active duty status because some of these sailors and marines have you've taken a big piece of your national security arsenal out of your armaments. just with that 5,000-ship example. and this could spread even further and probably will into our national security apparatus, including our soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen. we've got a plan for that. i don't know if they have a plan for that. i hope they have a plan for that. i hope they're planning for the welcome to friday. worst. but it tempts bad actors like it is "meet the press daily" and what a week. iran, like north korea, what's good evening. i am chuck todd, continuing going on in the middle east. msnbc's special coverage of the when you've got an international coronavirus pandemic. president trump has just signed dynamic that's so unstable and the biggest emergency relief so uncertain and so dangerous, package in american history. then anything can happen. we've got to think about all of he has also just announced that this. and you do that from the top he is using the powers of the defense production act, a rarely down. >> yeah. >> the leadership is so used power that allows the important. it's got to be clear and honest, president to basically take over and the american people, people a u.s. supply line. of the world, have to have trust

in this case, it's to press general motors to make and confidence in our leaders. ventilators and to do so asap. basically the news of the last >> secretary hagel, very hour reinforces the severity of quickly, would you temporarily lift sanctions against iran the crisis facing this country. right now on humanitarian as we await the day's grounds or not? coronavirus briefing from the >> i would. white house, which is scheduled i think for a lot of reasons. to start roughly in 30 minutes. i think it's a smart thing to do here's where the crisis stands politically. i think it's the right thing to at this moment. the u.s. now has the most do for humanity. coronavirus cases in the world. and i think it pays off in the we're on the brink of 100,000. end. and i don't think when this is we've leapfrogged italy, which quite ominously just had its over -- it will be over. we'll be out of this someday -- worst single day of deaths, more than 900. that people in history want to the number of deaths in this look back on us and how we country continues to go up as well. it's now above 2,300. judged and how we did and performed our responsibilities the situation at the epicenter as the greatest nation on earth. of the u.s. outbreak, of course, i think there has to be a is in new york, and it continues to worsen. mayor de blasio is projecting humanitarian and compassionate dynamic to this. and the poor people of iran, that half of the city will be infected. hospitals have already begun to be overwhelmed by patients. they're separate from their the emergency call volume is the leaders, as the poor people of north korea are too. biggest since the city has ever so i think we've got to be smart seen, and they broke wednesday's about that, wise about that, and let's do the right thing. record on thursday. and now there is new concern about hot spots in the american south and in the midwest. >> instead i think we increased

the president's messaging sanctions in the last week. meanwhile has been mixed at former defense secretary chuck best. last night, for instance, he hagel, a former republican made comments suggesting that senator from nebraska, been on the country had plenty of all sides of the aisles these ventilators to handle the crisis. today he's invoking the rarely days. i appreciate it. used presidential power to while we are still waiting insist that general motors make for that white house briefing to get under way, up ahead, the more ventilators asap. but putting aside the battle against the coronavirus president's continued mixed in hard hit florida. i'm going to talk to the mayor messaging throughout this crisis, the public itself of miami about the conditions appears to be tolerating the there and frankly conditions in his own house, as he's somebody profound changes to their who has tested positive for lifestyles as we collectively this. that's next. attempt to slow the virus' spread. according to a new "washington post"/abc news poll, nine in ten memory, focus, americans say they are who has tested positive for this. maintaining distance from others that's next. and see the difference. during this pandemic. nine in ten say they're staying home as much as possible. eight in ten say they're washing their hands more often. and sometimes, you can find yourself and six in ten say they've heading in a new direction. but when you're with fidelity, stocked up on food or supplies a partner who makes sure every step is clear, ostensibly to hunker down. basically the country has been there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. following these guidelines. so the big question right now, what will the next phase of the u.s. response look like? how long could it last? how bad is this going to be, and laso you can enjoy it even ifst you're sensitive. se. , what will the president do to respond as things worsen in yet some say it isn't real milk.

