this was about 5,000 points lower than that two weeks ago. it's far from solid for investors that are looking close to 30,000 february but it is a reminder of how volatile the markets are even now. ♪ >> juan: hello everyone, i'm one williams along with dana perino, greg gutfeld, jesse watters and emily compagno. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." the battle against the covid-19 outbreak continues almost 2,000 americans dying from the virus in the past 24 hours. but health officials say our social distancing efforts are paying off.

the country could be at a turning point. the white house coronavirus task force is set to react to all of this news and more in a briefing coming up very soon. the confirmed number of infections in america now topping or hundred thousand, and 14,000 people have died. so far over 22,000 americans have recovered and this is a bit of positive news. i top coronavirus model now downgrading the projected death to 60,000. remember a few days ago that number was 80,000. dr. anthony fauci reacted. >> it was vo see the increase in death and we predicted over the weekend that this would be bad to be a bad wk for deaths. driving out and ahead of that is a fact that we will see the beginning of the turnaround. although one of the original models projected 100-200000 deaths. as we are getting more data and

seeing the positive effect of mitigation, those will be downgraded. >> juan: and dr. deborah birx telling americans to keep practicing social distancing. >> what's really important is that people don't turn these early signs of hope into releasing from the 30 days to stop the spread. it's really critical. and you can see the delay. people start going out again and socially interacting, we could see a very acute second wave very early. >> juan: dana, i was just encouraged by some of the signs out of new york, some of those statistics. i don't want to ignore the fact that they had the highest day of death rate, but there is a lot of optimism out there. i just wanted to pick up on that

with you and say, when do you think it would be good for us to go back to work? 's's >> dana: i use that analogy of the trainer that gets you to do 15's in the throes on another plate because it's good for you, i think we just have to listen to the officials. dr. ber covid 18 and dr. fauci e a balancing act and what they are trying to do is to say, what you are doing is working. the sacrifices that you are making, the ones we do together as a country are working. we are saving lives and preventing people from going into the hospital and protecting our hospital system. that's all good but we have to urge her to keep doing it because we don't want to let up too early. it's like allowing the enemy back into the gate. i think the messaging is all about tricky for them, but i feel today like we are doing the right thing and that we can be

hopeful and we can still be vigilance. those three things i can hold altogether in my head at the same time. >> juan: jessee, broadway i saw announced, and eye of coure a broadway for the viewer's sake because they should know that fox news is located there in the middle of broadway and all that action. they are a big business and they concede today getting back into action around june 7 through so. what do you think, jesse watters, about when people could get back to broadway and when we could be back together in the studio? >> jesse: well, i miss you too, juan. but i'm not much of a broadway show kind of guy. so those people who go to restaurant shows, i go to the restaurant right next to the show. there are encouraging signs. but i'm also discouraged about something and i need to get it

off my chest. here's what it is. when conservatives ask a question about the pandemic, the media makes those questions controversial. and they are all of a sudden smeared with some sort of scandal. okay, why were the death toll model projections changing, or how do they tabulate a death toll or where did the virus come from? did it come from the wet market or did it come from lab contamination? or did the stockpiles from the states go somewhere? did the federal stockpile go somewhere? is this antimalarial drug going to be affected? when can we reopen this economy? these are vital questions that we need to be asking but if you ask these questions, some people in this country call you antiscience, they call you cavalier. all sorts of names.

that's because there are certain people in this country that are looking for the truth and looking for honesty and accountability. not just in one person, the president, they are looking at everything. they seem hyper focused on everything but the narrative and their narrative is donald trump is bad. it is a president financially benefiting from this pandemic, is he trying to muzzle scientists? is he trying to delay the election? those are not ball questions and everyone knows the answer to that. so people need to be fearless and not intimidated in the silence and doom and gloom. we can remain vigilant, hopeful and positive, looking at how this happened and why this happened but also learn from it.

