lou: the president upcoming and dr. mehmet oz, lara logan, gordon chang among our guests tomorrow evening. we hope you join us. follow me on twitter @loudobbs and facebook and instagram @loudobbs tonight. we'll see you tomorrow. good night from sussex. liz: i'm elizabeth macdonald, welcome to "the evening edit." we are awaiting the president's press conference. he will address the nation from the white house rose guarden. he is expected to announce the members of his new economic advisory group to lead reopening of the nation's economy. welcome to the shore north dakota senator, mike rounds. great to have you on, senator. >> hah, thank you. i'm from so you dak -- i'm from south dakota. liz: thanks for that. the president faces a big tenth

amendment fight. the states have power to reopen. new york state governor andrew cuomo will sue the white house there are two task forces. one on the northeast, one on the west coast, how do you see this playing out? >> i think they will all end up working together. i think the president wants to be able to share his vision of the appropriate timing. he has got a lot of real professionals working with him and i think the governors do really want to work side by side there may be discussions who is in charge of what. reality is, look, timing on this, the timing on this recovery will be depending on science. it will be dependent on our ability to get back to work as soon as possible. the president has the right idea. we need to open up the economy as soon as possible but at the same time these governors, i think they feel the same way. they're going to want, they're going to want us to respect "the federalist," the federalism that has been a part of our

country but most certainly i think this will all end in a good light. i think the president's relationship in this particular case is going to be critical. liz: you know, the number of cases appear to be leveling off. we are now out of the woods yet in the u.s. it appears they have peaked in various parts of the u.s. certainly in the eu, the uk as well, italy, france, spain, they're talking about reopening their economies. andrew cuomo, governor of new york, says he will take it into a lawsuit if he doesn't do it, if the president doesn't do it his way. i hear what you're saying about working together. the texas governor thinks most states can reopen even sooner than may 1st. what do you think? >> well you know, we're here in south dakota right now. i can tell you, a lot of the people out here, we're doing daily work from day-to-day because we're in a sparse part of the country.

farmers have to be in the field right now. they are in the field. we know in order to do that we have to have trucking firms bringing in fertilizer necessary, the chemicals that are necessary. they are going to be able to have to transport their equipment back and forth. the smaller communities, where it is very widespread, they provide the services. if you don't plan on time, you will not get a crop. at the same time smithfield in sioux falls, one of those critical industries they provide somewhere between four and 5% of all the pork production in the entire united states. if they're not, out and operating, we're going to start to see shortages in food. so those critical types of industries like that, they need to be operational across the country. it is going to be a whole lot easier to keep those businesses that are operating, it is going to be a whole lot easier to open up the economy again in the future, if those businesses continue to operate do operate in a safe fashion.

liz: yeah. >> in south dakota we want to be a part of the solution but we also understand you got to do this whole thing with some common sense. liz: yeah. common sense is key. we hear joe biden saying, seize the opportunity right now to do a green new deal when americans are scared. they're scared. they have lost, a lot of them, millions of them lost their jobs and that's the issue. we want to also protect people and their livelihoods and lives with jobs. you need an economy to pay for things like public health. i want to move on to this. you know the media keeps reporting that the u.s. has most cases in the world but not on per capita basis. that is the issue. they keep saying we have less testing than the rest of the world on per capita basis, but when it comes to cases they say the u.s. is number one. the media reporting has been criticized on this too. people just want the facts. they want to know what's the status of the vaccine, where the status of the drugs?

would you, be for maybe a congressional, why doesn't congress do a task force saying to americans, here is where we're at with all the vaccines? because, sir, senator, there is a real issue with some of these tests that are not fda approved. they carry disclaimers saying these are not fda approved and go out with testing for covid-19. we saw thousands of trade lent tests in places like laredo, texas. what do you think? >> any test out there need to be approved. tests that are not approved you simply can't trust them. we want tests with being available and very short turn around. that is the positive thing. that is something that the team right now, cdc, and hhs should be able to coordinate. in terms of doing a congressional investigation and so forth, that is not where this needs to go. this needs to be handled at the executive level. i think it will be but there is

something else as well. just remember, we're a very open society and we're reporting what we see. the press is reporting what we see right now on a community by community basis. a lot of the rest of the world you don't have that type of openness. china is a good example. if they would have told the truth to begin with we would have had more time to respond what is happening -- liz: let me stay on that. let me stay on that. should the media be focusing their ire on china? we've been on this story for a long time. in other words there is fears that we don't know what, what is the origin of covid-19 of, sars cov-2. there is fears, bulletin in the atomic scientists they have escaped from a research laboratory in china. we're already seeing sars research, the sars virus in 2003 escaped and killed at least eight people in china.