other parts of the country? i guess those cows must actually be big dogs. remember, we are now just two days away from the expiration of sit! the president's 15-day social i said sit! distancing guidelines. both dr. fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the white house task force and vice you can't claim that because it's inanimate! president president have, in the people ask me what sort of person past 24 hours, poured some cold should become a celebrity accountant. water on the president's claim and, i tell them, that the country could reopen by "nobody should." hey, buddy. easter. joining me now from the white what's the damage? house where we are standing by i bought it! for the latest from the the waterfall? coronavirus task force is my nope! a new volkswagen. colleague, hans nichols and with a volkswagen?! us from the epicenter of the outbreak in new york is nbc's i think we're having a breakthrough here! ron allen. let me start in new york, ron. welcome to caesar's palace. thank you. i was stunned when our reporting indicated that the 911 calls, at&t has connected us every day for over 100 years. emergency calls, broke the and we're here for you - especially now, record for new york city doing everything possible to keep you connected. emergency calls that was set during 9/11. and i think that happened through the resilience of our network and people... wednesday, and then last night they broke that record again. we can keep learning, this tells you that it looks like these hospitalizations are keep sharing, just going to keep going up. keep watching, >> reporter: we're talking about and most of all, keep together.

6,000 calls. we're talking about 20% or so of it's the job we've always done... the emts in the city who are out it is the job we will always do. sick. they're catching the virus. we're talking about a huge unlike ordinary wmemory supplementsr? percentage, a big percentage or neuriva has clinically proven ingredients growing percentage of police as well. you know, i talked to a doctor that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, here this morning, early this accuracy, learning, morning, and i asked her how is and concentration. it going? try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. she said it's awful, and we don't know when it's going to stop. i talked to a man who arrived early this morning just after dawn to wait in line for testing. these are people who show up early in the morning, wait here for hour after hour to guess tested, and he said he was just terribly afraid of catching this virus because a neighbor of his did, and he was just -- just terribly afraid. that's why he was here. and i think that's happening in so many places. at this hospital, we know the anecdote that during a 24-hour period, 13 people died. we've heard that they're using three times the capacity that they are in their icu. the whole hospital is at 125% of capacity.

and it's not letting up. you know, there's all this debate about whether there's enough protective equipment or not. maybe at this moment there is, the mayor and the governor say. >> right. >> reporter: but when you talk to medical professionals, that doesn't give them any comfort. they are worried about a week or so from now being faced with trying to decide who gets what, whoive hads, who dies, making these life and death decisions. certainly nobody wants to be in that position. it's just an every tightening vice, it feels like, and people just hope that help arrives. welcome back. a citywide curfew in maeiami is >> you know, ron, we know that set to go into effect five fours the javits center is up and running. as you and i were talking, the mayor of new york city was from now. the mayor who has tested holding his own briefing. he just laid out a warning that positive himself announced. said after next sunday, so basically in ten days, that's but despite his efforts and when he starts worrying about despite a surge of coronavirus the equipment issue, the bed cases in south florida, governor issue. so the javits center is supposed ran desantis still has not issued a statewide shelter in to be up and running by monday. when do we expect the usns place order. keep in mind there have been no cases reported in more than a comfort? when do we expect more beds? dozen counties in florida, so that may explain that situation.

>> reporter: the navy ship is joining me now from his arriving on saturday ahead of quarantine is the mayor of time. they're rushing it to get here. miami, francis suarez. the javits center has about 2,000 beds. they've got another 1,000 or so mr. mayor, it's good to on a college campus, part of the virtually see you. let me start with how is your state system. health? >> i'm doing very well. they announced plans to create i'm very blessed. i happen to be, i think, in that 80% category of people who are 4,000 more beds. feeling very, very mild symptoms the governor is asking the white house to authorize that using as a result of this virus, which the army corps of engineers, of course is also a category of fema, to create federal people who you worry about hospitals up here. you know, another thing, there's because had i not also a medical reserve corps self-quarantined -- i've been 15 days in quarantine as of today -- then i could have been here, people we have been someone that could have infected talking to. many more people. there have been some 40,000 doctors, nurses, medical professionals who have said, you >> let me talk about the things know, send me in. they've come out of retirement. you're trying to do. you just issued the citywide they've been inactive. they've been doing other things. curfew. and since i grew up down there myself, i'm well aware. so they are standing by and anticipating jumping into the i think there's 31 incorporated fray. but even if you get these 4,000 cities in miami-dade county, beds that they had online, 4,000 with the city of miami being the biggest. the most difficult thing more, they're still many sometimes is you're going to issue an order. are the rest of the thousands short of the projection of what the governor says is needed. >> right. >> reporter: and he every day municipalities going to comes out, and he's basing these participate in it, and if they

