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♪. now. [♪] lou: good evening, breaking news tonight. the senate has agreed to a deal increasing funding to the wuhan virus relief package, $320 billion being added to the paycheck protection program helping 2 million small businesses and their employees. the agreement coming after weeks of delays from the radical dimms. in addition to the money going to the small business relief program, another $60 billion will go to economic injury disaster loans. $75 billion for hospitals, $25
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billion for testing labs for the virus. the president urged both parties to pass this legislation. the president tweeted this. i urge the senate and the house to pass the paycheck protection program and healthcare enhancement act with additional funding for the payroll protection, hospitals, testing. after i sign this bill he tweeted we'll begin discussions on the next legislative initiative with fiscal relief to state and local governments for lost revenues from covid-19. and much needed infrastructure, tax incentives for restaurants, payroll tax cuts to increase economic growth. after the package does pass the senate it moves to the house where it's expected to be voted on and passed by thursday. after that it's on to the president's desk where he will definitely sign it.
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our first guest has been at the epicenter of all of the discussions to funds that critical paycheck protection program, also demanding speaker:pelosi establish a plan to reopen congress as they are entering their fourth week of suspension because of the wuhan virus. because the definition of essential is the work of the people's house. joining us house minority leader kevin mccarthy. how does it feel to finally put this much needed legislation into form for the house to look at and by thursday. >> it feels good. but we never should have had to be here. thursday we'll get the new numbers for next week of all those who are unemployed. that will be nancy pelosi's unemployment list. all she needed to do two weeks
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ago was to add more money for small business employees. this is a grant to pay their employees. but now a lot of people will be laid off and small businesses are going to close because she held it up to play politics like she did with the cares act. trying to put money in for the kennedy center and the arts. change election laws, green new deal, planned parenthood, sanctuary cities. she is making the american worker a pawn during the pandemic crisis. lou: a pawn and furthermore a further victim of this pandemic because of the delay. do you -- as you talk with democrats in the house, do they have a sense of what the speaker is doing to them electorally? >> they were furious with her. the only reason she came to the
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table was because her own members had left her. she watched 1.6 million small businesses get money. 700,000 had their applications in when the money ran out. and they watched their
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>> here is the president taking action when the others criticize him. joe biden stopped the chinese airlines coming in from america. when we had a problem with ventilators, the president went to work. governor cuomo complained he needed more swren *s, now he
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he's sending them to other i come from a liberal state, and we watched our own governor, today strip newsom credit this president. these states needed help. what did they do? he he built hospitals, he made sure they have the ventilators. you look at new york, louisiana, they are testing more there than any place else in the world. when you find that this virus how deadly it is, 55% of all the deaths come from new york and new jersey. this president will continue to lead like he does now. as americans, we didn't invite this virus. china lied to the entire world. but this president didn't stop. he warned us when he was candidate trump what china was doing in helping lead this country back and he said he will do it again.
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lou: we appreciate you joining us. stay safe. the senate intelligence committee released a report supporting the intelligence community's conclusion the russian government was trying to help then candidate donald trump in the 2016 election. that committee going against other known evidence saying the intelligence community assessment of russian interest force reflects proper analytic trade craft. now the senate intelligence committee is an arbiter of whether our spy agencies know what they are talking about when indulging in trade craft. they found the steele dossier did not inform any of the judgments of the intelligence community. despite nearly all of the known evidence. recently released documents from
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the department of justice clearly showed that the clinton campaign bought and paid for the dossier full of russian disinformation that was peddled to the united states. the senate intel's conclusions were made by a committee. its former security director james wolfe leaked the first two carter phage warrants to the media. he season subpoenaed his son donald trump, jr. last year. mark warner tried to contact christopher steele in 2017. texting a lobbyist for a russian oligarch asking for access to steele. still they haven't answered the question if anyone on the trump steam' excluded with the russians. they didn't want to answer because it didn't happen.
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joining us tonight the senate's report contradicting one put up by the house in 208 which conclude -- in 2018 which conclude the assessment did not employ proper analytic strayed craft. hugh did they couple with such a different opinion? joining us tonight, congressman devin nunes, ranking member of the house intelligence committee and congressman, great to have you have with us. let's start with two committees, intelligence committees, and coming up with diametrically opposed conclusions. your reaction. >> i would say that we have our report. i don't know how they did their report. the democrats in the house of representatives also opposed our report. so what do we agree on?
