gavin newsom has to say. lots of news happening, i will see what story time at 3:30 p.m., and then on "the five." that will be a big show tonight. in the meantime, here's your very own bill hemmer. >> bill: dana, thank you, fox news alert, a big hour coming up, i'm bill hemmer good afternoon, it's tuesday, waiting for a few things that are significant. number one, parts of the country start to get up and running. the president is set to meet with small business owners who have received emergency relief funds, we will go live to the white house in the east room for that event in a moment here. first, some of the states have been reopening this week, it is not quite business as usual. the waffle house chain reopened some dining areas yesterday with a few major changes. while demers with me now, the president and ceo of waffle house. sir, thank you for your time. we wanted to get your perspective on this before the

white house takes over here in a moment. listen, welcome to our program. it has been my feeling that the customer will tell you when and how you open. and on their terms, and on their time. so, after day one, walt, how did it go? >> well, thank you bill for having me. you must be sitting in our meetings, because that's exactly what we say. the customer is telling us where and when we can do business. so after the first day, i think what we found was a lot of the customers that were already coming inside to do business with us, and carry food out and take it to their cars, or back home, some of those folks are choosing to sit down any with us. and they are appreciating the feeling of a small slice of normalcy, if you will. were not seeing a big rush of business, we didn't expect that. that everyone was going to come rushing back out. i think what we're finding is, most of the folks are behaving and doing the things according to all the guidelines. >> bill: walt, here's what i'm

reading, you have some booths that are staggered, you can see clearly from some of the video here, the stools at the bar have plastic over them, i'm told some people are told to wait outside, and come in when it is their turn. so how does that system work? >> so, where a little bit of a unique restaurant. we don't have a large capacity anyway, so we can kind of keep our arms around what's going on in our dining room, if you will. so it was basically dead is, we cut off about half the capacity of the restaurant, so that anybody that chooses to sit down and eat with us can do it in a minimum distance of 6 feet away from the next customer. so some of those seats at the counter are tough because you can't sit right next to somebo somebody. we've made, we've kind of improvise, if you well, i'm sure those bags don't necessarily look the prettiest, but they give us of individual indication of what's available in the restaurant for people to sit in the restaurant with a manner that safe and distant from

others. >> bill: walt, what did your customers tell you? where they comfortable, where they hesitant, what did they say? >> tell you, our customers were so happy to be back. we have some of the greatest customers in the world. i think i've got the best job in the world, because our associates and our customers are just phenomenal. they are part of our family, it's almost inviting them back into her home again. and even though we are at a distance, you see all these pictures of people standing apart in front yards and stuff like that. it's similar to what was happening in our restaurant yesterday. people were just happy to come back and see their waffle house family. were certainly heat happy to see her extended family. there is a lot of gratitude by our customers for us being there for them. >> bill: well, you've been at this company for almost 28 yea years. did you have reservations about moving forward now? where's your head on this? >> so, i've spent almost all my time these last six or seven weeks in a restaurant talking to her people, talking to our

customers, interacting with everybody. of course, we all have reservations, and we want to make sure they were doing things in the most safe possible way. we're sanitizing everything, we're washing your hands like crazy. were now wearing masks and face coverings where were supposed to. were standing at a distance from one another. we think we're providing a safe environment for our customers and, more than anything else, we also think were providing some hope for a path forward. there is a real crisis in this country that is not getting as much conversation. certainly the health crisis is first and foremost on everybody's minds, but the ultimate crisis looming of people being able to have jobs and provide for their families is a something that we are very, very concerned about as well. so trying to balance those two nsa for possible way. we think were in a unique position to be one of the first to help find a solution for the country and in that, we can help provide jobs for our people.

