it every day, story time with me is at 3:30 p.m. eastern today reading for kids who aren't able to go to school right now and for their parents who may just need a moment. will stream live on foxnews.com.com, facebook, and youtube, i will see you on "the five." here is bill. >> bill: thank you, dana. i am bill hemmer reporting live or i just spoke exclusively with president trump in addition to bar to our town hall today. this is our nation faces a pandemic and economic crisis of staggering proportions. hospitals begging for help with more than 50,000 americans infected and more than 600 dead from the coronavirus as of this hour. president trump telling me he wants to start reopening of the and get americans back to work by easter sunday two and a half weeks from now. meanwhile, public health experts worn the worst of the outbreak may still be you have to come.

>> it is very important because we want to get our economy back. it passes, we can be pretty quickly up to where we were and it gives us a stepping stone, i think we are going to ultimately top where we were but the longer it takes some of the longer we stay out, the harder that is. >> bill: more with my one-on-one interview with the president later this hour 25 minutes away on that. capitol hill at this minute, top democrats arguing they can strike a deal with the white house today on a massive stimulus package to help american workers and businesses help write out the current storm. >> last night, i thought we were on "the five" yard line. right now, we are on the 2. >> bill: republican senator will join us in a moment, his reaction from the hill. first, chad pergram reports live up the road here in pennsylvania avenue and at this hour 3:00 east coast time, where do things stand on a $2 trillion

package? >> they are rushing to get a universal agreement on this, that includes the senate, the house of representatives and the white house. the treasury secretary has pretty much been living here on capitol hill just a few moments ago said "we are trying to finalize all the documents going through complicated issues, i still think we can get there. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says they need to get this done now. >> clock has run out. the buzzer is sounding. the hour for bargaining as though this were a business as usual has expired. >> we don't think that they are going to have an agreement before eight or 9:00 tonight, it's unclear if they can get this through the senate via unanimous consent where they would have to have a full roll call vote, they could have a procedural vote on this as early as 1:00 wednesday morning if they really fall into a trap here but if they get into the

senate, they also have to move it through the house of representatives and there are a lot of questions about how they would do that. there are 430 current members of the house, many are reluctant to come back concerned about their health. here's a speaker of the house nancy pelosi. >> our option is to do it by unanimous consent and that would be ideal but we still have to come to the terms, what happens is something changes and. >> unanimous consent means they pose the questions of the house of representatives and so long as no one objects in the chamber, they pass the bill. they've also talked about some options, doing something called a parrot vote where a requisite number of both those opposed to the bill and those who are for it say we are not going to vote and they pair off so they have an equal number. they are definitely not going to do remote voting, they just can't get that together. >> bill: extraordinary time. what do we know is even in this

bill? must be a ton. >> we still don't have the bill text and going through the details is going to be key where they are looking at $500 billion in total assistance for corporations, they are looking at $15.5 billion in additional food assistance. expanded unemployment benefits for those who are off the job including freelancers up to four months, they usually would not be included there. a lot of money from rural hospitals. afraid that rural hospitals in his state would go under and again consider the overall size of this bill. the federal government spends about $4.3 trillion every year, that's the grand total. this would be north of about 2 trillion, not all of it is brand-new money for some of the tax credits and so forth. perhaps the biggest piece of legislation ever in u.s. histo history. >> bill: i want to talk about

your home state in a moment but first on this bill chad is describing there, it is true trillion dollars the right answer? >> we don't know because we can't get it passed. what speaker pelosi and senator schumer are doing here is breathtakingly irresponsible. they are my friends and i respect them, but they to hide their heads in a bag. this bill is going to help people through direct payments and unemployment insurance. it's going to help large corporations because they employ americans. going to help state and local governments, going to help our hospitals. it will be somewhere in the range of 1.8 i think it will,

but we've got to pass the bill in order to see if it works. >> bill: what democrats are arguing is that it's frontloaded for corporations. >> that's nonsense and they know better. let me see what they're talking about. they are saying there's a $500 billion slush fund. that is nonsense, called in exchange stabilization fund going to be administered by the federal reserve. they will loan money to all large companies, all comers have they don't qualify for the small business provisions. they are not grants, they are not bailouts, they are loans, they will be collateralized and in many cases, the federal government will demand stock in the company's, the companies can't use that money for paybacks or raise executives pay

