. >> mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. >> reporter: mr. steve, as he's known by the 450 kids at east palo alto charter reached out to more than 100 celebrities and athletes and asked them to record personalized messages. >> hey, cedric the entertainer here. i want to make sure all of you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> i am lisa leslie, a basketball hall of famer. i want to make sure you guys are still doing your reading. one hour every day. >> reporter: but his passion for passing on the positive vibes during this challenging times goes far beyond messages from celebrities. it's engaging with kids with push-up challenges to win prizes like books. by sharing their own throw-back photos and encouraging others to share slices of their life, too. >> mr. steve is like family to me. he has known me since i was born and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> mr. steve even had me record a message for the kids. the school is planning on keeping the sense of community going driving through neighborhoods and honking horns

mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. >> reporter: mr. steve, as he's known by the 450 kids at east palo alto charter, reached out to more than 100 celebrities and athletherecord personalizeed th here. want to make sure all of you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> i'm a basketball hall of famer and i want to make sure you guys are still doing your reading. one hour every day. >> reporter: but his passion for passing on the positive vibes during this challenging time goes far beyond messages from celebrities. it's engaging with kids with push-up challenges to win prizes like books. it's by sharing their own throwback photos and encouraging others to share slices of their life too. >> mr. steve is like family to me. he h in i was born and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> reporter: mr. steve had me record a message for the kids. the school is also planning to keep that sense of community going with a social distancing parade for the kids driving through neighborhoods honking horns and holding up signs on monday

mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your for 20 seconds. >> reporter: mr. s at east palo alto charter reached out to 100 celebrities and athletes and asked them to record personalized messages. >> cedric the entertainer here. make sure all you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> i'm the basketball hall of famer and want to make sure you are still doing your reading, one hour every day. >> reporter: his passion for passing on the positive vibes during this challenging time goes far beyond messages from celebrities. it's engaging with kids with push-up challenges, to win prizes like books. it's by sharing their own throwback photos and encouraging others to share slices of their life, too. >> mr. steve has known me since i've been born and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> mr. steve even had me record a message for the kids. the school is planning to keep that sense of community going with the social distancing parade for the kids, driving through neighborhoods, honking horns and holding up signs on monday. i'm dion lim, abc 7 news

mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. >> mr. e, as he is known by the 450 kids at east palo alto charter, reached out to more than 100 celebrities and athletes and asked them to record personalized messages. >> hey, cedric the entertainer here. i want to make sure that all of you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> but i am lisa leslie. i'm a basketball hall of famer, and i want to make sure you guys are still doing your reading. one hour every day. >> but his passion for passing on the positive vibes during lle es far beyo minwith kids with push-up challenges to win prizes like books. it's by sharing their own throwback photos, and encouraging others to share slices of their life too. >> mr. steve like family to me. he has known me since i was born and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> mr. steve even had me record a message for the kids. the school is also planning to keep that sense of community going with a social distancing parade for the kids, driving through neighborhoods, honking horns and hold

mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. >> reporter: mr. palo alto charter, reached out to 100 celebrities and athletes and asked them to record personalized messages. >> cedric the entertainer here. i want to make sure that all of you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> i am lisa leslie, a basketball hall of famer. i want to make sure you guys are still doing your reading, one hour every day. >> reporter: his passion for passing on the positive vibes during this challenging time goes far beyond messages from celebrities. it's engaging with kids with push-up challenges, to win prizes like books. it's by sharing their own throwback photos and encouraging others to share slices of their life, too. >> mr. steve is like family to me. he has known me since i was born and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> reporter: mr. steve even had me record a message for the kids. the school is planning to keep that sense of community going with the social distancing parade for the kids, driving through neighborhoods, honking horns

mr. steve told me to tell you guys to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. >> mr. known by the 450 kids at east palo alto charter, reached out to more than 100 celebrities and athletes and asked them to record personalized messages. >> hey, cedric the entertainer here. i want to make sure that all of you guys are reading at least 60 minutes a day. >> but i am lisa leslie. i'm a basketball hall of famer, and i want to make sure you guys are still doing your reading. one hour every day. >> but his passion for passing on the positive vibes during this challenging time goes far sas from celebrities. it eg with kids with push-up challenges to prizes like 's by sharing their own throwbac encouragiices of eir lifeoo >> mr. le family to kwnece i wan and has been my favorite teacher since kindergarten. >> mr. steve even had me record a message for the kids. the school is also planning to keep that sense of community going with a social distancing parade for the kids, driving through neighborhoods, honking horns and holding up signs on monday. in the newsroom, i'm dion lim, a

