report on dpa activities and announcements. this will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion to determine whether the challenge any issues raised for a commission dpa summer intern plan of 2020 presentation. >> cases closed, we've closed 498 case489 cases and that's ova hundred more. in terms of cases pending, 409 open cases and we've had 21 cases so far this year sustained versus 39 this time last year. and we are in the process of changing our reported details of the delayed cases and part of the comments that we discussed last week and the presentation that we will be getting providing more specifics about what the delays are and sourcing the delays as a presentation for this commission. and in terms of the cases mediate the, wmediated, we are d this time last year, we were at 24. as related to the mediation program, the mediation director and coordinator completed their training by the siege program and they wanted to participate in the program so they had a better under

secondly, we look for every opportunity to invoke the dpa. now, the dpa isn't a magic tool. it doesn't violate the rules of physics. you can't create something out of nothing. most companies do not need dpa on them because they're highly motivated to stop the pandemic. number two, they have the private capital investment in order to expand their operations. so if that is happening, we still -- >> it's not enough. >> of course it's enough. tell me one thing we should be doing with any of these private labs that we're doing or they're not doing on their own. i talk to hundreds of people every week, the rockefeller foundation, smart people. we have a national implementation for testing that we will be getting together this week. i talk to acla, universities, private will behospitals, you n. if there's a stone to be turned you tell me what it is but from my vantage point -- >> i just told you. get federal labs to hire more people and get more equipment to increase turnaround times. invoke the dpa so commercial labs all over the country, ones you are not using, five veterinary la

so to date fema, we've used the dpa at least 14 times and as other agencies have dpa authorities have use. early on march and april is to understand the environment we're operating in and i have probably the finest supply expert in the world that works on this every day, but we want to make sure we do not harm to the existing landscape, to make sure that if you -- >> what you mean by do no harm? we have people dying in this country. >> yes, ma'am. i'll give you an example. everyone needed more n95 mass, the material is the same maturity you make a gallon with. they stopped making gallants ann the account shortage. all these unintended consequences we want to be thoughtful and info about when actually used it and wheeze and it delivers what to get the best result. >> literacy of understanding you have the authority to exercise dpa as the director of fema yes, sir. yes, ma'am. >> that's fine. you can call upon manufacturing companies that don't engage in this kind of work to do this kind of work, correct? >> we can and we have and the are many manufactures, and i will just use -- i list

wrote to the secretary of defense and the secretary of health and human services and asked why was this dpa not used in the way that was called for in the legislation. an assessment of the amount of each of the categories that we need ppe, diagnostic, serologic, other covert tests, treatment of covid-19, medical supplies and equipment, the list goes on. this is such a massive dereliction of duty. people are dying. what we are saying to the senate -- join us in asking the president to use executive action for good instead of ill, as he has done, and pass the heroes act, which supports -- let's just focus on what it means for our schools because across the country, the angst of people reporting to us about the anxiety they had, chilling the -- the decision as to whether to send their children to school. what is the president do? the negative. were not going to give you money unless you open up. no, you give schools money to open up, and that is precisely what we do in the heroes act. we have $100 billion education stabilization fund specifically geared to the coronavirus. quite frankly, with

we use the dpa deliberately. we use it precisely, and we have great success stories, like ventilators, to show for it. rep. bishop: time has expired. >> thank you very much. your testimony to this committee is that we use the defense production act in a timely manner. i'm not sure i used the word timely. i said we use the defense production act when we understood when and how to use it. again, what i said before, do no harm. so just to radically use it from day one, you don't know what the consequences are downstream. the conversation -- >> i'm saying -- mr. gaynor: if you do this, this other thing will suffer, those conversations were going on with the administration, with the task force, with fema and hhs and dod to understand if you do that, you may get negative results on this. so when we understood that we will use dpa for the best result, we executed. >> so your testimony is that when the defense production act was used, it was used in a timely manner? mr. gaynor: those are your words, mr. chairman. i just