and do you know why my democratic friends know all that? because they helped negotiate it. and then at the last minute, speaker pelosi and senator schumer decided this would be a good time to hold the american people hostage and let's try to get the green new deal. >> bill: does this pass tonight? does it passed tomorrow? >> it ought to pass tonight. >> bill: if it passes in the senate, how does nancy pelosi get the votes on the house side? she was running for cover when she came back from california to protect her own caucus. >> it would have been two days ago they hadn't been for the speaker. i will tell you how she gets it passed from the house, she calls for members together, republicans and democrats explains the bill to them, but

the coronavirus can kill you. so can poverty. and hunger. >> bill: in your home state of louisiana, we have the department of health in louisiana, almost 1400 cases reported, louisiana seems to be a growing hotbed, how come? >> we are a hot spot and it started in new orleans, moving into the rest of this, it has to do with mardi gras. our friends in china were worried about their image more than the world's health and they sat on this news about the virus for longer than they should have. people flew in from all over the world, we were in close quarters and one or two had too much to

drink and lowered their immune systems, diminish their immune systems and we've got a problem. what we need is a declaration of the major disaster. i just got off the phone with the president's white house counsel, he is checking on it, going to get a call later this afternoon and i suspect if they don't, i'm going to call the president directly. >> bill: do you have what you need in louisiana? >> we will if we can declare a major disaster area. our hospitals are not overwhelmed yet but we could get there if we don't beef up the resources. >> bill: thank you for your time watching on both fronts. john kennedy on the hill, some developments around the world now from china, they plan to end a two-month lockdown, most of the province where the virus first broke out.

healthy people now allowed to leave their homes and the city wuhan on lockdown for 14 more days. they have almost zero new infections for more than a week, most of the cases in china are from those who arrive from outside the country. from india, a lockdown across the entire country of more than a billion people. that's nearly a fifth of the world's population. the prime minister says there will be a total ban on people leaving their homes. the prime minister saying if they can't handle the next 21 days, it could set the country back 21 years. also, the international olympic committee officially postponing the summer games in tokyo. they say that games will happen by the summer of 2021 at the latest. the olympics have been canceled during war time but never been entirely delayed for any reason outside of war. the vice president saying help is on the way from the white house today.

>> fema from the national stockpile shifted 2,000 ventilators to the state of new york and tomorrow, there will be another 2,000 ventilators shipped. >> bill: so he broke that news here on fox earlier today, the state of new york says it will need tens of thousands of ventilators and message president trump on that, plus more of my one-on-one interview moments ago here at the white house, his message for americans because we work through this together. >> we have to do what's right ultimately for the country and for the people. is not even a question of optimism or pessimism, we have to do it for our country. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to lif.

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>> they need a ventilator, the ventilator will make the difference between life and death literally for these people. >> bill: that is a new york governor earlier during his press conference saying the state of new york is in desperate need of 30,000 ventilators. doing a fox news town hall earlier today, the vice president saying the feds are sending some of that critical equipment as of today and tomorrow. rick leventhal has that story outside of bellevue hospital in manhattan. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, the number of people testing positive for coronavirus here in new york is spiking dramatically day after day basically doubling every three days now with close to 26,000 positive cases in the

state and nearly 15,000 in new york city with 210 deaths here so far, the highest and fastest infection rate in the nation. new york governor andrew cuomo has been warning of a pending health care crisis saying hospitals will soon be overwhelmed with new cases estimating a need for 140,000 beds, 40,000 intensive care units and 30,000 ventilators criticizing the trump administration for not sending more ventilators from a national stockpile. >> the president said it's a war, it is a war. that act like it is a war. is not antibusiness. no one's talking about change the governmental philosophy. >> as you mention, the vice president said he is sending 2,000 ventilators to new york today in 2,000 more tomorrow and the president fired back saying that he could've created an incredible stockpile here in new york years ago a ventilators and chose not to.

