>> so we have resources. hope. hope has to be realistic, and if dagen mcdowell, thanks for helping us out, we appreciate it. he ever gets unrealistic it will thanks for joining us, i'm dana perino. don't forget, story time at destroy hope. 3:30 p.m. eastern. i will be reading for kids who aren't able to go to school and so yes. right now and for their parents who may just need a moment. aspirational hope grounded in realism is what president that wartime must do to rally a >> dana: fox news alert on country. monday afternoon. i think that's what this is hello everyone, i hope the about. weekend was comfortable. the cure can't be worse than i'm bill hemmer here in new york, awaiting an update disease, but he pulled it back in time. from governor gavin newsom in >> bill: how does it work in the administration? california. we are being warned her that we could be weeks away from a peak so he is beginning and sacrament out and we will take you there they are trying to push the team live as we get headlines in to move forward. at the same time the team is california. coming back and saying something first however, the epidemic that maybe you don't necessarily want to hear. topic more than a thousand how does that dynamic push and deaths. pull inside the west wing. this is the uss comfort docked >> and i hope, and i expect they are doing that.

in new york city to help local hospitals overwhelmed by the virus. as promised on friday we will come back captain patrick amber and we've seen that playing out spock, welcome and good in front of our very eyes. afternoon to you. tell us what is job number one? that's all the facets of the government in the nation who have to put it all together to we will try it again. make it decision. so it should play out that hang with us. captain, it's bill hemmer, we people are telling him different things but you won't always from a president in the time of are live on the air. welcome to new york and if you crisis, two things that begin can hear me, what's job one with the r. since you have arrived? one of reassurance and the second is a reality. >> hi bill, good afternoon and the two reinforce each other. the more realistic the president thanks for having you back, i is, the more reassuring he will appreciate it. job one for us is to get set up and make sure we are ready to be. receive patients tomorrow. >> bill: a very interesting analysis. >> bill: how many come your way tomorrow? he said nothing would be worse than declaring victory before >> we are not exactly sure yet. the victory is won. he said that would be the greatest loss of all. we are working with local >> that was notable for me because it was such a different authorities out of the dock tone from when he was talking the week before about the cure center, and we will be working not being worse than the with them to determine how many disease. patients we will be able to take he did it in a way that gave tomorrow and from there on.

himself time and he used that >> bill: how in the world did time then to listen to the you get this ready three weeks experts. ahead of schedule? instead of coming down on the side of, we are going to reopen >> bill, it's truly a team the economy in certain places here in certain places they are. effort. the professiona professionals, e think about if you were a blue-collar worker living paycheck to paycheck who doesn't have a job? it's easy for those of us on employees, the employees at the salary, people are being paid to shipyard did everything they say wait a minute, don't do could in order to get the ship these things. ready and available for this particular mission. if you are hurting financially right now that aspirational note >> bill: so give our viewers is important. the earlier the date you can get an idea. if you have a thousand rooms, back on your feet, the better. how many beds does not equate to and what can you do for those in but the president pulled it back. hospitals now that will be moved that's what's fascinating to me, to you? watching his decision-making. >> shorey. the one question i'd like so it was designed for major reporters to ask him is, what questions to ask your scientists combat operations and it had a or your doctors to know what the maximum capacity of 1,000 beds right timing is? i would like to see reporters overall so we are coming to the explore more of the presidents mind instead of just fighting fight with 80 icu beds, 20 post with him. that would actually be anesthesia care beds and the reflective. >> bill: very interesting. maybe we will get that at 5:30 balances medical surgical beds. but keep in mind bill that a lot today when the briefing happens of these beds were designed for from the briefing room. thank you ari for your thoughts

