responsibility they have but are helping the state a lot. we enacted legislation. i think it is very important, so they'll get paid sick leave at no costs to employers. we are advancing legislation to get direct payments to hardworking families. we are rallying together to defeat the enemy. we are seeing true characters of our americans. we are seeing that. a lot of people are talking about it. we are 141 countries, some of those countries are really working in a unified manner, they're working unify with us almost i can say a good number

of the doctors and nurses are worki working non-stop to heal the sick. citizens are delivering meals to the needy. truckers are meeting the long hall to loading up stocks. they have been fantastic. we made it much easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions, we are lifting restriction sos ths so n get their trucks on time. you see empty shelves and the amount of volume they have doing are unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have and what they feel they have to have. they're buying slightly smaller quantities which is good. americans of every walk of life

is coming together. thanks to the spirit of people, we'll win this war. we are winning. america will triumph and rise higher than ever before. we'll be stronger than ever before and we have learned a lot about relying on other countries. some good things came out of it and not so good they thinks came out of it. i would like to invite our team to provide information on the new measures of the viral spread of our borders. i will start by asking secretary of state pompeo to speak. he's been working very well and hard. he's doing the other more normal jo job as a great secretary of state. he's been tieing into this like everybody else. mike, please.

>> thank you, mr. president. i want to share to the american people, our national security team is staying focused on diplomatic challenges around the world, those includes afghanistan and our counter terrorism efforts against isis remains a priority for our team. our number one early process remaining the protection of the american people. the president and our team are focused on it. i want to thank my team working long hours to take care of americans who are stuck at places around the world. i will talk about that more in a minute. you have all seen dr. birx with me and state departments are doing a great job. i want to give a shout-out to everybody here around the world helping us push back against this pandemic.

under the president's leadership this week, we taken two important steps. president trump announced on wednesday, the united states and canada jointly agreed to restrict non essential traffic across ourborders, it goes into effect at midnight and excluding crossing the border unless for work or other essential reasons. the united states and mexico have agreed to restrict non-essential travels across our shared borders. both our countries know the importance of working together to limit the strength of the virus. commerce continues to keep flowing. the united states is glad to have a friend who's working side by side with the fight. secretary wolf will talk about the details of working alongside with mexico to keeping our

border safe and secure as well. yesterd yesterday. >> level four from international travels from u.s. citizens should be avoided. options remained available. u.s. citizens reside in the united states should arrange immediate return unless they repair to remain abroad or extended time. if you choose to travel, it may well be fairly disruptive. i want to talk about the information people are seeing around the word, some of it coming from the government or other individuals. if they are seeing information that one time suggested another, this information on lockdowns that are taken place. every american and people all around the world should ensure where they turn to for information is a reliable source

and not a bad actor trying to create information that they know is wrong. our team are working around the clock and shown the global leadership that america has always delivered and rallying behind president trump and our team. we'll take questions right after this. chad wolf. >> we'll start out thanking the president for their leadership in protecting the american people during this crisis. the president took unprecedented actions to restrict travels from areas that's infected with the coronavirus. dhs screened over 200,000 individuals coming back from those countries. this has been an under taken. one that our men and women at the dhs have accomplished.

the administration is taking to ensure the safety of the american bill belichipublic. let me first address the progress as secretary pompeo and others have made with our committee and mexican partner regarding across the border travel. as we continue to evaluate common sense measures that reduced risks and prevent further spread, it makes sense that we have looked at the measures that our neighbors to the north and south are under taken. we have been working closely with those partners since the earliest days of those virus. the president did say and secretary pompeo are in agreement with canada and mexico to eliminate non-essential travels across our land borders.