and some nourishment and food for our customers and understand, we do feed people, and people do need to eat. and we are happy to be a part of that. >> bill: yeah. what you're saying is so simple. and yet, it is so profound. i think for this moment in our country is time. so, what would you advise others to do outside of the state of georgia based on your experience, walt? >> well, i think what we're proving right now is that the comeback, the restoration of business is not business as usual. it is a slow and methodical process to safely introduce activity back into our economy, and most importantly, people back to work doing things in a safe manner. and it is possible, in a reduced capacity to begin to get the wheels turning a little bit, and give people hope, and give people jobs. and so, you know, obviously, not

one-size-fits-all. we don't operate restaurants in new york city, and if we did, i might feel very differently about those restaurants up there. so our rural mark goltz are ready for more than maybe our urban markets are. but we are following the advice of the direction and the governors of the seats we do business in, and i think it's where you can begin to introduce some activity back and trust the citizens of the united states to behave and do it they're supposed to do. i know there's a lot of reports of people gathering on beaches and stuff. my observation has been our customers are behaving, and they're respecting each other's space, and they're politely moving about their business and staying away from one another and figuring out a way forward. it to me, that's encouraging, and i would love to see other states follow. >> bill: away forward. well stated, walt, thank you for your time today. uses the waffle house index to determine whether or not storms on the hurricane are strong enough, depending on whether or

not you are open or not. scattered, covered, what the answer, walt? >> well, right now are saying scattered, smothered, and recovered. were trying to figure out a way further. and you know, this is bigger than any hurricane we've ever doubt with. so, we just want to start moving forward. but thank you for having me today, bill. >> bill: thank you. you bet, thank you. well-spoken, walt, great to get your perspective, and we will stay in contact walt, thank you, ceo from awful house. thank you, sir. meanwhile, joe biden holding a merchantable john hall event from his home in delaware. he apparently is joined today by hillary clinton, and is expected to receive her endorsement. that is a big deal within the democratic party, much more on that as we get it here. as we wait for that moment, however, the president awaiting this as well, from the east room, chief white house correspondent john roberts on the small business event after billions of dollars more have

now been put into the pipeline. john roberts. >> bill, good afternoon, the president should be arriving in the east room very soon. this was originally scheduled for the rose garden, but it's raining out now, so they moved to the east room. the president will be meeting with what he calls success stories of the paycheck protection program, some seven companies in a community bank that has been leading an awful lot of money out to folks. these are some of the people who are going to be in attendance, betty and bows from north carolina, j.d. clark professional services, answering services, call center in upper marlboro, maryland. a woman on small marketing and communications firm called ecu camara notation firm from just west of here in virginia seafood restaurant for its fish shack. and ashford. west virginia i consultants ophthalmology and optometry from charleston must virginia, and jim's body shop, you can probably figure out what they do from northeast to baltimore. they do get 4.5 to five stars on yelp, must be a good place.

contracting, 20 miles west of pittsburgh. their road and bridge construction company. in the norristown bank out of harrison pennsylvania will be recommended, that's community bank that's been giving out a lot of these ppp loans. community banks have accounted for probably the majority of the business in the early going of that first charge of $350 billion that would give given out. earlier today, florida governor, the president saying he believes that the programs of the federal government have put in place to keep businesses afloat will pave the way for a strong recovery. listen here. >> the second quarter is what it is. but i think wariness period where we'll see what the number is, fourth-quarter, i think it's going to be incredibly strong. i think next year is going to be in on believably strong year. >> of course, all has been well with the ppp program. the system crashed yesterday. we also discovered that the l.a. lakers managed to get themselves

a $4.6 million loan. secretary-treasurer raymond ocean called that outrageous. the lakers wisely, bill, gave the money back. >> bill: well, john roberts, from the north line, we will be back with you in a moment, john, as soon as that event gets underway. it's been a bit of a sticky program right now for a lot of small programs endemic businesses, but we will work out the wrinkles as we go. we are going out of bloomington delaware, and joe biden, who continues a virtual town hall. i mentioned hillary clinton as his guest today. now, they are speaking to each other, we expect an endorsement on behalf of her. go ahead and drop in to that right now. >> all health care workers in america are women. 1 out of 3 jobs held by women in our country has been classified as essential. so, this is an issue that affects all of us. it young and old, every kind of background, from every walk of life. but it is having a

disproportionate impact on the front lines on women working, on women caring for others, on women holding down the home as we go through this together. so, i want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president. just think of what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science, put facts over affection, but called us together. showed a kind of compassion and caring that we need from our president, and which, joe biden has been exemplifying throughout his entire life. think of what it would mean if we had a real president, not just somebody who plays one on tv, but somebody who gets up every morning, worried about the people that he is responsible for leading during this crisis.