we've seen people in china trying to sell research animals into wet markets. we see all sorts of problems with the labs in china. would you be for a level of a u.n., international inspector to go. >> -- go into research laboratories in china? sort of like we do with nuclear laboratory inspectors around the world with the u.n., what do you think? >> in the future, if we could go that but remember china will not let you simply walk in to do those inspections. they're a very closed society. look the communist party controls china. this isn't a case where -- liz: we're, senator, i hear what you're saying. we're not fatally naive here but something has to be done to stop what china has been doing because it triggered humanitarian crises around the world. so how do you hold china accountable, how do you monitor what china is doing? we understand this is a closed communist nation but this can't

happen again? >> when the time comes to hold them confidentable, it will not be right now. it will be once we get a handle on pandemic in front much us today. we know that they didn't tell the truth and they didn't tell it as quickly as they should have. this is something we have to do to the world health organization which also by the way has to be held accountable. we have people in the united states that are suffering. we'll get the pandemic under control. we'll get vaccines that we need. we'll get the therapeutics. focus on taking care of stuff in front of us. when it is all said and done, there needs to be accountability. the thing we always have to remember, until such time you have three societies elsewhere in the world you will never get the entire truth. so until such time as china is free, you're not going to be able to do anything except say you trust but you absolutely have to verify. i know the president wants to have a good working relationship with china, we all do but it comes with verification and

let's get the verification in place. let's not trust what they say. let's verify what they say. liz: you know the world health organization, we know it has been roundly criticized for basically repeating what china was saying, there is no human-to-human transmission of covid-19 when doctors were dying in china, treating patients in china. when the wuhan health bulletin out of that province warned there is human-to-human transmission and now we're seeing the world health organization repeating what north korea is saying, claiming that north korea has no cases. there are only about 500 or so in quarantine there. so who can be, who is the world body to hold them accountable? you no republicans are saying bring a case to the international court of justice or withhold debt payments. make them repatriate to us the investments we made in china.

so, again, i hear what you're saying. now is not the time but again it cannot happen again. it can't happen again. triggering a humanitarian crises and deaths around the world in nearly 200 countries out of china, it can't happen. >> i agree with you totally but let's first of all focus on the losses we have here in the united states. let's get this under control. let's get this thunk completed. let's get the therapeutics in. let's help our people right now. then let's go back in to challenge these folks. let's put additional safe guards place. world health organization should not be spouting what china is telling them. at the same time the chinese communist party did not do their country any favors whatsoever and certainly should not be trusted in the future to provide information without verification. anything that comes out of china you verify first. and one more thing, let's make sure that in the future when we start talking about what is critical for our own survival in the united states, it include

made in america products. not only a lot of our own food products such as beef which right now, if you get a product in the u.s. labeling on beef, doesn't necessarily means it comes from the united states t could come from outside of the united states. we need to fix those issues with identity and location of our food sources and our medical supplies. we have got good companies here in the united states that could provide a huge amount of our need but when we don't pay attention to them during the good times in tough times like this it shows up and most certainly we need to get back to looking at america's needs and our security needs with regard to those critical products. liz: okay. senator mike rounds of south dakota, thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. come back soon. >> thank you. liz: okay. we are still awaiting president trump. he will address the nation from the white house rose garden where the president is expected to announce his members of his new economic advisory group, to