active duty military so they are today. actually an open bay unit, some it could be what they are saying a make or break week from the of them are bunk beds as well. so again, we will work with the u.s. economy. live look of the doubt, pretty good. two and a half percentage points city of new york to figure out and because american companies the appropriate population to bring aboard the ship. now have to decide what to do >> bill: how do you feel being about april's bills. their decisions might determine here? how badly the virus hurts the seeing that skyline had to be a huge relief given the work that economy. treasury secretary's your men and women have done? steven mnuchin has said he is >> absolutely. we are excited to be here and staying optimistic. >> i don't know what the numbers excited to get started. are going to be this quarter. and what a reception we got from what i do think is we are going new york city. to kill this virus and reopen >> bill: nice. this economy and in the third quarter of this year you are you will not be taking covid-19 patients, to be clear. going to see this economy bounce back with a very large gdp >> that is correct. numbers and low unemployment sorry to cut you off. back to where we were before hand. >> bill: he was there on fox so again, we are going to be this sunday with chris wallace. the march jobs report is out on friday but will not show the covid-19 free, we will be here full impact of the virus on the economy so we will get a measure to provide care to new yorkers and to take a little pressure of that but not the full off of the local health system, picture. in the meantime, a cruise ship with nearly 200 people on board those patients that don't have covid-19. with apparently flu-like

>> bill: captain, welcome to new york and i hope to see you symptoms now heading for south florida. tomorrow or sometime very soon. some of those on board have already died. job well done and to all the men i will talk to the mayor of and women on board, give them our best. fort lauderdale about what he says about the possibility of >> will do. the ships docking in his again, thanks for having us community. in an update on what first responders are trying to again. >> bill: new york taking some steps to get ready for the do to stop the spread including cutting down on arrests. onslaught of coronavirus cases. the massive javits convention center's opening is a temporary hospital. like the navy ship, they will take in patients that don't have covid-19 to free up space in the hospitals. tomorrow an emergency tent hospitals up to open in central park to treat seriously ill patients and david lee miller has been on that story for us today in central park. >> bill, new yorkers have never seen anything like this. a outfield hospital under construction here in central park. its location along fifth avenue, directly across the street from mount sinai hospital. the facility that is still under construction will have as many

as 68 beds including ten that will have a icu capability. i'm going to step out of frame and let you take a closer look at the hospital tents. there will be a total of 14 when it is completed. construction began on sunday, and by tomorrow morning it will be up and running. the state brought together a charity called samaritan's purse to make this a field hospital reality and i talked to the doctor in charge respecting social distancing and he said he never imagined coming here to help during a medical emergency. >> i never thought i would be in central park doing this. we've done this in war zones, earthquakes and hurricanes but this is a very improbable location. we are blessed to be here and happy to work alongside new york to help take care of the people. >> another new york city hospitals preparing for the worst, lenox hill hospital in greenwich village side a

refrigeration truck is outside of the hospital to serve as a temporary morgue. andrew cuomo said that cases are doubling every six days and that is when the virus is slowing as it builds towards its apex. there are now more than 66,000 people infected statewide and the death toll stands at more than 1200. most of those afflicted are right here in new york city. lastly, new york city mayor bill de blasio is saying that the city now has enough ppe on hand but he says in order to stretch it they are having medical workers as much as can be safely done reuse that ppe. he says the supplies are dwindling and as soon next sunday, bill, the supplies could run out. >> bill: david lee, thank you. president trump extending social distancing guidelines at least until the end of april. he says he expects great things to happen on june 1st.

more than 100,000 americans could die from the virus. i want to bring back the director of the harvard global health institute. good day to you and thank you for coming back. i think this is a fourth time we have talked. number one, dr. fauci. 100,000 deaths, does not sit right with you in america? >> that's a pretty high number. obviously we should do everything we can to lower that number but that may be the reality of way don't really get on top of this thing. >> bill: abbott labs comes out with a point of contact test over the weekend. what cannot do maybe not so much new york but other cities that are waiting for the wave to come their way? >> i think this could be a game changer. i don't like using that word lightly but i love this test. if it turns out as good as it sounds and if we can get this across the country over the next week or two could make a big difference in ramping up testi

testing. >> bill: doctor, what's coming to louisiana and florida if it's not already there? >> i'm looking at the numbers and it's making me really worried. we are seeing cases arise quickly across all three states under the states as well and what that means is they are hospitals are days away or at most weeks away from getting into the kind of trouble we are seeing in new york. everyone has to pull together right now. >> bill: one of the things i picked up over the weekend, doctors like yourself consider this up pearl harbor moment. like a sneak attack where the country asked to unite and pull together and figure out how we best fight back and defeat it. is that how you see it? >> we think it's a mistake to be putting people into southern >> absolutely. florida right now given what we are dealing with so we would this is why i was so happy to see the president make what i like to have medical personnel think is a very fact-based, simply dispatched to that ship and the cruise lines can hopefully arrange for that. science-based decision to extend tend it to folks who may need the country is kind of standstill through the end medical attention. of april. >> bill: this is an issue, and what he said which i think is right will let the facts on that's florida's governor the ground determine when to ron desantis and that's a open up. cruise ship with nearly 200 people heading to south florida but here's the bottom line.