don't, how much of a challenge is that for you? estimates on hard data. they're looking at numbers. >> well, we're up to 34 now, and they're not acting out of fear. so as you said -- they're not acting out of politics or compulsion. >> thank you. >> i was a former president of it seems to be really hard data what they call the league of cities of all 34 municipalities, driving this. and, you know, hopefully he's and i've been in constant wrong. but, you know, there doesn't seem to be any indication of communication with all those that right now. cities because they obviously >> well, as i said, the mayor follow our lead oftentimes. said basically new york's got already six or seven cities have ten days to prevent -- to get implemented a stay at home order all the preparation they need to in conjunction with a curfew. so we're starting to see that prevent this onslaught. ron allen, thank you. let me jump down to the white trend happen. my preference would be for the county to follow suit. house. all right. hans, walk me through this. they did put in a safer at home order but have not yet how do we go from telling sean implemented a curfew. hannity yesterday, i don't know why we need all these so i think for uniformity's ventilators. it seems to be too much, to this sake, i think the best thing today. would be for the county to do it i want to put up a few full as well and follow our lead so screens. it started with the president that there isn't a future with lambasting general motors. as usual, with this general kendall and north miami, which motors, things just never seem can get confusing for our to work out. they said they were going to residents who maybe don't know have us 40,000 much needed where the boundaries are. ventilators very quickly. >> right. i mean, you know, just look now they are saying it will only at -- literally you can cross be 6,000 in late april, and they the street. want top dollar. you cross u.s. 1 from coconut

always a mess with mary b. grove and suddenly you're in invoke p. p of course meant defense coral gables and it's another production act, and suddenly municipality. that's been done. let me ask what is your concern? hans, did he invoke it out of some of the best hospitals in spite, or did he invoke it out the world are in south florida of need? between baptist and jackson and >> reporter: i don't have an answer to that, right? certainly a very sophisticated i want to be clear on that. hospital system. all we know is that he finally but how many beds do you have, and what is the capacity down invoke roed invoked and with specific there? regards to general motors. >> i just texted with the ceo of he called it general electric at jackson before coming on, asking one point but he's talking about him what his capacity load was for beds, for ventilators, and general motors. he hinted he came close to do it for ppes. he just texted me that he is with three other companies but good on beds, ventilators, and pulled back. as to the question of ppes. ventilators, the only way you can square the president's obviously they have, i believe, 2,000 ventilators, which is more tweets from last night and what he's talking about today is to ventilators than half the say the 30,000 to 40,000 had to country of italy. it's the fourth largest public be for new york city or a specific hospital. hospital in the united states. that's the only way because when you look at what the president so we are preparing the best we is talking about, he is clearly talking about thousands of can. we have already overflow ventilators, and yet last night, hospitals, if you will, that 30,000 was too much. we're creating. so the only way i can make those they have an additional facility sentences make sense is if the that has -- they haven't even 30,000 had qualifiers on it that tapped. they haven't even started weren't actually there, and putting patients in.

