quarterback and wide receiver camp always the pledge of allegiance but guys a lot of stories we covered we'll be back tomorrow morning to cover it as well. griff: thanks for being here. pete: have a great saturday. jedediah: see you tomorrow, everyone. neil: so how is the confining going for you? a nation still in the grips of sheltering when they can, maybe getting some tests on this virus if they're able, the united states capitol now in a little bit of the rain here, and more stimulus to come after that $2.3 trillion spending package, and the lower left portion of your screen, the americas midtown manhattan among busiest roads in the world but of course over the last few weeks anything but. welcome everybody i'm neil cavuto and you're watching cavuto live we'll get right to it right now with biggests weigh ing in on the implications of a virus spreading its tentacles worldwide and

increasing the number of worldwide cases and in the united states as well. right now as you probably heard the u.s. leads the world in the number of cases, but in the percentage of severe cases, because we're readily identifying those cases so well, that actually is improving on that front. we'll explore with the likes of mark cuban. we've got senator tim scott, republican of south carolina, and what's festerring in his state and we've also got congressman tom massey, the president said he was grandstanding, nancy pelosi said he was over doing it, and he almost grounded the entire stimulus to a halt. we thought we would hear from him on why he did what he did and stopping what he didn't succeed in stopping he's here and only here. in the meantime let's go to steve harrigan in atlanta where they are still trying to get a handle on how big this is getting and whose getting hit the hardest. steve? >> reporter: neil, some more new numbers overnight, the death

toll percentage that determines how many people actually died in the u.s. who have tested positive for the virus that stands now at 1.51%. that's lower than the world average and that number is likely to continue to change as more testing goes on. as far as the u.s. cases go, it hit a milestone this week of 100,000 cases, and that's 17% of all world cases. new york state being hit the hardest with 44% of all u.s. cases and inside new york state, new york city has about half of those cases, so really getting pounded the worst. the state of new york, five times as many positive cases as the next highest state of new jersey and other parts of the country bracing for a possible spike as well. detroit 900 cases this week, louisiana 1,100 cases this week, 57 people dead, that's a jump in the death toll in just one day in louisiana of 40%. finally, chicago 2,000 cases as of friday morning, officials

there fear they could be hospitalizing as many as 40,000 people next week and police officials are telling people to take this extremely seriously. >> this is not a game. this is not a time to think about your own physical strength and conditioning over public health. >> one bright spot comes to testing the fda has approved a new test which will give results in just 15 minutes it's about the size of a toaster, weighs six pounds and the company abbott says they will have 50,000 units out to be testing as early as next week. neil back to you. neil: all right, steve, thank you very very much. the president will later today be going to norfolk, virginia to see firsthand the send off of the ship that's going to send a lot of emergency supplies to new york. let's go to mark meredith at the white house on sort of laying out what's in-store for the

commander-in-chief. sir? >> neil good morning to you. we are going to be looking to see what the president has to say as he makes his way to norfolk but so much of the attention is on what happened here at the white house yesterday when the president signed that $2 trillion stimulus package. it's unclear how fast aid will get to some of these industries and people now struggling to survive day by day, but the president says he hopes this will really help out those people that need it most. president trump: the legislation extends a vital lifeline to american families and american workers with job retention loans for small businesses and a big focus of the bill is small businesses. they really, the energy there, whatever you want to call it in terms of our nation the push. >> reporter: of course in this package there is so much but among the things getting most attention is the stimulus check $1,200 per adult making up to 75,000 a year, 2,400 for a married couple making up to 150,000 and of course if you have kids that money can change depending on what income you

make, 25 billion in direct grant s to passenger airlines and additional money going to small business administration to keep those people on payroll and $150 billion for hospitals of course they are ordering many supplies and need help down the road. this past week we saw a record number of people go for those unemployment claims because of course they can't go to work. the white house has made it clear they expected this , but the question so many are wondering is how long is this economic disaster going to last. what will it mean for these people worried about paying their mortgages an rent just a few days from now. president trump: at the end of the year toward the end of the year i think we'll have a re bound like we've never seen before. even now it wants to rebound you can see it and feel it and wants to rebound so badly, and we've had this really big, i guess the biggest ever stock market surge two days ago and yesterday was great. three biggest days in the history of the stock market. it wants to rebound so badly but we have to get rid of the above. >> reporter: of course, so many factors still at play inexactly

when we could see any potentially economic rebound as for the president, neil he is making his way down to norfolk, virginia a little bit later on this morning and will go as the usns comfort gets ready to deploy from virginia up to new york an area of course still dealing with the outbreak and we'll be looking to see if the president makes any comments and he has been active on twitter and bashing the media quite a bit. neil? neil: surprising. all right, thank you very very much, mark meredith at the white house by the way the president was commenting on the markets they did tumble yesterday about 900 points again a lot of concerns that go above and beyond washington usually on the number of new cases that seem to be popping up right now and the fact that the deadline for this and getting a handle on this seems to be getting pushed back as well. having said that even with the 900 point fall off we still had one of the best weeks in the market since 1938 to be exact and leland vittert with us right now looking at this latest rescue mission involving a u.s. navy ship you might recall another ship, the mercy has

already been deployed to los angeles to help provide emergency relief and supplies to that community. leland? leland: good morning to you, neil important to epidemic koala in mind these covid-19 patients aren't on the uss mercy or hanging out in port in los angeles, nor on the usns comfort which makes its way up to new york. these are hospital ships that have about 1,000 beds, they have icu's on board, surgical suite, cat scans on board and a full complement of medical personnel and the idea is that there are going to airlift patients from the new york and los angeles hospital out to these ships or bring them by ambulance so that pulls off some of the demand from the hospitals in new york and los angeles. these p employee are still having heart attacks, car accidents and people who have strokes and need some kind of medical care so you'll have the navy doctors on board both the comfort and the mercy taking care of them, freeing up the

hospitals and emergency rooms in both new york and los angeles to take care of the coronavirus patients and also prevents any kind of cross- contamination between these people who are sick otherwise and potentially come pro compromised in one way or another to be in the hospital next to coronavirus patients from getting infected so that's important to epidemic koala in mind neil and the other thing you have to give the administration real credit on is in terms of getting the u ns comfort out of norfolk and up into new york harbor there was a lot made about the president saying it was going to be there this week and the navy then said well we're not really sure it's undergoing retrofit and it's needing repair s and replenishment and the president said it doesn't matter. it's going to be there next week and the navy moves heaven and earth and it's leaving port this afternoon and will be there in the next couple of days so that is definitely a feather in the cap in terms of when the president and the coronavirus task force is saying we're going to do anything and everything that is needed. they have and this will be considered a real win for them,

