summer and i was able to be there at the end and it makes a huge difference, for family members and also for the person who -- you know, who's breathing their last, i think to feel that. one of the things at the end you said on the video is that -- something i thought was important. you said we can all make it through this if we stick together. i think that's you such an important message, especially at a time when so many of us are physically distant from other people. >> yeah, we all have to stick together. we all have to stick together and do our part. that's the only way we're going to get through -- through this entire thing, for sure. >> danel, i really appreciate you talking with us and really appreciate all you're doing. it sounds like a small thing, but thank you. >> i really appreciate it. thank you so much. >> the news continues. chris cuomo prime time.

chris? >> god bless her and every one of the brothers and sisters on the front lines to help people die with dignity and help us make it through these horrible times. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime". we have a reason for hope, but also have new calls for concern. it is good that this president backed off his wrongheaded notion that he could compel the states to open up. he did that today. he backed off. that's good. chase him on that. because we do have new cause for concern them president can't talk about states as us and them. all governments must come together as one right now. we need to be on one page with one plan about what to try, where, and how. the april 30th guideline set by the administration, clearly it has to be extended. why encourage states to open

before that if there's no plan for it? his own health experts say, we're not ready. so it's obvious to all of us. so is the need for a plan. we're going to ask the governor of ohio, why does he need a plan? what happens if he opens too soon? perspective from the ground, okay? together as ever as one. if we're on the same page, we'll make it through together so let's get at it. now, we got to be fair. when the president backs off on something that eases the pressure, good. but we need the facts first william a know there's a cover-up going on here. this president doesn't want to own his own actions. it's not about gotcha. it's about getting to a better place. and the president's decision to halt funding to the world health

organization, blaming them now -- they're the ones who dropped the ball. they didn't do things soon enough. they were too soft on china to start. listen to how he put it tonight. >> the w.h.o. willingly took china's assurances to face value and took it just at face value. and defended the actions of the chinese government, even praising china for its so-called transparency. i don't think so. >> okay. two points. one, he refused the take what was offered to him at face value here, and it was a mistake. second, praising china for transparency, he says, i don't think so. really? listen to what he said about china when he was doing his initial statement assessment. quote, china has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. the united states greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency.

it will all work out well, in particular on behalf of the american people i want to thank president xi. he's also on tape saying the same thing. listen. >> i spoke with president xi, and they're working very, very hard, and i think it's going to all work out fine. >> i spoke with president xi of china, and he's working very hard on this. it's a tremendous problem, but they're very capable, and they'll get to it. >> i think he's doing it very professionally. i know president xi loves the people of china. he loves his country, and he's doing a very good job with a very, very tough situation. >> okay. so you can't halt funding to the world health organization for doing at first exactly what you did. but most important, we can't weaken our connections to the rest of the world right now. this has been an ugly and sad reminder of just how interconnected we all are, just

how profound the interdependence is. don't blame the world health organization. we don't need that right now. okay? so again, let's balance what he's doing that's wrong and what we like to see. we like him backing off his proclaim, quote, total authority over the states. why? because he doesn't have it. and it's important for him to recognize that. but in that context, listen to this -- >> i will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly. and i will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a re-opening and a very powerful re-opening plan of their state at a time and in a manner as most appropriate.

the day will be very close. because certain states, as you know, are in much different condition and are in a much different place than other states. it's going to be very, very close. maybe even before the date of may 1st. >> okay, straight talk -- something is clear in this statement, and then it gets very wishy washy and we have to talk about both. what's clear is that he thinks he gets to authorize the states. he doesn't. the power resides within the states. okay? he knows that, but he's not completely owning it because he wants to play strong. but that takes us to the wishy washy part. it's going to happen soon, maybe before the date -- how? how? how? what is the plan? i don't want to hear a big plan, booming plan, i don't want to have amazing plan. plan. what is the plan?