we'll continue to maintain a strong supply chain across our border. public health services and individuals across the border of trade. the agreement of mexico and canada will go into effect on saturday march 31st. we are working to take joint action regarding individuals seeking entries between our ports of entry. the cdc orders and directs the department to suspend the introduction of all traveling into the u.s. without proper travel documentation for the northern and southern borders. the cdc -- presenting a serious danger to my dpraigrants and of

and the american people. it is important to note that the department apprehends foreign nationals from 120 different countries around the world. the vast majority of those having coronavirus cases. many of these individuals arriving with little or no documentation making public health risk determination. it is important to note the outbreak of our southern border would like to increase on the strain taken away important and important life resources from american citizens. tonight immediately returning individuals arriving without documentation to canada, mexico as well as a number of other countries without delay. again, cdp will execute these measures as we continue to keep our borders secure and safe. before i conclude, i would like

to thank the great men and women of the work they do day in and day out to keep the american people safe from the coronavirus. the department have a number of front line officers that have been tested positive as well as others to receive quarantining. i am doing everything i can to protect these patriots as they defend our homeland during this crisis. >> thank you. >> today's announcement is a long line of actions that the president is taken in protecting our vecitizens across the borde. with only 45 cases in china. we begin screening travelers from wuhan. then overtime as the outbreak evolves, the president restricted travels from china, iran and europe. these measures have been truly

affected slowing the virus spreading to our shores. think about this, italy and the united states both saw their first travel related cases of coronavirus around the exact same time the last week of january. yet we have had precious time to continue our work around vaccines and thu therapeutics a others tragically have critical patients for weeks now. under section 362 of the public health service act, the cdc is suspending the entry of certain persons into the united states because of the public health rep that their entry in the united states represents. this order applies to persons coming from mexico and canada who are seeking into the country illegally and normally held in a congregate settings like a custom and border protection. it does not apply to u.s.

citizens or lawful permanent reside residen residents. a number of health pandemic arise. we are talking about significant numbers of illegal immigrants. from this past october through february. dhs have processed more than 21,000 in admissible aliens at the borders of northern and southern. these migrants spreading the virus to workers and agents and even the united states population as a whole. in such circumstances, distancing measure that the cdc

and president recommended are simply not possible. any resources that we are using to reduce the risk of infection among cdp agents are drawing on american healthcare system that's fighting the coronavirus pandemic. that's why the president and his administration are taking these important steps to keep americans and our immigration system safe from these health ris risks, combatting the coronavirus. thank you mr. president for the work you have been doing throughout the crisis to slow the spread and keeping our country safe. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> we continue to review the data and we continue to see signs that individuals under 20,

19 and under may have severe disease but majority have all recovered to date. we still see the same trend and frankly from italy we are seeing another concerning trend of the mortality and may all seems to be twice in every age group of females. this should alert all of us to continue our vigilance to protect our americans that are in nursing homes. this requires all the communities and when you see the sacrifices that many americans have made and service industries have made to close their restaurants and bars so the spread can stop and you understand how all americans must have to make the same sacrifice. we ask you to follow the president's guidelines. no group of more than 10 and

everyone quarantines in the household together and we focus on those who have the most vulnerability to this illness. to the moms and dads out there that have children with other medical conditions, we don't know the level of risks and i know you will also protect them in the same way. it is not enough numbers at this time to tell them if they're at additional risks in the same way adults are. we don't have new data. i don't have any new data. it is important for us to be as honest with the american people as we can. and when we don't have data be clear that we don't know. finally no one is immune. i sometimes hear people on radio or others talking about immune to the virus. we don't know if the contagion levels are different in age groups but it is highly contagious to everyone.

do not interpret mild disease as lack of contagion or you are immune. the ability to fight the virus in a way that older people or people with existing medical conditions can't. that's why it is very important at this moment. all of you carry that message about the sacrifices that have made. our service providers and front line healthcare workers, they are making that sacrifice everyday so that every american can move through this. we need every american following the president's guidelines. thank you. >> i just want to under line a few things i have said. t keeping infectious coming from

without any. we have been successful in doing that with china and europe. now we have the northern and southern border issues. we can't prevent people from coming in from one area where they can go into the other. that's an important reason. understand there is a public health reason for doing that. the second thing i think is very important is what happened in new york today with governor cuomo mentioning an hour ago of strong issues have been addressed with his recommendations, not recommendations but essentially orders. we have a group of recommendations and guidelines that are applicable to the entire country. you know this. we have been over this. there are places and regions and states and cities in this country that are being stressed much more than the country as a whole. clearly one of them is washington and another was

california. governor newsom made some very important difficult decisions. today governor qucuomo did the same thing. i strongly support what he's doing. one thing as a new yorker myself and those of you have not figured out from my accent that i am from new york, as a new yorker, i know what new yorkers can do. we are tough. i was in new york city on september 11th, 2001. i know what new yorkers can do. cooperate with your governors and mayors. it is very important. thank you. >> thank you mr. president. the white house coronavirus force met this morning.

