andemic, the court is hearing by arguments in 10 cases teleconference. c-span will provide coverage. first up on monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the justices hear the case of u.s. patent and rademark office vs. booking.com. the case concerns the travel company's fight to trademark its website. be a part of history and listen to the supreme court oral arguments as they're heard by justices. live monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. demand at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. mike secretary of state pompeo briefs reporters. he says that the state department continues to work governments around the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic. says is about what he disinformation coming from the chinese government and their cooperation sharing coronavirus data.

from earlier today, this is just over 20 minutes. secretary pompeo: i want to send americans ces to the and people around the world who have suffered from the lost of this ones because of horrible virus. many americans, too, are hurting because of the economic challenges. work.ant to get back to i was talking to friends back in kansas this week. they're all anxious to get to they had back in november, december. i'm confident we will be able to get them back there just as quickly as we can. we're to talk about what doing at the state department. we're fighting against the outbreak that originated in china, and we're working

to bring people back home. 72,000 americans from 129 countries that have returned to their lives and their families. but as we battle the pandemic, administration wants to make sure we secure our foreign policy mission. on that even when the virus challenge confronts us all. irst, to help the unstable places. in venezuela, i'm pleased to multi levelthe effort to restore democracy is

continuing to build momentum. i have asked my team to update plans to reopen the u.s. embassy in caracas, so we are ready to go as soon as maduro steps aside. we will raise the flag again in caracas. i want to update the world on the regime and the republic of iran. multiple aircraft belonging to iran air transferred unknown support to the maduro regime, birds of a feather. this was the same terrorist airline that used to run new fighters around the middle east. these flights must stop and the country must do their part. focused on yemen, we commend saudi arabia for extending their ceasefire there for a month now. the king of saudi arabia and those in the government of yemen have put out a call to lay down weapons and focus on defeating the pandemic. i asked the iran-backed hueties to do the same. it's what's required. all parties must facilitate humanitarian access. the yemeni government must accept the integrity of yemen. in iraq, we are watching as the prime minister enters the third week of trying to form his government. the iraqi people need and deserve a government that frees

the country from external intimidation, puts the people first. focuses on t prosperity of the country, and tackles the challenges that continue to face iraq. iraqi leaders must put aside their system and make compromises and that will lead to a government formation for the good of the people and a partnership between the u.s. and iraq. the iraqi government too most heed the call for many elements of the iraqis, bringing armed troops under control, and we welcome steps taken in that direction. moving to a second category, our mission to protect human rights and freedom around the world. i talked about this last week. we continue to monitor with growing concern beijing's efforts to interfere with hong kong's governance. the erosion of their freedoms in hong kong are inconsistent with the promises that the chinese communist party made under one systems.two any effort to impose draconian national security legislation on hong kong would be inconsistent

where beijing's promises and impact american interests there. coming back to our hemisphere, regime in ow the havana has take en advantage of the pandemic and will continue its exploitation of cuban medical workers. we applaud the leaders in brazil, ecuador and bolivia, who have refused to turn a blind eye to these abuses by the cuban regime, and have asked all countries to do the same, including places like south africa. and qatar. we must protect our medical workers. governments excepting cuban doctors must pay them directly, otherwise when they pay the regime they are helping to give cuban government an opportunity to turn a profit on human trafficking. a third line of effort, we continue to defend american interests in domains of growing importance. i am pleased to announce we will reopen our consulate in greenland for the first time since 1953. its reopening will boost the

shared prosperity of our friends n greenland and denmark and strengthen our partnership with our arctic allies. it is a statement of america's commitment to the arctic as non-arctic states look to exploit the region for their own interest. as of warned up back at the arctic council just last year. i mentioned, too, last week, that we're well under way in of ementing the provisions the 2019 ndaa on the 5-g clean path. raised this issue again of clean path so that americans know that just as the trump taken tration has unprecedented action to defend too, ysical borders so, are we defending america on cyber frontiers. simply put, in upcoming 5-g networks, mobile data traffic entering american diplomatic systems will be subject to new stringent requirements if it is transferred in huawei equipment. the objective is untested i.t. vendors will have no access to u.s. state department systems. we will follow the letter of the law to make sure that we have --