>> juan: i think people should ask questions. i think this whole discussion comes down to a matter of trust and people do want the kind of trust and accuracy and transparency that jesse is talking about. part of that question is, who do you trust to make the final call? do you trust the policymakers and the politicians or do you trust the scientific experts and the doctors? how would you come out on that? >> greg: trust the adults in the room. this is an adult question. the fact that you can illuminate risk. we saved a lot of lives and we stopped travel, so early on because there were thousands of flights coming from china into the united states. some made it in, but cutting it off early that saved a lot of lives. i think right now the media should resist the temptation to see this as over because there are a leading indicator for the rest of the country. but the battle is paying off in

new york with way fewer casualties but we have to remember there are other cities right behind us. we have to be careful that there are other people going through some things. brett weinstein is a biology professor and he makes a really good point. as horrible as this is, it could have been far worse given that so many people have been recovering which suggests that this virus wasn't like ebola or aids in that it destroys you. a lot of people recover and it definitely kills people who are we care, older and more infirm. but we could get something like this which is less devastating as a lesson to teach us about the future pandemic. there could be a different virus in two years so this wasn't the apocalypse. it was more like a flight simulator for the apocalypse. this is an excellent dry run to consider all of the questions that jesse asked because all the questions he asked, those are

really good questions. the origins of the virus, you cannot be called the conspiracy theorist because we could have just been a contamination accident and i think a lot of smart people are feeling that way. i have learned so much during this period about china and about supply chains, about toilet paper supply chains. i never understood there were two separate supply chains. we learned so much about preparation for the pandemic, i learned more this month then i learned in four years in college. now we get to be the adult and apply this knowledge to how to understand and present something far worse from happening. i'm extremely optimistic. i sounded the alarm months ago but i'm so optimistic that we are going to figure this out, the irony of this whole thing is the overall mortality rate for the united states might actually as a net be lower. because of things that we did during this, and it's kind of

mind-blowing. >> juan: it is mind-blowing that so many people got on board and follow the advice. you have other cities who are approaching their peak in terms of infection and death and i'm wondering if those states, and specifically the hot spot cities have the equipment, have the capacity to deal with these things. do you think -- are they better prepared given what happened in new york? >> i think the overarching approach buttoning the curve, it wasn't exactly that. it wasn't reducing expectation but reducing the volume at one time so the medical system wasn't overwhelmed. i want to speak for a second about my approach and i think the nation's approach to this, this is a marathon, it's not a sprint. obviously i'm here in seattle which was the original epicenter and the university of washington just recently amended their initial model. they reduce their expectations

of 1400 deaths by june down to 632. and they said we have actually passed the peak needs of medical resources in our system and that is why we were able to donate 400 ventilators to other states. so that's excellent news. but that rosier outlook still depends on maintaining that social distancing through maine. so the fact that it's potentially surmounting its apex, first of all, that's wonderful news in terms of it being the epicenter right now and it's also really crucial to the nations morale. but we should still be approaching this as a long-haul step-by-step basis. just yesterday at governor cuomo maxed out the fine, and he said i don't need the money but i need the compliance. because we cannot let down our guard now or we will see an unexpected surge. as everyone has had before me, it's working. we will talk about and address

the devastating economic impact that this has had. for this block and to this conversation right now when it's just on the health, i think the most important thing is that the reduced numbers are exactly why these urban hot zones are maintaining social distancing and staying the course. >> juan: while we try to keep our morale up, and so we here at th"the five," we decided we are going to do our part. check out our public service announcement. >> social distancing with "the five." ♪ >> while the team working responsibly, they are getting used to a new routine of social distances. >> what do you guys think of the green new deal? >> we make sure to get the