we must work together topdown how to hope different places with layers, okay, of testing, tracing, and treating. where the states can't handle it, he's got fill in the gaps. where they can, he can move on. each state, each region is going to be different situations. all about the plan, okay? that's all that matters here. let's bring in ohio governor mike dewine on what he sees as the way forward and the necessity of our realities right now. welcome back to "primetime" governor. i'm sorry in advance for borrowing your thoughts. i have been reading what you have been saying. it's very intelligent. you are obsessed with the how, and rightly so. do you agree with me that it is good news to hear the president back off his assumption that he can tell you what to do and when when it comes to re-opening? >> chris, you and i have talked

about this moment before, but what the public misses is there's a lot of communication going on between the president be the vice president. i was on a conference call with the vice president for an hour and a half. most governors, 4847 governors were on there. in those calls there's great candor, great give and take. the vice president is phenomenal on there, listening, trying to be helpful, and it is back and forth. and we are, as we keep saying we're all in this together. it's similar to what i do in ohio with our mayors. they have been great. and they tell me information and i take that information, and i'm able to do that. they have problems. we try to help them with their problems. >> i respect the desire for -- >> we really are. >> i respect the noticollective notion. it's really good. but if he were to tell you to

re-open, you would be able to say, no. it's a right reserved for the state. the key question becomes, what is asked and how? where are we in terms of a plan of what governor dewine can do in ohio, what he needs from the fed in erm the of testing, tracing and treatment, to bring back any type of semblance of normal any time soon? >> chris, you nailed it -- we have to have the testing, we have to have the tracing. the tracing, you know, we're building that capacity up. we can do that with people. but the testing is a lot better than where we were two weeks ago, but we got a ways to go. i got a call tomorrow morning, 6:30 in the morning i'm going to be talking to the doctors and key hospitals around the state and that's one of the questions i'm going ask them is how much more can we ramp up this test something we are going to do

something in ohio in a couple of weeks. we're going to go out, we got companies that are going to do this with us and we're going test people at random around ohio. one of the things that's going to tell us -- because the testing we're doing now is people with symptoms. but a random sampling is going tell us, we think, what percentage of people of ohio actually already had the virus. >> so smart. so smart. >> we don't know. we don't have to data on that. >> that's going help us figure out who has the antibodies. so smart, governor. that's one of the things that keeps you ahead of the curve. here's the hard part. you're flattening the curve, doing the right things, but it gives people even more reason to say, good, let's get back to normal. you just said we're flattening the curve. let's open up the economy again. we did it. great. let's celebrate by opening back up. now, that sounds good. it feels good, governor, but

what do you have to deliver as the reality for people who are anxious to get back? >> well, one of the things i said to the people of the state -- i talk to them every day at 2:00. i can't believe people in the afternoon watch it, but apparently some people do. one of the things i said was, look, until we have a vaccine we're not going to be totally back to normal that. virus is going to continue to be here. we have made real progress. we have had about a week where the admissions to the hospital have been flat. we think we hit a plateau. we made some progress. but we don't know how long that's going to take until it starts to go down. even when we start back in, the virus is still there. people who have a medical problem are going to be very susceptible to higher percentage of death. same way with people as they get older. so one of the things we talked about today with ohioans is the business community, we're not

sure when this is going to happen, but now is the time really to plan. i know they're doing that because we have conference calls. my lieutenant governor is doing a zbragreat job. he was on the phone today and yesterday with businesses. what are you going to do to protect your workers? >> absolutely. >> i was talking to a friend of mine who's got a company. it's a manufacturer, eastern part of the state. they're open because they're essential business. i said, how do you do it? he's got 8,000 employees. he told me the elaborate parts they have done to protect the employees. it was astounding. i said, how many people have come down with it? he said none. now, that's luck. part of that is just chance. but it demonstrates that business can really set this up so that whentheycomeack, they're protecting their employees. >> oh, absolutely. i think it's going to be --

>> no one wants to go to work if they're -- >> absolutely. because they're going reinforce the confidence of their workers. you have redundancies in some places, but let's be honest -- about half the country certainly in ohio gets its insurance from private employers so it's in their best interest to follow up on this. you having those kinds of relationships will make it that much more smooth a transition. because it's got to be layered. nobody can carry the entire thing. we are learning that. the return of sport. now, that means what? >> well, that's not trivial. >> i know, but i'm saying it's a big deal for people, right? and do you believe that could be one of the things that comes first or do you think the first big kind of thing other than work could be school? >> i think the sad thing is that

the -- for those of us who loves sports, i think that when you g get -- >> oh. we lost him. he's back. is he back or is he gone? there you go. finish your point, governor, thank you. >> all i was going say is until we get a vaccine, until we get a vaccine, people going to a big sporting event who are 70 years old and have asthma or some other medical problems it's probably not a good idea. that's a tough thing to say, but i think everyone's going to have to realize until we get the vaccine, it's still a different world. >> leadership is about saying the right thing, whether or not it sounds good in the moment or not, and you have been a shining example of that in the state of ohio. governor mike questidewine, thar

joining us. good luck in your state. you'll always have the platform. okay, talked to dewine, democrat in ohio, cuomo, republican in new york, or any politician in charge they're going get to the word testing within ten words of any kind of notion of re-opening. how do we expand? test kits, lab process capacity and speed, human hands, contact tracing and making person to person contact, capacity -- all of those factors are the deciding grouch factors of what happens next. so is there progress in the new saliva test the fda just authorized? could this be a fast track? let's put to it sanjay gupta. what does he see as the good news and what is he still holding out caution about? next. every financial plan needs a cfp® professional --