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mr. president. >> phase four, steve. phase four. come on, steve. >> a quick question about something you just said, you said when someone is president of the united states, their authority is total. that is not true. >> okay. you know what we're going to do, we're going to write up papers on this. it's not going to be necessary. because the governors need us one way or the other because ultimately it comes with the federal government. that being said, we're getting along very well with the governors and i feel very certain that there won't be a problem. yeah, please, go ahead. >> has any governor agreed that you have the authority to sti when their state -- >> i haven't asked anybody because you know why, because i don't have to. >> who told you that the president has the total authority? >> enough. please. >> you mentioned the vice president's call with the governors today. governor hogan of maryland has urged your administration to ask congress for $500 billion to help stabilize budgetary shortfalls created by coronavirus -- >> ni

mr. steve to his 450 kids.ram page to keep the kids motivated. >> for me, it's all about fun. and i love these kids. >> the school is planning a social distancing parade for the kids on monday driving through neighborhood, honking their horns and holding up signs. >>> all right. look at this. a central valley family getting pretty creative with all the free time they have on their hands. they have been missing trips to their favorite stores and they decided to make their own version at the house. check it out. the bakerfield's family built and painted these replicas. dad said it start would some wood from the hardwood store. the starbucks has a full menu printed on the wall and a table and chairs and then look at target. they have a little checkout counter and it is stocked with snacks. >> it may seem a little bit extra. but for me at the end of the day watching them play and enjoy it and us knowing that we put it together as a family means everything to me. >> it's deafimafinitely somethi that helped us out me

steve? >> mr. president, why did you have your name added to these coronavirus relief checks? >> well, i don't know too much about it but i understand my name is there. i don't know where they're going, how they're going. i do understand it's not delaying anything, and i'm satisfied with that. i don't imagine it's a big deal. i'm sure people will be very happy to get a big fat beautiful check and my name is on it. go ahead, please. please, go ahead. >> thanks, mr. president. dr. birx just said rhode island is seeing an increase in cases from people coming from boston and new york. you just said you'd like to reopen some states. how would you stop a second spike in cases if people are traveling between states? how do you control the flow of people -- >> well, the governors can control that flow. as an example i saw a little while ago certain borders are being controlled already by states. they're starting to take control of their borders, which is good. they may do testing for people wanting to come in. they have to watch it. they have to be very careful. >> about reopening the

. >> steve liesman. >> mr. chairman, question, steve liesman with cnbc. i've got two questions here. first of all, why aren't you announcing or conducting a specific quantitative easing program? and maybe you could explain what the context is now of the purchases that will be made and the amounts that are to come. the second question i have is, is the federal reserve really taking enough risk to help households and businesses here? in that you just said that the programs that are out there maybe best for those who are able to repay loans, but don't you have a series of programs essentially lending only those able to repay, which is essentially helping those who may need it the least? thank you. chairman powell: let me say again. in terms of asset purchases and other measures, we do think our policy stance is appropriate now. we've had discussions, as i've mentioned, over time, and done quite a bit of thinking about what we might do in the future. we think, for now, our policy stance is appropriate. we're not going to change it now, and we're really waitin

. >> steve liesman. reporter: mr. chairman, steve liesman with cnbc. i've got two questions here. of all, why aren't you announcing or conducting a specific quantitative easing program? and maybe you could explain what the context is now of the purchases that will be made and amounts that are to come? the second question i have is, is the federal reserve really taking enough risk to help households and businesses here in that you just said the programs that are out there may be best for those who are able to repay loans. don't you have a series of programs essentially lending only to those able to repay, which is essentially helping those who may need it the least? thank you. >> so, let me say again, in terms of asset purchases and other measures we do think our policy stance is appropriate now. we've had discussions as i mentioned over time and done quite a bit of thinking about what we might do in the future. we think for now our policy stance is appropriate. we'll not change it now. we're really it waiting to see more from the economy. there is a range of potential past the --