one of the reasons the president is going down there to talk about it. neil: the press also made some news yesterday by sort of singl ing out general motors for not doing enough to aggressively start ramping up production of these ventilators, and use the defense organization that goes back to the korean war to order them to do so. what's been the fallout for them? leland: there's a lot of questions in terms of why the president did this in terms of his relationship with the ceo of gm which you might say has been strained in the past. he's tweeted about her and about general motors in the past, and there was some reporting that this was because general motors was trying to overcharge and then there was this idea that well could they really produce the number of ventilators, there was supposed to be eight of 9,000 produced and it was like maybe they could do 30,000 and back to 7,500 and then questions about how long it would take to retrofit the plan and you kind of saw yesterday in the president's discussion in the tweets and then in the executive order, that things

were moving with general motors but we thought if we use this defense authorization act and defense production act, then we could get things done a little bit quicker. so you're seeing this sort of odd ramp up. peter navarro is going to take over that part of the supply chain if you will as it relates to general motors and then you have ford talking about making ventilators as well, and now there's this question of exactly how many ventilators are really needed because even in new york, conceivably the epicenter here you heard the governor talking about we need 30,000 ventilators , we need ventilators , and acknowledging they still have a lot of ventilators in stockpiles, so a few issues here in terms of the timeline of whether this is really necessary in the next 24- 48 hours or is this the next two to four weeks that they are going to need this production ramped up so quickly. neil: leland thank you very much my friend in washington, of course. by the way you talk about companies and the responsibility to make more ventilators or you name it, no less than mark cuban

has come out to attack 3m, a big manufacturer saying it might be ramping up production but with concerns of billionaire is that whether it is doing so or letting it just happen, he's afraid customers are getting gouged. mark cuban is coming up you're watching cavuto live.

neil: got very sad news to report now we're just learning that former u.s. senator tom co burn has died at the age of 72 he had been battling prostate cancer, beat it and it reemerged and fought a good fight but that fight has ended now, tom coburn has died at age 72. he was a fiscal hawk, he was concerned about runaway government spending, he was also concerned that both parties had lost their will to address this spending, and republicans and democrats alike were faulted but it has his character and discipline and the respect on

both sides he enjoyed throughout a career in many many years of which i've chatted with him but from 2005-2015 and the u.s. senate and house of representatives respectively very few on capitol hill command ed the respect this man did, tom coburn is now gone. we're following the coronavirus and the latest efforts on the part of the president to ramp up the attack line here in fact, commissioning a ship that will make its way from new york to norfolk, virginia later this afternoon to get much needed supplies to those working on the frontlines of the medical community in new york state. similar efforts have been done to help those on the west coast. let's get the read from emergency medicine chair brenda car, mount sinai health. doctor, good to have you. these emergency supplies are apparently desperately needed i'm talking about masks, everything else. can you tell me how urgent they

are just in the new york area? >> sure, i can thanks for having me on this morning. the supplies are critical there's no question, but you know, with the supplies are coming other things and i think we're talking about the convention center that the army is work on in downtown new york city and talking about the comfort. these aren't just supplies, these come with space and they come with staff, and they've had a lot of conversations about ppe , a lot of conversation s about ventilators and it's really critical to understand that our biggest challenge now is surge, and the ability to handle large volumes of patients, volumes much more than the health system has to manage on a day-to-day basis so we need room and we need people to staff the rooms as much as we need the supplies. neil: and we talk about beds that are quickly hitting their max and then hence i guess the governor's look at other hotels volunteering to open up their rooms for potential

patients. is it at that critical stage now or how would you define it? >> i would say some areas are definitively at the critical stage, and some of the bigger systems are using the fact that they have capacity in some hospitals to move patients around to smooth it, but that is not going to last, at least it doesn't seem like that's going to last very long and the idea that we're going to get this new capacity started is critical. i mean, from my perspective this is the ultimate test of the competing private sector health system, the public sector both city and state and federal and even i would say we're going to see the non-governmental sector participating in this response. we have to work in a coordinated way. neil: i'm sorry to jump in, but you're right that is exactly what we're seeing. abbott laboratories by the way is the latest to offer these quick covid-19 identifiers. they have what they say will be a five minute covid-19 test in

days. there are similar tests out now that can discern that within a matter of minutes. i guess what i'm asking is how will that change things? you'll obviously see a significant jump in cases that will a large people but it will also change the math on the death equation here. so how do you feel about all of this? >> the death equation meaning how fatal the disease is, yes. and that's critical conversation which we should talk about how lethal this is relative to flu and relative to other diseases, but the fact that it's all happening at once makes that test to me, less important. it's very important to understand that epidemiology of the disease for sure but when you show up and you're sick and you have a respiratory illness, i don't treat you any differently if you're tested positive or negative, with one exception. there was a guest earlier talking about the idea that

either the comfort is going to be kept as a sort of non- respiratory, non-covid-19 facility. i will tell you that we began thinking that that was what we were going to be able to do in our emergency departments and we are very much still trying to do it up stairs in our hospitals, but this is a disease. you've heard many times people say 80% of people are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. the idea that we're going to definitively be able to separate people who are infected from people who are not is, i think, going to be in the short-term demonstrated to be a non- sustainable idea. we have created workflows because it turns out treating somebody with a heart attack, with a stroke who needs to deliver a baby who is covid-19 positive requires its own work flow. the idea that only people who are covid-19 negative will have a baby or a heart attack is not reality-based. neil: that's a very good point. doctor, thank you very very much and for your hard work right on the frontlines, very little sleep, very little of anything else but your work on that

frontline we appreciate that. thank you for taking the time. all right, mark cuban has been saying most of america are doing their part to help out. what he's worried about is some in corporate america who are taking short cuts or worse, gouging, after this. people ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, "nobody should." but, i just don't think you need a separate private plane. but i, but i want it! hey, buddy. what's the damage? i bought it! the waterfall? nope! a new volkswagen. a volkswagen?! i think we're having a breakthrough here. welcome to caesar's palace. thank you.

neil: all right, donald trump is not asking any more. he's not being nice any more telling general motors, i asked you to start ramping up and making more ventilators. you've been dragging your feet

so now i am demanding you to do so. using some defense powers that the chief executive of america has, to take back to the korean war to make that happen but will it happen? and is it a little too little too late? it's never too late for mark cuban but it's a good move on the part of the president he says, he joins us right now i'm talking about the dallas mavericks owner and of course multibillion air mark cuban. what do you think the president is doing here forcing corporate america's hand to help out as much as president roosevelt did after the attack on pearl harbor to rev up our military machine? >> as long as he gets the job done that's all that matters, there's obviously people's lives on the line so something has to happen. they were talking before i don't know what went wrong but if it gets general motors to get the job done i'm all for it. neil: you were critical of 3m. not so much their ramping up production of ventilators and other things, but more to the

point that they weren't doing enough on the face mask side to keep those prices down. maybe i'm getting that wrong. can you explain? >> sure. 3m first they get credit for ramping up production absolutely, but they sell up until recently they sell as best i can tell exclusively through distribution, meaning if you go to mariah carey website there's a list of distributors that resell their n 95 masks. now, what's been happening is obviously, everybody is aware of the shortages and the crisis around the n 95 mask not being available for health care workers, and they apparently have just let their distributors price whatever they want to price the mask at, and a lot of cases, they're not selling them to healthcare providers, those distributors are selling them to resellers and black marketers who are then trying to jack up the price even higher than the distributors did and my point was in all of this , there's a contractual relationship between the 3m