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we agree that 9 the -- agree th9 state% 9 -- 98 percent of that assessment was direct. buff you look back at what the fbi and the intelligence agencies had in their possession, the department of justice. that's why i call this report only halfway joking. i named it after the sphiewtion gps steve dossier. i call it obama's dossier because it was written just as obama was leaving office. it was put together in three weeks. so just that alone i think is suspect. what we found is that there is a trade craft not up to snuff. and the problem with obama's dossier with that intelligence community assessment. it's either lies, omissions, or both.
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the intelligence agencies had a plethora of information and didn't put it into an intelligence community assessment. how can it be a view intelligence community assessment? sometimes you have to apply common sense to this. we stand by our -- not only do we stand bid what we found. but i would add this, too. one of our criminal referrals involves that community, that intelligence community assessment in that whether or not intelligence was manipulated for political purposes. we sent that to the department of justice a year ago. lou: do you think anything will come of those referrals? >> that's the million dollar question. i wanted your audience to know. the house republicans have not stopped this investigation.
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so pelosi with all the subl zero freezer average and ice cream. our investigation continues. i have been clear on this. we are looking at the three dossiers which is the steele dossier, obama's dossier, and the mueller report. we are also looking to interview three russian americans. and we are looking at making additional criminal referrals. i look at this as sleep different investigations. we have what durham is looking at. we have a u.s. attorney in missouri looking at whether or not the mueller investigation was done appropriately or not. then we also need an investigation about why were all these things redacted so long by the department of justice and the fbi.
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why did we just find out in the last few weeks what was hidden behind the horowitz report and the footnotes. you have about four weeks of reading to do. and -- what what ticks we off is there was no reason for these to be redacted. people are celebrating the fact that the carter page fisas were put out. but there is still critical information that is redacted out of those carter page fisas. buff we still need more of that declassified. there are to too many things hiding from the american public. the american public is beginning to see what we have known for a long time. we are not count on nancy pelosi and the democrats in the house. we are doing our own investigation. and look all we can do though --
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this is what frustrates people. we don't have guns, we don't have badges. we can't arrest anybody. we'll make as much of this known to the american people as possible. wield hold people as accountable as we can and make as many criminal reals as we need to. lou: congressman we appreciate profoundly what you and your colleagues are doing. and the importance of it is without question. however, we are look at four years of foot dragging and absolutely -- an effort to run the clock out on all of this. and the agencies have been supremely successful in doing so with the help of those who are aiding and abetting them in the democratic party on capitol hill. now i don't understand why the attorney general would not
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declassify this material and put it before the american people going into the election this year. the democrats succeed in stealing the election in my judgment in 2018. by exactly taking on this nonsense with all of their so-called investigations. the special counsel that amounted to vindication and exoneration for the president. but not one single committee chair of the democratic party paid a price at the polls. >> i would add this, lou. what mueller's dossier was, the mueller report, there is a whole bunch of lies and omissions in that thing, too. we'll be making criminal referrals on the mueller dossier. these are people who came in after the fact, experts who came back to doj and fbi, some of the
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longest serving people tenured at the fbi who worked on this mueller team. we are finding out there were lies and omissions but things held up from people who served jail stiesm like george papadopoulos *. what they used this for. they are very clever. the democrats and the media the media are essentially their mouth piece. it's like talking to the democratic national committee. i don't know why so many of my colleagues talk to these guys. you might as well walk over to the front door of the democratic national committee and let them do the interview. i just don't think they deserve the right to ask the question. they are political hacks. buff with that said, the reason we are where we are today and lost the election in 2018.
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this was wave uponnized by the democratic party and the media to dirty up the president of the united states to take him out. in the process they raised millions of dollars by poisoning the minds of millions of our american citizens. so they would open up their wallet and give people of money. we were overwhelmed by tidal waves of cash where we had no ability to defend ourselves. if you take the democrats with the media and a tidal wave of cash coming in, innocent americans who thought that the russians were controlling the republican party. we know the truth now was it was never the trump campaign or republicans trying to collude with the russians, guess who it was? it was the democratic party and
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the clinton campaign trying to collude with russia. lou: with that we have to collect ourselves. that's a lot to ingest. i have to tell you i think the american people have it figured out right now. i think they know they were deceived throughout the entire process and i think this is going to be a fascinating election for the house, for the snaft and of course for the presidency and one that we owe you great credit for in making it so. congressman devin anyone's. thanks. up next. the fda aproves a new at-home test for the wuhan virus. the world health organization protecting china. and a new poll on how many americans trust the chinese communist regime.