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liz: here's the president at his coronavirus task force. he is about to announce an economic advisory board. the president of the united states from the rose guarden. >> we have just reached agreement. the secretary of treasury, steve mnuchin, with the major airlines, all of our great

airlines, to participate in a payroll support program. this agreement willfully support airline industry workers, preserve the vital role airlines play in our economy and protect taxpayers. the airlines are now in good shape and they will get over a very tough period of time that was not caused by them. the united states is continuing to make substantial progress in our war against the virus. we grieve at every precious life that has been lost to the invisible enemy but through the darkness we can see the rays of light. we see that fun nil. and at the end of that tunnel we see light. we're starting to see it more than ever before. we've held our rate, the numbers , everything we've done. we've been very, very strong on it and very powerful on it. you look at what's happening in

other countries. spain, italy, united kingdom. we're working with them. we're trying to help them especially with ventilators. they have been calling a lot. they need ventilators so badly. 15% of counties within the united states have zero cases. many counties in the united states have a very small number of cases. large sections of our country are really looking at other sections saying wow, that looks bad but they don't have the problem. i salute the american people for following our guidelines on social distancing, even you people, so different looking out there when i look at you. their devotion, your devotion is saving lives. today i'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the world health organization while a review is conducted to assess the world health organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the

spread of the coronavirus. everybody knows what's going on there. american taxpayers provide between 400 million and $500 million per year to the w.h.o. in contrast china contributes roughly $40 million a year and even less as the organization's leading sponsor, the united states, has a duty to insist on full accountability. one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the w.h.o. was its disasterous decision to oppose travel restrictions from china and other nations. they were very much opposed to what we did. fortunately i was not convinced and suspended travel from china, saving untold numbers of lives, thousands and thousands of people would have died. had other nations likewise suspended travel from china countless more lives would have been saved. instead look at the rest of the

world, look at parts of europe. other nations and regions who followed w.h.o. guidelines and kept their borders open to china accelerated the pandemic all around the world. many countries said we're going to listen to the w.h.o. and they have problems the likes of which they cannot believe. nobody can believe. the decision of other major countries to keep travel open was one of the great tragedies and missed opportunity from the early days. the w.h.o.'s attack on travel restrictions put political correctness above life saving measures. travel bans work for the same reason that quarantines work. pandemics depend on human-to-human transmission. border control is fundamental to virus control. since it es establishment in 1948 the american people have

generously supported the world health organization to provide better health out comes for the world and most importantly to prevent global health crises. with the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic we have deep concerns whether america's generosity has been put to the best use possible. the reality is that the w.h.o. failed to adequately obtain, vet, share information in a timely and transparent fashion. the world depends on the w.h.o. to work with countries to insure that accurate information about international health threats is share in a timely manner and if it's not, to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening. the w.h.o. failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable. it's time after all of these decades.

the w.h.o. failed to investigate credible reports from sources in wuhan that conflicted directly with the chinese government's official accounts. there was credible information to suspect human-to-human transmission in december 2019, which should have spurred the w.h.o. to investigate and investigate immediately. through the middle of january it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary. the delays that the w.h.o. experienced in declaring a public health emergency cost valuable time, tremendous amounts of time. more time was lost in the delay it took to get a team of international experts in to examine the outbreak, which we wanted to do, which they should have done. the inability of the w.h.o. to

obtain virus samples to this date has deprived the scientific community of essential data. new data that emerges across the world on a daily basis points to the unreliability of the initial reports and the world received all sorts of false information about transmission and mortality the silence of the w.h.o. on disappearance of scientific researchers and doctors and on new restrictions on sharing of research into the orrery begins of covid 19 in the country of origin is deeply concerning, especially when we put up by far the largest amount of money. not even close. had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into the

china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death, very little death and certainly very little death by comparison. this would have saved thousands of lives and avoided worldwide economic damage. instead the w.h.o. willingly took china's assurances at face value, they 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. the w.h.o. pushed china's misinformation about the virus saying it was communicable and there was no need for travel bans. they told us when we put on our travel ban, a very strong travel ban, there was no need to do it. don't do it. they actually fought us. the w.h.o. reliance on china's

disclosures likely caused a 20 fold increase in cases worldwide and it may be much more than that. the w.h.o. has not addressed a single one of these concerns nor provided a serious explanation that acknowledges its own mistakes of which there were many. america, the world have chosen to rely on the w.h.o. for accurate, timely, independent information to make important public health recommendations and decisions. if we cannot trust that this is what we will receive from the w.h.o., our country will be forced to find other ways to work with other nations to achieve public health goals. we'll have no choice but to do that. our country countries are now experiencing, you look all over the world, tremendous death and economic devastation because those tasks with protecting us,