mr. president? >> steve, please. >> you mentioned the possibility of adjourning both chambers of congress. could you explain what you meant by this? >> very simple. if they don't act on getting these people approved that we need. we need them anyway, but we especially need now because of the pandemic, we are going to do something that will be -- something i'd prefer not doing but i will do and i will do if i are to. kaitl kaitlan, go ahead. >> one, on a call with business leaders today, they said testing has got to be ramped up significantly before they feel comfortable reopening their stores, their restaurants, what not. >> sure. >> isn't that what health officials and state governors -- >> it's what i want to. we have great tests and we want the states to administer these tests for the most part. but we're standing behind them. we have great testing. we've done more testing now than any country in the world by far. which have the best tests of any country in the world. nobody has the quality of tests. if y

trump: steve? mr. president, thank you. you have instructed us to move very fast and we are doing that. we are working full-time with the fed for our other facilities that could be as large as another $4 trillion. pres. trump: thank you very much. i hope the media here can understand the incredible job -- banks have done, all the all of you, you have never been so busy in your life. it is really a tribute to government, well-run government. there are few glitches, very few. every glitch we had worked out within minutes, within hours. there are a couple of applications and they wanted to work differently. , and had some suggestions it was all done probably i would say 100% of it in the first day. i want to congratulate everybody . it is so good for business and our country. it is the engine of our country. they need a little help, and we are going to give them a little help. it is going to be good for you all. it is good for our country, we will make a good for yourself fo. it is good to see so many familiar faces and people

mr. president, vice president, doing so much in those sectors, and i want to thank you on behalf of the people i represent. pres. trump: thank you very much. steve? >> thank you, mr. president, for the leadership and calling on congress to pass this bill. this will put another $300 billion in the paycheck protection program. this is a lifeline for small businesses. youow you are well aware, have saved 30 million jobs with that money. 30 million people are on the payroll today who would be unemployed. we saw more. this will save another 30 million people. they will stay in their job. though small businesses will be able to come back, we see all of these industries distressed, oil and gas industry, the aggie industry, restaurants. start focusingto on how to reopen the economy. i appreciate your leadership. this bill will be a lifeline, again, to millions more people who will be able to stay on the payrolls of the companies. pres. trump: thank you, steve. >> first of all, i want to thank all of those on the front lines. i want to thank those in the medical community, the truck drivers, the farmers who are providing food, making sure it is safe in a

steve: mr.have heard from the experts is, you know, they see some glimmers of light, maybe at the end of the tunnel, but the curve seems to be changing a bit in the new york, connecticut and new jersey area. but, for other parts of the country, this particularly is a flatter curve and dr. birx says that gives us great hope. what about what is going on in texas? tell us a little bit about the situation there? because we have heard about detroit, we have heard about new orleans, what about texas? >> so initially they gave us less favorable projection that it was going to be a lot higher incidence and it was going to last longer. we are a little hopeful that that may last a shorter period of time and less cases part of it because the of the restrictions. i think we may have gotten there in time to prevent a massive outbreak. ainsley: do you know what happened here in new york, many people in the city were just trying to get out. they went down to florida. some people went to rhode island. some peop

mr. president. >> thank you, steve. >> for jovita or steve, any questions? >> mr.retary, chase bank sent a letter to its business clients today saying they don't have the necessary guidance from the sba or from the treasury department to be able to accept the loan applications starting tomorrow the need is clearly enormous, but at least one major bank says they're not fully empowered yet. >> as i spoke with all of the ceos and i had a conference call with them and we got input as i said, people were working until 4:00 i believe we just put up the federal register with the guidelines for lenders i've been assured that the lenders will be in the process starting tomorrow. again, it's going to take a little bit of time, but we committed that this will be available tomorrow and i encourage all companies go to sba.com, go to treasury.gov. you can see the information you need immediately just to follow up with the small business owners, a number of them saying they were on the call and there was a power struggle between the treasury and sba and it's over process and form

mr. santelli steve, thanks so much. steve liesman. rick, we've talked about the differences this time -- and you've said it yourself. you've got no problem with this. last time around, you had the housing bubble it was like, why would we try to get back on that path. this time, it's a pandemic it's different >> it is different, but i'm not sure everybody has the differences really outlined clearly. first of all, if you have a baseball team and you take all of their bats away, what happens to their batting average, kelly? pretty much goes to zero i think this parlor game of initial jobless claims and 30% unemployment is absolutely useless and ridiculous and, i think this everybody, conventional wisdom, that we're going to shut down quick because we've turned off the economy, but we're not necessarily going to come back quick, i don't believe that either. and i'm certainly no keynesian and i don't believe in modern monetary policy or any of the new wave, forget the deficit to me, the biggest issue i compare potentially what we're going