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many things including illusions. for example people assume business owners are rich. hardly. on the contrary profit margins are so thin they could be blown over. for the time this is overcome a night out will be heading to 7-eleven to buy beans. we worry about waitresses and servers and of course every taverns i see a specialist, the bartender. but to help them to have to help the owners first. it's like an airline emergency, the parent has to put on the oxygen mask before he or she helps the kids. the guy who owns the bar needs help first so he can pay has some staff. if not, you end up with boarded up the storefronts and a bustling street become skid row. towns died this way. the solution? glad you asked. i want to balance my checkbook. so president trump if you are listening, and i know you are come first to government needs to make the loans directly to the owner. if the owner can pay back its on him or her. they did this after 9/11 and it

worked. the loan should also have a long payback. it to read his thoughts of suicide. because of that sort that can lead. the second part in involves you, the viewer. you need to go out and spend it and get that oxygen pumping into the system. but first you deserve an incentive. so how about for one year we make meals and beverages tax deductible. take bar tabs and mark them all self entertainment. if your family goes out and spends 200 bucks, you get 60 back later. let's put the fun and refund. because if we don't you could lose your favorite bar, which sucks because after all this you're going to need a drink. you know, juan, the reason i think this is so an important is because one places you go to at night close, you lose the foot traffic and then the streets are empty and it becomes the danger

zone. >> juan: yeah, it becomes a ghost town. it's shocking, it's like where is the life, where is the party? i just think we have to give consumers the kind of confidence and the incentives to go out and spend, because they drive our economy. maybe people aren't aware of it for consumer spending is the prime engine of the american economy. i will say that for big companies, a lot of the big businesses want to reopen but you have to understand that they also have liability concerns. if they bring employees back in and then there's a wave of infections or problems or even people dying, then they will be responsible. they have to think about that and we don't want as dr. brooks was suggesting and what we saw in the letter a block there, we don't want to risk that we would have a second wave comparable to the first wave because we have slowed down on the social distancing, hand washing and other mitigation measures we

have taken that have proven effective. >> greg: you know jesse, you talk to president trump almost every day on that secret that phone. next time you talk to him, can you plead with him to introduce the deduction so they can eliminate all the hoops that small business owners have jumped through? they will be responsible, just cut out all the red tape. >> jesse: i love how greg gutfeld has made food and alcohol d a centerpiece for the economic recovery package. that is greg gutfeld right there. i'm kind of torn because emma has learned how to cook during the pandemic so going out to dinner is not -- i'm going to do my best and i'm going to go out as much is possible to save the country just like i'm staying

and saving the country now by staying home and watching television. but in all seriousness, there's a post exposure test. you can prick your finger in the comfort of your own home and you see if you've been infected with the virus. if you have been infected it's safer for you to go back to work and, your blood can then be administered to people who are suffering and those antibodies can help them recover and that test i believe is going to drive policy and terms of reopening the country. >> greg: you know emily, i think people have a misguided assumption of the business owner. when they think you own a business, they think you are rich when more than likely you are sleeping on floors and not taking a paycheck. you know? these guys need help. >> absolutely. you guys talked about this before but i got some comments just from my own family small business, that's a privilege situation.

small business owners do everything from top down to the bottom. i don't want to sound like a debbie downer but the problem with the payroll per protection program, one of the major issues as it doesn't align with the regulation facing every segment of the hospitalit industry. you kind of reduce it to food and alcohol which we love but the reality is the son $900 billion industry. that's over 2% of our gdp so we absolutely should do everything possible to maintain it and also to stimulate it. on thursday, the treasury revised it. the reduce the majority portion of the unforgivable amount of the loan and also the limits on the forgivable portion on the cost. that goes back to what we were doing talking about before which is the small business owners and those operators have to spend 75% of the cost on payroll. but their doors are closed. we are absolutely being gutted and many of them are appealing by the way directly to their senators because there is no way

that any of these fda telephone lines, they are totally clogged. so it's like who will hear me right now? meanwhile other applicable business owners don't even -- they don't have that same cost revenue but they also apply. i will say that the tone in the hospitality industry is one of panic and devastation and it's not positive. again, i don't want to be a fearmongering but to highlight this is a very real situation that needs real solutions. >> greg: you know, i hate you emily because i was a better monologue than mine. you explained it far better than i did. dana, do you miss your bartenders and your waitresses and your servers like i do? >> dana: yes. and even other people.

