Louder with Crowder - TRUMP PRESS BRIEFING LIVE STREAM! | Louder with Crowder

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00:00:19.000 🎵And a lullaby🎵 🎵All alone on a lone moon🎵

00:00:23.000 🎵Listening to all the things you can't hear🎵 🎵No matter what life is🎵

00:00:27.000 🎵Always we stick out, you should know🎵 🎵No matter what life is🎵

00:00:39.000 🎵Always we stick out, you should know🎵 🎵Every star🎵

00:00:45.000 🎵Dum dum🎵 🎵Wherever you are🎵

00:00:49.000 🎵Every star🎵 🎵And you will always answer🎵

00:00:53.000 🎵Every star🎵 🎵Dum dum🎵

00:00:57.000 🎵Wherever you are🎵 🎵Find me🎵

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00:01:21.000 🎵When I'm with you🎵 🎵I'm with you🎵

00:01:25.000 🎵Forever🎵 🎵And ever🎵

00:01:29.000 🎵Always🎵 🎵And you will always answer🎵

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00:01:37.000 🎵Always🎵 🎵Always🎵

00:01:41.000 🎵I wanna stay like this🎵 🎵No matter what life is🎵

00:01:45.000 🎵Always we stick out, you should know🎵 🎵No matter what life is🎵

00:01:57.000 🎵Always we stick out🎵 🎵Always we stick out🎵

00:02:01.000 🎵Every star🎵 🎵Forever🎵

00:02:05.000 🎵Forever you are🎵 🎵Every star🎵

00:02:09.000 🎵And you will always answer🎵 🎵Every star🎵

00:02:13.000 🎵Forever you are🎵 🎵Forever you are🎵

00:02:17.000 🎵Forever you are🎵 🎵Find me🎵

00:02:21.000 🎵Always we stick out, you should know🎵 🎵No matter what life is🎵

00:02:37.000 🎵Always we stick out, you should know🎵 🎵I know you🎵

00:02:41.000 🎵Music🎵 🎵Music🎵

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00:02:53.000 I don't know where we're gonna end up.

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00:03:01.000 I thought it all out.

00:03:05.000 It just wouldn't work.

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00:03:31.000 Profoundable.

00:03:33.000 It just isn't done that way.

00:03:35.000 The son of the queen.

00:03:37.000 The life hack.

00:03:39.000 Multiple options.

00:03:41.000 Yes, those poor people.

00:03:43.000 Well, um, now we're making it more fun.

00:03:45.000 The new life going.

00:03:47.000 The art gets fun.

00:03:49.000 That's me too.

00:03:51.000 The life hack.

00:03:53.000 Isn't he stunning?

00:03:55.000 The life hack.

00:03:57.000 That's me too.

00:03:59.000 The life hack.

00:04:01.000 Come on.

00:04:03.000 Don't overdo it.

00:04:05.000 That's me.

00:04:07.000 I get stunning.

00:04:09.000 Profoundable.

00:04:11.000 That's me.

00:04:13.000 That's me.

00:04:15.000 I get stunning.

00:04:17.000 Profoundable.

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00:04:29.000 I get stunning.

00:04:31.000 Profoundable.

00:04:33.000 The son of the queen.

00:04:41.000 The life hack.

00:04:43.000 Multiple options.

00:04:45.000 Yes, those poor people.

00:04:47.000 Well, um, now we're making it more fun.

00:04:49.000 The new life going.

00:04:51.000 The art gets fun.

00:04:53.000 That's me.

00:04:55.000 The life hack.

00:04:57.000 Isn't he stunning?

00:04:59.000 The art gets fun.

00:05:01.000 That's me.

00:05:07.000 The life hack.

00:05:09.000 Isn't he stunning?

00:05:11.000 The art gets fun.

00:05:13.000 Profoundable.

00:05:15.000 That's me.

00:05:17.000 I get stunning.

00:05:19.000 Profoundable.

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00:05:31.000 I get stunning.

00:05:33.000 Profoundable.

00:05:35.000 That's me.

00:05:43.000 In Rome.

00:05:45.000 Completely atrocious, I always had to be careful though, just in case.

00:05:49.000 aperfect.

00:05:51.000 oh what a beautiful sunset perfect.

00:05:53.000 om magari

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00:06:08.000 I yes

00:06:13.000 and moved

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00:06:40.000 and and

00:07:22.000 and it begins

00:07:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:50.000 Look at this.

00:07:54.000 You're not gonna find another girl like her in a million years.

00:08:00.000 It's all so magical.

00:08:02.000 Done.

00:08:02.000 And I've never had fun.

00:08:04.000 Sorry, Rod.

00:08:05.000 That fest.

00:08:06.000 Someday a boo.

00:08:07.000 End of the fest.

00:08:10.000 I've never done it and I've never had fun.

00:08:12.000 I'll ride that fast someday, boo.

00:08:15.000 Do you trust me?

00:08:18.000 Ch-ch-ch-say to me, have my wonderful time, my beautiful love

00:08:23.000 Father and son to say, mm-mm, mm-mm Ch-ch-ch-say to me, have my wonderful time, my beautiful

00:08:30.000 love Father and son to say, I'm going to free the genie

00:08:35.000 Free, I ran away I'm free, and I am not going back

00:08:39.000 Free, and I am not going back You should, you should

00:08:43.000 I'm free, I ran away I'm free, and I am not going back

00:08:48.000 Let's make some magic!

00:08:51.000 Do you want to play?

00:08:52.000 Nighty-noo-night I spent the day with you, don't forget that

00:08:58.000 Nighty-noo-night Do you want to play?

00:09:01.000 Nighty-noo-night I spent the day with you, don't forget that

00:09:06.000 Nighty-noo-night Do you want to play?

00:09:09.000 Nighty-noo-night I spent the day with you, don't forget that

00:09:15.000 Nighty-noo-night Do you want to play?

00:09:17.000 Nighty-noo-night I spent the day with you, don't forget that

00:09:22.000 Nighty-noo-night There's this girl 0.61

00:09:27.000 I've done and I've never Fallen, I've arrived at Fes

00:09:31.000 Someday I'll move End of the stage

00:09:33.000 Small time in my life, I'll view I've done and I've never

00:09:37.000 Fallen, I've arrived at Fes Someday I'll move

00:09:40.000 End of the stage I'm free, I ran away

00:09:45.000 I'm free, and I am not going back Free, and I am not going back

00:09:49.000 You should, you should I'm free, I ran away

00:09:53.000 I'm free, and I am not going back I'm free, and I am not going back

00:09:57.000 Ah ha ha!

00:09:59.000 Oh, I'm the devil, get my, it's my I'm the devil, get my, it's my 0.73

00:10:07.000 Ah ha ha! 0.96

00:10:08.000 Death, and your future tokens They'll make you strong 0.92

00:10:19.000 It's my, the devil, get my, it's my Ah ha ha! 0.76

00:10:25.000 Death, and your future tokens They'll make you strong 0.97

00:10:29.000 Ah ha ha!

00:10:30.000 Oh, so magical What are you doing?

00:10:44.000 Just playing along Hmm

00:10:46.000 I'm playing Night, night

00:10:50.000 I spent the day I don't care about

00:10:52.000 Ending last I'm playing

00:10:55.000 Night, night I spent the day

00:10:59.000 I don't care about Ending last

00:11:02.000 I'm playing Night, night

00:11:06.000 I spent the day I don't care about

00:11:08.000 Ending last I'm playing

00:11:11.000 Night, night I spent the day

00:11:15.000 I don't care about Just, just, say to me

00:11:20.000 Have my, my wonderful time And my, your short salam

00:11:23.000 Father, and don't you say Hmm, hmm

00:11:27.000 Just, just, say to me Have my, my wonderful time

00:11:29.000 And my, your short salam Father, and don't you say

00:11:33.000 Hmm, hmm Never done, and I've never

00:11:37.000 Worn, or got, or got that dress So maybe, and don't you say

00:11:42.000 Hmm, hmm Never done, and I've never

00:11:46.000 Worn, or got, or got that dress So maybe, and don't you say

00:11:50.000 Chase A wondrous place

00:11:55.000 For you Me!

00:12:00.000 That's who!

00:12:01.000 Goodbye.

00:12:02.000 Thank you.

00:12:02.000 Goodbye.

00:12:03.000 I'm going to be on the side.

00:12:12.000 She's She's

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00:17:00.000 Hold it right there.

00:17:01.000 He would give him one.

00:17:02.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:17:03.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:17:04.000 I have one for everything.

00:17:05.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:17:06.000 He would give him one.

00:17:07.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:17:08.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:17:09.000 I have one for everything.

00:17:10.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:17:11.000 He would give him one.

00:17:12.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:17:13.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:17:14.000 I have one for everything.

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00:17:16.000 He would give him one.

00:17:17.000 Mr. Duncan just...

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00:17:19.000 I have one for everything.

00:17:20.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:17:21.000 He would give him one.

00:17:22.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:17:23.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:17:24.000 I have one for everything.

00:17:25.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:17:26.000 He would give him one.

00:17:27.000 Mr. Duncan just...

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00:17:29.000 I have one for everything.

00:17:30.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:17:58.000 He would give him one.

00:18:05.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:06.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:07.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:08.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:09.000 He would give him one.

00:18:10.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:11.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:12.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:13.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:14.000 He would give him one.

00:18:15.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:16.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:17.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:18.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:19.000 He would give him one.

00:18:20.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:21.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:22.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:23.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:24.000 He would give him one.

00:18:25.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:26.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:27.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:28.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:29.000 He would give him one.

00:18:30.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:31.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:32.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:33.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:34.000 He would give him one.

00:18:35.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:36.000 My own money has bothered me.

00:18:37.000 I have one for everything.

00:18:38.000 A pen, a galosh, a TV, a bird of array, a paladin, two tushies. 0.90

00:18:39.000 He would give him one.

00:18:40.000 Mr. Duncan just...

00:18:41.000 Yeah.

00:18:42.000 Smooching with your blood, my highly nutritious Yeah

00:18:45.000 Q-Dig, give him one Mr. Duncan is

00:18:47.000 My own body, it's bothering me, I have one Smooching with your blood, my highly nutritious

00:18:52.000 Yeah Q-Dig, give him one

00:18:55.000 Mr. Duncan is My own body, it's bothering me, I have one

00:18:58.000 A TV Smooching with your blood, my highly nutritious

00:19:01.000 Yeah Smooching with your blood, my highly nutritious

00:23:44.000 Yeah you

00:23:47.000 Oh Hey, there we go.

00:23:51.000 Welcome to the presidential- is it the press briefing?

00:23:53.000 It's the press.

00:23:54.000 It's the press briefing.

00:23:55.000 I just realized, do we need the microphone on this side if I'm going to be turning to Gerald?

00:23:59.000 We should be good.

00:24:00.000 Okay.

00:24:00.000 The press briefing live stream.

00:24:01.000 Just 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?

00:24:07.000 Oh, CNN fact check, which we'll do next Thursday.

00:24:10.000 We 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.

00:24:17.000 Yeah.

00:24:18.000 This week regarding, well, today.

00:24:19.000 Yesterday or today?

00:24:20.000 It's so simple.

00:24:21.000 Was it yesterday that he signed it or today?

00:24:22.000 Yesterday.

00:24:22.000 That's right, it was yesterday.

00:24:24.000 Immigration.

00:24:24.000 420.

00:24:25.000 Time is a funny thing.

00:24:26.000 Sorry, I'm a little distracted because I hear Betty barking outside.

00:24:29.000 She's trying to get in. 0.98

00:24:30.000 It's like, she wants to be a part of the stream.

00:24:32.000 It's like Cujo.

00:24:33.000 Doors rattling.

00:24:35.000 The promo code, by the way, is quarantine to get $30 off.

00:24:38.000 Huge.

00:24:39.000 It is MugClubQuarantine is the hashtag.

00:24:41.000 Do we have a hashtag for the stream today?

00:24:43.000 Not for this stream.

00:24:43.000 Okay, but we do have some drinking game rules, by the way.

00:24:46.000 Bring them up there.

00:24:47.000 Audio Wade, sound them out because I can't see what they are.

00:24:49.000 The number one rule is every time Trump says China, you have to drink.

00:24:53.000 China!

00:24:53.000 Hit the ding!

00:24:55.000 And then number two, drink twice if POTUS destroys a reporter.

00:25:00.000 Those are our two rules.

00:25:04.000 Destroyed.

00:25:05.000 Looking forward to that.

00:25:07.000 We're practicing.

00:25:08.000 He does that a little bit. 0.91

00:25:09.000 Donald Trump has a little bit of the Don Rickles sort of gross face. 0.73

00:25:12.000 You? 0.97

00:25:13.000 Huh?

00:25:13.000 You should go live in Poughkeepsie with a broom.

00:25:16.000 Call him your wife.

00:25:17.000 What?

00:25:17.000 He says what?

00:25:18.000 Huh?

00:25:18.000 Very clippable.

00:25:19.000 What are you talking about?

00:25:21.000 Don Rickles?

00:25:23.000 I've never wanted to watch a briefing more in my life, though.

00:25:25.000 Every time he does them, I love them.

00:25:28.000 They're hilarious.

00:25:29.000 Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I disagree with what he says, but they're always funny and entertaining.

00:25:33.000 And sorry we started late, but we started late because our president can't be bothered to be on time.

00:25:36.000 It's true.

00:25:38.000 You know, what do we expect here today?

00:25:40.000 What do you expect here, Joe?

00:25:42.000 Well, you probably ought to, right?

00:25:45.000 So I expect for him to get a lot of pushback on the executive order that he issued.

00:25:50.000 I think that will probably be one of the biggest topics of conversation because it's the easiest punch to throw at him right now.

00:25:56.000 And then they'll follow that up with the reopening and the challenges with that.

00:26:00.000 And then probably I don't know.

00:26:03.000 If there's somebody with some balls in the room, they'll ask about this study that came out of California and the death rates.

00:26:09.000 So we'll see.

00:26:09.000 Yeah, this is prime time.

00:26:11.000 I said if somebody has any chutzpah, they will ask that question.

00:26:15.000 I just don't know that that's actually going to happen.

00:26:17.000 And just so you know, we are not streaming CNN, CBS, ABC.

00:26:20.000 We're streaming directly from the White House.

00:26:21.000 So if we get taken down, you know that everyone here will be voting Biden.

00:26:26.000 There's no doubt.

00:26:27.000 White House, don't take us down.

00:26:28.000 We're here to help.

00:26:29.000 Yes.

00:26:30.000 So what do I expect here today?

00:26:32.000 And again, the promo code is quarantine.

00:26:33.000 Tomorrow we have Dan Crenshaw on the show, by the way.

00:26:36.000 And then Ted Cruz on Thursday.

00:26:38.000 Getting a lot of guests.

00:26:38.000 This is just a patriotic week.

00:26:40.000 People are getting a little bit pissed off.

00:26:41.000 You know what?

00:26:41.000 I think rightfully so.

00:26:43.000 I think we are going to look back on this time and go, gosh, What a massive overreaction.

00:26:48.000 So much... I don't know if you can even go to the HuffPo homepage there, Gibbon, but... Who wants to do that?

00:26:54.000 Today, 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.

00:27:02.000 I said, well, why don't you talk about what's in the pike? 1.00

00:27:03.000 Sure, yeah.

00:27:05.000 What is that?

00:27:06.000 Or what's in the headlines?

00:27:07.000 Maybe that'll be helpful, yeah.

00:27:08.000 Yeah, there's no anti-COVID...

00:27:12.000 Salve right now in the pike. 0.97

00:27:13.000 Sure.

00:27:13.000 Still, that's primarily what we're dealing with, but they want to move on because I'll get to a couple of them in just a while.

00:27:18.000 But we can't talk about what treats it.

00:27:20.000 No, that would be... No, we can't talk about what treats it.

00:27:23.000 That's racist.

00:27:24.000 And this is, by the way, so this, I think this is important.

00:27:26.000 The fact that... And I bet you they're going to bring this up with Donald Trump.

00:27:30.000 By the way, the executive order with Mexico to me is just absolutely... Great crises. 0.63

00:27:33.000 Are they startled?

00:27:34.000 Is that them?

00:27:35.000 I'm not seeing anything right now.

00:27:37.000 It's probably just a hot place.

00:27:38.000 Is that HuffPo?

00:27:39.000 No, that's HuffPo.

00:27:40.000 That's HuffPo.

00:27:41.000 The autoplay.

00:27:41.000 I hate you autoplay.

00:27:43.000 And a hot lady who looks like she just got out of the shower. 1.00

00:27:46.000 Stephen, she's real.

00:27:47.000 Yeah, anyway, if you go to HuffPo, you'll be able to see the headline.

00:27:49.000 So, with the executive order, some people are saying, well, how can you be against the lockdown, but want to lock down the borders?

00:27:55.000 Well, because I don't think that we should shut our country down and simultaneously have open borders.

00:28:01.000 I don't understand.

00:28:03.000 Why do you think that we should have the country, the economy open, but not the borders?

00:28:11.000 Checkmate?

00:28:11.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:28:14.000 Because I think we should open the country in an orderly, reasonable way, as you see with President Trump's three-phase sort of guidelines.

00:28:23.000 We can't be letting people flood through the borders at all.

00:28:25.000 Well, and also, not every country has the same kind of lockdown strategy that we've had.

00:28:29.000 They'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.

00:28:36.000 So you don't want to necessarily let that happen anyway.

00:28:39.000 I don't think it's a bad thing to limit immigration right now and open the economy at the same 0.56

00:28:43.000 time.

00:28:44.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:28:45.000 You know, we didn't really have to do it.

00:28:46.000 It's actually very smart.

00:28:47.000 It's more symbolic.

00:28:48.000 Sure.

00:28:49.000 But I love the symbolism.

00:28:50.000 And the symbolism is basically like it's the apparatus from Seven for the sin of lust.

00:28:55.000 Oh, that's basically what the symbolism is.

00:28:59.000 He did!

00:28:59.000 Donald Trump is saying, all right, listen, okay, you want to play this?

00:29:03.000 All right, I'm going to use an executive order on immigration. 0.66

00:29:05.000 It's more appropriate than a lot of executive orders that could be enacted, but I don't think it's going to be long term.

00:29:11.000 And this is just, again, to get them to go absolutely nuts.

00:29:13.000 But it is amazing to me.

00:29:14.000 This is one thing I bet you'll see.

00:29:15.000 It works every time.

00:29:16.000 The fact that it was front page everywhere.

00:29:19.000 If we're all in this together, then we should all be celebrating together when we get good news.

00:29:22.000 Sure.

00:29:23.000 Right?

00:29:23.000 If we go back, someone can maybe put together a timeline where the first time we talked about this, we said, hey, listen.

00:29:28.000 Oh, and by the way, I forgot live chat.

00:29:29.000 You were live chatting, of course, at the Blaze.

00:29:31.000 We're not doing live chat, super chat on YouTube because YouTube doesn't pay us anything.

00:29:34.000 No.

00:29:34.000 Why should they?

00:29:35.000 They pay us very little.

00:29:37.000 Oh.

00:29:37.000 Yeah.

00:29:38.000 So it's not nothing, but it's not little.

00:29:39.000 No, little being zero.

00:29:40.000 Oh, zero.

00:29:41.000 Like, absolute zero.

00:29:42.000 But they pay us in goodwill.

00:29:46.000 Really?

00:29:46.000 That's nice of them.

00:29:47.000 I haven't seen that either.

00:29:48.000 I was about to say.

00:29:50.000 That's pretty generous there.

00:29:51.000 Oh my gosh.

00:29:51.000 So, we should all be celebrating good news together.

00:29:54.000 By the way, oh shoot, hold on a second.

00:29:56.000 Even if you're, this is my favorite cigar.

00:29:58.000 Oh, is that the one?

00:29:58.000 That's my favorite cigar.

00:30:00.000 What's your favorite cigar?

00:30:01.000 Somebody get it.

00:30:02.000 I got rid of the band like a Philistine. 1.00

00:30:03.000 Somebody freeze it.

00:30:04.000 I don't want people ordering up.

00:30:05.000 It's a limited release from one lot.

00:30:07.000 Now they know.

00:30:08.000 Nicaragua, and I've said too much.

00:30:10.000 You won't get anymore out of me.

