what i have seen and what i have heard from the extraordinary personnel at hhs and cdc and like dr. fauchi's case and someone who has literally been there through multiple administrations is that we are ready. we are ready. and this is an all lands on deck effort. whether it be testing kits or whether it be medical devices or the protective gear for the health care providers and one thing that the president made clear, jake, was that our first priority is the patients who have contracted the coronavirus, and immediately after that is any health care providers and doctors or nurses or people who are going to be coming alongside people who have contracted the disease. and so we literally just entered into the contract with 3m who are going to be producing another 30 million masks a month, and starting immediately, and we have about 43 million s masks stockpiled today. but i wanted to say to the viewers that it is not necessary for americans to go out and buy masks. >> right. it is not going to do anything for you. it is the people who have the coronavirus who have the masks and need t

hhs has other means as well. our key thing is to get them where they're needed on time. >> how long to get them to the front line? >> for dod, a couple of days to get them to hhs or the point of distribution. >> you talked about the army corps of engineers meeting with the governor of new york. the engineers told cnn to formal request had been made in terms of these army corps building these temporary hospitals. has that now changed? >> i have not seen a formal request, but frankly that doesn't matter to me, we're leaning into this, we'll stay ahead of the curve. i won't let paperwork get in the way. i told the governor yesterday afternoon that i had the corps of engineers in albany today, they're in the state, they're meeting with his team and discussing a variety of ways and proposals by which we can help them out. if we can help them out, we certainly will. >> i want to ask you about the 49 service members now treated for coronavirus. in addition there are a number of contractors and other pentagon employees.

>> hhs is completing half a billion dollar order of the 95 masks and all of this is being coordinatedrough fema, and we are responding specifically to state requests where the needs arrive. as dr. fauci said, we want to make sure that people who are providing healthcare services to people who may have contracted coronavirus have the protection to keep themselves and their families healthy, but i want to emphasize, the supply of so-called n95 masks has been vastly increased in the country because the president insisted that we extend liability protection to industrial masks. what all the experts told us early on that industrial masks that are used on construction sites, the president is familiar with from his past life, are perfectly appropriate to protect healthcare workers from respiratory illness, but they didn't have the liability protection because they weren't created for hospitals. we worked with leaders in both parties, we added that protection that runs through 2024, that now the industrial n95 masks can be purchased by hospitals, purchased by states, purchased by hhs and dist

kadlec assisting hhs, that is fitnessed by hhs, so there's interagency agreements in place, so dollars that flow to hhs to address the virus challenge, the source of the lead federal agency, do flow to dhs when we're providing those sorts of supportive efforts from any of our agencies or components, the most obvious one day to day being fema at the moment. >> you're not concerned when you look at the supplemental, where's our support? where are our resources? you'll get those through hhs, and again, administration requested 2.5 billion, we're going to give 8. resourcing should not be a problem. >> that's how this will work going forward as it has the last month or so. >> senator holly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to both of you being here. thanks for the work you're doing to address the outbreak. it's very concerning. i'm concerned about the spread of the virus nationwide. i i think this exposes our supply chains. you mentioned it a moment ago, the fact for medical devices are manufactured in whole or in part, china in particular and we've seen reports about potential drug short

hhs an and u.s. government respe to the 2019 corona virus outbreak. im this morning jus just want to take a few minutes to discuss how we are addressing this from the point of strategic anticipation. working with my colleagues on supporting state and local authorities working hard to contain and mitigate the virus outbreak to save lives and protect americans. as for the four pronged approach to the domestic response this includes countermeasure development, supporting the health care system, incident management and direct support to the state and local entities. in the countermeasure development we are rapidly establishing the department counter or task force that includes partners across hhs, the department of defense and other federal agencies and private sector to identify therapeutics diagnostic vaccines that could be readily brought through the pipeline to address the coron coronavirus. they are looking at rapid detection and treatment and the therapeutic state and support of the affected person

what is the publication delayed, guidance delayed within hhs? was it, yes or no? dr. hahn: no, it was not. sen. murray: it was not delayed? dr. hahn: no. sen. murray: do you really believe 1 million tests will be available by the end of this week? dr. hahn: senator, let me just explain that one. the companies we're working with on this, they have the capacity to develop enough test kits to send out by the end of the week. this is a dynamic process. every day we're hearing from additional manufacturers that they can do this. 2500 test kits by the end of the week. that should give us the capacity in the hands of laboratories. once they validate to perform up to a million tests. sen. murray: 2,500 kits? dr. hahn: kits, and 500 tests per kit. sen. murray: i heard it said the point of where someone goes in to get a test on a rapid -- we are months away from that, correct? >> yes, ma'am. sen. murray: i'm hearing from a lot of people in my state that are really concerned about what they should do if they are infected or if they know they were within range of someone with cor