so we're preparing obviously for those qualifiers were for the worst. we're looking at very closely at specific individual hospitals and the president's confused what's happening in new york to about what governor cuomo's see how that's going to affect requests are. and as you and ron are us and the governor has implemented a 14-day quarantine reporting, on indeed what the for any visitors who are coming needs of new york city and new york state are going to be. from new york, which of course so there are really three things is a big concern for us. going on in the white house right now. >> it's funny you s number one, the victory lap. you had dr. fauci talking about i have my own questions about how this is bipartisan, but it why any of the three major didn't look very bipartisan. airports in new york are still you take away the medical moving passengers around experts up there, it was only considering the state of florida has issued this quarantine, and republicans. >> did they not invite i think the national task force democrats, or did democrats not want to come? wants anybody who travels out of >> reporter: what we know from new york city to self-quarantine. pelosi's office is that she did let me ask you this. the miami international airport, not receive an invite. now, usually it's up to the how concerned are you that that white house to send that invite out. is going to continue to be a we haven't heard from schumer's gateway to bring this virus in and out of the city? office at least when i was walking out here just yet. >> i'm extremely concerned. there had been concerns earlier miami international airport has about social distancing. you can't have a huge signing 50 million passengers a year. let me repeat that, 50 million. ceremony. that said, the lawmakers up there seem to be pretty close and it's pretty clear that i together, and i don't think social distancing guidelines probably contracted the virus were necessarily entirely met from the brazil delegation that for that portion of it. came here. they did do it inside, not so they were foreigners who came outside. so at least with pelosi's to miami and were here for a

couple of days a couple of weeks concern, she was not invited. ago in a delegation where i think more than 40 members of chuck? >> hans nichols as the white the delegation have already tested positive. house. ron allen on the front line. so it's a huge concern. both of you doing the best you >> that's unbelievable. >> for us. can social distancing but locally we don't have the ability to restrict travel. reporting at the spot where the so certainly would welcome any news is happening. thank you both for doing that. further restrictions that would another hot spot in this country right now is new protect our city. >> who would make that -- who orleans. joining me now is colin arnold, has that power, mr. mayor? who has that power? director of homeland security is that the governor, or is this something that has to come from the federal government? >> i think in terms of the power and emergency preparedness. the governor has been warning to prevent people from coming in all week long, and i think from overseas, we saw that by you've always been warning all presidential decree when he week long that the rate of increase of both cases and prevented certain countries from being able to fly into the deaths is rising at alarming united states. the miami-dade county airport is rates in new orleans. fill in our viewers what's going under the control of miami-dade on. paint the picture for us, sir. county. i'm not sure what kind of power they have in terms of limiting >> i can just say that we're a people and limiting air carriers community of 400,000 people, and from flying people in and out of we just went over 1,000 cases the airport. but certainly unfortunately that is not under the control of the today, 1,170. city of miami. we have one of the highest infection rates per capita in >> right. no, i know it isn't. in some ways it can be very the country, and i will say that's partially due to, you complicated if you don't know how our system works down there.

know, we've ramped up a lot of it can be complicated to navigate. testing. and, you know, what we're doing yes, it is. mr. mayor, you sound healthy, now is we have a drive-thru and that is great news. good luck to you down there testing program that's part of fema and hhs. fighting this, and we hope to that's been going well. talk with you soon. >> thank you, chuck. we've done 3,400 at two sites in new orleans and an additional likewise. up ahead, the deal is finally done. the president just signed the $2 trillion rescue bill. 1,750 in jefferson parish. the latest from capitol hill those have helped. plus the drama that happened it's informing us better. moments before. the fact of the matter is we're that's next. in a crisis. we have to have people stay in their homes. there's been a mayor's mandate to stay home. there's been a governor's order to stay home. and we're seeing that people are turn on my tv and boom, doing it. we've got data that says about 73% less traffic through the city. you can see it out there that there's less. it's just people need to continue to do that. i implore not only residents of it's got all my favorite shows. i wish my trading platform worked like that. my community but every community in the country. they have to do this to stop the have you tried thinkorswim? spread and flatten the curve. this is totally customizable. now this is what i'm talking about. >> tell me this. focus on what matters to you with thinkorswim. tell me about your supply ♪ situation, ventilators, masks, and your hospital capacity. >> i feel like we're an absolute missions in iraq as aand afghanistan.89 combat