after four people on board have we are one country and everyone died. has to put together and make at least two tested positive for covid-19 and the cruise line has decisions. texas and florida still haven't been looking to dock at zand dam really close, we all have to work on this together as a we will defeat this thing but in fort lauderdale. it might not be easy. only after working together. the ship passing to the >> bill: i know you are panama canal, it's currently off working over the weekend, the coast of central america. crunching the numbers, and the mayor of fort later died on anecdotally what kind of micah lauderdale is with me now. summation you would provide for we heard from the governor. her viewers. you don't want that ship. what are you going to do about what would that be? it? >> first of all, we appreciate >> there is a lot of data thrown around and when he put the whole the governor supporting our thing together i would say we decision to stopping the ship are still in the early days. before it comes to our shores. we will see a lot more cases and it's unfair for these sick unfortunately a lot more deaths. but new york shows us that with people, over 100 of them to be dumped on our shores and left to social distancing we are their own devices. starting to see kind of a flattening of the curve in terms we are a community that is trying to hold everything of cases and if everyone else together. does the same thing i think we people are out of work, people can beat this thing but it will are staying home, we don't need be a bumpy few weeks ahead. any more infection in our community is so we appreciate >> bill: like i know you can't support of the governor. see what i'm doing here but i we've been in touch with the white house and the white house want you to listen and i will is with us. come back to you for the answer. they are watching this and they are going to make sure that this

this is the johns hopkins ship does not land at our dock. website. when we left you on friday late >> bill: so if not there in in the afternoon, here are u.s. cases now, 2800 deaths. fort lauderdale, then where? >> it should be in a place where this number was right around medical facilities are zero. sufficient to carry out the that number is the total needs of the people that are on recovered number, we are now at the ship. keep in mind there are two 5,545. as we are looking at silver ships. there is the zan dam who has the linings and all this and trying people who are sick, over 100 of to pick up on trends, that's one thing we came up with over the them, passengers and crew. weekend. now this is very important. and also the other ship, the holland america ship which this is a snapshot, and in supposedly has the healthy new york state the cases are people who are in quarantine. increasing but at a slower pace. so we have two ships sailing put another way, the rate of toward our port and we do not increase is dropping especially since that stay-at-home order have the medical facilities to be able to accommodate what was given out on the 22nd of march. needs to happen to these folks. new york state, we have been hitting a percentage day-to-day until which time that happens it cannot come to fort lauderdale. we should go to a place where greater than 70%. we have lessened that now on a the medical facilities and percentage rate to about 12% state level. on the city level in new york technicians exist. you can see the similar graph. again, here is the state level otherwise -- >> bill: what and on the city level, now on a have you heard about what's

percentage basis, 8.8%. happening on board that ship. >> we have heard nothing other than the fact that there are a in the number of cases however lot of suffering people. this is what we are seeing. this is chicago and yellow, >> bill: meaning the reports detroit and blue, new orleans of 200 with flu-like symptoms. can you confirm that or have you and red. spoken to them? >> we are watching it as you are watching it. and especially as we see in there are news reports that tell chicago and detroit. us over one passengers and quite a few crewmembers are also so what does that mean and what suffering from this disease. it's unfair to leave them on the does that tell us about social boat. distancing? does it work, can we conclude they shouldn't even be coming to fort lauderdale, there are that so far today? places along the way that could be much better. >> look. i think this is pretty good why drag the ship all the way up evidence that social distancing, to fort lauderdale when in fact the kind of programs we are there are facilities along the putting in are starting to have way? >> i know you are responsible an effect. it's still early, and you might for fort lauderdale and of the see a day or two where things cruise line but what do you say to those that see who are increase but we have to not lose our focus. the best evidences that social looking for safe harbor? distancing works. it's starting to work in >> i say they should be new york and it will work everywhere else. we have to implement it. contacting the federal government telling them, please, while we do all the social help us.