well, i know what a difference it would make, because i have been there. i have seen firsthand what presidents can and should do. and i, like so many americans, really wish that we have that kind of leadership now. you know, joe biden has been preparing for this moment his entire life. i've been privileged to work with him over the last 25 plus years. as first lady, then, for eight years in the senate where i watched him build coalitions and work to bring people together and solve problems. then, during the obama administration when i was privileged to be secretary of state. i've been in the situation room with joe as we debated. and you know, we didn't say what we thought people wanted to hear, we said what we believed, and we had a president then, with president obama will encourage that. think of it.

he wanted to hear from each and every one of us. i've been in the lobby of the senate, i've been in the cloakroom, and i've watched a joe bring people together. so, for me, this is a moment that we need a leader, a president like joe biden. i also know a lot about joe the person. i've seen him up close and personal now for many years. we have a lot of the same values in common. the same or catholic, the same beliefs in america, the same focus on family, and we share common experience and a love of scranton, pennsylvania. when my great-grandparents came from england and lay elves, they ended up in scranton. and my grandfather, then my father grew up in a house on diamond avenue. and while the bottoms were living on diamond avenue, the bidens were over on north

washington street. and i have had a lot of time to visit scranton, talk about scranton with joe, and one memorable occasion, we were there together and he said hey, let's go see the house that i lived in it when i was a little boy and if you know joe biden, you know the words are out of his mouth, and we were racing to get there, and of course, we got there, and we talked his way in, it wasn't hard, because the woman who was at home immediately recognized him, and knew him. and then we went through the house with the joe regaling me with these great stories. about his dad, joe sr., and his mom, and the neighborhood. he was pointing out the window, telling me who lived aware when he was growing up. he told me one story that i loved. he said he was getting ready to go to a junior high school dance, and he didn't have any

cufflinks, and so has a very creative mother jean and got him a knot and bolt and made a pair of cufflinks for him. but i think he said he was mortified by that, and he told her that, and she just looked at him and she said joey, if somebody says something to you about your cufflinks, you just say what, you don't have a pair like this? it was that kind of love of family that unconditional support, that led joe to be the extraordinary family member and father that he has been through all the tragedy that so many of us have followed from afar but know how deeply he connects with people who have similarly suffered a tragedy. you know, when i was secretary of state, and joe as vice president, we had a standing date for breakfast. on every tuesday, and i go over to the vice president's house, and we would sit down, and we would kind of talk about the world.

we would talk about what was going on, what the challenges facing us work, what was coming up in the white house. what was coming up in the next meeting, what in the situation room was going to be. but we also talked about our families, and we talked about his love of ice cream. which knows no bounds, as far as i can tell. so, i have been not only a colleague of joe bidens, i've been a friend. and i can tell you that i wish you were president right now, but i can't wait until he is, if all of us do our part to support the kind of person that we want back in the white house to end the kind of disregard of not only american values, but american institutions, the rule of law, and is so much else that is at stake because of the current occupant. so i'm thrilled to be here with joe from my home and his home

during the very crazy scary times that we find ourselves in to support his candidacy, and to talk about this really significant issue about women during this time of covid-19. >> bill: so now we have the news, hillary clinton "i am thrilled to be part of your campaign, to not only endorse you but to help highlight a lot of the issues that are at stake in this presidential election." also saying "i want to add my voice to your campaign." there it is. in moments, by the way, joe biden has been at his home in wilmington, delaware, going back around the days that quickly followed the vote around super tuesday which was early march. it has been that kind of campaign so far. so, what does that portend for november? karl rove, donna brazile will join me in moments, we will get their take with the latest on this news, plus we will take you back to the white house, president trump is holding an event for small business owners.