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supplies sent your way. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown >> well, you know, louisiana has to improve short-term memory. been tested, and we've been tested often. and, you know, a lot of this -- prevagen. healthier brain. better life. we base a lot of our planning on how we handle hurricanes, and some of it is applied here. but typically we will go out and try and buy personal protective equipment as a city. we put in an order in november when we first saw this, but no order has been able to be filled. and so we then reached to the state, who has supplies of their own, and they will disperse those. but really right now we're waiting on the strategic national stockpile, the federal government to filter these down to the states. they have been, but i just think there needs to be a little bit more, a lot more. and so there is a bureaucracy, i totally get how important it is to stay connected. but we all communicate with each customers can do what they need to do, other. i will say we have had great whenever they need to do it online. federal and state support with we care about keeping you safe. that pilot program, with the (vo) we are open 24/7 online, drive-thru testing. they just resupplied us so you can keep managing all you need from home yesterday and today so we can go for another week doing those and through the verizon apps and verizon.com. tests. and that includes ppe for the and sometimes, you can find yourself testers. >> do you have any evidence yet heading in a new direction.

that you're starting to see any but when you're with fidelity, slowdown, or is everything just a partner who makes sure every step is clear, still accelerating? there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. >> it's accelerating, and the governor's been very clear. the mayor has been very clear. we're going to run out of hospital space within a week. we're going to have ventilator issues in a week. the state is mobilizing with the federal government and we're onboard to take over our convention center. and when fully ramped up, 3,000 beds. we'll be the largest monitoring facility in the country. >> collin arnold, battling this pandemic. good luck, sir. i hope we can get these needs met as fast as possible. by the way, a quick correction on our data of the number of deaths in the united states because we appear to have a bit of a hiccup with our data a moment ago. the number of cases is, as we said at the top of the show, nearing 100,000. the death toll is now around 1,500. you saw that the number got entered in somehow 2,300. that was a mistake, and we wanted to correct that as soon

as we saw it. let me turn now to doctor leana nguyen. quorum is president. the motion is adopted. she is the city of baltimore's health commissioner and an emergency physician. doctor, it's nice to see you. i want to start with what is >> well, after some last-minute going to be the question of the drama on the house floor this moment in about 15 minutes with afternoon, the house overwhelmingly approved a $2 this task force and frankly all trillion coronavirus spending weekend long, is we're on day, i bill. guess, 13 of the guidelines. it went to the president's desk. day 15, the expiration of these he signed it moments ago, and we're likely to see this, it's national guidelines. $350 billion for small business, in your medical opinion, what should the task force be telling 240 billion for health care us about these guidelines on day relief, deliver up to $1200 to 16? >> the task force should say americans. basically, it's a bridge loan that we need to not only continue the guidelines, we have for everybody. is probably the best way to look to double down on them. at it. in some cases the direct payment look, we have an out of control is not a loan, but it is a bridge. situation at the moment. garrett haake is on capitol we are seeing what's happening hill, catches up what has been a in new york city. bit of a bizarre and we're seeing what's going to happen in louisiana, in extraordinary day, and obviously a huge week. michigan, and we don't even know what's next. we don't know what the next hot so, garrett, we expected this to spot is going to be because we pass. i'm surprised that they were lack a lot of data. able to get it done today and but we know that other places are going to be facing these didn't have to bleed into

tomorrow. same issues with equipment how did they get through this shortages, with lack of hospital drama as fast as they ended up beds, with staff who are getting doing? >> well, congressional leaders sick. we need to do so much more to in the house put up the strengthen our health care capacity and get tests up and proverbial bat signal late last night they needed to have enough running. but in the meantime, there's for a quorum today when they something that every american, realized that thomas massie, the every person can do, which is to republican from kentucky was stop as much as we can and going to call for a recorded reduce the rate of transmission, vote. and members scrambled to get back here to get this thing flatten that curve as we heard done. about. this is not the time to pull chuck, look, these folks wanted back. this is the time to double down to get this finished. and do everything we can because they wanted to get the money out into the public both to we really have a very small businesses and individuals as window of opportunity here. quickly as possible without further delay, and quite >> one of the bigger issues that honestly, they didn't want to i know new york city is dealing come back to washington any longer than they possibly had with and we just heard that from our reporter, ron allen, on the to. we've already had five members, ground, which is health workers four members of the house, one are coming down with the virus. congressman diagnosed with coronavirus. this is not a place anyone wants and we're running -- you know, to be right now. and i think that lit a fire we may find enough ventilators under these members. >> okay. and not have enough personnel to if they're not here, how does run the ventilators. is there -- what should be the negotiations begin? plan to deal with this issue? >> well, it's going to start it's an inevitable problem. almost immediately. the speaker alluded to that it was something that was anticipated in many of these today. these are conversations she is having with her chairpeople more

