we continue to cover the pandemic. coverage continues now with anderson and "ac-360". big news is cdc recommends face coverings in public, not masks, should be left for first responders. president made the announcement and undercut it by informing the world he wouldn't be following the cdc recommendation. repeatedly pointed out it's voluntary, added i don't think i'm going to do it and added definitely won't be doing it personally. also won't be telling remaining governors who haven't issued statewide stay-at-home orders to issue them. saying it's up to the governors and claiming that the states in question are quote, not in jeopardy, not a comment based in science or reality. dr. anthony fauci appeared last

night on cnn town hall saying all states should have stay-at-home orders. alabama about face, just last week governor ivy dismissed the need. we're not louisiana, new york state or california. she's wrong according to johns hopkins data, per capita rate is same as california california's kborcher announced the stay-at-home order before ivy did. north dakota, nebraska, south dakota, wyoming. asked about the difficulties for getting supplies and testing and answer could apply to much we heard from the white house today. there's no federal plan for this, every state is on their own. it's the wild west out there. here. according to johns hopkins,

there's -- cases in the u.s., 7,078 people have died. joining me is the cnn chief medical correspondent gupta and analyst and at nyu medical school. sanjay, the source telling cnn that cdc felt pressured to draft the guidelines and would not have made the recommendation if not for the white house and president reiterated they're voluntary, not going to do it. should people wear a face covering? >> this is a significant change, no question. cdc and world health organization, up until yesterday, we talked to doctors yesterday, were not recommending people wear the face masks in public but started to hear a bit from people, including dr. fauci, they were likely to

lean into this because the evidence that's been out there for some time you can spread this virus even if you don't have symptoms, not coughing or sneezing. idea these would not be medical grade face masks but a cloth mask to protect others from you i think is where this came from. but it is confusing, admittedly, even among the coronavirus task force, should wear it, not wear it. should not take away from hospital workers or replace social distancing. shouldn't be going out in public anyway unless you absolutely have to. >> wonder what you make of it, governor cuomo has said probably can't do harm as long as it doesn't make you feel you can go out and interact with people and not obey the six feet distance and other guidelines. >> i think an easy way to think

about it anderson, this is a hose that's spraying out something. and you put something here, essentially what you're doing with cloth face mask on the source of infection, that actually works really well in terms of preventing spread to other people. but you talk about i'm going to wear that to protect myself out here, that doesn't work so well. so the recommendation is really about preventing spread from you who may not even realize you have infection, you may be a carrier to other people. to protect the lady at the checkout counter at the gross from you. it's really important for people to understand the reason this is being recommended is only now realizing how many people may not it know they're carriers and spread it to others. not to make you feel guilty. maybe you made somebody else

sick, we didn't know that, but now you know, protect others. >> jim acosta, still no national stay-at-home order from the president. i'm surprised to hear the president say that the states that don't currently have them -- i don't have the exact quote but essentially they're not in jeopardy. >> right. the president has essentially been responding this way all along. said again this evening he's going to leave it up to individual governors to decide what they want to do. talked to senior white house official earlier today, why is the president reluctant to say we want every state to issue stay-at-home orders and official said our current guidelines are implying that. it's not the same thing and obviously not as far as where dr. fauci went with you and sanjay last night when he said

he thinks every state had should be doing it, nationwide thing, everybody pulling together. even when the president is pressed by this governor in florida, governor in other states, some now catching on and doing it themselves, president has praised governors not taking the steps. mixed message from the white house. one of several we're tracking. >> sanjay, when the president introduced -- or maybe two days ago, 100,000 to 240,000 likely deaths with current social distancing efforts under way, president seemed to embrace and believe those, and yet he's not even willing to publicly say i think all the governors should do this, even if he's not ordering them to or telling them directly to. he says -- it's just contradictory, his logic on

this. >> he should directly tell them too. it's quite striking to me that -- i feel there's been a slow roll through this entire process, despite the fact that data and i know the guidance, public health officials have been giving him has been really clear. even before the 15-day pause, it was clear at end of the 15 days it would need to be extended. even now they say april 30th, but very models you're talking about are based on the idea it would -- the social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders would last until the end of may. so it's kind of really strange i think to sort of look at this dance that's going on between science and policy. science is there, obviously you have renowned people like dr. anthony fauci who know this. i'm not sure if this is just not shock the country, ease the country into it, or what it is exactly. but it is a bit bewildering.