license distributors and 3m corporate. it would have been very easy for them to say very strongly that if you don't sell, if you don't take the inventory we're providing you and sell directly to hospitals and healthcare providers that need the masks, when your contract comes up we're going to end that contract but that's not what they did and i have a huge problem with that and what's happening now is the federal government and i've tried to help as much as i can turning over some of these people who say they have inventory and want to sell it to me at jacked up price, the federal government is starting to go after some of the middlemen who have gotten in the way and helped make this market really in efficient and enable all of the price gouging and my feeling has been if the ceo of 3m says don't do it, this could have stopped a long time ago if the ceo of 3m said i only want you to sell to healthcare providers this would have stopped a long time ago. neil: mark, while i have you,

the president yesterday when he addressed the american people in one of his daily briefings he and his task force have had said he told his vice president not to call governors who are not appreciative of his coronavirus help. that would include the governors of washington state, and michigan with whom he had a relationship i guess and they with he and now it didn't stop from him declaring the disaster assistance that michigan wanted but what do you think to corner or cite those who are appreciative of his efforts versus those who are not? >> i mean it's wrong, obviously but the good news is i think and you hate to say this. i think there's a lot of people in government who are just ignoring what he says on twitter and ignoring what he says in the briefing and doing the right thing. i mean, president trump is who he is. we're not going to change him and i think after three years now, people underneath him in government and different departments know that if they

just go about their job and do the right thing it'll all work out, so while it's obviously not the smartest thing to do by the president, the good news is at least with people that i've dealt with, even at lowest level s they are like just head down, doing the right thing doing their jobs knowing that helps to get the ventilators helping to get masks where they need to be is the right thing to do. neil: so if his words are not matching his actions in a good way, you might be talking and angry at those governors who are not appreciative of his efforts but he's not taking it out on them in terms at least in the case of michigan on aid or disaster relief that the michigan governor wanted and she got. >> yeah, but still, why say it in the first place? leaders leader and i'll give donald trump credit for things when he does the right thing. he's deferred to dr. fauci, he's referred to his experts when it comes to coronavirus as of recently, but come on. in a crisis like this , this is

not the time to create animosity and increase the people's threats, and i recognize he's still behind the scenes, he's allowing things to happen, he would have the opportunity to stop them if he wanted to, but yeah, look and let me add to it, in this time of imperfect information, no matter what any leaders do it's going to be wrong at some level, but there's no reason to add to the stress and it's unfortunate because it takes away from the good things he is doing, like what he's done with general motors, like getting equipment, liken abling fema. there's so many things that have happened in this crisis that have turned out to be positive that his administration has enabled but he diminishes all of that with the ancillary commentary and i don't think he's ever going to change so it is what it is but it's unfortunate. neil: while i still have you, mark, a lot of people want to see an end game to this , the president was talking about maybe sort of easing up on a lot

of restrictions, and sheltering at home and stuff, as soon as easter. he's backed away from that, others said they simply don't know what is a good time to start thinking that way. have you given that much thought what do you think? >> yeah, my thought is i have one thought. i'm not doing anything with my employees until i know they are absolutely safe. i'm not going to ask them to come to work. i'm not going to ask them to leave their house. all of this is uncertain, nobody has answers and we're making progress, that's the good news. you're seeing from abbot labs the 15 to 45 minute test so that we can quickly determine if they have covid-19. that's a great step forward so i trust science. i trust american ingenuity i trust our ability to create new solutions and therapies, and when those experts, when dr. fauci tells me it's okay to let my employees leave the house , that's when i'll do it. for all the reasons we just mentioned earlier, all the chit chat that's going on, all the discussions and the press briefing, you know, that's

really not relevant to the decision-making process. neil: mark cuban thank you very much. my best to you and your family sheltering little kids and all that. we have a lot more coming up including new orleans how did they out of nowhere become a rising new bubbling epicenter for this virus? we are going to have louisiana senator bill cassidy on, after this. it's the small parts that make a big difference. at chevy, we promise to do ours. we're offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. if you need a new chevy, interest-free financing for 84 months - with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. you may even shop online and take delivery at home. it's just our way of doing our part...

neil: all right, you know him for his pillows but michael lind ell wants you to know at least in the near future , for his face masks because he is trying to make sure he can make as many as possible to help something that is in serious short supply, and the ceo with us right now mike good to have you. >> thanks for having me on, neil. neil: so tell me what got you doing this and why you're doing this and how it's coming along doing this? >> well it was about three weeks ago and i heard the president wanted to get everybody involved involved in everything they could for helping out the medical hospitals and everything, and i started doing my due diligence in figuring out what we could make and how fast i could ramp up and what's in the beginning of this week i finally got down the prototype i wanted and we converted in three days a hundred thousand square square foot factory, i've got about 300

or 400 of my workers converted over and we're making up to 10,000 masks a day and i want to get up to 50,000 by next week. neil: holy cow now who is getting these masks, you ship them out to new york? >> yeah, i'm going right to the hospitals and the first responders, things like that. mostly right to the hospital. they've had since its kind of been announced i've been taking in the requests and we're trying to fill them as fast as we can. last night, i personally worked over there until about midnight. we work around the clock and it's just we're all in this together and we want to get through it and i'm even looking into future being one of the manufactures that the president wants to stay in the u.s. , so we never go through this problem again with relying on 95% of our medical supplies from china. neil: so how much of the

production overall between the pillows and bed sheets and some of the others is compromis ed because you're doing this very good, very promising deed here. >> well i'm always very well prepared in my pillow. we're very good at scaling and so i had two identical factories and the one i completely switched over and i'm about 90% of my sewing department for sure and even hiring others as fast as i can, and so i would say about 90% of what i be using to produce pillows but like i say, i have a big stock, i'm always prepared for emergencies or things that big spikes in sales or what have you, and so this has been a blessing to my workers too to be able to help out and keep everybody going. we've had to redo the factories so it's safe there. everybody is six feet apart and different things we've put in

place, so they feel safe coming to work too. neil: you're a good man, mike, thank you very very much, mike l indell doing his bit to help the country even if it means some of his business gets sidelined so he can do just that thank you, michael and now i want to go to senator bill cassidy. thank you, sir, in louisiana. you might have heard this , sudden up-tick in cases in louisiana particularly around the new orleans area. they're having a devil of a time trying to explain how this sudden surge took hold but trust me it's taken hold and this senator, doctor as well i might point out, senator thank you for taking the time. >> thank you. neil: what is going on in louisiana that all of a sudden seems has boomed? >> or liens parish has the highest per capita incidence of covid-19 in the nation, higher than new york and seattle , they have more population so they have more cases but we have the more per capita if you will. its kind of been lost a little bit with the attention on the east and west coast, but