beingare hospitals provided by hhs. i forget what exactly they are called put they are hospitals in beds, bed space, things like that. those are being provided to and i forget the other location. it might have been new york, as well. ourre looking at deploying field hospitals, which include the hospital, the equipment and professionals and my aim is to get them out this week. my view is seattle and new york city are the places we just need fema to validate that because u.s.in mind, fema is the government's central place for handling of requests and in validating and prioritizing them. that is my notion, we've been moving out this week. >> and can you give us a little bit more detail about changing the health protection condition the pentagon. i think -- a lot of us here have been talking about how many people are actually working in building right now prior to that and where you expect that number is now and where it will go to under c. you those numbers on who's working in the building now. maybek it's down calorie, 60

because fema will be hhs is now hhs is now fully integrated into - fema. so as the requests come in obviously, as i'm sure the , administrator will say, they are being prioritized to those areas with the highest need. >> within the national coordination center, we have a supply chain task force. in a basic sense we are trying , to identify the universe of what is out there. at thether we hold it federal level, we hold it in the private sector, then touch that -- match that up with demand. we are asking people to be creative. we are asking locals and states to do your share locally to take that burden off of us. we will prioritize those scarce and then resources. every single governor is looking for the exact same thing. there is a balance. we examine the entire supply chain. pres. trump: when will the mask start coming in? mr. gaynor: they are out there right now. we want to get out of the we want to match. we want to get out of the middle, i think. [laughter] we are trying to match supplies with demand. right now, it is happening today. >> they can expect

we are lockstep with hhs to answer these requests. we will do whatever is necessary to get states, tribes, territories and others what they need. what we're doing here in washington dc -- again i'm a this is a whole of government response. whennses most successful it is locally executed and federally supported. on thursday our partners fully integrated with our national coordination response coordination center. all 10 fema regions across the country have been activated. the regional administrators will continue to coordinate with governors, state emergency managers, and health officials to determine the support needed. thank you, sir. pres. trump: appreciate it. sec. carson: you, mr. president. thank the fellow task force members who have been working around the clock. a very patriotic way to serve their fellow americans. you know, part of the american dream is having a home. doesimes people say, what housing have to do with health? it has everything to do with health, having a safe home. that is the reason the president has authoriz

the whole of hhs and u.s. government response to the 2019 coronavirus outbreak. this morning, i want to take a few minutes to discuss how we are addressing this issue from a point of strategic anticipation. working with my colleagues at cdc, cms, and across the government must supporting authorities, we are working to contain this virus outbreak to save lives and protect americans. there is a four pronged approach to domestic response. this includes development, supporting health care system, incident management, and direct support to local entities. in the area of cutter development, we are establishing a task force that includes partners across hhs, department of defense, and other agencies and private sector to identify therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines that can be brought to the pipeline to address the coronavirus threat. we are looking at point of care diagnostics, public health in rapid detection and guide treatment. your identifying therapeutics to support the treatment of infected persons. we are

wolf: we take our lead from the medical professionals at hhs and cdc. primarily responsible for streaming passengers as they come into our airports of entry. and as of today, and imports parliamentary seem to be in our medical staff that we have set up, screened over 50000 passengers. they've also worked with the cdc to make sure that the individuals on the do not board list run by cdc are appropriately not allowed to travel. we seen a number of folks, from the cruise lines, those quarantined also in japan, perhaps not be reappropriated back into the u.s., and then try to travel to the u.s. and so again the primary missions and it is to make sure that these individuals are not traveling to the u.s. we will continue to do that normally airports but land ports of entry into northern border and our southern border and then a very prominent role in our maritime ports of entry. an art technology director, and their facility is working to characterize the virus and they are doing that at the direction of cdc. >> thank you for your service and i yelled back. >