for all 5-g traffic coming into period.facilities, we will do all we can to keep her could go data and network safe from the chinese communist party. finally, before a take a handful of questions, an update on our humanitarian aid, assisting countries working to fight the virus in their nation. our team recently crushed some data from the kaiser family foundation and philanthropy called candid, and found americans have devoted $6.5 billion in government and nongovernment contributions to help countries fight covid-19. $6.5 billion. by far the largest country total in the world. that of than 12 times china's combined contributions. i'm especially proud of the work we have done in the indo pacific region. the united states government has more than $32 million in funding to support the covid-19 response in the pacific island countries. we are working with the burmese government, united nations and

others to prevent the spread of covid in burma. including among vulnerable populations. and we are working with our friends in australia, india, japan, the republic of korea and vietnam to share information and best practices as we move the global economy forward. the conversations include supply chains, keeping them running, getting economies back to full strength and thinking about how we restructure the supply chains to prevent something like this from ever happening again. one example of our work together is with india, we have moved expo export bans, including on pharmaceuticals used to treat covid-19 patients. a few days ago i spoke with david beasley, at the world food bank, who is the executive director. he reminded me the american people into their generosity supply 42% of the world's food programs' food resources, which feed nearly 100 million people around the world.

we continue to meet the world's food needs as the outbreak disrupts supply chains. one message i want to repeat today, if you are wrongfully detaining americans during this time and they become infected we will f coronavirus, hold your government strictly responsible. all wrongfully detained americans should be released immediately. i'm happy to take a few questions. good morning, mr. secretary. speaking of that foreign policy mission, north korea, i'd like know about hat you kim jong un's health there, but think that you will give us much on that. i would like to ask about if you think north korea would be safer or more dangerous without kim jong-un in charge? i'm also wondering, is the u.s. what happens if he dies or is no longer the leader country?

secretary pompeo: i don't have anything to add to the status of chairman kim, i think the president commented on it yesterday. we did have a chance to interact with a number of koreans on our various trips, the ones i took with my team and when the president traveled there to meet with the chairman kim. and his team as well. so we have met his sister and some of the other leaders there. .ec. pompeo: our mission our mission remains the same, to deliver on the agreement that the chairman made with president crump in singapore, the -- president trump in singapore, the full denuclearization, verified and we are confident we will still find a path to negotiate that solution on a path that is good for the american people and the korean people and the whole world. our mission will not change no matter what will transpire. >> does not mission get harder if he is no longer there? sec. pompeo: there is a lot of work to do and we will continue to focus on it.

iran, you're asking the un security council to renew the arms embargo. can the u.s. make the argument that it is still a state , afterpant in the jcpoa 2018, and you think this can work? crisis, ascovid-19 governments and states are reopening or start planning reopening, do you see a prospect or date for lifting the travel ban's and reopening the borders as well? our member when the president announced a travel ban from europe and he said for 30 days and this was mid-march. sec. pompeo: let me take the second question first. part of theing, as process the vice president's team is leading, to think about how america and states will

reopen, and parts of states may reopen as they become safe and we develop operational theories, to get the economy going while we protect citizens from the virus. we are doing the same with partners, the state department, dhs and d.o.t. are working to get international air travel going. not only to get flights back in place, but to do so in a way that will give confidence to those who want to travel that they can do so safely. we have made progress and thinking about how to do that. as for when the state department will reconsider travel warnings, we will do what we always do. we applied the same rubric, the same systems to evaluate how our travel warnings should go into place. those are connected to how we will think about reopening travel to these places, how government limitations will be in place. there is a dhs piece and a state department piece as well as the travel ban's, that we are working to work with countries around the world to left those