we know what needs to be done, it's going to happen. pretty confident of it, even if it feels like it's kicking and screaming, it's going to happen but why not just do it? not sure i fully understand that. >> dr. gounder, does it make any scientific sense not to be telling south carolina or iowa they should have stay-at-home orders in place? is there any scientific validity to the president saying those places are not in jeopardy? >> they're not in jeopardy yet, longer they wait to implement the measures, more in jeopardy they will be. by the time you realize you have transmission locally, it's too late. this is one thing i've really very disappointed in my own city, new york city, we waited too long. even just a couple of days because of the exponential rate of growth, even a day or two can make a huge difference.

i hope and pray for the rest of the country they learn from our mistakes and take measures as soon as possible. >> i don't understand any state says they're not in jeopardy. not like testing is statewide, ubiquitous, tests every street corner. they just don't know. people just don't know what the actual numbers of people infected are. >> right. they don't know for sure. and what they would see as celine was mentioning is a picture that's behind the curve. right? because by the time someone actually gets tested it's reflecting exposure some time ago. and it's not just affecting their state either but probably the entire region. and most importantly anderson, it's become clear to anybody following the story, we don't have enough of resources, including ventilators. governor cuomo of new york is

saying maybe shift them around to hot spots that need them. if we keep doing that, keep the supply and demand issue even more out of proportion to one another. by doing this they're not just affecting themselves but the entire country. how they behave affects the entire country, you and me and everybody else. they should do it, be told to do it at this point. we're running out of time. models you're citing are predicated on the idea that by tonight every state would have a stay-at-home order. doesn't look like that's going to happen. i think that means the models and projections will be worse as a result. >> jim, we're now in a situation if -- the models presented at white house, based on all states doing this, if all states aren't doing it, models could go up,

100,000 to 240,000 figure could go up. >> absolutely. that's been the fear by public health officials all along. dr. deborah birx said it, communities are not doing enough. pressed on whether or not they're sticking with the models offered up earlier this week, they were hedging on that answer. i think as sanjay was saying, we don't know what we don't know. you would think at this point, anderson, the president would be humbled by being wrong so many times. i pressed him at one point, it's april, you said it's going to be over. he said it is going to be over. he's been wrong, health and scientist experts have been right and he can't grasp that reality. >> let's address the supply chain.

president blaming previous administrations for lack of supplies and there's blame to go around. argument that after the swine flu in 2009 or 2009 pandemic they didn't restock some of the stockpiles, but that was ten years ago. this administration has had several years and warnings we now know about a pandemic like this one to stock up and supply and they haven't. what's the latest -- i mean i've yet to see breakdown of there's a billion masks coming by this date, there's x number of ventilators that will be made by se end of this month and next month. hear piecemeal things, lot of things being made and folks working on it. i've yet to see a breakdown of what is coming down the pike and when. >> part of the reason why is you recall a couple of weeks ago they were saying there would be

millions of test kits sent out by end of this week or next and they couldn't hit the benchmarks so i think they're reluctant to do that. one of the things we're saying, i brought it up at the briefing and so did other reporters, why is the president shifting the blame, blaming other states when he also had the opportunity to fill the national stockpile, make sure that shelves weren't quote empty and president just doesn't have good answer for it. he blames the obama administration for it. as i told him in the briefing, he's been president for three or four years, had plenty of time to prepare. he's put out this notion we couldn't have seen it coming, unforeseen problem, that's just not the case as andrew kaczynski was reporting earlier, secretary azar at ahs was talking about the potential for pandemic flu a year ago.

asked the president about that, he said he was aware of pandemic as concept and knows pandemics are a problem but flat-out truth of the matter is this administration did not prepare when it had the chance. >> thank you very much. joining me now is dr. jeremy faust, instructor at harvard medical school and bringman women's hospital, 154 employees have tested positive for covid-19. 1,851 have been tested out of 25,000 employees. thank you for all you're doing for being able to be here tonight. i know you're going straight from spoking to us to working overnight at the hospital. day to day level, what are you seeing that most concerns you right now? >> thank you. what i'm seeing right now is increasing number of cases where all over the country we've seen cases increase, increase and you wait for the floodgate to open

like what happened in new york. waiting for that floodgate to open. taking care of the patients coming in in boston but are we about to be in the next place where resources are stretched? >> what does that say to you? is it inherent in dealing with the virus or unsafe conditions because of lack of proper equipment? >> right. when we heard hear about our colleagues dying, that gives us tremendous pause, concern and just sadness. we never thought we would be in a situation where we would be unsafe. when that happens, you have to question are the doctors safe, is there enough ppe? where i work right now, i feel say. we're certainly rationing, never seen anything like it, like line up like a food bank.