to dpa to open up schools, to open up the economy, and we need to help america's families. put it all together in a packages, we have $230 billion specifically for the schools. we have nearly actually in dollars for state and local government, which is one half of break,ey gave the tax 82% of the benefits going to the top 1%. president, you. have gone down the wrong path. ask for directions. ask for direction from better,ts, who know they knew better. if we ask the gop senate to get on it and help the american people on our heroes, open our heroes, economy and schools by having the equipment needed to do it and the funds to facilitate that, put money in the pockets of the american people -- the time is running out on that. i know we keep saying this over and over, but it still persists, and the clock is running out. as we urge them to do that, house democrats are still working very hard for the people. this week the appropriations committee has been marking up the fiscal year 2021 legislation to put it on track to pass legislation to fund 96% of the government in july. the

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senator murphy, what will the dpa do? >> redundancy is really important these days. listen, the dpa has put into statute after world war ii to compensate for the fact that democracies are often not terribly efficient when faces with crises like a pandemic or a war. and so we give the president emergency powers. one of them is to take control of the supply chain when we need to produce a whole lot of one thing in a short period of time. right now, this country cannot beat coronavirus without more ppe. we had a shortage. we were able to address that shortage, and now as the virus spreads, you have new reports of nurses sometimes wearing the same mask for 15 days. we also need to power up the manufacture of testing. we're waiting 7 to 10 to 14 days for tests to return. you can't beat the virus that way either. the only way to produce more ppe and tests is for the president to take control of the supply chain and coordinate it all, command manufacturers to make more of all of that equipment. and he has the power to do it under the defense production act. he has refused t

what's their hesitant using the dpa for this?> i don't have a great answer for that but my colleague and i were talking to administration official couple hours ago and asked that very question because that official was talking about how they're trying to speed up production of these rapid tests and acknowledging what a problem it is when you have to wait six to ten days to get results. we asked why not use the defense production act and they pivoted to talking about all of the other times the defense production act has been used like we heard the president talk about today. i don't know the answer yes but when we ask it we don't get a clear response when it comes specifically to getting more rapid tests out there. that definitely remains a question. >> doctor, look, we're civilians here, shannon and i, we're not in the medical community, is it in your mind realistic that the defense production act could be used to make these abbott tests more widely available, is that your understanding what you thought this might happen in an em

hhs listed 19 companies that have received orders under the defense production act, or dpa, to acquireies, including 600 million n95 masks but experts say it's not enough, and it started far too late. only half of the masks ordered will be delivered by the end of this year. >> this is going to be a really serious, serious, and persistent challenge for the united states for several months, if not longer. >> says the trump administration hasn't used the full power of the defense production act. >> the administration listened a little bit too much to corporate interests, early on in the crisis. the dpa was not used early enough, nor aggressively enough, to put us in a position to get the kind of ppe we need. in time. >> some major hospitals tell cnn they are making their own deals to buy ever-scarcer supplies. some, even stockpiling ppe. but smaller hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors office, are left out of the supply chain, jeopardizing routine medical care, according to the ama. >> a few months ago, we're in this really dire, emergent situation. and our hope was that, that situation

he is not use the dpa to make more pvp. his pushed states like arizona, texas, florida, to open too quickly and now he's trying to cut the funding for testing which some republicans want. and now things are a lot worse because president trump does not have a plan to deal with the situation. he is just saying, he's waiting for covid to disappear. it ain't disappearing. leader mcconnell and a rare act of distancing himself from trump had the courage, quote unquote to say that covid is still with us. the president cannot even model good behavior and encourage americans to wear masks. when the covid prices task force briefings resume this afternoon the administration will keep trump away from the podium. every time president trump speaks to the american people about covid-19, he is a threat to public health. senator durbin. >> most of us remember those speeches on the floor from senator mcconnell. they go back almost three months ago. it was before there were any specific provision they're talking about in terms of the next cov