like my dog walker. it's great to have jasper here and everything but she has a business and they absolutely need help. i will add to other things that i think the administration and congress should consider. this is super unpopular just to keep on the theme of the week. i would do a capital gains tax cut because if you want people to pump money into the economy and buy things and invest in things that help with things, well then allow people have earned some sort of return on their investment to be able to spend that investment and not be able to worry about it being taxed to death. the second thing i would say is i think they should consider increasing the charitable tax deduction for the next couple of years. because we know there are a lot of entities that need help. i talked to a family today that runs a baby pantry out of their church and they are desperate for help. so providing people with the means to be able to have the incentive to also give would go a long way.

the government is already doing a lot and i know there would be some of the left that say, how dare you do that? well people with money can't help actually get that back on track. and, the people on the lower rungs of the latter were losing what they have. the people on the higher end of the latter can sustain it, and therefore it's the sustainability of the people on the higher rungs to spend a load of money so the people on the lower rungs. but i was thinking, those shorts that jesse had in that tsa, they are so pink and so wonderful, i just don't know.

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>> i'm announcing the suspension of my campaign. i will stay on the ballot and continue to gather delegates. we will continue to working and we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform and other functions. >> jesse: bernie hitting the brakes all but sets up a trump versus biden match up and on twitter, the brainy people should come to the republican party. before we get a reaction, let's take a trip down memory lane. >> bernie is an extremist. bernie is too radical. i officially believe in medicare for all, a massive unprecedented investment which is what the green new deal is about.

>> i wrote the bill. >> we are very opposed to the authoritarian nature of cuba. >> i think you called me a liar on national tv. >> let's not do it right now. if you want to have that discussion we can have that discussion. >> throw your hands up. i can do it. >> are a great guy, we know you are going to miss bernie the most so what do you think about sandra's timing on leaving the race? >> greg: i actually feel bad for bernie because even though i believe he was wrong in every prescription he had for society, he trust? they get screwed so many times and now they are forced to support a guy who gets lost doing a crossword puzzle. i think that i go back to my theory that joe is really just a seat filler for the real presidential candidate which is the vp.

if they win, he steps aside three months and you have president clover chart and president milano. >> jesse: oh, breaking news alert. what do you think about the fact that he saw on the ballot and will still presses issues at the convention? >> dana: so i'm not impressed. i'm not impressed with how he handled it because he's already pulled the party so far to the left that they had to reject him at the ballot box in the latter half of the primaries as joe biden started basically winning in all of those states and bernie sanders was like reading the writing on the wall. i think democrats would take a look at this and say, just remember, bernie sanders was never actually a democrat. he had to hijack the party and now he wants to do even more damage. he wants to keep getting more delegates so he can go to the convention and pulled joe biden even further to the left, almost guaranteeing that he can't possibly win against

president trump. i think if i were the biden people i would say thanks, but no thanks. i admire him for what he had done in terms of building movement over many years but i do think that there is something else to mark here which is, i don't think bernie sanders will be running for president again because in 2024, that seems like a long time away but it's really not in the presidential politics cycle. he had this amazing influence on the democratic party without even being a democrat. that's a hard needle to thread. >> jesse: i think you are right about that, dana. i think has run is over. juan, what does that by biden team need to do in order to bring the bernie bros into the fold? >> juan: one of the advantages of bernie not yet endorsing and still being in the race is, it gives him time to say to his supporters, here is why i pulled out and here's why i'm supporting joe biden.