it's very real, and every day, we have a dramatic up-tick in the number of cases. we've asked the federal government for help and president trump has pledged it. we're trying to get through it. neil: how is that going? we talk about supplies and what you're ready for , what your residence and hospitals and local healthcare officials are ready for. we know extreme shortages in the new york area they are trying to address that now, even the president with the ship, set up from norfolk, virginia to do just that. how are local healthcare officials in your area handling that? >> i'm told that we're almost on the verge of being at capacity. that we're trying to expand the army corps of engineers i'm told is building out a couple of field hospitals, and they're opening up other facilities to take people for quarantine but we're about to overflow, and so if there's another mercy ship, we need it to come to the port of new orleans because we're at the point where we are going to need that for extra capacity and

i don't want our state to be lost with all of the attention upon new york. neil: the stimulus measure went out, senator as you know the $2.3 trillion also talk that more stimulus is on the way, or relief whatever we want to call it. can you outline what the senate, in particular, is looking at? >> yes, so personally i would like to see first, we need a way to emerge out of the medical crisis, i had an editorial published yesterday in the wall street journal in which i as a physician whose worked with immunization programs point out, that if somebody has been exposed to coronavirus and recovered, the best thinking right now is is that they are probably immune for at least another 12 or so months, so we need to start establishing am immune registry if you will so that those who are immune, we know who they are and they can be the nurses aid or the bartender, they can be the person who goes out and greets those not fearing that they will be infected, nor that

they will infect other people, and so we have to have that exit plan. with that exit plan, we can begin to restore commerce and then i would like to see a very large infrastructure package, getting working americans back in construction, pulling through manufacturing, which stimulates the service industry. if we can do that then we have a long term exit to restore the economic prosperity we had before this hit. neil: as a doctor, and from that vantage point, obviously the arc has not got in to the point in china where there's been a reduction in cases or a willingness in part the chinese government to reopen wuhan and get some people back to work. in your gut, senator, any idea when that could happen? the president saying he would like to see stuff like that happening starting easter sunday , a couple of weeks from now, probably unlikely. what are your thoughts? >> a paper from mit, which

modeled that basically if you have anthropology epicenter you got to shut that down. if people cannot leave then you keep from spreading the infection to other places. if we can do that, if we can shut down the spread of the coronavirus from where it's hot to where it's not, then we're going to begin to set the stage to begin to emerge. the cases on the ground will tell us when that is. if you still have people flooding the emergency rooms, we're clearly not ready but when you begin to see that decrease in number of new cases and the emergency rooms empty out and field hospitals taken down, then we're there. events have to dictate what we do. neil: senator thank you very very much. i know you had a crazy week. thank you, again. good seeing you. >> thank you. neil: all right, you heard a few minutes ago, mark cuban saying a lot that 3m is not doing enough to prevent price gouging, ken la

ngone, home depot co- founder, much, much, more listening in on that interview and he wasn't pleased. so unpleased he picked up the phone and called us. he's ready to rage, after this.

neil: mark cuban was here with us a few minutes ago claiming there's a lot of price gouging going on particularly with those face makes more to the point that has zoomed up in price and the face mask production giant 3m isn't doing enough to police it through its distributors so the point that folks are getting gouged. ken langone was listening to that, the billionaire co-founder of home depot, leads up the nyu medical center the chair there obviously and he joins us right now. ken, you did not believe what cuban said, is that right? >> i can tell you firsthand, it's just not true. i'm personally dealing directly

with the ceo of mmm, and the fellow head, they are diverting all of their production and why are they using distributors is the most efficient way to get it to them. they are doing an absolutely incredible job, not a good job an incredible job. the same is true with danaher. my god, industry is demonstrat ing. now, neil there are knock off out there that are being made and sold that 3m has nothing to do with. we track down because we need this , every time we get a call, we've got them and i have our supply chain management follow-up on it and she says we can't use them they're not the same. neil, this is wrong. i'm sorry. neil: there are cases where 3m, just clarify this for me because i don't know what the real deal is, but 3m sells a lot of masks

through a network of resellers and distributors. are you saying you're 100% convinced that 100% of those resellers and distributors are on the up and up? >> no i'm saying to you there some may be out there or not but 3m right now is directing all of their production of masks go to their healthcare distributors, like mckesson, like cardinal. i mean, this company is stopping everything to make sure that on the battlefield, on the frontline, we're getting everything from them. my god, they're working night and day to ramp up production so that we can have them. they've taken their industrial production and converting it to this product. it's called the n95 but my god this company should get the medal of honor instead of this accusation they are allowing people to gouge. not so, neil! christ sakes we got enough crime neil: what do you make then of those who do gouge and whether it's in small percentages or

not, that something should be done. >> we should rip their fingernails out of their hands that's what we should do to them at this time in our history at this time of our nation's great need people are out there trying to profit? come on. my god, look at all of these companies that are donating there. goldman sachs and morgan stanley , bank of america, they're giving them to them. neil there's enough going on without any kind of rumor or speculation about this. all i want the listeners to know is that 3m is performing assad mirably as any company possibly could and they are wonderful people and they dropped everything and they picked up on it. this is unbelievable. neil: so but ken, when you do know whether it's 3m or not, you do know of cases where masks a little more than a few weeks ago were selling for $1.50 to $2

a masks in some cases going upwards of $10. can any company control that? >> no, because neil -- neil: some of that's going on. no, they are knock-offs, neil, it's nothing to do with 3m. before this , if home depot wanted to carry n95 face makes masks, 3m would sell it to them through their distribution network but i'm telling you, 3m has told all of its distributors everything is to go to healthcare providers. it's not a hardware store. that's not a home depot that's n yu langone. neil: you don't suspect any of those have ignored that? >> absolutely not. let me tell you right now, if they are, to me they're nuts for one reason. they are going to jeopardize their relationship with 3m if they, neil, this is nuts. there are people out there that are crooks. neil: ken langone thank you very

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neil: all right, well, stimulus help might be on the way, john tapper, the bar rescue host where it's too little too late at this point for many in the restaurant, the bar industries he joins us right now john your concern is that the grim consequences for the collective leisure industry, that includes restaurants, it's already out there, isn't it? >> oh, it is, neil but i'll tell you what scares the heck out of me. the concept of social distancing , neil is going to apply after the pandemic, and nobody is talking about this. restaurants are going to have to

separate seating. sports arenas are going to have to separate seating. you aren't going to sit with somebody shoulder to shoulder who will cough next to you. social distancing isn't going to end overnight so when restaurants spread seating, bars spread seating, sports arenas spread seating, theaters, broad way, capacity gets reduced, and i've been doing the math on restaurant floor plans. neil, to create six foot spacing between strangers and tables means we're facing a 30% reduction in seating capacity, and nobody is talking about this , which is shocking to me. so for restaurant -- neil: how do you know that's inevitable, john? >> i'm just looking at consumer preferences, neil. i think this might evolve away, but certainly the day after this pandemic is over, people aren't going to start sitting shoulder to shoulder. let's face it, neil if you went out and sat next to somebody who coughed? that's almost a crime today. you're not going to sit next to them so if we as businesses need to provide reasonable spacing