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lou: a new survey from pew research finds 2/3 of americans don't like china. that's a record high. much more than 90% of the reef responsible don't view china as a threat and the world they say would be better off with america as the leading super power. a new rasmussen poll finds 60% of democrats is more to blame than china and the world health organization. republicans and independents disagree. the world health organization saying the wuhan virus was very likely of animal origin and not manipulated or produced in a lab.
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the world health organization saying also that they did not discuss whether the virus may have escaped from a lab. last week fox news was told bats weren't sold at the wuhan wet market where china claims the virus originate. the world health organization made this claim without explaining all someone would have had to do is walk from the laboratory into the market to be infect someone. joining us to take all of this up is dr. michael pillsbury. mike, good to have you with us. let's start with this world health organization. first of all that has been absolutely atrocious in its handling of this pandemic.
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refusing -- this broadcast, by the way, declared this a pandemic two weeks before the world health organization would do so. public health agencies all around the world were not calling this a pandemic because they were waiting on the world health organization. your thoughts? >> the world health organization comes under the united nations. they claim to have sovereign immunity under the 1946 new york agreement. so some people in the w.h.o. which i visited think they can do whatever they be want without consequences. that theory may not be legally correct. under some circumstances both dr. tedros as director joined the u.n. system and the world health organization itself could be sued in court or politically punished by a vote of the general assembly or the u.n.
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security council. that's why the american investigation ordered by president trump of exactly what happened, this will have real consequences for the w.h.o. secretary director general as well as the organization. they made serious errors, and there are ways to hold them politically accountable. lindsey graham and the president first had gone to this idea which is good as far as it goes of cutting off funding for the time being. it looks like the issue is much deeper. they are embedded in 14 other settingized agencies. -- these specialized agencies. they hid five of them and are trying to hyde hide more in the elections. lou: . china has worked its will in that organization. now it's time to bring them to
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account. and the president having these options. first taking out the issue of the security council, it's unlikely anything would happen there because of the veto power of china. the general assembly very unlikely because it's basically a group that is aligned against the united states. and one of the reasons we have had so much difficulty in the united nations and that can happen, it's all to the good. the president has a number of options. some of them are make all of the sense in the world. some seem difficult, others have proposed to him. what do you consider the best options available to the president in the relationship with china which now is deteriorating by the day? >> i say the first step, i have
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personally seen the president do this in the oval office. first step is he casts a broad net look for ideas. then he personally sorts through what is feasible, what is strategic. what will work. i think he's in that process now and he started the investigation. the second action is to think of ways to hold china accountable. in addition to i mentioned the w.h.o., there is a concept our law can be changed to make it legal here to sue china in various courts. and if the judgment is given by the judge, usually 10 million per life, and 50,000 dead americans. that such cannot be forced on china to pay. but our president can ask xi jinping, please pay. and if they don't, we could deny china massive capital influence. they are looking for two trillion over the next two or
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three years. also technology. crack down on new capital and technology sharing, and our scientific cooperation. cracking down on niece things could cause xi jinping to say how much is that bill? say it's $100 billion. china can afford that. lou: the algorithm would demand -- it wouldn't be simply -- i don't sthit could be quite that simple without taking into account the enormous economic damage the chinese have done. it's going to be an astronomical figure if the president choose that option. the other prospect here is this investigation that the president has called for. the proper investigators would be our intelligence agencies and they woefully are inadequate in
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warning the president, warning our government, and by the way, also woefully inadequate as far as we snow publicly in determining prove sighsly what happened there. you are thoughts about that failure to deliver meaningful, actionable intelligence. again. >> yes, the intelligence community investigation is helpful to the debright informs the president to make his decision. but there is another part of it. the libyans said it wasn't us, then they handled over two people. eventually the courtroom evidence because of the survivors, relatives organized, that was the key thing. right now the coronavirus loved ones would have to organize and insist on this investigation being available to use in court,