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>> bill: fox news alert as promised, the east room of the way has president trump a moment ago talking about doing 14 years of loans in 14 days' time. he's now meeting with small business owners who have received some of the emergency relief loans. go ahead and drop an, and we will pick up at the president is saying today. >> president trump: along with secretary mnuchin, if anke trump has played an essential role in spearheading this important program, important role, that's what she wants to do, she wantso help people. from the beginning of my administration, she has used her experience as an entrepreneur to fight for the american worker. cheese grated many jobs, that's what she did when she first came

on, she just wanted people to be able to get jobs and job training. went to the biggest companies, anywhere in the world, that are located in our country, and they would take hundreds of thousands of people and train them. i think he got up to almost 50 million people, right? 50 million, she start off with the goal of 500,000, she wanted to get 500,000 men she is now an almost 50 million people. and i want to ask, if i might, ivanka to say a few words as to what exactly happening today, what's happening over the next week, and what her views are for what's going to happen over the next period of time. it's going to be settling that i think it's going to be very special, and bigger, and better than anybody really understands. let's see if i'm right about that. ivanka please. [applause] >> well, thank you everyone, and thank you mr. president for

convening this incredible group of entrepreneurs and a small business owners who very much represent the soul and the spirit, the grit and the tenacity of america's small business owners across the nation. so, we're grateful to each and every one of you for joining us here today. and very excited to hear your stories, and your specifically about how you're going through this challenge and how, through the payment protection program, and through the ppp, you are able to keep your workforce employed. it's about your businesses, thriving, and growing within your communities, it's about your workforce who each of you cares very dearly about. then i would like to make a special callout of thanks to secretary mnuchin for his tireless work on this front so, if you would like to come up and join us, we would appreciate that, secretary. and, sba administrator carranza, thank you, you've been such a

champion for america's small business, if you would also like to come up and join us. and, and larry kudlow, thank you for all that you do in fighting for american workers. with that, i would like to kick us off by introducing amy right to come up to the stage and share with us a little bit of her story. she has created an amazing business that stemmed from personal experience and very much her heart, and it has been an honor getting to know you, amy. you really embody the spirit of small businesses around this country. amy, because of the ppp program was able to rehire the 120 workers that she was forced to lay off, and now those workers, all of which have some form of disability are able to bring cheer, and bring comfort to your clients as you are serving them. so, amy, if you would like to

come up and share your story, and michael, her great colleague is here today as well. who could share his perspective. thank you, amy. [applause] >> thank you, ivanka, mr. president. i am so honored to be joined by my employee michael, who you will hear from in just a moment. beatty and bose coffee is more than a coffee shop, it's a human rights movement. we employ 120 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and for most of them, it is their first paying job. which made the decision for us to temporarily close all five of our shops, especially difficult. but, thanks for the paycheck protection program and the incredible team at live oak

bank, all 120 of our employees are back on the payroll today and working from home, writing handwritten notes that we include with each online order we shipped. [applause] i know everyone is ready to return to normal. but i believe it is time for a new normal. one where people with disabilities are valued, especially in the workplace. as a recipient of the ppp loan, we will continue to take up the charge and help everyone, especially people with disabilities pursue the american dream. michael, would you like to speak? >> sure. so, to you, president trump and ivanka, thanks a lot for inviting us. thank you, mr. president for having us. i love my job, and i'm excited

about going back to work. add betty and bo's, we like to use the phrase called "not broken." that means me and all my amazing coworker are not broken. and we have lots to offer. i know the great country of the united states isn't broken either. so, on behalf of myself, megan, amy, and all of the employees, thank you for inviting us over. you guys are our family. [applause] >> bill: that is a beautiful, tender moment. wow, well stated, america's not broken. chris hogan's wealth made, author of everyday millionaires, chris, thank you for coming back to our show here. as this event continues, i think what they are detailing here is something that is such a critical part of how the country gets back to business. if you listen to the waffle house a ceo from 30 minutes ago, the decisions