for people to be comfortable again, to reenter our businesses , that effects capacity and nobody is talking about this , so when i look at a restaurant that does let's say 100 covers for lunch, if i remove 30% of their seating they are down to 70 during that hour. that is a 30% reduction in their ability to do business per hour. not sure we can supplement with delivery and takeout, but nobody is talking about this , neil. and are we going to sit next to each other in a theatre the day after this pandemic ends? no. so capacity is an issue that scares me, so if the average restaurant is going to lose let's say 20, 30% of its capacity and i calculated close to the 30-40%, what the is our new business model? how do we make this work? i'm focused on jump starting america after this pandemic is over. i have confidence. i have confidence in our scientists we'll get this fixed. what is the model going forward, neil and how do we operate with

smaller capacity? neil: after that, good questions , all, john tapper, thank you very very much. when we come back we got tom masssey with us, now he's speaking out. hot! hot! no no no no no, there's no space there! maybe over here? oven mitts! oven mitts! everything's stuck in the drawers! i'm sorry! oh, jeez. hi. kelly clarkson. try wayfair! oh, ok. it's going to help you, with all of... this! yeah, here you go. thank you! ... air! speaking of dinner, what're we eating, guys?

>> all right. the president about an hour away now of leaving for norfolk, virginia. he is going to send off the u.s. navy ship comfort. it's going to be down from new york loaded with a lot of critical supplies and goods that new york desperately needs. this follows when another ship, the mercy, was deployed to los angeles to essentially provide the same goods and services, vital masks, ventilators, you name it. so this continues something that the president has been pushing. he was told there were all sorts of obstacles in the way of making it happen and they couldn't get it together so fast. he put the pressure on them, the

pedal to the metal, as it were and now they're leaving the dock today to get that to new york pronto. neil: let's go to jacqui heinrich, where they stand in new york. >> as of yesterday, the u.s. has the most coronavirus cases in the world and 44% of them are here in new york city. a lot of the streets are empty and police are enforcing social distancing rules, and the hospitals are surging with the patients. u.s. ns comfort is headed to the harbor to help out. and the president is extending his thanks. although the federal government approved four temporary hospitals around the state, governor andrew cuomo is requesting four more. he says the peak isn't expected for another 21 days and hospitals are already overwhelmed. >> we are scared, we're trying to fight for everyone else's life, but fighting for our lives

as well because we're also at the highest risk of exposure. it's tough. and many shifts that i've left from after i've left my shift, i've cried. >> it's not just hospital over flowed, morgues are trained. and one was force today use a refrigeration truck to hold bodies. and the virus is killing one person in the city every 17 minutes. services are modified and it's been tough on families. they want to see their mother or grandmother or dad one last time, but they also are afraid of contracting covid and bringing it home and ended up having a closed casket they normally wouldn't do. it's upsetting for them. >> the state is concerned about essential workers falling ill. they've been working to procure more protective equipment like masks for folks who are working to keep the buses and trains running as well.

the mta saying about 75,000 masks are coming their way soon. neil. neil: thank you very, very much. jackqui heinrich in the middle f that and in the meantime we have senator tim scott from north carolina joining us. as the government tries to limit those visiting from states with high risks, and this is extending with florida, scrutinizing those coming from new york, connecticut and new jersey and now extending to a lot of the states doing the same. i don't know if south carolina is among them. >> we are. neil: and the senator joins us with an update. senator frpt what's going on there. good morning, neil. we've done the same thing. that pattern continues and we've targeted those folks coming to, particularly the coast of south carolina. the governor said yesterday during a press conference, that those folks from connecticut, new jersey, new york, as well as new orleans, it seems to be another hot spot, they have to

be self-quarantined for 14 days and he's made it a criminal violation for you not to self-quarantine, which comes with the biggest, 30 days in jail or a $1,000 fine. this is a serious and significant development as we watch folks come to the south looking to escape those hot spots. the concern, of course, as they come to the south, especially south carolina, we're focusing on making sure they're quarantined, that they're healthy before they start interacting with other folks. neil: i'd be curious, this occurs within hours, some of the things being done in your state, senator, with what china did by temporarily banning foreign nationals from entering the country. so now it's restricting all non-chinese citizens, you can't come, and what's interesting about that is, we were thinking that china was out of the worst of it and now concerns either

about a mutating virus, a second wave of this, maybe they're taking precautions just in case. what do you make of what's going on? >> well, now, i think if you look back at the president's containment strategy at the beginning, i think it saved thousands of lives and we're starting to see that same strategy deployed throughout the world, china, italy, spain as well and now you're starting to see the pockets of america because we know that the containment strategy absolutely produces results. to flatten the curve, the containment strategy has to be enhanced and one of the ways you enhance that is through social distancing and south carolina the governor is now also encouraging folks not to gather in groups of more than three, and so, we're taking it seriously. there's no doubt that we have to find a way to flatten the curve. new york city is the epicenter of the coronavirus in america. what we are learning from new york city and new york state, frankly, will help the rest of the country and frankly, the rest of the world.

and so we're going to have to understand and deploy the necessary assets, but one of the fastest ways to flatten the curve is not through the federal government, it's actually through individuals making solid, consistent conservative decisions to stay five feet away from the people that even you care about. my mother is 76 years old, she lives about 15 minutes away from me, but i don't go in her house. i don't have her over. we go on walks. i walk five feet behind her, so we can have a conversation so she has interaction, but if we take this that seriously, we will not only flatten the curve, we'll save a lot of lives and certainly within the vulnerable communities in our country and in our neighborhoods. neil: senator, i had john tapper on, american bar rescue. he was talking about this, even when it's resolved, he hopes soon, it's going to change our way of life in ways we're not

appreciating. that social distancing rules will change, not maybe to the degree they are right now, but people will be spread out further apart in restaurants, in theaters, even at sports venues. what do you think of that? >> i think you've made a good point. i enjoy watching your show even when i'm not a guest, and i watched that part as well. when you think of the long-term consequences of social distancing and frankly, an invisible enemy at war with your family and yourself, and the concept of social distancing is not going to be embedded in law, but into our psyche. when you walk into a restaurant or a bar you'll want more distance. i've often watched as i go to the grocery store or walk, if someone sneezes or coughs it gets everyone's attention. it's no longer what the government or someone is telling you to do, it's now a part of the psyche. we have to be, a, alert, but, b,

we should be careful not to embrace a fear mentality, but we have to be cautious. i also think about church. i enjoy going to church every sunday and every church that i know, how do we redevelop, refocus our attention so that people feel safe coming into a sanctuary. i've heard other people talking about, you know, going to the movies in your car. you're probably not old enough to remember this neil, but there was a time when we had an outdoor drive-in theater where you could catch a movie. neil: are you kidding? i'm older than you think. i remember quite well. >> you look so young. neil: i wish that were true. >> the new advents. i think we're going back to the future. neil: well, you might be right. you know, sadly i want to pass along and you've probably heard already that tom coburn died at