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i'm so happy. i'm just reading a text from lauren mandell. she's got coronavirus. her husband has coronavirus. she's got the four kids they're balancing. we got them a package of essentials because she had to empty out the refrinl rater the whole thing because one of the kids left it open all night. she just let me know now they got their first care package. so many of you wanted to be generous. thank you for showing that connection to help out someone you don't even know. the mandells appreciate it. the president is right about one thing. the united states does contribute more than any other nation to the world health

organization. more than $550 million went to that organization last year, combatting disease around the globe. here it happens proposition. did the w.h.o. arguably make mistakes? i say yes, but nothing trump didn't approximate here at home. the question becomes, is the president making this better at all or worse? let's talk about that and other pressing issues that are going on with our public health-care policy. dr. sanjay gupta back in the house. good to see you. >> good evening, chris. you too. >> if we do not give the money to the w.h.o. in the same amount as we usually do, what good can come from that? >> well, you know, i think you framed it right, chris. there certainly were some missteps by the w.h.o. in fact as you know we called it a pandemic before they did. there was probably evidence of hum to human transmission. that was pretty clear once you

go back and look at the scientific journals that the w.h.o. did not call out at that time sophomore there's clearly missteps. but confronting the w.h.o. in the middle an after pandemic. all the stud disabout the medications you asked about, all those are being done under the auspices of the w.h.o. any institution may not have enough patients to get meaningful results. the other thing, this is a subjective thing, but those penalized with cuts like this are -- from testing to other diagnostics, setting up some of the basic care. so who are you really penalizing by these cuts as well is a question worth asking. there's going to need to be an evaluation of how this was handled. i'm not sure this is the right

time to make these cuts. >> well, look, he's making the cuts because this is a misdirect play from his own misdeeds. but the problem is it's coming with a price tag that's going make things worse. he wants to find a scapegoat. it's the democrats or us. let me ask you a couple of things that may get us out of this jam. i read today the antibody test, the administration saying it was going to come soon. no say the scientists, that it's a work in progress. why is it so hard to get an antibody test, and why do we need it? >> there was some emergency authorizations, release of antibody tests. i think there's been a rush, some understandable to try to get the tests out there. the problem is those tests ended up being not very good tests. there's a lot of people who suddenly, without having to show evidence of their tests work, without having to be value dated started selling their tests and started getting questionable

results back. someone has been told they have antibodies and they don't. they think, vi antibodies. i'm immune and. >> and they're not. they get sick. >> they're not. >> what's so tricky about making the tests? >> shouldn't with that tricky. i think it's a question of scaling it up. it's a strip. it has some of the proteins from the virus on it. you take your blood, put it on that strip. if your blood has antibodies it reacts and you see a change this the strip. it's like a pregnancy test except you're looking for the antibodies reacting to the virus. it's not that hard. it's a question of making sure it works and being able to scale it up. >> science takes time. the saliva test. what's the plus vsh min/minus o? >> this could be a big test. another emergency authorization. push to emergency authorize these tests. again, it's understandable.

this one is like -- have you ever done one of the genetic tests? you get saliva, spit it into a vile. that's what we're talking about here. it was validated by doing the saliva tests comparing it to the swab tests and it came out 100% conchord on the. a lot more comfortable too. you have gone through the swab test. i have not. that's not comfortable, i know. a couple of caveats. one, it has to be done as of now in a hospital. a clinical setting. which i think has to change. could this be a use of telehealth? someone talk you through doing it? the other thing, if it comes bag negative it's got to be validated by the swab test. this is still a bet of a work in progress. all of this is to try to figure out when somebody might be free and clear of the virus. the other way to do that is

monitor yourself at home. i know you were trying to do the 72 hours and see if you had a fever that came back and i was keeping my fingers crossed over the weekend. how did it go? were you able to go 72 hours? >> no. i got 60. and i have to be honest. i got a little cocky. i started thinking about, oh, great, i want to get retested. then i'm going to do this and do this. that's not the way covid works. the more i learn anecdotally and from the clinicians who are treating it, it comes in waves. i went off tylenol and my fever was bouncing around, within the range of normal 60 hours. then the fever came back and i had 101 for about two hours or so. then back down. now i'm doing okay. i'm sweating. it's par for the course. my breathing, much better. still super lucky, super blessed