>> new york governor cuomo rejected buying 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic for a pandemic. establish death panels instead. so had a chance to buy into thousand 15 at a very low price and turned it down. i'm not blaming him or anything else but he shouldn't be talking about us, he supposed to be buying his own ventilators. >> we have reached out to governor cuomo's office for response and having gotten one back yet. >> bill: what else are new york officials doing at the moment? >> they are still sweating this thing out. just yesterday, the mayor of new york city said they only had enough medical supply to last through the end of this week. we do know that now at the convention center are prepared to ship out a bunch of more supplies and that they are now preparing to ship some 73

pallets of personal protective equipment and another to the state of washington and that includes according to the government 8,000,095 respirator masks and almost 13 and a half million surgical masks. new york has critical needs for these masks and gowns and gloves and of course those ventilators. here is more from governor cuo governor cuomo. >> the equipment we are bringing today will resolve that immediate need, no hospital in the city of new york who will say today there are nurses and doctors can't get equipment. and we are addressing that need not just for new york city but also from long island and westchester. we have acquired everything on the market there is to acquire. >> so the equipment is coming in perhaps not as quickly as the governor wants for the mayor of the city wants but they have the equipment, they are staging it and distributing it so they're

trying to stay ahead of this thing as best as they can. >> bill: rick leventhal in new york, meanwhile in new jersey, people from new york and new jersey and connecticut flying to florida now have to sell quarantine in that state for a period of 14 days. the governor saying that the executive orders do not apply to members of the military, health care workers, emergency responders and airline workers. he says anyone else that does not quarantine could face criminal charges including possible prison time. some governors say they are still waiting for critical medical supply even after the administration triggered the defense production act, the dpa. more on the government's response with the former fema administrator and i just spoke with president trump again about how the country is battling the virus, that full interview is coming up in moments. my psoriasis, clearer...

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>> the way that we respond to health crises in this country is as fema's missions described, locally executed, the health care workers workers in a time law enforcement on the ground, community officials that are in the lead. is state managed and then it is federally supported. and from early on, we've been working that formula. >> bill: that is the vice president earlier today talking about fema's response and are fox news town hall from the rose garden, some governors saying the mask and gloves and ventilators they need they said today they are using the defense

production act, to get as many as 60,000 testing kits, what does that mean, what does that tell us about what fema needs at this hour? >> first of all, vice president pence is absolutely correct that disaster response and recovery is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported. that is something they want to correct the narratives and say local government should be doing everything they can in state government should be doing everything they can to get their hands on the materials they need to fight this virus or whatever disaster it is they are facing. when they can't do that, they request that to the federal government and that's what they are trying to organize and how to make it our hands on test kits for whatever it may be to help cover the gap that the governors are facing and local governments are facing right now. the dpa is a big tool in the toolbox. but it's interesting, the dpa

hasn't needed to be used at this point because the private sector has really been pouring out a lot of capability to the federal government without being asked to do so. >> bill: at one point, do you know that limit has been reach reached? >> what you are saying with a test kits for example, obviously there aren't enough test kits test everybody. they are facing a very tough situation with variables that are outside of their control. what they are trying to do is put a placeholder run all the test kits that will work for this, getting their hands on it, pushing it down to be isolated areas so far. but a good friend of mine, somebody that is truly very capable of leading the nation through this effort faces a tough and complex task and we all like to rally around him and fema and realize that they're going to do the best they can to get the supplies to the

governors but a lot of it doesn't exist and we can produce it out of thin air. it's a powerful actor where there are shortages and the government can reach out to incentivize companies to make things or secure it. >> bill: did you see our town hall earlier today? it's okay. you missed it, said that the united states has now tested more people across the country than south korea had tested in its entire country. the reason why that is significant is they tested so many to try to figure out who was negative and he was positive. so what that tells us about the test kits as you it is increasing more and more popping up as well. what would fema be responsible for next if we are in this thing not for a couple more weeks as the president suggested but maybe not a month or two. >> of a couple of things, what's most important is trying to push