00:30:11.000 Really?

00:30:12.000 Hey, look!

00:30:12.000 I didn't even know we had a cutout back there!

00:30:14.000 That's lovely, isn't it?

00:30:15.000 I got Trump right over my left shoulder.

00:30:17.000 I love it.

00:30:17.000 So we should all be celebrating good news together.

00:30:19.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:30:20.000 And I talked about this with Ben Shapiro before we were talking about the mortality rate.

00:30:23.000 I said, hold on a second.

00:30:24.000 The mortality rate really isn't a consistent measurement.

00:30:27.000 We have to look at overall deaths.

00:30:29.000 And he said, yeah, but that'll just go up.

00:30:31.000 Sorry, I said deaths per million, right?

00:30:32.000 Deaths per capita.

00:30:33.000 Per capita deaths.

00:30:34.000 And you actually couldn't go per capita deaths any lower than a million.

00:30:38.000 Is that the starting line?

00:30:39.000 Well, it is for this.

00:30:40.000 Oh.

00:30:40.000 Can someone search what capita means?

00:30:42.000 I don't think it's per million.

00:30:44.000 You can do per thousand.

00:30:45.000 No, exactly.

00:30:46.000 But you have to start at a million, otherwise it wouldn't even show up on the graph.

00:30:49.000 Yes.

00:30:50.000 So, 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.

00:30:58.000 I have no idea what the numbers are in Botswana, but I assume they're probably not great.

00:31:01.000 Probably not great when there is no COVID going on.

00:31:03.000 And there's not as many people in Botswana last I checked.

00:31:05.000 I don't know.

00:31:06.000 That was the initial point I was making.

00:31:07.000 Correct.

00:31:09.000 I'm glad we got there.

00:31:10.000 So that's the number that matters.

00:31:11.000 I'm clarifying for those out there.

00:31:12.000 And I know Ben told me, he said, yeah, but that number's only going to go up.

00:31:15.000 Sure, but it's also going to go up with other countries.

00:31:18.000 By 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.

00:31:26.000 I 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.

00:31:31.000 But the mortality rate changes the more infections that you see.

00:31:35.000 Now to me it would seem to be good news when you say oh my gosh

00:31:39.000 way more people have been infected than we initially thought

00:31:43.000 because that means the mortality rate is far lower and most people are

00:31:46.000 asymptomatic. Well I was yeah I was watching CNN and they actually talked

00:31:49.000 about that as being... I know you watch them when we weren't on here?

00:31:52.000 No I do it all the time. So I was watching CNN and they were talking about

00:31:56.000 well it sounds like there are more infections than we ever thought as if

00:31:58.000 that were a bad thing. Yeah. But obviously it does change the

00:32:02.000 CNN you are such a disease. 0.99

00:32:04.000 Were you in an airport? 1.00

00:32:06.000 Look what you did, you little jerk. 1.00

00:32:09.000 Ryan Stelter, you're what the French call les incompétents. 1.00

00:32:11.000 And gay! 0.99

00:32:12.000 I love it.

00:32:12.000 But explain why that would be a good thing.

00:32:14.000 Well, it would be a good thing because it lowers the mortality rate.

00:32:16.000 So let me bring this up, actually.

00:32:17.000 We have these numbers here today.

00:32:19.000 This is a study, by the way, from USC, and of course Los Angeles, the public health department.

00:32:23.000 Not necessarily a bastion.

00:32:24.000 Like, I don't think they're funded by one Rush Limbaugh.

00:32:27.000 No.

00:32:28.000 USC.

00:32:29.000 So they looked for antibody tests.

00:32:30.000 Now keep in mind there are two different things, okay?

00:32:32.000 And this is really, really good news.

00:32:33.000 Now, still be reasonable.

00:32:35.000 Still, obviously, we need to protect the most vulnerable among us.

00:32:38.000 Every single life lost obviously matters and is tragic and we feel for them.

00:32:43.000 And the 9-11 firefighters, first responders, NYPD after September 11th, nothing compared to the nurses right now.

00:32:49.000 They are our heroes.

00:32:51.000 Nope, not even comparable.

00:32:53.000 Name me any other hero.

00:32:55.000 Can't do it.

00:32:56.000 Nothing even comes to mind?

00:32:57.000 Nope.

00:32:57.000 Nelson Mandela?

00:32:58.000 Nope.

00:32:58.000 Martin Luther?

00:33:00.000 The Incredible Hulk?

00:33:01.000 No.

00:33:03.000 Maybe.

00:33:04.000 I'm trapped between a not wanting to be removed from YouTube and a racist place right now. 0.99

00:33:14.000 But the white 9-11 first responders, can we all agree, absolute scum compared to the nurses and doctors of today? 0.98

00:33:21.000 Absolute 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. 0.99

00:33:37.000 I want to say that you want to walk this back? 0.98

00:33:37.000 Let me go back. 0.98

00:33:40.000 No, I don't want to walk this back.

00:33:41.000 I'm saying that you would be happy if they would celebrate that news.

00:33:43.000 I would be happy if they actually reported it.

00:33:46.000 Yeah, that would be nice.

00:33:47.000 If they would just put it out there.

00:33:48.000 I don't need a ticker tape parade for it.

00:33:50.000 I want to make sure that I have this right here.

00:33:51.000 This comes from USC and Los Angeles Public Health Department, okay?

00:33:54.000 They did an antibody test.

00:33:56.000 Someone 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.

00:33:56.000 Now, what does that mean?

00:34:03.000 Right, exactly.

00:34:04.000 Kind of like if you have mono, and I found this out at one point where I was like, I think I have mono.

00:34:08.000 The doctor said, well, a test really isn't going to help us.

00:34:11.000 I said, what do you mean?

00:34:11.000 He said, just tell me that you have mono, that you had mono.

00:34:14.000 That's why you can't test if it's current.

00:34:15.000 That's not scientific.

00:34:16.000 Because the only test that he had, I think, was the antibody test at his place.

00:34:19.000 I'm not exactly sure.

00:34:21.000 That's when I learned about antibodies.

00:34:23.000 That and the magic school bus.

00:34:24.000 And that little prick knew he should have stayed home today, but he didn't.

00:34:28.000 Never does. 0.75

00:34:28.000 He never does. 0.75

00:34:29.000 Follow your gut.

00:34:31.000 Hey, Ralph, stop talking about it.

00:34:31.000 Ralph, whatever his name is.

00:34:33.000 Was it Ralph?

00:34:34.000 I think it was Ralph.

00:34:34.000 I think so, yeah.

00:34:35.000 Ralph!

00:34:36.000 Ralph.

00:34:38.000 So back to USC, they looked for antibodies, right?

00:34:41.000 And 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?

00:34:54.000 28 to 55 times higher, the infection rate, than they thought.

00:34:58.000 That 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.

00:35:06.000 So let's just take those numbers and split them right down the middle.

00:35:08.000 600 deaths total in Los Angeles County.

00:35:11.000 So 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.

00:35:19.000 And the only reason that this matters is because they talked about the first gun death in Detroit yesterday.

00:35:24.000 And that's front page news everywhere, when that's an exception to the rule.

00:35:27.000 Whereas now, we are actually getting enough data to determine what the rule is.

00:35:31.000 It hasn't been trending.

00:35:32.000 It hasn't been reported anywhere.

00:35:33.000 So, if you just take those numbers, use the middle numbers.

00:35:35.000 Let's play it conservatively.

00:35:37.000 That means that the death rate, at the worst, is 0.25.

00:35:41.000 The mortality rate.

00:35:42.000 When you take into account, people have actually had it.

00:35:44.000 Now, let's use these numbers.

00:35:45.000 I think in Italy we know it was 95-98% of people.

00:35:48.000 who contracted the disease who were deaths, they were over the age of 80, or they had some pre-existing condition.

00:35:53.000 If I'm not mistaken, in New York, it was high 80s in some figures that were cited to 90-something percent.

00:35:58.000 Let'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.

00:36:08.000 That 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%.

00:36:20.000 Let's split the difference from 0.2, likely 0.1, to 0.02.

00:36:20.000 Wow.

00:36:24.000 What's the difference?

00:36:25.000 That's insane.

00:36:26.000 From 0.2, likely 0.1, to 0.02, let's call it, let's just call it 0.1.

00:36:33.000 Let's just go with 0.1, a nice rounded number, because you know you have to do a point, and you have to add a zero after the point.

00:36:38.000 It gets difficult at a certain point.

00:36:40.000 We don't have the math Asians. 1.00

00:36:41.000 Some have it referred to as a decimal.

00:36:43.000 But I prefer point.

00:36:44.000 It's like triple dot.

00:36:45.000 I don't have time to say ellipses.

00:36:47.000 What am I, retired?

00:36:48.000 I just say ellipses, so that's fine.

00:36:51.000 At .1, what is it?

00:36:52.000 That's the influenza death rate every year, is .1, right?

00:36:56.000 If I'm not mistaken?

00:36:57.000 No, I think it's .06.

00:36:58.000 .06?

00:36:58.000 Okay, so I'm not super far off on that, but all of a sudden you start to see that this has a much lower mortality rate.

00:37:02.000 It's far more comparable than people led you to believe.

00:37:05.000 I'm not saying open everything up.

00:37:06.000 It's not the same thing.

00:37:07.000 You shouldn't be responsible.

00:37:08.000 That's not what anybody is saying.

00:37:09.000 But here's the thing.

00:37:11.000 That's not what the President is saying.

00:37:12.000 No.

00:37:13.000 Nobody's saying that we should just open up and go right back to the way we were.

00:37:16.000 What we're saying is that you can open certain things up and take precautions and still live life.

00:37:21.000 We live life every single day under the threat of dying.

00:37:24.000 Our whole existence is to not die.

00:37:26.000 We have food, we have shelter, we have safety features and cars to keep us from dying.

00:37:30.000 And so we can surely manage a situation like this.

00:37:33.000 What are we supposed to do?

00:37:34.000 Lock down everything forever?

00:37:36.000 I mean, really, because here's the concern.

00:37:37.000 The 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.

00:37:45.000 Right.

00:37:45.000 Okay.

00:37:46.000 People think it might come back.

00:37:46.000 It should be noted, this isn't just a lone study.

00:37:48.000 It actually tracks with, we covered this a while back, the Santa Clara County study showed a similar number.

00:37:53.000 Yeah.

00:37:54.000 So, 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.

00:38:06.000 What, we're the biggest country that's testing that much at this point, right?

00:38:09.000 You have to throw out this idea of how many hospitalizations.

00:38:11.000 And also something that's pretty funny to me, not funny, I should say, not funny, haha, nothing about this is ever funny.

00:38:19.000 It's all a tragedy.

00:38:20.000 We shouldn't laugh.

00:38:21.000 We shouldn't go back to our lives.

00:38:22.000 You should feel guilty for even watching this and even feeling the slightest sliver of entertainment.

00:38:26.000 Shame on you. 0.96

00:38:26.000 Shame, shame, shame on you. 0.96

00:38:28.000 I shouldn't even be having this cigar. 0.91

00:38:29.000 How dare you?

00:38:30.000 And it's your favorite cigar!

00:38:31.000 But the point here is... I don't even remember what my point was.

00:38:38.000 One criticism of Trump has been that he's been talking about raw numbers.

00:38:44.000 So saying like this is how many masks we have, this is how many ventilators we have.

00:38:48.000 Yeah, the numbers aren't relevant.

00:38:50.000 Well, the criticism has been that we don't, that he's not giving how many we need, so we don't know where those numbers are headed.

00:38:55.000 Fewer, yeah.

00:38:56.000 But if they don't, but they're doing the exact same thing back.

00:38:59.000 Actually, yes, but the thing is, he has done that, and then they just excoriate him.

00:39:02.000 So a good example, when they said, you know, Cuomo said they needed, was it Cuomo or de Blasio said they needed 40,000 ventilators.

00:39:07.000 I thought he was wrong, where Donald Trump said, where do they need 40,000 ventilators?

00:39:12.000 Most hospitals don't have... We need to look into what's happening with these ventilators.

00:39:15.000 And they said, look, he's trying to strong-arm the states and intimidate them.

00:39:18.000 They topped out.

00:39:19.000 They had 4,000.

00:39:19.000 They didn't even use them all.

00:39:21.000 Oh, that's what I was going to get to.

00:39:22.000 I think we have this right now.

00:39:22.000 It just went out on Twitter.

00:39:23.000 Remember, they were saying initially, if you think you have COVID-19, what did they say?

00:39:27.000 If you were young and you have symptoms, stay home.

00:39:31.000 Do not go to the emergency room.

00:39:33.000 Then today, lo and behold, at CNN, they say people are waiting way too long to go to the hospital for COVID-19.

00:39:38.000 What do you want me to do? 0.96

00:39:40.000 You're damned if you do. 0.80

00:39:41.000 Because they're afraid of catching it. 0.89

00:39:43.000 Of course, because you told them to stay home.

00:39:44.000 And then you had to lay off health care workers. 0.86

00:39:46.000 You had to furlough workers because there wasn't this storming of the hospitals, this sort of glut that we thought there would be.

00:39:53.000 And now they have to say, well, listen, you need to get to the hospital right away.

00:39:57.000 And what really bothers me about this too, I will say, is I saw an article at Huffington Post today.

00:40:00.000 So I expect all of this coming from reporters because Huffington Post, CNN are one and the same.

00:40:05.000 That's a silver lining here.

00:40:06.000 They really didn't want you to forget about COVID-19 going into the election in 2020.

00:40:10.000 Guess what?

00:40:11.000 Neither do I. I want you to remember this.

00:40:14.000 Matter of fact, I want you to remember this come 4th of July.

00:40:19.000 I want you to remember all of this.

00:40:21.000 Look back on it.

00:40:22.000 Set a date in your calendar right now.

00:40:24.000 Look at all the restrictions, all the liberties that you've given up as an American, and then see if they were worth it.

00:40:28.000 And 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.

00:40:39.000 Or a car seat for a newborn baby.

00:40:42.000 To take them home from the hospital.

00:40:44.000 And these people protesting in Michigan.

00:40:45.000 I don't even know if you put them in car seats.

00:40:47.000 It's not like they're going out licking telephone poles.

00:40:49.000 They're driving in their car.

00:40:52.000 It seems to me that if we are concerned about the safety of Americans, you would want car seats for children.

00:40:57.000 Because far more children are harmed, I would imagine, in automobile accidents than will die from COVID-19.

00:41:02.000 And I think you're right.

00:41:04.000 But as Governor Whitmer says, screw them. 1.00

00:41:06.000 Screw them. 0.96

00:41:09.000 It fits on a shirt well.

00:41:11.000 It's just a picture of a car seat and it's Governor Whitmer saying,

00:41:13.000 bargain!

00:41:14.000 Nice.

00:41:15.000 Oh, we've got, oh, the hell?

00:41:18.000 No, no, no.

00:41:19.000 We have boxed wine.

00:41:20.000 Are you kidding me?

00:41:21.000 What else do we have here?

00:41:23.000 Andrew Cuomo said today that New York hospitalization is basically flat.

00:41:26.000 The overall curve is on the way down.

00:41:30.000 And by the way, who knows where the curve would be if they didn't add 3,700 extra deaths that we didn't test for but we think are COVID.

00:41:37.000 Right.

00:41:37.000 Yeah, and what the word they've been using for that on CNN is, presumed.

00:41:41.000 Right.

00:41:42.000 So it's like, yeah, okay, well, it's, and they're saying it's later diagnosed or presumed.

00:41:47.000 What a strange way to... Can we do this?

00:41:48.000 Can we play the game?

00:41:49.000 It's a mystery.

00:41:50.000 If you can do maybe on deaths, we can do maybe on infections and make the number even out a little bit.

00:41:55.000 Can we play by the same rules by chance?

00:41:57.000 But again, it's not maybe, it's a study from USC.

00:41:59.000 Yeah, well, I know, I'm just, I'm trying to use their words.

00:42:03.000 Yeah, use their standards.

00:42:03.000 No, I'm saying you're trying to jujitsu it.

00:42:04.000 I did, mentally.

00:42:05.000 But the problem is, they don't hold themselves accountable whatsoever.

00:42:07.000 That is a problem with the media right now.

00:42:08.000 There is no accountability.

00:42:10.000 What will happen?

00:42:10.000 They'll move on.

00:42:11.000 Jerks. 0.98

00:42:11.000 Keep in mind, do you know what was happening right before Corona? 0.98

00:42:14.000 And I mean, before it became, obviously, the sort of pandemic that we know it as now.

00:42:17.000 So, we have to go back even before de Blasio and Nancy Pelosi were saying, eat!

00:42:22.000 Out in Chinatown. 0.83

00:42:24.000 Do you know what was happening right before that?

00:42:26.000 Does anyone remember?

00:42:27.000 It was impeachment.

00:42:29.000 It was non-stop impeachment.

00:42:30.000 Do you remember what it was before that?

00:42:32.000 It was Russiagate.

00:42:33.000 Yeah.

00:42:33.000 Do you really remember what the main story was before that?

00:42:35.000 Really, it was Kavanaugh.

00:42:36.000 It went Kavanaugh and then Russia non-stop to impeachment and now coronavirus.

00:42:41.000 Right.

00:42:42.000 That's true.

00:42:42.000 You want to tell me that none of this is designed to try and drag this guy down going into 2020?

00:42:47.000 So 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.

00:42:54.000 But you know what?

00:42:54.000 You guys are trying to... This is entirely politicized.

00:42:57.000 If 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.

00:43:08.000 I 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.

00:43:15.000 Any other president... That's you. 1.00

00:43:17.000 Yeah, that's you, jerk. 1.00

00:43:18.000 You remember when you said that? 1.00

00:43:20.000 By the way, I like that shirt.

00:43:21.000 It looks better than this shirt.

00:43:23.000 No, 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. 0.98

00:43:32.000 They deserve to have their nose rubbed in the crap that they've been peddling for so long, but none of them will do that. 0.99

00:43:37.000 You don't rub your dog's nose in crap, you rub it in pee. 1.00

00:43:41.000 Is that what you did when you dog-sitted Hopper? 1.00

00:43:43.000 You get it real close.

00:43:44.000 Yeah, you don't rub his nose and poop.

00:43:46.000 He pooped on me the second time, so... No, he was fine.

00:43:50.000 Monkey see, monkey do.

00:43:52.000 He just got me out of bed at 2 in the morning and pooped on me at 3 o'clock.

00:43:55.000 Where did he learn it, Gerald?

00:43:57.000 Nobody's rubbing Hopper's nose in anything that he didn't want it rubbed in. 0.85

00:44:00.000 I'm talking about pooping on you. 0.95

00:44:02.000 I won't do it, I promise.

00:44:03.000 But anyway, they deserve that.

00:44:05.000 They really do, because they have not done their job.

00:44:07.000 And it's not only that they've not done their job, when they're called out on it, they turn a blind eye to it.

00:44:11.000 I really don't understand the psychology behind this.

00:44:14.000 How do you see very clearly a timeline and then pivot over here to something else?

00:44:19.000 It has to be nefarious at that point.

00:44:21.000 Hold on a second.

00:44:21.000 You don't understand the psychology?

00:44:22.000 I don't!

00:44:23.000 I don't understand how you can... Well, hold on.

00:44:25.000 I don't know how you can balance two things.

00:44:26.000 Sure.

00:44:27.000 One, saying you're absolutely after truth.

00:44:29.000 That's what balance is.

00:44:30.000 Right? 1.00

00:44:31.000 You could balance three things, jerk. 1.00

00:44:32.000 I was pointing that it was only two. 1.00

00:44:34.000 Okay.

00:44:35.000 Alright.

00:44:35.000 So, you could balance on the one hand saying that you are the voice of truth, right?

00:44:38.000 I think three things... The analogy would... Juggling would be more apt.

00:44:40.000 It would be... I'm sorry, I'm disrupting the... It depends on if they're a board, you know?

00:44:44.000 And like, you know, like... But you can say on one hand that you're after truth and make it sure.

00:44:48.000 Watch me balance these two chainsaws!

00:44:52.000 Three! 1.00

00:44:53.000 Three.

00:44:53.000 I get it.

00:44:55.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:44:56.000 No, no, no.

00:44:57.000 But you didn't want to hear it.