hhs listed 19 companies that have received orders under the defense production act or dpa to acquiremergency supplies, including 600 million n-95 masks. but experts say it is not enough. and it started far too late. only half of the masks ordered will be delivered by the end of this year. >> this is going to be a really serious, serious and persistent challenge for the united states for several months if not longer. >> reporter: kelly maxman, a former pentagon official under the obama administration says the trump administration hasn't used the full power of the defense production act. >> the administration listened a little bit too much to corporate interests early on in the crisis. the dpa was not used early enough, nor aggressively enough to put us in a position to get the kind of equipment and ppe we need in time. >> reporter: some major hospitals tell cnn they're making their own deals to buy ever scarcer supplies, some even stockpiling ppe. but smaller hospitals, nursing homes and doctors offices are left out of the supply chain, jeopardizing even routine medical care according

hhs listed 19 companies that have received orders under the defense production act or dpa to acquire supplies, including 600 million n95 masks, but experts say it's not enough and it started far too late. only half of the masks order will be delivered by the end of this year. >> this is going to be a really serious, serious and persistent challenge for the united states for several months if not longer. >> reporter: a former pentagon official under the obama administration says the trump administration hasn't used the full power of the defense production act. >> the administration listened a little bit too much to corporate interests early on in the crisis. the dpa was not used early enough nor aggressively enough to put us in a position to get the kind of equipment and ppe we need in time. >> reporter: some major hospitals tell cnn they are making their own deals to buy ever scarcer supplies, some even stockpiling pp p-but smaller hospitals, nursing homes and doctors' offerses are left out of the supply chain, jeopardizing even routine medical care, according to the ama. >> a few mo

the president need to invoke the dpa to up our abilities to get ahead of this virus, especially when it comes to testing. that's how we see this virus. that's how we defeat it. >> and with that kind of lag time, aren't the tests useless, seven to ten days before you get results, people are in quarantine, and you can't contact trace? >> that's exactly it. it's basically leading us into a vicious cycle. obviously if you have someone tested it takes seven to ten days, that person's not isolating, that person is continuing to come into contact with other people. we can't contact trace. we can't tell that person to isola isolate. it basically also hurts our ability to get back to work and school as well. i'm hearing from parents, i'm hearing from farm workers on the central coast of california. we need the ability to get quicker results. obviously the governor has put in a tiered system, starting off with those that are hospitalized and have symptoms. then going to those who are high risk and have symptoms and so we need to make sure that it's not just about quantity, it's about quality o

hhs listed 19 companies, that had received orders under the defense production act, or dpa, to acquirepplies. including, 600 million n95 masks. but experts say it's not enough. and it started far too late. only half of the masks ordered will be delivered by the end of this year. >> this is going to be a really serious, serious and persistent challenge for the united states, you know, for several months, if not longer. >> kelly, a former pentagon official under the obama administration says the trump administration hasn't used the full power of the defense production act. >> the administration listened a little bit too much to corporate interests, early on in the crisis. dpa was not used early enough, nor aggressively enough, to put us in a position to get the kind of equipment and ppe we need in time. >> some major hospitals tell cnn they are making their own deals to buy ever-scarcer supplies. some, even stockpiling ppe. but smaller hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors office' are left out of the supply chain. jeopardizing even routine medical care, according to the ama. >> a few mon

we need the dpa to open up schools, open up the economy. if you put it all together in our two packages, $230 billion specifically, nearly $1 trillion for state and local, one half of what they gave away in their tax break, 80% of the benefits going to the top one%. in any case, you have gone down the wrong path. ask for directions from our scientists, they knew better. we urge the president and gop senate to help the american people, open up our economy and our schools by having equipment to do it and funds to associate -- facilitate that, time is running out on that. it is drastic. we keep saying this but it still persists and the clock is running out on it. we urge them to do that, house democrats working hard for the people. the appropriations committee has been marking up fiscal year 2021 legislation on track to pass legislation, to fund 96% of the government in july, second time in two years we are on schedule. next week they are marked up this week and last week. 30 hearings in markups across committees by energy and commerce markups