distancing, we have to use this this is not something that is strictly in the hands of a small time smartly and really build up our testing capacity so we know city like fort lauderdale. we have a community here that is when we can build back up but we are weaw foctor, and working very hard to prevent the contagion of this disease from spreading. people are at home, the streets in the meantime, a cruise ship are vacant. with nearly 200 people expensing restaurants are closed and flu-like symptoms on board now people are protecting one another. heading toward florida. the mayor says the state cannot then to dump sickness within our midst makes no sense. take them in. so the people -- and trust me, where will they go? antivirus hot spot emerging in we are getting text messages and louisiana. emails from those on the ship, hospitals warning that they will they are asking for help. run out of ventilators this week and we will talk to the i implore our president to lieutenant governor about that. he joins us, next. listen to their voices and give them direction and give them the >> we have to work very hard to help that they need. try to get in front of this virus because we are playing catch up. there's no doubt about that. through the homeland security agency. it moves fast and it can be >> bill: thanks for coming on deadly, as we know. here today. a bit of a conundrum as you can see and it has to be mightily and comfortable for those on board. at newday usa. remember the hot bed for on newday's va streamline refi is the quickest and easiest refi board. we will get in touch with the

they've ever offered. boat as well. >> there was also a cruise ship you can lower your payments by this time next month that entered the port of oakland without having to verify your income, and california and they were able to triage every single one of those passengers. without getting your home appraised, and there's no money out of pocket. >> bill: yes and they had some time to do it, you are right call newday right now. about that. fair point. in q mayor of fort lauderdale. in the meantime from the west coast, coronavirus hot spots being told to change the way they do certain things. yes, please. thank you. you're welcome. some departments are instructing ♪ officers to use more protective gear and practice social [indistinct conversation] distancing. dan springer reports on the can i help you? possibility of fewer arrests, caress as well. yes! we're stuck. the career skills that really matter- >> bill, police and fire to burn like teamwork, responsibility, and serving others... it's a cross-country or changing the rules of engagement to protect themselves even as they hey... can i help you? are the ones you learn here. go out and enforce the laws and welcome to mcdonald's. protect the public. can i help you? they are mainly asking the public to only call 911 when they have a severe emergencies. then when dispatchers get these because they are screening people for possible coronavirus cases. asking questions to let first responders know how to

approach. now we are seeing emt is showing up and wearing protective gowns and masks and then after each call they throw them away. but still, thousands of cops across the country are coming into contact with the virus and either getting sick or going into quarantine themselves because they think they might be infected. it's putting a strain on staffing obviously nowhere is the problem more serious than new york city and detroit. 730 of the cases in new york city are sworn officers and so far three members of the apartment have died. detroit has far fewer officers but 39 have tested positive including the chief of police and two officers have died there. it has cops around the country being less aggressive on the beach. >> bottom line, you have to protect yourselves. use the mask, use the gloves and get that social distancing. if you don't have to contact that person, if they are not breaking the law, if it's not an

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i'm part of a community of problem solvers. we make ideas grow. from an everyday solution... to one that can take on a bigger challenge. we are solving problems that improve lives. >> bill: governors in several states giving updates on the virus and the responses to it, including the governor of california. there are more than 6,000 cases in that state, third highest in the country. as always we are watching and monitoring updates from there. in the meantime, this is from louisiana. >> we remain on the trajectory to overwhelm our capacity to deliver health care by the end of the first week in april. we think the first real issue will be ventilators and we think it's about the fourth or 5th of april before down in the new orleans area we are unable to put people on ventilators who

need them. several days later, we will be out of beds. the one that is the louisiana governor warning that hospitals in new orleans could run out of ventilators by the weekend. the lieutenant governor, you are in baton rouge, what's happening in your state that america needs to know? >> well the ventilators is a crucial issue and that something you can't order once the patient needs it. the good news is this morning on the conference call with the president and vice president, the president assured governor john bell that we would be getting additional ventilators to louisiana. they are desperately needed. you can see we had 485 new cases yesterday and another 34 deaths in louisiana. the numbers continue to ramp up and it's a critical situation here in louisiana. >> bill: what have you done on