72, made his mark about physical discipline and parade of republicans and democrats and we live in a different time, the stimulus relief bill was warranted because of the conditions we've had. and he spoke to a time of the pennies and dollars leaving washington. what do you think of his legacy? >> well, his legacy is a legacy that will live for decades, if not centuries. when i became a senator, every senator's assigned a mentor. my mentor was tom coburn. one of the things he taught me as a mentee, watch the pocket book. he was a frugal person because he understood the more you spend now, just without question, the less you'll have to spend later and what he really focused on was making sure that the resources that were necessary were deployed when necessary. but don't allow for things that are unnecessary to be embedded

into the defense bill, because the defense bill was something that always was going to pass sooner or later, and so people would put their christmas ornaments, so to speak, on that bill in hopes of getting it through. he was very careful to purge the unnecessary from legislation. i think if he saw this $2 trillion bill he would have have wanted to purge out the kennedy center. he would have said the arts and humanities might be important, but they're not necessary to fight the coronavirus. he would have purged that out. he was the kind of person who wanted temporary and targeted relief and then go back to business as usual. he was a solid person, strong character, and beyond his frugality, he believed in this country, and he fought the fight against cancer with every single fiber of his being. neil: you're not kidding. >> now, it was amazing to watch. it was amazing to watch his strength under such challenging

times for him personally. he was a good man. really good man. neil: and i know he spoke very highly of you. you were a good mentee and he was a good mentor. >> taught me a lot. neil: one little tom coburn story over the many, many years i'd interviewed him amidst others. and he was frugal, and he was cheap. and he never threw out a suit, because i hope i quote it write. it will always come back in style, even though many times he was in a suit that was of a particular time. he didn't care, he practiced what he preached. tom coburn.

>> all right. some good news to pass along to you here. you've seen great gestures on the part of corporate america.

amazon the latest to say it's going to raise warehouse worker's pay by $2 an hour which would equal about $19 an hour. a host of companies have been doing this and more. walmart of course in the last two weeks to look after its workers and provide upwards of half a billion dollars for the workers really on the front lines of dealing with folks like you and me as we shop for everything we need. and in the meantime, we've got the meridian ceo. you know, we have a lot of this ships full of vital supplies in the new york meth area. and the president sending it off from norfolk. will it also benefit new jersey hospitals and new jersey health centers? have you heard anything on that? >> yeah, good morning, neil. it's great to be with you as well. yeah, i mean, new jersey is really an epicenter of this pandemic right now in the new york area.

and we are hoping those supplies will benefit us here in new jersey. the latest statistics in new jersey were second in the nation in terms of positive cases. i expect today the number's going to go over 10,000 when it's reported. at hackensack meridian health, we're the largest health system in the state and we're currently taking care of almost 1400 covid positive patients. about a third of them are in the icu setting and 300 on ventilators. so we certainly hope that, you know, not only the personal protective equipment comes our way, but that some of those ventilators that are going to be critical as we expand our icu capacity will come our way as well. the commissioner of health in new jersey just yesterday asked all hospitals to be prepared to double their icu capacity in next three to six weeks. we're in the process of doing that and we are he going to need equipment as well as staff as we

expand our capacity. >> you know, generally, intensive care units don't have that many beds to begin with because you hope in the scheme of the normal, you know, week, month routine you don't need that many, but now you're at, you know, the limit i'm sure. the president's already demanded that gm do more to build and turn out these ventilators and he's even used defense power act going back to the korean war to force the issue. is that going to be enough to address some of the ventilator needs that you have? >> we're going to need to source every possible avenue so whether it's some of the companies kind of retooling like gm to produce ventilators, there are ventilators being sold all over the world. we're trying to source those. the state of new jersey, the state of new york are trying to acquire ventilators directly, the federal government is. so it's all hands on deck when it comes to, you know, items

like ventilators that are critical. the other piece that is not being talked about quite as much as you expand icu capacity, if you're doubling the number of icu beds not only are you going to need the ventilators, but staffing is becoming and will continue to be critical. so at any given day we have about 400 of our front line care givers out on quarantine so we're already starting with the deficit. so what we're doing, you know, we, as other health systems did early on in a responsible way, we curtailed all elective nonurgent surgeries, and deployed that to icu's, retired doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists and we're working with the state of new jersey to graduate doctors, nurses, allied health professionals early so they can work right now in the hospital setting. so i think staffing is going to be critical, you know, while i'm

talking about staff, i want to give a shut out to the front line care givers across the country because when the book is written about this pandemic, they are truly going to be our american heroes. neil: fully agree with you. and they drop everything, literally drop everything to lead the charge and even expose themselves to god knows what. so it's remarkable. >> absolutely, absolutely. if you zoo he -- if you see them in action, i think the american people would be so proud of what they're doing and how they're working as a team. they're staying good, calm and collected. and the american spirit is good, but it's a war zone out there. i've been in the field 35 years and never seen anything like this. we'd had to deal with hurricane sandy, with 9/11, a lot of natural disasters, floods, hurricanes, like i've said, but nothing ever to the extent of what this pam is causing to the health care system. neil: well, you're doing your

darnedest to help out any way you can and your work has been remarkable. obviously you're not tapping yourself on the back, i did, as do your people. best of luck, it's not easy, i'm sure, i appreciate it. >> thank you, neil. neil: we also appreciate the effort-- sorry, thank you very much. i appreciate it. all right and in the meantime, we talk about all of the frontline workers trying to do their best to help people get through this. but think of all the stores that have allotted time to help elderly vulnerable americans get the items they need at grocery stores. it started with a demand that people stop gouging. but then it took off like wildfire after this. and here we have another burst pipe in denmark. if you look close... jamie, are there any interesting photos from your trip? ouch, okay. huh, boring, boring, you don't need to see that. oh, here we go. can you believe my client steig had never heard of a home and auto bundle or that renters could bundle?

