we are also looking to help companies such as the airline industry and we'll be doing it. we'll be doing it. this is not their fault. and they have been very understanding actually. we'll be helping them. we'll have a powerful airline industry and it will start up as soon as this is over. we'll have those planes ready to go. we have to help them during the short term. it is very important. >> mr. president, i want to know have you taken a look at some of these models such as the london model that poses a difficult

choice whether it is shutting down society or overwhelming the healthcare system? >> is that something -- >> we looked at every model and rely on the talented people. there is no better team than the people behind me. all the people who have done those models are all in constant touch with dr. burke and tony and everybody that you have been hearing so much from the last couple of weeks. we looked at many different models and the models we have is we want to save a lot of lives. if we get too steep in that curve, we'll lose a lot of lives. we'll find out. everything has a risk. if people are doing what we are telling them to do or asking them to do, you will see that we'll save a lot of lives. boris in the u.k. yesterday, it looks like they're going a different way but then he went away with simil similar, i don'

exactly, similar to what we are doing. a lot of people seem to think this is going to be -- we are looking to save the maximum number of lives. everything else is going to come back. a life is never going to come back. everything else and our economy is going to come roaring back. we'll all know. when will you know? all of a sudden we'll say wow, that's looking good and we'll be on the other side of the curve and that's the day we look forward to, okay? >> what makes you decide that now is the time to implement much more social distance measure. >> this where we were going and this is what we had in mind. we are just doing it step by step. that was the next logical step. >> one of the most important

things is that we close it down to china and europe. it is particularly down to china of the source very, very early. far earlier than even the great professionals wanted to do. i think in the end that's going to be -- that'll help save lives. >> some people note that your tone is more somber and you talked about the august timeline, did you see a projection on people thought of the 2 million potentially could die or prompted part of that, was there a shift in tone? >> i have seen that where people actually liked it. i didn't feel different. i have always known. this is a real -- this is a pandemic. i thought it was long before it was called pandemic. all you had to look at other countries. i think it is 120 countries all

over the world. no, there is no difference yesterday or days before. i felt the tone was similar. >> our economic advisor says almost 100% chance of recession, do you see it that way? >> i don't think in terms of recession. i think in terms of getting it out. when we are finish with the virus, we'll win. we will win. when that victory takes place, our economy is going to go through the roof. >> it is so built up. it is ready to go in an upward direction. there is a really tough enemy but we have to knock it out. that's all of us. i don't think in terms of recession. it is words we have to knock out this. i actually think we'll have an economy like we never had before. did you have something to say?

>> beginning in january, suspending all travels from china, the effort to issue travel advisories for portions of italy and south korea and screening all passengers, the efforts regarding -- all have been informed by the experts that are surrounding us . of what the president asked us to do and dr. burke and fauci have said let's follow the data. bring the president the best options in response of what's happening on the ground. with regards to yesterday, 15-day to slow the spread plan. our team is brought to the president and very strong recommendations for every american because we truly believe we are at a point in this epidemic in our country when we can reduce the number of people that actually are exposed

to or contracted coronavirus. we'll continue to bring the best data and best evidence and recommendations, frankly the best health experts in the world and the president continues to make decisions to put the health of the american people first. >> in other words, reduce the number of people dying. that's what we are trying to do. when you do the steep curve, a lot people are going to die. the worse ever they say 1918, i don't have to go into the numbers but they were unbelievable numbers. it would have been a different story. that was the one that people write about. that was an incredible pandemic like we have not seen. we have done something that i hope, hopefully we'll all have made all the right moves, we are all in this together including you.

we want to see fair press. it has been generally speaking, it has been great thing to see. it has been very, very getting along with democrats, getting along with republicans with the democrats itself. there is been a lot of spirit and a lot of things happening that i have not seen happening in the first almost now 3.5 years. it has been nice to see. that's one of the good things. really the good thing is we have to knock it out and we have to win and we want to keep that smoke as low as possible because there is a lot of lives in there. >> let's go back to somebody that did not get one. >> mr. president, this has a huge impact on china as well. are they going to have trouble meeting the purchase agreement and agriculture? >> they need our products badly. >> good relationship with china. i have not received anything to

that. no, we have a signed agreement. they'll be buying and they have been buying a lot of products, yes. please. >> earlier today. dr. fauci talking about the possibility of our hospitals system being over tested and she talked about certain options that are available to the united states including the va hospital and department of defense and medical treatments, at what point do you tap into those option sns. >> well, i know the point by speaking to governor cuomo. it is going to be different for new york or id -- we'll know wh it will be. i believe it will be more spot and it is not going to be the whole thing. there will be hot spots that are

very troubled. there are some areas with no trouble at all. they're watching it on television and we don't know. they're lucky. there are areas of the country that don't have much of a problem and some don't have any problems. they're not going to have any problems. they're going to have some difficulty and when we see that coming. we are already making pr preparations for it. >> senator marco rubio have been recommending an executive order that would ensure that pharmaceuticals and medical devices are manufactured here in the united states. we are getting some indication last week, can you tell us -- >> we are looking at different things. john is sending us everything we need. we are looking for alternatives

and we have other places. we are looking to bring a lot more back home. excuse me, you know i have been talking about this for many years. i don't think before i have decided to run for president, i have been talking about this. we have to be able to take care of our country. that was one of the many i thinks - things on the list. we are discussing it and marco and peter is very much involved and a lot of people are involved. we'll be discussing. >> you said canada has closed its border. >> not to the united states. >> are you considering closing the land border of the united states? >> we are working closely with canada but they have not closed it. they are closed it to the world

but not to the united states. >> we are discussing things with canada and mexico quite honestly. again the relationship is outstanding with both. outstandi outstanding. we just signed our deals, usmca and the relationship is very strong. >> others criticizing you for using phrase "chinese virus." how do you feel about that? do you continue to use that phrase? >> rather than having an argument, i said i have to call it where it came from. it did come from china. it is an accurate term. i did not appreciate the fact that our military gave it to them. our military did not give it to anybody. >> using that phrase, you are creating a stigma. i think saying that our military gave it to them creates a stigma.