00:44:59.000 But on the one hand, saying that you're after truth, right?

00:45:01.000 And that you are for the American people.

00:45:03.000 And on the other hand, ignoring at every single turn obvious facts.

00:45:07.000 Yeah.

00:45:07.000 Right.

00:45:07.000 And it's the exact same thing that you declare that Trump is doing himself.

00:45:11.000 Obvious good news.

00:45:12.000 Well, and yet they've been unable to say that China has any amount of responsibility for this.

00:45:17.000 Shows that they're just using one of these as a weapon.

00:45:19.000 By the way, keep in mind, good news a lot of the time. 1.00

00:45:22.000 You can say that Trump is a bombastic ass. 1.00

00:45:24.000 Sure. 1.00

00:45:24.000 Far be it from me to disagree with you. 1.00

00:45:26.000 But 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.

00:45:34.000 What he's saying is, it's not that bad.

00:45:36.000 We're going to send them what they actually need.

00:45:38.000 They go, how dare you?

00:45:39.000 Turns out they only need 4,000 ventilators.

00:45:41.000 We're not going to see the same kind of like we built these hospitals.

00:45:45.000 They're not using these hospitals right now.

00:45:46.000 They're shutting them down.

00:45:47.000 How dare you?

00:45:48.000 Turned out they weren't actually all the way filled the capacity with hospitals right now.

00:45:51.000 He's going, listen, the death rate is going to be a lot lower as we increase testing.

00:45:55.000 How dare you?

00:45:56.000 I'm amazed that we can't actually sanitize these masks.

00:45:58.000 We have some very fine liquids.

00:46:02.000 Now, 800,000 a day, masks, recyclable, can be sanitized.

00:46:06.000 How dare you?

00:46:08.000 Anytime he tries to present a sliver of hope.

00:46:10.000 And I will say to the media, I hate saying, how dare you?

00:46:14.000 But 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.

00:46:25.000 Hold on a second.

00:46:26.000 I don't think this is bad.

00:46:27.000 First off, do we even think this is nearly as bad as 9-11?

00:46:30.000 I don't.

00:46:31.000 I honestly don't.

00:46:32.000 But then if you want to say this is so much worse than the greatest generation had it, can you imagine that for a second?

00:46:38.000 Can 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?

00:46:47.000 All of Europe?

00:46:48.000 Yeah, it's not Europe anymore.

00:46:49.000 Okay? 0.99

00:46:50.000 The 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. 0.99

00:46:58.000 But either way, we're going to end up with fascism or communism, and they're both going to be coming over the ocean. 0.99

00:47:01.000 The only thing stopping them at this point is Winston Churchill.

00:47:04.000 So 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.

00:47:14.000 You want to compare that and say that that is nothing in contrast to today's...

00:47:19.000 And I know that we shouldn't be belittling it, but let's be honest here.

00:47:23.000 It's not even close.

00:47:25.000 And if Generation Z feels entirely hopeless, thank the Lord above they were not the ones storming the beaches of Normandy.

00:47:33.000 Well, if Generation Z is watching CNN, if Generation Z is watching the modern media or staying on Twitter for very long...

00:47:41.000 It kills in that Gen Z demo. 1.00

00:47:42.000 That's his demo, man.

00:47:43.000 I hope.

00:47:43.000 I hope so.

00:47:44.000 But if they're watching that, then of course they're going to feel like the world is constantly in crisis.

00:47:49.000 Sure.

00:47:50.000 Even you can't go outside.

00:47:52.000 It's so bad.

00:47:53.000 But these worldwide things like World War II weren't really felt on the ground in the same way.

00:47:59.000 And just because every single day, CNN wants you to feel like you're in crisis.

00:48:03.000 But if you limited yourself to sort of what's going on immediately around you, life's pretty good.

00:48:07.000 I mean, like, first off, Generation Z is the least affected in the sense—in the least affected health-wise.

00:48:13.000 They're the most affected as far as the economic ripples, right?

00:48:17.000 That'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.

00:48:23.000 The entire economy is going to be changing.

00:48:25.000 I 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.

00:48:36.000 You'll see Generation Z be furious once they have to enter the workforce, but health-wise, they're the least at risk.

00:48:41.000 Your great-grandfathers, some of you grandfathers, they had to storm the beaches of one of the most powerful military forces, ruthless military forces, Ever.

00:48:52.000 In 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.

00:49:03.000 And 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. 0.87

00:49:12.000 Right?

00:49:13.000 They 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?

00:49:21.000 That was crazy.

00:49:23.000 Great times in the 20s, Great Depression in the 30s, and World War II in the 40s.

00:49:27.000 You're telling me that this is the same as that?

00:49:29.000 The Gen Zers had that kind of crisis to deal with? 0.92

00:49:31.000 And for a decade of that, you couldn't even have a cocktail!

00:49:34.000 Stanley Tucci couldn't show you how to make a Negroni because there were no Negronis. 1.00

00:49:39.000 And by the way, Stanley Tucci is full of crap. 0.99

00:49:41.000 A Negroni is the easiest cocktail to make. 0.99

00:49:43.000 He's not a mixologist.

00:49:44.000 One ounce gin, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari.

00:49:47.000 That's it.

00:49:48.000 You don't even need to add bitters.

00:49:49.000 People are like, oh, this is what I didn't know that I needed right now is Stanley Tucci making a cocktail.

00:49:55.000 Take that, Tucci.

00:49:56.000 Take that, Tucci.

00:49:58.000 We know you're watching.

00:50:00.000 My point is, is that this pandemic affects older generations more than Gen Z anyways.

00:50:05.000 So what are you complaining about right now?

00:50:07.000 Go away, BuzzFeed. 1.00

00:50:08.000 Stop doing your bullshit. 1.00

00:50:12.000 Sorry, these articles, like, everything is negative. 1.00

00:50:15.000 Like, can we look on the bright side of any of this?

00:50:15.000 Everything is negative.

00:50:18.000 I'll tell you what's negative is that you added a little bit of a Sicilian lilt to when you said bullshit. 1.00

00:50:22.000 Bullshit! 1.00

00:50:22.000 It's a bullshit! 1.00

00:50:26.000 It sounds like Pacino doing Jimmy Hoffa. 1.00

00:50:28.000 How much Italian do you know?

00:50:29.000 Also, both of you sound about as much like Jimmy Hoffa as Al Pacino.

00:50:33.000 You equally sound like Jimmy Hoffa.

00:50:35.000 Well, which one?

00:50:35.000 He did the voice differently multiple times in the movie.

00:50:37.000 I can be one, you can be the other one.

00:50:39.000 I'm not really sure.

00:50:40.000 Do we know, by the way, has there been the vote yet on the small business relief bill?

00:50:43.000 I haven't seen the results of that, no.

00:50:44.000 So that was supposed to be voted on an hour ago.

00:50:47.000 I don't know if we have the results because we're getting here ready to do the live stream.

00:50:49.000 If someone can let us know.

00:50:50.000 You mean the things that the Democrats should have signed a week ago that they shouldn't have blocked?

00:50:56.000 Well, listen, and I understand, too.

00:50:57.000 It's not just that they're trying to block, because let's be honest, the Democrats would love to spend this money.

00:51:02.000 They would love to give this money out to small businesses. 0.95

00:51:04.000 They're blocking it because they want to shoehorn in some other frivolous crap.

00:51:08.000 But that's blocking it for blocking its sake. 0.64

00:51:10.000 They're like, oh, you need something from us?

00:51:13.000 But it is playing politics for the right to say you don't care about small businesses.

00:51:16.000 The 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.

00:51:24.000 They want them to think that it's for the greater good to not be able to make a living, which is crazy.

00:51:29.000 Do your part.

00:51:30.000 All businesses, all jobs are essential for the people who rely on them for a livelihood.

00:51:37.000 Tell someone, well, I can't put food on the table for my family.

00:51:39.000 Well, that's not essential.

00:51:40.000 So the government wants to replace what is essential with government checks, with government stimulus checks.

00:51:46.000 I mean, Andrew Yang would do that for the rest of his life.

00:51:48.000 Even though he tries to point to it working in Alaska, you're really talking about a few bucks and a cup of coffee a month.

00:51:53.000 You're not talking about $1,000 in perpetuity.

00:51:56.000 Alaska's not representative of the rest of the United States.

00:51:59.000 Inuit don't even have the same genetics. 0.54

00:52:03.000 That's definitely true.

00:52:04.000 Hey, Steven, we do have an update.

00:52:06.000 Got an update.

00:52:06.000 Oh, do we?

00:52:07.000 The Senate approves $480 billion package to help small businesses and hospitals expand testing.

00:52:12.000 Oh, look!

00:52:13.000 And I guarantee you Schumer's gonna go out and blurt his name.

00:52:16.000 We did this for you, America.

00:52:17.000 We fought with the Republicans and we got you the best deal possible.

00:52:20.000 Oh my gosh, really?

00:52:21.000 Again?

00:52:22.000 You know what?

00:52:22.000 The whole pizza gate thing obviously was a propaganda thing.

00:52:25.000 It was a hoax.

00:52:26.000 It wasn't true, okay?

00:52:27.000 So I'm not going to be peddling that here.

00:52:28.000 But I will say, you didn't need to go with a lie.

00:52:31.000 It's enough that Schumer looks like Lemony Snickets.

00:52:36.000 Yeah, no one's gonna try and shoot up a pizza parlor looking for kids in the basement that doesn't exist.

00:52:42.000 Just, you know, say that he's a cook and lemony snickets.

00:52:46.000 That's enough.

00:52:46.000 You can just move on from there.

00:52:48.000 So 480 billion dollars.

00:52:50.000 480, that's good.

00:52:51.000 That's needed.

00:52:52.000 It was needed a week ago.

00:52:53.000 There are a lot of people right now that don't make the week.

00:52:56.000 I hope someone asks or Donald Trump talks about this.

00:52:58.000 Remember the swastika at the Trump rally?

00:53:01.000 We're talking about at the shutdown protest rally.

00:53:05.000 It was from a Bernie rally from a while ago.

00:53:08.000 What is it with Bernie rallies and swastikas?

00:53:11.000 Almost 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.

00:53:25.000 Especially if made in poop.

00:53:27.000 And 10 times out of 10, they're backwards.

00:53:29.000 Yes, that's true.

00:53:30.000 And believe all swastikas, right? 0.96

00:53:36.000 I do, yeah, he put poop on the wall.

00:53:37.000 I mean, how can you forget that?

00:53:38.000 Yeah, they're like, poop swastika.

00:53:39.000 What is it, like, you have a trained monkey running around, but you're winging poop on

00:53:41.000 the wall? 0.96

00:53:42.000 If someone is a white supremacist, I don't think they would paint a swastika in poop. 0.97

00:53:47.000 That's like being, oh, that guy's a redneck, that guy's a redneck confederate, and he's 1.00

00:53:51.000 wiping his ass with a confederate flag. 1.00

00:53:53.000 It doesn't compute. 1.00

00:53:54.000 He would love that confederate flag.

00:53:55.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:53:56.000 Line up.

00:53:57.000 He's using it.

00:53:58.000 Yeah.

00:53:59.000 He's not dry-humping the Robert E. Lee statue.

00:54:02.000 He's honoring it.

00:54:03.000 Not again.

00:54:04.000 Not again.

00:54:05.000 I don't know.

00:54:06.000 They're still, they're always running late, these people.

00:54:09.000 That's the government.

00:54:10.000 And this is what bothers me about screens.

00:54:11.000 This is why I hate screens in every single restaurant nowadays.

00:54:14.000 I'm watching this screen.

00:54:15.000 There's nothing on that screen.

00:54:17.000 It's a completely useless screen.

00:54:18.000 And 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.

00:54:25.000 Remember when we were kids how cool we thought it would be to have a portable TV?

00:54:29.000 Now we have affordable everything, and we still look at the screens.

00:54:32.000 It just says live stream starting soon.

00:54:34.000 I'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. 0.79

00:54:40.000 Right, yeah, Alec Baldwin with a shitty impression.

00:54:41.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:54:43.000 That somebody's going to talk, but that's definitely something that I've learned from TV.

00:54:45.000 Do you know how Alec Baldwin does his Donald Trump impression?

00:54:47.000 Please, tell me.

00:54:49.000 Six figures in hair and makeup style.

00:54:51.000 That's it.

00:54:52.000 Nothing else.

00:54:53.000 And a little bit of that pooching out the lips. 1.00

00:54:55.000 Speaking 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.

00:55:06.000 Somebody's going to come and get him, and then they took Alec Baldwin for SNL, and I was like, that's not even close.

00:55:10.000 Oh, there's some inside baseball.

00:55:11.000 You know about the SNL audition, right?

00:55:13.000 No.

00:55:14.000 What kind of star is that again?

00:55:16.000 Oh, you trickster.

00:55:19.000 You're not going to get the best of old Crowder.

00:55:22.000 I'm going to go find the rapper over here.

00:55:26.000 So we sent in some impressions.

00:55:28.000 We were told to actually communicate with some of them and send a DVD.

00:55:31.000 I think we actually had to send a physical DVD.

00:55:35.000 Nothing happened.

00:55:36.000 But what did happen was with the Jon Stewart thing where they said, hey, do you have anyone like this Steven Crowder guy?

00:55:40.000 But like, you know, not him.

00:55:42.000 Like, liberal.

00:55:43.000 Yeah, and my manager at that point worked with a lot of comedians who were correspondents on the Daily Show.

00:55:48.000 You know, not the man to be in Noah, the good correspondent.

00:55:51.000 And he was like, well, what do you mean?

00:55:51.000 Yeah, the real one.

00:55:52.000 They were like, well, we don't really have, like, political people on.

00:55:54.000 What?

00:55:54.000 He was like, well, what do you mean you don't have political people?

00:55:56.000 He 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.

00:56:04.000 And 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.

00:56:13.000 And my manager was a conservative, by the way.

00:56:15.000 He had an agreement.

00:56:16.000 He said like, hey, listen, they're putting a lot of pressure on me.

00:56:18.000 I said, listen, Andy, I won't give you his last name.

00:56:20.000 I said, I understand.

00:56:22.000 Frankly, 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.

00:56:28.000 It was starting up and I had a contract.

00:56:29.000 So I said, you know what?

00:56:31.000 Let's just say we're still friends.

00:56:31.000 That's fine.

00:56:33.000 That's good.

00:56:34.000 Yeah.

00:56:34.000 So I've had that.

00:56:35.000 But I guarantee you that they would not be fans of my Donald Trump impression because I think it's great.

00:56:35.000 I've had that happen.

00:56:39.000 It's not even in the same ballpark as Alec Baldwin.

00:56:42.000 That and the Bernie impression.

00:56:43.000 Those are probably my two favorites.

00:56:44.000 No, stop it.

00:56:45.000 It is.

00:56:46.000 You know what my favorite impression that you do is?

00:56:46.000 It is.

00:56:50.000 Yeah, it's good.

00:56:51.000 Oh man, that was good.

00:56:52.000 He just did it.

00:56:53.000 Gerald B. I knew it.

00:56:55.000 You might need to work on it a little bit.

00:56:56.000 You can pull it out any time like that.

00:56:58.000 I thought it was maybe a blobfish.

00:56:59.000 I work on it.

00:57:01.000 So again, the promo code is QUARANTINE.

00:57:01.000 Oh man.

00:57:04.000 You will get $30 off using the promo code QUARANTINE through the month of April.

00:57:11.000 Yes.

00:57:12.000 And I think a lot of municipalities extended their stay-at-home order until May 18th.

00:57:16.000 Did they really?

00:57:17.000 Well, does that mean we have to do more Good Morning Mug Club?

00:57:22.000 Gerald, please.

00:57:22.000 Well, this will be really interesting, I think, as Trump does pull back a lot of this, the sort of restrictions and stuff.

00:57:30.000 Curtain was the word you were looking for.

00:57:32.000 Yeah, the curtain.

00:57:33.000 Yeah, so as he pulls back the restriction curtain, it'll be interesting to see how different states respond to that.

00:57:40.000 See if they ramp up.

00:57:41.000 Yeah, if we actually see federalism in action, or if we just see people fighting against Trump.

00:57:47.000 In fact, here's the thing too, as it relates to, what were you going to say?

00:57:49.000 I was going to say, I think they should respond differently.

00:57:51.000 Florida should respond differently than New York should respond differently than California.

00:57:54.000 They should assess.

00:57:56.000 I 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.

00:58:04.000 I think if we all push we could make some progress.

00:58:06.000 I think we could.

00:58:07.000 I think it's a good plan.

00:58:08.000 I mean they have a significant economy, they can fend for themselves.

00:58:10.000 They should be able to.

00:58:11.000 That came close to separating, why not Manhattan?

00:58:14.000 Not even the boroughs want you.

00:58:17.000 Oh, that's terrible.

00:58:17.000 Lift the bridges.

00:58:18.000 It's not that terrible.

00:58:19.000 No, for them.

00:58:21.000 Imagine being trapped on the island once you've been pushed off.

00:58:24.000 Well, I guess, but it's good for us.

00:58:26.000 I don't think that's how geology works, but it's fine.

00:58:30.000 I've heard of continental drift, and I think this could possibly happen.

00:58:35.000 And by the way, the Canarsie gave that away for, what was it, 60 guilders worth?

00:58:39.000 Whatever it was, the old term.

00:58:40.000 It was like a ship full of pelts.

00:58:42.000 I think it was the Canarsie tribe from Brooklyn.

00:58:43.000 There were a couple of tribes that sort of were in Manhattan.

00:58:45.000 They didn't have a concept of personal property.

00:58:48.000 Talk about the one that got away, huh?

00:58:49.000 Boy, that little island that you thought nobody wanted sure appreciated in value. 0.98

00:58:54.000 All 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! 0.96

00:59:04.000 How do we let that one get away? 0.92

00:59:07.000 But we get our check every month.

00:59:09.000 They walk out of Manhattan and they're like, there's no farmland here.

00:59:12.000 Where's all the farms?

00:59:13.000 And we have to travel across a river to go anywhere?

00:59:18.000 That's a terrible plan.

00:59:19.000 You 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. 0.70

00:59:28.000 Take it when you pry this island from my cold, dead fingers.

00:59:31.000 I'm sorry, Ma, I want to eat, but I have to stand.

00:59:35.000 These pelts are so nice.

00:59:37.000 Feel your pelts, please.

00:59:38.000 It's so warm.

00:59:39.000 You can't get these pelts anywhere else.

00:59:42.000 That's awesome.

00:59:44.000 Still make his weight.

00:59:45.000 That happens.

00:59:46.000 What?

00:59:46.000 Are they bringing something up?

00:59:47.000 No, still make his weight.

00:59:48.000 Okay, so what else do we have here?

00:59:50.000 We have a couple of things that I wanted to get to.

00:59:52.000 Just keep talking.

00:59:52.000 We'll just keep talking.

00:59:53.000 The promo code is quarantine.

00:59:55.000 No, we're not going to be doing We may do, you know what, let us know if you want some more Good Morning Mug Club.

00:59:59.000 We may do half and half of the late night and the morning stuff.

01:00:01.000 Some of you guys like us doing the morning stuff.

01:00:02.000 It's a little more relaxed.

01:00:03.000 We hit stories a little bit earlier in the day.

01:00:06.000 It's fun!

01:00:08.000 It's fun!

01:00:09.000 But 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.

01:00:15.000 The first thing to go is my executive functioning and then my short-term memory.

01:00:18.000 That's how we get on.

01:00:18.000 So 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.

01:00:25.000 And 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?

01:00:35.000 with doing nothing? Yes. That's what I felt. Yeah. I understand exactly what you mean.

01:00:39.000 When you lay down to try and relax, you can't. Your brain is still going. And that's,

01:00:45.000 I think, the boredom part. And I feel like Donald Trump deals with those moments by tweeting.

01:00:49.000 Early in the morning, he's like, I can't be bothered with that. That's a good one.

01:00:54.000 and anybody you see.

01:00:57.000 And Biden just does it without his brain going at all.

01:00:59.000 He just shuts down the whole part.

01:01:01.000 Biden just drinks salt water.

01:01:02.000 It's like, no, you're supposed to soak the afflicted area in Adam's salt.

01:01:06.000 It's good for the bones.