by being truthful and transparent failed to do so. it would have been so easy to be truthful. and so much death has been caused by their mistakes. we will continue to engage with the w.h.o. to see if it can make meaningful reforms for the time-being, we will redirect global health and directly work with others. all of the aid that we send will be discussed at very, very powerful letters and with very powerful and influential groups and smart groups, medically, politically, and every other way and we'll be discussing it with other countries and global health partners what we do with all of that money that goes to w.h.o. and maybe w.h.o. will reform and maybe they won't but

we'll be able to see. as you know in other countries hit hard by the virus, hospitals have been tragically forced to ration medical care and use of ventilators. due to our early and aggressive action, the skill of our health care workers and the resilience of our health care system, no hospital in america has been forced to deny any patient access to a ventilator. with all of the talk you have heard where some states wanted 40,000 ventilators. i said that doesn't work, 40,000. and they ended up with seven or eight thousand and they had no problem. 40,000 ventilators for one state. ridiculous. scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be

needing 130,000 ventilators. that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators. this is the system we inherited. i had governors requesting unreasonable sums that the federal government just didn't have. and you look at the states. the states didn't have. the states were not prepare. i knew that every person who need advent late tore and didn't get one would die. that is what we were told. they would die. i saw in other countries doctors having to make decisions on who got a ventilator and who didn't and i knew this would be a defining challenge of the crisis. those that didn't get ventilators were said to be in a position only of one alternative and that was death.

would we be able to prevent americans from dying because we couldn't get them ventilators? and the ventilators they needed they needed immediately. i instructed my team to move heaven and earth to make sure that this didn't happen. we started to smartly ration and distribute the ventilators that we had and that others had and i got daily update on the supply we had from requests coming in and people wanting to have update. we had a great group of people working on it. i instructed my team to use the defense protection act and the defense production act was used very powerfully. more powerfully anybody would know. in fact so powerfully that for the most part we didn't have to officially take it out. it was a hammer t was a very powerful hammer in order to

manufacture as many ventilators as possible. last year america manufactured from a dead start 30,000 ventilators and this year the number will be over 150,000 ventilators. it could be as high as 200,000, far more than we'll ever need. so we'll be able to stockpile. we'll be able to talk to states about stockpiling. these are high quality ventilators. we had a choice. we do do inexpensive, less productive ventilators or high quality. we've done a high quality ventilator. so we should have anywhere from 150 to 200,000 ventilators. in addition to that we have 10,000 ventilators right now in the federal stockpile ready to move should we need them. we might not. should we need them in new york or new jersey or in louisiana or in illinois or any other state that may need them, if we have a surge. i'd like to asked a dam bowler

to come up say a few words. he has done a fantastic job. a young man who worked 24 hours a day on handling the situation and i just like to have adam wherever he may be come up to say a few words. adam, please, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you, mr. president. at your direction this country has worked hard over the past few weeks to ramp up ventilator production through all means possible. thousands of ventilators are coming in now monthly with over 100,000 by the end of june. at the same time there are over 60,000 ventilators in our hospitals right now that are not in use. knowing this, and at your direction we reached out to the american hospital association to design a system that allows hospitals to lend ventilators to other hospitals right when they

need it. within the past week alone 20 top health systems have signed up for this dynamic ventilator reserve, representing over 4,000 ventilators. not only do we have top academic systems like cleveland clinic and mayo clinic but we also have top health systems from new york city, new orleans, washington state, and california. over a week ago these places would have needed help but now they are here to help. there has been no american that has needed a ventilator that has not received one. this dynamic virtual reserve, combined with the strategic stockpile will insure that this is always the case. i'd like to thank the president for his leadership and directive to focus on public/private partnerships like this one. i also would like to thank sam hazen from hca, lloyd dean from common spirit, for leading effort with hca.

