Always stick out, you should know, no matter what life is, you stick out! No matter what you are doing, or where you are, or who you are with, you will always stick out.
00:24:01.000Just so you know, we're not going to- it's not like the Oscars stream or whatever other award- what other streams have we done?
00:24:07.000Oh, CNN fact check, which we'll do next Thursday.
00:24:10.000We want to do the job that the media isn't doing, namely broadcasting the briefing from the President of the United States, especially considering the executive order.
00:26:43.000I think we are going to look back on this time and go, gosh, What a massive overreaction.
00:26:48.000So much... I don't know if you can even go to the HuffPo homepage there, Gibbon, but... Who wants to do that?
00:26:54.000Today, I saw HuffPo, they were saying the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the body, and then it was, COVID-19 is child's play compared to what's coming down the pike.
00:27:02.000I said, well, why don't you talk about what's in the pike?
00:28:14.000Because I think we should open the country in an orderly, reasonable way, as you see with President Trump's three-phase sort of guidelines.
00:28:23.000We can't be letting people flood through the borders at all.
00:28:25.000Well, and also, not every country has the same kind of lockdown strategy that we've had.
00:28:29.000They've not all had the same success containing the virus that we have, and so somebody could come in and get past all the screening and start off another wave.
00:28:36.000So you don't want to necessarily let that happen anyway.
00:28:39.000I don't think it's a bad thing to limit immigration right now and open the economy at the same
00:30:50.000So, if you look at the deaths per capita, that's what really matters, because you can't just say total deaths in the United States and compare it to, say, you know, Botswana.
00:30:58.000I have no idea what the numbers are in Botswana, but I assume they're probably not great.
00:31:01.000Probably not great when there is no COVID going on.
00:31:03.000And there's not as many people in Botswana last I checked.
00:31:12.000And I know Ben told me, he said, yeah, but that number's only going to go up.
00:31:15.000Sure, but it's also going to go up with other countries.
00:31:18.000By the way, surprisingly not really going up in Sweden the way that most people thought would be happening because they didn't enact some kind of lockdown like you saw with Italy, Spain, Belgium.
00:31:26.000I don't know about Belgium, sorry, but Italy, Spain, France, and of course they're actually hit the worst and we're doing far better than them.
00:31:31.000But the mortality rate changes the more infections that you see.
00:31:35.000Now to me it would seem to be good news when you say oh my gosh
00:31:39.000way more people have been infected than we initially thought
00:31:43.000because that means the mortality rate is far lower and most people are
00:31:46.000asymptomatic. Well I was yeah I was watching CNN and they actually talked
00:31:49.000about that as being... I know you watch them when we weren't on here?
00:31:52.000No I do it all the time. So I was watching CNN and they were talking about
00:31:56.000well it sounds like there are more infections than we ever thought as if
00:31:58.000that were a bad thing. Yeah. But obviously it does change the
00:33:04.000I'm trapped between a not wanting to be removed from YouTube and a racist place right now.
00:33:14.000But the white 9-11 first responders, can we all agree, absolute scum compared to the nurses and doctors of today?
00:33:21.000Absolute subhuman scum, the first responders of 9-11 compared, again context matters, compared to the first responders today who do so of their own free will and it hasn't put a nickel in their pocket.
00:33:37.000I want to say that you want to walk this back?
00:33:56.000Someone may not test positive for coronavirus, for COVID-19, but if you test for antibodies, you can then see how many people have had it at some point.
00:34:38.000So back to USC, they looked for antibodies, right?
00:34:41.000And they saw, they said, oh, this actually looks like it's between, I think, 2.8 and what, 5.6% of the people in Los Angeles County actually had antibodies, which means the number is 28 to 50, what, 28 to 56, something like that?
00:34:54.00028 to 55 times higher, the infection rate, than they thought.
00:34:58.000That means that at the low end, a minimum, and using this sample, so it shows that 220,000 people in Los Angeles County had had COVID, and at the high end, over 400,000.
00:35:06.000So let's just take those numbers and split them right down the middle.
00:35:08.000600 deaths total in Los Angeles County.
00:35:11.000So that means, when you just take the total deaths, by the way, just the total deaths, and you look at the actual infection rate, again, this comes from USC, and they really, really don't want this to be the case.
00:35:19.000And the only reason that this matters is because they talked about the first gun death in Detroit yesterday.
00:35:24.000And that's front page news everywhere, when that's an exception to the rule.
00:35:27.000Whereas now, we are actually getting enough data to determine what the rule is.
00:35:45.000I think in Italy we know it was 95-98% of people.
00:35:48.000who contracted the disease who were deaths, they were over the age of 80, or they had some pre-existing condition.
00:35:53.000If I'm not mistaken, in New York, it was high 80s in some figures that were cited to 90-something percent.
00:35:58.000Let's play it really conservatively and say, okay, only 80% of the COVID deaths at this point, only 80% are from old people or people with pre-existing conditions.
00:36:08.000That gives you a death rate, meaning if you are an average-aged, middle-aged, Above middle age of average health American right now in this country, your chances of dying from COVID-19, if you get it, is 0.02%.
00:36:20.000Let's split the difference from 0.2, likely 0.1, to 0.02.
00:37:36.000I mean, really, because here's the concern.
00:37:37.000The concern is that it's just like 1918, where it came out in the spring, it was not nearly as deadly, it came back in the fall, and people didn't respond appropriately.
00:37:54.000So, at the very least, the infection rates on the low side are minimum 28 to 30 times higher than we thought, likely 40-something times higher Then we thought, which is also why you have to throw out, we have the most infections.
00:38:06.000What, we're the biggest country that's testing that much at this point, right?