partnership with the american people responding to the threat of coronavirus. i know i speak with confidence when i say how inspired we are, by the way the american people and the american businesses are coming together to help defeat this virus in our country. millions of americans are putting into practice, the president's 15 days guideline and we encouraged everyone. even those not in areas of no significance outbreak. put them into practice and you will continue to do your part. later today, we'll be talking to manufactures around the country and the president and i continue to be inspired by the way american industries are stepping forward. we have businesses volunteering to retrofit plants to help us meet the need of our healthcare workers and system and confronting the coronavirus. the president mentioned yesterday following his decision

to put fema in the lead in the emergency declaration. we met with all the nation's governors of fema in response coordination center. we could not be more grateful for the efforts of all of our governors and implementing the guidance that's being issued not only from our task force but also taking strong measures in their own communities to protect their citizens. we want to urge every american to heed your local authorities and listen to their guidance and also do your part to slow the spread. we reiterated to all the governors that the president by putting fema in the lead will continue to implement a plan that's locally and executed and state managed and federally supported that puts the health of america first. we received a report today as the president mentioned on our legislative team on capitol hill

working with republicans and democrats at this hour to pass an economic recovery package that the president described. we hope to see congress act on that early next week. on the subject of supplies, we continue to make steady progress on testing. thanks to the president's involvement of commercial labs of public and private partnerships, more and more americans are being tested every single day. tomorrow afema will update on te status of testing and testing efforts are literally expanding by the hours. on the subject of medical supplies, we continue at the president's instruction of expanding supplies for our extraordinary and courageous healthcare workers for the need of the people impacted by the

coronavirus. and now the president works with congress, for hospitals to be able to purchase masks and protecting their equipment. we are encouraged of the availability of those importance of n-95 masks healthcare facility. we'll be announcing a major procurement of n-95 masks as well. we are encouraged that we are finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators. we mentioned we have a federal stock pot, some 25,000 ventilators on standby. that does not count the tens of thousands of ventilators in our healthcare system. the president challenged to for us to free up other sources around the country. there are two different ways we can do that. number one, our recent

discussions with anesthsiologists, also, on the president's behalf and on behalf of all of our task force, we want to urge every american and every healthcare facility to postpone any elective surgeries or procedures. it will free up equipment that our healthcare workers need and hospital beds. businesses around america are donating n-95 masks to our hospitals. businesses are donating hundreds and millions of n-95 masks. i know how grateful the president is and we all are. let me close by saying as all of

our experts have said many time, while the stress of serious illness of coronavirus remains low. every american can do your part to reduce your health and your family and the burden of the healthcare system and the threat of the most vulnerable among us by putting into practice. as the president said, i know that millions of americans are doing that just now and the greatness of the american character is shining for us. >> thank you very much. >> you had a call with senator schumer, that you make those medical supplies to end the shortage. is that what you are doing now? >> i did it yesterday. we signed it the evening of the

day before and invoked yesterday. >> you are using it now to tell businesses to have ventilators and masks. >> for certain things that we need. >> i would say ventilators and more masks to a large extent. we have millions of masks which are coming which are distributed to the states. the states are having a hard time getting them. we are using the app for things like this. we have millions of masks that we bought. they'll be here soon and we'll ship it directly to states. >> you would only do so in a worse case scenario. are we in a worse case scenario? >> we need certain equipment that the states are unable to get themselves. we are invoking it to use the power of the federal government to help the states get things

they need like masks and ventilators. yes, steve? >> will there be a lockdown to keep people at home? >> i don't think so. california and new york have done that. i don't think so, you go out to the midwest and other locations and they're watching their television but they don't have the same problem. new york and california, miami, the governor is doing an excellent job and governor desantis in florida. we have some pretty hot spots in florida, too. and the state of washington, of course. there was largely and one nursing home that have problems like you would not believe. we are working with the governor and i don't think we'll ever find it. >> are you happy with the