that he's trying to make for his company, this program has been sticky. it has been complicated. how do we make it better for small businesses? >> well, bill, as we've seen, anyone understand, america, we are resilient, we are tough, and small business is the backbone of our economy. i think it's going to take leaders that are really focused in understanding where they are, it's going to require a lot to make some tough decisions, looking at this program, the sba is used to processing 25 billion in loans each year. and all of a sudden, now we are talking and tasking them with being in charge of 300 billion class. the system is flawed, you have applications that have been inside the system that haven't moved. you're hearing about companies that are getting money they don't need it. the los angeles lakers are returning $4.6 million back. they never should've gotten that money to begin with. and so, i'm just encouraging business owners out there to really take a hard look at their business, and don't be scared of

making tough decisions. i am most fearful about this program under the "grant." bill, as you've known, i've seen a lot of grants, i've never seen a grant that has an interest rate. you and i both know that that's what alone has. so, i am fearful for businesses who are struggling right now, who are going to take on millions of dollars of debt that may have to be repaid at some point. >> bill: here's what i'm hearing anecdotally. i'm hearing if you're organized, and all of your paperwork, and all of your numbers correct, there is a real good chance that you will get online, you will be granted that loan. if you're not that way, we may pay the price and get bumped out for another day, or even beyond that. i am also hearing, at the local level, if you have a good relationship with your community bank, you stand a better chance of getting money that way as well. anecdotally, what are you hearing about what the key is to understanding the best way to

navigate this, chris? >> well, i am hearing from all different sides. people that have excellent relationships with their bank. but still, their application was pending, they never got even affirmation that it was received. i'm hearing people that have tried to follow-up on it, and they are getting either rejected, or kicked out of the system. and so, i'm hearing a lot of nightmare stories, as far as the businesses around the country. and so i'm just advising people, let's not wait on the government to try to save the day. were going to have to look at this and make some tough decisions. we have two options, would be an employee retention credit that will allow you to put cash in your pocket without taking on debt, and also the deferment of payroll taxes. so i'm just encouraging businesses out there to take a really hard look and pave it. instead of being able to have dinners, they're selling their options for people to be able to buy so they can keep their doors open. >> bill: okay, chris, thank you for that, we will work out as we go, together. thank you for coming back.

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>> bill: another alert, mention us a moment ago, former vice president joe biden talking to voters from his home in wilmington, delaware. he just got an endorsement from hillary clinton. we watched at about 20 minutes ago, virtual town hall still underway, that he's hosting on the impact of coronavirus on women. one to bring in our panel right now, donna brazile, former chair of the dnc, and karl rove served as deputy chief of staff to president bush. both are fox news contributor's, welcome to both of you. carl, i want to begin with you in austin, texas, just to give us a sense about how much does her endorsement today matter in this campaign when the pandemic continues in the way that it does. >> yeah, well look, it would've mattered more if she had not given the endorsement, it

would've been a story. but everybody is supposed to fall in line, and they are. i thought her endorsement showed -- you know, these things don't have a big impact, except in the substance of the endorsement. and while she started off a little slow, talking about how she and joe shared the same work ethic, sort of it was about her as much as it was about him, i thought it ended on a pretty strong note when she talked about joe biden returning with her to scranton, pennsylvania, where her father grew up, and where he came from, and where he was born. and i thought that was particularly poignant and personal. the question is, do you have more of those, and so far, we have had a mismatch of i'm for joe biden, said bernie sanders, because he beat me, and because he has come over and endorsed some of my proposals. today, it was more of a personal endorsement. i think that matters frankly, more, than some of the things we've heard.