00:38:09.000You have to throw out this idea of how many hospitalizations.
00:38:11.000And also something that's pretty funny to me, not funny, I should say, not funny, haha, nothing about this is ever funny.
00:40:22.000Set a date in your calendar right now.
00:40:24.000Look at all the restrictions, all the liberties that you've given up as an American, and then see if they were worth it.
00:40:28.000And then they try to tell you that you're basically a Nazi sympathizer if you protest Governor Whitmer, who, by the way, doesn't want to allow you to go buy a poinsettia, though you can buy a kilogram of wheat.
00:42:42.000You want to tell me that none of this is designed to try and drag this guy down going into 2020?
00:42:47.000So when people say he shouldn't be bringing up any of this for 2020, well, first off, I think that he's bringing up a lot of the information is to try and correct the media.
00:42:54.000You guys are trying to... This is entirely politicized.
00:42:57.000If you're trying to destroy his chances in 2020 because you have a man with early-onset dementia who doesn't know the difference between a vase and his house cat, then he has the right to defend himself.
00:43:08.000I think he absolutely has a right to defend himself, and that's why I loved the video that he put on for the press, and he kind of pointed, like you said a few times.
00:43:23.000No, I think he has every right to punch back, and sometimes he does it in a way that maybe we don't love, and sometimes we absolutely eat it up, because it's like, that's exactly what they deserve.
00:43:32.000They deserve to have their nose rubbed in the crap that they've been peddling for so long, but none of them will do that.
00:43:37.000You don't rub your dog's nose in crap, you rub it in pee.
00:43:41.000Is that what you did when you dog-sitted Hopper?
00:45:24.000Far be it from me to disagree with you.
00:45:26.000But the problem is you are consistently pushing bad news, and so he seems like the eternal optimist, where he goes, I don't know why they need 40,000 ventilators.
00:45:34.000What he's saying is, it's not that bad.
00:45:36.000We're going to send them what they actually need.
00:46:08.000Anytime he tries to present a sliver of hope.
00:46:10.000And I will say to the media, I hate saying, how dare you?
00:46:14.000But I will ask you, why do you present, for example, I saw it in Huffington Post where it said, Generation Z, their hope was lost before it could ever start because they don't know a world without crises.
00:46:32.000But then if you want to say this is so much worse than the greatest generation had it, can you imagine that for a second?
00:46:38.000Can you imagine being 15 years old, right before World War II, and your dad saying, I know you're only 15, but you're going to be going into mandatory service, and guess what?
00:46:50.000The only thing that stands between us and these fascist bastards... By the way, maybe it could be communists, because we don't know what's going to work out.
00:46:58.000But either way, we're going to end up with fascism or communism, and they're both going to be coming over the ocean.
00:47:01.000The only thing stopping them at this point is Winston Churchill.
00:47:04.000So I'm going to take you to the shooting range right now, so you can hopefully get proficient before you get thrust onto the beaches, where you have a mortality rate, the kind of... I won't even tell you about it, because it will send shivers down your spine.
00:47:14.000You want to compare that and say that that is nothing in contrast to today's...
00:47:19.000And I know that we shouldn't be belittling it, but let's be honest here.
00:47:53.000But these worldwide things like World War II weren't really felt on the ground in the same way.
00:47:59.000And just because every single day, CNN wants you to feel like you're in crisis.
00:48:03.000But if you limited yourself to sort of what's going on immediately around you, life's pretty good.
00:48:07.000I mean, like, first off, Generation Z is the least affected in the sense—in the least affected health-wise.
00:48:13.000They're the most affected as far as the economic ripples, right?
00:48:17.000That's the thing, and they're going to start singing a different tune when they realize that and start looking for jobs in a hyper-competitive space.
00:48:23.000The entire economy is going to be changing.
00:48:25.000I think the thing that we'll see most change is probably automation, and sort of this merging of tech and industry, because we've kind of had one foot in, one foot out for a little while now, so let's sort of accelerate that.
00:48:36.000You'll see Generation Z be furious once they have to enter the workforce, but health-wise, they're the least at risk.
00:48:41.000Your great-grandfathers, some of you grandfathers, they had to storm the beaches of one of the most powerful military forces, ruthless military forces, Ever.
00:48:52.000In the history of mankind, you have to put on gloves and a mask if you're really careful when you go pick up your order at Papa John's if you can't spare the Uber Eats 250 delivery surcharge.
00:49:03.000And just to clarify, it's not that Gen Z has lived with the most chaos and disasters, they've lived with the most manufactured chaos and disaster.
00:49:13.000They haven't lived... I mean, put yourself in the shoes of somebody who had to live through World War I, the global flu pandemic that pretty much... You think this is bad, shutting things down?
00:50:57.000It's not just that they're trying to block, because let's be honest, the Democrats would love to spend this money.
00:51:02.000They would love to give this money out to small businesses.
00:51:04.000They're blocking it because they want to shoehorn in some other frivolous crap.
00:51:08.000But that's blocking it for blocking its sake.
00:51:10.000They're like, oh, you need something from us?
00:51:13.000But it is playing politics for the right to say you don't care about small businesses.
00:51:16.000The fact is, what bothers me more is that the left, and you'll see them with this reporting right now, is they don't want people to be able to make a living.
00:51:24.000They want them to think that it's for the greater good to not be able to make a living, which is crazy.
00:52:53.000There are a lot of people right now that don't make the week.
00:52:56.000I hope someone asks or Donald Trump talks about this.
00:52:58.000Remember the swastika at the Trump rally?
00:53:01.000We're talking about at the shutdown protest rally.
00:53:05.000It was from a Bernie rally from a while ago.
00:53:08.000What is it with Bernie rallies and swastikas?
