rate of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left new york and i think like governor desantis has put out today, everybody who was in new york should be self-quarantining for the next 14 days to insure that the virus doesn't spread to others, no matter where they have gone, whether it's florida, north carolina, or out to far reaches of long island. we are starting to see new cases across long island that suggests people have left the city. so this will be very critical that those individual do self-quarantine in their homes over these next 14 days to make sure they don't pass the virus to others, based on the time they left new york. if they have already are four days out, then it is just 10 more days. so i thank you if you get the message out to others. dr. fauci? >> thank you very much,

mr. president. i want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. first the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we'll be able to take. testing was an issue. we had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what we'll do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. we have to act policyize on data. and we're going to be getting more data, a lot more data. the other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and washington state are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain.

in other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do the contact tracing. when you have a big outbreak it is tough to do anything but mitigation. we have an opportunity now that we have the availability of testing, to do that. so you're going to be hearing more about how we can inform where we're going particularly because we have the ability to test. the second thing is, i want to reiterate what dr. birx said about new york. it is a very serious situation. they have suffered terribly through no fault of their own but what we're seeing now is that understandably, people want to get out of new york. they're going to florida. they're going to long island. they're going to different places. the idea, if you look at the statistics, it is disturbing about one per thousand of these individuals are infected. that is eight to 10 times more than in other areas. which means when they go to other place, for their own safety, they have got to be careful, monitor themselves, if they get sick, bring it to the

attention of a physician, get tested. also the idea of about self-isolating for two weeks will be very important because we don't want that to be another seeding point for the rest of the country, wherever they go. thirdly, just one, comment about, about drugs and testing of drugs. you know, you heard yesterday about drugs being out there, that physicians on an off label where you can prescribe it, to give people hope of something that hasn't been definitely proven to work but that might have some hope. i don't want anybody to forget that simultaneously with our doing that, we're also doing randomized clinical trials on a number of candidates. you heard about candidates but there are others in the pipeline where we will be able to design the study and over a period of time, particularly since we have so many infections we'll be able to determine definitely, are these safe and are they effective? we're talking about remdesivir, other drugs, immune cera,

convalescent sera, monoclonal antibodies, they are cueing up to go into clinical trials. i will stop there. >> good job. larry, how about a quick few minutes how we're doing on the hill? >> thank you, sir. we're gaining great progress on this phase three legislation, negotiations continue. we've had continued reports. i've been up there with secretary mnuchin. secretary mnuchin continues today with chief of staff mark meadows checking in with the president. they're getting closer and closer. they expect a vote as soon as possible. i just want to walk through a couple of key points. this legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stablize financial markets, to get us through a difficult period, a difficult an challenging period in the

economy, facing us right now, but also to position us for what i think can be an economic rebound later this year. we started the year very strong. then we got hit by the coronavirus in ways that probably nobody imagined possible. we're dealing with that as best we can. this package will be the single largest, main street assistance program in the history of the united states. the single largest main street assistance program in the history of the united states. phase two delivered the sick leave for individuals, hourly workers, families and so forth. phase three, a significant package for small businesses. loan guaranties will be included. we'll take out expenses and lost revenues. as the president said eligibility requires worker retention. we will maintain the people eligible will maintain their

payrolls during this crisis period, and, on top of that, we will have direct deposit checks of roughly $3,000 for a family of four and that will bridge to enhanced, plussed up unemployment insurance benefits that will essentially take those up to full wages. this is one, two, three, four. you know a strong workforce requires strong business. you can't have a job without a business to work for and the hope here is that the companies operating very well at the beginning of the year when the economy was in good shape, we will help them and their employees get through this tough period, so they will come out the other side. let's say late they are spring or summer. we'll continue their operations. that is the key point. now, don't forget, there is income tax deferrals for individuals and corporations, without interest and penalties. there is student loan interest and principle and deferrals

without any penalties. finally, i want to mention the treasury exchange stabilization refund. that will be reflynn -- replenished. that is important because it opens the door for federal reserve firepower to deal with a broad-based way throughout the economy for distressed industries, for small businesses, for financial turbulence. you have already seen the fed take action. they intend to take more action. in order to begin this we have to replenish the treasury's emergency fund. that is very, very important. not everybody understands that. that fund will be overseen by an oversight board and inspector general. it will be completely transparent. so the total package here comes to roughly $6 trillion. 2 trillion of direct assistance, roughly 4 trillion in federal reserve lending power. again, will be largest main street financial package in the history of the united states.