bands and create conditions where people will travel, that businesses will want to go and people will want to travel and that they can do so. we hope to get these back open as each country is ready to do that, and as we are confident that people who travel in from those countries would not create increased risk from the united states as well -- to the united states as well. >> before the summer? sec. pompeo: i will let the vice president talk about elements of that. we are going to do that as fast as we can safely. your first question was about iran's ability to purchase conventional weapon systems starting october 23 of this year. in the absence of an agreement. -- of action. we are not going to let that happen. the failures of the iran nuclear darrell are legion and 1 -- iran nuclear deal are legion and what is now upon us. china, russia, and other countries can outsell

significant weapon systems to the iranians in october of this year. this is not far off, not some fantasy. is anyone think that the nation today that is conducting terror campaigns by that lebanon has the law or iraqi shiite movements and firing missiles should be allowed to purchase conventional weapons systems in a few months? we are urging our it three partners to take action within their capacity. we will work with the u.n. security council to extend the prohibition onto those arms sales. if we cannot get anyone else to act, the united states is about awaiting every possibility about how we might do that. i am not trying to be too clever. your question was about us as a participant. the un security council clear.ion 2231 was we do not have to declare ourselves as a participant. it is on a big u.s.. united states is a participant

in that you and security-it is there in the language. it is not fancy, it is just reading. it is on a big u.s. and the rights that accrue to up participant under a u.s. security council resolution are fully available to all participants. we are going to make sure that come october of this year, their gradients are not able to buy conventional -- the iranians are not able to buy conventional weapons. a question about china and the world health organization. on china we have heard a similar talking point from cdc and to the minister of foreign affairs podium that the u.s. had months of warning it squandered. mofaticed a new tweet from

that suggests the u.s. engaged in a conspiracy. as the rhetorical cease-fire that the present -- president declared over? and on the w h o u have been criticized on the freeze. bill gates criticized that china has inserted no more -- has inserted more money and dubya like to does what note -- and the world health organization does what no one else does. are you concerned this will reduce u.s. influence over that a bho and your ability to conduct reforms? sec. pompeo: tear first question, we speak the truth about risks to the american people. -- to your first question. the information we provide about where this virus began in wuhan's data. that the chinese are saying the same

thing. i will leave it at that. suffice it to say, when countries engage in disinformation it creates risk. the chinese communist party tells us they want to be our partner and to be transparent. we need partners we can rely on. that when they tell us something it is accurate. and we do not think they are hiding anything. we still have not gained access, the world has not gained access to the wib, the virology institute there. we do not know precisely where this virus originated. there are multiple labs that continue to conduct work we think on contagious pathogens inside china today. we do not know if they are operating at a level of security, to prevent this from happening again. this is not the first time we have had a virus come out of china. so there is a continuing obligation on the part of reliable partners to share information with the world. we talked about this in the context of nuclear assurance, or

countries permit others to come in and see their systems, to make sure the locks and keys and security levels are right, the technological capability and the checks are right, so you can prevent at an accidental release. we need the same kinds of processes for biosystems systems and bile laboratories as well. we would urge every country, all of our partners, to demand we get answers for what happened here. get, that the world gets the transparency it needs to make sure those who are conducting scientific research on complex viruses and pathogens are doing so in a way that does that we gethe risk the economic devastation an enormous loss of life we have suffered as a result of this virus. we are going to get this right. we're the biggest contributor to the world health organization. review toducting a

determine how best to use american taxpayer money to deliver real outcomes. i have given speeches about this. we engage in multilateral work all across the world. this morning i was on the phone talking about our work with countries around the world like venezuela. we built out defeat isis of 90 plus countries. we are happy to work with countries around the world to deliver real outcomes for security. we should not pretend that because an organization has health and its title that it is capable of delivering the outcomes that we need. i think about this in the cap icc,-- the context of the the international criminal court. it is up politicized organization, not an actual court. we will evaluate this and if there is a function that only that world health organization can do and we think it is important for american national security or because we are good humanitarian partners, i'm confident we will find a way to