out what the president is trying to push out. we are only halfway through the 15 days of the separation to stop the spread. that is the most important thing right now and instead of worrying about the test kits in every committee that we have test kits, pretend like the viruses in the community. we can mitigate them to continue to push hard and many days as much is possible to stop the spread, then it reduces the test kits to go towards those who need it most, the most vulnerable and the workers. in the future, they're going to be running logistics and supply chains shut down for right now, they are also doing a lot of disaster and recovery where they're going to be paying for the emergency response expenses at the local and state levels of government not going to be going on for a long time. >> bill: i hear you on that last answer wrap back loud and clear. thank you, former administrator at his home in hickory, north carolina, thank you.

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>> bill: after today's town hall, i spoke one-on-one with president trump about the virus pandemic and his administration's response to it. i asked him about what comes next and what you went home can expect perhaps and when things get back to normal. have a look. >> a big part of your job is to be an optimist. you say that yourself. how do you figure out what's the level of optimism that is appropriate for the moment on the medical side healthwise? >> we have to do what's right ultimately for the country and for the people and it is not

even a question of optimism or pessimism. we have to do it's right for our country and we have a very optimistic country, this was a very sad thing that happened. it came from wherever it came from, we won't even get into that but this was a terrible thing that happened to our country and it's a terrible thing that happened to 149 other countries. at 149 countries are affected by this but our people are incredible in the way they've handled it and what they have done and what they've gone through is to me really shocking because as we discussed, they want to go back to their restaurants and they want to go back to their places where they work, this is our country was built on that whole concept, i never realized how much but they want to get it back. but we have a great country and our people are truly amazing people. in >> bill: i've been with you for a few hours, you've called us the chinese virus, you did not use that today. >> i have a very good

relationship with president xi and they went through a lot. some people say other things, they went through a lot, they lost thousands of people. i've always said whether it is ebola or i could name ten of them, you take that wonderful place in connecticut, i'm sure they are not thrilled about lyme disease, but they do name it after places. came from china. >> bill: you don't regret that language? >> i don't regret that, they accused us of having done it through our soldiers. what kind of a thing is that? and that was their paper, that was a paper for pretty much the top people and i didn't like that. so everyone knows it came out of china but i decided we shouldn't make any more of a big deal out of it. i think people understand it. but they said our soldiers started it.

there soldiers had nothing to do with it. >> bill: you pulled back from that today we will see how that goes over time, domestically the illinois governor had some harsh words for you. appears it matched up with the past 46 hours, the amount that they're getting or not. thing that we are there to help them. they have to get that gear themselves, we are there to help them. with governor cuomo, he had a chance to order 16,000 ventilators two years ago and he turned it down. he turned down the chance but he can't be blaming us, but we are there to help them. when we build these hospitals and what we're doing for new york and for california, gavin newsom has been very gracious and we have gone added over all of the different things, we have had our disputes but gavin newsom gets what we are doing, we are doing one for new york also that's going to head out in three weeks being finished up and loaded up and it's a great thing for new york but they shouldn't be hitting

us. the fact is we've done a lot. >> bill: the michigan governor just yesterday was saying we can get through the next shift, we can get for the next day, what do you say to that? >> supposed to be buying this stuff over years, in all fairness to her, nobody ever thought a thing like this could happen we are talking about millions of masks and talking about all the things you're talking about but we are there to help them. we are not there to be their enemy, we have done an incredible job. at the most part they were at the call the other day two or three days ago, had all of the governors that were on the phone and you saw that call, it was a very friendly call. they were really thankful for the job we've done. we've done a great job and a great job on testing but we inherited a mess. we inherited a broken system that in all fairness was okay for a very small event but that was it.