liquidity and cashing for families, small business individuals, unemployed, to keep this thing going. we're headed for a rough period but only going to be weeks and months, not going to be years, that's for sure and hopefully pave the bay for continued economic recovery after this crisis departs. thank you, sir. >> thank you. i've been hearing that voice for some years, 30 years or more, maybe. it is a great voice and it is a great man. larry kudlow, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> i want to say that package, we went over parts of it but pretty big parts, it really sets us up to i think even supersede where we were a month ago. i think we can get up there quickly. i think it allows us to supersede. it allows us to help these great companies that need help like boeing which is, you know, had a problem and then on top of that problem it had the virus come in. but we'll be helping boeing.

we'll be helping airlines. we'll be helping the cruise lines. we'll doing a lot of things. the money will come back to us and come back to us in a very strong form. before we take some questions i would like to ask our great vice president to say a few words, if you wouldn't mind, please. >> thank you, mr. president. the white house coronavirus task force met again today and on behalf of the president of the united states everyone on our team, our state leaders, let me say thank you, america. people across this country, businesses large and small are responding to the threat of the coronavirus in ways that are deeply inspiring. the people are acting on the president's 15 days to slow the spread. it is making a material difference. our experts standing beside us told us that if every american, regardless of whether you're in an area that is impacted by an outbreak of the coronavirus or not, if every american would

embrace these guidelines, that we could significantly reduce the number of americans that would contract the coronavirus and protect the most vulnerable. and as the president reflected earlier tens of millions of americans are doing just that and we're grateful. the focus of our task force is to slow the spread, promote mitigation strategies. beyond that though, the president has us focused. on testing and on supplies, making sure that those that are enduring the symptoms of the coronavirus and those who are ministering to them are extraordinary health care workers have the support that they need. in the category of supplies you just heard dr. birx indicate that we have made great progress. we have done more tests in the last eight days than were done in the previous eight weeks and it's because of the public/private partnership the

president forged in commercial labs. remind your family and friends if you don't have symptoms, don't get a test. we want to make sure that people who have symptoms, have a concern, have the ability to be tested and have those tests processed. we're continuing to urge all county hospitals, all labs around the country to report to the cdc all the results of the tests as it will give these experts around us the ability to continue to advise the president on best practices. as i mentioned we all content to follow the outbreak around the country and the test results but as several have mentioned, we're particularly focused on new york. the reality is the new york metro area was 60% of the new cases in the country and specifically as a layperson i can tell you that the infection rates are roughly one in 1000 in

the new york city metropolitan area where they are .2% per thousand or .1% per thousand in places like washington state. it is the reason why today the white house coronavirus task force is calling on any american, first and foremost, if you're in the new york city metropolitan area or elsewhere, to take the guidelines that we issued and avoid non-essential travel. but for anyone in the new york metropolitan area who has traveled our task force is encouraging you to monitor your temperature, be sensitive to symptoms and we are asking anyone who has traveled out of the new york city metropolitan area to anywhere else in the country to self-isolate for 14 days. we have to deal with the new york city metropolitan area as a high-risk area and for that reason, we're taking these steps

and asking for the cooperation of the american people. because of the spread in new york city we will continue to surge resources. the president has described this, fema is coordinating with new york state for the arrival of the uss comfort in just a matter of a few short weeks. over the next 24 hours more than four thousand additional ventilators will be delivered to new york state as well. new york state has prioritized three alternative medical facilities and at the president's direction, the army corps of engineers is working on plans to build those facilities out. you heard the president speak about the javits center, the addition of 1000 beds and it will continue. i want the people of new york city and the greater new york city area to know that we're with you, we're going to continue to provide resources to support your state and local officials as they confront the