. >> with regard to the cost, i will be very clear, hhs has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. that means, by definition, it is covered in the private

we're in lock step with hhs to answer these requests. we will do whatever is necessary to get states, tribes, territories and others what they need. and then finally what we are doing here in washington, d.c., again, this is a whole of government response, like all emergencies, response is most successful when it's locally executed. we can't say that enough. on thursday, our federal partners fully integrated with our national coordination response coordination center. and all ten fema regions across the country have been activated. the fema regional administers will continue to coordinate closely with governors, state emergency managers, state public health officials to determine the type of support needed to respond to this threat. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. ben, please. >> thank you, vimr. president a mr. vice president. i want to thank the fellow task force members who have been working around the clock to they need their fellow americans. part of the american dream is having a home. and sometimes people sa

so there were not warnings tat hhs was given. they were caught unprepared. but also there warernings coming up from staff, they did not take advantage of, and largely dismissed. and so that's why our recommendation is to make sure that as the department moves forward, that they are centering child porities and interests in all of their decision making, both in their isinternal de making as well as their interagency decision making.in >> desja and hhs has accepted all of your recommendation, but they point out they still have to use manual pcess, taking notes in each case, to connect child and parent. >> that's right. e>> desjardins: does that like it will be sufficient? >> it does not. and we have a recommendation to correct that. so they have made some strides children who are tly beingthe separated. but it is still a multistep, manual process to make the information clear about whid chs actually been separated. we recommend that they improve that system, automate that system, so we can sure tht we can identified separated children to make sure they get pro

if we are going to do, secretary of hhs has asked me at nih, steve han at fda to take a look at all that data, analyze it and make the decision what is the best way forward. more clinical trials, we will look at the data very seriously. >> laura: thank you so much for joining us tonight, we appreciate it. parents and workers and people who are worried about their family want all the information they can get, thanks so much. >> good to be with you. >> laura: for weeks, the left has tried to undermine president trump by spreading fear and panic about his handling of the coronavirus. that includes this talking point. >> the national security council used to have a global health team specifically to deal with pandemics like this. president trump shut it down

one governor after another has praised the efforts of hhs, cdc. now it's incumbent on us to continue the effort. we're going to work with members of congress to resource our federal agencies. and just as important to resource state and local health officials as they engage in the kind of preventive measures and treatment that will mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. >> as you know, the community spread is one of the most concerning because people who contracted it in china, that's one thing. obviously we don't wish it upon anybody, but at least there's an understanding where it came from. same thing a doctor might get it from a patient. there are other people who have community spread coronavirus. what is being done to figure out how they contracted this virus? >> the way it works, jake, local health officials are in the lead. in the cases this weekend and this week that emerged, as you said, a community infection, we send cdc officials in to work very closely to identify where they potentially were exposed to the coronavirus. that impressive

those of the things essence we declared a state of emergency, you have stuff with the hhs kit i asked jared to get as many kids as possible. we are now distributed 2500 test kits so each kit can do a number of tests. i think the total for 2500 kits is over 600,000 individual tests. what i've learned on this is just getting a test kit doesn't mean you can just do the test. you've got to get other parts. the department of health and dem have distributed 200 negative and 200 positive controls so that kos, another component to doing the test. then we also are working on making sure all the labs have enough reagents to be able to do the test. probably the biggest support issue we are seeing, i would say there to dig what you should get one relates specific to testing the other relates to everything. which is specific to testing is the swabs to take the sample. we put in an order i will be a we can go for half a million swabs. we have not gotten that fulfill jet. we've asked the federal government, were in discussion with hhs and ask them to send if we have enough swabs and we set up the dr

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beyond that, as we announced through the efforts of hhs, 2,500 kits of tests are going out this week. 2,500 kits including tests is going out this week. that's roughly 1.5 million. a test that will be available this week will continue to build on that number. but perhaps most significantly, thanks to dr. burke's efforts and leadership, we brought together today at the white house the leaders of all of the largest commercial laboratories in this country, companies like quest that have vast capabilities, logistics, and testing capabilities. and we were pleased to report today that they have create aid consortium to share information and to share resources and literally have told us that as they go through what is called the validation process on testing that by next week individual companies will be able to do, as they said to me, thousands of tests of coronavirus if they are needed and required and many, many multiples more of that in the not distant future. our objective here is dr. burke's raised with the task force is we've got hospitals in the infected areas and those requested wit

chris: we'll ask hhs secretary alex azar what the trump administration is doing to deal with both publiclth and panic. >>> plus -- >> now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. chris: we'll ask our sunday panel about the political impact of the outbreak. and our power player of the week, a memorial that tells the real story of women in the military. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. we're covering two big stories this hour. first, growing fears over the spread of the coronavirus including the nation's first death. the white house announcing new travel restrictions yesterday. we'll discuss all that with health and human services secretary alex azar later this hour. but we begin with politics. joe biden was the big winner in south carolina last night. he beat senator bernie sanders by a margin of more than 2 to 1. tom steyer, pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren rounding out the top five. in a moment, we'll speak with the former vice president about his victory and what it means for his chances in the 14 states that vote on