compare to so many of the other people i've heard about, but i got start again. that's just how it goes. my body is not ready until it's ready. i'm going to throw everything i can at this. i do breathing exercises. the fever, i just got chill and let my body do what it does. that stung a little bit. but just made me remember nothing coming for free. >> chris, you know, i have been worried about you, a little concerned. i get so many emails about you as well, but i appreciate you talking about these things you got me on speed dial. the reason you were doing that, for viewers who don't know, in order for someone to feel like -- if they're at home and tested positive, there's three things the doctor looks for to see if you might be able to stop isolation. no fever for 72 hours without tylenol. the respiratory symptoms completely gone away. that has to take place seven

days since the symptoms began, you have to be symptom free. you're not there yet. i know it's been over two weeks now. really thinking about you. >> i am so lucky and this has been made so easy for me. i'm here at home with christina. that's my biggest concern, you know, that she doesn't go to wrong way, the kids don't go the wrong way. i'm blessed with being able to do this so much easier than so many people. i heard from all these people today about how close they've come to 72 hours and then they finally made and it their cough came back. people are struggling all over this country. i hear those struggles. thanks for reaching out to me. any informationky give makes this all worthwhile. that goes for you to, sanjay. helped me all this way. no matter what it takes we'll get through. i'm good with that. >> call me any time. love you brother. >> love you. love you. the virus infected all states. we really are all in it

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it will president relice heavily on a lot of you that picked up this message and made it your own, that inside the coasts, america hold as different and better reality when it comes to covid. now, look, the president's made a lot of currency off the politics of us versus them and the coast versus the middle states and red versus blue that many stuff doesn't stand up to the practicalities of a pandemic. inside the coasts, covid is already there. two-thirds of rural counties around the country, our brothers and sisters, report at least one case. now, you say one case -- who cares? come on. it's never one and done. we haven't seen it anywhere. i know the president promised that early on. it wasn't true then. hasn't been true anywhere at any time. the reality, sioux falls, south dakota.

on outbreak at the smithfield pork plant threatens them now. and an already strained food supply for the rest of the nation, okay? the mayor of sioux falls is republican paul tenhaken and he's pushing for a stay at home order despite his governor's hard no. gove mayor, welcome to "primetime". i'm sorry to meet you under the circumstances, but i want full information for the people. >> the governor says looking you have his rationales, listen, man, the balance of fairness here, the equities, we don't need to lock it down. we need take the appropriate steps but we don't need to shut down like the other states. your response? >> i think there's some validity to our governor's approach. i need to lead by saying that.

we are a state of 850,000 people, but this the sioux falls msa, 300,000 people, so the density of our state is really in my two counties. is a blanket shelt ner in placer stay at home for our state does not make sense. i agree with the governor on that. what i'm seeing though is the hot bed of cases we have a doubling rate of every four days for about the past 18 days. so at that doubling rate, we need to act and we need to do more. i'm asking for more from the state, but in absence of that we're going to do things on a local level as well if we can. >> well, first, please feel free now and going forward to let us know what you need so we can put out the word and it can be picked up by municipalities and states. is there anything you're dangerously short of right now in terms of capacity or coping mechanisms? >> our ppe, the hospital now

it's a little bit of the calm before the storm. i'm in touch with health-care on the regular be we're waiting for our surge, but the surge, we're in kind of the first inning of that. we now have almost 1,000 cases in south dakota buck 800 of those are in the county where sioux falls is. we're feeling the where you know the of that now in the southeast corner of the state. we're preparing for the surge and trying to use enhanced mitigation strategies. because right now it's not a curve. it's a spike, and we need to get on top of that. after the interview i'll make sure the producers give you my number. if you get into a ppe hole and you want to find fast resources i'll help you network through new york state and some of the other high volume states to see what's out there in terms of gowns, masks, visors and foot

coverings. all those things move in different arab yratios. but we're here to help. >> that means a lot. >> oh, absolutely, mayor. that's why we're doing this. if i can get you guys resources -- we're all brothers and sisters in this. in terms of what you're seeing with the doubling of cases what does it look like on the ground? what kind of people are getting hit? >> you alluded to it in the setup. we have a large pork packing plant, i believe the third largest in the country, that got hit hard, got hit quickly and we have north of 400 of the 800 cases in our county are attributed to the employees of that pork plant some having to stand up and ask one of your largest employers to close their doors for a period of time it's gut wrenching, man, the effect of the people who live there, the economy, the upstream,