spread of the coronavirus in that great city. on the subject of supplies we had team meetings today at fema which is working on identifying the critical personal protective equipment and ventilators. at this point fema informs us today they are distributing 7.6 million n95 respirator masks, more than 14 million surgical masks and fema has already shipped 73 pallets of personal protective equipment to new york, 36 pallets of personal protective equipment to the state of washington. we'll be meeting again tonight. as you know the president stood fema as a national response center up and they are in the lead for the approach to the coronavirus which is locally executed, state-managed and federally supported. we'll continue to surge those resources and make sure they're available. one last word if i may, the president reflected on the

response of businesses around the country have brought to this moment. it truly is extraordinary. the president did initiate the defense production act last week. but as the president reflected many times we'll use the defense production act if we need it to mandate production of critical supplies but so far no one has said no. and in fact we see industries stepping up. president mentioned ford motor company, 3m, ge health, to expand medical supplies. mcdonald's is offering curbside delivery of truckers unable to use the drive-through to pick up a big mack. i spoke today, the president spoke last week with tim cook of apple, and at this moment in time apple went to their storehouses an is donating nine million n95 masks to health care facilities at, all across the country and to the national

stockpile. there is a level of generosity i know is inspiring to the president and it is truly inspiring to all of us who are working on the white house coronavirus task force. the president's made it clear that hopes in weeks not months to be able to open up the country but let me make one last encouragement to every american. we will get to that day quicker if every american will put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines for our nation. 15 days to slow the spread. if every american will do this, i have no doubt that we will slow the spread, we will protect our most vulnerable and heal our land. >> thank you very much. reporter: mr. president, you rerated you hope to have the country opened by easter. you would like to see churches packed on that day. my question to the two doctors on stage with you, have either of them told you that is realistic timeline? >> i think we're looking at a

timeline, we're discussing it. we had a very good meeting today. if you add the all up that is probably nine days, plus another 2 1/2 weeks. a period of time longer than the original two weeks. so we're going to look at it. we'll only do it if it is good. maybe we do sections of the country, do large sections of country but we're very much in touch with tony and with debra. reporter: who suggested -- >> i thought it was a beautiful time, it would be a beautiful timeline. that -- reporter: based on data. >> it was based on a certain level of weeks from the time we started and it happened to arrive actually, we were thinking in terms of sooner. i would love to see it come even sooner, i think it would be a beautiful timeline. john? reporter: mr. president, you have seen in the last day or so, seen the number of known coronavirus cases in the country double in just two days, another 95 people have died in the last 24 hours.

new york's governor is saying this is spreading like a bullet train across the country, and governor of louisiana is saying that his state may not be able to handle the cases that they're facing by early april. so what are you seeing in all of this that leads you to think that we can reopen by -- >> we're working with all of them. we can be talking about large sections of our country because there are sections of our country that you didn't talk about that are doing unbelievably well. they have very little incidents or problems. very small numbers. it is very possible they won't be ever subject to what's happening in new york. new york is definitely a hot spot. there is know question about it. you know what we're doing in new york to try to help. i think we're doing an incredible job. we'll have the hospitals up quickly, the medical centers also quickly. but we'll just have to see. we have to follow it. we have to see to look at the curve. we'll see when it starts coming down. and we'll do the best job that

can be done. john, please. reporter: question for you mr. president, dr. fauci, looking at this idea of an eastertime, i know that is probably flexible, what are the metrics by which you will make the decision as to whether you can say yes, we can open up this area of the country or no we can't open up that area? will you look at disease numbers or possible isolation? >> we'll look at a lot of things. we'll look again at very large portions of our country. and i will be guided very much by dr. fauci and by deborah and some of the other professionals that work with both of you and we're going to see what will be, that would certainly be i think that is a goal that perhaps can happen or at least for a very large portion of our country. reporter: dr. fauci, since the president said, you and dr. birx and others will be guiding him making the decision, where are you now in this timeline 19 days from now? >> that is really very flexible. we just had a conversation with

the president in the oval office talking about, you know, you can look at a date but you got to be very flexible. on literally, day by day, week by week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what you're trying to do. john you asked for what kind of metrics, what kind of data, when you look at the country, obviously no one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like new york city. i mean that is just, good public health practice and common sense but the country is a big country and there are areas of the country, i refer to this in my opening remarks, that we really need to know more about what the penetrants is there. if we do the testing we're doing, testing will be associated by identification, association, contact tracing and you find other areas that are different from the other areas of the country you might not essentially see it as one force for the entire country, but look