it doesn't comment like us sudden capitulation or his sudden caved, he can meet with joe biden and maybe get joe biden to sign onto some things. you want to make sure that 15% of bernie bros who said they wouldn't support biden do in fact turn around. that brings me to the political calculation of what we learn today. number one come joe biden is the nominee. number two, donald trump doesn't want the bernie bros to vote for joe biden which is why he was on twitter going after the bernie bros. he's reaching out to them quite directly. you have to understand that even as we approach the democratic side, attempts at unity, it's been an amazing run for bernie sanders. the 78-year-old who had a heart attack in october and comes out of the box and raises a phenomenal amount of money. i think in his day he raised more than biden. and he has a populist backing in

so many ways. and this is what president trump is picking up on. when it comes to issues like trade, they would side with him even on going to war in iraq. side with him, side with trump, and not what they call the mainstream of american politics. >> jesse: emily, what do you think about the president? going to be very aggressive trying to peel off the bernie bros on issues like trade and foreign policy? >> emily: exactly, while also relishing the idea about going against the establishment. i wanted to point out to you that out of the gate, biden addressed the fact that valerie tried and failed. but you heard a statement. right away, the first thing out of his mouth was we will address existential climate change. we will make tuition free for universities and public colleges. we will address health care and we will address easing student debt. it was literally appealing

directly to bernie's followers before he then said to come and then we will just beat donald trump. i think biden had two things going for him that valerie didn't. one was this was less acrimonious than it was then. bernie and biden don't hate each other with the way hillary and bernie did. unlike at the time when hillary and bernie were running against the idea of trump, in trump's favor is the fact that there is something set. it will be difficult for biden to i think address and surmount that. obviously covid-19 is the wild card but he does have those couple things going for him down the pipe. >> jesse: yes. it will be difficult for joe biden to do a lot of things and we will talk about all of those things here on "the five." coming up, the coronavirus task force briefing is set to begin very soon. president trump and the head of the world health organization trading shots over the handling of the coronavirus.

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>> dana: the director of the world health organization is pushing back against the president. watch. >> if you don't want many more body bags then you refrain from politicizing it. my short messages, please quarantine politicizing covid. >> dana: all right jesse, is this one of those inconvenient questions that might be asked which is what was the w.h.o. doing when they said that chin china -- this is a tweet that is still up. china had not identified any human to human transmission of the coronavirus? that seems impossible to believe but i would imagine that is something that we should find out about if the united states is putting the lion's share of the money into this organizati organization? >> jesse: i mean w.h.o. was either duped by china or they

were complicit. so they are either naive or they are corrupt. taiwan told the w.h.o. in december that this was a contagious disease and they didn't even get a response back. instead, they pushed out this chinese ally unfiltered, never questioned it. criticized the president's chinese travel ban for being racist and then really dragged their feet on declaring this thing an emergency, and then a pandemic, costing a lot of lives. it's not just the president of the united states, japan has mockingly called it that china holds organization and it was in pick. dr. tedros, this guide to lead the w.h.o., it was china's pick. they didn't want this guy, the sky oversaw three cholera outbreaks in ethiopia when he was charged they are at the time and he came in and announced his two main priorities were climate change and universal health care. that kind of tells you all you need to know there. so we get $400 million per year

to the w.h.o., it's a waste of money if you think about the lives it has cost here in this country. >> dana: emily, i could see the need for a world health organization and theory. so he would have in our global society a way to figure out how to protect one another from things that could have been and in this case, could it be that we continue to participate but with a much more heavy hand than in the past? >> emily: right, i think that's a great option. i want to point out to you that to me as an equal politicization to blindly support global organizations without audits. why shouldn't we have the prerogative, especially as the largest donor, of auditing and insuring that our money is being well spent? why is it a blind acceptance, why should that be the norm? we were just talking about the election in the last and politically speaking, it's

really -- trump has nothing to lose by speaking against china and the organization that defended it. today the harris poll came out and a 90% of republicans feel that china is to blame and 60% of democrats agree. they had further questions but rarely -- >> dana: the president has arrived for the briefing. let's go to the president. >> president trump: this is a holy week when religious believers across the nation will observe passover, good friday and easter. millions of jewish families begin passover at sundown tonight, a sacred unbroken tradition that traces back to the ancient land of egypt. on sunday we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful easter which we all look forward to. we will have many easter us together in churches in the future. we are getting closer. you see the numbers, we are much closer to getting our country