answer is now, will we feel safe in a week or month? and we're hearing that the national stockpiles aren't really adequate, as you were talking about the previous segment, isn't adequate we think to keep up. we need to lean into the tools we have to get more ppe so i can continue to feel safe and do the job i want to do, help as many people as possible. >> we've heard about ventilators and ppe. also the question of medication. wondering your thoughts on that. in order to have someone on a ventilator, they have to be essentially sedated for the time they're on. are those supplies in danger too? >> that's correct. we're hearing of shortages of those medications which would be another capacity issue in a sense, even if you had the ventilators can you effectively use them. we're very concerned that's the next thing. in the whole crisis one of the

big criticisms has been could we have done more sooner? i don't think it makes a lot of sense to look back and point fingers, we like to look forward and say what we can could now. find out the pipeline issues and dig deep to find out where the bottleneck is. if we can't do that, can't use the tools we know how to use to save lives. >> my mom died earlier this summer and had clear instructions about not wanting to be on an ventilator, specific instructions how she wanted her life to end. i bring it up because i know you think it's important that people think about it now and make sure their wishes are known with family members and also possibly written in a health care directive or dnr order.

can you talk about why that's important? question about the ventilators, if you're put on a ventilator, what is the chance you'll survive and recover after being on the a ventilator? >> very important questions, glad you brought them up. everybody needs to have these conversations all times, not even in time of crisis. often people come into the hospital and made explicit wishes and we don't know about them or think they're up to date and patients get care they never wants, that can be burdensome, end up on machines when they wanted to have a natural life. we have to have these conversations as difficult as they are. we don't want to convince anyone of what to do just honor their wishes, decrease suffering and keep things available, equipment and other capacity issues available to do the best for every single person.

to answer your specific question, i don't think we know the rates of recovery. what i would say, in general it just depends more on -- less the condition you have, and more who you were before. could have a life-threatening illness, be a young, healthy person and recover, and older person, frail with many conditions and not do well. we've heard good news that people across the age spectrum can come off the ventilator, there's a glimmer of hope there. most important we know people's wishes. >> i ask that question because i think in people's consideration, speak for myself, if i'm on a ventilator for x days and two weeks and sedated, i'll recover, okay, good shot. if on a ventilator and little likelihood i'll get off it, i might have other decisions. >> that's right. those are the calculations

people have to make with doctors, family and friends. individual profiles. yours is different than mine. those are the questions to be asking. can't do it later in heat of the moment, especially not able to have visitors in the hospital. need to have the conversations ahead of time to do the right thing. >> people need a health care directive? a dnr? >> dnr is very specific. whether or not you would want to receive certain critical care like chest compressions if your heart were to stop. wide inspect lspectrum of thing do. every state has different things online. you can talk to family and doctor about what you would want. let's talk about the complexities so everyone gets what they want. >> and make it known to the medical personnel known to you.

thanks you. >> happy to do it. interesting thing happened overnight after president's son-in-law jared kushner suggested that the strategic stockpile was for government use, government supply. seems the definition was changed ov overnight. (soft music)

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the trump administration is facing new questions tonight after comments by the president's son-in-law who serves as one of his senior advisers. jared kushner appeared at briefing and seemed to redefine how the strategic national stockpile was meant to be used. >> notion of federal stockpile is it's our stockpile, not state stockpiles that they use. >> reporters checked and didn't match with the hhs website, when states, territories and tribal responders request federal assistance -- overnight the website was changed to what jared kushner said at the podium. new language, role is to

supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. many states have stockpiles as well. can be used as short-term stop-gap buffer when immediate supply is not immediately available. perspective now from maggie haberman, and national security analyst julian cayenne. asked about jared kushner and the national stockpile a while ago, he said it was a gotcha question. what do you make of the change and kushner's role? >> i think federal officials are saying the change was in the works before jared kushner said this, but it's quite the coincidental timing if that's the case. and anderson, jared kushner has put himself flush in the middle of the discussion about and efforts to procure equipment and efforts to send equipment to the states. why he has chosen to do this is a bit of a mystery to a number