was a broken system essentially. >> bill: lets come to today take a little walk. what is your level of optimism for the $2 trillion package that may or may not pass. >> we want to get our economy back, quickly to where we are and it also gives us a step in a stepping stone we are going to top where we were. but the longer it takes, the longer we stay out, the harder that is to do. >> bill: how much reservation do you have in spending 2 trillion? >> it is not really spending because a lot of it is helping companies, going to be loans to these great companies that all of a sudden for the first time in years needed loans because of this tragedy because of what happened. the unseen enemy or whatever you want to say, silent enemy. we call it a lot of different things. these are companies that are great companies that employ tens of thousands and in some cases

hundreds of thousands of people. we've got to keep them in business. but what's going to happen is there going to pay that back and they are going to pay it back with stock in the company in the stock for the shareholders for various -- we are going to get stock for the people of our country. >> bill: joe manchin, the democratic senators are saying it is loaded for corporations. >> maybe he was a businessman and maybe he wasn't, i don't know but it is loaded to save corporations. does joe manchin want all of these are many of these companies go out of business? we will have an unemployment rate to which you know what it is for every seen before. these are companies that weren't in trouble three weeks ago and now they are in trouble because of what happened. these are great companies. in some cases, aaa companies. and we can also go to another which has never had a history of a problem in their company and then a year ago, the problem they had and it was.

>> bill: how much money would you give boeing? >> they're going to come up with a request and it's going to be really small compared to the numbers we are talking about, going to be a small amount of money but we are not letting boeing go out of business. >> bill: so many others will line up. >> you have to help them temporarily, it is not going to be long-term, temporarily. and they're going to pay interest and probably give stock in their company to the people of our country, to the taxpayers of our country, to the citizens of our country and it is going to be great. we have to keep them in business, we can't lose these companies. we lose a company that employs 100,000, 150,000 people when we could have them what they sometimes called a bridge loan but basically alone, it doesn't make sense. it's a very important thing. that is great for the citizens of our country. >> bill: you throughout a day

when you think america can be working again and that is easter sunday. how did you come up with? >> at a number seven because we've been doing this now for seven so that is from the time we heard about it, by the time we close it up so you could add seven. look. easter is a very special day for me. and it is in that timeline that i'm thinking about, and i am saying wouldn't it be great to have all of the churches -- the churches aren't allowed essentially to have much of a congregation there and most of them i watched on sunday fall in line and it was terrific, by the way never going to be like being there so i think easter sunday and you will have packed churches all over our country, i think it would be a beautiful time and it is just about the timeline that i think is right. gives us more chance to work on what we're doing and i'm not sure that's going to be the day but i would love to aim it right at easter sunday so we are open

for church service and services generally on easter sunday would be a beautiful thing. thank you very much. that's good. >> bill: a little elbow at the end they are. and the time we have been here in the last couple of minutes or so. there has been a task force briefing is scheduled, this was not on the schedule but it will happen today around 5:30 east coast time so that is in addition to the town hall that we hosted, the virtual town hall where we took questions from viewers all over the country and i think with the president and the vice president mike pence, the surgeon general, we had an opportunity to address a lot of questions out there and a lot of questions you have at home. will re-air later tonight at midnight east coast time so we want to let you know that as well coming your way again. in the meantime, the police and

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>> bill: as you know, first responders answering a lot of calls, transporting sick patients, they have limited supplies of protective gear in a new york city, 7% of police, more than 2,000 officers called out sick yesterday. nearly 130 have already tested positive for covid-19. want to bring in former nypd commissioner, great to have you on today by telephone, thank you for your time. what are we dealing with a

new york as you see the cases rise by the day? >> we are dealing with an abundance of caution. police officers have been told that if they have any of the symptoms of the virus to report sick. so that is what's "happening now." as you said to come a little over 100 have reported or have been found to have the virus but there are much more who are out sick and i think that will hopefully level off. we don't know, we can't really see over the horizon now but the department has an awful lot of experience in policing emergencies, major strikes, 9/11, hurricane sandy is that wood has plans the shelf to make certain that there is an q8 uniform force on the street at all times. >> bill: the mayor has talked about going to a shelter in place in new york. what do you think the effect of that would be, would you support it?