we are in discussions with hhs and asked them to send. if we have enough swabs and they set up the drive through sites, you can swap people. some of the state labs and private labs can do it, but then they will be sent to qwest. a huge supply of swabs will help us ramp up the people that will be tested quickly. do whateverred to he can to get the swabs. certainly the president, that would be the one thing i would say would be helpful. that and the ppe for the health care workers. when doing this testing, you have to be in special equipment so you don't catch the virus. some of the stuff is not reusable. you think you just have to use a new one every time. that stuff is in short supply. i've been talking with a lot of hospital folks. that's one of the main supply needs they have. that will probably be nationwide. if you look at the last two or three weeks, it is probably the biggest rush to get medical supplies in the history of the u.s., but we can't have enough ppe. in, weet more of that are putting the infrastructure in place and hopefu

>> we converse daily with cdc and hhs, we continue with the strategy in place, i would think we have a number of them spread person-to-person transmission as well. the cdc on-site monitoring dose from a dhs perspective, we are concerned about what is coming into the country and a tsa, we will continue to trevor inside the system so there's nothing we are doing today but we continue to plan on all fronts for worst-case scenarios. we continue to look at different procedures that we may have to put in place across our transportation system and across dhs facilities until this continues to worsen. >> thank you. one question. he talked about those people traveling, what about our land ports? we have the same robust capacity at our land ports of entry? >> we do. i mentioned we have the same screening procedures we have at the 11 airports of entry, the same procedures occurring out of land ports of entry. we have more land boe than the 11 airports. we continue to transition that type of care, cdc is not on site every man port of entry. we have grown phone calls with them, there's a consult

it has been through hhs, briefed members of the white house and fema. we want to go into existing facilities, places that are out there, hotels, college dormitories and perhaps large spaces. i will give you an example of a small room and a large room. we need to go into -- these hotels are empty. the people don't have jobs. we would cut a contract to be able to have the state set up a lease with that facility and then we would take the building over in a short amount of days and we would go in and turn this ano nicu--- turn this into icu-like facility. the state nominates facilities and a prioritized order. i will talk about governor cuomo in a minute per number two is the army corps of engineers has to modify that facility. we can go into other questions but it goes back to being able to change the pressure in certain hotel rooms to be able to have a negative pressure in a hotel room. the third thing is you have to put supplies in there, and fema working with hhs has come up with a list at -- that every single hotel room would get the same amount of su

this is something the hhs should absolutely give guidance on.ed guidance from the hhs about this. >> tucker: your cognitive state. i mean, it's not too far for asking for your s.a.t. scores before you get the ventilator. professor, thank you so much. good to see you tonight. >> can i say one more thing, tucker really quick about -- >> tucker: of course. >> i think it's important if we don't get guidance from the government about this that local people in fact contact their local hospital and just ask them, what is your plan for this? are you going to protect the civil rights of our older and elderly people? >> tucker: you are absolutely right. it should be universally known what their criteria are. thanks so much for that. so, if you saw the show last night, you saw that dan patrick came on. he is turning 70 this week and had a very specific, and for some, challenging perspective on what priorities are to be when it comes to the coronavirus. here's part of what he said. >> let's get back to work. let's get back to living. let's be smart about it

. >> let me invite bob catholic who is deputy secretary of hhs to come forward as well to fill us in on the latest on the grand princess that is dock side now and is going through a very careful process of having americans and foreign nationals come off and everyone will be tested. >> thank you very much, sir yes we began our medical operation to basically disembark those passengers on saturday we replaced the medical crew and that crew to augment the nurses and physicians who were on that ship to ensure that the quarantine on the boat and isolation were being in forced. children and those who were ill and identifying those who were most severely ill, when the boat docked site today additional personal came on board and began an orderly disembarkation. our tempt is basically to disembark about half of the passengers on board today and the other half tomorrow. everyone will be medically screened before they get off, if there is any question about their physical health they will be screened again more additionally and they will be transferred to one of the four sites in the states, tra