and i would say that we'll continue to use our tools, as needs be >> steve liesman >> mr. hairman, this is steve liesman with cnbc. i've got two questions here. first of all, why aren't you announcing or conducting a specific quantitative easing program? and maybe you could explain what the context is now of the purchases that will be made and the amounts that are to come the second question i have is, is the federal reserve really taking enough risk to help households and businesses here in that you just said that the programs that are out there may be best for those who are able to re-pay loans. but don't you have a series of programs, essentially, lending only those able to repay, which is essentially helping those who may need it the least? thank you. >> so, let me say again. in terms of asset purchases and other measures, we dothink our policy stance is appropriate now. we've had discussions, as i've mentioned, over time, and done quite a bit of thinking about what we might do in the future we think for now, our policy stance is appropriate. we're not going to change i

mr. president. >> thank you, steve. for jovita or steve, any questions? mr. -- chase bank sent a letter to its business clients today saying they don't have necessary guidance from the sba, from the treasury department, to be able to accept loan applications starting tomorrow. the need is clearly enormous. but at least one major bank says they're not fully in power yet to be able to help there. >> as i spoke to all the ceos yesterday, i had a conference call with them. we got input. people were working until 4:00. i believe we just put up the federal register what the new guidelines for lenders. i have been assured that the banks will be in the process starting tomorrow. again, it's going to take a little bit of time. but we commited that this will be available tomorrow and i encourage all companies, go to s int a.com, go to treasury.gov. you can see the information you need immediately. >> to follow up with the small business owners. i heard them saying they were on that conference calm. there was a tremendous power struggle going on between the treasury

steve. thank you, mr president.hank you for all of your work with us thank you for all of your work with us to get this passed. i'd especially like to thank mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer and the entire senate for passing this. i would also like to think kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi, who have been working with us around the clock as well, and our chief of staff, mark meadows, who was also very instrumental in this. let me just comment, we have had tremendous support for the ppp. this gives us another $310 billion for the ppp. we look forward to the house passing this tomorrow. it was up and running quickly after that. this gives us billions of dollars for disaster loans, that will allow the sba to make $300 billion of disaster loans, all for small businesses. also allows us, as the president said, more money to hospitals and unprecedented amount of money for testing. again, ithink unprecedented amount of money for testing. again, i think we understand hospitals, not only the hospitals that have been impacted b

steve and jovitta . >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. mr. vice president. secretary mnuchin.trump and all who i have been working closely with in this effort, small business is the backbone of the american economy. the president has put nation's 30 million small businesses front and center in the response effort. we're working hard to get money to them quickly. this is an unprecedented effort by this administration to support small businesses. we know that there will be challenges in the process. secretary mnuchin and i are working in tandem to ensure feedback from our partners is being heard and implemented. private and public sector must work closely together to ensure small businesses and their workers are put first, this administration believes if you are a small business you are a critical part of the economic fabric of this country. at sba we work around the clock to support small businesses, ensuring we're prioritizing mergemergency that will for smal businesses that are suffering economic harm. this relief will help stabilize the smal small business sector. to keep th

steve? mr. ubl: thanks so much. pharma is pleased to be sponsoring today's atlantic digital event featuring speakers at the front line of fighting covid-19. i must say, one of the bright spots has been to see the entire ecosystem rally on so many fronts, whether it is the f.d.a. expediting approval with diagnostic tests, or hospitals and frontline healthcare workers selflessly treating those infected by the disease, and policy makers who are acting to address the economic fallout caused by the virus. for our part, our companies are really working literally around the clock on four key fronts. first, our companies are partnering with other life sciences companies to enhance our testing capacity. one of our member companies, you'll hear from doctor lee in a moment, is running thousands of tests on their roche platform. those companies are also donating laboratory equipment and supplies. one of our companies tapped their in-house capabilities to create a drive through testing center. so, testing is one area where our c