01:01:07.000 Drinking it doesn't send it to your brain.

01:01:09.000 Eucalyptus.

01:01:13.000 I 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.

01:01:19.000 You know what?

01:01:19.000 I'm not on either of those sides.

01:01:21.000 I think he has some valuable insight.

01:01:23.000 I think he has some important insight, but people do need to remember.

01:01:26.000 I think it's on pause by the way, so we might want to make sure it's on pause.

01:01:29.000 People do need to remember that he isn't a business owner in the same way. He isn't an economist.

01:01:34.000 You can't only ask a health care expert. For example, when we were building this new

01:01:38.000 studio, we had people who were specialized and they were like, well, we want to do this with lighting

01:01:42.000 and this with lighting. We're going, hold on a second, we have to make sure that the

01:01:44.000 sound works. So that lighting grid doesn't really work. Or some people are going, well, we

01:01:47.000 want to do this with the air. We're going, hold on a second, we actually have to have offices

01:01:50.000 here and we have to have an edit bay here. Sometimes people who think only in light

01:01:54.000 in line with their vertical and that's why specialists are really valuable but that's

01:01:57.000 also why you don't make them a captain of a ship.

01:02:00.000 You don't have a Spock as a captain, you need a Kirk.

01:02:03.000 And so I think that Fauci is very valuable but him, when he starts getting out of his

01:02:06.000 lane a little bit...

01:02:07.000 Did I get it wrong?

01:02:08.000 No, you said Kirk.

01:02:09.000 No, no, no.

01:02:10.000 We just prefer Picard.

01:02:11.000 Oh, okay. 0.91

01:02:12.000 Is he the gay guy? 0.59

01:02:13.000 Hey.

01:02:15.000 No.

01:02:15.000 Sir.

01:02:16.000 Nothing wrong with it.

01:02:16.000 Nothing's unproved.

01:02:17.000 I would still respect him the same amount, which is very little.

01:02:20.000 Allegedly.

01:02:20.000 Is he actually gay?

01:02:21.000 No.

01:02:21.000 No, I think everyone thinks he's gay.

01:02:23.000 He's just friends with gay people.

01:02:24.000 I mean, that doesn't make you gay.

01:02:27.000 Thank you for clarifying.

01:02:28.000 I didn't know how that happened, really.

01:02:30.000 He just decided to Instagram a necking session with Ian McKellen to throw you off a scent.

01:02:37.000 I think that's what he's doing.

01:02:40.000 He's a performance artist.

01:02:42.000 He wants to keep us guessing.

01:02:45.000 So I think that Fauci needs to stay in his lane a little bit.

01:02:47.000 He does.

01:02:47.000 And by the way, you also do have to go back to balancing, right?

01:02:52.000 Or juggling.

01:02:52.000 How many things?

01:02:54.000 You need to balance people's livelihoods and people's lives.

01:02:57.000 And that's why it is relevant information that it's a 0.2 to 0.02% mortality rate with this disease.

01:03:07.000 That 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,

01:03:15.000 they aren't going to act like these people are effectively, you know, commie sympathizers

01:03:19.000 out there, Nazi sympathizers who are saying, hey, I want to go back to work driving

01:03:24.000 around Lansing in their SUV.

01:03:26.000 Right.

01:03:27.000 Well, and with Fauci, I mean, people, the media basically pulled him from his role as

01:03:31.000 a doctor into the role of you tell us what we should do about everything with the economy,

01:03:36.000 right, and the country.

01:03:37.000 That's not the role that I think he even wanted to be in.

01:03:39.000 And that's definitely not a role that we want a doctor in.

01:03:42.000 And 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.

01:03:52.000 Right.

01:03:52.000 And so it was just very disingenuous to me to hear them say, he's the best, listen to him.

01:03:56.000 And then he would say something they disagree with.

01:03:58.000 And they're like, oh, we got a fire pouch.

01:03:59.000 I'm like, what?

01:04:00.000 Right.

01:04:01.000 You're the same person who said we should just listen to him.

01:04:02.000 And I will say I'm really, really disappointed in a lot of concertos out there who so willingly gave up liberties so quickly.

01:04:09.000 I agree.

01:04:10.000 And 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.

01:04:29.000 When you look, I do think this is really important right now

01:04:31.000 because it's just, it's like, you know, you put a, what is it?

01:04:33.000 A 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.

01:04:37.000 Yeah, I do that all the time.

01:04:38.000 By the way, it's a really cruel analogy.

01:04:39.000 It's disturbing.

01:04:40.000 Even though it's peaceful.

01:04:40.000 Jeffrey Dunham heard me do this and it made it into the mainstream lexicon.

01:04:43.000 Like, ah, it's like a frog in boiling water. 1.00

01:04:45.000 Jeez, what the fuck? 1.00

01:04:46.000 What are you talking about? 1.00

01:04:47.000 Why would you put a, who are you?

01:04:48.000 Glenn Close with the pet rabbit in Fatal Attraction?

01:04:51.000 Can't you find something else?

01:04:52.000 Like talk about a room getting a little bit toasty or adding steam to the rocks in the sauna.

01:04:57.000 You're talking about boiling a pet?

01:04:59.000 Yeah.

01:05:00.000 Anyway, that's what's happened here.

01:05:02.000 It starts with social distancing.

01:05:03.000 But by the way, don't wear masks.

01:05:05.000 We've been saying on this show, hey, you know what?

01:05:06.000 If masks protect someone else, maybe you should wear some masks.

01:05:09.000 I certainly think that masks are better in public than eliminating all commerce, but it started with social distancing.

01:05:16.000 Okay, fine.

01:05:17.000 Then it started with, stay at home.

01:05:18.000 People said, okay, if we can do that, fine.

01:05:20.000 Then they said, don't, actually, don't support any of these businesses.

01:05:23.000 Stay home entirely.

01:05:25.000 Okay?

01:05:25.000 Then they started locking down businesses, like in Michigan, where now you can't buy tile, carpet, flooring, plants, car seats.

01:05:31.000 And people said, okay.

01:05:32.000 Then they started arresting people on buses and in public parks.

01:05:36.000 I 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?

01:05:45.000 That's gonna be America in a month and a half? 0.60

01:05:47.000 You'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?

01:05:56.000 But 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. 0.92

01:06:08.000 Yeah, you know, he tried to get on the bus, didn't have a mask, what are you gonna do?

01:06:12.000 Well, 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?

01:06:20.000 And in this case, we freely gave that liberty up to panic and fear, right?

01:06:25.000 There are cases where we need to come together and do extreme things to mitigate the disease or crisis.

01:06:30.000 Were you the Walrus?

01:06:30.000 Cases?

01:06:31.000 When you said, come together.

01:06:32.000 Come together, okay.

01:06:33.000 Oh, I am the Eggman.

01:06:35.000 I am not the Walrus.

01:06:36.000 And that necessarily... Thanks for clarifying.

01:06:42.000 We were all wondering.

01:06:43.000 Gerald, please tell us.

01:06:44.000 I won't tell you.

01:06:45.000 Now, this is a small hill that I will die on right here, right?

01:06:50.000 I'm gonna die on this one.

01:06:51.000 I am not the walrus.

01:06:54.000 Not the walrus.

01:06:55.000 That's his fault, of course.

01:06:57.000 But we need to make these kind of decisions.

01:06:59.000 You should hear him do his rendition of, I've got no babes. 0.93

01:07:04.000 I'll go further than you because I have a brass pair.

01:07:05.000 to the threat and that's the only thing that we're asking for. We're not saying

01:07:08.000 it's a hoax neither did Donald Trump. We're not saying that this isn't real.

01:07:10.000 We're not saying that opening up the economy doesn't have its

01:07:13.000 potential risks. What we're saying is we're trying to balance that more

01:07:17.000 than two things. I'll go further than you because I have a brass pair. I think it's an

01:07:20.000 acceptable risk at this point. Oh I absolutely do.

01:07:23.000 I absolutely think it's an acceptable risk.

01:07:24.000 We all heard you say keep the economy closed, right?

01:07:26.000 We all heard it.

01:07:26.000 I did not say that.

01:07:28.000 We all heard it. 1.00

01:07:28.000 I'm Mr. Walrus, jerk. 1.00

01:07:29.000 What are you going to put, like, a dubbit over me and say that I kept it closed? 0.99

01:07:33.000 No, I didn't say that.

01:07:33.000 Going all out.

01:07:34.000 I want it open because, look, we take a risk every single day.

01:07:37.000 Here we go.

01:07:38.000 And I think this is no different.

01:07:39.000 With proper precaution, we can manage.

01:07:40.000 No, no, no.

01:07:41.000 They haven't started this.

01:07:42.000 This is just like when you go to the doctor's and you're in the main waiting room and they take you into a smaller waiting room.

01:07:47.000 Do you think those signs say, like, attention and then, like, fake news media?

01:07:51.000 Like, they're little jabs at all the fake news outlets.

01:07:53.000 I wouldn't be surprised if it said, attention, Jim Acosta, your wife's home alone.

01:07:57.000 I hope I don't make a call.

01:08:00.000 Because she'd rather go out with me than you because I'm a real man.

01:08:04.000 But I would never do that because I'm a faithful husband.

01:08:06.000 But your wife would take the offer.

01:08:08.000 It would be tough to fit that header.

01:08:10.000 It would.

01:08:11.000 It would.

01:08:11.000 But all we can see is attention, so that's good.

01:08:14.000 It's like fake news media this way.

01:08:16.000 I could see that.

01:08:18.000 Donald Trump is the kind of guy, if he were a fighter, would take the trash talk to a whole other level. 0.62

01:08:21.000 Oh my gosh. 0.83

01:08:22.000 He would.

01:08:24.000 That's why I want to see that Trump-Biden fight.

01:08:26.000 I want to be like, I'm so bad I make medicine sick.

01:08:30.000 And Donald Trump would be like, you know what?

01:08:32.000 I bend your wife. 0.99

01:08:35.000 I'm the best there ever was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be.

01:08:40.000 I hear your grandma has cancer.

01:08:43.000 That's a great comparison.

01:08:46.000 When people do that, we tend to love them, right? 1.00

01:08:49.000 When they talk trash to people, and Donald Trump does it, and he's like, oh, he's just a prick. 0.99

01:08:53.000 I can't believe he would say stuff like that. 0.99

01:08:54.000 Now, is this just scale, or is that middle guy on a booster seat?

01:08:58.000 He's so tall.

01:09:01.000 Is that the reporter?

01:09:03.000 Is it being played by Peter Boyle?

01:09:04.000 And I know he passed away, so it's in poor taste, but it's not a stab at Peter Boyle.

01:09:08.000 I'm a Boyle fan!

01:09:09.000 Are you?

01:09:10.000 I was just saying he's tall.

01:09:11.000 Why would you try and hang on that?

01:09:12.000 I'm not!

01:09:13.000 I'm asking a question.

01:09:14.000 Cuckoo ca-choo. 1.00

01:09:15.000 Son of a bitch. 1.00

01:09:15.000 I'm just asking questions, Steven. 1.00

01:09:17.000 I'm just asking questions.

01:09:20.000 Why is there fluoride in your tap?

01:09:22.000 Well, it's actually because of tooth decay.

01:09:24.000 Right.

01:09:25.000 That's what they want you to believe.

01:09:26.000 But what do you believe?

01:09:27.000 The common answer.

01:09:28.000 I'm just asking.

01:09:29.000 Every conspiracy theorist is, well, that's what they want you to believe. 1.00

01:09:32.000 Go back to your People magazine and talk about the Kardashians' asses. 0.99

01:09:37.000 I'll talk about the real facts that matter. 0.99

01:09:39.000 What facts are those?

01:09:40.000 Questions.

01:09:41.000 Questions.

01:09:44.000 Okay, Riff Raff.

01:09:46.000 This is amazing.

01:09:47.000 They haven't started.

01:09:47.000 They're 45 minutes late.

01:09:48.000 It's a power move.

01:09:49.000 It is a power move.

01:09:50.000 Yeah, it is a power move.

01:09:51.000 It's like a, you will be- No screens, I notice.

01:09:55.000 So I guess they don't have a video prepped for us to watch.

01:09:58.000 Guys, listen, today I'm here to play nice, okay?

01:10:00.000 I'm not here to rub it in your faces and eee eee eee. 1.00

01:10:01.000 Oh no!

01:10:02.000 I told them not to.

01:10:02.000 I told them not to but they're doing it anyway.

01:10:03.000 And it has a VHS built in!

01:10:04.000 Listen today, I'm gonna show a nice. Okay. I'm not here to rub it in your faces

01:10:09.000 It just plays field of dreams Lesson will be red violin

01:10:25.000 Oh Oh, here we go!

01:10:28.000 Bricks, bought and paid for by Big Scarf.

01:10:31.000 Okay, alright, listen guys, we're going to play the drinking game.

01:10:33.000 We 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. 0.97

01:10:43.000 Because who wants to watch the briefing and hear a fat-closeted homosexual talk about it instead? 1.00

01:10:48.000 Drinking rules. 0.98

01:10:50.000 Every time Trump says China, or of course any time that he says testing China, you ready or drink twice if he destroys a reporter.

01:11:00.000 How long do you wait to come out?

01:11:02.000 Are you sitting back there like, alright, hold on, 30 seconds.

01:11:06.000 He's got his hype man back here.

01:11:08.000 He's jumping around.

01:11:09.000 It looks like a lady in a wedding dress is about to walk out. 1.00

01:11:11.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:11:13.000 Like the Gracie train coming out.

01:11:16.000 Y'all ready for this?

01:11:18.000 There we go.

01:11:20.000 There he is.

01:11:21.000 Thank you very much everyone.

01:11:25.000 I didn't know you were here.

01:11:26.000 I want to start by saying that our love and prayers of every American continue.

01:11:37.000 To be with our fellow citizens who have lost a cherished friend or a family member to the virus.

01:11:43.000 Amidst our grief, we're making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy.

01:11:50.000 Thanks 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.

01:12:06.000 Let's do a lot of things, but our medical professionals have been incredible.

01:12:12.000 Since we announced our guidelines on opening up America, as we call it, we say opening up America and we add the word again.

01:12:20.000 I think we can add the word probably again.

01:12:26.000 This is brainstorming, right?

01:12:28.000 Can we do that?

01:12:29.000 We can do that.

01:12:30.000 Send him back for rewrites.

01:12:31.000 They are making plans and preparations.

01:12:34.000 That was his punch-up.

01:12:38.000 In the very near future.

01:12:39.000 So that's 20 states.

01:12:40.000 It's about 40% of our country.

01:12:43.000 They're moving along pretty quickly.

01:12:45.000 Three announced today, as you know.

01:12:48.000 And they're going to be doing it safely.

01:12:50.000 They're going to be doing it With tremendous passion.

01:12:55.000 They want to get back to work.

01:12:56.000 The country wants to get back to work.

01:12:59.000 A 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.

01:13:12.000 A lot of money for all of them, especially for our workers and our small businesses.

01:13:19.000 My administration has worked aggressively with Congress to negotiate this critical $482 billion funding package.

01:13:27.000 We 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.

01:13:41.000 And very badly.

01:13:42.000 Very proud of that.

01:13:45.000 And $25 billion to support coronavirus testing efforts.

01:13:47.000 This is the most tired I think I've seen him.

01:13:50.000 I urge the House to pass the bill, and they're going to be voting on it, I imagine, very soon.

01:13:55.000 Okay, the only thing I'll say, is there a blur tool on his hair?

01:13:57.000 I think, Paul, we're here, so he's a very busy man, as you know.

01:13:59.000 Maybe.

01:13:59.000 It's an active blur tool.

01:14:00.000 It's getting a little more angular, I think.

01:14:02.000 Running 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.

01:14:13.000 Probably they'll be voting tomorrow in the house, but shortly, shortly.

01:14:18.000 And I think we have tremendous support.

01:14:19.000 That's one, two, three, four.

01:14:20.000 So Steve, please come up, say a few words.

01:14:24.000 Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for all your work with us to get this passed.

01:14:30.000 I'd especially like to thank Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and the entire Senate for passing this.

01:14:36.000 I'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.

01:14:48.000 Let me just comment.

01:14:50.000 We've had tremendous support for the PPP.

01:14:52.000 This gives us another $310 billion for the PPP.

01:14:57.000 We look forward to the House passing this tomorrow and being up and running quickly after that.

01:15:02.000 This 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.

01:15:15.000 Uh, also allows us, as the President said, more money to hospitals and an unprecedented amount of money for testing.

01:15:22.000 Now, 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?

01:15:31.000 And because they've cut off all elective procedures, which is where they make their money.

01:15:35.000 Now, let me make just one more comment on the program.

01:15:38.000 We have over a million companies that have received this with less than 10 workers.

01:15:44.000 So there is very broad participation in really small business.

01:15:49.000 I will comment there have been some big businesses that have taken these loans.

01:15:54.000 I was pleased to see that Shake Shack returned the money.

01:15:58.000 We will be putting out some FAQs.

01:16:00.000 There is a certification that people are making and I ask people just make sure the intent of this was for business that needed the money.

01:16:08.000 We'll put out an FAQ.

01:16:10.000 But again, the intent of this money was not for big public companies that have access to capital.

01:16:17.000 So, 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.

01:16:25.000 Are you going to be asking — I'm going to request.

01:16:27.000 You're going to ask them to return that money.

01:16:30.000 I'm President, aren't I?

01:16:32.000 And they shouldn't be taking it.

01:16:32.000 I'm doing it.

01:16:34.000 So, Harvard's going to.

01:16:36.000 You 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.

01:16:36.000 Good.

01:16:48.000 And I just want to clarify, because certain people on the PPP may have not been clear in understanding the certification.

01:16:56.000 So we will give people the benefit of the doubt.

01:16:58.000 We're going to put an FAQ out, explain the certification.

01:17:02.000 If you pay back the loan right away, you won't have liability to the SBA and to Treasury.

01:17:07.000 But there are severe consequences.

01:17:09.000 For people who don't attest properly to this certification.

01:17:13.000 And again, we want to make sure this money is available to small businesses that need it.

01:17:18.000 People who have invested their entire life savings.

01:17:21.000 We appreciate what's going on and they're hiring people back.

01:17:24.000 How 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?

01:17:33.000 Well, as I said, there are a million of these companies that did get it that are very small.

01:17:37.000 We're working with the banks.

01:17:38.000 We're extremely pleased.

01:17:40.000 Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

01:17:42.000 Do you know, estimate, how long this is going to take?

01:17:44.000 That other pot of money obviously went quickly.

01:17:45.000 and less, 60% by 20 billion and less, and the big banks also.

01:17:51.000 We want everybody to participate.

01:17:53.000 There's now a lot of money back in the program, and we look forward to all these small businesses

01:17:57.000 getting access to funds.

01:17:58.000 Brett, it's great to see you here.

01:18:00.000 Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

01:18:01.000 Do you know, estimate how long this is going to take?

01:18:04.000 That other pot of money obviously went quickly.

01:18:06.000 Do you assume this is going to go quickly as well?

01:18:09.000 Well, let me just say, I mean, you know, kind of we're pleased with the success of this

01:18:13.000 program and how quickly this got up operationally.

01:18:16.000 We've put out more money in the SBA loans than in the last 10 years of SBA.

01:18:22.000 So I want to thank all the banks that have worked really hard.

01:18:24.000 Secretary Gary Shanley.

01:18:26.000 Brett Baer, glad to see you here.

01:18:29.000 You make me weak in the knees.

01:18:34.000 We've already impacted about 30 million workers.

01:18:37.000 There'll be a lot more, so we look forward to this having a big impact on the economy.

01:18:42.000 We worked with the White House on this.

01:18:43.000 The Press The President said he would book into the issue of felons, those with criminal

01:18:46.000 convictions, getting access to some of these programs.

01:18:49.000 I'm wondering if you have an update on that.

01:18:51.000 Secretary Mnuchin Sure.

01:18:52.000 So we worked with the White House on this.

01:18:54.000 There were actually much more onerous restrictions in the SBA program.

01:18:59.000 There were people who had misdemeanors that weren't allowed to access the program.

01:19:02.000 It was much longer than five years.

01:19:05.000 And we very much, because of the criminal reform legislation that was passed and the

01:19:09.000 work that's been done in the White House by Jared and others. We specifically

01:19:13.000 designed the program.