00:53:11.000Almost every time you hear a story about a swastika, this is what I've learned as it relates to swastikas, if a story centers around a swastika Having been created in the last 20 years, it's not true.
00:54:18.000And you go to a bar now, and every single bar determines that they have to have television screens because God forbid that we talk to each other and our phone screen isn't enough.
00:54:25.000Remember when we were kids how cool we thought it would be to have a portable TV?
00:54:29.000Now we have affordable everything, and we still look at the screens.
00:54:32.000It just says live stream starting soon.
00:54:34.000I've seen so much Saturday Night Live that I think somebody's going to come on and say, and now the president will address the country about COVID-19.
00:54:40.000Right, yeah, Alec Baldwin with a shitty impression.
00:54:53.000And a little bit of that pooching out the lips.
00:54:55.000Speaking of that, at the very beginning of his presidency, and even when he was running and becoming kind of a main contender, your impression was so good, I was like, this is going to take off.
00:55:06.000Somebody's going to come and get him, and then they took Alec Baldwin for SNL, and I was like, that's not even close.
00:55:54.000He was like, well, what do you mean you don't have political people?
00:55:56.000He was like, well, we don't, like, just, like, we like that he's young, we like that, you know, but, like, do you have, like, something similar, but not him.
00:56:04.000And then when I released the email, I think it was back on the YouTube channel, it may have been removed from the Vox Apocalypse Purge, what happened was he dropped me.
00:56:13.000And my manager was a conservative, by the way.
00:56:22.000Frankly, I don't really think there's a whole lot you can do for me now at this point anyway because I had a contract with Fox News at that point.
00:56:28.000It was starting up and I had a contract.
00:57:56.000I think the rest of the country should respond differently and that they should, like Yukon Cornelius with his own little iceberg, we should just axe pick all of Manhattan and push it off into the ocean.
00:58:04.000I think if we all push we could make some progress.
00:58:42.000I think it was the Canarsie tribe from Brooklyn.
00:58:43.000There were a couple of tribes that sort of were in Manhattan.
00:58:45.000They didn't have a concept of personal property.
00:58:48.000Talk about the one that got away, huh?
00:58:49.000Boy, that little island that you thought nobody wanted sure appreciated in value.
00:58:54.000All that happened was a little bit of air travel, a little bit of more sophisticated boats than your sealskin canoes, and all of a sudden you're going, damn it!
00:59:19.000You think there would have been like one Canarsie who had an annoying mother-in-law on the other side of the river and just wanted to stay in Manhattan, like plant his flag.
00:59:28.000Take it when you pry this island from my cold, dead fingers.
00:59:31.000I'm sorry, Ma, I want to eat, but I have to stand.
01:00:09.000But when I'm tired, like, from doing this, and I'm not, listen, here's the thing, I'm not complaining, I'm very grateful, but the reality is I'm obviously a little bit tired.
01:00:15.000The first thing to go is my executive functioning and then my short-term memory.
01:00:18.000So if I sound a little Biden-ish, I can still get out there and perform, but what does happen is I will forget my train of thought a little bit.
01:00:25.000And do you ever get that point where it's like, I realized yesterday, do you guys ever get this where it's that wired and tired where you're too tired to do anything, but you're also bored?
01:00:35.000with doing nothing? Yes. That's what I felt. Yeah. I understand exactly what you mean.
01:00:39.000When you lay down to try and relax, you can't. Your brain is still going. And that's,
01:00:45.000I think, the boredom part. And I feel like Donald Trump deals with those moments by tweeting.
01:00:49.000Early in the morning, he's like, I can't be bothered with that. That's a good one.
01:01:13.000I will say this too with the Fauci thing, because he'll be up here and people are calling him a rock star and then you have some people saying fire Fauci.
01:02:54.000You need to balance people's livelihoods and people's lives.
01:02:57.000And that's why it is relevant information that it's a 0.2 to 0.02% mortality rate with this disease.
01:03:07.000That is relevant because I guarantee you if you give the American public that information, and you make sure that you deliver it on an ongoing basis,
01:03:15.000they aren't going to act like these people are effectively, you know, commie sympathizers
01:03:19.000out there, Nazi sympathizers who are saying, hey, I want to go back to work driving
01:03:37.000That's not the role that I think he even wanted to be in.
01:03:39.000And that's definitely not a role that we want a doctor in.
01:03:42.000And I don't think it's fair to say he's a rock star or that he should be fired because the same people were saying both of those things depending on the day and depending on what he said and how it aligned with their views of the crisis.
01:04:10.000And I don't mean liberties like, listen, yes, social, putting in a social distancing order, telling people they should stay at home when possible, of course, but shutting down businesses or fining people or arresting people for public displays of affection with their spouses in parks or getting on a bus without a mask.
01:04:29.000When you look, I do think this is really important right now
01:04:31.000because it's just, it's like, you know, you put a, what is it?
01:04:33.000A frog in a boiling pot of water, but you put them in and where it's like lukewarm and then you slowly turn it up.
01:05:32.000Then they started arresting people on buses and in public parks.
01:05:36.000I think that if you were just to look right now, snapshot, take today, go back a month and a half, go back to February, when we were still in impeachment, people would say, Oh my god, what?
01:05:45.000That's gonna be America in a month and a half?
01:05:47.000You're gonna be dragging a black man off of a bus because he's not wearing a surgical mask, which you said only two weeks earlier wouldn't work anyway?
01:05:56.000But people now have been, it's been just their defenses, their liberty defenses have been gradually weakened, where we go, oh yeah, yeah, they're Billy, the beat cop is Billy clubbing the Afro, the person of color, and tearing him off the 695 bus.