progress of the 15-day guidelines? >> i am happy with it. we have to see the results of the end of 14th day to see what we are doing. i am honored by the way the american people are doing. this is the first time this has happened. we are working a tremendous financial package for them so they don't work. usually you work at a financial package and you get people working. we are asking people not to work. social distancing is a new term that becomes the hottest term there is. now i am honored bee ty the way american people are taking this so seriously. >> question for you and question for dr. fauci. there has been concerns on democrats on capitol hill of stimulus as too much in favor of corporations and not in terms of individuals, what did your conversations with senator schumer yield on that?

>> we talked about buy back stocks. i don't want people to spend and some executives saying we are going to buy 200,000 shares. and also for the company to keep the company going but not the buy back stocks. i have not spoken to a lot of the republicans or democrats, we discussed it and i don't like buy backs. i didn't like it the first time. >> we are discussing that. >> are you on the same page? >> we are not so far away. we are not very far away. >> dr. fauci. there has been some promise with hydro hydrox-chloroquine? >> the answer is no.

the evidence you are talking about is antidotal evidence. we are trying to strike a balance between making something of a potential of the effect to the american people available and at the same time we do it under the protocol that'll giver give us the information that's truly safe and affected. the information you are referring to is anti-dodotally you can't make a defensive statement about it. >> i am a fan of that and we'll see what happens. i have seen things that are impressive. we'll see. we'll know soon. improving safety, you know and

when you get to safety, this is prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria which was a big problem. it was a strong drug. it was fairly effective on sars. >> it was given to individuals and felt that it works. >> what is it compare to? >> you do a standard care verses standard of care and verses the ages you are evaluating. that's the reason why we show back in ebola of why particular intervention works. >> yesterday, you said they were immediately delivered. >> yes, we ordered them.

>> we have millions of units ordered. >> millions of units are ordered and we'll see what happens. we'll talk to the governors about it and the fda is working on it right now. the advantages were totally different, it has been described for many years and everybody knows the level of the negatives and positives but i will say that i am positive when it comes to particular one of these drugs. we'll see how it works. i am not say it will but i think that people may be surprise. it is a game changer. we'll know very soon. we have ordered millions of universi units. it is a big order from behr and other companies that'll do it. >> there is no magic drug for coronavirus which you would

agree. >> maybe or maybe not. maybe there is or maybe not. we'll know. >> is it possible your impulse to put a positive things on things giving americans false hopes as of right now. >> i don't think so. >> the not approved drug? >> it may work and it may not work. i agree with doc, i may work or may not good. i feel good about it. just a feeling. i am a smart guy, we'll see soon enough and we have certainly big samples of people. have you looked at the people? we have a lot of people that are in big trouble and this is not a drug that obviously that i think i can speak for a lot of experience, it has been out

there for 20 years c. it is not a brand new drug that's just created that has an unbelievable monumental effect that'll kill you. we'll know very soon. the fda is working hard to get it out. right now in terms of malaria, if you want it, you can have a prescription. and it is very effective. it works. i am not being optimistic. i sure as hell think we should give it a try. there has been some interesting things happening and good things. let's see what happens. we have nothing to lose. you know the expression, what the hell do you have to lose? >> so what do you say americans who are scared? 200 dead and 14,000 who are sick and millions as you witness who are scared right now, what do you say americans who are watching you radioigt night now

are skacared? >> i think you are a scary reporter. it is a bad signal that you are putting out to the american people. the american people are looking for hope and the same with nbc and comcast. who do you work for -- let me say something. that's really bad reporting. you you want to get back to reporting instead of sensationallism. let's see if it works. i happen to feel good about it. who knows. i have been right a lot. let's see what happens. >> the units that were ordered, are they for clinical trials? >> we are going to as i understand it, we are going to be taking samples of governor qu cuomo and very much is interested in this drug and they're going to be working on it and also after they get a