deliver that outcome. there are private donors who contribute to the world health organization. always ask, is this the best model? is this the right outcome? when you see the influence the chinese communist party had when they were debating on how to handle the virus in january. and the risks that those posed to the world, we reconsider whether that vehicle is the right one to deliver pandemic response systems for the world. given the reliance on china, when it comes to medical ,upplies, and that supply chain and though supplies are desperately needed in the u.s. right now, does the trump administration have to wait until this health care crisis in the united states is over, before you can talk about the specifics of inflicting a price on china, as you have repeatedly

said this the administration will do? our first priority, anime grizzly, is to address the -- on ambiguously, is to address the crisis itself. that has been the vice president task force focus and our state on doing ourcus best to understand what happened right.nd we have to get we have to get the economy cranked up raid there will be --. there will be ample time to account for those who we hold responsible for tens of thousands of american lives and american wealth and the global economy devastation as result of this virus. it will be a time for this and we will get the timing right. we are no longer going to tolerate a nonreciprocal behavior from the chinese government. said trade we want it free,

and reciprocal. we hope we can move out on the second part of that as well. that will be the decision of the chinese communist party. are they prepared to engage in trade in a way that is fair and reciprocal? overnight i saw comments from the chinese foreign ministry talking about a course of activity with respecter to australia, who had the temerity -- with respect to australia, who had the temerity to ask for an investigation. who would not want an investigation as to how this happened to the world? i assume the good people of china, doctors and scientists. imagine those doctors and scientists were working in our system, where you put hypotheses forward and you had the freedom to talk, and published papers. this is what democracies do best. the solution from this -- to this crisis will come from freedom loving people around the world. authoritarian regimes are poorly designed to deal with the kind of crisis this pandemic has

engendered. a democracies we are free to critique and comment. you can ask the secretary of state a hard question. where it scientists and thought and journalists can operate freely, these are the societies that will deliver the therapeutics, the vaccines, and the right outcome to get our economies going again. this is where we see the benefit of freedom and liberty. in the days and weeks and months ahead, i'm confident the world will see that as well. thanks everybody. ever but have a good day. have a good day. [silence]

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monday -- that data and safety monitoring board contacted me on friday the week before and then on april 27 and notified the multiple investigators doing the study dropped the world, that the data shows -- doing the study in the world, that the has ahows remdesivir positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. this is quite important. it is highly significant. if you look at the time to recovery being shorter in the remdesivir arm, it was 11 days, compared to 15 days. , for the value 0.001.sts, p = 30 -- although a 30% improvement does not seem like a knockout, it is a very important

proof of concept. it has proven that a drug can't block this virus. -- a drug can block this virus. this is very optimistic. the mortality rate trended toward being better, in the sense of less deaths in that remdesivir group. 8% versus 11% in the placebo group. it has not yet reached statistical significance, but the data needs to be further analyzed. we are making out announcement now because whenever you have clear-cut evidence that a drug works, you have an ethical obligation to immediately let the people who are in the placebo group no, so they can have access. all the other trials taking place, now have a new standard of care. we would have normally waited several days until the data gets further, dotting the eye and crossing the t, but the data will not change.

some of the numbers may change a little bit but the conclusion will not change. all persons having before thes honorable, the supreme court of the united states, are admonished to give their attention. >> for the first time in history, hear that u.s. supreme court live heard and may, do to --. in may, the court is hearing oral argan meant in 10 cases. c-span -- oral arguments in 10 cases. first, on monday, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the justices here u.s. patent and trade mark office versus booking.com. concerns the company site to trademark its website. be a part of history and listen to the supreme court oral argan meant as they are heard by the justices, live on monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. on-demand