01:06:08.000Yeah, you know, he tried to get on the bus, didn't have a mask, what are you gonna do?
01:06:12.000Well, I hope we learn our lesson from this because the comparison of World War II and World War II, we were putting our lives on the line to protect liberty, not only for us, but for the rest of the world, right?
01:06:20.000And in this case, we freely gave that liberty up to panic and fear, right?
01:06:25.000There are cases where we need to come together and do extreme things to mitigate the disease or crisis.
01:10:28.000Bricks, bought and paid for by Big Scarf.
01:10:31.000Okay, alright, listen guys, we're going to play the drinking game.
01:10:33.000We are not going to be carrying this so much because we want to hear what they have to say, and we want you to actually be able to watch this, and we're doing the job that Brian Stelter refuses to do.
01:10:43.000Because who wants to watch the briefing and hear a fat-closeted homosexual talk about it instead?
01:11:26.000I want to start by saying that our love and prayers of every American continue.
01:11:37.000To be with our fellow citizens who have lost a cherished friend or a family member to the virus.
01:11:43.000Amidst our grief, we're making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy.
01:11:50.000Thanks to our aggressive campaign against the virus and the extraordinary talent of our medical professionals, our mortality rate remains roughly half of that of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the world.
01:12:06.000Let's do a lot of things, but our medical professionals have been incredible.
01:12:12.000Since we announced our guidelines on opening up America, as we call it, we say opening up America and we add the word again.
01:12:20.000I think we can add the word probably again.
01:12:56.000The country wants to get back to work.
01:12:59.000A short time ago, the Senate passed the Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act, with additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, hospitals, and testing.
01:13:12.000A lot of money for all of them, especially for our workers and our small businesses.
01:13:19.000My administration has worked aggressively with Congress to negotiate this critical $482 billion funding package.
01:13:27.000We reached a deal that includes $382 billion in crucial small business support to keep workers on the payroll, $75 billion to aid hospitals, which really need the aid.
01:14:00.000It's getting a little more angular, I think.
01:14:02.000Running back, so I thought we'd do, we'll talk about that now, and we'll take a couple of questions on that, and then he can go and start phase four.
01:14:13.000Probably they'll be voting tomorrow in the house, but shortly, shortly.
01:14:18.000And I think we have tremendous support.
01:14:20.000So Steve, please come up, say a few words.
01:14:24.000Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for all your work with us to get this passed.
01:14:30.000I'd especially like to thank Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and the entire Senate for passing this.
01:14:36.000I'd also like to thank Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi for working with us around the clock as well, and our Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, who was also very instrumental in this.
01:14:50.000We've had tremendous support for the PPP.
01:14:52.000This gives us another $310 billion for the PPP.
01:14:57.000We look forward to the House passing this tomorrow and being up and running quickly after that.
01:15:02.000This also gives us $50 billion for disaster loans, EIDL loans that will allow the SBA to make $300 billion of disaster loans, all for small businesses.
01:15:15.000Uh, also allows us, as the President said, more money to hospitals and an unprecedented amount of money for testing.
01:15:22.000Now, is this more money for hospitals because they're overcapacity or because they have to lay off workers and furlough them because they ranked up in the House?
01:15:31.000And because they've cut off all elective procedures, which is where they make their money.
01:15:35.000Now, let me make just one more comment on the program.
01:15:38.000We have over a million companies that have received this with less than 10 workers.
01:15:44.000So there is very broad participation in really small business.
01:15:49.000I will comment there have been some big businesses that have taken these loans.
01:15:54.000I was pleased to see that Shake Shack returned the money.
01:16:10.000But again, the intent of this money was not for big public companies that have access to capital.
01:16:17.000So, Mr. Secretary, are you going to request that those other companies — obviously, Shake Shack was not alone in being a big company that got money in this.
01:16:25.000Are you going to be asking — I'm going to request.
01:16:27.000You're going to ask them to return that money.
01:16:36.000You have a number of — I'm not going to mention any other names, but when I saw Harvard, They have one of the largest endowments anywhere in the country, maybe in the world, I guess, and they're going to pay back that money.
01:17:09.000For people who don't attest properly to this certification.
01:17:13.000And again, we want to make sure this money is available to small businesses that need it.
01:17:18.000People who have invested their entire life savings.
01:17:21.000We appreciate what's going on and they're hiring people back.
01:17:24.000How are you going to ensure that those small businesses, those small restaurants, cafes, bars, who did not get the money last time around are going to get it this time?
01:17:33.000Well, as I said, there are a million of these companies that did get it that are very small.
01:19:14.000You can talk when Donald Trump's not talking so much.
01:19:16.000I love that, well, let me know if it'll bother you, but I love that he said, you know, people with misdemeanors, where he was talking about sort of like a statute, I think, I don't know if it's a statute of limitations, but in people applying here, how he's saying, of course, criminals shouldn't apply or shouldn't be eligible, and Joaquin Phoenix wants them all let loose.
01:19:34.000I know we all understand the circumstances and why businesses need this, but how many more phases can we afford to have, or can businesses expect to have?
01:19:43.000Do you see a Phase 5, a Phase 6, a Phase 7?
01:20:15.000The President has talked multiple times about a payroll tax cut.
01:20:18.000And we've also, we're talking about in the case of states, the states we've heard from
01:20:23.000the governors and the fiscal issues of the states.
01:20:26.000If we have phase four, we'll most likely be, what we'll be, basically what we're seeing with the reopening of the economy and the natural money we're putting in.
01:23:05.000We couldn't have done this today without unanimous consent and the Democrats being on board, and we look forward to this being passed on a bipartisan basis tomorrow.
01:23:13.000This is a real example of the country coming together to fight this virus.