certain approval. we are see what happens. but, we'll use its on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well. and john, what do i have to lose? it has been out there for so long. let's see, maybe it works and maybe it does not. >> i am thinking the amplification. >> we are doing that, i guess. that's what it is called. >> i would like dr. fauci to follow up on this. should americans have hope on this drug right now. >> peter, could you issue and address americans in this country who are scared right now? this is a valid concern that people have. >> there is really that much of a difference of what we are sayinsa saying. >> the president feeling optimistic. i am saying it may be effective. as a scientist and as we are

getting it out there. we need to do it in a way while we are making it available for people who may want the hope that it may work, you are also collecting data that ultimately will show it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of covid 19. so it is a question of how one feels about it. >> does anyone believe it is not safe? >> certainly as a drug. any drug, john, has some toxicity. the decades of experience that we have in this drug indicates the toxicity are rare. well, we don't know is when we put it in a context of another disease whether fundamentally, i think it probably is going to be safe. i would like to prove things first. it raises a question of not a lot of difference and the hope that it will work and verses it will work. i don't see a big difference. >> i agree.

>> and children and doctors don't have masks to do their jobs. your message to them? >> there is a low incident of deaths. you understand that. we are going to come through this stronger than ever before. if you get it and happen to get it, it is highly unlikely and looking like it is getting to a number that's much smaller than people originally thought in terms of the ultimate problem which would be death. my message to the american people is number one, you have done an incredible job. incredible of what you have done through. it was not their fault. it was not their fault of 140 countries. i think we'll come out stronger and better and bigger in every way. we'll be a better country than we have ever before.

we learn on reliance. who to rely on and not to rely on? our country has been incredible. the way they pull together and clie collu we both want to get to a good solution but it has bee been -- watching and seeing people and we are speaking and getting along well because we all have one common name and that's to get rid of this invisible enemy and get rid of it fast and go back to the economy that we had and maybe even better. yes, please. >> many small businesses are concerned they are worried how long it will take for this. >> we'll be helping them a lot. my conversations with mitch and chuck, a big focus of that is small businesses. they are the engine behind our

country. >> second, are you concerned of members of congress that may have used nfginformation they learned on updates to sell stocks and profits of this. >> i saw some names, i know everyone mentioned diane feinstein and a couple of others, i don't know too much of what it is about. i find them to be honorable people, that's all i know. they said they did nothing wrong. i find the whole group is honorable people. >> the whole group would it include richard burke and senator kelly locklear so the question whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. >> and also diane feinstein, democrat, why didn't you mention her name? i think she's a great honorable person. >> any senator should they

be -- >> i don't know because i have to look at it. i find them to be honorable people. >> the other day you compared yourself as a wartime president right now leading to the pandemic that we are experiencing, do you think going off on peter and a network is appropriate for what the country is going through something like this. >> i think peter is -- i dealt with peter for a long time. and i think peter is not a good journalist when it comes to fairness. >> what is your message for the country? >> oh, i think it is a good message. the country has to understand whether we like it or not and some of the people in this room won't like it. there is a lot of great news and journalism and there is a lot of fake news out there. i hear it all and i see it all. i understand it all because i am in the midst of it. when somebody writes a story or does a story on television and i know it is false. i know it is fake and when they say they have 15 sources, i know

there are no sources. they're just making it up. i call peter out and other people out. this is a time to come together. coming together is much harder when we have dishonest journalists. it is a very important profession that you are in. it is a fro feprofession that's incredible. i cherish it. when people are dishonest they truly hurt our country. >> two toddlers of china on february the 2nd and wuhan had been locked down. this happened two months ago, why did you say if you could have known it earlier and you have been calling coronavirus a chinese virus. >> i can speak for myself.

i have very good relationship with china and president xi. i have great respect for president xi. it is unfortunate that this god ot out of control. some people are upset. i know president xi, he loves china and he respects the united states. i respect china greatly and i respect president xi. >> but you are calling the coronavirus -- >> i never liked stock buy backs. when we did a big tax cut and they took the money and buy backs. we are talking about buy backs, we didn't think we would have to

restrict it because we thought they would have known better. not in all cases obviously. people did an incredible job and built plant all over the country. you see what's happening. we were doing it until this invisible enemy appeared. it was some companies that used that money to buy back stocks and driving up the stocks artificially in many cases. i don't like it. as far as whether or not we have it and allow it. we have to keep these great companies in business because of the workers, frankly for the most part because of the workers. workers are my number one concern. the way we take care of the workers is we have to keep the companies going. i am fine with restricting buy backs. i would demand that there would be no stock buy backs. i don't want them to take hundreds of millions of dollars and buying back their stocks because that's nothing.