and by that night we had a contract in to hhs. hhs flipped that immediately. and i had honeywell moving people and equipment from massachusetts to that facility in smithfield, riled. a -- smithfield, rhode island. and we are going to have the masks produced within 30 days moving along the assembly line. my focus is building up capability, production lines. the other purpose of course is allocation of resources. what i can tell you so far is that the defense production act has give me quiet leverage. when you have a strong leader you can take a light hand initially. what we have seen with this outpouring of volunteers from private enterprise, we are getting what we need without putting the heavy hand of government down. there will be possibly cases down the road -- and the manufacturers have actually asked me and alerted me to this, where someplaces in the supply chain they may have problems that the white house will have to break through using the defense production act. we won't hesitate to do that. the last thing i will tell you is that i also get a lot of c

they called me on a friday morning, and by that night, we had a contract in to hhs. hhs flipped that immediately, and i had honeywell moving people and equipment from massachusetts to that facility in smithfield, rhode island, and we're going to have those masks produced within 30 days moving on the assembly chain. so, my point is, mobilization is repurposing, building up capabilities. and the other portion, of course, is the allocation of resources. now, what i can tell you so far is the defense production act, sir, has given me quiet leverage. when you have a strong leader, you can take a light hand initially. and so, what we've seen with this outpouring of volunteers from private enterprise, we're getting what we need without put ing the heavy hand of government down. there will be possibly cases down the road, and the manufacturers have actually asked me and alerted me this, where some places in the supply chain they may have problems that the white house will have to break through using the defense production act. we won't hesitate to do that. the last thing i'l

they called me on a friday morning and by that night we had a contract in to hhs. hhs moved that quickly. i had honeywell moving that equipment to smithfield, rhode island. we'll have the masks produced in 30 days on assembly line. repurposeing, building up capabilities. the other portion is of course the allocation of resources. now what i can tell you so far is that the defense production act, sir, has given my quiet leverage. when you have a strong leader you can take a light hand initially. so what we've seen with this outpouring of volunteers from private enterprise, we're getting what we need without, without putting the heavy hand of government. now, there will be possibly cases down the road and manufacturers have actually asked me and alerted me of this, where some places in the supply chain, they may have problems that the white house will have to break through, using the defense production act. we won't hesitate to do that. the last thing i will tell you is that i also get a lot of calls that are very disquieting. brokers are offering millions of items,

hhs has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. by definition it is covered in the private health insurance of every american as well as covered by medicare and medicaid. we are working with members of congress and monitoring it very carefully. >> imposing more restrictions on travel? >> i will ask doctor fauci to speak to that. at this time they are not recommending the president impose additional travel advisories or restrictions but as doctor fauci can explain we will follow the data closely and follow the cases. >> this is evaluated in real time, it is clear the situation in northern italy and in korea was unique compared to several other countries. let me evaluate this every single day. >> we do. >> right here. >> i was wondering what sort of progress was made about coordinating passenger data and reports that the cdc is investigating the case in a cruise ship in california that could be linked to the state's first death and can you confirm that and who is investigating that? >> the first question. i know the president was mov

i called hhs. they found somebody at coast guard. they flew that woman's medications out to the ship. you guys are doing great work. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. the gentlemen yields back. the gentle lady from michigan, miss talib, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i'm sorry i'm all the way in the corner here. this is an important conversation in the extent of making sure we have access to information for our residents at home. a physician told the senate he expects between 70 and 150 million people to eventually contract the coronavirus in the united states. dr. fauci, is he wrong? >> who said that? >> congress' attending physician. >> yeah. i think we really need to be careful with those kinds of predictions. >> sure. >> because that's based on a model. so what the model is -- all models are as good as the assumptions that you put into the model. so if you say that this is going to be the likely percent of individuals -- >> so what can we do to define it? is it testing? >> no, no, it's unpredictable. tes

the state is working with hhs and doing things on their own. but they're using alternate care facilities to offload some of the people who are mildly ill and putting them in settings and segregating them from regular -- >> in what kinds of facilities? >> motels. the same thing is happening in the state of california. hhs is working with the state there to identify alternate care facili facilities. the one thing that is a concern is if high acuity beds could be at risk and looking for alternative solutions that we can use to make sure we can take care of anyone who has this virus, but more importantly take care of people who don't have the virus but who have other medical needs. >> gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from missouri, mr. clay, is our last member to question today. >> thank you, madam chair for this hearing and, yes, i'm batting clean-up. i would like to ask about a story that broke yesterday. according to reuters, since mid-janua mid-january, the nfc has ordered hhs to classify top-level discussions related to the coronav