01:23:19.000What is your best understanding of what Mitch McConnell wants from an infrastructure package?
01:23:24.000Again, I think we're not at the point of designing that like every other bill.
01:23:30.000Senators on both sides on a bipartisan basis.
01:23:33.000I can tell you a lot of support, particularly for things like this, and especially what's going on today.
01:23:42.000But the President has talked about, you know, I was on the campaign with the President.
01:23:45.000We've been talking about bridges and tunnels and rebuilding this country for years.
01:23:49.000So the President wants to make a big investment in this.
01:23:54.000Mr. Secretary, what will we see in the $17 billion portion of CARES reserved for companies deemed critical for national security?
01:24:03.000And also, will oil companies fit into that at all, per the President's tweet?
01:25:04.000The oil business, partially because of the virus, but partially also because of too much supply.
01:25:11.000But, you know, the president has determined we want to maintain our energy independence, and the president has asked me to look at all of our options, and we're doing that.
01:25:21.000Obviously, it's a pretty extraordinary situation when you saw the front... No, it's true.
01:26:02.000If a large company applies for one of these loans and manipulates or works the system or works the loopholes to get it, what are some of the consequences if a large company tries to get one of these PPP loans?
01:26:23.000What the certification is, what it means if you're a big company.
01:26:27.000Again, there is a provision for, you know, where there are multiple affiliates that people can access this, but the intent was not for companies that have access to plenty of liquidity and other sources.
01:26:41.000And again, to the extent these companies didn't understand this and they repay the loans, that will be potentially other consequences.
01:26:49.000Can you talk about what those consequences could be?
01:26:52.000Again, you can look at the certifications.
01:28:40.000I spilled beer and it went in my chest hole.
01:28:42.000This pause will be in effect for 60 days.
01:28:45.000After which the need for any extension or modification will be evaluated by myself and a group of people based on economic conditions at the time.
01:28:58.000This order will only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency.
01:29:02.000In other words, those receiving green cards Big factor.
01:29:08.000We'll not apply to those entering on a temporary basis.
01:29:11.000As we move forward, we'll examine what additional immigration-related measures should be put in place.
01:29:16.000This is why they don't hear the press briefings.
01:30:09.000GE is also working with Ford to make 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days, more than
01:30:15.000our entire country typically produces in a very long period of time.
01:30:21.000Doing that in a matter of a few weeks and a few days.
01:30:26.000Earlier today I had a very productive meeting with Governor Cuomo, as you probably saw, to discuss his statewide testing strategy and how we can work together to help expand it with the goal of doubling testing in the next few weeks.
01:31:22.000I stand before you smarter today than you.
01:31:29.000I can say very honestly with New York State and New York City, they've been terrific to work with.
01:31:37.000The New York metropolitan area has been the epicenter of the outbreak here in America, and the federal government has spared no expense or resource to get New Yorkers the care they need and the care they deserve.
01:32:45.000I said from the beginning that no American who needs a ventilator would be denied a ventilator, and we have kept that promise all over the United States.
01:32:58.000Because remember, if you go back to two weeks, they were saying people won't have ventilators, they'll be dying.
01:33:02.000And they were afraid to bring the comfort back to its base in Virginia so that we can have it for other locations, and he said we would be able to do that.
01:33:11.000Javits Center has been A great help to them.
01:33:15.000But we'll be bringing the ship back at the earliest time, and we'll get it ready for its next mission, which will, I'm sure, be a very important one also.
01:33:29.000They reconverted it after it got there into handling an event that they were not expecting to be handling.
01:33:38.000The FDA has now authorized more than Fifty diagnostic tests, including, as of late last night, the first test that a patient can take home.
01:33:50.000You can take it at home, and it's highly accurate.
01:33:54.000LabCorp intends to make the home collection kits available to consumers in most states with a doctor's order in the coming weeks.
01:34:03.000We also have four different antibody tests already authorized.
01:34:07.000Tests will help identify individuals who can donate convalescent plasma, thus providing potentially life-saving antibodies to American patients.
01:36:06.000The D.C. metro area, we don't see a decline yet, so hopefully all of you are still social
01:36:11.000distancing and doing everything that you can.
01:36:14.000I wanted to remind everybody of two points.
01:36:17.000When we brought up and the President put out the guidelines for opening up America again,
01:36:23.000it was very clear to use data and to really work together to mitigate against any resurgence.
01:36:30.000And also, critically, to protect the vulnerable.
01:36:34.000And what we're seeing across rural America and some of the smaller population states is we're still seeing outbreaks in long-term care facilities.
01:36:44.000And we asked everyone in Phase 1 to make sure that they continued their social distancing in public to ensure that the vulnerable with comorbidities and other conditions and among the elderly were staying at home.
01:38:18.000in our city, more vulnerable areas, among indigenous populations, and of course in our
01:38:23.000long-term care facilities and prisons.
01:38:26.000We really want to support state and local governments to move forward on these critical
01:38:31.000monitoring to protect individuals that may be in the most critically vulnerable states.
01:38:37.000We will continue to see mortality and deaths among our American citizens, particularly in the cities as they begin to move past peak because deaths will lag.
01:38:47.000And so we really need to continue to unite and really, really, really support our health care providers who are
01:38:54.000Is it just me or did he just check her out?
01:39:11.000So, to our health care providers, to our respiratory therapists, and to everyone else, thank you for everything you're doing to protect Americans.
01:39:18.000Dr. Burks is going to come up here with her scarf talking about social distancing.
01:39:35.000I'd much rather look at her than Skeletor.
01:39:44.000Just the wonderful work that they do every day.
01:39:47.000So President Trump asked the FDA to remove all unnecessary barriers that were in place to help with the development of both diagnostics and therapeutics, and we have done that.