back to the way it was. we have now been extra to countries that have been attacked, 184, that are being attacked as we speak but we will all win. at some point we will all win and we will do it sooner than some people think. earlier today i spoke with 10,000 of america's faith leaders to thank them for raising the spirits of our people during these very difficult days. while we may be physically apart, we can use this time to pray and reflect and focus on our personal relationship with god. i also spoke with more than 3,000 of mayors, county commissioners and state and tribal leaders to provide an update on our administrations ongoing drive to beat the virus, to crush the virus, and it's happening. it's happening, and i think if you look a little bit more quickly than people thought, maybe a lot more quickly, i

hope. it's something that all over the world we are watching, and people are watching us and saying what we are doing and they are very impressed. you're dealing with many countries right now, many, many countries and we are giving them whatever information we are able to glean. i just spoke with the representatives of the u.k. and i think that they are great prime minister is doing much better today, or at least better. certainly though he's had a tough bout and is still going through a tough time but he seems to be doing better, and that's good. we set our regards to boris and to his family and his friends and all of the people that really love him. he has become very popular. before this happened he became a very popular prime minister. he's doing an excellent job and he loves their country and loves our country so we appreciate

everything he's done and hopefully he will be okay. speaking of great people and people that have done a fantastic job, i have secretary of state mike pompeo with us. i would like to ask mike to say a few words and then what i think we will do in order to get him back to the state department, we will take some questions and we will then go on with the rest of what i'm going to say and then we will take some questions after that. vice president pence will then take over. mike pompeo please. >> thank you, mr. president. under the president's leadership and my team and i are doing our part to protect the american people from the virus and more portly to get them home. as you know, when many countries shut down their rail lines and the buses, their infrastructure systems and capacities to get out of the country were trapped and they were stranded. the state department swung into action. since january 29 we have repatriated over 20,000 united states citizens back to their homes. for more than 90 countries, more

than 490 flights back to the united states from all across the world, this world wide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime. we are coordinating with foreign governments, militaries, airport authorities, medical units, transportation companies and hotels, you name it. we are working with them to make sure the american people get back to be with their families. you can see behind me the map of flights where we have brought back people from all across the world. every day i get a chance to hear some of the remarkable stories from our team. our mission and peer group, working with the peruvian military and police forces to send riverboats up the river to get citizens who were stranded deep inside the amazon forest. our mission in nepal, make sure the woman who was running low on medication could get what she needed at a pharmacy before boarding an evacuation flight that brought her back here. in honduras, after the government imposed very strict

24/24/7 curfew enclosed airports are embassies sprang into action and rescue hundreds of stranded americans. one man said before boarding a flight, thank you for helping me get back home to my dad. you are proud to know that the country will not leave them stranded and will get them back home. one woman wrote, "i was in tears when i received an email approving our flight back to the united states. god bless the united states of america." another set i felt like i had allies there that actually treated me like a person or family member, not just a number. the repatriation task force and the counselors have done a great work and i want to thank our partners in the department of defense that have helped with some of these flights back home. and other government agencies, our sisters and brothers across the united states government in this administration that helped get these people back. and lastly, aside from repatriation efforts we continue to help countries around the world as well.

all these things but these countries need to get their citizens safe and healthy and back so we can get the global economy back on its feet when this crisis is over. thank you, mr. president. >> president trump: if you don't mind sticking around a little while and we will see if anyone has questions for the secretary of state. >> mr. secretary, plus an amazing effort that you have made. how do you know when you are done questioning because i imagine there are americans in all corners of the world and someone will pop up and say, i want to go home now. >> it's a great question. we still have several thousand people that were working, they identify themselves everyday and new people find themselves in difficult places. we will be done when people can travel on their own again. these people traveled abroad on vacations or with their church and were intending to get back on their own and we hope that day comes pretty soon. they can't rely on the state department to get back home but know this in the meantime we are devoting all the resources we have to get them.