at flexibility in different areas. people might get the misinterpretation, you will lift everything up, everybody going like that, that is not going to happen. it will be looking at the data, what we don't have right now we do really need we need to know what is going on in those areas of the country where there isn't an obvious outbreak. is there something underneath the surface that says, wait a minute, you better be careful and really clamp down, or, what looks there that you don't really have to be as harsh as you are in other areas. so it is looking at information that up to this point, john, we never had. so it is a flexibility situation. reporter: new york coming on -- is new york becoming epicenter? >> certainly is by far if you call it hot, call it any word you want to use, it is at a level that, i was speaking to tony before, it is a level that no place else is close. it is very unfortunate. one of the things that is, that

has happened we've done, i think really good job on, that is something special what's happened is, i learned from dr. birx a little while ago, when she said, i learned it actually this afternoon, in eight days, because we kept hearing about south korea, they had a very tough time at the beginning if you remember. in eight days we're doing more testing that than they have done in eight weeks. that is a tremendous turn. and with our testing it is going exponentially, it is going up, up, up, every day. so we're going to be able to do things with this very highly sophisticated testing. it is also, the test itself is considered the best test. so on top of doing now more than anybody else, we have a very high quality test. that makes a big difference. also makes a big difference even in terms of opening because we'll see those areas like the hot spots but new york city, definitely is a very hot spot. reporter: when you talk about areas you could open up, what specifically are you looking at, what states? are you talking about out west

or -- south -- >> farm belt. take a look at the farm belt. look at areas out west. look at big sections of texas. i was talking to the great governor of texas. they have done a fantastic job out there, but they have very big sections of texas like numerous states frankly. but we can have large sections of, if we want to do it that we can have lark sections open. i think it is important to start doing that, thinking about it. our country wants it to be open. our people want it to be open. they're raring to go. i think one of the reasons we'll have a tremendous bounce back. i think it will go very quickly. i also i want to thank while i'm here, i want to thank larry for the job he's done, steve mnuchin for the job he's done. peter navarro is doing different things. he is really a force in terms of getting masks and getting all of the ventilators and all the

things. he has been fantastic, peter. i also want to thank congress because whether or not we're happy that they haven't quite gotten there yet, they have been working long hours, republicans, democrats, all of them, the house, the senate, i want to thank congress. they are really trying to get there and i think they will. i will see you all tomorrow. thank you very much. reporter: heads up mr. president, about the quarantine on new york? did you give governor cuomo about a quarantine? >> we're talking to them. [reporters shouting questions] elizabeth: that is the president concluding in the briefing in the white house press room. headlines coming out. new york city is a hot spot. 60% of all new cases coming out of the new york metro area. the president talking about whether or not we'll reopen sections of the country by eastern time. he is talking about the farm belt and the west. he also did say, larry kudlow

said 6 trillion-dollar rescue package. two trillion coming out of congress and four trillion in federal reserve help and more fed action could be on the way. let's get right to edward lawrence in washington listening to the proceedings. edward, that was a lot of news coming out of that presser there. reporter: a lot of news. liz, it wasn't even a long news conference by the fact that these newsers and briefings have been going. a lot of news coming out of there. one big headline, they want to make sure all people who left new york, everyone who left new york self-quarantines for 14 days. that is probably a huge number as people started to leave new york city when they started to see cases spike. 60% of the new cases is what they said were in new york city. 30% of the deaths related to the coronavirus are in the new york area. so, you know, those are huge headlines there. you also talked about the stimulus bill. they said they are close to an agreement. the president is saying that he believes it can be across the finish line at some point. as you said, 6 trillion.