01:39:56.000If they're unnecessary, why were they there in the first place?
01:39:58.000Oh, because HuffPo might write an article.
01:40:10.000These aren't diagnostic tests, but these are tests that actually detect the antibody.
01:40:14.000So an indication that one has had the infection And I think it's important for everyone to understand that the timing of the response of the antibody to the infection isn't completely known, but we know that it takes some time to actually develop that, and there's two types of antibody responses that can be detected.
01:40:33.000And the antibody tests are just one piece of the larger response that you've heard in the America Returning to Work
01:40:40.000plan that the President has, with the test force has developed. And this pandemic is
01:40:46.000truly unprecedented in nature, and you'll see reports around the world of different antibody tests that have been
01:40:52.000And I think that's a reflection of the fact that we're just learning and beginning to understand what that response
01:40:58.000And many of these tests have different characteristics that allow to detect at different points in the infection.
01:41:04.000I do want to address one issue that we are laser focused on at FDA, and that is in an effort to provide laboratories
01:41:11.000and health care providers the early access to tests.
01:41:14.000We issued a policy earlier in March that allowed test developers the opportunity to quickly get their tests to
01:41:21.000market and address the needs of the nation as posed by the epidemic.
01:41:26.000In March, we provided this regulatory flexibility to manufacturers, and here's what we required of them.
01:41:32.000The manufacturers had to validate their tests.
01:41:34.000We call it self-validation, similar to what many test developers in the world have done.
01:41:39.000They had to notify FDA that they had performed that validation.
01:41:43.000And then they had to label their products appropriately in the package insert with information about the validation as well as the fact that it's not a diagnostic test, that it's an antibody test.
01:41:53.000And the bottom line here is that FDA still expects manufacturers and test developers to validate their antibody tests even under this revised policy.
01:42:03.000Now, we've done a couple of things to actually help end-users, to help laboratories, providers, etc., states in terms of their use of these antibody tests.
01:42:13.000One is that we're working with CDC and NCI to actually validate some of the more than 90 manufacturers who notified us that they brought their test to market to do an independent validation.
01:43:28.000Developers, more than 90 manufacturers, how many of these tests actually work?
01:43:32.000So as I mentioned, the 90 that have come forward and said they're marketing the U.S., they are required by us to have self-validation, and they're required to label that appropriately in their package insert.
01:43:43.000They also said that what we're doing is we're working with folks around the country.
01:43:47.000They had to fit in a negative question.
01:44:19.000You may have seen reports in the press of labs around the country that have done that.
01:44:23.000We've actually reached out to them, many academics, and we will be including that information in the information that we generate as well to provide to the American people.
01:44:35.000There was a study out of the TA today on hydroxychloroquine that found a higher mortality rate compared to those who got standard of care.
01:44:43.000I know this is a large scale clinical trial, but since this drug is out there and people are using it, can you give some takeaways from that study?
01:44:50.000Did that change your thinking at all on hydroxychloroquine?
01:44:54.000So this study is a small retrospective study at the VA, and similar to the data we talked about before with the French study, this is something that a doctor would need to consider as part of a decision in writing prescription for hydroxychloroquine.
01:45:07.000And as I've mentioned from this podium and in other venues before, what FDA is going to require is data from clinical trials, randomized clinical trials, Hydroxychloroquine, placebo, to actually make a definitive decision around safety and efficacy.
01:45:22.000But the preliminary data are helpful to providers.
01:45:25.000And doctors, I want to ask them to incorporate the data as we have it come forward.
01:47:59.000That makes me a little nervous though if he dies because of the relationship with China and what we sort of need as far as international relations to mitigate the damage and people to... This is why the executive order is also probably pretty important because you're gonna be looking at a bunch of people trying to flee North Korea at this point.
01:48:14.000The reports say, that the news is saying, there'll be a...
01:48:18.000That's a very serious condition, as you know.
01:50:42.000By the way, I want to be really clear that chloroquine study, this is from the AP, is a study of 65-year-old or older veterans with an average of three underlying conditions.
01:51:27.000So obviously, on the immigration executive order, you've raised concern for a long time, even in good economic times about immigrants taking Americans jobs.
01:51:37.000So under what conditions would you consider lifting this halt on immigration?
01:52:07.000I mean, when you look at it, right now, the last thing we want to do is take American workers' jobs.
01:52:12.000It's one thing when we were essentially, they used to call it full employment, and it's another thing right now.
01:52:18.000Right now, we have people that have lost their jobs, and we hope they're going to come back and come back fast.
01:52:22.000I will say that's actually a really good way to put it, full employment, because there's record levels of employment and job participation in America.
01:52:30.000That's why they don't run these press briefings.
01:53:53.000Making sure that we are building the testing capacity to be able to do that, because I think it's very important that you're going to be able, On the surface, a patient when they come in with early flu and early COVID can look very close to a deadly case.
01:54:08.000So we need to have testing in place to be able to separate and ensure those patients receive the best treatment.
01:54:16.000We're also hoping by that time that we have additional treatment options for people with COVID-19, so that there will be additional treatment available in the fall.
01:54:25.000We're less prepared for that time, thinking we'll come back together.
01:56:55.000When you look at what's happening, when you look at the numbers coming down, a lot of states are in really great shape.
01:57:01.000You're going to see a lot of openings.
01:57:03.000But I'll be speaking to the governor of Georgia in a little while.
01:57:05.000Mr. President, should the American people need to be prepared for going back to social distancing, even if things relax over the summer, but come the fall, if the virus comes back in coincidence?
01:57:17.000Well, I could see them, and I'll speak for the doctor if you'd like either of you to say, but I would say that you keep away until this thing is gone.