so with that, i'm going turn things over to our whip, steve scalise. mr. scalise: thank you, liz. it's really important that we are back here in congress, back doing the people's work. as millions of americans at home are sheltering, they're homeschooling, as my wife is doing with our two kids right now, as they're wondering whether or not their job is going to be around when this is over, millions of americans, over 20 million americans, don't have a job right now because they're unemployed. it's important that congress is here working to get through these issues, to work with the president, to confront this virus, this hidden enemy that we're all facing, but also looking with an eye towards the future. how we're going to reopen this economy in a safer, smarter way. nobody suggests there's a false choice between economic health and personal health. we have to do both. we absolutely can do both. when we start opening the economy up again, i'm proud that my governor, i worked with him, we met last week and talked about reopening issues. and next week in louisiana, elective surgerie

mr. guy adami, steve grasso.ten, we're looking at the data, the number of, i think, it was cases and/or fatalities today was a record high. there are 17 plus million people unemployed, millions of small businesses are at risk and yet the market has been powering through like -- like this was six weeks ago before this all happened is it because we're looking to the other side we're discounting it or is it literally all because the federal reserve is throwing so many trillions at it that there's nowhere to go but up >> i'm going to say yes to that. so it started off with the federal reserve last week throwing multiple trillions at this, an unprecedented amount of money, and then it was the economy and the investors looking towards the other side so it's not about the number, 2.5 million iphones. it's about that it's five times the amount of what it was in february if you look at it that way this is the back to work bounce so the market's going to be hard to be sold in the next 45 days, simple as that, but if you wa

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steve. good morning mr. gingrich. before i begin, i would like to thank everyone behind the scenes who put all of us on every day, every program from c-span. host: you are always kind to say that, sir. go ahead with your question. caller: i have a personal one for mr. gingrich, the husband of the ambassador, proud of that, i was in rome last year for palm sunday and was on the vatican square. the vatican security welcomed me and my service dog. and we were attacked then at st. john's when i would to celebrate my 30th year of ministry. this is pastor michael vincent, ministry pro bono for 30 years, the embassy helped us after the police took umbrage for me trying to go to thursday mass. i would like to make a personal appeal to you, that maybe after this, someone at the embassy could get back to me. i am a daily reviver. a me too-er. the pappas he asked me to bring over documents on being raped in the new york seminary, fired by a priest the washington post said was having relationships with a teen in a cincinnati jail

there'd be no bye week and the super bowl could be pushed back to february 28th and thank you steve for that and mr mcguire want to bring in the conversation how badly has soccer clubs actually been hit by the shutdown as an expert in football finance not playing matches has to be hurting the bottom line for these clubs which are hugely lucrative what are you seeing here. well it's not any effects of bottom line to think ultimately it's hitting the top line and that strife driven through as far as the premier league is concerned in england we've had no matches and there's a potential repayments all over broadcasting rights to the both the domestic and the overseas broadcasters of around about $770000000.00 u.s. u.k. sterling so that's around about a $1000000000.00 if matches don't return then cops have problems because that committee to wage payments because the players are on long term wage deals so the clubs are hurting and even if the matches do return in the shade around about the 7th of june it's going to be taking place behind closed doors so the clubs will be losing you know a club like manc

steve in florida >> caller: yes, thank you for taking my call, mr. cramer >> of course >> caller: and keeping us informed about the virus. >> i do my best but remember, i'm just a guy who reads go ahead >> caller: yeah, i -- you speak a lot of truths, mr. cramer. here's my situation, i have a significant in bed bath and beyond i liked it a lot before the explosion took place there i bought about $12 a share, it's about $5 now is it too late to get out? >> no, no, just hold it for now. retail just got destroyed, there's no doubt about it. retail, as cpo of pvh said, retail is not built to close and that's what's happening, stores are closed, not the company. anthony in florida >> caller: boo-yah, watching the show for years, love it. >> thank you >> caller: i have two sons in nypd, nibbled on micron and amd. you interviewed micron ceo and now it's downgraded. what's your take >> i like both amd is just a horse. can't believe how well that stock acts also can't believe how well the company is doing nvidia is doing well too downgrade for micron by goldm