of people, while i think he thinks he's helping, some federal officials think this just added another layer of intervention and confusion they say. in terms of what jared kushner said yesterday, this is not as you say the federal stockpile. stockpile exists so that it can buffer the states and help the states. we're in unprecedented situation where a number of states, more than the federal government is used to, need help at once. that's a separate issue but it's not the federal government's stockpile for use specifically for the federal government. it's a manufactured description. it's a reminder, anderson, this white house has a tendency to act as if no government as ever faced anything before. it's never faced criticism, any national emergency, a crisis. this is a broad scope of emergency but governments have faced emergencies before and there are playbooks and this

white house has decided over and over again not to use them. >> julia, given your experience in homeland security, what you make of the way jared kushner is defining it and use thus far of the national stockpile. >> maggie is exactly right. virus may be new but disaster management is not. there are processes in place for two reasons, taken out of who has jared kushner's phone number. he was at podium and saying proudly a friend of a friend called him for masks and he got them to the hospital. we hear them and literally go pale. exactly how it's not supposed to work. reason you want objective entity like fema or the stockpile, given the extent of the disaster, needs, all the requirements, moving from point "a" to point "b," maybe to point

"c." we need a strong center that knows the needs across the 50 states and who needs what when. can't be at whim of whether you're friends with jared kushner. just like maggie was describing, it's not he's just in there, no big deal, it's incredibly disruptive. you want to be able to move stuff as quickly as possible because one, certain states need it first, two, you're going to know what you run out of. we have no idea because the white house has decided and jared kushner has decided to be operational. that's the last place you want -- where you want operational decisions being made. >> maggie, do you have a sense of white house, how fully on board is the president -- he seemed to accept the 100,000 to 240,000 figure and promote that in that chart.

but at the same time not asking or even publicly suggesting that governors should have -- there should be nationwide stay-at-home orders, it does raise the question of does he really believe what the scientific experts on his task force are saying. >> anderson, i think you've seen the president take a day to day approach with this, as he has with almost everything else about his presidency, says something one day, somewhat different the next day. what he said earlier this week, talking about the magnitude of the vierrus, i don't think that should be diminished, it's important, lot of people in this country won't believe it unless they hear it from him, only believe what he says because he's suggested what folks like us say. they needed to hear this is serious and not effort to damage him. but i do think he's been at odds

with the health experts. we hear repeatedly he's listening to them. some things is he. he would like a quick cure, likes to talk in projecting optimism tones. says said this. talking about idea that there would be therapies to work even untested to sound good and give people hope. that's at times at odds with the health experts. saw it acutely yesterday with deborah birx. going to be ongoing tension next few weeks. >> thank you very much. this sunday a lot of folks will head to religious services because of the exemptions in stay-at-home orders. goes against the advice of scientists and medical professionals. talk to one congregation about their thoughts about it. we'll be right back. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour?

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earlier we reported that president trump says he'll leave the issue of stay-at-home orders to the governors. eight states have not issued statewide orders but of those that have, 14 have carved out exemptions for sites of worship. had this to say about the faithful of his state. >> our church is 99.9% of our churches are closed in ohio. >> not although, yesterday evening gary tugman visited one defying the stay-at-home order despite overwhelming medical evidence how dangerous it could be. >> reporter: driving out of this

ohio parking lot is a woman who just attended a church service with dozens of other people, including children. can i ask you about your decision to be inside that building? >> wouldn't be anywhere else. >> reporter: not concerned that would affect other people that can't come. >> i'm covered in jesus's blood. >> reporter: other people. >> they go to the church. i'm in walmart. >> you can get sick. >> they can get me covered in his blood. thank you very much. >> reporter: watched people arrive at church in cincinnati, about to walk in with toddler and baby. woman and man arriving. woman hugs a man who hugs a woman inside, arriving woman hugs man inside, then a woman. church leaders would not talk to us on camera, but post refers to

the pandemic, adds for that reason that we believe the doors should remain open. says it practices social distancing inside, but wouldn't let us in. no way of confirming it. doesn't address the issues of large gatherings. >> one person infected? >> absolutely not concerned. blood of disease cures every disease. psalms 91. >> you could get somebody else sick. who don't go to this church. >> there's not one person. >> how do you know? >> i'm the pastor. i would hear about it. >> reporter: you can be asymptomatic. >> better not print no fake news about me or you'll hear from me. >> reporter: we heard a lot of people who made up their minds. this man sounded a bit

different. >> i see both sides of the story. >> reporter: you do? why not pray on the internet, with your family right now? >> it's called -- it's called values and liberty. you have the choice as an american. >> reporter: but if you're infected and go into the grocery store and run into someone and get them infected. >> why not flip it the other way? >> reporter: could happen too but you're increasing your chance of getting them sick, right? >> could be. >> gary joins us now, any c congregants who weren't happy that the church stayed open? >> yes, a number of them. talked to two of them yesterday. love this church but they're not going inside the church. think it's a bad decision to leave the church open but they did not want to talk on camera