we have a medical station through hhs. we are asking for help. we are going to do everything we can to slow the spread. but in the time that we have, we have to increase our surge capacity. that is my biggest concern and i wanted to express that to you. president trump: what is your second request? >> the second request beyond the surge capacity is looking at the national guard and bringing them under title 32 for funding purposes. president trump: we will look at that and i will try to get you immediate approval on the hospital. we will speak to the v.a. at least as a switch. we will get that approved for you one way or the other. >> thanks a lot. president trump: thanks, john bel. briefly, mike, if you could say a few words. and deborah, if you could say a few words. great.esident pence: again, we thank the governors and yourleadership partnership confronting the coronavirus. make your all to citizens aware that the president signed the family first response act. relief for caregivers, food assistance to the needy. it get the word out to your c

were in lockstep with hhs to answer the requests.will do whatever is necessary to get states, tribes, territories and others what they need. finally what we are doing here in washington, d.c., a whole of government response, likal emergency responses, it's most successful when it's locally executed, state managed and federally supported. additionally all ten fema region across the country have been activated. the regional administrators will work closely with governors, state public health officials to respond to this dynamic threat. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. ben, please. >>> thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president for your tireless leadership here. i also want to thank the fellow task force members who have been working around the clock in a very patriotic way to serve their fellow americans. you know, part of the american dream is having a home and sometimes people say, what does house having to do with health? it has everybody to do with health, having a safe home. that is the reason that the president has au

i called hhs and said we are going to flip it. in a couple days. already we have honeywell moving towards that. so what it looks like is having the appropriate incentive for our domestic industry to produce these things like face masks and hand sanitizer and all the things that we need. what we need long term, this the problem that we face. the government does not buy american enough. the government, va, hhs, dod, tremendously large consumers of medicine, medical supplies and medical equipment. we are working with the president as we speak to get an executive order to the finish line which will provide long-term incentives for our companies to produce here. it's not about china. if you look at the dispersion of that chain, it's across the world. europe for example, ireland surprisingly enough, germany, switzerland, heavily dependent on them. india as well. what we've got to do is three things. we are going to have buy american. we are going to deregulate so we can get things done faster. and most importantly, we are going to innovate to keep prices

unfortunately the hhs website and the hhs computer systems are up and running.ur folks are able to telecommute from home. the attack was repelled. but it was a serious thing. we'll figure out who was behind it, and there will be appropriate consequences. lou: secretary of state pompeo made it clear who he believes is behind the disinformation campaign, specifically china. dr. fauci and others, if you go to the cdc website you will get the latest information. so one tells you they have inside information or secret knowledge. the text message on whatsapp. just ignore that. and we'll take appropriate action and it will be a time of our choosing. >> how are you dealing with china's threats to perhaps make it very clear that through their state run media that there is a feeling among some that they should ex floyd our dependency on china for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. >> those are disappointing comments. the president said from the outset that he likes president xi and would like to get along with china. we signed a phase one trade deal that mitigated som

and by that night, we had a contract in to hhs. hhs put that immediately, and i had honeywell move people and equipment from massachusetts to that facility in smithfield, rhode island, and we're going to have this masks produced within 30 days moving on the assembly chain. my point is mobilization is repurposing, building up capabilities. and the other portion is, of course, the allocation of resource. what i can tell you so far is that the defense reduction act have given me quiet leverage. if you have a strong leader, you can take a light hand initially. what we've seen from this outpouring from private enterprise, we're getting what we need without putting the heavy hand of government down. there will be, possibly, cases down the road, and the manufacturers have actually asked me and alerted me of this, where some places in the supply chain, they may have problems that the white house will have to break through using the defense reduction act. we won't hesitate to do that. the last thing i'll tell you is that i also get a lot of

>> again, the public health and medical mission lies with hhs. my mission, fema, prior to this, national disasters and those catastrophic events that happen. now it's a different world. now hhs and fema are locked arm in arm, plus many other agencies around government to include private partners. today, i'm trying to focus on today and tomorrow and where we want to be in a couple of weeks, that is my mission. >> what do you think we'll see in a couple of weeks, a big change? >> again, i think every american has a role to play. i think the 15 days, do what you can do to help yours, your family, help your neighborhood and your business. do those things that are simple. stay indoors. if you're sick don't go to work. you know, wash your hands. don't touch surfaces. all those things make a difference. this is every american playing their role to make sure that we can beat the coronavirus. that's as simple as i can make it. >> thanks very much for joining us this morning, mr. gaynor. >> you're welcome. >>> up next, governors in two hard-hit state groun