>> bill: the line i picked up, donna, was i want to add my voice to his candidacy. go ahead, donna, size at this endorsement in the big picture, how much does it matter? >> well, it's like an office tray, everybody is coming together, all the leaders inside the party, all the key voices. but the thing that hillary clinton will bring to the biden team is big glitch. she still commands a great deal of support within the democratic party, outside the demo craddick party, she is a great fund raising less, she is. if she allows the biden campaign, still trying to raise money, still trying to bring together to utilize that list to go out there and get more people on board, i think this endorsement will pay dividends, not just in terms of having hillary's boys out there, but more importantly, having the kind of resources that she can bring to the table. >> bill: okay, so she's going to be on the campaign trail. well, whatever trail that is, right? whatever form that takes whenever it comes back around. karl with regard to this other

story now, accusations going back to 1992, 1993 on behalf of a woman named tara reade. the campaign says it's not true, joe biden has not been asked this directly. what should he say about this, do believe, now, carl? >> well, he's going to have to eventually address this directly, because we have two individuals who said her brother, and a friend who she told at the time, to other people came forward, both of them democrats, who she told shortly thereafter, within a year or two after of the incident. and then, her mother, a tape service of her mother, roughly at the time of the alleged incident, calling it on larry king. we now have sort of five voices accusation. and i look at this from sort of through angles. one is, he's going to have to say something about it. and people will judge his credibility on that. second of all, the press that

ate up a brett kavanaugh over a whole heck of a lot less let's see if they treat joe biden gingerly or with kid gloves. i was taken aback by the interview by "the new york times" media critic, i thought he did a courageous job of asking his boss, why aren't we treating this with the same intensity that we treated brett kavanaugh, and dean the cat, "new york times" executive, his answer that well, cavanagh was out for a lifetime employment, it was during that confirmation, it was "a red-hot story." implying that the guy is the democratic presumptive nominee for president, who would be president of the united states for the next four years, that that's not a red-hot story. the press is going to have an issue here. finally, for all those democratic candidates and democrat officeholders like it, heresies under consideration further buys presidential running mate who said "we believe the women" lets he know their reaction to a woman who's supporting by at least four other individuals in the tape of her mother. this is going to be an interesting story to watch. >> bill: okay. so within the past hour,

apparently, tara reade has made an appeal, donna. that the records of then senator joe biden, his time in washington, be made public. now, based on what i read and i understand, the campaign has said that those records will not be made public until joe biden has retired for a period of two years. maybe that changes, maybe it doesn't, let's see how this changes over years. but karl answer there, he made three points. what you joe biden say about this now in order to address it, do you think? >> well, first of all, i want to say that i have no insights. and i don't mean to lecture anybody about sexual assault. the other thing i want to point out is that many democratic women have spoken out. they've been asked about it. some have spoken out without even being asked. and as you all know, several newspapers have started their own investigations. the biden campaign said several

weeks ago that they welcome an investigation. so i don't think anybody's running away from any accusations. and i think it's important to understand that he said when women speak up, whether it's what we heard during the brett kavanaugh hearings, or what we heard during the trump campaign, or what we heard about several other men, that we allow women to speak up and have their voices heard. this is not a time to just simply use the politics of the moment to try to bring up stuff that may not exist. here's what i do now, back in 1992, many people should remember, after the anita hill allegations against clarence thomas, there was training, there was a lot of public pressure for members and their staffers to understand the rules and congress made sure that everyone had appropriate training. so i would hope, as we look into this mess, that we treated as

professionals, and not look for things that may not exist. >> bill: well understood, i'm almost under time here donna, i don't mean to interrupt. the question wasn't about what others are saying about it, the question was about what should he say about it. >> well, i believe that he will address it. look, he has done mike his campaign has addressed it. the people who speak on his behalf have addressed it. and i'm sure, whenever he is asked the question, he will address it. i personally know joe biden. and i do believe that he will be able to tell his truth just like ms. reade has been able to tell her truth on several occasions. >> bill: okay, donna brazile, karl rove, thank you as well. thank you both for coming on. meanwhile, the white house laying out new plans to increase testing. this will be a massive program as the country gets ready for more possible outbreaks, the summer and beyond it, we are hearing. also, the states lifting