with the dpa we grew production of n-95 masks. the stockpile had no ventilator drugs and we're growing to have five in stock with months worth of supply. these efforts are part of a strategy to transform the stockpile, build a wholistic supply chain ecosystem capable of being responsive and modernize stockpile with more u.s. production will enable a continued federal response. thank you for the opportunity to testify today and i look forward to answering questions you may have. >> chairman clyburn, ranking member scalise, distinguished members of the committee, on march 12th, secretary azar requested that i lead the coordination of covid-19 testing efforts within the department of health and human services and to be clear, although i am assuming some of my traditional roles as the assistant secretary, i am maintaining my role of coordinating testing, including now the new nih diagnostic program to ensure that innovations are immediately translated into practice. before i discuss supplies and allocations, we are all concerned about

. >> the president has continued to see criticism he's not used the dpa, while treating it as a bat in his toolbox to hit people with. the latest issue with that is swabs and the facts he's not trying to force companies to ramp up production. >> there were unquestionably examples of the federal government stepping up. the u.s. army corps of engineers built field hospitals including this at the javitz center in new york city. the u.s. navy deployed ships to new york and california. on april 3nd, the cdc put out a recommendation urging the public to wear cloth face masks. president trump, however, said he would rather not. >> i don't know. somehow, i don't see it for myself. >> it was hardly the first time he ignored public health advice. >> you're shaking a lot of hands today. taking a lot of pictures. are you protecting yourself? >> not at all. >> how are you staying away from germs? >> by april 10th, there were half a million confirmed covid-19 cases in the u.s. and the death toll catapulted to nearly 19,000, yet widespread testing remained elusive. >> we're leading the world now in t

the dpa tried to contact the officers. the only way they would know are through this illegal search on carmody's cell phone. even though the city has paid out $369,000, the chief has apologized. the city has a huge blemish the fruits of this illegal search. this shield law is supposed to protect journalists from revealing their confidential sources or being compelled to reveal their confidential sources. >> any response from san francisco police yet? >> i sent the police department a detailed list of questions for them to respond a couple days ago. they said they were looking into it and working on it. i still have not heard back from them. >> all right. thank you for joining us here on the nine. >> thank you, gasia. >> of course. thank you again to evan. it's a long read but a good read. he broke it online within the past hour. you can road his full story on the ktvu app. now do stay with us. stay with us for the 10:00 news tonight as we'll bring you expanded coverage. we'll show you some of the documents evan uncovered.

rhode island and arizona in five weeks instead of nine months under the umbrella of the dpa, and now we're getting n95 masks by the tens of millions a month out of there. so i think that the other thing, george, that is important to tell the american people, this vaccine development we're doing in what i call trump time, in half to a third of the time. we may have a vaccine by the end of the year, and the way we've done it -- >> that is certainly the hope. let me -- >> let me say this, it's important for the american people to understand. the traditional way to do it is the sequence, discover phase trials for safety and efficacy and only then manufacture. it takes a year, year and a half or longer. we're doing it simultaneously. we're getting ready to manufacture as we got five companies in the horse race and that's why on monday we were down the research triangle park, visiting a subsidiary that was going to be part of this. >> we did report on that as well. you and the president have been quite critical of dr. fauci and his views on hydroxychloroquine and other issues. so why is th