01:19:14.000 You can talk when Donald Trump's not talking so much.

01:19:16.000 I 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.

01:19:31.000 Right.

01:19:32.000 Let them all out.

01:19:34.000 I 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?

01:19:43.000 Do you see a Phase 5, a Phase 6, a Phase 7?

01:19:47.000 What's your thinking on this?

01:19:48.000 Well, first of all, I very much appreciate the President's support for Phase 4.

01:19:52.000 He put out a tweet.

01:19:53.000 You hear that?

01:19:54.000 He did a smile.

01:19:55.000 I did do that.

01:19:56.000 The President's been talking about infrastructure since the campaign.

01:19:56.000 That was me.

01:20:01.000 Roads, bridges, broadband, especially broadband now to rural America is very important.

01:20:08.000 We've talked about incentives for restaurants, sports, entertainment, because these businesses

01:20:13.000 have been impacted.

01:20:15.000 The President has talked multiple times about a payroll tax cut.

01:20:18.000 And we've also, we're talking about in the case of states, the states we've heard from

01:20:23.000 the governors and the fiscal issues of the states.

01:20:26.000 If 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.

01:20:30.000 but don't make as much money.

01:20:31.000 Right, yeah, exactly.

01:20:32.000 What else do they fill their coffers with? 0.81

01:20:35.000 Bodies of small children? 0.96

01:20:36.000 Oh, wow.

01:20:37.000 No, I'm sorry, that's Whitmer.

01:20:38.000 That's Whitmer's Foot Locker.

01:20:40.000 Whitmer's Foot Locker was the answer, folks. 0.94

01:20:44.000 Especially later this summer.

01:20:45.000 Just real quick to follow up on the PPP program.

01:20:48.000 Is this the last tranche of money you think you're going to need for small businesses?

01:20:51.000 We would expect this is the last tranche, but obviously we can always reconsider that.

01:20:56.000 I named it that.

01:20:57.000 I did it.

01:21:01.000 And I'm really glad that this isn't just going to the big banks.

01:21:10.000 I am glad that this is going to small businesses.

01:21:12.000 But I do think if you look now at the numbers that we see for this virus, it's not a good source of spending.

01:21:19.000 No, we need it now because of all the measures that have been taken, but it didn't need to go this far.

01:21:23.000 I know it's an unpopular opinion, so sue me.

01:21:25.000 I think we should have taken precautions.

01:21:27.000 I think we should be safe.

01:21:28.000 I don't think we should need, uh, effectively... What are we at now?

01:21:31.000 Are we talking about a trillion?

01:21:32.000 Close to a trillion?

01:21:33.000 I think he said 600 billion in, uh, loans.

01:21:35.000 Just total?

01:21:36.000 Yeah.

01:21:36.000 No, total.

01:21:37.000 I'm saying if you add up both... Oh.

01:21:38.000 Both... Uh, we can bring that up.

01:21:38.000 No, no.

01:21:40.000 You guys can bring it up as an overlay.

01:21:41.000 The total... I don't have the number in front of me.

01:21:43.000 It's over 600... Well, either way, the deficit is sore.

01:21:45.000 It's between 600 billion and a trillion.

01:21:46.000 Yeah.

01:21:47.000 Yeah, either way, the deficit is going wild.

01:21:49.000 Yeah.

01:21:50.000 More evidence you should just open up the economy.

01:21:53.000 Let's let things go back to normal to some degree.

01:21:55.000 We had no obligation to do this. We put up, you can go to treasury.gov, full transparency on the money that had been

01:22:03.000 sent out on the PPP across states, showing all the big lenders, how it was distributed and distributed.

01:22:09.000 No one lender did more than 4%.

01:22:11.000 Showed the businesses.

01:22:13.000 So again, the President and I very much believe in full transparency.

01:22:16.000 We're spending a lot of money, and we want to make sure that it's done effectively and

01:22:20.000 fairly.

01:22:21.000 Sir, Secretary, thank you.

01:22:23.000 You started by thanking the leaders in the House and the Senate.

01:22:26.000 Can you tell us more about how easy or hard it was to deal with what's said?

01:22:29.000 I want you guys to actually see this stream because I know you can't access it on mainstream

01:22:34.000 news.

01:22:35.000 Well, we've been working around the clock.

01:22:36.000 I think there's been very good bipartisan support to get this done.

01:22:38.000 The Congress is coming together, understanding the importance of this.

01:22:42.000 And we've been working around the clock for days.

01:22:45.000 So this is important legislation.

01:22:47.000 It was a lot.

01:22:48.000 We spoke to a lot of people.

01:22:50.000 Mark Meadows has been fantastic, as I said.

01:22:52.000 It's great to have him here in the White House.

01:22:54.000 I couldn't have done this without him working on this with me and the President and Vice President.

01:22:59.000 Absolutely.

01:23:05.000 We 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.

01:23:13.000 This is a real example of the country coming together to fight this virus.

01:23:19.000 What is your best understanding of what Mitch McConnell wants from an infrastructure package?

01:23:24.000 Again, I think we're not at the point of designing that like every other bill.

01:23:30.000 Senators on both sides on a bipartisan basis.

01:23:33.000 I can tell you a lot of support, particularly for things like this, and especially what's going on today.

01:23:42.000 But the President has talked about, you know, I was on the campaign with the President.

01:23:45.000 We've been talking about bridges and tunnels and rebuilding this country for years.

01:23:49.000 So the President wants to make a big investment in this.

01:23:54.000 Mr. Secretary, what will we see in the $17 billion portion of CARES reserved for companies deemed critical for national security?

01:24:03.000 And also, will oil companies fit into that at all, per the President's tweet?

01:24:07.000 Small, yes.

01:24:08.000 So, we're in the process of putting out guidance.

01:24:11.000 By the way, oil was starting long before corona and is not directly related to corona.

01:24:15.000 It was obviously exacerbated by it.

01:24:16.000 The problem with oil is people don't really understand that with food, which I think is criminal, by the way, they dump food.

01:24:20.000 So that way, presidents don't go into a net negative effect with which you have your oil.

01:24:24.000 You have to pay people to dispose of oil.

01:24:26.000 So not only is oil worth nothing, but then it's actually a net cost because you have

01:24:29.000 to dispose of it properly.

01:24:31.000 Well, it's only May futures, right?

01:24:32.000 So June and July are much higher.

01:24:33.000 They're not negative.

01:24:34.000 And it's not just West Texas Intermediate.

01:24:36.000 There's Prince McCrudden as well.

01:24:37.000 Right.

01:24:38.000 And we look forward to both looking at what existing capabilities we have, and that will be something we may

01:24:44.000 need to go back to Congress and get additional funding for.

01:24:47.000 Similar to the airplane or airline bailout at all?

01:24:51.000 Completely different situation.

01:24:53.000 I mean, what you have with the airlines is, you know, we had a very, very good airline industry because of the virus.

01:24:59.000 As long as we end up with no Spirit airline, I'm fine.

01:25:02.000 They just need more money.

01:25:04.000 The oil business, partially because of the virus, but partially also because of too much supply.

01:25:11.000 But, 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.

01:25:21.000 Obviously, it's a pretty extraordinary situation when you saw the front... No, it's true.

01:25:24.000 Like, the UFC used to do that.

01:25:26.000 When they started, they put people on Spirit.

01:25:27.000 They would have, like, three layers.

01:25:29.000 You don't need to tell me that.

01:25:30.000 Not anymore.

01:25:34.000 Any thoughts on whether that money should be proportionate to the rate of infection in states so that harder-hit states- Wait, wait, wait.

01:25:42.000 Interesting, but way too early to consider that.

01:25:44.000 Whatever we do, we do on a bipartisan basis.

01:25:46.000 The President has listened to the governors.

01:25:49.000 I've had the opportunity on multiple video conference calls with the President and the Vice President.

01:25:53.000 We're reaching out to a lot of people.

01:25:55.000 There's a lot of states that have been impacted, but way too early to figure out that level of design.

01:26:00.000 I gotta be the big one.

01:26:02.000 If 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?

01:26:13.000 What can you do?

01:26:14.000 She gets a lot of questions.

01:26:17.000 Again, we're going to put up very clear guidance.

01:26:20.000 It's going to be really hard to catch people doing that.

01:26:22.000 Very hard.

01:26:23.000 What the certification is, what it means if you're a big company.

01:26:27.000 Again, 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.

01:26:41.000 And again, to the extent these companies didn't understand this and they repay the loans, that will be potentially other consequences.

01:26:49.000 Can you talk about what those consequences could be?

01:26:52.000 Again, you can look at the certifications.

01:26:54.000 They're quite significant.

01:26:57.000 Do you have an estimate of how many jobs have been saved with all the money that's gone out of the PPP so far?

01:27:01.000 Billions.

01:27:02.000 Well, I can tell you the PPP so far is over 30 million jobs.

01:27:05.000 And again, that doesn't account for other money that we've sent out.

01:27:10.000 And again, we're very pleased.

01:27:11.000 The direct deposits have gone out.

01:27:13.000 We've started sending out checks.

01:27:14.000 Something has pissed President Trump off.

01:27:15.000 Did you see that?

01:27:16.000 He's like, why would you do that?

01:27:17.000 Why would you ask that?

01:27:18.000 Why would you make that face?

01:27:19.000 So we can get money out quickly to people.

01:27:22.000 So everything that the President has had us working on You're telling me this isn't Gary Chandler?

01:27:27.000 That was a nice question, actually.

01:27:28.000 economy while we're dealing with this difficult time.

01:27:31.000 We need to confirm it or deny it.

01:27:32.000 In determining what small business qualify, a pimp was forced to give it back to the Fed 0.61

01:27:38.000 after backhanding a prostitute. 0.97

01:27:40.000 Ah. 0.99

01:27:41.000 That was a nice question, actually.

01:27:44.000 It's a good question, too.

01:27:45.000 Oh, he respected the question.

01:27:46.000 So the noble fight against the invisible enemy has inflicted a steep toll on the American workforce.

01:27:52.000 As we all know, millions of Americans sacrifice their jobs in order to battle the virus and save the lives of our fellow citizens.

01:28:00.000 We have a solemn duty to ensure these unemployed Americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods.

01:28:06.000 Therefore, in order to protect American workers, I will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States.

01:28:14.000 You heard about that last night?

01:28:16.000 They shouldn't be a denigrating role.

01:28:16.000 They shouldn't.

01:28:18.000 But we shouldn't exalt them until they volunteer as tribute to save the economy.

01:28:23.000 This was inflicted upon them by the American government.

01:28:26.000 Let's be clear about that.

01:28:27.000 Drink!

01:28:27.000 laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad.

01:28:27.000 That was a word?

01:28:27.000 Immigrant!

01:28:27.000 Ah, really?

01:28:33.000 Ah, really?

01:28:34.000 That was a word?

01:28:35.000 We must first take care of the American worker. 1.00

01:28:38.000 Take care of the American person. 0.55

01:28:40.000 I spilled beer and it went in my chest hole.

01:28:42.000 This pause will be in effect for 60 days.

01:28:45.000 After 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.

01:28:58.000 This order will only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency.

01:29:02.000 In other words, those receiving green cards Big factor.

01:29:08.000 We'll not apply to those entering on a temporary basis.

01:29:11.000 As we move forward, we'll examine what additional immigration-related measures should be put in place.

01:29:16.000 This is why they don't hear the press briefings.

01:29:19.000 He's stopping all immigrants.

01:29:20.000 First off, he's not.

01:29:21.000 And he also just said, no, no, it's only about people who are trying to reside permanently, trying to relocate permanently.

01:29:27.000 So it's better for them to talk about this than it is to let him actually explain it.

01:29:34.000 Well, either way, CNN is losing their audience.

01:29:36.000 If they play them, if they don't play them, they're going down.

01:29:39.000 Depending on the time we're talking about, we'll protect the solvency of our health care

01:29:43.000 system and provide relief to jobless Americans.

01:29:47.000 Today, Vice President Pence visited the hardworking men and women of General Electric Healthcare

01:29:53.000 in Madison, Wisconsin.

01:29:55.000 We're working three shifts a day to quadruple their production of ventilators.

01:30:00.000 We're way ahead of schedule on ventilators, as you know.

01:30:03.000 That's why it's never brought up by the media.

01:30:04.000 They don't like to bring things up when we're on the wall.

01:30:07.000 He owned all of them on that one.

01:30:09.000 GE is also working with Ford to make 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days, more than

01:30:15.000 our entire country typically produces in a very long period of time.

01:30:21.000 Doing that in a matter of a few weeks and a few days.

01:30:26.000 Earlier 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.

01:30:41.000 That was a work statement.

01:30:41.000 Testing, drink.

01:30:43.000 We'll be continuing to control the testing of their citizens. 0.95

01:30:47.000 Testing, drink, work.

01:30:48.000 We'll also manage their state and local laboratories.

01:30:50.000 They have a lot of great laboratories there.

01:30:53.000 More than anybody would ever have known, frankly.

01:30:56.000 The federal government will work along with the state. 0.97

01:30:59.000 We thought their laboratories sucked. 0.81

01:31:02.000 Who knew? 0.85

01:31:03.000 I knew about none of them.

01:31:04.000 And now I know about all of them.

01:31:06.000 I knew about some of them. 1.00

01:31:07.000 And frankly, I thought they were crap. 0.98

01:31:12.000 I stand not corrected, but there's new information. 0.99

01:31:19.000 I stand better informed.

01:31:22.000 I stand before you smarter today than you.

01:31:29.000 I can say very honestly with New York State and New York City, they've been terrific to work with.

01:31:37.000 The 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.

01:31:52.000 We've sent over 5 million masks.

01:31:55.000 We had 5 million masks, and now that number, as of about two days from now, will be more than doubled.

01:32:02.000 We made one big mask to go over the whole city.

01:32:05.000 It's more of a charm for the whole city.

01:32:08.000 Much more parachutes.

01:32:09.000 Covered the whole city.

01:32:10.000 and blah blah blah a great deal of ventilators

01:32:14.000 which people thought would be impossible but I want to thank

01:32:18.000 thousands of hospital beds And the US House of Comfort was sent, as you know, to New York.

01:32:27.000 And it was originally for more of a normal medical purpose.

01:32:30.000 See, this is good news, by the way.

01:32:32.000 You see, Cuomo, most of the time when he's been talking, he's been praising Donald Trump.

01:32:35.000 He's been praising the cooperative relationship that we have with New York.

01:32:38.000 That's why they don't run the press briefing.

01:32:40.000 That's why we're doing this.

01:32:41.000 That we know so well.

01:32:43.000 Unfortunately that we know so well.

01:32:45.000 I 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.

01:32:53.000 Think of that.

01:32:54.000 Other countries are desperate for ventilators.

01:32:56.000 That is accurate, by the way, with ventilators.

01:32:58.000 That's a big one.

01:32:58.000 Because remember, if you go back to two weeks, they were saying people won't have ventilators, they'll be dying.

01:33:02.000 And 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.

01:33:11.000 Javits Center has been A great help to them.

01:33:15.000 But 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.

01:33:26.000 But it was an honor.

01:33:29.000 They reconverted it after it got there into handling an event that they were not expecting to be handling.

01:33:38.000 The FDA has now authorized more than Fifty diagnostic tests, including, as of late last night, the first test that a patient can take home.

01:33:50.000 You can take it at home, and it's highly accurate.

01:33:54.000 LabCorp intends to make the home collection kits available to consumers in most states with a doctor's order in the coming weeks.

01:34:03.000 We also have four different antibody tests already authorized.

01:34:07.000 Tests will help identify individuals who can donate convalescent plasma, thus providing potentially life-saving antibodies to American patients.

01:34:18.000 It's a new element.

01:34:19.000 It is.

01:34:20.000 Dr. Hahn will be providing you with an update on these developments in a few moments.

01:34:25.000 He's done a great job at the FDA.

01:34:28.000 We continue to gain ground in the war against the unseen enemy.

01:34:33.000 I see light at the end of the tunnel.

01:34:35.000 I actually see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel.

01:34:38.000 That's his ad-lib.

01:34:39.000 I see we're on the way.

01:34:39.000 Just a little.

01:34:40.000 Not just a little.

01:34:41.000 Starting the process.

01:34:42.000 We're starting a very, very powerful and important process.

01:34:43.000 You could say I have been blinded by the light.

01:34:46.000 People are getting very anxious.

01:34:48.000 They want to get going.

01:34:49.000 Rolled up.

01:34:50.000 They want to get back to their jobs.

01:34:51.000 Like a deuce, but I would never touch it.

01:34:52.000 They want to make money.

01:34:53.000 They want to take care of their families.

01:34:54.000 So the light is getting brighter and brighter every day.

01:34:58.000 And with that, if I could, I'll ask Dr. Birx to come up and then Dr. Hahn.

01:35:02.000 Thank you very much.

01:35:06.000 Was that us?

01:35:07.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:35:10.000 So looking at all of the information across the United States, we do see improvement across all the large metros.

01:35:17.000 I know you know that.

01:35:18.000 We've been talking about the New York metro area, New York City, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Long Island.

01:35:26.000 She puts herself together very well.

01:35:27.000 It's the scarf.

01:35:29.000 Scarf's pulled together.

01:35:30.000 She's pretty. 0.99

01:35:31.000 I don't know, there's something about her that I find attractive.

01:35:34.000 The Detroit metro is doing quite well with significant declines now.

01:35:39.000 New Orleans is nearly back to their baseline of where they started for new infections.

01:35:46.000 We also are seeing improvements in Chicago and Boston and that has been a great concern for us.

01:35:52.000 And that's really tough to do.

01:35:54.000 I can't include anything.

01:35:55.000 She kind of just leans into the mic.

01:35:57.000 Excuse me, please.

01:35:58.000 Excuse me.

01:35:59.000 And Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Baltimore, Indianapolis, and St. Louis also appear to

01:36:05.000 be flattening.

01:36:06.000 The D.C. metro area, we don't see a decline yet, so hopefully all of you are still social

01:36:11.000 distancing and doing everything that you can.

01:36:14.000 I wanted to remind everybody of two points.

01:36:17.000 When we brought up and the President put out the guidelines for opening up America again,

01:36:23.000 it was very clear to use data and to really work together to mitigate against any resurgence.

01:36:30.000 And also, critically, to protect the vulnerable.

01:36:34.000 And 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.

01:36:44.000 And 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.

01:36:57.000 That's true.

01:36:58.000 That's true.

01:36:59.000 actually it's one of the highest STD infection rates.

01:37:01.000 That's true.

01:37:02.000 But as individual Americans, as we begin to open up, we also made it very clear that individual Americans

01:37:07.000 should be doing all of their hygiene and sanitizing, social distancing, washing hands, not touching their face.

01:37:15.000 It's true that they're not bringing the virus home to vulnerable individuals within the household.

01:37:20.000 And remember, those were to be the teams of all three phases.

01:37:25.000 I really want to call people's attention again to the guidelines.

01:37:25.000 No.

01:37:29.000 We are continuing to see outbreaks in nursing homes and in confined spaces.

01:37:34.000 And I think as Americans, we want to stop that.

01:37:37.000 And we have the ability to do that by really paying attention to the guidelines that were

01:37:42.000 to be in all three phases.

01:37:44.000 And so I'm calling on the states again to note that an informed community and knowledgeable

01:37:50.000 community is a critical issue.

01:37:53.000 Not very often.

01:37:54.000 You hear he just wants to open the doors wide, just wide open right now to the economy.

01:37:59.000 As if he has no plan.

01:38:00.000 Yeah, as if there's no plan.

01:38:01.000 That's why they don't air these briefings.

01:38:03.000 That's why we have to.

01:38:04.000 I don't want to be doing this.

01:38:06.000 I mean, we love you, but we don't want to be doing this.

01:38:09.000 Why would you say that?

01:38:11.000 We love them.

01:38:12.000 I'm watching.

01:38:13.000 Oh, we love him, okay.

01:38:14.000 No, the viewers!

01:38:16.000 I thought you meant you loved me.

01:38:16.000 Oh, yes, the viewers.

01:38:18.000 in our city, more vulnerable areas, among indigenous populations, and of course in our

01:38:23.000 long-term care facilities and prisons.