pandemic playbooks, but how do we deal with this situation now? or less right away. is it having to call up backup they need to plus up the money for states. they need to fix the problem health care -- retired health with how d.c. gets funded so care workers to replace these folks? what would you like to see, that the district gets more dr. wen? money in this. and probably about the same time >> well, i'd like to see first that these checks to individuals of all us doing everything that start going out in about three, we can to protect our existing four weeks, they're going to health care workers because if need to be back here to start putting something into motion to we run out of masks and gowns, get more money sent out to as we have already, we're going individuals. to run out of doctors and so those conversations are going to be happening more or less right away. nurses. and it's frankly just it is a very good question about unconscionable that we can't when both bodies come back more provide our frontline workers, who are putting their lives on completely. the line, with something as the senate has said they're not basic as masks. coming back until april 20th. and i'm seeing my colleagues beg the speaker said she expects it will be sooner than that. on social media for supplies. and we know that this is not chuck? >> thank you very much. >> garrett, well done. just an issue for the areas that you wrapped up just in time, and are hard-hit. everywhere else in the country the president is beginning plus is going to be facing this issue shortly. so we need to equip our existing the coronavirus task force. here it is. we'll do our best to split the health care providers before we spin from the facts. start even talking about which >> -- medical resources and other providers we're going to equipment needed to fight the bring in. but you're right. we need other creative solutions global pandemic. because we can have all the it's been a brutal pandemic for equipment in the world and all over 150 countries all over the the bed space in the world, but if we can't do something as care

world. we've had great success over the for our providers, then we're not going to be able to treat last month. patients either. >> you know, today we're talking we, as you know, the millions about potential new hot spots in and millions and pieces of detroit, new orleans, chicago. equipment have been delivered successfully by us, purchased but let's say you're salt lake and delivered, and we've made it city, right? you're not a hot spot. available to the states. maybe you will, maybe up won't become one. albuquerque, new mexico. and the governors have been very what would you advise those gracious, for the most part, i medical communities to start would say. doing right now? a couple aren't appreciative of >> i would advise them to look at what's happening in the hot the incredible job. they have to do a better job spots and know that they could themselves. that's part of the problem. well be next. but generally speaking, i have they may well be next because to tell you the governors have they don't even know what's been great. i just spoke to the governor of happening in their communities because of lack of testing. new jersey, governor murphy. we know that throughout the country whatever cases we're and he is very thankful. currently reporting are a severe governor cuomo has been very underestimate, that the actual numbers are going to be a lot nice. they've really appreciated what higher than what's actually the federal government has done. listed in terms of number of you look at the hospitals that are being built all over the cases. and so these other cities that country by the army corps of don't think that they're hot engineers and fema. spots yet could be the next hot spot, and now is the time to it's been really incredible. prepare. actually the time to prepare was nobody has seen it, built hospitals in two or three days, weeks ago, but we can't go back portable hospitals. in time. we can only navigate from where this afternoon i invoked the