these have been difficult times. a fee weeks ago, the vice president came into my office around reminded us of the power of the resilience of the american people and private companies. we needed it that day, mr. vice president. this partnership is another example of americans helping americans. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> i would shake his hand but i'm not allowed to. times have changed, haven't they. thank you very much. you did a fantastic job. we're proud of you and your whole team. thank you. today we are taking further action to maximize our oversupply and available ventilators. this afternoon i met with the leaders, the top people of many of america's big, powerful, beautiful around you know, very, very important hospitals and

hospital associations who join us today. we had a great meeting. learned a lot and they have been going through a lot of. they have been doing a fantastic job as everybody here will attest. i'm pleased to announce that my administration is partnering with the hospitals across the country to create an innovative system called the dynamic ventilator reserve. so that we're going to have tremendous numbers of ventilators that we're able to help our states with at a later date. if there is ever a problem like this which we hope to god will never happen again. it was 1917, 1918, that was a long time ago we hope it never happens again. i would like to ask rick pollak of the american hospitalization, sam hazen, ceo of hca health care. that is the largest in the united states. warner thomas, ceo of oshner

health. and if i could, mike hall, here from cleveland clinic. somebody? good, thank you, come on up, folks. please. say a few words. >> thank you very much, mr. president. we appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your team on the dynamic ventilator reserve program. this will provide a really important mechanism for us in serving our patients and communes by insuring that this vital equipment will be available to critical areas that are in need. you know, as this battle against this disease has affected the country a little bit unevenly, the rates of infection, hospitalization and icu use varies from one region to another and someplaces with lower infection rates, some ventilators may not be in use while other areas are potentially stretched beyond their capacity. the database of available

ventilators that we are creating will allow us to flex so that we can make sure that available equipment can be shared with those in need. we appreciate the leadership of the health systems that are here today, that have stepped forward. adam mentioned the pew. i don't know if he talked talket fritz francois from nyu langone and david from wellpoint as well. we appreciate the administration to find innovative solutions to insure the best care for our patients. we'll continue to work with hospitals and health systems across the country to add to this reserve further. your team provided us with important leadership and we look forward to working with you to make this success. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president, mr. vice president, adam, the team. i stand here before you in front of our 285,000 colleagues who

provide care to patients every day across the country. one of the guiding principles we had when we went into this covid-19 battle was to find partnerships. partnerships with other components of the industry, partnerships with other health systems but parter in -- partnerships with other governments. we're proud of this public/private partnership and we think it will do great for the communities. thank you very much. >> great job. >> thank you, mr. president. it's great to have oxner health be a part of this program. we certainly been a recipient and the state of louisiana has been recipient of help getting ventilators to our state and oxner health we're taking care of 60% of the covid patients in new orleans and we did see a spike over the past few weeks but we're starting to get on the other side of that, heading into the right direction. i also want to thank you personally for helping oxner

health. couple weeks ago we were running short of downs and you and your team was able to direct some to new orleans which was helpful to us and other hospitals around the new orleans area. we're proud to be part of that dynamic ventilator reserve and we're proud to be a part of that and help other communities around the country. thank you. >> thank you, mr. president, for the invitation here. on behalf of the cleveland clinic i would like to offer slightly different story of covid pandemic. in home state of ohio we had early institution of social distancing our ability to scale up the testing and ramping up capacity we've actually seen a stable number of patients over the last eight to 10 days. only 160 patients have been hospitalized with covid infection in cleveland clinic health system. we're also very grateful for the support from our state government as well from our federal government. this is a battle where we're all

in together. we coordinate efforts, share our resources and work together as one. i'm convinced we can do a lot of working together. thanks very much for having us. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. good job. that was a terrific meeting. thank you all for being here. thank you very much. the united states has far more icu beds per capita than any other nation. we have 34.7 icu beds per 100,000 people which is the best there is. compared with roughly 12.5 beds per 100,000 in italy. 9.7 beds in spain. think of that 34.7 we have. and 6.6 in the uk. there are more than 60,000 ventilators in hospitals and other health care facilities that are not in use at this

moment. they didn't need them. we got a lot of them out and they didn't need them. that's a good thing they didn't need them. but a lot of. a a lot of good brain power was involved for making decisions. i want to thank the vice president for your task force and all members of your task force for doing an incredible job. you have really done a incredible job. mike, thank you very much. through the new partnership with the hospitals unused ventilators will voluntarily lend them where they have unused ventilators they will voluntarily lend the ventilators to other hospitals and other areas of greater need. within the last several days more than 20 of our nation's largest health systems already pledged more than 4,000 ventilators should we need them. and i've been told that if they needed more, there are more there. we're going to be helping very