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the president touting this 33rd use of the dpa today. narcissist processing for more ppe earlier this year at the trump administration do more of this. >> defense production act now. mass production of ventilators, mass production of necessary medication. mass production of n95 masks my gowns, other protective equipment that we need in the hospitals. cancel rent so the people of new york city can stay home. >> shannon: all right, correspondent rich edson is with us with all the latest details tonight, hey, rich. >> good evening, shannon. a major moment for an iconic american brand. if the has awarded kodak, once a global leader in photography, a $765 million loan to help make pharmaceuticals. president trump announced this afternoon he's invoking the defense production act to provide the government loan to launch kodak pharmaceuticals, producing ingredients for generic drugs and reduce u.s. reliance on foreign drug manufacturers. >> we will be competitive with almost all countries in soon with all countries. >> the president was also sch

so we need to be using things like the dpa to make sure we have enough vials, syringes, whichever company gets there, has the support to roll this thing out. am i optimist snick i'm cautiously optimistic the two study that came out yesterday in "the lances" did show, basically everything they wanted to show they wanted to show that these vaccines are safe and that they induce, they really trigger an immune response. and both of the studies in the uk and china really showed the same thing more or less which is that it's looking good but that doesn't mean a thing, unfortunately, about whether it protects us. a study at this stage can't tell us that. so that's -- we move on to the next one it's a great day for science we're moving forward with the right kind of progress but it's, as you say, it's months down the road at the very best and i want to start hearing our leaders talk about vaccines. we can't go to all this trouble and then people say, well, vaccines are dangerous no they're not they are the thing we need and we need our leadership to start planting the seeds immediately >> great d

so that was just an enormous issue until we got our supply chains, improved our distribution, did dpa act to get that. in terms of reagents which the laboratories actually use, we have the capability right now to do all the tests that are being ordered. but not every state or every lab can get the precise reagent they want. they're going to have to be flexible, because there's a whole ecosystem of reagents, and we help direct that. so it is going to be tight, it will continue to be tight as we open up the reagents, all that demand will be taken. but again, we do see by september, we will have the capability, even without pooling, of doing somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 million tests per month. and if we do do pooling, that number goes up quite a bit. again, i'm not painting a rosy picture, nobody's declaring victory. this is the fight of our generation. but, you know, we are doing these things to improve our testing capability while we enforce the most important things, this. we cannot test our way out of this. we're going to have to do those measures like wearing a mask, avoidin

we're covering this as an dpa l example of the things trump is trying to inject into the general electionause we're 100 days out. we should also cover this as the cruelty and it's the same vain o of cruelty that he mocked a disabled person. the same vain of cruelty that allowed him to cage small children and separate them. there's a cruelty and a feeling of sticking your finger in an electric socket if you know anyone or love anyone that's been screened for dementia or alzheimer's. >> i think you're right. you and i know that there is no bottom to this presidency. every week demonstrates that. this, in particular, where the president of the united states, the leader of the free world is calling into question his own cognition and confuses con in addition with intelligence and at the same time, doesn't appreciate in the same way he doesn't appreciate the numbers of people and have empathy for the numbers of people suffering from coronavirus and who die. nor does he appreciate the circumstance, the sad circumstance of millions of americans who suffer from dementia and alzheimer's in their y

. >> in terms of the actual structure of how our core dpa team and we have 142 total front-line staff. you see the numbers there. 26 in case investigations, 85 in contact tracing and in contact tracing, that is where i think we have, you have seen in the media that there are staff that are other disaster service workers that come into our team and been able to learn this work under the supervision of the doctors from ucsf so we have people from the city attorney's office and the assessors office and many people from the library who have been great at doing that contact tracing work. our case investigation staff are dph staff because that case investigation stakes some clinical skills and knowledge that some of our more experiences dif have and clinicians and retired clinicians have been able to do as well. this client support is so important. these are people that have the social work background and are able to understand and provide linkage and warm hand offs to resource and services that are available to help people including housing, if they're unable to isolate or quarantine where