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public, unclassified evidence. that would leave to the massive settlements. xi jinping has another option. i already suggested this to the chinese myself. he can set up a fund momentarily to compensate the victims' families and the economies. either way what happens in wuhan will be a problem of are there notes and diaries left. are there tape rorgsd and phone calls -- tape-recordings and phone calls? we know they were warned by the u.s. embassy, you are doing dangerous things. lou: that was two years before -- you are referring to the warning from the embassy two years previous. >> that's right. lou: but we are also talking about a country and president of that country who knowingly, willfully, covert -- overtly
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made a decision not to warn the world about the deadly virus he unleashed on it. that makes him culpable in every way, morally, ethically, legally. and the fact of the matter is, the response when being caught lying and deceiving and being responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands and soon to be unfortunately hundreds of thousands, and millions of people of infected with that virus was to blame the united states. his response was to concoct more nonsense and spew it out for the world rather than be straightforward and honest and forthright. this goes to the heart of the relationship. >> yes, the relationship as you
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know the way president trump has written himself in his books. the relationship with china depends on leverage. technology, capital. that gives the president leverage. right now he's faced with the lab director wuhan publicly denying anything happened. xi jinping has publicly said nothing so far. xi jinping might think about it this way. he might say i have got my lab director saying one thing. i need $2 trillion of capital from wall street. i need a lot of technology and buy a lot of american companies to make my plan happen. which is more important. sacrificing that lab director and having an investigation that says yes we are sorry, we made some mistakes and getting the technology and capital from america or sticking with the lab director. my guess is xi jinping will sacrifice this lab director and
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move forward if president trump exercises he norm sauce leverage over -- enormous leverage over china. lou: that leverage will have to be considerable given the fact that we are totally depend de -- dependent on china for anti-virals. our dependency is on china, not the reverse. the president creating an historic trade deal to lead to a balanced relationship is now it seems to me, you know, in threat without any question. the dependency of this nation -- and this dependency we have still on china is going to be part of any calculation i am
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sure the president has to make. but we need to recognize it straightforwardly. dr. michael pillsbury, good to see you. thank you very much. hundreds of americans infected. we'll take that up. stay with us. ian lipkin joins us next. needles. essential for the sea urchin, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr, a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; don't start xeljanz if you have an infection. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. as have tears in the stomach or intestines, serious allergic reactions, and changes in lab results.
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[♪] lou: the food and drug administration approved an at-home testing kit for the wuhan virus. the pixel test made by labcorp will allow people to swab their nose to collect a fluid sample. it will have to be sent into a laboratory for testing. labcorp said they will give first access to healthcare workers and first responders. people seriously ill from the wuhan virus have received blood plasma from recovered patients. 8 of the 11 pay-shents receiving plasma have showned signs of improvement. joining us tonight, dr. ian lipkin, director for the center for infection and immunity at columbia university who has been
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researching the use of blood plasma and who himself has recovered from the virus. doctor, first let me ask, how are you doing? >> i'm doing well, lou. i'm fine. plasma therapy was:first announced on your program. you watched it. -- you launched it. lou: you launched it on your program and we were happy to be of service. thank you for everything you are doing. let's start with this test. the early results are good as you expected they would be. your thoughts about what it -- where that test is going and what you are expecting to see. >> you are referring to plasma therapy, not the nasal test. so there are many's institutions now trying to push this forward.
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there is treatment of those individuals in icus and people who have been exposed to not yet shown signs of disease. i think these people will benefit as well. so it will prevent them from becoming infected and progressing to the disease. that's what we hope will be the case. lou: howl before you have a basis to make a judgment about to make this a therapeutic available to everyone? >> we started at columbia around own trials as of today in which we are taking people in icus and beginning to give them plasma. i think we'll get results from that work in the next few weeks. it will take longer to know how well it works as a preventative because we'll have to wait 4-8
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weeks until we are certain. but i'm cautiously optimistic this will be a game changer for us. it's only the beginning. people will be finding ways to make antibodies through bio telling which will also be an extraordinary thing i think in treatment of this condition. lou: as the president's coronavirus task force reported yesterday. to see the number of firms working diligently in the laboratories and scientists, researchers, physicians, all working to come up with anti-virals, to couple with thei --with therapeutics and va. this an impressive -- something americans should be proud of what our medical and scientific community is working toward.
