correspondent stefan seaman says the president was under enormous pressure to act and he did so by partnering with private companies to help provide desperately needed testing kits. this was president ultram 2nd chance an effort to calm and comfort the american public as a whole the president had been on the immense pressure and ridicule for what many called a disastrous performance when addressing the nation from the oval office just a few days ago donald trump also announced what he calls an unprecedented federal partnership with private sector foremost with the pharmaceutical and tech industry because of this partnership according to the president hundreds of thousands if not millions more coronavirus tests will be made available across the country no word from the president though on how quickly those tests will finally be available of course it is the profound leg of vailable testing kits and testing itself that has health experts doctors as well as the average american worried and frustrated for weeks. months their reporting from our washington bureau here's a look now at the latest cor

corps they're not appreciative defame it's not right let's go now to our washington correspondent stefan seaman stephan we heard donald trump there calling for appreciation from the states what's the status of that crucial relationship. yeah the president needs is the in need of some law from the governors in the states and then i've given it to him the way he thinks they should because again on the ground in those states and for those governors they are looking at a set of problems and that is we are still at the beginning of a major crisis here there's no peek inside yet not for new york not for a new wall and not for other cities like chicago or detroit they're all looking at models and data. which do not look really really good for those metropolitan areas and states and they need again ventilators ventilators ventilators to be prepared for what's coming their way and protective gear for their health care workers for the nurses for the for the doctors the president wants to be appreciated for what he and the federal governments do or or what their what the government is going to do for thos