01:59:35.000You also campaigned on reducing legal immigration, and I'm wondering if some critics are saying that you are using the virus now in this crisis to follow through on that promise to reduce legal immigration.
01:59:50.000Well, I want people that are in this country, I want our citizens to get jobs.
01:59:54.000I don't want them to have competition.
01:59:56.000We have a very unusual situation where something came in that nobody has seen for many, many Decades.
02:00:04.000Probably 1917 would be the closest analogy, if you look at it, when you look at the contagion, the kind of contagion we're talking about.
02:00:10.000So, no, I'm not, I'm not doing that at all.
02:00:13.000I want, I want the American worker and the American, our American citizens to be able to get jobs.
02:00:19.000I don't want them to compete right now.
02:00:20.000There's a big difference when we have a full economy and frankly where Some of the companies, we have many companies moving in where they need actually, they need workers.
02:00:29.000That's a big difference between that and where all of a sudden a lot of people lose jobs.
02:00:34.000As you know, a lot of farmers rely on seasonal migrant workers.
02:00:37.000Well, that's not going to be affected.
02:01:55.000We have always, whether it's Tony or Debra or Steve, we have always a lot of people up and certainly as you've seen, the director's been here a lot, right?
02:02:07.000He's been here, he's been sitting here, he's been speaking a lot.
02:05:08.000I think what I've been trying to communicate over the last several days is it's really important that governors and mayors communicate critical information to their communities and show very clearly the data.
02:05:20.000Remember we wanted this data and evidence-based.
02:05:23.000The data that they utilize to make decisions and the data that the mayor should use In each of the communities.
02:05:30.000Because it will have to be on a community by community opening.
02:05:34.000Because there are different communities in different places, even in Georgia.
02:05:39.000And so I believe people in Atlanta would understand that if their cases are not going down, that they need to continue to do everything that we said.
02:05:54.000So, if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things.
02:06:01.000I don't know how, but people are very creative.
02:06:04.000So, I'm not going to prejudge, but we have told people very clearly and the President guidelines made it very clear about the expectations of things going on.
02:06:13.000Remember phase one also included social distancing.
02:06:26.000I mean, we've been very clear in the guidelines, and I think it's up to the governors and mayors
02:06:32.000to ensure that they're following the best they can each of those phases to make sure
02:06:37.000that both the public is completely protected.
02:06:40.000But the governors and mayors also need to communicate very clearly on the data that
02:06:44.000was used for decision making and make that transparent and available to their constituents.
02:06:48.000The reason that these briefings aren't is because this is entirely data driven and there are, there's a litany of experts who are being involved in these decisions and they want you to think that he's some rogue agent.
02:07:39.000In your meeting with Governor Cuomo, was there talk about providing states like New York with aid in the fourth stimulus package?
02:07:48.000Wondering if you have any thoughts on whether that aid should be tied to infection rates, whether states like New York, New Jersey that have been hardest hit should receive more money?
02:07:57.000And also, if you have any thoughts on Mayor Bill de Blasio, I'm assuming today that he'd
02:08:00.000like to host a ticker tape parade of sorts once this is all over to honor the healthcare
02:09:24.000So the rest of Americans who need haircuts or need supplies or plants or carpet, they go without, but the New York elite, they get to Huddle up in Pringles cans filled with human droplets and farts?
02:14:38.000That's the big difference between the Obama stimulus.
02:14:40.000Listen, I'm generally against federal intervention.
02:14:43.000And you have to do what you have to do.
02:14:44.000But when the federal government intervened by telling people effectively put them on a... And it's too bad, I feel so badly when I see that.
02:19:49.000No, look, I think the American people want to make sure that they have jobs for the American people, not for people that come in, in many cases illegally, into our country.
02:20:00.000This is a perfect example of why they don't want to run the briefings.
02:20:03.000I think just common sense tells you that's where we should be, and that's where the American people want to be again.
02:20:12.000So they want to talk about Donald Trump's executive order rather than allow him to lay it out in detail.
02:20:18.000I think it's going to be a renaissance.
02:20:20.000We're going to have something that will be a lot of people going to go to work building those roads and bridges and tunnels and highways and all of the other things we're going to be building.
02:21:34.000It was generally actually... And honestly, outside of Brett Baier in that one American News, who by the way, did you notice she wasn't in one of those sort of Delta lounges?
02:21:50.000There were a few times where he got testy.
02:21:51.000Now, I guarantee you, if you go to HuffPo, if you go to Reddit Politics, if you go to CNN, they're going to take the interactions that were more hostile, and I would say rightfully so, because here's the thing.
02:22:02.000If you have interactions, let's say, with a room full of people, let me ask you this.
02:22:06.000If you go to a house party, okay, and there are 20, 30 people.
02:22:10.000How much do you want to bet at least one of them's going to be an asshole?
02:22:13.000But should you be judged by how you played catchphrase with the singular asshole?
02:22:28.000I think she's actually way better than Fauci.
02:22:29.000I think she's good to actually have at these.
02:22:31.000No one's really talking about her, by the way.
02:22:33.000And I think the reason for that is because Fauci has sometimes come out and sort of contradicted Donald Trump.
02:22:37.000And again, he's very narrow-sighted in his approach to this, which is just the medical side of issues.
02:22:43.000Dr. Birx, you heard her talk about sort of the medical data, that it is data-driven, that we do have to make sure that testing is up to snuff, and that different states will have to be taking different approaches, but that we also need to balance that with the economy.
02:22:54.000This was honestly I mean, he looked tired to me, Donald Trump.
02:22:58.000He definitely was a little less punchy than normal.