>> secretary pompeo is really busy. if you have any questions for him now, could dow thyou do tha? i would like for him to go back and do his job. does anybody have any questions for secretary pompeo? >> on work travel, can you define that? can you define the measures you are taking? >> great question. we are going to make sure we do everything we can to keep that part of our economic, dhs and the state department will work together. we are keeping commerce between canada and mexico alive and

functional. >> mr. secretary, the government have not announced any travel bans on europe. have you been in talks with them and when they're going to do this and what is it they're telling you and a second question, they also are telling us and said in a press conference this morning that they'll not take balcony n non-mexican citizens. we don't know what'll happen to them. can you address what will happen to those country immigrants that you are saying are not allowed to enter the u.s. that it would not be allowed to enter mexico. >> with respect to travel to mexico, i spoke with our foreign minister about this. i am confident that we'll get to a good place to protect the american people from those traveling into places where we got a destination from china so that they're not coming into

mexico and they're coming into the united states. i am confident we'll do that and make that announcement shortly together. >> again, we'll take a number of individuals across the border illegally, we'll do that in a rapid fashion. we'll continue to work with mexico and making sure as the nationals get back. >> what would you do to those countries that are not mexicans? >> we are doing all the above. we'll be sending individuals back to mexico and northern triangle countries. 122 different nations that we see, nationalities across the border, we'll be sending them back individually to their country but working with mexico to send additional population back there as well. >> when you said they're

non-mexicans -- we are not sending them to mexico, we are sending them back to their own country. we are sending them back in the case of guatemala or honduras, they go back to the country where they came. >> is there any additional information or is it acute? >> we see it come fing from pla of china, iran, disparaging what america is doing in our activities to do all the things that president trump have said in notion here. >> other than what you are doing this morning, what are you doing to fight back? >> a lot of things. we made clear and spoken to this count country directly that they need to knock it off and we don't approve of it. make sure the right information is out there and accurate

information is given. this idea of transparency and accurate information, how we protect the american people for something like this ever happening again. >> does it undermine and the president standing up here and attacking the news outlets? >> the piece core volunteer. >> what efforts are being made to help them? >> we are doing a lot of things and we had a couple of places in morocco and two or three flights out of morocco. we'll work to get people back. we are urging individuals when they can't get back on their own and they ought to try to do that. we have a team state department and repatriation task force working on each of these

instances. we are trying to get americans back where air travels have been disrupted. we'll get it done successfully. >> we don't know the full scale of it yet. we think we have the largest number identified and we'll work through that. those that are watching, you can get up and go to the state department website and log in and go to steps and log in and we'll try to get everybody back. >> how long are these border restrictions to the north and south? >> as long as we node eed to do. i could not tell you long it will last. >> whether you determined if iran is responsible for that rocket attack last week? >> so let me just get back to you on the answer to that. what we can say with certainty is we made clear that the iraqi

and militias are trained by the iranians and urge the iranians not to do that and they'll be held responsible for those attacks when they threaten american lives. >> the piece coeace core volunt have they returned? >> i don't know if they are back yet. >> and secretary esper is not here but to get tests the the truth and iraq and afghanistan, can you give us the status of that? >> we have state department officials too, we want to make sure to get them tested. we have significance success to date. there are a few places we have not been able to get. we'll get them there. >> how exactly are you getting americans back and do you have any plans to get the military involved with that? >> these first efforts combining infomercials and private flights that'll bring them back to a destination here in the united states. there will be some that'll

travel back other ways as well. we work with department defense whether there are space available and bring them back as well. they'll help us every place they can. secretary esper and i talked about it a couple of times. >> is there any consideration to relax sanctions? >> the whole world should know humanitarian assistance into iran is wide open. we offered to provide assistance into e into the iranians as well. we are doing everything we can and make sure financial transactions can connect to that and take place as well. there is no sanctions on humanitarian system going into the country. they have a terrible problem there. we want that humanitarian and medical and healthcare system to get to the people of iran. >> the sanctions themselves --