01:38:26.000 We really want to support state and local governments to move forward on these critical

01:38:31.000 monitoring to protect individuals that may be in the most critically vulnerable states.

01:38:37.000 We 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.

01:38:47.000 And so we really need to continue to unite and really, really, really support our health care providers who are

01:38:54.000 Is it just me or did he just check her out?

01:38:54.000 still on the front lines.

01:38:58.000 Did he like go, huh?

01:39:00.000 A little up down, yeah.

01:39:02.000 Lean back in.

01:39:03.000 I have not seen the relief that we've been able to provide in Canada because of the delay in hospitalizations and

01:39:10.000 deaths.

01:39:11.000 So, to our health care providers, to our respiratory therapists, and to everyone else, thank you for everything you're doing to protect Americans.

01:39:18.000 Dr. Burks is going to come up here with her scarf talking about social distancing. 1.00

01:39:25.000 Boring!

01:39:26.000 Awww! 1.00

01:39:27.000 Thank you Mr. President and I just want to echo what Dr.

01:39:33.000 Burks said.

01:39:34.000 He just checked out Dr. Birx again!

01:39:35.000 I'd much rather look at her than Skeletor.

01:39:44.000 Just the wonderful work that they do every day.

01:39:47.000 So 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.

01:39:56.000 If they're unnecessary, why were they there in the first place?

01:39:58.000 Oh, because HuffPo might write an article.

01:39:59.000 Please talk about the U.S.C.

01:39:59.000 Got it.

01:40:00.000 which as you know are antibody tests, which detect in the blood the natural immunity

01:40:05.000 that someone might develop in response to an infection.

01:40:08.000 They're saying it's COVID-19.

01:40:10.000 These aren't diagnostic tests, but these are tests that actually detect the antibody.

01:40:14.000 So 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.

01:40:33.000 And the antibody tests are just one piece of the larger response that you've heard in the America Returning to Work

01:40:40.000 plan that the President has, with the test force has developed. And this pandemic is

01:40:46.000 truly unprecedented in nature, and you'll see reports around the world of different antibody tests that have been

01:40:52.000 And I think that's a reflection of the fact that we're just learning and beginning to understand what that response

01:40:52.000 used.

01:40:57.000 looks like.

01:40:58.000 And many of these tests have different characteristics that allow to detect at different points in the infection.

01:41:04.000 I do want to address one issue that we are laser focused on at FDA, and that is in an effort to provide laboratories

01:41:11.000 and health care providers the early access to tests.

01:41:14.000 We issued a policy earlier in March that allowed test developers the opportunity to quickly get their tests to

01:41:21.000 market and address the needs of the nation as posed by the epidemic.

01:41:26.000 In March, we provided this regulatory flexibility to manufacturers, and here's what we required of them.

01:41:32.000 The manufacturers had to validate their tests.

01:41:34.000 We call it self-validation, similar to what many test developers in the world have done.

01:41:39.000 They had to notify FDA that they had performed that validation.

01:41:43.000 And 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.

01:41:53.000 And the bottom line here is that FDA still expects manufacturers and test developers to validate their antibody tests even under this revised policy.

01:42:03.000 Now, 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.

01:42:13.000 One 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.

01:42:23.000 I am pro-body.

01:42:24.000 Check the body.

01:42:24.000 Not of Ms.

01:42:24.000 Burke.

01:42:25.000 Tonight's comment.

01:42:26.000 She's a doctor, Ms.

01:42:27.000 And we will provide that information to you.

01:42:29.000 And we will provide that information to you.

01:42:31.000 Check the body.

01:42:32.000 Check the body.

01:42:33.000 It's nice, folks.

01:42:34.000 It's nice.

01:42:35.000 It's nice, folks.

01:42:36.000 It's a nice comment.

01:42:37.000 She's a doctor, Mr. Kruger.

01:42:38.000 And we've authorized four applications for antibody tests.

01:42:39.000 Open heart surgery.

01:42:40.000 And we've authorized four applications for antibody tests.

01:42:50.000 as we speak.

01:42:52.000 So it's not okay for someone to say that a test has been authorized or approved by FDA when it hasn't.

01:42:57.000 And we are pursuing them both by direct contact with the manufacturers but also at the border.

01:43:04.000 And so we have increased these interdiction efforts and we will continue to outreach and do that with the manufacturers.

01:43:09.000 Are you guys going to create crappy antibody tests and then try and flee?

01:43:13.000 Yeah, pretty much. 0.84

01:43:14.000 We will meet you at the border.

01:43:16.000 That's a good gag. 0.98

01:43:17.000 Like someone who hopped over from Amway?

01:43:20.000 Antibody tests, quick, let's hightail it to Tijuana!

01:43:24.000 No, not at my watch.

01:43:28.000 Developers, more than 90 manufacturers, how many of these tests actually work?

01:43:32.000 So 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.

01:43:43.000 They also said that what we're doing is we're working with folks around the country.

01:43:47.000 They had to fit in a negative question.

01:43:49.000 How do you know it worked?

01:43:50.000 Well, he just gave you the whole process.

01:43:53.000 Were you paying attention?

01:43:54.000 I'm sorry, but I wasn't listening.

01:43:56.000 Because here's what happens.

01:43:56.000 Right now they want a quicker response so they can blame Donald Trump.

01:43:59.000 And then if the tests aren't 100% foolproof, they'll blame him for deregulation.

01:44:02.000 Rushing it out.

01:44:03.000 Because Donald Trump was inventing the test with his test tube.

01:44:07.000 I have a beaker and a bunch of burner.

01:44:11.000 That spinny tube one.

01:44:12.000 I don't know what it's called, but it's spinny.

01:44:15.000 A flask of Erlenmeyer.

01:44:19.000 You may have seen reports in the press of labs around the country that have done that.

01:44:23.000 We'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.

01:44:35.000 There was a study out of the TA today on hydroxychloroquine that found a higher mortality rate compared to those who got standard of care.

01:44:43.000 I 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?

01:44:50.000 Did that change your thinking at all on hydroxychloroquine?

01:44:54.000 So 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.

01:45:07.000 And 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.

01:45:22.000 But the preliminary data are helpful to providers.

01:45:25.000 And doctors, I want to ask them to incorporate the data as we have it come forward.

01:45:29.000 And it's not definitive data.

01:45:31.000 It doesn't help us make a decision from a regulatory point of view.

01:45:34.000 But doctors should incorporate that in the decision making they make on a one-on-one basis.

01:45:38.000 It's just the timeline on the clinical trials and when we will be getting a readout of that data.

01:45:43.000 So, the good news is we have over 30 clinical trials.

01:45:45.000 Now, the settings are very different.

01:45:46.000 They're in the outpatient setting.

01:45:48.000 They're in the inpatient setting.

01:45:50.000 And also, I think very importantly, in what we call the post-exposure prophylaxis, meaning if

01:45:55.000 you're a healthcare worker or a frontline provider and you've been exposed to the virus, take

01:45:59.000 the drug for a period of time to see if you can prevent the development of illness related to the virus.

01:46:04.000 So, all those trials are in progress and will probably be early summer before we get a readout.

01:46:08.000 The President And, Mr. President, if I can pick up on that, all of these tests, I want to say, are

01:46:12.000 in addition to the tests that we already have.

01:46:15.000 And we have tested more people than anybody anywhere in the world, by far, by very far.

01:46:21.000 The Press President Mr. President, if I can?

01:46:23.000 Well, I think you wanted to follow up on the hydroxychloroquine.

01:46:25.000 The Press The hydroxychloroquine.

01:46:27.000 I'm wondering if you're concerned this VA study showed that actually more people died that used the drug

01:46:34.000 than they didn't.

01:46:34.000 Again, if you're not controlling people with heart conditions, which we know is an issue with hydroxychloroquine,

01:46:39.000 if you're just saying they're in really, really bad shape, let's give it to them.

01:46:41.000 That's why it's different from some of the 30 other trials and studies.

01:46:45.000 And perhaps this one's not a good report, but we'll be looking at it. We'll have a comment on it.

01:46:49.000 A panel of experts at the NIH is actually now recommending against the use of hydroxychloroquine

01:46:55.000 in combination with Z-Pak, which is something you've been recommending.

01:46:58.000 I'm always willing to take a look.

01:47:00.000 Fred?

01:47:01.000 That's a panel.

01:47:02.000 What about all the other ones?

01:47:04.000 The executive order will be – it's being written now as we speak, probably tomorrow sometime.

01:47:10.000 So will it have exemptions in there?

01:47:12.000 It will have certain exemptions because you're going to need certain exemptions, but we'll be notifying you tomorrow.

01:47:17.000 We'll sign it most likely.

01:47:19.000 Oh wait, drink by the way, that was on the immigration. 0.86

01:47:21.000 By the way, Johnny boy, I need a fill up.

01:47:23.000 It's something we have to have in this country.

01:47:25.000 So for the people who said it doesn't track with opening up the country.

01:47:25.000 We have to have it.

01:47:30.000 Well, I think it really does.

01:47:38.000 I think it's very strong, obviously, and it's countrywide as opposed to specifically, like, China or... There it is.

01:47:45.000 He even said it like that.

01:47:46.000 I love it.

01:47:47.000 Garcon! 0.88

01:47:48.000 We're out of beer!

01:47:49.000 You need to hit the dink.

01:47:53.000 North Korea, what can you tell us about the status of Kim Jong-un? 1.00

01:47:58.000 He's gonna die.

01:47:59.000 That 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.

01:48:14.000 The reports say, that the news is saying, there'll be a...

01:48:18.000 That's a very serious condition, as you know.

01:48:20.000 But I wish him well.

01:48:21.000 He needs one too.

01:48:22.000 We've had a good relationship.

01:48:23.000 I've said it, and I've said it many times.

01:48:25.000 If somebody else were in this position, we would have been right now at war with North 0.51

01:48:30.000 Korea.

01:48:31.000 And we're not at war, and we're nowhere close to war with North Korea.

01:48:34.000 So I just have to say to Kim Jong-un, I wish him very good luck.

01:48:39.000 I know, that's why I was trying to help him.

01:48:41.000 Good luck.

01:48:42.000 I mean, they came out with very, very serious medical reports.

01:48:44.000 Nobody's confirmed that.

01:48:45.000 It was CNN that came out.

01:48:48.000 So when CNN comes out with a report, I don't place too much credence in it.

01:48:55.000 We have an agreement and we have an understanding in testing.

01:49:03.000 They have labs, tremendous labs as you know in New York, especially in the Manhattan area, but all over the state.

01:49:11.000 And great, great medical schools and Because she'll wear it by you. 0.96

01:49:16.000 Her childhood.

01:49:16.000 I must have done.

01:49:16.000 a very good understanding. We're going to do very significant testing. You know, not

01:49:20.000 everybody wants to do such significant testing. Testing is good in some cases, and in some

01:49:28.000 cases it's not. You have governors that don't want to go and spell out any testing because

01:49:31.000 they don't get to do it in a different manner. Because somewhere in my youth or childhood,

01:49:35.000 I must have done... Do you know this?

01:49:40.000 Good.

01:49:41.000 Good. 0.99

01:49:41.000 Holy shit, it's a penguin. 0.99

01:49:42.000 That's far more money than in my opinion. 1.00

01:49:44.000 We have $25 billion. 1.00

01:49:46.000 Holy shit, it's a penguin. 1.00

01:49:48.000 That's a tremendous amount. 1.00

01:49:50.000 That's far more money than, in my opinion.

01:49:52.000 Sorry, I know I said that.

01:49:54.000 And again, already we're testing more by far than any country.

01:49:58.000 I think I read yesterday a report that we've done more than everybody else,

01:50:02.000 every other country combined.

01:50:04.000 And I think our people should be getting a lot of credit for that.

01:50:08.000 We've done a lot more than everybody else combined, and you never hear that in the news.

01:50:11.000 Now, in the spirit of fairness, we don't have the most testing per capita.

01:50:14.000 But the media uses different metrics.

01:50:16.000 They bring up the testing per capita, but then they don't bring up the death rate per capita.

01:50:19.000 I think the per capita number matters, and we are certainly significantly higher up on the testing per capita.

01:50:25.000 We're going to be reporting on that later on.

01:50:28.000 It might be tonight or tomorrow.

01:50:29.000 We'll give you an exact report.

01:50:30.000 You can send people who may be worried about the ability to bring immediate family members in.

01:50:35.000 No, I think it's been covered pretty accurately in this case.

01:50:37.000 I think most people know what it is and some people will be able to get in.

01:50:41.000 We have to do that.

01:50:42.000 By 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.

01:50:52.000 Three.

01:50:53.000 An average of three underlying conditions.

01:50:56.000 Not the median.

01:50:58.000 Not the mean.

01:50:59.000 This guy again.

01:51:01.000 The average.

01:51:03.000 I don't think so.

01:51:03.000 They're not supposed to be here.

01:51:04.000 You're saying they're here illegally?

01:51:05.000 Is that what you're saying?

01:51:06.000 Well, for example, if an immigrant is here for a court order, right? 1.00

01:51:11.000 Are they at risk of deportation?

01:51:12.000 Well, a court order.

01:51:12.000 Then you have to go to court.

01:51:14.000 So then the judge would make a determination as to whether or not they're going to be staying.

01:51:17.000 But if they have a court order, They won't have to leave until they go through that process.

01:51:21.000 So we'll see what happens.

01:51:22.000 But with the court, and there are some with court orders, that means they have a trial coming up.

01:51:27.000 Please.

01:51:27.000 So obviously, on the immigration executive order, you've raised concern for a long time, even in good economic times about immigrants taking Americans jobs.

01:51:37.000 So under what conditions would you consider lifting this halt on immigration?

01:51:42.000 Yeah.

01:51:44.000 Is this sort of an opportunity to address what you've seen as a problem for a long time?

01:51:48.000 Well, I think, look, right now, obviously, there's never been.

01:51:51.000 We had the greatest economy in the world, and then one day we had to shut it down.

01:51:54.000 They said, you have to shut it down.

01:51:56.000 We did the right thing, because I think we would have had a million, or maybe even two million, or maybe more than that death.

01:52:02.000 So we did the right thing.

01:52:04.000 I don't think so, but either.

01:52:05.000 Certainly, this would pertain.

01:52:07.000 I mean, when you look at it, right now, the last thing we want to do is take American workers' jobs.

01:52:12.000 It's one thing when we were essentially, they used to call it full employment, and it's another thing right now.

01:52:18.000 Right now, we have people that have lost their jobs, and we hope they're going to come back and come back fast.

01:52:22.000 I 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.

01:52:30.000 That's why they don't run these press briefings.

01:52:31.000 Well, we'll have to see.

01:52:33.000 I mean, I hope we're in that position to have that debate.

01:52:35.000 Right now, we're not in that position.

01:52:38.000 Right now, we closed down the largest economy, the greatest economy in the history of the world.

01:52:43.000 It's the most successful economy when you look at the time.

01:52:47.000 I mean, we're breaking records virtually every week, sometimes every day.

01:52:52.000 And the stock market is still not doing badly, considering what this country has been through,

01:52:58.000 which really tells you how strong it was in the first place.

01:53:01.000 But, no, I hope we're going to be able to have that discussion.

01:53:03.000 I hope we're in a position.

01:53:04.000 That's like a good discussion to have.

01:53:06.000 But that will be a little bit later.

01:53:07.000 Brett.

01:53:08.000 The Press.

01:53:09.000 The Press.

01:53:09.000 I have a question for Dr. Birx about the CDC director said in an interview that perhaps

01:53:14.000 this second wave of coronavirus in the fall could be worse because it is timed with the

01:53:19.000 seasonal flu.

01:53:20.000 I'm just wondering if you could talk about that.

01:53:22.000 And talk about that in context as you're opening up the country.

01:53:25.000 Dr. Birx.

01:53:26.000 Dr. Birx.

01:53:26.000 The President.

01:53:27.000 So we were very clear in the guidelines that we believe we can monitor, again,

01:53:32.000 monitor communities at the community level by using the influenza-like illness.

01:53:38.000 And the syndromic respiratory and gastrointestinal components of this.

01:53:42.000 Oh, good.

01:53:43.000 This particular virus.

01:53:43.000 I was hoping we would use those components.

01:53:45.000 Obviously when we have flu, we're going to, and we're working on an algorithm that you test for flu.

01:53:52.000 Just completely gone!

01:53:53.000 Making 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.

01:54:08.000 So we need to have testing in place to be able to separate and ensure those patients receive the best treatment.

01:54:16.000 We'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.

01:54:25.000 We're less prepared for that time, thinking we'll come back together.

01:54:31.000 Gerald, that's not scary.

01:54:33.000 No, I don't know if that's true.

01:54:35.000 That's absolutely true.

01:54:36.000 That's what happened in 1918 in Volenda.

01:54:37.000 Listen, I'm reading a book right now.

01:54:38.000 I feel like I'm smart.

01:54:39.000 It's the first book.

01:54:40.000 Sounds weird, yeah.

01:54:40.000 Notre Dame didn't make me read one.

01:54:43.000 No pictures at all.

01:54:44.000 Just two pictures.

01:54:45.000 Per page.

01:54:45.000 A lot of pop-ups, though.

01:54:45.000 Well, it changes.

01:54:46.000 And that's why he's not stopping the ventilator works.

01:54:49.000 It's very important that we have a completely refreshed and a comprehensive stockpile going into the fall.

01:54:56.000 And I think that's why we continue to be in a situation that's sort of mutating

01:55:02.000 and that's sort of the down time that we see is that there will be other opportunities for us.

01:55:08.000 So I'm gonna put this out full show.

01:55:09.000 Anyone who speaks French out there, let us know what that means.

01:55:12.000 If you're in the Blaze chat, you'll get a free thing.

01:55:14.000 You just couldn't come back.

01:55:16.000 I feel worse in the fall.

01:55:18.000 I don't know if it will be worse.

01:55:19.000 I think this has been pretty bad.

01:55:22.000 When you see what has happened in New York, that was very bad.

01:55:26.000 I believe that we'll have early warning signals, both from our surveillance that we've been talking about on the vulnerable populations.

01:55:35.000 We're going to continue that surveillance from now all the way through the fall to be

01:55:39.000 able to give us that early warning signal.

01:55:41.000 I think what we've learned is how good Americans are about immediately reverting to all of 0.57

01:55:46.000 those issues that they need to do in order to ensure that they're protected and their

01:55:50.000 families.

01:55:51.000 Q And Mr. President, what do you say to the concerns like Georgia is opening up barber

01:55:56.000 shops and bowling alleys and the like?

01:55:58.000 And you saw Lindsey Graham is saying he's concerned that Georgia may be going too far,

01:56:02.000 too fast and could affect people in South Carolina.

01:56:05.000 Obviously, people travel back and forth between states.

01:56:08.000 How do you protect the people of South Carolina, for example, from a potentially bad decision by a governor in Georgia?

01:56:16.000 So he's a very capable man.

01:56:18.000 He knows what he's doing.

01:56:19.000 He's done a very good job as governor, Georgia.

01:56:22.000 And by the way, and South Carolina.

01:56:25.000 Governor McMaster also.

01:56:27.000 So you have two very capable people.

01:56:28.000 We're going to find out.

01:56:29.000 And in fact, I'm scheduled to speak to the governor of Georgia in a little while.

01:56:33.000 But we'll find out.

01:56:35.000 With Graham's concern that what happens in Georgia could affect South Carolina.

01:56:38.000 Well, everybody.

01:56:38.000 I have a concern about what happens everywhere.

01:56:40.000 I mean, we've got those concerns.

01:56:42.000 It's not just Georgia.

01:56:45.000 Things are happening.

01:56:48.000 I'm concerned about it.

01:56:50.000 We have 49 other states.

01:56:52.000 And I think about them also.

01:56:55.000 When you look at what's happening, when you look at the numbers coming down, a lot of states are in really great shape.

01:57:01.000 You're going to see a lot of openings.

01:57:03.000 But I'll be speaking to the governor of Georgia in a little while.

01:57:05.000 Mr. 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?

01:57:17.000 Well, 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.

01:57:25.000 It's going to be gone at some point.

01:57:27.000 It's going to be gone, gone.

01:57:30.000 I hope that the economy is going to be great by that time, but we'll see.

01:57:34.000 Donald Trump said it would miraculously be gone.