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>> all right. we talk about gouging, but there was probably nothing more offensive than in the early days of this coronavirus getting out of control. people who just like tackled each other in grocery stores to get the last gallon of milk, the last roll of tissue paper, actually box of tissue paper and they'd be stomping over, you know, some older patrons who just didn't have the time or the ability to get to the front of the line. well, a lot of vendors were seeing that, a lot of grocery stores were seeing that and my next guest was seeing that and this is really bad and we've got to put an end to that. and stu leonard runs a popular one along the east coast, particularly connecticut, this has got to stop and we're going to look after older customers. and give them time to get what they need and get out of the

store before people come to tackle each other. he joins us right now. stu, good to see you. >> good morning, neil, how are you doing today? >> i'm doing fine. what motivated you to do this? was this happening at your store? were people beating the heck out of each other to get the last thing of eggs, the last thing of milk or butter? what was going on? >> we've had incredible panic buying and it started off trump gave his oval office address to everybody. everybody said, wow, this is getting serious. we had another spike with the market gyrations. we had another spike when they stopped restaurants and everything. so it's settled down now. the store is pretty calm right now and you know, i just wanted to share a couple of things, i saw you had mark cuban on this morning, he says i don't want any of my people not to come to work and i'm going to have to stay home. unfortunately, i don't have that luxury being in the food business. we have 2,800 people working at

stew leonard's and i have to be on the front line just like the health care professional, too. we have to provide food for america right now. we have not raised any prices and we just want to make sure that families that are home right now, that need food, that our team and our people are here to provide for them. neil: that's beautiful. and i guess you satisfied the earliest hour for older or vulnerable folks to come in and get what they need first, and then they can leave, right? >> hey, you know, i asked one of our guys this morning in the art department to put together-- and i think it's-- i'm even wearing gloves to keeping your hands clean are important. i'm on the store floor right now and this is what's happened. can you see that, neil? you can see this is when we open, we're open an hour early for the elders now and the orange line is last year, so it

was last march this same week, and the green is what's happened and you can see right here, there's a huge increase in the number of people that are coming in the store early in the morning right now. so we're doing that for people coming in and you know, this has about many not just a physical virus it's becoming a mental virus, too, and our people at the store are concerned about their safety, working here. we're spacing our cafeteria tables apart six feet and i just wanted to show you, another graphic for you here, too, we put the sign up in front of the store now and one of the things we're doing is closing at 8:00 at night and we sanitize the whole-- every store, every work area, c.d.c., we have the health professional on board, our chief food safety officer. we have a wipe down blitz all the time, registers, key pads,

door handles, the work surfaces and everything. we have santi wipes being handed out and they're handing them out and the social distancing is important right now, not only keeping your hands clean, but and not touching your face, we're noticing, even look on the floor here. we're putting up red lines to ask people not to get up close to the work areas. we've put plexiglas at all of our cash registers now so the cashier and the customer have to do that and i'm doing a daily update on our website to make sure they know of late breaking guidelines and law changes, everything going on. it's a test of everybody's leadership right now. neil: and everyone's got to look after everyone else and not be

so selfish, so you're stopping that and god bless you for that. stew leonard, jr., thank you, good to see you. >> thank you, neil. have a nice day. neil: you, too. stew leonard, jr. i've always said there's got to be a special corner in hell for people that tackle other people and not even think other people by scarfing the last number of items nothing full well you're preventing others, particularly older people from getting them and stew leonard, jr. said, that can't happen and he stopped it. and meantime hopefully the others do the same. and we told you about the bill that was almost stopped, and nancy pelosi, and the president of grandstanding. tom massey of can kentucky, why

he did what he did and he's only here.

>> welcome back. everybody. this was the historic moment yesterday. president signing that $2.3 trillion stimulus, rescue package, whatever you want to call it. the hope is that it will provide relief and stimulus at a badly needed time when a lot of the numbers are catering. jobless claims, for example, soaring over three and a quarter

million. expect them to continue to go higher and this might mitigate the damage. all of this was in some doubt when one congressman, a congressman from kentucky thomas massie saying he wanted everyone there for the vote. he's been a long critic of run away spending, it got everyone united against him, saying nancy pelosi of him, that he's a dangerous nuisance and no less than the president of the united states, that he was grand standing, should be thrown out of the republican party. the congressman joins us right now. tom massie. welcome. >> hey, thanks for having me on, neil. you know, if pelosi just considers me a nuisance, i would be offended, but she called me a dangerous nuisance, so that gives me some credible, i hope. i don't think i should be thrown out of the party. i represent the planks of the republican platform more than any other republican, virtually any other republican in washington d.c.

let me tell you what got me in hot water this week. i was watching this bill progress through the senate and i told my staff, i need to know two things, what's in the bill, and when do we vote on it. >> and there was an e-mail out, the whip, you can stay home, you can pass this by a voice vote. and i jumped in the car and drove to d.c. it's not constitutional to do any legislative business without at least half of the members of congress present. and i also thought, if we're going to pass the biggest spending bill in the history of mankind that people should go on record for this. and so, i came to d.c. they said, you know, congressman massie if you ask for this vote on friday, it will delay it to saturday. i said well, i'm telling you i'm going to ask for it on friday so tell people to come here on thursday. so, ultimately the bill was not delayed.

i forced the members of congress to come to work, at least half of them. and i sort of joked i was able to make them come to work, but i couldn't make them work because ultimately even though they got a quorum there, they did something i've never seen in eight years, they refused to take a recorded vote. and this tells you what this is all about, they're all trying to dodge accountability. neil: well, i think to a man or woman, they overwhelmingly were supportive of it, even though critical of the spending because they felt an obligation to do something. do you feel that given the fact, congressman, that two house members have already tested positive for the coronavirus, we already have a u.s. senator recuperating as well, rand paul, that you risked their health to make this point? >> you know, i heard that argument. the ironic thing is the congressmen have their health care paid for by the taxpayers, it's a pretty good health package and more ironic, all of

these congressmen expect the truckers to go to work, the grocery baggers, the ups guy to bring their amazon packages, but they don't think they should go to work. i have a problem with that. if this is truly a national emergency and you're being paid $174,000 a year to work, and you haven't been to work in-- you know, 10 days, i think you can go to work for this. and i think it's important that people be on the record. and i think it's important we follow the constitution. and let me tell you why, it's really important to me. nancy pelosi has a fourth coronavirus bill planned and they've talked about it all day yesterday during the debate and if we let her pass this on autopilot while everybody else stays home that gives her more leverage to get what she wants in the bill and to pass it. neil: are you nervous though, congressman, are you nervous that you've already been labeled the most hated man in washington. i don't know if that's a fair, certainly not a nice wrap, but

that you've burned a lot of bridges, including with the president of the united states who seemed to throw out the possibility of, you know, pushing a primary challenge for you? >> well, you know, there's always that possibility. i had a discussion with the president, hopefully we can patch things up because ultimately this didn't delay the bill. neil: when did you have a discussion with the president? >> i had a discussion with him before the vote and then i have left a message with his assistant after the vote. and what i pointed out was that-- >> before the vote you were explaining what you were doing. what did he say? >> he was not convinced. but to be honest, neil, i don't think he understood the parliamentary process i was undertaking and the fact that it would not delay the vote. vote was not delayed. the only thing that was different between what reality would have been if congressman thomas massie wasn't there, i made them come to work. i made the members of congress

come to work and by the way, if you've got-- >> do you have any regrets? the leadership ignored you, the republican leadership ignored you, the president ripped you. do you feel kind of like custer now? >> i feel like a speed bump that's been run over by 400 sets of tires in washington d.c., but when i get home, they really patient the fact that i stood up for the constitution and i didn't let these folks shirk their responsibility. when you've got john kerry mad at you and calling you names and nancy pelosi mad at them a-- at you and maybe you're doing something right? this is a family show and can't say what john kerry called you. we'll see the fallout, and see what if anything transpired. if he and the president get a

