i believe that the nga and fema should have stepped into this void. we should have put together and entity that was in charge of all purchasing. what we have is people are calling me every day, "i need a mask, i need this." the price ofe critical essentials so high. it was not working at the white house. work perfectly with the federal government and fema to bring it together. i think it is great that the six governors in the northeast got together. i'm sitting here in northern virginia. i am two miles from maryland and the district of columbia. one state like maryland, virginia stays closed, our workforces are totally interrelated. it all has to be done in a concerted effort. geographically is the way to do it. i thought it was a great move for the governors to come together. i know john kasich will agree with me. we have to do this every day. we have to balance budgets, build roads, run our education, run health care. we can do a $2 trillion care's do -- this is what governors every single day. i hope when people are watching this, they can see the

the nga and fema should have stepped into this void. we should have put together an entity that was in charge of all purchasing, people are calling me every day, i need a mask, i need this, scalpers going on, risen the price of, you know, these critical essentials so high, and should have taken charge of the distribution. just was not working at the white house. i think the nga would have been a perfect place and with fema, to come together, but i will say that i think it is great that the six governors in the northeast got together and out on the west coast, because i am sitting here in northern virginia. i am two miles from maryland, and i'm two miles from the district of columbia. if one state like maryland opens up in virginia stays close, our workforces are totally interrelated, so it all has to be done in a concerted effort, and geographically is the way to actually do it, so i thought it was a great move for the governors to come together. i know john kasich will agree with me. you know, it is not surprising to me that the govern

nga, our plan is taking the best ideas from six or seven other plans. we have a lot of smart scientists and doctors and business people. how can we reopen your business in a safe and effective way? had we get people back to normal without having the giant spike? we will announce tomorrow our marilyn strong road back to recovery. out a going to be laying very detailed plan about how we can do that safely, with the numbers are right. >> what is that plan? gov. hogan: we had to have adequate testing. we can identify how many people we have that have the virus and where they are. -- contacttract tracing. adequate ppe.e we had to be ready for a hospital surge. we've been working on all four of those. we opened the hospital and 37 days. we added 3600 hospital beds. we got ventilators, or icu beds. tents tot in supplement certain locations. not a great situation, we are much better than where we were. we've got millions of things coming in every day. with respect to contact tracing, we're bringing in 1000 people. we think this is going to be cutting edge. a fe

we had the winter meeting of the nga in washington. they gave some frank talk. this was quite a while before a lot of people were focused on it. i came back the day after that and we wrapped things up dramatically. one of the first governors -- i think i was one of the first governors in america to declare a state of emergency, the second person to close all of the schools in the state. institutedhave now 26 or 27 executive orders. each one was taking more and more action, things like shutting down all but essential businesses, now stay-at-home directives and things that would have -- nobody would have imagined we would be thinking about taking. but we had to do it because as we talked to the experts, the doctors, we have a coronavirus response team here in maryland made up of the smartest epidemiologists from johns hopkins and the university of maryland medical system and medstar health, all of these guys i've been listening to, doctors and scientists telling us staggering numbers about the crush on our hospital system and the inability to handle it, and the nu

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majority leader mitch mcconnell suggested federal government what about bankruptcy proceedings and the nga what do they think of that in terms of that governors or states are supportive of? >> mitch mcconnell probably regrets saying that. or i'm not sure. [laughter] or he will. >> if he doesn't yet i think he will. i think he will change his mind about that. the last thing we need in the middle of an economic crisis is for all the states filing bankruptcy across america and not provide services to those who desperately need them and exacerbating the problem through the economic crisis. i have talked to mitch mcconnell the leaders in the senate and the house the governors have been pushing for a 500 billion-dollar package to try to deal with a crisis. we have been on the frontlines taking the tough actions required that the federal government asked us to now we have to continue providing the services. so just through july 1st we will have a 2,000,000,081 - - two.$8 billion shortfall we do have a rainy day fund and we are tripling our bond rating but we could be in a terrible financial situa

we are watching the news and governor larry hogan comes on the news. .ice chairman of the nga governor hogan says, "i bought 500 test kits from south korea." there's a picture of governor hogan at the airport with a south korean airliner. 500rnor hogan says, "i got test kits from south korea." my daughter turns to me and says," wow, that was really smart." she just looked at me. she didn't say anything more, she didn't have to. a wave of guilt washed over me. my other daughter said, "why didn't you think of that dad? why didn't you think of test kits from south korea?" governor hogan is a better governor. why didn't i think of buying them from south korea? why didn't i think about buying them from china? usually what states are in charge of. that is the peace the federal ce thement -- the pie federal government can help us with. let the federal government figure out national supply issues rather than have 50 states figure out how to be like governor hogan and by tests from south korea. tests from south korea. that is the intelligent distribution of responsibility on testing. the states