soon when the supply really starts pouring in which was started but will really start about less than a month we'll be helping other countries and they need it very badly. they have no chance without these ventilators. they have to have ventilators. as we continue our medical war against the virus the fda has now authorized the first test developed by researchers from rutgers university that can use saliva from patients, the first one. these tests can be self-administered by patients in health care settings which will reduce exposure for medical workers and save personal protective equipment. rutters will begin processing ten thousand tests daily by using is saliva. that is a first, they will be able to do things in terms of speed and ease we haven't been able to do before. so a lot of great innovation is taking place during this period

of time around that's innovation, i call it innovation under pressure. it is a big difference, innovation under pressure, right? cleveland clinic knows all about that. as we prepare for the next phase of this great struggle, we must also do everything in our power to restore prosperity for the american worker. there is tremendous interest and excitement surrounding the administration's efforts to get the economy roaring once again. i think it is going to roar once again as it gets open. i think it is going to go up tremendously. you see what is happening with the stock market already pause lot of financial people, the great minds, they're looking at stock, what they're really seeing how we're doing. if we weren't doing well the market wouldn't be at a level it is today. they have a lot of confidence that we're doing the right thing and that our country will be open soon and our country is going to be booming.

we've had requests to participate from the best in the world as we share their enthusiasm to get our country going. i thank them for wanting to contribute. we look forward to speaking with many industry leaders, seeking input how we can return to what was until he very recently was the greatest economy anywhere in the world and i can say the greatest economy in the history of the world. there has never been an economy like we had just a little bit more than a month ago. we set every record you could set. more people working than we've ever had working before, almost 160 million. the best unemployment numbers we've ever had and the best employment numbers we've ever had. everybody was doing well. stock market at a record. 142 days it hit a record. and i think we're going to top those records, okay. i think we're going to top them

soon once we get rid of the invisible enemy will happen. the plans to reopen the country are close tock finalized and we will soon be sharing new details and guidelines with everybody. 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 reopening and a very powerful reopening 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 in much different place than other states. it is going to be very, very close. maybe even before the date of

may 1st. so that will be for some states. actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape and we think we're going to be able to get them open fairly quickly and then others will follow. the federal government will be watching them very closely and we'll be there to help. we'll be there to help in many different ways as we've been, where we built hospital beds at a number nobody ever seen before. we did the ventilators that we just discussed at a level nobody has ever seen before. nobody can even belief. foreign countries even powerful countries can't even believe what weigh were able to do with ventilators. big, powerful countries, big producing countries can't believe what we were able to do. we will hold the governors accountable but again we're working with them to make sure it works really well.

now we have a list of people that i will be speaking to over the next very short period of time, in many cases tomorrow. we're going to have elected officials and we'll be submitting that list to you within the next 24 hours but we have a list of different industries that i will be discussing by meeting by telephone because we don't want people traveling right now, american farm bureau fed railings, cisco systems, tyson foods, purdue farms, archer daniels midland company, cortiva, tractor supply company, seaboard corporation, grim wais way farms, mount dairy farms. others in the agricultural business. in banking, bank of america, brian moynihan has been great, jpmorgan chase, jamie dimon.

goldman sachs. citigroup, wells farring go, u.s. bancorp, morgan stanley, james gorman. grand rapids state bank, southern bancorp, all great institutions with lots to say and lots of good ideas and if you look how paycheck has been working out, the numbers are incredible and i hope congress is going to be able to supplement the amount of money going to our workers. i hope they're able to get that done very quickly because it has been an incredible success. many are already spending that money and the money has been distributed at numbers that nobody believed possible for this short period of time. it was only a week ago but, a lot of money has been distributed already. it will keep our small businesses open. the construction labor workforce international union of operating engineers, jim callahan. north america building trades

union, sean mcgarvey. these are a lot of friend of mine. laborers international union of north america, terry o'sullivan. international brotherhood of teamsters, james hoffa. national electrical contractors association, david long. bechtel. fluor. national association of homebuilders. association of builders and contractors. associated general contractors. richard trumka, afl-cio. gh palmer. so these are some of the unions pretty much, almost all of the ones that will be on the line. in defense we have lockheed martin, honeywell, northrop grumman. these are all the top of each companies, ceos, chairmans, presidents. raytheon, general dynamics. energy, we had a tremendous success recently with energy over the weekend.