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>> bill: the white house unveiling a plan to increase covid-19 testing as the feds get ready for potential outbreaks over the summer and beyond, possibly. fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier just wrote a brand-new book called "make america healthy again." doctor, welcome to our program. terrific to have you on. good afternoon to you. i watch the briefing last night, i'm trying to understand how the states are going to get direction from washington, and vice versa. i think the bottom line, and a lot of this, is that it can be confusing. what should we expect the plan to be very soon, doc? >> they laid out two different plans. they laid out an overview last night as well as the blueprint. the overview essentially kind of went through everything since january, gave us some nice timelines, broke down what is been done to it is where we are right now, also highlighted limitations that they had. the blueprint talked about what are we going to do moving forward. a couple of things that we are really highlighting and this is

that we absolutely need to continue to increase testing. at the number is also the accessibility, that's going to be crucial to re-opening up states. they talked about the federal government is going to give 2 million testing kits per month so that each state can effectively test about 2% of their population each week which is crucial to maintaining knowledge as to where there's community spread. in the blueprint, it also discussed contact tracing, but it really talks about galvanizing the private sector to work with the federal and state government on how they're actually going to get these testing to individuals. it kind of reminded me like what we saw in the rose garden in march where you had cbs, and walmart. they said they were going to have all these drive-through testing sites, and unfortunately, they did not actually live up to expectatio expectations.

however, it seems like, at this point, president trump is saying that the federal government is going to do it they can to make sure that they have the necessary supplies to be able to ramp up this testing. you know, one of the things that have really come from all this is we have seen you know, there are shortages of a lot of supplies that we need for the tests, whether it's the reagent, the swabs, just the personnel to do it. president trump, i believe continues to push the private sector to work on this so that we are no longer dependent on some of these foreign imports. >> bill: okay, doctor, thank you so much for coming on. i apologize it was short. "make america healthy again" is the book. nicole saphier, thank you for your time. the president is taking questions right now. we will drop in. >> president trump: ban on china from coming in, other than u.s. citizens. we did very strong tracks on even our u.s. citizens. santos was telling me before that when they came in, people were put into quarantine, people were tracked, and we are doing that now. so yeah, i think this is well ahead of schedule, we did that at the end of january. people were talking about this wouldn't have an impact, as you

know, even into march. so i think we've done a great job in the sense that we were early. i think by banning china, by banning china, and banning people coming in who would have been very heavily infected, we probably save hundreds of thousands of lives. so on that i'm very proud. >> reporter: president, and secretary mnuchin as well, on the idea of another round of stimulus payments to american taxpayers directly. democrats come off course come up on the hill are talking about the idea of a guaranteed income. which obviously, could go on for months and months and months. what about another round of stimulus? >> president trump: well, i like the idea of payroll tax cuts, i like that from the beginning, that was a thing that i really would love to see happen. a lot of economists would agree with me. a lot of people agree with me. i think frankly, it's simple. it's not the big distribution, and it would really be an incentive for people to come back to work, and for employers to hire.

the attacks on the economy, and also the person, that's what i like. something like that could happen. also, i think you have to look, because a lot of people are talking, i assume your next question would be about states. and steve and i talk about it. i talk a lot about it with mitch, and with kevin, with everybody. the problem with the states as we are not looking to recover 25 years of bad management. and to give them the money that they lost. that's unfair to other states. now, if it's covid related, i guess we can talk about it. but we would want certain things also, including sanctuary city adjustments, because we have so many people and century cities. which, i don't even think are popular even by radical left folks because with happening as

people are being protected that shouldn't be protected, and a lot of bad things are happening in century cities. but that's just standing appear, answering this question. that's one of the things i think about it for going to do something for the states, i think they would probably want something having to do a sanctuary cities, something having to do with other, different points that we can discuss a little bit later on. yeah, jeff, go ahead. >> reporter: mr. president, you're going to sign an executive order today about me packaging plants, and the liability for them. what efforts, or what measures are you looking at for liability for other industries and other businesses? >> president trump: well, it hasn't been talked about, it hasn't been asked of other industries yet. but with the meat packing, and the transportation. we have had some difficulty where they're having a liability that's really unfair to them, and we are going to be doing that i think, mark, were going to be doing that fairly soon. it's getting drawn up, i should be signing that over the next hour or so. taking the liability which reset the entire system. and i fully understand, not their fault. please, go ahead. now,