let's speak now to ambassador nguyen phuong nga, one of vietnam's top diplomats.preparing for this very large influx of vietnamese people coming home? thank you, mike, nice to talk to you. so for ours country has managed to put the epidemic under control and control the spread of community transmission. we understand and sympathise with the vietnamese citizens who live, work and study abroad and 110w live, work and study abroad and now want to go back to vietnam. however, the pandemic is continuing to develop in other parts of the world and that is why we have to continue restricting entry into vietnam from abroad and we encourage people to stay in the same place and follow guidance of local authorities and that travelling is risky. at the same time, we have a ready organised more than 30 flights, bringing more than 200 vietnamese citizens back home. in the coming time... excuse me, cani in the coming time... excuse me, can ijust ask you, what would you say is behind vietnam's apparent success. a single party, very authoritarian regime, you can control your people

or cuomo about purchasing ppe and ventilators to the nga and are you participating in that consortium has, pledged to make the antibody test being able to new jersey? gov. murphy: all things are on the table. it is unusual and historic and something we are looking closely at. i will let pat callahan answer in a minute. i speak to governor cuomo all the time. i have not had a specific question but we would absolutely be interested in participating in thatz and we have not had a specific discussion about the antibody work that new york state is doing what we have the directional discussion about meeting to coordinate as we get back on our feet, just as we have shutting down. in antibody is part of that in the sense that we have the right health care infrastructure at our disposal, not just in new jersey but certainly in our region. ask the processes in place. work with the division law and the attorney general's office. have identified those ventilators. thank you.: parades,by bridges and should they stop? i know some local police have asked for them to stop. regarding inmates -- how ca

the former fda officer who was on the president's task force but put together the task force during nga which i chaired we put out a plan. our plan in maryland is to have the best ideas with six or seven plans really smart scientists, doctors, public health officials and business folks about how can we reopen your business in a safe and effective way, how do we gradually get people back to normal without having that giant spike in overload of our healthcare system? so working announced tomorrow maryland strong roadmap to recovery which is or calling or not flipping a switch to marble will be laying out a very detailed plan of how we think we can do that safely. when the numbers are right. >> did you preview that a little bit what is that look like customer. >> a little bit. before cutting up the building blocks of that before we could even put the plan together we had to have adequate testing which was critical to states all across the country so we can identify how many people we have that have the virus, where they are and then contact tracing to make sure we contact the folks they've

. >> as chair of the nga, are you concerned any of the states we are seeing opening, like georgia and oklahoma, that they are moving too fast? gov. hogan: the president made it clear governors would make their own decisions based on facts on the ground in their own states and that is what they are doing. certain states areif

in massachusetts we had an nga governors-only call this afternoon. what i heard from most governors is they're not ready from the testing program point of view, from the isolation point of view, and from the point of view of the contact tracing. we have a lot of work to do. we're eager to do it. we would like to turn the lights back on, slowly, carefully, protecting the health of the people of our state and also cognizant of the need to get the economy going again. but the worst thing i think is to start to turn the lights back on and then have to turn them off because we have a rebound or a resurgence of the virus. the whole talk of the combination of a resurgence of the virus with the flu in the fall is just terrible to think about. >> so many lives at stake, you have to err on the side of caution right now. your colleague, the new york governor andrew cuomo, says now is not the time, in his words, to act stupidly. do you worry that some of the relaxed guidelines in other states could end up having a negative impact, for example, on delaware? >> we

we had a governor's only call yesterday, governor hogan is our chair on nga and we heard it on the call with the president. so many states that don't have the testing capacity really to implement this phased-in approach to recovery. and that's a really key element and there was a lot of back and forth about all the tests exist here or there. various private labs. but when i hear my colleagues and when i talk to the hospital leaders in my state, they're not able to get the test kits and the testing capacity that we need to implement this recovery plan. >> i hear that from a lot of your governor, your colleagues, the other governors as well. and it's hard to believe that here in the united states of america that testing equipment is still not available to all of you. governor carney of delaware, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> good luck to everyone in delaware. >>> stay with us. we're standing by for today's white house coronavirus task force briefing. it's back in the briefing room today, also coming up, i'm speak with the mayor of new orleans about these new gui