>> we are working to deliver security for the american people. >> the leaders know the answer. >> i have worked with the president for three years now. i know how much he values the people. i know how much he values the work we do and i know he watches our team and dr. birx and all the team is working to push back against this virus. i know how much he values. >> what a good answer. >> two questions. first is for secretary pompeo. we learned the cdc picked up some sort of virus happening, coronavirus in wuhan as early as

september, when did the cdc starts letting other agencies there were something in china happening and bhwhen did the whe government approach start to happen? >> i will let the cdc or dr. fauci. >> we were alerted by dr. redfield with chinese colleagues on january 3rd, there may have been cases in the december, not that we were alerted in december. >> there has been discussions of china and what they knew and when they know it. we need to know immediately. the world is entitled to know. the chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world. that puts a special obligation to our data, this is not about

retribution, we are in a live exercise here to get this right. we need to make sure that everyone today teven today the data sets are available and made it available to the whole world. it is an imperative to keep the people safe. we talked about the absence of data sets and not being able to make judgment. this realtime information sharing is not about political games or retribution. it is about keeping people safe. when you see a delighted information flowing from the chinese communist party to the technical people to assist in us, every moment connected to be able to identify this risk factors, creating risk all around the world. it is not about blaming one from this. this is about moving forward to continue we have the information we need to do our job. >> mr. secretary, what message

do we send to other country when we have the president of the united states lashing out on reporters. >> all i ask is listen to what we say and report it accurately. it is frustrating. >> we have a responsibility to tell the american people the truth and those are reporting have an equal responsibility. >> what messages are you saying to countries? i have seen many reported wildly a inaccurately. i have spoken to reporters about it each and every time and i will continue to do so. >> i rather him finishing up. >> are you finish with secretary of state. >> mr. secretary, senator johnson suggested that you and the administration may be over

reacting. we don't shut down our economy because of tens of thousands of people dying on the highways. and at worse 3.4% of americans will die from this virus, what do you say to people that have that view, that's 11 million people he's talking about. >> the entire world is agreeing with us. they all have their choice and everybody is doing the exact same thing. we want to shut it out and we can do that and we'll see what happens in two weeks or three weeks. if we can save thousands of lives or millions of lives potentially. you don't know where it goes. you could be talking about millions of lives. if you look at the world, we have smart people in the world and leaders, everybody is doing it the way we are doing it. we are doing a better job. and hopefully most if not all. we are doing an effective job.

we'll know better in 14 or 15 days. you are ta you cannilking about of thousands and more numbers of people. we can bring our finances back quickly but can't bring the people back. >> pthere are millions of peopl out there sharing that view, i don't need to shut things down or stay away from the stores. i can go to the beach. those people take multiple actions exponentially is a difference between life and death. >> i think i would have anthony to answer that. >> when you have something

that's new and it is emerging, and you really can't predict totally the impact it is going to have. you take a look of what's going on in china and what's going on right now in italy and what's happening in new york city, i don't think any moral conscious you can say why don't we just let it rip and happen and let x % percent of the people die. i don't understand that reasoning at all. secretary of state will be leaving. any other questions? in the back please. excuse me, i didn't call on you. >> two things, in new york, the cases are doubling everyday. they fear supplies are going out in a matter of weeks. yesterday mayor de blasio says

the fate of new york is laid on one man. how do you respond to by the wway mayor deblasio. >> we have been in -- the relationship with new york, i love new york. i grew up in new york as you heard. our relationship is very good and government and the governor have been getting along incredibly well. okay. >> on illegal entry, people of

otm, are they taken into a common area and taken back to a train, how will that process work? >> it is a public health crisis. we are trying to limit the amount of contacts that we have with these individuals and not putting them in border patrol facilities. it is going to be rapid and we'll take them into custody and send them back to a port of entry or other means. it will be quickly. it won't be the six or seven days that we currently have. >> otm, will you be taken -- >> mr. president? >> the bill is proposed, checks -- >> we are working on it. i want to give workers money and which ever way is the best way to get it.