steve. and i know mr. sondheim a little bit, and i don't know if i could bring myself to call him steve.ith him in person, you know, like i tried it in person. and i felt like my world could either completely undo or it could come together in complete harmony. and i put it out there, and he allowed it. >> stephen: oh, wow. >> it's like-- yeah, it was -- >> stephen: that's like stealing home. >> huh? >> stephen: i said that's like stealing home. >> it was. >> stephen: now, you did-- the last time you were on we were talking about "sea wall/a life, which was on the public and then brdway. thursday, tell me if i have this right-- those who didn't get to see you on stage can listen it to it on audible. >> yes, thursday april 30. it will actually be free, apparently, for audible members until may. end of may. not one day. tll the end of may. april 30 to may 1 it's free. for five seconds -- >> stephen: i want to-- i want to ask you-- and i'm asking for a friend. how is it like for you to perform something that you're used to doing in front of a live audience with no audience at all? because i'

steve? reporter: mr. president, why did you have name added to coronavirus relief checks? >> i don't know too much about it, but i understand my name is there. i don't know where they're going, how they're going. i do understand it is not delaying anything and i'm satisfied with that. i don't imagine it is a big deal. i'm sure people will be very happy to get a big be fat, beautiful check and my name is on it. go ahead, please. go ahead, please, please. go ahead. reporter: thank you, mr. president, dr. birx said rhode island is seeing increase in cases people coming from boston and new york. you said you would like to reopen states before may 1. how will you stop a second -- people traveling between states, how will you control the flow of people -- >> well the governors can control that flow as an example. i saw a little while ago it was reported that certain borders are being controlled already by states. they're starting to take control of their borders which is good. so they will be controlling. they may do testing for people wanting to come in. i read that about rhode

mr. secretary, steve liesman asked the right question is the ppp working what would these numbers be without i think the ppp is one of the best things in the c.a.r.e.s. act as you know, that's the program of loans for small businesses where the loans are largely forgivable if the businesses keep those workers on payroll. from the perspective of the labor department, the reason i like that program so much is that there's light at the end of this tunnel. we purposefully paused our economy, but the pause was meant to be temporary. if we can keep these employment relationships intact, then workers can get back on the job more quickly businesses can get going more quickly. i think the program's been a great success despite some of the sniping that it's come in for. i have no doubt that it's helped keep some people out of unemployment. >> mr. secretary, as labor secretary part of your mandate obviously is to make sure that you are looking out for the rights and the welfare of workers, too we start to hear business leaders like elon musk who are out there saying he thinks it's wrong that the states

steve: you know, mr.before this covid crisis struck, i think the conventional wisdom was that the president was going to be able to broker a trade deal with china, maybe just 5 minutes before the election or whatever. it would just be one of those things that he would be able to say, look, i was able to do it with china. right now the politics are very complicated and given the fact that china has done what they have done, not being forth coming with the epidemic, you know, it probably doesn't look too good for a deal, does it? mike: so, steve, this is the conundrum, we have the phase 1 trade deal. china continues to make promises, i hope that they do, we have expectation that they will. certainly what they agreed to but we watched china now break repeated promises. they say they are transparent and they they want to be open and join the community of faces and that we watched them in this crisis behave in ways that are just the opposite of that. i hope we can find a way and to have commercial relationship

mr. phillips: gotcha. thank you. we have a hand raised. steve, you should be unmuted now if you have a question for dr. mcclellan. >> [inaudible] dr. mcclellan: he is having trouble hearing you. >> can you hear me now? sorry about that. you mentioned vaccines. as a former fda commissioner, what do you think about these calls about injecting disinfectants into the body, or even using ultraviolet light to be this disease? -- to beat this disease? dr. mcclellan: that is not a good idea. people really need to understand that disinfection is very important for surfaces. for things that they may come into contact with. they are very effective, disinfectants, for killing the virus, and that is a critical part of reopening. we need to keep our businesses clean, our common surfaces clean. you will see deep cleaning and disinfection as part of this reopening effort. that is completely different from the treatments for people who have covid-19. and ingesting disinfectant or anything like that is not -- it is still poisonous and it is not a good idea for the treatment. it is important for people to listen to the p

mr. president. >> president trump: thank you, steve. for jovita or steve, any questions?rter: the chief executive sent a letter that they do not have the guidance from the sba and the treasury department to except loan applications. the need is clearly enormous. one major bank says they are not fully empower you to be able to help there. >> i spoke to the ceos yesterday. i had a conference call, we had very good input from them on what they needed. people were working until 4:00. i believe we just put up the federal register with the new guidelines. four lenders. i have been assured that the banks will be in the process starting tomorrow. again, it will take a little bit of time. but we committed that this will be available tomorrow. and i encourage all companies to go to sba.gov, go to treasury.gov, you will see it immediately. >> there is a number saying that they were on the conference call, and that there is a tremendous power struggle going on between the treasury and sba. and it is over process and forms that they tell me. that lenders are opting out because they ca