. >> in terms of the actual structure of how our core dpa team and we have 142 total front-line staff. you see the numbers there. 26 in case investigations, 85 in contact tracing and in contact tracing, that is where i think we have, you have seen in the media that there are staff that are other disaster service workers that come into our team and been able to learn this work under the supervision of the doctors from ucsf so we have people from the city attorney's office and the assessors office and many people from the library who have been great at doing that contact tracing work. our case investigation staff are dph staff because that case investigation stakes some clinical skills and knowledge that some of our more experiences dif have and clinicians and retired clinicians have been able to do as well. this client support is so important. these are people that have the social work background and are able to understand and provide linkage and warm hand offs to resource and services that are available to help people including housing, if they're unable to isolate or quarantine where

or coming into the country to where they are needed most and that could happen immediately with the dpa. we used it during superstorm sandy to get interpreters. it is a tool that gives you an immediate response. it ultimately gives the ability to redirect industry to meet strategy that otherwise would not have been met if you only went to a capital system. it has not built that capacity. there's no reason to have excess capacity unless you have some incentives. we are not going to build in the tools to ensure protection exists. >> you are talking about a long-term incentive solution that would build more capacity to be in place over the long-term. correct? >> yes, sir. pandemic's are one example of our global supply chain having critical infrastructure when we defend upon global supply chains. suppliers may not always share our views and interests. >> thank you. the chair now recognizes for five minutes the gentlewoman from california. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. thank you to our panelists for being here today. as i heard the testimony, i am a little surprised to be hearing so much

wave the needs and we didn't have a single person this country denied ventilation and now because of dpa use we will have 50000 ventilators in the stockpile by next week. >> how many ventilators did new york and up receiving? >> i do not have the actual specific number but i know they asked for tenss of thousands at first which i think that may have been 30 or 40 but new york ended up getting may be 10000 i will have to provide the committee with specific numbers if inu could. the initial was a lot they got less than a - - that - - that higher medical supplies and demand what is the status on the role the federal government and strategic to obtaintockpile and distribute medical supplies to the states? >> we had business systemat information from 90 percent of the medical supply chain. it's coming in for manufacturing in the warehouse and distribute down to first e sponders in nursing homes and hospitals also in the process to build that out with wire connections to the 600,000 plus in the united states on hand daily ouinformation and warehouses so we have the approach of the supply chain

needed to use it, when we understood the entire environment about the pros and cons of executing the dpa, whether it was title i, title three, title seven, we understood all of those things. >> yes or no? >> my answer stands as an answer, sir. >> okay. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california for five minutes. >> thank you chairman thompson for holding this most important hearing. our nation is failing in our response to covid-19. let me, if i can, talk a little bit about my district where, today, almost on an everyday basis, i begin to hear the names of individuals that i know are dying. i live in a hot spot, santa ana, anaheim, california the healthiest place on earth, disneyland has been closed for a number of months now. a lot of unemployment, a lot of people suffering, a lot of people dying. mr. gaynor, thank you for being here today. you mentioned that you are part of the covid task force, is that correct? >> yes sir. >> would you say that we are still learning about covid-19, we just do not have enough data? >> the i mean, i think one of the members mentioned it, it is a

the opening statements were about the defense production act, the dpa, which, of course, he was widelyd for not using very much during the early weeks of this pandemic, and it was to tout the times he had used it, including one more time yesterday he invoked it. although to be clear, he's been using it mostly in terms of federal loans, not compelling these companies to actually manufacture and distribute items that are so important to first responders, hospitals, and so on. and this comes, willie, as the white house is nervously watching caseloads of the infection throughout the country. they are seeing -- we know the hotspots right now. it's florida, it's texas, where the president is going later today. i will be with him for an event there. it's arizona. it's california. they feel like things are stabilizing a little bit, particularly in arizona, in texas, and feeling better about that, but there are new states they're growing very concerned about. in fact, we reported yesterday, there's a new focus on some midwest states, including minnesota, wisconsin, ohio, indiana, as well as col