that it finished with tremendous credit going to russia and saudi arabia and it could be as much as 20 million barrels a day of a cut. so we can get rid of some of the tremendous excess oil that that's been produced because of the fact the virus knocked out almost 50% of the business. it has been an amazing achievement. some people say one of the biggest oil deals ever made, maybe the biggest oil deal ever made, they're saying. i didn't know that we were involved getting that done. it is very important. we'll save hundreds of thousands of jobs for our energy industry, texas, north dakota, oklahoma, all the different energy states. it isit is great. it is called opec plus. that is opec plus, meaning some nations outside of opec. around i also want to thank the president of mexico because he was, he was terrific.

showed great dexterity and flexibility getting the deal done. we want to thank him very much. on the energy front we had exxonmobil, continental resources, chevron, southern company, alabama power, conocophillips, occidental petroleum, kinder morgan, hess corporation, perot group and a few others, big ones, great ones. financial services, we have blackstone, stephen schwartzman. paulsen and company, john paulsen. citadel, ken griffin. elliot management, paul singer. vista equity partners, robert smith. fidelity investments abigail johnson. mastercard. visa. chubb. sequoia. stevens, warren stevens, great. charles schwab, chuck schwab

will be here by phone. food and beverage, national restaurant association, mcdonald's. darden restaurants. coca-cola. pepsi-cola. chick-fil-a, subway. bloom inbrands. yum brands. papa john's, starbucks, wolfgang puck. thomas kel lore. my friend john george, and danielle. you know them. from the transportation world, fedex, fred smith. a legend. united airlines, oscar munoz. ups, david abney. j.b. hunt. yrc worldwide. crowley. maritime. incredible, big, powerful shippers in transportation companies. telecommunications which have the legendary john malone of liberty media. verizon, t-mobile.

charter communications. and brian roberts of comcast. thank you all very much. health care, new york presbyterian, jerry spire. a friend of mine. hca health care. sam hazen. thank you, sam. just met with sam. ascension health. common spirit health. community health systems. trinity health. cardinal health. mckesson. 3m. are thank you mike roman for helping us with facemasks t worked out well for earning everybody. proctor & gamble. abbott laboratories. johnson & johnson. merck, pfizer, eli lilly. thermofisher scientific. they have been helping us incredibly with testing. gilead sciences. abbvie. regeneron. biogen. roche, roche has been fantastic on testing, the job they have

done. i have to call them out. they have really stepped like very few. anthem. unitedhealth group. aetna. cigna. humana. all the big ones. the check companies. we have the right ones, apple. we have tim cook. google. sundar, thank you sundar. oracle, larry ellison. sale force, mark benioff. sap, jan morgan. microsoft, satya, great job he has done. thank you, satya. facebook, mark zuckerberg. ibm. intel. qualcomm. cisco. advanced micro devices. broadcom. incredible companies. companies that no other country will catch, if they're smart, have to be smart. but i've dealt with a lot of

different countries and i will say, no, the respect for silicon valley and our tech companies, there is nobody even close to our tech companies. they can't catch them. so they try and buy them. but we sort of put an end to a lot of that. in sports we can't to get our sports back, so importantly. these will be some separate calls. some will be together. by the way and some will be separate. but we have to get our sports back. i'm tired of watching baseball games that are 14 years old. but i haven't actually had too much time to watch. i would say, maybe i watch one batter, i get back to work. the nba. adam silver. the major league baseball. we miss our baseball. this is baseball season right here. rob manfred, thank you very much. nfl, roger goodell, thank you, roger. ufc. dana white.

the great dana white. pga, jay moynihan. lpga, michael yuan. usda, patrick galbraith. major league soccer, don garber. wwe, the great vince mcmahon. nascar, lisa kennedy. thank you, lisa. nhl, gary bettman. from the new england patriots bob kraft. dallas cowboys, jerry jones. dallas mavericks, mark cuban. and some of the thought leaders that we're going to have, and there are some others that we are having, we're just waiting to hear, but everybody is saying yes, must say, john allison, heritage foundation. kay cole. james a great person. hoover institute, condoleeza rice. another great person. art laffer. steve moore. steve forbes. larry lindsey. catherine reynolds. scott gottlieb.