01:57:36.000 Your executive order is the last 60 days.

01:57:39.000 No executive order.

01:57:40.000 It'll be gone.

01:57:41.000 Well, it'll be here first.

01:57:42.000 This will be far from gone gone.

01:57:44.000 I'm going to go crawl back into my Casper and eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's.

01:57:49.000 I hope that the economy is going to be great by that time, but we'll see.

01:57:53.000 But right now, in light of the fact that Americans are out of jobs, I can't be taken in.

01:57:58.000 Could you roll it for another 60 days?

01:58:01.000 Well, I could, or I could roll it for 30 days, or I could roll it for much more than 60 days.

01:58:05.000 We'll have to take a look at the time, but we'll be looking at 60 days, and we'll see what it is.

01:58:09.000 Yeah, Mr. President.

01:58:10.000 Mr. President.

01:58:11.000 On your immigration order.

01:58:12.000 On your immigration order.

01:58:13.000 Drink.

01:58:14.000 Immigration.

01:58:15.000 So you go.

01:58:16.000 Why don't you go and then you.

01:58:17.000 Okay, on my immigration order.

01:58:18.000 There is reporting that you may actually sign a second order to even limit more of those exemptions that you were just talking about.

01:58:24.000 Can you confirm that you are considering?

01:58:26.000 It could happen if I want, but I won't be doing it tomorrow.

01:58:30.000 I'll be signing the primary order, and then we have a secondary order that if I want to do that, we'll make that determination.

01:58:35.000 We can do that.

01:58:36.000 Yeah, we can do that at a little bit different time if we want.

01:58:38.000 But that is under consideration at this time, a second order?

01:58:41.000 Yeah, sure.

01:58:41.000 Secondary orders, yeah.

01:58:44.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:58:44.000 I have two questions.

01:58:45.000 This is not a hostile briefing room.

01:58:48.000 There will be some highlights that will be taken where he's gotten testy, and that's what the media runs for.

01:58:52.000 That's why they don't want you to watch these.

01:58:54.000 My first question is about your immigration order.

01:58:57.000 You campaigned on reducing legal immigration.

01:58:59.000 I remember your speech in Phoenix in 2016 on reducing legal immigration.

01:59:03.000 I campaigned for legal and illegal, but no, I've always said you have to come into the country legally. 0.98

01:59:09.000 Drink.

01:59:09.000 That's three drinks.

01:59:10.000 What I campaigned on was people just flooding our border and stopping.

01:59:14.000 And by the way, speaking of that, we have 170 miles, almost 170 miles of very powerful border wall up.

01:59:21.000 And it's moving rapidly, very quickly.

01:59:23.000 And it's having a tremendous impact.

01:59:24.000 Best wall in history.

01:59:25.000 And it's making our job a lot easier.

01:59:27.000 Plus, Mexico has 27,000 soldiers right now on our southern border that we share with them.

01:59:33.000 And Mexico's been terrific.

01:59:35.000 They've really helped.

01:59:35.000 You 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.

01:59:49.000 No, no.

01:59:50.000 Well, I want people that are in this country, I want our citizens to get jobs. 1.00

01:59:54.000 I don't want them to have competition.

01:59:56.000 We have a very unusual situation where something came in that nobody has seen for many, many Decades.

02:00:04.000 Probably 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.

02:00:10.000 So, no, I'm not, I'm not doing that at all.

02:00:13.000 I want, I want the American worker and the American, our American citizens to be able to get jobs.

02:00:19.000 I don't want them to compete right now.

02:00:20.000 There'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.

02:00:29.000 That's a big difference between that and where all of a sudden a lot of people lose jobs.

02:00:34.000 As you know, a lot of farmers rely on seasonal migrant workers.

02:00:37.000 Well, that's not going to be affected.

02:00:39.000 Migrant stream, yeah. 0.97

02:00:39.000 Farmers will not be, that's an important point. 0.97

02:00:41.000 The farmers will not be affected.

02:00:42.000 Please just let the drinking game rolls up really quickly.

02:00:44.000 That's a very important point.

02:00:45.000 I mean, it's a great point, actually.

02:00:47.000 I'm glad you brought it up.

02:00:48.000 You're destroying our border in China.

02:00:50.000 Immigration was not on the list! 1.00

02:00:52.000 It should have been.

02:00:54.000 You're on the Stephen list.

02:00:56.000 I've had to drink great craft beer without needing to.

02:00:58.000 No.

02:00:59.000 It's true.

02:00:59.000 as you remember that, right?

02:01:00.000 It's on the front of the law.

02:01:01.000 That's true.

02:01:02.000 It's easy, you know, it's easy to stop everything cold.

02:01:04.000 You put your names on them too.

02:01:05.000 But it is to plan it so that the farmers have the people that have been working on those

02:01:09.000 farms for many years.

02:01:11.000 And that's what we're doing.

02:01:12.000 No, the farmers will not be affected by this at all.

02:01:15.000 If anything, we're going to make it easier and we're doing a process that will make it

02:01:18.000 better for those workers to come in to go to the farm where they've been for a long

02:01:23.000 Now, for a question for reporters out of the room, this is from the Washington Times.

02:01:26.000 Tom Howell.

02:01:28.000 Why hasn't the CDC, the federal government's main disease-fighting agency, had a more public-facing role in the pandemic?

02:01:34.000 It was holding regular media calls early on.

02:01:37.000 And he's got a camera around his neck.

02:01:38.000 It's very stereotypical.

02:01:40.000 Well, I can tell you that the CDC has been terrific.

02:01:42.000 We've worked with them very closely.

02:01:45.000 They were very much involved, even in the border decision that I made last night.

02:01:51.000 The director's doing a good job.

02:01:55.000 We 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?

02:02:07.000 He's been here, he's been sitting here, he's been speaking a lot.

02:02:10.000 No, no, CDC is very much involved.

02:02:12.000 everything we've done. What do you think? People want to get back to work. And I've

02:02:29.000 watched some of the protests, not in great detail, but I've seen that and they're separated.

02:02:35.000 There's a lot of space in between.

02:02:37.000 I mean, they're watching, believe it or not.

02:02:39.000 This is where Donald Trump wins middle-American voters.

02:02:41.000 They're doing social distancing, if you can believe it.

02:02:42.000 Instead of demonizing them, instead of belittling them, he says, I understand that these people want to work.

02:02:47.000 They're very much spread out, so I think that's good.

02:02:51.000 Yeah, he looks really good.

02:02:52.000 They want to get back to work.

02:02:53.000 They got to make a living.

02:02:54.000 They have to take care of their family.

02:02:56.000 They don't want to do this.

02:02:57.000 It's you know, unfortunate, maybe one way or the other.

02:03:01.000 Both are unfortunate.

02:03:03.000 Both are unfortunate.

02:03:04.000 But you have a lot of people out there that are anxious to get back.

02:03:06.000 Yeah, please.

02:03:07.000 Certainly seem to be indicating that people are actually more concerned.

02:03:10.000 More people are concerned about the virus spreading.

02:03:12.000 And I'm going to make our country bigger and better and stronger.

02:03:15.000 And we have to get started.

02:03:16.000 They're both big groups, both of them.

02:03:19.000 My question is, what good is it for these businesses that would be open if their customers

02:03:24.000 are right?

02:03:25.000 At the same time, we have to build back our country.

02:03:28.000 And I'm going to make our country bigger and better and stronger.

02:03:32.000 And we have to get started.

02:03:33.000 There's a big difference, though, because people have really been through a lot.

02:03:37.000 And they understand what to do now.

02:03:39.000 Before, nobody had ever heard of a thing like this, wouldn't you say?

02:03:42.000 I mean, nobody ever heard of a thing like this.

02:03:44.000 Distancing, social distancing, what does that mean?

02:03:47.000 Washing your hands every 15 minutes, what does that mean?

02:03:50.000 I mean... What does that mean?

02:03:53.000 I don't know what that means!

02:03:56.000 They've done it, but they've done a good job of it.

02:03:59.000 But you have people.

02:04:00.000 You can't break the country.

02:04:00.000 You have to look into this.

02:04:01.000 At some point, you have to go back.

02:04:02.000 This whole hand-washing thing.

02:04:03.000 I know.

02:04:04.000 I'm so glad I was wrong in the primaries.

02:04:05.000 Hopefully, the governors are going to do it, because I want the governors.

02:04:08.000 And I've always wanted to call it federalism.

02:04:10.000 You can call it whatever you want.

02:04:11.000 But the governors, I want them to do it.

02:04:13.000 If we see them doing something we don't like, we'll stop it very quickly.

02:04:18.000 But they're doing a good job.

02:04:20.000 They're being careful.

02:04:21.000 Some of the governors, frankly, They're in a position where they can do it sooner or they can do it a little bit later, and that's okay.

02:04:27.000 I thought he was going to go after a governor or two.

02:04:31.000 Yeah, me too.

02:04:32.000 Gavin.

02:04:32.000 They need money.

02:04:33.000 They need help.

02:04:35.000 And we can't break our country over this.

02:04:37.000 We can't do it.

02:04:38.000 We have to get going.

02:04:40.000 With that being said, some are going to go soon and some are not.

02:04:44.000 I might run for governor.

02:04:45.000 Hair salons.

02:04:46.000 Nail salons. 0.97

02:04:47.000 That'd be hilarious.

02:04:49.000 Tattoo parlors.

02:04:50.000 Dr. Birx, can you weigh in on this?

02:04:51.000 Because the people of Atlanta want to hear from you as well.

02:04:54.000 You're not supposed to talk, man!

02:04:57.000 I know the rules.

02:04:59.000 ...safely have hair salons and nail salons and tattoo parlors where people... He should be forced to ask all his questions.

02:05:06.000 ...to inherently be close together.

02:05:08.000 I 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.

02:05:20.000 Remember we wanted this data and evidence-based.

02:05:23.000 The data that they utilize to make decisions and the data that the mayor should use In each of the communities.

02:05:30.000 Because it will have to be on a community by community opening.

02:05:34.000 Because there are different communities in different places, even in Georgia.

02:05:39.000 And 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.

02:05:49.000 Social distancing.

02:05:51.000 Washing your hands.

02:05:52.000 Wearing a mask in public.

02:05:54.000 So, if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things.

02:06:01.000 I don't know how, but people are very creative.

02:06:04.000 So, 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.

02:06:13.000 Remember phase one also included social distancing.

02:06:17.000 What is that scarf for?

02:06:19.000 Creepy Joe Bidner.

02:06:20.000 Turns into pottery from Ghost.

02:06:23.000 That's right.

02:06:25.000 to less than 10.

02:06:26.000 I mean, we've been very clear in the guidelines, and I think it's up to the governors and mayors

02:06:32.000 to ensure that they're following the best they can each of those phases to make sure

02:06:37.000 that both the public is completely protected.

02:06:40.000 But the governors and mayors also need to communicate very clearly on the data that

02:06:44.000 was used for decision making and make that transparent and available to their constituents.

02:06:48.000 The 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.

02:07:01.000 Right.

02:07:02.000 Let's try to get a sense of what you have left in the toolbox as it relates to oil.

02:07:06.000 You hashed out the deal with OPEC Plus, you've ordered for purchases into the SPR.

02:07:12.000 I mean, what else can be done?

02:07:13.000 Well, the biggest thing of the toolbox is to get our country open.

02:07:16.000 Thank you.

02:07:17.000 That's by far the biggest thing there is.

02:07:18.000 It's the only thing you have to do.

02:07:19.000 If we can open it pretty well, and I think we're going to over a period of time, you

02:07:26.000 strike these puzzles.

02:07:27.000 You don't tend to use fuel when staying at home as much as you would otherwise.

02:07:32.000 It's pretty simple.

02:07:34.000 Subways, of course, remain open with riders.

02:07:38.000 Two New York-related questions.

02:07:39.000 In your meeting with Governor Cuomo, was there talk about providing states like New York with aid in the fourth stimulus package?

02:07:48.000 Wondering 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?

02:07:57.000 And also, if you have any thoughts on Mayor Bill de Blasio, I'm assuming today that he'd

02:08:00.000 like to host a ticker tape parade of sorts once this is all over to honor the healthcare

02:08:07.000 workers in New York.

02:08:08.000 Or have any thoughts on that?

02:08:09.000 Frankly, that sounds like a good idea to me.

02:08:10.000 When it's all over, it sounds like a great idea.

02:08:12.000 They deserve it.

02:08:13.000 They're warriors.

02:08:14.000 They've done an incredible job.

02:08:16.000 We mentioned briefly the state aid.

02:08:19.000 We talked about that, Governor Cuomo and myself, and I agree with him on that.

02:08:23.000 And I think most Republicans agree, too, and Democrats.

02:08:26.000 That's part of phase four, and I think infrastructure is going to be a big part.

02:08:30.000 We have to rebuild our country.

02:08:31.000 I mean, you take a look where we spend, and we go over this all the time, but $8 trillion in the Middle East.

02:08:37.000 We want to rebuild our country, and that means our bridges, our tunnels.

02:08:41.000 Even schools.

02:08:42.000 We're doing something with schools.

02:08:43.000 We have to do our roadways.

02:08:47.000 What's happened?

02:08:48.000 We spend so much money on other countries that don't even... that they don't appreciate it.

02:08:52.000 That's right.

02:08:53.000 Okay?

02:08:54.000 They don't appreciate it.

02:08:55.000 We're going to spend money now on our country.

02:08:57.000 And we're going to have... It's going to be our jobs.

02:08:58.000 And we're going to turn Syria into KELLA's bachelor pageants. 0.99

02:09:00.000 It's going to be our equipment.

02:09:01.000 It's going to be made.

02:09:02.000 Much of it is going to be made here.

02:09:04.000 Hopefully, at some point, all of it's going to be made here, John.

02:09:08.000 Why are they so obsessed with barbershops? 0.92

02:09:11.000 What about the New York subways being open? 0.96

02:09:13.000 I mean, in between dragging black guys off of public transit to beat them with billy clubs because they didn't wear a mask. 0.97

02:09:22.000 Don't forget the petri dishes. 0.95

02:09:24.000 So 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?

02:09:37.000 They can't go anywhere.

02:09:37.000 Find me any place in America, any place in America more contaminated than the L train.

02:09:37.000 Essential.

02:09:40.000 any country in the world, we have one of the most successful, if you call mortality rates.

02:09:46.000 Find me any place in America, any place in America more contaminated than the L-tree.

02:09:51.000 One person is too many.

02:09:52.000 I'll wait.

02:09:53.000 But we've done very well.

02:09:55.000 Our testing, if you add them all up, we've tested more.

02:09:59.000 Now, I don't know what Mike Pence said, but I'm sure he could answer that question.

02:10:03.000 You know what?

02:10:05.000 You ready?

02:10:05.000 Again?

02:10:06.000 We've tested more than every country in the world even put together.

02:10:11.000 So that's all I can say.

02:10:13.000 As far as Mike, he'll answer your question when he's here.

02:10:15.000 We'll be back tomorrow.

02:10:17.000 I just want to go back to the China deal and the phase one of this China deal.

02:10:23.000 The fight ban is still in place.

02:10:25.000 How come you argue that the Chinese are not going to invoke the natural disaster clause and just wait before getting into the agreement?

02:10:35.000 Well, we're going to see.

02:10:36.000 Look, there's nobody ever been tougher on China than me.

02:10:41.000 And that means for 20 years, you go back 20 years.

02:10:47.000 I've been very tough.

02:10:48.000 I said China's been ripping us off for 20 years. 0.98

02:10:50.000 I'd go into Michigan.

02:10:52.000 I'd go into Pennsylvania.

02:10:53.000 Make speeches unrelated to being a politician.

02:10:57.000 I'd be invited.

02:10:57.000 I'd be speaking to people, which I like to do because I love the people.

02:11:02.000 I love the people of this country.

02:11:04.000 And I'd make speeches.

02:11:05.000 I'd say, how did you let this happen with China?

02:11:09.000 I even asked the leaders of China.

02:11:10.000 Ah, son of a... How did this ever happen?

02:11:13.000 Donald Trump, stop!

02:11:14.000 Where our country loses tens of billions of dollars in yield.

02:11:17.000 Wade, you're not playing.

02:11:19.000 And I don't mean just tens.

02:11:20.000 He's into it.

02:11:21.000 Take a look.

02:11:21.000 200 billion, 300 billion, 200 billion, 500 billion dollars in yield.

02:11:28.000 How did they ever let a thing like this happen?

02:11:30.000 Now, if you look at this last year, the deficit went way down, and I'm talking about even before.

02:11:36.000 Now it's much different.

02:11:39.000 But a lot of things are happening.

02:11:40.000 Great things are happening.

02:11:41.000 A little imprecise. 0.69

02:11:42.000 Sucking out very, very hot. 0.80

02:11:44.000 On the same. 0.98

02:11:45.000 On the same.

02:11:46.000 Objective.

02:11:47.000 Way different.

02:11:48.000 Let's go with different.

02:11:52.000 That's not strong enough.

02:11:53.000 Way different.

02:11:54.000 I'm talking way, way different.

02:11:55.000 Actually, just stop trying to do the bad accent. 0.86

02:11:57.000 I guarantee that they are going to go ahead with this.

02:11:59.000 But if that happens, we'll do a termination and we'll do what I can do better than anybody.

02:12:04.000 Hey, Pufferfish, you had your question.

02:12:07.000 Have U.S.

02:12:08.000 intelligence analysts told you that they think that the virus escaped from a Chinese research lab?

02:12:15.000 Well, I can't tell you that.

02:12:16.000 Have U.S.

02:12:17.000 intelligence agents told me?

02:12:18.000 I mean, what kind of a question is that? 1.00

02:12:23.000 What kind of question is that, you fucking idiot? 1.00

02:12:28.000 I'm going on to somebody else. 1.00

02:12:31.000 I tell you what, when you get clearance for the war room, I'll answer your question, okay?

02:12:31.000 You.

02:12:35.000 Look, I don't like when Harvard has, I think, a $40 billion endowment to some incredible amount of money that Harvard borrows its money.

02:12:45.000 Harvard should pay that money back. I want Harvard to pay the money back, okay?

02:12:49.000 And if they won't do that, then we won't do something else.

02:12:52.000 They have to pay it back. I don't like it. I don't like it.

02:12:55.000 This is meant for workers. This isn't meant for one of the richest institutions,

02:12:59.000 not only far beyond schools, in the world.

02:13:02.000 They gotta pay it back.

02:13:04.000 I want them to pay it back.

02:13:05.000 Now he's getting more testy.

02:13:07.000 You can see the rhythm change.

02:13:08.000 I like it.

02:13:09.000 Here we go.

02:13:09.000 I like it.

02:13:10.000 He's like a boxer now.

02:13:10.000 He's gotten into it.

02:13:11.000 He's like, all right, all right, come on.

02:13:13.000 Here we go.

02:13:14.000 Huh?

02:13:15.000 Whoa! 0.71

02:13:15.000 Bow! 0.71

02:13:16.000 What's happening?

02:13:16.000 Oh!

02:13:16.000 Look.

02:13:16.000 Look at this.

02:13:17.000 Bow! 0.99

02:13:18.000 Straight down the pipe.

02:13:22.000 That guy plays classical guitar, by the way.

02:13:25.000 He's got the extra long pinky nail.

02:13:27.000 We'd be like, Mr. Trump.

02:13:29.000 And he travels everywhere with a hammock.

02:13:32.000 He's good.

02:13:33.000 Yeah, he does.

02:13:33.000 I think it's probably 700, 750 people.

02:13:37.000 So you can't have anything open.

02:13:38.000 And you say, what are we going to do, have full payroll and have the whole place with, you know,

02:13:44.000 there's no income coming in.

02:13:46.000 First of all, everyone's home, and they're supposed to be.

02:13:48.000 Second of all, Florida, you can't use golf courses.

02:13:51.000 That one, I'm not sure I agree with.

02:13:53.000 You know, you have... Oh, so people are going to catch up.

02:13:55.000 Yeah, they're going to catch him on that.

02:13:57.000 It's Mar-a-Lago's.

02:13:59.000 Donald Trump's golf courses.

02:14:01.000 No, it's because it's the most absurd scenario.

02:14:03.000 It's like walking in a park.