>> i think we obviously don't know enough to make a statement along those lines but new york in my mind anyway is the most important city in the world, i don't know how long we can keep the city which is so important to the world, not only the country. we can't have people in essence sheltering in place now in new york city, very few people on the streets but as the president said today, how long can we keep that going? >> bill: new york city is a very different place now and i know you are aware of it as you go around. on friday night at 10:00 in the evening, i drove from 48th street and fifth avenue to ninth street and fifth avenue without hitting my brakes. cruise control at 32 miles, can you believe that? here entire life of living in new york, it has never been that way.

and with the police commissioner said last week is that crime has gone down. there is no crime to commit, explain that. >> every time there was a major emergency, crime goes down. the criminals are concerned about their own safety and concerned about their own health and people who may be victims simply not reporting, it may be an aspect to it but i think it also shows that new yorkers are adhering to the directions that are put out there. so for you to be able to do that, you've been a new york a long time able to do that and shows an incredible amount of compliance on the part of the public. >> bill: ray kelly, thanks for checking in today. let's reach out again in a couple of days and see where we are then. thank you. fire rescue station in south florida creating a special unit to deal with covid-19 cases. and they wear extra protective gear and then they go through the decontamination efforts

after every call. phil keating got a look inside that at the new team and miami beach. >> as this epidemic grows, it is really imperative that our first responders who only do helpful things for people saving lives, make sure they are also protected from contracting the virus so miami beach fire and rescue creating the south florida's very first covid-19 response units. these are firefighter paramedics now supposedly dedicated to responding to a 911 calls that involve suspected covid-19 patients. they are now fully deployed, suited up in a total body suit, face mask, breathing apparatus, and every zipper tapes tightly so no skin is ever exposed. is based at miami beach hospital and when they get the call, they suit up and drive directly to the patient's house, perform doorway triage to keep distance and of the emergency warrants, they speed right back to the

decontamination room at the hospital. after every call, the inside of the ambulances there really ambulances thoroughly disinfected and sanitized, the bodysuit thrown away and it is very versatile and it's great sacrifice. >> they understand that they signed up to help others and there is except 1. so we are in the middle of a tremendous challenge. >> the first thing that ran across my mind as i want to be part of that team but i knew i had to run it through the wife because it's going to affect her and the kids. so she was little apprehensive on winning to volunteer because she was like what if you get that and you bring it home to the kids and we bring it home to the kids. >> without a doubt, the risk is really just yesterday, miami-dade county confirmed its first positive coronavirus test result from a firefighter.

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you may be able to travel down the streets of new york without anybody getting in your way, but this is where the action is. truck stops like this one here, just across the chicago border in indiana. a couple of big expressways. look at all these trucks. i mean, everybody in line to get gasoline, diesel fuel, i guess. amazing. truck gain, of course, never more important. when he think of the numbers, 70% of all the stuff we get in the contrary comes by truck. and these are guys that don't make a ton of money. they make less than the median average in terms of income. they drive. they drive 100,000 miles a year. they are traveling a bit more right now. minorities make up a big part of this. 40% of this industry among minority drivers. we are at, what's called the

pilot flying -- here's a trucker coming in. they are providing showers, which they typically do. a lot of state stops have been closed, rest stops areas. truck stops are keeping everything moving. head of the independent truckers association said, it's tough with so many places close. it's tough to get a place to eat, to go to the bathroom. >> the state is closing businesses. drivers are having a hard time trying to get cleaned up. they are having a hard time finding a place to get a decent meal. >> they are the largest company that has the 780 of these truck stops. these are life-savers for these guys right now, because they are life-savers. >> bill: i love the pilot flying j. thank you, jeff, for that.

we are here monday an through friday. 3:00 eastern. set your dvr and never miss a report. in the meantime, the largest single point rise ever in the history of the dow. check it out. we will see you tomorrow. here's neil. ♪ >> neil: all right, bill, thank you very much. very close to the largest ever. certainly very close to the largest ever at this point. again, optimism about progress we are seen, certainly on the stimulus front to the rest of the coronavirus. more steep progress on the coronavirus itself. so much to get into. first, john roberts at the white house on events today. john. >> hey, good afternoon. at the white house, the big news today was when the president said that he would like to begin to reopen the economy by easter sunday. that would be april 12th. that would be 19 days from now.