two trillion in direct relief of the stimulus package, four trillion from the federal reserve here. the president categorizing this we're near the end of the fight of coronavirus. he said he wanted to get the full economy open by easter, by april 12th. ambitious goal for some but dr. fauci you heard said he will look at numbers to see if it is doable. they are attacking situation in new york. they clearly believe new york is a hot spot in this virus. if they control it in new york, they can control it throughout the rest of the nation. elizabeth: edward, correct me if i'm wrong, is the president say ready to invoke the federal procurement act but he didn't right now. he is waiting for the trigger on that? >> he is using it as a carrot. he sees that he has it in his back pocket but companies are stepping up now, making those masks, starting to join together to make some ventilators and get

some products that are missing out to the medical suppliers or medical folks who need it. elizabeth: edward lawrence, thank you so much for joining us. great to see you. edward lawrence in washington. before we move on, we want to update you on dr. deborah birx. she is a member of the white house coronavirus task force. last night dr. birx said she had a fever and to the tested for covid-19. her test came back negative. we had audio difficulties last night. we're sorry for the confusion there. bring in louisiana senator bill cassidy also a doctor. your take on everything we just heard, the president talking about a 6 trillion-dollar rescue package for the country. two trillion out of congress, four trillion from the federal reserve in loan guarantees and more. your reaction to the numbers. >> we have to see exactly what they mean by that. what i was told, the money we in congress appropriated to treasury is then given to the fed and the fed uses that as

loan guaranties. now that leverage is anywhere from eight to 10, even higher impact if you will. so i don't know if they're measuring and what leverage point they're using for those dollars coming through from congress to the treasury through the fed to reach that number. that is what i'm looking forward to seeing. elizabeth: essentially what is happening right now, this is the first time in u.s. history where the government told americans to stay home because of a flew pandemic. it is being called a super flew pandemic. essentially ordering u.s. commerce to stop. there are questions about delays in the rescue package coming out of congress, two trillion. what can you tell us about that. >> i think it is totally unconscionable. we had bipartisan basis where democrats and republicans came together. a transparent process and where american people and senators had to look at it together. the way schumer and mnuchin, i

thought schumer railed against sweetheart deals even though bipartisan project. that means he is about to put a sweetheart deal in. that said we'll wait and see. we'll not have a chance to review it. it will be released, vote on it. any scrutiny american people wish to have, truly focused on them, not someone with a special relationship will be lost. elizabeth: just to recap what the president just said moments ago, that the president is talking about reopening parts of the farm belt and also areas out west. he also said big sections of texas, hopefully by east earlier time, he will do it safely conferring with dr. fauci who was at the presser, dr. birx and others. the president said he rejected today nancy pelosi's version of the bill because of the special interest items in it. things like more money for the

neh, jfk performing arts center that will not stop the coronavirus outbreak has nothing to do with that or help with ventilators. we were here in 2009 with president obama's 800 million-dollar stimulus plan. millions of dollars for green companies that are insolvent. we've been here before. >> i hope the president is able to stick to that pelosi and schumer don't mind the american people suffering. they are willing to let it stretch out a few days, even though a bipartisan process by mitch mcconnell, which 98 senators, 100 senators could look at the product, make sure it is a good product, we have something where schumer around pelosi directly negotiating with mnuchin. we will not have a chance to look at it. you can slip in a sweetheart deal for somebody you know. i much prefer the way the founding fathers set it up, you have bipartisan, everybody can look at it. you have a chance to review before you vote as opposed to we'll get it tomorrow morning and vote right after. elizabeth: senator, thanks so much for joining us.

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thanks for being with us, doctor,. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: what are you seeing happening in emergency rooms what do you see happening? moments ago the president said new york and metro area of new york is the hot spot in the country? your reaction? >> i think that is absolutely true. as he said 60% of the new cases are coming from new york which definitely we are seeing the surge. i think the important thing is that the rest of the country learn a lesson from new york what to do, what not to do. elizabeth: so the president is you can talking about reopening the country. the west or sections of texas, the farm belt. what do you, what was your reaction when you heard the president say that? >> i think that we all want to get back to our normal life. i think we have to be incredibly careful as to opening too early. if that is done, we'll see the surge once again, and that will be very detrimental to health care in our country because the hospitals will not be able to handle that surge. elizabeth: that is what is

happening in china, singapore, taiwan. they're fearing another surge, another outbreak. let's get, let's go broad zoom. lawmakers are worried they're making policy in the dark. we're hearing from scientists, this is just like the super flu pandemic of 1957 and 1968. both were asian flu viruses. both about 1.1 million fatalities worldwide. 100,000 or so here in the united states. what's your reaction to trying to get a grip on what we are dealing with? that we may be been here before in 1957 and '68? >> i think we can learn from history and i think we really have, in closing so many areas of our country down quickly, hopefully that will decrease the spread and it will help flatten the curve. we won't be in that same situation that we were decades ago. elizabeth: you know, doctor, there is the other thing too. ibm, home to the most powerful supercomputer on the planet,