>> please. >> what specific help are you going to offer to them? >> they need help. face it. this is the third year of record breaking year of traveling and airlines and everything. they were ordering planes and doing hotels and everything was honky-dory and one day we hear about this rumor in china and we find out it is much more than a rumor and all of a sudden we make a great decision to close it up early. it will be a whole different world. we make a decision to close it up to china and all of a sudden tourism and we close it up to europe which people never heard of this before. i am not sure it has ever been

done. it is a great decision. we make good decisions. my best decisions, the people behind me are total pros. all over the world, they are respected. anthony who's becoming a major television star for all the right reasons. he's just so professional and so good. the people that we have working here had been incredible. and they're totally respected. the admiral has been incredible having to do with the testings. and he's doing this as testing also for the future. we are building a platform. when we took over this platform, first thing the admiral says this was not designed for what we are talking about, millions of people. it is nobody's fault or who could have predicted a thing like this. we broke it down and it is really incredible system. it is now a great system. i just want to say these are incredible people standing behind me. they're the most respected in the world, every country that

you have mentioned have called them and they called them all the time for advice. there is no body better than the work that we have. >> why didn't we see dr. redfield the last couple of days? >> he's in atlanta. >> i can tell you he's doing a good job. >> yesterday we were being told payroll tax price the line share of fiscal stimulus. >> right. we had the market fall dramatically yesterday. >> did that inform your decision? what made you made that change and when did you make that change? >> we are looking into payroll tax and various other forms of getting money to people and the payroll tax is something that i have always liked. it takes a period of time and

months before they see something. we don't have months in terms of people living. you have people working on tips. you have people that are large number of people, it is tremendous, who would think this, right? they do nicely and work very hard. they work on tips. we have to take care of people. it was not their fault that this thing all of a sudden was upon us. we are looking at various -- >> what's also possible, we'll do a percentage of payroll tax. would like to be giving money to people, we are lucky our country is doing so well. we can do this. we can do it easily. we have to do it. i have to say mitch mcconnell. if you look at mitch and kevin and the whole group. it has been incredible how they are reacting and how congress is reacting and whether it is a house or senate, how they are moving. i am talking about democrats and

republicans, we had tremendous leadership meetings and they want to see it done right. they do want to go big. going big is important. let's worry about the airlines and with the cruise ship industry. industry that was setting a record two months ago and all of a sudden there is nobody on the ships. we have to help these people. these are going to be taking care of people and passengers and for years to come and paying tremendous taxes. tremendous taxes for years to come. we have to make sure -- >> mr. trump of what you referred to politics, you said we have to put politics aside and stop the partisanship and unify together. this morning when you criticized the governor of michigan and yesterday you attacked obama and

biden. everyday you lashed out a democratic leader, are you going to set the example? >> i only do that when i have to respond. she said something false. i will continue to do that. if they're not going to play fair because they have the media on their side, i don't. they ju i just have me. if they're not going to be fair, there is going fto be nobody better than donald trump in terms of bipartisanship. if they are going to say thing that is as that are false. they hand it to various people and one of them was at "the new york times" and "the new york times" chose to write totally inaccurately about it. it was bad journalism. they do a lot of bad journalism. we respond to that and actually people get it. people get it.

no, i want to be bipartisan. nobody is going to be better than me. when they attack me and these people behind me. i am not going to let them do that. one or two questions, please. >> well, you can do a national lockdown but hopefully we don't need that. we have every idea that you mention and it is a big step. that's a step that -- it is something that we talked about but we have not decided to do that. >> mr. president, what would be the determining factor for you to take that action? >> it would have to get to a level -- i just don't think it is an action that we'll take. anthony and all the people standing behind me we'll get together and some additional and we'll make a decision. i don't think that's a step that we'll do.

>> one more question, you didn't have one, did you? >> the u.s. government providing financial system to boeing and airplane suppliers like ge. >> we are looking at boeing. boeing got hit hard in many different ways. boeing never had a problem for years. they were an incredible -- it was unthinkable of what happened with respect. probably i would consider the greatest company in the world prior to a year ago. now they get hit in 15 different ways and they have different management and not the new people. i think it is going to be outstanding. we have to protect boeing and help boeing. they were coming along well and all of a sudden this hits. when the airlines are not doing well, boeing is not going to do well. we'll be helping boeing.

>> joe biden says the world health organizations offering testing kits, the w.h.o. never made that offer. >> i am going to let tony answer that question. when you talk about politics, i watched the debate -- not too exciting. what they said about me and we have done a great job. when you talk about not being bipartisan or what they said about me and you look at swine flu, the whole thing and i guess it was 2009 what they did and the mistakes they made, they were terrible. they were horrific mistakes. 17,000 people died. i will be honest. th