downstream supply chain, it's pretty incredible. what we're seeing on the ground is almost two types of cases. we have the smithfield outbreak, which we're dealing with separately, almost, and then all the other cases we're seeing grow in the community as well. >> look, it just keeps growing, expanding. to your earlier point, the governor is is right. right now you don't need statewide coverage but you're in the population center. you have the you will this intercourse. you have the trucks the people going to work, visiting other people, the food that gets delivered to other people and what's on the packaging. the communication rate can be exponential. you have to get it early. you let us know how to help and we will. you look young and healthy. god bless your family. i hope they haven't been touched by this yet and hope they don't get touched by it either. >> amen. thanks, chris. appreciate the time. >> thank you. i'm one of the lucky ones. mayor tenhaken, you'll get my

number. do it right now on the break. i wish you all the best. >> got it. thank you, sir. all right. what is normal? i don't know. it's been totally thrown upside down for me in my life. and when people get sick with this, i hear about so many changes somewhat does normal mean to you? some closely studying this virus think that things may really change culturally for like a long time. is this panic? practicality? middle ground? all good questions. we have somebody who's a top detechive of diseases who's been looking at exactly this -- best new information with answers to the questions of normal next. at papa john's, we want you to know that from our

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we're all asking a lot of the same stuff right now, and there aren't a lot of good answers system this the new normal? is this how it's always going to be? i can't always be in the basement at got get back to work. a new harvard study suggests the u.s. may have to continue distancing through 2022. that's a banging headline, right? there has to be nuance. it has to mean different things in different ways some to help us figure out what it means specifically in different situations is one of the authors of the story, the study. thank you, doctorer for coming "primetime." >> thanks for having me, chris. >> the headline, big pushback. no way can we stay like this for a year and eight months or something. we can't do it. when you talk about 2022, what

specifically are we talking about? give me the permutations and potential outcomes and versions of distancing? >> yeah, so what we tried to do was to figure out first whether the single shot of social distancing that we're undergoing now would be enough to get us through the pandemic without overwhelming the health-care system, and the answer is very clearly no, because at this point we are at the beginning of an epidemic that still has a long way to go. there are a lot of susceptible people. the best estimates is the vast majority are still susceptible in the united states and those other places. and that means that if the virus is around in a few people and we aren't imposing control measures it would resurge, and if we let it resurge fully -- >> all right, so let's take a look at that. >> we'll have a big problem.

>> i understand. let's look at that in the context of -- but it's flattening in places, like new york and other population centers, and that suggests to people that it is working and we should therefore be able to get back to normal. what are we missing in that thought? >> yeah. i mean, it's a little bit like saying, if you are on a downhill slope and push on the breake an start to slow down then you don't need to have the brake anymore. that's just not true. the nature of infectious diseases epidemics, pandemics is when you have measures to stop transmission like the ones we have now, it slows transmission. they work. but the issue is unfortunately there's no memory in the system. there's no -- they don't work

permanently. what they do is to slow the spread to susceptible people. until we build a certain amount of immunity in the population, sometimes called herd immunity, the system can start -- the epidemic can start up again. >> but what about antibodies? what about medicine? what about vaccines and all these other things that we use for the flu? can't that be the answer here? and reduce the need for this distancing? >> i very much hope so. and to be clear, the painer is not an endorsement is not a -- of long-term social distancing. it's trying to figure out whether that policy would work and to control the spread and stimulate ideas for how to get us out of it that areless disruptive than that. so indeed if we could find

treatments or theory prapeutics prevent cases from getting bad, mild cases more severe that would vastly improve our situation. if we could get a vaccine, that's a total game changer. that's a long way off. that's almost certainly a year off, and maybe more depending on how good the vaccines are and how fast we can test them is. >> what do you think we'll have to wait on the longest, doctor? like, what do you think will come back the slowest? are we talking about, like, mass gatherings at a game? do you think this fall zero chance that you and i get to joke around about who wins the harvard yale game or whether the patriots beat the jets once or twice? do you think that will happen or no, do you think we won't be ready? >> i think it's pretty unlikely there are going to be sports with spectators in the stands this fall and winter. you know, i really hope to be