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>> all right. we are about 50 minutes away from new york governor cuomo addressing the press right now. the latest on the ship that will be coming his way later today after the president sends it off from norfolk, virginia. a lot of valuable supplies, crucial goods and services that the governor has been asking for, the face masks, ventilators and medical personnel. the governor at the top of the hour. in the meantime, taking a look at what is expected to be

another rocky week for trading. you know, even with the 900 point falloff on friday, which was a doozy, the fact of the matter, it was still one of the best week's we've seen in the market going back to 1938. dick grasso warned me last time i talked to him, get ready for this volatility, but we will ultimately get through all of this. the former new york stock exchange chairman with us right now. dick, good to have you. how do you think the markets have been behaving through all of this? >> neil, good to be with you, let me say your coverage this week of the market's performance was absolutely as good as it was back in 1938. so i applaud you for that. [laughter] >> you know it's amazing to me, when i looked at the traders, they were very calm. no i kid you. but even with the volatility, i don't know whether people get used to the volatility, but they have got a confidence to them that shows some resilience. >> well, i think what you're seeing on wall street is what

you're seeing and hearing on main street, neil, that america always defeats its enemies. be they on the battlefield or in the petry jars of science and this will be no different. let's all say a prayer for those wonderful doctors and nurses and scientists who are today at the front line battling what we know will be a successful war against a virus. the marketplace will take care of itself. as i said, neil, volatility is a constant given, but you know, this is america. and markets recover. the important thing now is we have a relief bill for those restaurant workers, you know, all of middle america that's been put on the sidelines as a result of this virus and they're going to be getting help and that help will be in the form of much needed financial assistance, which will stimulate their ability to pay their bills, to consume, and to return this economy to the level that

it was chugging at before we experienced the virus. neil: when you look at the markets and bull and bear markets, we had a very quick bear market, about a nine day bear market before the strong performance on tuesday, wednesday and thursday, and now back to a bear market i guess a little bit. do you pay attention to stuff like that? >> neil, you cannot pay attention to the day-to-day, okay? that's not to say you put your head in the sand, but investors in particular, retail investors have got to step back. we now have the benefit of a weekend, step back, ask the questions, why am i in the market? what's my long-term, my medium term, my need term needs for liquidity and cash? talk to your financial advisors. talk to the people that you rely upon for opinions. and never lose sight of the fact that if you try and trade this market, neil. it's kind of like dancing well

-- with elephants and you have to pair steel-toed shoes. neil: not bad for a guy in 1938 covering the markets you and i have aged gracefully. >> except you still have your hair, neil. kristin: (laughter) >> there is that. you're also thin and fit, you've got me on that one. dick grasso, thank you very, very much, he's been in so many market crisis and the remarks are the same you've got to ride them out. and the trend, with the stock market and as the president has said, your friend. and talking about an inspirational young mom, she held a birthday for her seven-year-old daughter and it went viral and now she's trying to spread the love even more. thank you for joining us,

amanda. how are you doing? >> we're doing well, thanks. thanks for having us. neil: how is piper doing? >> i'm doing great. neil: were you surprised at what your mom did? >> i was shocked and i was very excit excited. neil: really. what did your friends say? >> well, they didn't, didn't say-- they didn't say much because there was a lot of just honking and driving by. she has wp some friends, they're really excited for her and they're just happy that she got to have a little bit of a celebration because of the party cancellation. so, it's really -- it's really fun for the kids and it's fun for the adults to get out and get in the car and do something ni nice.

neil: yeah. so explain what you did. you essentially took the party on the road, so to speak, right? >> yes, so i had a friend of mine emily and kate, we were texting back and forth on friday night and they said, you know, what are you doing for piper's birthday? we're just trying to make it as special as possible since family can't come down and visit and the party was canceled. so they offered to just drive by and i said, wow, that would be amazing. and posted it on my own facebook page and putting it out there to other friends, if anyone wants to join, they're driving by at 1:00 and it became a parade and took off from there. so it was pretty spectacular, we live in an amazing community in maryland and i have amazing friends. so, you know, it's nice that

we're able now to pay it forward and do it for kids in the community and we've set up our own little parade facebook page and we have, i think, 11 planned on the events calendar for the community in the coming weeks. so it's really, it's really a good way to not social distance, but be physical distancing because we're still out there being social and letting the kids know that they're important and their birthday is important and getting a little bit of a celebration out to them. neil: i think it's beautiful. i think it's beautiful. both of you are a good example of what's possible. you could shelter, but that doesn't mean you have to be away from society. thanks to both of you. we needed to hear that. we needed to see both of you. i'm glad we did. happy birthday, honey. >> thanks so much.

neil: this one is special, one for the record books. and coming up a five time olympic gold medalist, and her thoughts on what happens now to all of those athletes, including herself. misty franklin is next. they're the backbone of our economy. and in these challenging times, they're adapting to support their communities. but many need our help. if you're a small business in need, or want to help a local business, go to quickbooks.com/smallbusinesshelp intuit quickbooks. when youyou spend lessfair, and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one.

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>> all right, the limit picks are delayed another year. for all of those athletes training, what happens to them. and let's go to missy franklin, you know her, a five-time gold medalist and very young over the course of two olympics and she could have taken another stab at an olympics and she close not to, as a 20-something, retired. missy, very good to have you.

>> thank you, neil for having me on this morning. neil: i'm honored. i think there are so many other athletes and one we'll have next week on the show who was getting ready for this olympics. and also participated in the prior olympics. now all bets are off. what do you tell the athletes who want the moments that you had and you had a historic moment, and they might not get a chance at all? >> i think all the athletes have been handling it so well. it seems that everyone understands that this decision was made for the health of the athletes and everyone around the world. with that being said, it's still heart wrenching. i think the mental aspect more than anything. these athletes have been preparing some of them for four years, but especially this year knowing that the games was coming. so it's definitely going to be a bit of a transition, but i would encourage them if those are their dreams, if those are the moments they're looking for.

that hasn't changed. that opportunity is still there. it's just one year later. neil: you know, we're told that it's going to change everything. that there might not be many people packed in the stadiums anymore, that this is changing the way we are and when we gather for events. what do you think of that? >> you know, i think what matters most about the olympics is the core of what it's all about and i don't think that's ever going to change, whether the stands are packed the way they normally are, people around the world are still going to be glued to their tv's for two weeks. you know, the olympics is something that brings everyone together no matter what and i don't think that that's going to change. neil: i hope you're right. i suspect you are, missy, given your history and all of those medals. those are a lot of medals, young lady. [laughter] >> thank you so much. you lifted a lot of people's spirits. they needed to hear that. thank you again. just remarkable, all of these

athletes who are freely offering advice and trying to help people out dealing with this and they remind this, too, shall pass like the market experts say the same thing. we'll get through these things. it's uniquely us. and fox continues. don't waste your time trying a diet that won't work.

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