the other thing that has been pleasantly surprising as governor of maryland and as the chair of the nga, has been the bipartisan cooperation among democrats and republicans coming together. i can tell you that i am on the phone every day with democratic governors and republican governors on an individual basis and in groups of governors and with the whole team. nobody is wearing blue jerseys or red jerseys. we are all in this together. the folks in congress that pushed things through in a unanimous, bipartisan way to help the american people in a short period of time, out of adversity comes opportunity. we have an opportunity to maybe fix the broken politics in america. it is surprising and hopeful that maybe when we start to get this virus under control and get our economy back, maybe we can find a better way to work together and get things done regardless of party affiliation. david: i think the two governors in the united states with the highest ratings in their states are the governor of maryland, the governor of massachusetts. you have a very high rating in the state of maryland. a

the national governors association, nga, chairman is a republican. i'm the vice chair, democrat. letter saying to the president, we've been cut out of the other federal bills, you expect us to do anything, we need funding as a state because otherwise we can't do any of this. >> you say "cut out." he says what are you talking about? he's like, i gave you the most amount of money of anybody. >> no. he didn't give the state government -- the state governments got cut out. what they did was it was political pork barreling. especially on the senate side. they'd give every state that has a senator, winds up with a big chunk of money, whether it has to do with covid or not and proportionality or not and they funded entities in the state, hospitals, this entity, this entity, but they didn't give any money to the state government, so then i had to cut all sorts of funds and i don't have any money to implement any of the things we're talking about. so, look, it's not -- you don't pick up a lot of political chits giving money to a state government. the politicians don't want to do it. but t

great guy, governor of maryland, republican chairman of the nga, national governors association, vice chairman, and i work with the governor. governor hogan said i bought 500 test kits from south korea. there is a picture of governor hogan at the airport, south korea airliner, and governor hogan says, i got 500 test kits from south korea. my daughter turns to me and looks at me and says, wow, that was really smart. and she just looks at me. doesn't say anything else. she didn't have to. i felt an immediate wave of guilt descend upon me. one of my other daughters who is a little more pointed in life, more literal, said, why didn't you think of that, dad? why didn't you think of buying test kits from south korea? so i was really just feeling de minimus as a governor. larry hogan is a better governor. why didn't i think about buying test kits from south korea, from china? it's not what states are normally responsible for. god bless larry hogan. he really thought outside the box and was creative. but that piece is where the federal government can help us. take that national manufacturer a

i spoke to governor larry hogan this morning, who was the chair of the nga, governor cuomo is the vicer. we desperately need not just new jersey, we need a significant amount of federal cash assistance. my colleague -- >> do you know how much money you might need? >> new jersey is probably $20 to $30 billion. the country, based on bob menendez and senator cassidy's bill, something in the order of $500 billion. and the alternative is not anything we need to see or want to see. the alternative is not bankruptcies. the alternative is massive cuts in services and layoffs of exactly the sort of people we need desperately right now in what is the worst public health kris in our country. firefighters, police, educators, ems, et cetera. we've got to keep those folks employed at the point of attack. >> is the president open to hearing from you? because he says he is, but at the same time, he's tweeting that he shouldn't be giving blue state bailouts. mitch mcconnell doesn't seem to be very onboard with it. is he going to be open to the idea of handing over federal money? >> listen, i have to ho

i am happy the nga will make that explicit at a number which we think is at a minimum of what is required around the country and new jersey needs its share of that. first stateere the to raise our hands. washington, if you lift on the salt production? if you are listening lift the , tax on the salt production but lift it for some period of time. it was a crushing blow to homeowners and property tax owners and we need that lifted, so please help us in that regard. let me switch gears to testing. easter sunday, our fema testing sites at the community college and pnc bank will both be closed. next week's schedule for each at covid19e posted .nj.gov/testing. you can always find the other sites in counties across the state. but there are quite literally, as i said, dozens more testing sites available to you, if your primary care practitioner determines you meet their requirements for testing. that number is at least at 57 around the state. before i hand the briefing over to judy, i would like to keep highlighting them of the good things happening in our state. i want to give a shout out to all