the state parks that could help? >> we have shut down and sent everyone home from the state parks. we left them open so the locals can go and walk in them, but this last weekend it looked like a fourth of july with people from texas on that waterway. so which of those parks down and got wildlife and fisheries to go out there. people are not heating the warning and there were large crowds all over that lake in toledo bend this past weekend. you've seen the news about the church that helped service in baton rouge, this is serious. unless everybody plays by the rules we will never get over this and see light at the end of the tunnel. >> bill: how is that possible when there is a stay-at-home order in place until mid-april? >> that's a great question. there was a second line in new orleans the other day. people are just not taking this serious and they need to. i don't understand it. we've been through katrina, the

oil spill, the floods of 2016 and louis louisiana and's come together and this is something that's very disappointing that all louisiana nuns have not heeded the warning and stayed home like the governor asked. >> bill: it's he had a conversation earlier with the president and vice president and you made a request for what western mark >> the governor made a request for the ventilators, i think he asked for 12,000. they did say they would get us some, but anything we can get at this point, knowing that we will run out sometime next week, and also the hospital beds that, we have stood up the convention center with a a thousand hospital beds. if those numbers keep going up, we will max out our resources. >> bill: live look at the chicago update. >> bill: what do you think within hours the plan to about that mart mardi gras para? announce 3,000 visits to the convention center to treat patients with mild symptoms of

>> i'm as much to blame as covid-19. meanwhile, in the air, we found anyone. at the time there were only 15 cases in america, not wanting to this. health care workers in atlanta responded to the call. pull the trigger too early, i take the blame as we all do but i don't think we should look back at the things we should have, could have or would have help treat coronavirus patients. the photo shows some of them along with passengers and crew done, but now going forward we members holding their hands up all have to realize how serious in the shape of a heart. it is and come together and solve this problem because now the great american company mardi gras in hindsight probably is doing great american things. wasn't a good idea but we didn't a golf apparel company has gone know how serious this could get from sportswear to a surgical and how quickly especially here mask. in louisiana. the creative director of summit >> bill: last question, what brand -- summit golf brands, about the superdome, have you he's live in new york. thought about using that as a how are you doing? temporary hospital or could you i can see you now. use that if it you needed it? tell me how this idea came about. >> we probably could but the >> one of our customers had convention center is quite large and we could expand within that emailed us about ten days ago. facility is need would arise. ethic we are okay with the at has suggested that we start convention center at this point. making some masks. i took the idea over that >> bill: all right, thank you for your time today in baton rouge. and good luck. weekend with basic prototypes.

the u.s. army is on the front come monday, or granted by our lines to find a vaccine. we take you behind the scenes at executive team. a military lab. we had our wisconsin crew researchers testing hundreds of drugs as we speak. working on it and prototypes by plus how the blood plasma of tuesday. covid-19 survivors might help save the lives of sick patients the wisconsin emergency agency by wednesday. who are still battling and hanging onto life. we hopped on it quickly and we will be delivering a thousand masks. >> bill: the plan is to do it. deliver the mask to wear? only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> they will distributed them to the firefighters and police officers in iowa county wisconsin. >> bill: do you know what is remarkable about the story? your company and some of many others -- hundreds and hundreds of american companies are pitching in to try and figure out a way they can help in any way they can. i just think that's remarkable. how can people who are watching this -- how can they help out? >> well, we have posted on our website if people want to use

the different resources to make masks yourselves. even if it is an individual making too masks a day, that can help out. for us, we are cutting up production to make these. so, father's day, you're looking for father's day presence. >> bill: that would be a most excellent gift. how did you get approval? you made golf equipment. what makes you qualified to make a mask? >> the funny thing is, the idea of keeping the water out and letting air not pass through is and platelet donations and asks healthy donors a similar concept. to schedule an appointment to give. right in our wisconsin warehou during this corona virus outbreak, warehouse. it's actually very similar. patients are counting on lifesaving transfusions. visit redcrossblood.org >> bill: they must be so

appreciative. i hope a delivery come sooner than later. i hear the next stop could be florida or maybe texas. >> that is correct. >> bill: the need is great, billy. >> we are trying to do the next right thing. >> bill: thank you. we are going to be visiting with american companies every day on our program. this is just one example of the great work doing out there. tomorrow, our show will originate where the navy's hospital ship comfort is docked here in new york city. 1,000 plus beds and the u.s. navy is ready to get to work. set your dvr and never miss a report. it's monday. it's going to be a long week, folks. i'm bill hemmer. see you tomorrow. >> we will get through it. that ship, by the way is not only in new york about the stock