mr. sal. >>> i see what you did there, steve. thank you very much. it's been a quiet day of the week, and traffic is moving long pretty well. let's go out and take a look at these commutes here. there's not much going on. as a matter of fact, it's been quiet. now, if you're driving out to the bridges, there's no toll takers. you just drive on through and get the bill later. the public transit centers have not reported delays. now barks to the headlines. >> thank you. >>> the time is 6:01 for bay area counties and the extended stay at home order is in place and extends until may 3rd. it's covering tennis, golf courses and playgrounds are all closed. the order requires essential businesses to have a plan in place to keep employees at a safe distance and most construction projects are now prohibited. >> the contact increases the spread that it's going go from one person to the other. >> they're among the bay area and announcing the extension of the orders. the number of covid-19 case in the county ballooned from 138 to 890 in just a couple of weeks. the

steve and jovia. >> thank you. president, mr. vice president, secretary mnuchin, ivanka trump, and all that i have been working closely within this effort. small business is the backbone of the american economy, and the president has put the nation's 30 million small businesses front and center in the response effort, and we are working hard to get money to them quickly. this is an unprecedented effort by this administration to support small businesses, and we know that there will be challenges in the process. secretary mnuchin and i are working in tandem to ensure that feedback from our partners is being heard and implemented. the private and public sector must work closely together to ensure that small businesses and their workers are put first. this administration believes wholeheartedly that if you are a small business, you are a critical part of the economic fabric of this country, and your viability is critical to the economic well-being of your employees. at sba, we are working around-the-clock to support small businesses,

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mr. chair, you are free to continue with the meeting. >> a steve, the floor is yours. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think one of the key questions we're all wrestling with is whether we're going to go back to normal after this lockdown is over or whether we're going to go forward to a new normal. i think the new normal is far more likely if we have more than one of these lockdowns in our future, and we very well might. jeff, i know you're worried about 10,000 thing, but let me just add one more to the inbox, and that is whether we have succeeded too well in scaring people off the bus because i do worry that when the lockdown is lifted, we're going to have difficulty attracting some people back to transit. they're going to associate in their minds distance with safety. and look, transit relies on proximity. that's how it works, so i certainly hope you can do some thinking about that, and ways in which we can encourage people to come back. and whether that's cleaning the vehicles, whether that's masking or other protection on the vehicles, whether that's, you know, maybe buying different

mr. chair, you are free to continue with the meeting. >> a steve, the floor is yours. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think one of the key questions we're all wrestling with is whether we're going to go back to normal after this lockdown is over or whether we're going to go forward to a new normal. i think the new normal is far more likely if we have more than one of these lockdowns in our future, and we very well might. jeff, i know you're worried about 10,000 thing, but let me just add one more to the inbox, and that is whether we have succeeded too well in scaring people off the bus because i do worry that when the lockdown is lifted, we're going to have difficulty attracting some people back to transit. they're going to associate in their minds distance with safety. and look, transit relies on proximity. that's how it works, so i certainly hope you can do some thinking about that, and ways in which we can encourage people to come back. and whether that's cleaning the vehicles, whether that's masking or other protection on the vehicles, whether that's, you know, maybe buying different

mr. josh brown, interactive broker, steve sosznick joins the conversation as well.tocks are lower today as investors digest poor economic data including historic declines in retail sales and home builder sentiment. earlier today, i spoke with imf managing director kristalina georgieva about the global economic downturn. she said half the world has come to the imf looking for a bailout. listen >> we've had $1 trillion lending capacity just as a reminder, prior to the global financial crisis it was four times less. it was $250 billion. and that for dropping our capacity really makes a difference today we were able to immediately deploy emergency financing, actually double access for our members, so 102 countries knocking on the door of the imf for lifelines can obtain rapidly financing. >> josh, 102 countries asking the imf for help they're releasing it it's a remind they're this is not just a problem here in this country with the $2 trillion relief package and potentially more on the way, that we're all in this together and that the global economy is set to contract