a lot of our fulfillment issues have followed on price gouging under the dpa.there are unscrupulous sellers selling counterfeit products, price gouging taking advantage of institutions needs at this time of emergency so a lot of that is being addressed by criminal authorities, the department of justice price gouging task force. >> my time is expired, appreciate it. >> senator blackburn has joined us as well. >> thank you, mister chairman. i want to go to the issue of privacy and general schmidt, you mentioned in your statement, let's look at the issue of protecting private information and if it falls into the hand of scammers, what are you doing to make certain that people are not being scammed based on their information for contact tracing? what we learned when we look at the virtual space whoever has that data, in possession of that data that they own the virtual view, they have access to this and begin to use that to follow you and to share your information with outsiders. so let's talk to you or start with you and then just if each of you will add, i want t

we have a patchwork of policies across the country we haven't deployed the dpa to produce swabs and nich are still in the issue here we are months into this it remains an issue. i think a lack of a national strategy hurt us it probably cost a lot of lives and it's really important that leadership comes from the top with accurate, consistent medical information so that people can understand what we're confronting and rise to this challenge. >> governor, thank you so much for joining us. >> oh, sorry, sara. >> i was going say, you have the mask mandate in your state why are we seeing pockets where 40 or 50 kids are getting sick from going to a lake party or a bar, which i've seen in the new news a number of times since the july 4th weekend so people are still going to do their own thing when it comes to masks and social distancing in this country. >> that's true, but if we have consistent messaging and we take the politics out of the simple act of wearing a mask, this is about public health. we're dealing with a novel virus for which there's no cure. there's no vaccine it doesn't care w

. >> the president has continued to see criticism for the fact he has not used the dpa more constantly while constantly pointing it as a bat to try to hit people with. the latest issue is swabs and the fact he is not trying to force companies to ramp up production. >> there were unquestionably examples of the u.s. government stepping up. the u.s. army corps of engineers built field hospitals including this one at the javits center in new york city. the u.s. navy deployed ships to new york and california. but the white house also had to contend with another crisis. >> startling sign of the economic pain. >> reporter: 6.6 million workers filed for unemployment in the u.s. for the first time. an historic high. and a 3,000% increase since early march. ballooning debt. an economic recession. >> the current reality is beyond painful. >> reporter: not a good equation for a president running for re-election. >> he's frustrated by what we've seen happen in the stock market. the numbers he knows of job losses and people who have filed for unemployment are through the roof and they are going to p

now ideally, i would have liked to have seen and called for in legislation the dpa invoked by this administration to ensure proper production of testing kits, testing supplies, testing swabs, you name it, in order to get more better, more advanced types of testing, including point on contact type of testing, where they can get the results instantly. and so professor fuchs, i want to basically address my first question to you. do you believe it's important to have a national strategy for supply chains when it comes to testing for covid-19? >> i believe we do need coordination of the type that you described, and for a matter of fact i think the coordination to expand testing but also to push forward innovations, if they are able to improve the false negative rates, for example, so instead of one in every three test being a false negative, if that were down to much less, we would have to do a lot less testing. >> and miss fuchs, do you think the use of the defense production act could have helped that? >> there's many ways the defense production act can be used, but i do believe that this is a natio

five weeks that is trump time that shows they can -- nine months under president's leadership signed a dpatilators 17 days this president donald j. trump attacks this in amazing wise nobody used defense production act the way we are using it for kodak only a businessperson sitting in the white house could figure out that is a good deal i can't say more about adam bowler and his team, 14 folks here, they are the sharpest tools in the shed when i brought him in, say hey, what about this, two months, they were able greatest of due diligence to turn this around did not must around going on plane signing that letter of interest today it is off and running. >> 760-million-dollar loan huge move for kodak he row chester as well watching that i want to ask you broadly about the economy the republicans are rolling out their latest covid-19 you stimulus program i know that you are not that is not your lane you are not doing the work on this next stimulus package, steven mnuchin has talked a lot about what he would he like to see give me your overall assessment of where we are? it feels like now while