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>> bill: so now loved ones of those who have recovered from covid-19 want people to step up and donate blood. doctor said a plasma could help people who are still sick. >> bill, most people have their own story about when the reality of the severity of covid-19 first hit them but for people with loved ones that have the virus they say it is a

completely different reality altogether. like one new jersey woman who says that plasma research is her sliver of hope to save her husband's life. >> able to go out and give a plasma donation would mean so much to us. i just hope that people would want to do that for us because certainly i would want to do it for others. >> it's been ten days since amy perez lowe last saw her hospitalized husband brett. he remains in critical condition at cooper university health care. the lockheed martin engineer, football coach and dad had no previous health issues so his family thought he would bounce back. amy is now urging others to keep in mind the experience. >> we had known that a week ago we would have reacted all of it differently and got him to the emergency room sooner when he started with the shortness of

breath rather than waiting and just having this false sense of, well, he's 50 and pretty healthy so it's not going to be that b bad. >> the covid-19 convalescent plasma method is based on a method more than 100 years ago. it takes antibody rich plasma for patience who recover from virus and gives it to patience who are unable to fight the virus themselves. mount sinai indy new york is calling on recovered people to get there plasma to try to save those who are following behind them. journalists are saying the nba is even encouraging their players to donate plasma. for someone who has never donated plasma, the process is similar to donating blood but again, you can only donate to save these potential covid-19 patients if you yourself have recovered from it, too. >> bill: alex cope mike hogan in new york. cases of the virus in the u.s. military nearly doubled over the weekend.

meanwhile, defense officials say the u.s. army is helping in the race to find a vaccine for covid-19. jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon now. >> we were taken behind the scenes by army secretary ryan mccarthy. lee's army researchers came up with vaccines for anthrax, the plague and ebola and now they are working double shifts growing large amounts of the covid-19 virus at the sprawling lab complex at fort dietrich in maryland. they can shoot 300 different compounds at one time, some of them known drugs like chloroquine into the virus and see how it reacts. >> they put the virus on to the cells, and they count the killed portions. >> we can test about 300 drugs or compounds in each plate. each plate has cells in it and we use the compounds using these robotic systems and then we

transfer the plate into viral containment where we have the virus. >> since 1969 the u.s. army medical institute of infectious diseases has served as the pentagon's lead laboratory for biological defense research. it's worked with biotech firms like gilad to develop drugs like remdesivir. they have sneeze labs, a technology that the u.s. army invented to test how the virus spreads the air. >> they anthrax vaccine that we've developed, there is also antiplague and vaccines and treatments for the ebola virus. it is a long history, at least 50 years of research and develop meant all the way from a bench top to final clinical product. >> they are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. a general tally has worked out where we have literally two 12-hour shifts each day so the

parking lot is full. it's going to stay that way until we win. >> that's the army secretary ryan mccarthy. it still may take at least 18 months for a vaccine. test using ferrets, we were told to come up may hold the key to coronavirus in humans. >> bill: how about that. the president extending social distancing through the end of april. that's weeks pass of the initial target which was easter sunday. plus, americans are staring down a long list of bills. do the 1st of april but federal aid will not arrive by then. why decisions made this week could make or break our economy. ♪

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staying home, social distancing, not going out to any restaurants, bars or even being careful in the grocery stores, absolutely religious hand washing. all of this. >> bill: that was a doctor burks earlier today on "the today show," part of the coronavirus task force. she is a leader talking about the metro areas around the country. president trump extending social distancing guidelines for at least a month after telling me last week that he was looking at opening things by easter sunday. he said that was just a goal. >> president trump: so that was an aspirational number. i didn't say easter, i said it would be great if we could do it by easter and we know much more now than we knew two or three weeks ago. easter should be the peak number and it should start coming down and hopefully very substantial substantially. >> bill: i want to bring in ari fleischer, fox news contributor and former white house press secretary.

what do you think of the aspirational comments, putting it out there and moving people along perhaps in an optimistic way? then you have your team of scientists around saying, hang on, we can't do that just yet. the change of course tells you what inside the west wing? >>we need a president who preacs