>> are you considering asking airlines to accept passengers on the international domestic flights? >> president trump: we are looking at it on the flights that are heavily infected. brazil is getting to that category. i think they're going to be okay. i hope they are going to be okay. he's a very good friend of mine. the president. but i think that we are going to look at it from the standpoint i was discussing that with the governor of florida a little while ago. so we are going to be looking at that coming from other countries, frankly. but south america seems to be one of us talked about because they have so much business going into florida. without all that being said, lord has done very well. we will be looking into that in the very near future. we looking at it very strongly. either the airlines or governments. one of the other. we are working with the airlines. maybe it's a combination. speak to mr. president, some health experts say the u.s. needs 5 million tests per day by

june in order to safely reopen. you unveiled a plan yesterday that will increase testing but not by that much. why not? and can you get to that benchmark? >> president trump: it will increase it with a head of on testing. we haven't been given in the press in terms of fairness of the press. that's okay. that's why i appreciated the statement before by yahoo. we are way ahead on testing. we are the best in the world on testing. they have tested much more than everybody else in the world times two or every country combined. we've tested more than every other country combined. they keep talking about south korea. president moon has a victory. he will tell you how well the united states is on testing. and he told me that very strongly. the quality of our test is the best of the number is the best. with all of that being said, we

will be going to an even higher number. and it goes up exponentially. i've told you that. we inherited a broken test, a broken system and a broken chest. we were setting records. we've done more than the entire world combined. we've done more than any other country in the world. so i think we've done a really good job. that being said, not everybody feel so strongly about testing as others. we have some governors that are very strong on testing and some other governors that artist are not testing. their test is much more modest in the real test is when people stop getting sick, and they will be able to do that. i understand both systems very well. we are going to a maximum testing some people won't even want to use it. >> are you confident you can pass 5 million tests per day? >> president trump: we are going to be there very soon. if you look at the numbers, it could be that we are getting very close. i don't have the exact numbers.

we would have had if you are asking the same question a while ago. people with the statistics are there. we are going to be there very soon. i watched your report on nbc today and it was an incorrect report, because we are reeling at doing a great job on testing. unfortunately, the administration, the people that work our government hasn't been given the kind of credit that it deserves. last month it was about ventilators. now we have so many that we are able to give them to italy, france, spain, and other countries have been asking us for ventilators. we are making over 150,000. we have distributed thousands and thousands. new york is in great shape as you know. new jersey is in great shape. we spoke just recently. they are in very good shape with the ventilators. most of them have far more than they will ever need. they are starting to send them back. nobody went without a

ventilator. if you read the media from 1.5 months ago, it was all about ventilators. that was a tough thing. we should be very proud of our country. we took assembly lines and converted from cars and other things into ventilators. i doubt that we have seen has not been seen since world war world war ii. what they have done in terms of the manufacture of very high grade ventilators is amazing. so now we don't hear about that. and i noticed that testing has started to die down, because we now have the best testing anywhere in the world by far, and we have more. that's a very good thing. i'm happy about it. we had a call yesterday with governors. and i will say that i'm sure many of you were on that call. even though you shouldn't have been, they shouldn't have been, but they were. i wonder how that happened. which you heard the governor's now the following day, if you will get a democrat on the call, they will say, i saw some of

them today. they were so thrilled yesterday on a call that they thought was a close call. they were at the same as they were yesterday because that's the business. they want to try and win on november 3rd. we are doing a job the likes of which no one is ever done. i'm talking about people in the army corps of engineers where we build hospitals, where we built thousands and thousands of beds all over the country. new york, what we did was incredible. 2,900 beds in a matter of days. what they've done is so incredible. and fema and the doctors and the professionals in all of the people that you see me with all the time. these are great people. and they've really done a great job. and now our country is opening up again. i think it's going to be very, very successful. larry is here. we talked about it and we talk about it all the time. i think that third quarter, it's vi