they're bringing in an unprecedented amount of computing power. 16 computer platforms coming in along with that supercomputer to crack the virus code. we're talking nasa scientists, mit scientists, they're screening thousands of compound. 77 drug compound, they're coming up with it, are you encouraged by news like that. >> without a doubt. i think american ingenuity and resilience will shine through and help quash the disease. elizabeth: what is your take on china, australia, france, even the nih in 2005, said yes to zpack, yes to chloroquine compound, what is your reaction to that as a treatment? >> i think there is promise in it but we still do need the clinical trials. given the amount of people that we have infected in our country now, and that we will see, we can do these clinical trials very quickly. they are being set up around the

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kt mcfarland, former national security advisor to president trump. kt, thanks for joining us. >> a pleasure. elizabeth: kt, first reaction to taiwan. the vice president of taiwan blasting the world health organization saying you, you failed to warn vulnerable countries about what was going on in china with the coronavirus outbreak, where were you world health organization? >> yeah, i think, i think the world health organization has a lot of answering to do because what is their job? their job is to alert the world to just exactly a crisis like this but they failed to do it. they knew that something was happening in china but they didn't let the world know. taiwan came to the world healthorg saying, said we're seeing cases of this new strange virus. this is how we handled it. this is how we tested it, this is how we mitigate it, this is our data. yet the world health organization ignored them. why? because the world health

organization is intimidated by china. china doesn't want taiwan in any international organizations including organizations where their contribution would be essential. i blame two organizations, the chinese communist party, the chinese government as well as the world health organization. elizabeth: how can w.h.o. get so steamrolled by china? it is patient zero now may have been infected much earlier than previously believed. it may go beyond earlier than november 17th, that person was infected possibly earlier. that means china waited more than a month to tell the world health organization, possible early cases will be found there? nine out of china's cases in the epidemic were not even documented before the president put travel restrictions on china? >> china will have a lot of explaining to do. they have gone around the world liz, for the last decade. american democracy, they're

finished. free-market capitalism, it is glory days are over, we're the new future. this is the 21st century is chinese century. look at state capitalism, we're the wave the future there is a dirty underside to that. truth gets suppressed. truth is whatever the leaders of totalitarian country decide the truth is. in this case they decided to suppress information about the coronavirus even though must have known it was going to infect the entire world. they didn't stop tourism. they didn't stop chinese citizens from traveling abroad. they didn't quarantine the area where they knew it was coming from, as you point out for weeks. as a result, the virus is spread worldwide. countries all around the world are coping with this. people are going to die, economies are collapsing. people run employed. why? because the chinese decided they wanted to suppress the information. i think if they want to be a world leader and they want to play in the game of the big nation states of the world and the superpowers, they really

need to tell us what they're all about and to, and i think they really have shown, they don't deserve to be a world leader if this is how they behave. it is really endangered the entire world by irresponsibility. elizabeth: why the media reaction, attacks on trump administration what it is doing to try to curtail this? we understand the criticism has been that the trump administration was accused of downplaying it at the outset but nobody really knew the full scope of what we were dealing with and since then the white house has taken six dozen actions to curtail it. now europe, countries inside of europe are doing what the president said to do, do travel bans. now travel bans inside of europe with the other countries inside of europe. your take on that? why the media, where is the media criticism of what china did versus torrent of media criticism against the president?