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>> it's amazing. we have intravenous drugs. people are getting to work on the available drugs. the vaccine production will be faster i think than anybody anticipates. i suspect it will be a year, not 18 months to two years. there is also a lot of sharing of data and resources across international boundaries that will make a difference. this is clearly a global problem. lou: a global problem it is. the united states preeminent among everyone on this planet in the number of cases. it's truly a tragic situation. let me ask you this. a lot of concern about how
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relapse for the patients of this disease, also about whether immunity can be acquired. do you have any sense of -- i would think plasma therapy would go to both questions. the ability of the body to build resistance and also to avoid relapse? your thoughts? >> as usual, you are asking a very sophisticated question that has three parts. the first is whether if you become infected you have lasting immunity. we don't have a lot of information object that yet. we think we probably have immunity for at least a year. and as somebody recently recovered, i hope that's the case. the other issue about relapse. some people who are told they are negative and subsequently become pog positive are people who never cleared the virus
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completely in the first instance. that's why when we start doing at-home kits we have some concerns that some people may not be sampling themselves properly and it can give a false negative result. and the third thing is if this virus is going to come back in the fall. our sense that this virus is never going to leave us completely. once we have vaccines, it will be necessary to vaccinate as new people are born and become children and grow up and so forth and have potential for exposure. this will be with us just like flu and measles and other viruses. we'll have to be vigilant. lou: doctor, we are told the task force members have stepped out in the white house briefing room. and the president is stepping out moving to the podium as you see there. here is the president.
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president trump: i want to start by saying that our love and prayers for he american continue to be with our fellow citizens who lost a cherished friend or family member to the virus. amidst our grief we are making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy thanks to the address idea campaign against the virus and the extraordinary talent of our medical professionals, the mortality rate remains roughly half of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the world. that's due to a lot of things. but our medical professionals have been incredible. since we announced our guidelines on opening up america as we call it. i think we can add the word probably again. but we are opening up american
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again. 20 states representing 40% of the u.s. population announced they are making plans and preparations to safely restart their economies in the near future. that's 20 states. 40% of our country. they are moving along quickly. three announced today. they will be doing it safely. they will be doing it with tremendous passion. they want to get back to work. the country wants to get back to work. a short time ago the senate passed the paycheck protect program and healthcare enhancement act with additional funding for the paycheck protect program, hospitals and testing. a lot of money for all of them. especially for our workers and our small businesses. my administration worked aggressively with congress to negotiate this critical $482
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billion funding pack and. we reached a deal that includes $382 billion to keep workers on the payroll. $75 billion to aid hospitals, that need the aid, and $5 billio -- and$25 billion to supt coronavirus efforts. i asked the house to pass the bill and i think they will be voting on it very soon. secretary mnuchin will be running back. so i thought we will talk about that now and take a couple questions on that. then he can go and start phase four as the ink is drying. probably they will be voting tomorrow in the house. but shortly, shortly. i think we have tremendous support. so steve please come up and say a few words. >> thank you, mr. president, and
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thank you for all your work with us to get this passed. i would especially like to shah mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer and the entire senate for passing this. i would also like to stha kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi who have been working with us round the clock and our chief of staff mark meadows. we had tremendous support for the ppp. this gives us $310 billion for the ppp. we look forward to the house passing this tomorrow and being up and running quickly after that. this gives us $50 billion for disaster loans, that will allow the sba to make $300 billion in disaster loans all for small businesses. it also allows us more money to hospitals and unprecedented amounts of money tore testing. again i think we understand hospitals not only the hospitals
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that have been impacted by coronavirus. but many hospitals that have been shut down and making sure the doctors and nurses get money. let me make one more comment on the program. we have over a million companies that received this with less than 10 workers. so there is very broad participation in really small business. there have been some big businesses that have taken these loans. i was pleased to see that shake shack returned the money. we'll put out some faqs. there is a certification people are making. make sure the intent of this was for business that needed the money. we'll put out an faq. but the intent of this money was not for big companies that have access to capital. >> will you have request the other companies -- shake shack was not alone at being a big
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company that got money. you are going to ask them to return that money. >> they will pay back the money. harvard is going to. you have a number of -- i won't mention the other names. harvard has one of the largest endowments in the country and maybe the world and they will pay back that money. >> certain people on the ppp may not have been clear in understanding the certification. so we'll give people the benefit of the doubt. we'll put an faq out, explain the certification. if you pay back the loan right away you won't have liability to the sba and treasury. but there are severe consequences to people who don't attest properly to this certification. we want to make sure the money is available to small businesses. people who invested their lives
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sciftion. >> how will you make sure the restaurants, cafes, bars who did not get the money last time around will get it this time. >> there are a million of these companies that did get it. we are working with the banks. we are extremely pleased. 20% of the loans were made by 20 billion and less. we want everybody to participate. there is a lot of money back in the program and we look forward to all these small businesses getting access to funds. >> can you estimate how long this is going to take? the other money went quickly. do you assume this will go quickly as well? >> we are pleased with the success of this program and how quickly this got operationally. we put out more money in the sb parks loans than in the last 10 years of sba.