we are now. >> right. >> so prepare now. defense production act for anticipate instead of keeping general motors to accept, our reacting to what's already perform federal contracts for happened. >> right. ventilators. ventilators are a big deal, and yeah, the what went wrong is going to be there after we're done dealing with this pandemic, we've delivered thousands of and i know there's going to be a them. and oftentimes you don't need lot of what went wrong that we're going to have to deal ventilators very much. with. but you're right. hospitals don't have very many. we've got to deal with this right now. dr. wen, thank you for your and now we're turning out that expertise in coming on. i appreciate it. here's a live look at the we have to produce large numbers. white house right now where the but we've been able to do that, coronavirus task force briefing and we're going to be doing a is expected to begin shortly. lot more. once that happens, we will of this invocation of the dpa course bring it to you live and do our best to separate our the should demonstrate clearly to spin from the facts. up ahead, more on the next all that we will not hesitate to use the full authority of the potential hot spots. right now it's new york. federal government to combat but next week, as i said, it this crisis. could be places like chicago. we thought we had a deal as an you heard from dr. bririrx example general motors. and i guess they thought otherwise. yesterday. she's very worried about cook they didn't agree. and now they do. county. i'm going to talk to chicago's they do agree. and i think we might be able to mayor next about the actions she's taking right now. pull it. but we let them know the way we felt. and they can't be doing that.

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the surgeon general -- and you saw dr. birx yesterday -- is warning that cities like detroit and chicago could see a surge in cases in the next week. chicago has already reported more than 1,100 cases so far. and, again, as deborah birx said, cook county, which comprises chicago has seen a surge in new cases. joining me now is the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot. madam mayor, good to see you. sorry it's under these circumstances. we heard the white house has been tracking this data. you and governor pritzker, i know, have been sort of early on adopters of some of these measures before it looked as if you guys were going to be a hot spot. now that you are, tell me what your scientists are telling you about when this is going to hit. >> well, look, i think we're going to see a steady rise in cases, certainly over the next week or two. that's consistent with the odeling that we've been looking

accordingly. we're doing everything to make sure that we get our people to stay home to save lives. we've instituted a number of measures to really compel people to stay inside. the city of chicago issued an order a week to ten days ago mandating that if you were sick, even a little bit, that you must stay home. so we're taking these steps, looking at the data, looking at what's happening in other parts of the country where the surge is ahead of us. we are trying to do everything we can now to flatten the curve as quickly as we can so we can get to the other side of the virus. but we're going to be in this, and it's going to keep escalating for another couple of weeks easily. >> all right. let me start with the basics. hospital capacity, beds. are you starting now to identify overflow places, convention center, things like that, united center? is that in the plans or fema? what are your plans on that front? >> so we've done a number of things. we're on a daily call with all the hospitals in the city of

chicago, and we're talking to hospitals in the region. what we're pushing them to do is expand their capacity as much as possible. in addition, we have set up a series of hotels which will accommodate, if you will, stepdowns, so people who are coming out of hospitals but still need some care but not acute care, or people who need to isolate or quarantine and can't do that safely at home. in addition, we're looking at recommissioning some hospitals that are closed in the area, and we're talking with both fema and the army corps of engineers to put at least 500, if not more, hospital beds in one of our large convention centers. so we are being very pro-active and making sure that we get ahead of the curve and that we are able to handle the surge that we believe is coming. we've done an all-call for additional medical support. we have a medical corps, a number of volunteers, but we're pushing, retired doctors,

nurses, really everything you need to set up a health care system, we need that not only to staff the hospitals that are coming online, the hospital spaces, but also the hotel spaces that we've commissioned over the course of this last week. so we're trying to be as proactive as we can based on the science and the data, understanding what the surge is going to be in our city. >> tell me about on the equipment front. how much of this is on your plate in trying to make sure there's enough personal protective equipment and ventilators versus the governor versus the federal government. and i guess my question is if you inventory your capacity, you go to the dpogovernor and say, need "x," "y," and z, can you go to the federal government, i guess i'm trying to understand how mayors like you are supposed to navigate this bureaucracy. >> well, look, the reality is we're not going to get the kind of help from the federal government that i think all of us need. you've been watching and seeing governor cuomo every single day, mayor de blasio.