>> look, i think the media and their allies on capitol hill, they have been useful idiots. they have for the last three years have been pedaling -- peddling the russian disinformation campaign and dividing america and sown discord and division throughout the nation. now they're doing the chinese communist party's bidding. they're saying it is trump's fault or trump shouldn't discriminate. we can't prove anything. this is about hating donald trump and they hate him so much that they're willing to put, i think, safety of the nation in some cases. you have to ask them why are they not passing this legislation? why are they continuing to not report about the steps that have been taken? that travel ban that trump issued against china was roundly criticized at the time. it turns out that is probably the one thing prevented us from italy right now. the ban he put on european nations, that is another reason we may not have the extent of the damage to our nation's health and to the economy that other nations have had.

you know, i really fault the media. do their job, not just do their politics. elizabeth: yeah, in other words, don't be agents of change, just be reporters. kt, final word, is this all of distraction what is going on with the media backbiting and ankle biting? is it distraction, armchair criticism, instead of getting us the whole country focused on getting us out of this crisis, getting the united states into the end zone, do you find it a big distraction, the fingerpointing and the blame game? >> it is little ankle biters, people have not gotten over the fact that donald trump is president of the united states. they will never give him credit for anything. turns out he is probably best suited guy for the job right now. and you know, i think at the end of all of this, i think they will be kind of irrelevant. what have they done to help the nation? not much. elizabeth: kt, your satellite may go down in second. sorry we had to say good-bye. wish we had longer.

>> thanks, liz. elizabeth: all right, kt. got to say good-bye to you before the bird went down. kt mcfarland. take you to texas. texas is gearing up in a good way, the lone star state taking on the fight against the coronavirus. is texas doing it right? should other states do what texas is doing? we're bringing on state attorney general ken paxton nexexexexex as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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is certainly no reason to have, the statewide solutions of the same for all 254 counties. elizabeth: there has been a run on chloroquine, do you think the state or other states have stockpile of chloroquine and z packs. what do you think? >> certainly trying. i know that i have been talking to emergency management people and they're trying to get supplies of all kind of different things from drugs to, to masks to ventilators to working non-stop, to address those issues. elizabeth: let's, i want to talk about california. we are hearing that, built tent facilities, beaches there,

influx of patients. california, is in dire straits as well. this is a very distressed health care system, even prior to, the outbreak there. they need potentially 50,000 hospital beds to accommodate a surge according to modeling there, reaction to that? >> it is sad they're in that situation. it spread so fast in california, hopefully the governor's moving in direction, that will address, the issue an hopefully save lives. elizabeth: here is another thing that is going on. what is the reaction to states like new jersey saying that we will have the police enforce you know, basically shelter in place laws there? they're even talking about having the police, you know, look at parties in people's homes and if it is you know, large gathering, the police may knock on the door? your reaction to that? elizabeth: fortunately we're not in that situation in texas i

hope. we're never anywhere close to that. we're, police are coming in to people's individual homes and stopping them from meeting. every -- elizabeth: this is the virus. this is the virus, beg your pardon, so sorry for interrupting. the virus is changing some areas of the country who we are, where we value? >> definitely a concern. individual liberties are something founders deeply concerned about. it creates tension as it relates to health risks. >> i want to talk quickly, because this is another breaking story, about the police in southern california, potentially using drones, equipped with night vision cams, certainly in south of san diego in, san diego the county there. they're talking about using drones, doubling the fleet of drones, equipped with night vision cameras, speakers, to cover a large area, to get out the announcement that if they see a crowd of 10 or more, they

will say, hey, disperse. that is other behavior, right? that is kind of concerning for civil liberties, no? we understand, it is about keeping people safe. we're reporting on certain areas are choosing to do. your reaction to that? >> there is definitely a balance between liberty and health. that is a line that i hope that we never have to cross in texas. i would certainly be concerned about california citizens, if i had the, had state government or local government having a drone over my house or over my property. there is the concern. elizabeth: there is concern texas could have outbreak. there is concern about florida as well. is there anything that texas, you think other states, are say together white house, hey, we need ventilators. we need beds? the president has said, localities said work as much as you can. your take on the fight going on there for resources? >> we're in the middle of that

fight. every day our emergency management service people are in the process of trying to acquire more supplies, more drugs more masks. everything on the sight. elizabeth: different areas part of country. retooling hotels, trailers, rvs, convention centers, here, new york city, the jacob javits center retooled to handle hospital beds. you guys are ready with back up plans in case the thing breaks out in a big way at the loan star state? >> in texas this country, the creativity we express when we're under pressure, i think we're doing that. really appreciate it. thank you. elizabeth: thank you, so much for having us in your home. thank you so much for watching. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network. have a good evening

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