02:23:01.000Well, when you say punchy, you mean a little less fire in him, not punch drunk like Joe Biden.
02:23:22.000I think that, first off, this is, if not during what you call the worst crisis of our life, the worst crisis in several hundred years, what you have compared to World War II, what you have compared to all other pandemics, the pandemic to end all pandemics.
02:23:37.000If at that point in history, by your own description, you don't run the briefing being broadcast directly from the White House, then you are not doing your job.
02:23:48.000You have decided that broadcasting the news is not as important as your opinion journalism.
02:23:55.000Right, and we know that about MSNBC, we know that about places like Salon, HuffPo, Young Turks, of course, but I think a lot of people, no, people didn't expect that from CNN for a long time.
02:24:04.000Up until the last election, you can go back to this, back when I was syndicated on radio.
02:24:10.000I talked about this, my first broadcast ever, and I talked about it on Fox News.
02:24:13.000I think you would go back to 2014 when this show was syndicated on radio, if I'm not mistaken.
02:24:18.000I said, listen, I don't have a problem with MSNBC.
02:24:19.000I don't have a problem with Rachel Maddow.
02:24:21.000I don't have a problem with political bias.
02:24:26.000And the reason that these mainstream news outlets are refusing to run these press briefers is because that prohibits them from lying about it.
02:25:15.000Did you hear him mention his chances in 2020 at all?
02:25:17.000Did you hear him mention his polls at all?
02:25:18.000The one time he was asked about the poll where 80% of Americans, and I don't know if I can verify that or not, 80% of Americans support some kind of moratorium on immigration right now, which sounds about right.
02:25:28.000That may be a right-leaning poll, to be fair, but I still think that a vast majority of Americans probably support this right now when they look for future employment prospects.
02:26:12.000He did, and one of the things that he tweeted out today was that he addressed the poll controversy,
02:26:17.000because people are like, what are you talking about your poll numbers for?
02:26:19.000Not poll numbers for, sorry, the rating numbers that he was talking about.
02:26:22.000And he said, look, the only reason I'm mentioning that is because the fake news media won't
02:26:26.000I'm trying to get around them and get information to the American public.
02:26:29.000I'm not saying that these things are doing well because I'm trying to build myself up.
02:26:33.000I mean, I'm sure he has some kind of motivation there where he's like, this is great, this feels good.
02:26:37.000But at the same time, he's saying, guys, people want to watch this, and you're refusing to let them because it doesn't push the narrative that you want.
02:26:43.000And you know what else I really noticed from these briefings?
02:26:45.000And people are going to get mad at me for saying this, and this could be a write-up at Media Matters, but I really don't care.
02:26:50.000It shows you that the leftist media panders to the lowest common denominator.
02:27:40.000And people will try and say that comes with all connotations.
02:27:42.000No, I'm just talking about the numbers.
02:27:43.000If you look at all of the online articles, you look at the online news outlets, let's call them that, you even look at the mainstream news outlets, they create this sort of dynamic where it's like most Americans don't want to go back to work and most Americans want to stay at home.
02:27:58.000And Donald Trump, this is a very risky bet.
02:28:23.000Donald Trump is betting on the fact that this broadcast will get out to the Americans Who make up the American labor force, who made up the single most comprehensive full employment, as he called it, which I think is actually, I would use that.
02:28:37.000If I were someone crafting his campaign messaging, if I were managing his campaign, I would absolutely focus on the idea of full employment that we had before this pandemic.
02:28:47.000We had the best unemployment numbers there were.
02:29:00.000And this is why Donald Trump seems more optimistic than the media.
02:29:05.000Donald Trump, just like I've said this before, you know, if Democrats are the party of the poor, well, then to be elected they require that most Americans be poor.
02:29:12.000If the Republicans are the party of the rich, then, again, by the power of deduction, you can obviously understand that Republicans would have a vested interest in 50% of the country being rich.
02:29:25.000In broadcasting to everyone, unfiltered, unedited, he knows that news media are going to take sound bites.
02:29:30.000He knows that they're going to cut clips out of context.
02:29:32.000He could only make this bet if he believes in the American workforce, if he believes in the American spirit of exceptionalism, and he believes that Americans want to find a way to keep the most vulnerable among us safe, which we all do, and Americans want to get back to work and earn their keep.
02:29:51.000If he didn't believe that, He wouldn't broadcast these press briefings.
02:30:09.000When people say, look for the silver lining, there are many silver linings right now.
02:30:14.000doesn't mean that it's easy. If there's a silver lining, it doesn't mean necessarily
02:30:17.000that it's easy. That's why you're looking for a silver lining at this point, as opposed
02:30:21.000to a casing. It is surprising. The things that aren't said is the bet that Donald Trump
02:30:28.000is making. He's kind of, sort of like with this show.
02:30:31.000We've talked about this where, you know, I was in entertainment and in comedy for a long time and then was even at Fox News for years and I was told, hey listen, obviously liberals don't like this kind of content.
02:30:41.000Conservatives don't like this kind of content.
02:30:45.000They do not want to sit back and laugh, and we just had faith that there were enough people out there who wanted to see this kind of a program, who related to this kind of content.
02:30:55.000People out there who are conservatives, who by and large are people of faith, who do want to be politically informed, but also want to be entertained, want to be able to watch a late-night show and not be gut-punched.
02:31:05.000This was a gamble that we made, and you guys made it worth it.
02:31:09.000You guys out there, you said, you know what?
02:31:11.000So we can only make that gamble if we believe that there are enough people out there who want this to exist.
02:31:17.000Donald Trump can only make the gamble of these press briefings, and it is a gamble, that's a big change of pace by the way, if he believes in the American spirit, and that's why the media doesn't want to broadcast it, because they don't.