new york is the epicenter of this virus in our country, and they're not getting the support that they need. it was very clear to me in early discussions back in january that we were not going to get the kind of support from the federal government even at that point where the surge hadn't happened. so we luckily prepare for these kind of circumstances all year long. we are okay with the numbers that we're seeing right now. but if we get anywhere close to the worst-case scenario, the modeling that we've seen, all of us are going to be in trouble. the federal post negovernment n step up. i'm glad that just today the federal government has commissioned gm in their joint venture to build new ventilators, but that's absolutely necessary and really should have come online weeks ago. a process for the federal government seems to be too little, too late. but i hope that they recognize that this wave that we're seeing wash across the country from the coast is only going to get

worse, not better in the short term, and they need to step up their capacity to be able to service the needs of states and cities like chicago and illinois. we're working hand in glove with our governor to make sure that we are building out the capacity. as i said before, we restock our stockpile all year long, and thank god for that. but if we hit the peak, we're all going to be in trouble. >> can you imagine reopening chicago in some sort of normal way anytime in the month of april at this point? >> i think that's going to be challenging in the month of april. but certainly we have started to look like what chicago will be when we start the recovery process. that's going to be absolutely necessary for body, mind, and spirit. it's going to be important for us to be able to step up and support even more support for our small businesses, reopen our

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welcome back. we are of course awaiting the white house coronavirus task force briefing. and as you heard from our guests on the front lines of this fight today and all this week, health care workers are raising alarms about the lack of lifesaving medical equipment in the photo against the coronavirus, including ppe, becoming one of those acronyms we all know so well know. personal protective equipment and ventilators that are also in critically short supply. the federal government has a tool to deal with this. it's called the defense production act. it allows the government to take control of the supply chain to ensure the u.s. has the necessary equipment they need when the country is in danger. the president signed an

executive order invoking the dpa last week, but he didn't implement its power, use its power, until moments ago when he directed general motors to manufacture ventilators. this comes after 100 current and former national security officials released a letter on wednesday urging the president to use the dpa asap. >> joining me now is former secretary of defense chuck hagel. secretary hagel, obviously you're somebody that thought this should have been invoked. you heard the mayor of chicago. this should have been invoked weeks ago, and i'm reading here the company that gm is working with for their kokomo, indiana, plant, ventec, they said they can get up to a capacity of 10,000 ventilators a month, but it ain't going to be this month. mr. secretary, so what is the best way. should this be invoked not as a

one-off, but should he go across the board here now? >> well, chuck, he has to go across the board. first let's recognize, as your guests preceding me have so articulately noted, this is a national crisis, and i mean a national crisis. it's part of a pandemic, global pandemic, but an international crisis. when that happens in a nation, you harness your industries. you harness all the resources available to you. it should have been done weeks ago. it's not too late. we have to do it now, and it's got to be industry-wide. >> so, look, i understand the hesitancy to do this. explain to me. you've dealt with these private companies. you know, the white house wanted to use it as sort of a cudgel to get companies to do this on their own. they've been very hesitant to use it because i think it really sort of ideologically goes against the grain of sort of the

free market conservative that's out there, of which you would describe yourself as one, i think. >> that's right. but a clear message has to be given to the citizens of this country from our national leadership. the state leadership can't do its part of it. mayors and governors are on the front line in this war, this battle, the president has even noted. but it has to come from the top. and it can't be sugar-coated. this is serious business. we're losing people, hundreds of people every day around the world. more cases, more deaths. and we're just probably at the front end. that's what our medical experts are telling us. so you need to alert people to the seriousness, the deadly seriousness of what we're dealing with here. and that means you talk straight. you don't sugar-coat it. you don't try to panic people.

but people have to have confidence and trust in their leadership, that their leadership, no matter how bad, is telling them the truth, that we're all working together, both nationally and internationally by the way. this is an international dynamic as well as a sovereign issue for this country. >> let me talk about our defense readiness at a time, you know, it's been interesting to watch on one hand we know that there's been a troop freeze, if you will, on troop movements, meaning, you know, people cycling in and cycling out. that is going to be on a 60-day freeze. what is your biggest concern as a former defense secretary about troop readiness right now besides on the health front? i'm talking about, you know, how concerned should we be in iran or another one of our perceived enemies might look at this as a time to strike, be it on cyber or be it, you know, on what we're doing in iraq?

>> well, it's there. it's serious. it's real. there is a national security component to this national crisis, chuck. it's not just health. it's not just economy. but it's also an international security issue. for example, we have just taken the uss teddy aken them out of