and ostracize themselves from the church. talked to one lady who told us the church is much emptier than a week ago but we saw 70 walk in. may be more. >> do they have a video setup so they can attend online? >> traditionally they have a hookup. don't see the preacher but the people in the crowd. you can pray that way. lot of people do. but they're staying open for now. >> thanks. joining me now jesuit priest, editor at large for magazine. thanks for joining me. lot of us understand the deep importance of faith and community in people's lives but what do you think when you hear people portray this as attack on believers' values or liberty?

>> it's a false distinction between faith or science. seems to be strain of antigovernment, antiscience and little bit of pride that runs through these people as though they're not going to get sick. and also selfish as your reporter was implying. they could infect other people and you heard them say they don't care. pretty selfish. >> to those who say god will protect us from this, we won't get sick because we believe what we believe, you're a person of strong faith, how do you address that? >> you have to ask these people, what about everybody else who gets sick? every single person who has gotten infected and died is a sinner and they're somehow sinless? strange idea of god that he's punishing sinful people with illness, that's false. jesus rejects that in the gospels. it's a monstrous image of god they're portraying unwittingly.

>> just in a larger sense, so many people feel so alone right now, so scared, what do you -- what is your message to people? >> well, i'd like to remind them god is with them through the love and care of their friends and family. also if you're listening to impulses within you, impulse to panic in fear and terror and despair is not coming from god. impulse to hope and confidence and peace is coming from god. try to listen to those impulses and don't listen to people who tell you to despair or panic. >> it's one of the things so difficult about the social distancing thing, just adds to the feelings of loneliness, it adds -- in another time you would be able to attend a service or even just meet with your friends to discuss what you're going through. >> yeah. it's understandable that people feel a lack in their lives because of a lack of church and

religious services. pope francis today in a video message to people said there are creative ways to connect with people, it's just less than it was before. still opportunities to love and care for other people. >> you tweeted something saying next time any of these groups call themselves prolife, we need to remind ourselves about these death dealing decisions. pretty tough words. >> it's pretty immoral thing they're doing, putting people at risk for infection and death. lot of these groups say they value life over all things, i'm prolife myself, these actions seem to show otherwise. >> you think it's immoral to attend a service with lots of people around you? >> i don't know if i would go that far, it's unnecessarily

dangerous, puts people at risk. listen to the public health officials. reporter asked the woman, what if you were asymptomatic and she said i don't care, that's immoral. that attitude of it's all about me is the definition of selfishness. >> one week from good friday, vatican churches have been affected by this. can you talk a little bit more about what people of faith can be doing that doesn't put other people at risk? >> i think reaching out to people through phone or social media. having packages delivered, supporting our health care workers and people on the front lines is very important. but you know, anderson, there's very little we can do. less we can do when we are not with one another but can always help one another in our own ways and in our own situation. there's always an act of love you can do, even if it's small. >> thank you, i appreciate it.

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dr. anthony fauci is making no bones about his preference for what should happen nationally because of the coronavirus pandemic. i spoke to him last night on cnn's global town hall. >> if you look at what's going on in this country, i don't

understand why we're not doing that, we really should be. >> talking about nationwide effort to get people to stay home, about eight states not doing that. joining me now, peter navarro, there's a lot i'd like to talk to you about. you mentioned in the commercial about something new you're trying to go after people who are trying to profit after ppe equipment because you go on the internet, prices out there just outrageous for these kind of things. >> yes, anderson, and we've had a two-pronged approach on that. a couple of days ago the president signed a defense production act order which allows us to go after hoarders, having things in warehouses, sitting on them, driving the price up and depriving americans

of what they need. we've already through ag barr had one bust in new york/new jersey, grabbed masks. and were able to immediately take it and get it to people in new york and new jersey who needed it. tonight, breaking news, president just signed another defense production act order, able to crack down on two types of black market profiteering, we've got the edges of the markets, brokers bidding up the price of gloves, masks, things like that, and selling it abroad, exporting it. does two things, drives price up, deprives our people of that ppe that we desperately need. >> right. >> and bigger problem is these distributors supposed to be sending that to hospitals and