while we were a little disappointed, the nga is pushing -- it wasn't just me but the national governors association was pushing for this funding which is desperately needed for the states if we want to get this economic recovery moving, but they did commit to work with us in the fourth stimulus bill, the governors all across the country, republicans and democrats of the national governors negotiatiassociation, pushing to get it done in this bill. i don't think the deal is finalized yet, but look, we don't want to hold up funding to small businesses. we hope the democrats and republicans in the senate can come together in a bipartisan way and get something moving for the american people. >> i know you've seen this video from takoma park, maryland, video from friday on local news that shows hundreds of marylanders lined up outside mega mart stores for a free food giveaway. they're obviously desperate. many of them, i'm assuming, have no income at all because of the shutdown. what do you say to your constituents about when you're going to open up the state? what goes through your mind when

governor larry hogan comes on the news, great guy, governor of maryland, republican, chairman of the nga. governor hogan says i bought 500 test kits from south korea, and there's a picture of governor hogan at the airport, south korea airliner and governor hogan says i got 500 test kits from south korea. my daughter turns to me and looks at me and goes, wow, that was really smart, and she just looks at me. doesn't say anything else. she didn't have to. i felt the immediate wave of guilt descend upon me. one of my other daughters, a little more pointed in life, says why didn't you think of that, dad? why didn't you think of buying test kits from south korea? so now i was just really feeling demin mouse as governor. why didn't i think of buying test kits from south korea, from korea, from china? it's not what states normally are responsible for. god bless larry hogan. he really thought outside the box and was very creative. but that piece is where the federal government can help us. take that national manufacturer and that supply chain for the national manufacturers, and let the federal go

we had the winter meeting of the nga in washington. they gave some frank talk.his was quite a while before a lot of people were focused on it. i came back the day after that and we wrapped things up dramatically. one of the first governors -- i think i was one of the first governors in america to declare a state of emergency, the second person to close all of the schools in the state. institutedhave now 26 or 27 executive orders. each one was taking more and more action, things like shutting down all but essential businesses, now stay-at-home directives and things that would have -- nobody would have imagined we would be thinking about taking. but we had to do it because as we talked to the experts, the doctors, we have a coronavirus response team here in maryland made up of the smartest epidemiologists from johns hopkins and the university of maryland medical system and medstar health, all of these guys i've been listening to, doctors and scientists telling us staggering numbers about the crush on our hospital system and the inability to handle it, and the numb

. >> as chair of the nga, are you concerned that any of those other states we're seeing now open, like georgia and oklahoma, that they're moving too fast? >> so the president made it clear that the governors were going to be making their own decisions based on the facts on the ground in their own states and that's exactly what they are doing. certain states are in different points of the curve and they've got different situations on the ground and i don't want to second guess my colleagues in different states. i'm not really that familiar with everything that's going on in every state because i'm so focused on what's going on here in my state and my region, but i think various governors are making decisions based on what they think is best for their state. i'm going to be very cautious. we're going to make decisions on science. we're going to do things together as a region here in the washington metropolitan area with virginia and d.c., where quite frankly while we have some encouraging numbers on hospitalizations and icu which are leveling off, we're still going up with respect to the

i know he's meeting with governor cuomo who is the chairman of the nga. i think the vice president corrected him yesterday and the press conference. it was a great call, i don't think he was on the call and didn't understand what the discussion was about. no idea what he was upset about. >> sandra: i will finish by asking you the biggest question, when can you reopen up your state? you said we can't open up our states without ramping up testing and you have now secured these 500,000 test kits for your state. what does that mean about you reopening maryland, can you do it? become the president's plan which he announced last thursday night calls for, before he suggests that you can open up any states you have dow 14 days of downward trends of numbers. sadly in our region because of all the distancing we put in place we were one of the first and most aggressive and earliest states. our numbers are behind everybody else. we flattened the curve and length of the curve but now we are starting to go up. we are 2 25,000 cases in the region and we have been we are

. >> as chair of the nga, are you concerned any of the states we are seeing opening, like georgia and oklahoma, that they are moving too fast? gov. hogan: the president made it clear governors would make their own decisions based on facts on the ground in their own states and that is what they are doing. certain states are different points of the curve. have different situations on the ground. i do not want to second-guess my colleagues in different states. i am not that familiar with everything going on in every state because i'm so focused on what is going on here in my state and in my region. governors are making decisions based on what they think is best for their state. i'm going to be very cautious. we are going to make decisions on science. we are going to do things together, as a region, here in the washington metropolitan area , with virginia and washington, d.c.. all we have encouraging uppers on hospitalizations and icu, which are leveling off, you're still going up with respect to the number of cases and the number of deaths. ordere extended my through may 15, with the ack