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we knew when we passed this originally if there was full takeout there w we wouldn't have enough money. we impacted 30 million workers. there will be a lot more. we look forward to this having a big impact on the economy. >> we'll get into the issue of access to these programs? >> we worked with the white house on this. there were much more onerous restrictions in the sba program. there were people with misdemeanors that weren't allowed to access the program. because of the criminal reform legislation that has been done in the white house by jared and others. and the five years was significantly shorter than what had been done before. so we have taken that into account. we did take this into account.
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there are a lot of people would wouldn't have had access previously and we changed those regulations. >> the president talked about a phase four. how many more phases can we afford to have or can businesses expect to have? do you see five, phase 6, phase 7? >> i have much appreciate the president's -- i very much appreciate the president's support for a phase four. the president has been talking about infrastructure since the campaign. roads, bridges, broadband. we talked bin season toughs for restaurants -- we talked about incentives for restaurants, sports. we talked about a payroll tax cut and we are talking about in the case of states. we heard from the governors and
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the fiscal issues of the states. phase four most likely will be what we need. based on what we are seeing and the reopening of the economy and the amount of money we are putting in, i think you will see a lofty kiddity and we -- irepol businesses. we can always reconsider that. this is a lot of money going out. again, let me be clear. you know, it is another 310 billion here and another 300 billions of loans. that is over $600 billion putting into small businesses. 50% of the private payroll. reporter: what do you think phase four will cost? >> we'll work with congress on that. and we'll consider it.
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>> infrastructure would be big investment. reporter: taxpayer dollars going out the door, different way of thinking about oversight, independent oversight,. >> we have independent oversight. we support it in the last legislation. let me be very clear. we have a new inspector general. the president already picked someone for that position. we look forward to the person being confirmed. we have an oversight committee of congress that many of them have already been appointed. let me just say, we put up last week for full transparency. we had no obligation to do this. put up, you treasury.gov, full transparent renly how the lenders distributed. no one lender did more than 4%. sotheby'ss. the president and i very much believe in full transparency. we're spending a lot of money and we want to make sure it is done effectively and fairly. reporter: mr. secretary thank you.
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you started off thanking leaders in the house and senate. can you tell us how easy or hard to was to deal with both sides? >> we've been working round-the-clock. i think there has been very good bipartisan support to get this done. congress is coming to, understanding the importance of this and we've been working round-the-clock for days. so this is important legislation t was a lot. we spoke to a lot of people. mark meadows has been fantastic as i said. great to have him here in the white house. i couldn't have done this without him working on this without me and president and vice president were available round-the-clock. this is team effort. reporter: collaboration with democrats. >> absolutely. we couldn't have done this without unanimous consent and democrats being on board. we look forward to this being passed on bipartisan basis tomorrow. this is real example of the country coming together to fight this virus. reporter: to your best nadarkhani what
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mitch mcconnell wants in the next package? woo. >> we're not at the point of designing that. like every other bill we'll work with senators on both sides on a bipartisan basis. i can testimony you there is a lot of support, particularly for things like broadband and especially with what is going on today. the president was talking about we were talking about bridges and tunnels and rebuilding this country for years. so the president wants to make a big investment in this. reporter: mr. secretary, where we see the $17 billion of portions of cares companies critical for national security, and also will oil companies fit into that at all per the president's tweet? >> so we're in the process of putting out guidance. that part -- lou: treasury secretary mnuchin with the president, vice president, the corona task force, coronavirus task force and, and that goes on.
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