local communities, instead of doing that and fulfilling contracts, they're sending it abroad. as we speak, customs and border protection working with u.s. postal service and express mail consigners are going to start grabbing that stuff in real time and making sure it goes to the american people at the front lines. this is a tough order. what i'm trying to do, anderson, this is war, president is commander and chief, war time president, i'm a soldier in that war, mission to make the supply chain work to get it to the front lines in time. that's what i'm focused on. >> governor cuomo and others out there saying this system is ridiculous, states bidding against each other, fema bidding against the states. president was asked about it, said look, shouldn't be happening, should be calling the

white house and we'll distribute it. clearly there's a big problem here and governors are explaining about it. should there be a better system? doesn't work to have all the states competing against each other, does it? >> as we speak we're putting in place a better system in real time. it's working quite well. >> what's the system? >> the way to think about this, if i may, anderson, all 50 states want ppe, ventilators and deserve to get them. problem is we have a rolling apex. in other words new york going to hit its peak first, then detroit and new orleans hitting their peak. system we have now is consolidating working with state and local governments to surge what we need where we need it now. admiral and jared kushner working on that, closely with

vice president mike pence, i met with all of them and deborah birx in the vice president's office today. we have a system in place we believe is going to serve the communities in real time as we roll through the apexes. >> does seem like there's been a difference in philosophy that clearly this white house and the president said repeatedly this is not the role of the federal government, it's states' jobs, governors are supposed to do this, even telling governors they need to issue stay-at-home orders, i know that's not your purview but scientifically doesn't make sense we have states not issuing them. all doctors say it. president seems on board with that idea. >> you're right, not my lane, going to stay away from it.

but to your other point about the organization of the supply chain, how we get products to the state, president trump has been absolutely correct that leading up to this crisis, state and local governments over many, many years did not adequately prepare for this crisis. >> but the same can be said of the current administration. >> supposed to be from the federal government to the states with local implementation. but i think what's important now -- >> let me stop you. president is saying nobody could have predicted this, said repeatedly, at the same time saying states should have predicted and been prepared. same argument could be made for the white house, if shelves are empty in national stockpile, isn't that the trump administration's fault for having been there three years and known about it? >> statements are not inconsistent, the plans in place were not for 500 year flood but

crisis management and emergency management. but the point here, i think what's really -- what would be helpful for me, anderson, when we stray a little bit from fact into a little hyperbole, that stirs folks up and increases demand across the 50 states, worry about enough ventilators and things like that. what i can assure the american people right now, we have a solid system in place, we're deploying what we need to where we need it in real time and it's a race against time. if people are able to social distance and flatten that curve, we're going to have enough for what with need based on the inventories i'm seeing and rates of infection but it's going to be tough, this is war, anderson, people are dying, no one is more aware of that than the president, myself and the rest of the team here. >> at times though, president did today say in states there is

not stay-at-home orders in place, he said those states are not in jeopardy, which is just scientifically -- again not your purview but -- >> you had dr. fauci on last night, maybe have deborah birx on wednesday. but i'm focused on this, so important for the american people, to have the masks, gloves, goingles, bronch odilators and the ventilators themselves. we're working lightning speed on this, spent all last weekend with the fema and hms team to develop a plan for 100,000 ventilators by end of june. had a wonderful conversation with the ceo of gm, so pleased to hear from her they're going to be getting rolling ventilators off that factory floor in como, indiana, in a

number of weeks. they've answered the call and working with other manufacturers to get the parts. general dynamics is helping us, using 3d printing capabilities to fill gaps in the supply chain. i want to assure the american people we have the full force of the government and full power of private enterprise working together with patriotic pride to help the american people meet this challenge. >> let me just ask, peter, it's hard for citizens to get a sense of what supplies are coming. we hear all the stuff you just said, sounds great, this factory is doing this, is there any way to inform the american public in the next week 200 -- 2 million face masks will be available this day. is there a schedule to show the

american people? that would give confidence i think. >> that's a great suggestion and we were talking about that in the vice president's office this afternoon, having some type of crawl where all the things that are going -- massive amounts of material that's getting to all the 50 states, and to the extent that we can get that information out more, i think that would be very useful to the american people. let me put that on the plate of everybody and let's see if can we can do that for you, anderson. >> peter navarro, i appreciate your efforts and appreciate you talking to us. >> thanks for the time tonight to speak to the american people. lot more ahead. check in with chris cuomo and his coronavirus diagnosis. we'll be right back. keeping you safe. (vo) we are open 24/7 online, so you can keep managing all you need from home and through the verizon apps and verizon.com.

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