02:14:04.000 There's no easier way to... There isn't another sport where you can socially distance like golf.

02:14:09.000 No, yeah.

02:14:10.000 Where you can stay hundreds of yards away from another group.

02:14:15.000 It's like saying we need to close the biathlon tracks.

02:14:19.000 Well, the closed property is like, you know, you have to close them up and then hopefully when things get better, we'll just open it up.

02:14:26.000 But you can't have, you know, many hundreds of employees standing around doing nothing.

02:14:32.000 There's no customer.

02:14:33.000 You're not allowed to have a customer.

02:14:35.000 And that's the biggest difference.

02:14:36.000 So in some places it's very strict.

02:14:37.000 They're not even allowed.

02:14:38.000 That's the big difference between the Obama stimulus.

02:14:40.000 Listen, I'm generally against federal intervention.

02:14:43.000 And you have to do what you have to do.

02:14:44.000 But 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.

02:14:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:14:49.000 Don't support their budget.

02:14:50.000 I think that's a tough policy, but I go by whatever the policy.

02:14:54.000 That's a safe policy.

02:14:55.000 It was caused by intervention.

02:14:56.000 It was caused by intervention.

02:14:57.000 So it's intervention as a solution.

02:14:58.000 And I actually kind of accept that there's responsibility accepted by this government that, hey, listen, we screwed.

02:15:03.000 We did it.

02:15:04.000 So we're going to try and make up for it.

02:15:06.000 Well, this is why you don't screw around earlier.

02:15:09.000 Right.

02:15:10.000 You don't empty the coffers on something you don't need to for something like this.

02:15:12.000 And that's to the benefit of the country.

02:15:13.000 So you can be prepared.

02:15:14.000 That's not a bad thing.

02:15:15.000 That's a good thing.

02:15:16.000 And I'd like to see him be well, and we'll see how he does.

02:15:20.000 Again, I don't know that the reports are true.

02:15:21.000 Is he talking about Joe?

02:15:22.000 Do they have a line of succession as far as you know?

02:15:24.000 I don't want to ask him that.

02:15:26.000 I have asked him that, but it's not...

02:15:28.000 It's not my purpose.

02:15:31.000 Who's coming right after you.

02:15:32.000 Lady, you tag. 1.00

02:15:33.000 You know, I hope you don't have your stereo.

02:15:35.000 I'm so sad.

02:15:41.000 Not my A-track.

02:15:43.000 Need to bring back Rodman to comment. 0.86

02:15:46.000 When you die, Kim Jong, I want your box set of Route 66. 0.99

02:15:50.000 Aww, you're killing me, Don! 1.00

02:15:52.000 You're killing me, Don! 0.82

02:15:53.000 Oh, you're killing me, Tom. 0.98

02:15:55.000 You're killing me, Tom.

02:15:57.000 Edd3's company.

02:16:00.000 No!

02:16:02.000 He loves the worst sitcoms.

02:16:05.000 Both of them.

02:16:06.000 Three's Company was great.

02:16:08.000 It was a masterpiece.

02:16:10.000 Matt, don't take my souvenir summer from me, dog!

02:16:13.000 I'm already close to dead!

02:16:15.000 I made it very clear to all of the American people with Opening Up America, the critical criteria, the critical

02:16:25.000 criteria, there were also... 0.99

02:16:28.000 For context, Dr. Burks could kick the shit out of Kim Jong-un in a face-off. 0.81

02:16:32.000 ... conversations with epidemiologists around the world and with CDC, to really... 0.99

02:16:38.000 It's a five syllable word.

02:16:39.000 ... pick things that people could understand...

02:16:40.000 I'm gonna join this.

02:16:41.000 I'm glad that I am.

02:16:42.000 ... and use platforms that people have utilitized in the past.

02:16:43.000 Watching someone not having that much pressure.

02:16:44.000 But it was built on the premise that it needs to be data-driven.

02:16:48.000 driven.

02:16:49.000 And it needs to protect those who are most vulnerable.

02:16:52.000 And then it went through the phases.

02:16:54.000 And the very first thing it says in all phases all individuals

02:16:57.000 need to continue to wash hands, protect the vulnerable, and ensure the safety of others.

02:17:03.000 But in phase one, it made it clear that social distancing was a priority.

02:17:08.000 And I think on the White House website, and we ask everyone to do that, and to use that as their

02:17:15.000 guide line.

02:17:15.000 Now with all the mail, it's not a priority.

02:17:17.000 It's a priority.

02:17:18.000 And I think on the White House website, and we ask everyone to do that, and to use that as their

02:17:22.000 guide line.

02:17:23.000 Yeah.

02:17:25.000 Barks to the.

02:17:27.000 Transparent and unnoticed.

02:17:29.000 It really is.

02:17:34.000 And Jacksonville is dramatically different than Miami.

02:17:38.000 And I think that was reflected in why Jacksonville had a different set of immigration regulations.

02:17:45.000 I'm not going to second-judge anyone about their decision-making.

02:17:50.000 What I'm going to say is we were very clear in what we really believe protects the safety of Americans.

02:17:57.000 And that is clearly laid out in the opening up America again.

02:18:02.000 I have a question because we got data from Tokyo, an increase of cases and a double of the cases in Singapore.

02:18:11.000 We've been looking a lot at Europe after China and then we're back into this area of the world.

02:18:18.000 We don't want that to happen.

02:18:20.000 It could happen.

02:18:21.000 cases going down. Any lessons to take out of what's happening in this area, in Asia,

02:18:28.000 after having put our heads up?

02:18:32.000 In that order.

02:18:34.000 In that order.

02:18:36.000 We have to be very careful. We don't want that to happen.

02:18:39.000 It could happen. I think we'd stamp it out if it does happen.

02:18:42.000 We're not going to be doing any mass closures.

02:18:46.000 In my opinion, fewer things should happen.

02:18:47.000 So I think we could.

02:18:48.000 You know, I call them some burning embers, and we put them out.

02:18:53.000 And I think we've gotten very good at that.

02:18:54.000 Put the thing on top of that thing, and the fire goes out.

02:18:56.000 We'll see.

02:18:56.000 But we don't want that to happen.

02:18:57.000 No, absolutely.

02:18:58.000 You can tell me, Mr. President, once the reopening happens, we won't need to go back.

02:19:03.000 I don't want to do that.

02:19:06.000 You don't want to do that.

02:19:07.000 Nobody in this room wants to do that.

02:19:09.000 You look forward, I think, very soon to sitting next to a lot of your fellow reporters, right?

02:19:15.000 The room seems so empty this way.

02:19:18.000 But it's one of those things.

02:19:19.000 Yeah, go ahead, please.

02:19:20.000 The Press Thank you.

02:19:21.000 On the topic of public support for your immigration freeze, an Ipsos USA Today poll just came

02:19:29.000 out and found 80 percent of Americans are supportive of the immigration halt, the temporary

02:19:35.000 freeze.

02:19:36.000 Did that have any — The President Yes, I know that.

02:19:38.000 Eighty percent.

02:19:39.000 The Press Did public support have any effect on your decision-making here?

02:19:41.000 And are you surprised by those numbers?

02:19:43.000 Yeah, that's a high number.

02:19:45.000 I did not see that number.

02:19:46.000 I heard there was a poll.

02:19:47.000 I'm sure there'll be a lot of polls.

02:19:49.000 No, 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. 0.84

02:19:57.000 So we're doing that.

02:19:59.000 I don't know what the numbers are.

02:20:00.000 This is a perfect example of why they don't want to run the briefings.

02:20:03.000 I think just common sense tells you that's where we should be, and that's where the American people want to be again.

02:20:12.000 So they want to talk about Donald Trump's executive order rather than allow him to lay it out in detail.

02:20:18.000 I think it's going to be a renaissance.

02:20:20.000 We'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.

02:20:29.000 And broadband for the Middle West.

02:20:31.000 I mean, the farmers haven't been treated fairly.

02:20:33.000 The farmers have been treated terribly when it comes to the Internet, so we're going to take care of that.

02:20:38.000 We're going to make them very happy.

02:20:40.000 So we'll see you all tomorrow, and we'll have some interesting things to put out tonight, and I appreciate you being here.

02:20:46.000 It's an honor to have Britt Baer here.

02:20:48.000 I've used his slot a lot, John.

02:20:50.000 I've used that slot a lot.

02:20:54.000 I'll have you back soon.

02:20:56.000 Thank you very much.

02:20:56.000 Thank you, everybody.

02:20:57.000 Thank you.

02:20:59.000 Peace.

02:20:59.000 I'm out.

02:21:00.000 Rather cordial.

02:21:02.000 All right.

02:21:02.000 Yeah.

02:21:04.000 Well, listen, like I said, we did our best to not add anything.

02:21:09.000 Right.

02:21:09.000 But I just can't help myself, especially when you're a reporter who's a dead ringer for Mr. Bean.

02:21:14.000 Yeah.

02:21:14.000 Spot on.

02:21:15.000 Just can't not.

02:21:15.000 What are you going to do?

02:21:16.000 You're going to take Dr. Birx?

02:21:17.000 You're going to put a perfect 10 in front of me and expect me to not notice?

02:21:20.000 I was respectful.

02:21:23.000 So this is interesting when you watch it.

02:21:25.000 They talked about phase four.

02:21:27.000 They talked about the three-phase sort of reopening of the economy.

02:21:30.000 And then they mentioned phase four.

02:21:31.000 And then they asked him something about six phases at some point.

02:21:33.000 I don't know what that means.

02:21:34.000 It 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?

02:21:41.000 Yeah, she was off to the side.

02:21:42.000 She was up on a bar stool somewhere.

02:21:43.000 Yeah, she was up separately.

02:21:44.000 They, like, put her over there. 1.00

02:21:45.000 Yeah, they didn't give her, but they allowed her to come back in. 0.94

02:21:47.000 Free drink section.

02:21:48.000 It was really mostly pretty cordial.

02:21:50.000 There were a few times where he got testy.

02:21:51.000 Now, 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.

02:22:02.000 If you have interactions, let's say, with a room full of people, let me ask you this.

02:22:06.000 If you go to a house party, okay, and there are 20, 30 people. 1.00

02:22:10.000 How much do you want to bet at least one of them's going to be an asshole? 1.00

02:22:13.000 But should you be judged by how you played catchphrase with the singular asshole? 1.00

02:22:18.000 Or how you played it with the group? 0.98

02:22:20.000 He did it, it was overall a give and take.

02:22:23.000 I think he was pretty, himself, he was pretty descriptive.

02:22:27.000 Dr. Brooks is great.

02:22:28.000 I think she's actually way better than Fauci.

02:22:29.000 I think she's good to actually have at these.

02:22:31.000 No one's really talking about her, by the way.

02:22:33.000 And I think the reason for that is because Fauci has sometimes come out and sort of contradicted Donald Trump.

02:22:37.000 And again, he's very narrow-sighted in his approach to this, which is just the medical side of issues.

02:22:43.000 Dr. 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.

02:22:54.000 This was honestly I mean, he looked tired to me, Donald Trump.

02:22:58.000 He definitely was a little less punchy than normal.

02:23:01.000 Well, when you say punchy, you mean a little less fire in him, not punch drunk like Joe Biden.

02:23:06.000 No, no, no, not punch drunk.

02:23:07.000 He can complete sentences, so that's good.

02:23:09.000 Joe Biden makes Larry Holmes sound like a Mensa member.

02:23:17.000 So this is remarkable to me.

02:23:22.000 I 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.

02:23:37.000 If 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.

02:23:48.000 You have decided that broadcasting the news is not as important as your opinion journalism.

02:23:54.000 Right, the unfiltered news.

02:23:55.000 Right, 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.

02:24:04.000 Up until the last election, you can go back to this, back when I was syndicated on radio.

02:24:10.000 I talked about this, my first broadcast ever, and I talked about it on Fox News.

02:24:13.000 I think you would go back to 2014 when this show was syndicated on radio, if I'm not mistaken.

02:24:18.000 I said, listen, I don't have a problem with MSNBC.

02:24:19.000 I don't have a problem with Rachel Maddow. 1.00

02:24:21.000 I don't have a problem with political bias.

02:24:23.000 Just don't lie to me about it.

02:24:26.000 And the reason that these mainstream news outlets are refusing to run these press briefers is because that prohibits them from lying about it.

02:24:36.000 Yeah.

02:24:38.000 It almost ends up being free campaign speeches for Donald Trump because he is doing a good job and because we are seeing positive data.

02:24:44.000 Nobody else is reporting it.

02:24:45.000 He uses these press briefings as an opportunity to get in front of the American people and say, here's what's actually happening.

02:24:51.000 Yeah.

02:24:52.000 And I don't think they enjoy helping him win re-elections.

02:24:54.000 And if he came off looking like a buffoon, they would want to show it. 0.83

02:24:57.000 Of course, they would be tripping over themselves to get into the room. 0.97

02:25:01.000 But instead, they want to pull out clips out of context to make them seem like a buffoon. 0.69

02:25:04.000 Here's the thing.

02:25:05.000 I don't think that I've missed a single briefing outside of last night, actually.

02:25:10.000 He very rarely actually mentions 2020 or his polls.

02:25:13.000 Did you hear him mention that at all tonight?

02:25:15.000 No.

02:25:15.000 Did you hear him mention his chances in 2020 at all?

02:25:17.000 Did you hear him mention his polls at all?

02:25:18.000 The 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. 1.00

02:25:28.000 That 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.

02:25:36.000 He actually diverted away from me.

02:25:37.000 He said, well, listen, I didn't know about the poll.

02:25:39.000 And he answered very clearly.

02:25:40.000 He had an opportunity at that point to say, yes, I went by the polls, and I'm doing great at the polls.

02:25:45.000 Instead, he said, this wasn't a decision made based on polls, unlike the Clinton presidency, which was entirely dictated by polls.

02:25:53.000 And that's when he was more of a centrist, by the way, a Newt Gingrich-led house.

02:25:57.000 He had the opportunity to go out to flaunt his poll numbers good or not, discuss them, and we do have some poll numbers

02:26:05.000 coming out that are pretty good.

02:26:06.000 Instead, he avoided it, he sidestepped, and actually, if I'm not mistaken, he gave the

02:26:10.000 floor again to Dr. Birx.

02:26:12.000 He did, and one of the things that he tweeted out today was that he addressed the poll controversy,

02:26:17.000 because people are like, what are you talking about your poll numbers for?

02:26:19.000 Not poll numbers for, sorry, the rating numbers that he was talking about.

02:26:22.000 And he said, look, the only reason I'm mentioning that is because the fake news media won't

02:26:26.000 I'm trying to get around them and get information to the American public.

02:26:29.000 I'm not saying that these things are doing well because I'm trying to build myself up.

02:26:33.000 I mean, I'm sure he has some kind of motivation there where he's like, this is great, this feels good.

02:26:37.000 But 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.

02:26:43.000 And you know what else I really noticed from these briefings?

02:26:45.000 And 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.

02:26:50.000 It shows you that the leftist media panders to the lowest common denominator.

02:26:54.000 What do I mean by that?

02:26:55.000 They pander to the lowest common denominator, meaning people, 47% of Americans who don't

02:26:59.000 pay income taxes, federal income taxes.

02:27:01.000 They pander to the percentage of Americans who actually stand to make more, who have

02:27:04.000 been perpetually, serially on unemployment indefinitely, who are now going to get an

02:27:09.000 extra check.

02:27:10.000 They want those people.

02:27:11.000 They need those votes.

02:27:12.000 Donald Trump is talking to, and this is what kind of, it shook up Michigan.

02:27:15.000 It surprised me.

02:27:16.000 I've never been more wrong in my life where I thought Donald Trump could never win Michigan.

02:27:19.000 But the fact is, most Americans want to work. 0.88

02:27:23.000 Most Americans don't want to suckle at the public teat. 1.00

02:27:27.000 Most Americans want to be productive.

02:27:29.000 Most Americans want to earn their keep.

02:27:31.000 And these press briefings are directly aimed at those Americans, not the Americans who

02:27:37.000 are looking to skate by on a handout.

02:27:40.000 And people will try and say that comes with all connotations.

02:27:42.000 No, I'm just talking about the numbers.

02:27:43.000 If 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.

02:27:58.000 And Donald Trump, this is a very risky bet.

02:28:00.000 When you watch these briefings.

02:28:01.000 And that's why I encourage everyone to watch these briefings.

02:28:03.000 We've even talked about just live-streaming them on CrowderBit so you can watch them every night.

02:28:07.000 I know it's not really what we do because we are not journalists.

02:28:10.000 I'm not a journalist.

02:28:11.000 I am biased.

02:28:11.000 I'm a late-night comedian.

02:28:13.000 I want to be very, very clear about that.

02:28:15.000 But we've thought about doing it because it is very important that this message gets out to the Americans who want to work.

02:28:21.000 And that's a gamble that he's making.

02:28:23.000 Donald 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.

02:28:37.000 If 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.

02:28:47.000 We had the best unemployment numbers there were.

02:28:49.000 And job participation.

02:28:50.000 It was great.

02:28:51.000 And record job surpluses.

02:28:53.000 So it's not just the unemployment numbers that Barack Obama would try and go out and tout.

02:28:57.000 It's about how many people are participating in the labor force.

02:28:59.000 So, that's a bet.

02:29:00.000 And this is why Donald Trump seems more optimistic than the media.

02:29:05.000 Donald 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.

02:29:12.000 If 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.

02:29:23.000 Donald Trump can only make this bet.

02:29:25.000 In broadcasting to everyone, unfiltered, unedited, he knows that news media are going to take sound bites.

02:29:30.000 He knows that they're going to cut clips out of context.

02:29:32.000 He 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.

02:29:51.000 If he didn't believe that, He wouldn't broadcast these press briefings.

02:29:55.000 He wouldn't do them every day.

02:29:56.000 He certainly wouldn't take that risk.

02:29:57.000 So the very risk that he's taking, inherent with the messaging that you see in these briefings, is by itself optimistic.

02:30:05.000 And listen, there's a lot to be optimistic about.

02:30:08.000 I know it's a hard time.

02:30:09.000 When people say, look for the silver lining, there are many silver linings right now.

02:30:14.000 doesn't mean that it's easy. If there's a silver lining, it doesn't mean necessarily

02:30:17.000 that it's easy. That's why you're looking for a silver lining at this point, as opposed

02:30:21.000 to a casing. It is surprising. The things that aren't said is the bet that Donald Trump

02:30:28.000 is making. He's kind of, sort of like with this show.

02:30:31.000 We'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.

02:30:41.000 Conservatives don't like this kind of content.

02:30:42.000 They just want talking points.

02:30:44.000 They want Obama doomsday.

02:30:45.000 They 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.

02:30:55.000 People 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.

02:31:05.000 This was a gamble that we made, and you guys made it worth it.

02:31:09.000 You guys out there, you said, you know what?

02:31:11.000 I'm going to tune in.

02:31:11.000 So we can only make that gamble if we believe that there are enough people out there who want this to exist.

02:31:17.000 Donald 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.

02:31:30.000 That's my takeaway.

02:31:32.000 Thank you guys so much for tuning in.

02:31:33.000 Again, the promo code is QUARANTINE.

02:31:35.000 $30 off for the entire month of April with the quarantine.

02:31:39.000 Of course, tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.

02:31:41.000 Eastern, we will be doing Good Morning Mug Club.

02:31:42.000 We're doing that through the end of April.

02:31:43.000 Dan Crenshaw is going to be on the show.

02:31:45.000 We will see you tomorrow.

02:31:47.000 Hopefully, I'll get some sleep.

02:31:48.000 I gotta land this plane.

02:31:49.000 Bye!

02:31:51.000 She hurt her! 1.00

02:31:52.000 I know.

02:32:02.000 She finally made me realize.

02:32:03.000 She's so beautiful.

02:32:23.000 I'm so proud of her.

02:32:43.000 I'm so proud of her.

02:33:03.000 I'm gonna be alright.

02:33:17.000 It may take a few days.

02:33:18.000 I'm gonna be alright.

02:33:19.000 Good.

02:33:20.000 Good.

02:33:21.000 Unicorns I love them.

02:33:37.000 You're lucky too.

02:33:38.000 Unicorns.

02:33:40.000 Unicorns.

02:33:41.000 I'm in the middle.

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