wrong. but the only way that i think that's likely to be wrong is if it turns out -- and this is a possibility, but a remote run, that there's and as seer testing you were hearing about earlier gets scaled up. it's possible we found we did such a limited job of testing it's possible a lot more people had it and have become immune than we thought. >> that would be beautiful. >> that would be beautiful, indeed, but i don't think it's the most likely scenario. >> yeah, you know, if -- if we -- we can hope, but we've got to verify it through science. i'm hoping that anecdotally what i hear sporadically from clinicians like you, experts like you and from people on the ground is that there are a lot of people in this country who believe they've had it, as far back as november, october. they had freaky illnesses that mimicked the covid symptoms but

they never got diagnosed with anything because we weren't aware. we hear about people losing their sense of smell and taste but having no other symptoms and they don't get tested because our testing protocols are all screwed up still. so hopefully there is a silver lining in that. doctor, we got to go on science. thank you for laying out the hard realities. >> i hope so. >> dr. marc lipsitch appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i know. we'll see. thank you very much for outlining the realities. we got to keep it real. all right. now, part of the reality is also the bright lights that we see in dark times. look at this beauty. look at this "cuomo prime time" latest team member to come into the world. the adorable georgia elle. look at the picture. there she is. she is known on the team as cuomo's brain. she does the closing argument. she's a fact machine.

but more than anything else, she is love. she loves her husband. she loves her son. and now georgia. and she was nervous having babies in the middle of coronavirus. she didn't even want to stop working. but yesterday at 11:27 a.m., 8 pounds, 5 ounces, healthy, beautiful as her mom and her dad. we miss carolyn, but not tonight. tonight we are so happy for the new member of the family. god bless georgia. thank you for the reminder that beautiful things happen even in dark times. so much. and, hey, thank you, new jersey health care workers, you know, going that extra mile to make sure that georgia came into the world safely, and to all the health care workers all across the country, you deserve every piece of respect you are getting. and let's do it all together. together, as ever, as one.

tonight's roar of appreciation in new york city. listen to the love. look at that. the cities come alive every night, same time, same reason. i love it. this is how we get through it. and by doing what we need to do to ease the strain on those people, which is to suck it up and do what's hard and do what's boring, even though we want to get back, if you want to show your appreciation, you got to keep doing what's working. now, ahead, another thing we have to do, we have to highlight the ameri-cans, the people around us who are going beyond, and we've got to call out the ameri-cants. you cannot take advantage of people. not now. we've got both, next. (laughter) ♪

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all right, man, you know the pledge, right? i'll tell you the information. we'll keep things real together. a lot of the ameri-cans and the ameri-can'ts come from you, so thank you for the leads. tonight's first ameri-can'ts, okay? now, this first one has the ear of the president but doesn't seem to be listening to basic advise from medical professionals. that would be the acting director of national intelligence richard grenell. he shared this bit of snark on his instagram feed. listen to this. a copy of the constitution with the headline, "signed permission slip to leave your house." zing. listen, 25,000 americans lost their lives to this. you don't pretend like martial law is in effect. please, no one's stopping you from going to the grocery store to buy food. the world is simply begging you not to be reckless. and as a member of the cabinet, we put you guys there and we give you the respect of being

the best of us, especially as a national security team. this is one of the biggest threats we face right now. you got to be better than this, brother, all right? another ameri-can't. this one actually coming from foreigners who tried to pull off this stupid scam against u.s. hospitals, all right? they work in u.s. hospitals over those in95 masks. they tried to switzerland health ca care? switzerland health care systems to buy nearly 40 million masks that were already in the u.s. i've seen this scam multiple times trying to do procurement for new york state. they want massive deposits up front. i can get you a special deal but you got to pay right away. a doj task force started digging in, tracked down a pennsylvania middle man who apparently didn't know he was a dupe for companies in australia and kuwait. that's what he says right now. we'll see what the investigation yields. he is cooperating with investigators. i may believe that, by the way. i've seen people who got approached here as middle men

and they got bad information. the good news is the fraud was stopped before any hospital wasted its money. but we don't have the time either. so that's why there's already an injury. now, ameri-cans, nfl great drew brees and his wife brittany, drew and brittany, they live in new orleans, of course, and the iconic saints quarterback recently announced that they're donating $5 million to the state of louisiana. hey, look, i know the guy's made a fortune. a lot of people have made a fortune. i told you about one who has given $5 million to others. they're teaming up with companies that will make sure that 10,000 meals a day are delivered to those in need. now, listen, i know you think, this is america, people can't eat. don't go so fast. the supply chain disruptions are real and the need for food is growing all the time. so thank you to the ameri-cans. you better watch out, ameri-can'ts, we're watching you,