just spoke with scott. jim demint. jim has been a terrific friend. bill hagerty and way rasch burn. religious leaders will be coming on friday. we'll be speaking to, we're going to have separate list but we have tremendous enthusiasm to meet by our great religious leaders. we have incredible people and they want to, they want to be a part. we'll be talking about churches and we'll be talking about opening and we'll be talking about things that are very important to a lot of people include mooing he. we're going to find out how we're doing in that regard. so those are the names that we have on our list. they are the names that are i think the best and smartest, the brightest and they're going to give us some ideas. but we're all set. as i said, the governors are

going to be be opening up their states. they will declare when. some can open very, very shortly, if not almost immediately. we'll give a date. but the date is going to be in the very near future. so we'll get it open. individual states, the governors will be held accountable. if they need things we'll help them get their things but we want them to do their testing. we want them because they're equipped to do testing. we've created incredible tests. we've done more testing than anybody has ever done in the world right now. we had a broken system. now we have a great system. we have a system where other countries are coming to us and saying we want to get some of those tests. i want to thank abbott because abbott came up with the first simpler test. the first one was rough, it was more of an operation than a test. the first one was for anyone that took it it is not easy. we have simple test with abbott. we have saliva, lots of other

things that are happening but we have millions of tests. the governors are responsible. they have to take charge. they have to do a great job. and we're going to suggest that they check people through tests or otherwise, coming into their states. and they run their states very strong. eventually we won't have to do that. eventually this will be gone but for a while we're going to do it. so they will take charge. at their borders they will take charge of people coming in, maybe to an extent, depending what they work out with anaerobe state, may be also people leaving. they will be able to do that shortly. we'll announce a date. it will be very short. frankly it will be at a time that will be earlier than the deadline that we imposed, the end of april. so we think that some of the governors will be in really good shape to open up even sooner than that. we'll speak to them. we're all set. we're counting on governors to do a great job.

others will have to take a longer period of time until they're in a position to say we're ready to go and that's okay. we understand that. some of the governors have a very tough situation but in almost all cases it is all starting to come down. we're very proud of the job everybody has done. if you look at the numbers, so the minimum, as you, as portrayed, deck bore raw is here -- deborah is here, dr. birx has been fantastic. the minimum was 100,000 deaths. i hope to be substantially be under the minimum. we all hope, right, mike? we hope to be substantially under. we did the right thing, the projections were two million people. the actual projection was 2.2 million people and if you cut it in half, that would be 1.1 million people. that is many more, that is double the civil war.

and if you cut that in half you're talking five or 600,000 people. that is what we lost in the civil war. and that is cutting it it, cutting it, cutting it. and we're not going, that would not be acceptable. it would not be acceptable. nothing is, one life isn't acceptable but we weren't given that option. so i'm confident that these respected people that i just read from the list will give us some great ideas in addition to what the governors have learned. the governors learned a lot. i have spoken to governors at the beginning it was a contentious relationship and now it is a very friendly relationship and a very great relationship. i'm proud to say some of them i think are our friend. in some cases they're democrats. i think this he like me. i actually like them. i will tell you who they are some day. but we're all getting along and we all want to do the right thing. i think they will do a great job of leading their individual states. it will be a beautiful thing to watch. they will rely on their mayors and local town officials.

they will bring it right down. washington shouldn't be doing that. we can't be thinking about a walmart parking lot that's 2,000-miles away where we're doing testing but a governor of a state can and american and right down the line. i think it is going to be a terrific system. if we're unhappy with the state, we're going to let them know we're unhappy and if they're not doing the job and they can't get the job done, for some reason things are happening that we're not going to like, like the numbers are heading in the wrong direction, we'll have to do something that's very, very serious. we'll have to maybe close them up and start all over again. but i don't think we're going to have to do that. i think governors will come out at a time, these will be individual dates and the governors are going to come out at a time when they're ready. some can come out very, very shortly. and we look forward to watching that process. i think it is going to be a very beautiful process. our discussions will focus --

liz: i'm elizabeth macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. well that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. join us tomorrow night as we stay on this developing story. have a good evening. we'll see you back here same time. [♪] lou: good evening. president trump will announce new members of his new task force. the task will be advising him on reopening the economy and putting america back to work. president trump you have ad a preview earlier today at the white house. president trump: we'll be making a decision quickly in conjunction with governors. we have tremendous support from governor. -- from governors. a lot of skill will have to be used to get our country back to where it was and we want to do