they are often a difficult places. they are not in the capital near the airport or the roads are closed, not just a matter of getting a flight down there but a lot of work has to be done to coordinate. if they are sitting on the flight lands and we can get them back home. we still have several thousand and we took away at that number every day but is citizens go to the state department website and identify themselves and say i needle a bit of help in some way and we do our best to get that to them as quickly as we can. we will keep it up as long as we have resources to do it and there is a need to. >> how many of your staffers have tested positive for coronavirus, have they been tested or are they going into quarantine? and what does this do to diplomatic efforts overseas when you are pulling 50,000 people out of national capitals all over the world? >> so the vast majority of these 50,000 were not our officers, there were ordinary citizens who were there traveling for business or commercial or their trip of the lifetime.

we saw some of that on the cruise ships but of course they are's stranded all over the world. the emphases i would say is safe for the one in wuhan which we pulled everyone out of compress of our facilities around the world are still open. we had a handful of folks test positive but we feel we have a good handle on it and we are doing to mak everything to makee that we do so in a way that reduces risk to them and their well-being also. >> do you feel like china was helpful with information and is there any consequences for that? >> this is not the time for retribution but this is the time for clarity and transparency. we are still working on this data set, and they can perform their analysis on how to both develop therapeutics and the vaccine and understand where this virus is. so every country, china included to come in every country needs

to be transparent about what's going on in their country. we share that our data so the best scientists in the world can get to the right conclusions and when this economy back to the place we all wanted to be. every country has a responsibility and it started in china so they had that responsibility to get >> should they have shared their data sooner to the united states? >> every country deserves that. we will [reporter questioning]

>> at this point, we are reevaluating our funding with respect to the world health organization, this is consistent with what president trump said at the beginning of his campaign. organizations have to work, they have to deliver the outcomes for they were intended and we have to make sure it's not only the world health organization but every international organization, we take taxpayer money and give it to them for the benefit of america, we need to make sure it's delivering on the taxpayer dollars. the world health organization is no different. they have to execute on the mission they were designed to achieve. here we are. it hasn't accomplished what it was intended to deliver. >> reporter: you said a handful of staffers have tested positive, are they going to get

the hydroxychloroquine treatment? >> i don't know the answer to that. know that we'll deliver the best medical care, we've done our best to move the medical systems forward to them in the field. >> reporter: will you give us an update on numbers we are seeing about coronavirus cases in iran and whether or not we are getting updates? >> the first day we offered humanitarian resistance, i regret they chose not to take that. if i've heard people talking about sanctions, the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance, medical supplies from going to iran, we offered assistance and had some ability to do that. i don't have any better data than what you have seen and i can share with you about the

extent of the virus. >> reporter: are you allowing export of medical supplies? >> we are making sure that we have what we need for the american people, i'll let the vice president talked to numbers on that. at this point what we are doing in terms of assistance is providing what most of these countries need to learn how to do surveillance themselves and learn how to conduct tests themselves. the the things that can reduce the peak in their countries -- we have been doing this -- the united states have been incredibly generous. we have cdc officials like no other country in the world build their global health care infrastructure, you see them sitting to my right putting these countries in place so there better prepared. >> reporter: have any u.s. diplomats or u.s. officials contracted the virus as they

have tried to rescue u.s. citizens abroad to? >> not that i'm aware of but there's no doubt i remember when we sent our team to get officials and about 800 american citizens that were living in wuhan -- i remember we sent one of our first repatriation's, we were very careful. we were going into a very difficult very fraught place. we were blessed, they all got back with no one having contracted the virus on that trip. i'm not aware of any officials who had the virus attacked them. we have a number of state department officials who have covid-19 now, we have three fatalities of local employees, people working for the state dert