France and spain from acacia seeds to fruit and ginger the myths that people are putting their faith in for protection from the coronavirus. Welcome to the program the u. S. President has criticised the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the crisis his comments follow the leaked a memo that revealed the new details about warnings the trumpet ministration received on how bad that the outbreak in the u. S. Could be meanwhile in the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles covert 19 the foreign secretary dominic robb who has stepped in to lead the government says johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator the u. K. And the state of new york in the u. S. Have recorded their highest number of deaths in a day the u. K. Is registered 786 thats well 731 people died in new york well donald trump has been holding his daily news briefing on the pandemic he has maintained his optimistic outlook the spyder rapidly rising death toll. Even during this painful week we see glimmers of very very strong hope and this will be a very painful week and next week at least part of next week but probably all of it look if one person dies its a painful week and we know thats going to unfortunately happen this is a monster were fighting but signs are that our strategy is totally work and every american has a role to play in winning this war. Go live now to mike hanna in washington d. C. My copiously been following the president he is still speaking what did you make of the main points that he brought up. Well once again the president reiterating their claim that the u. S. Is testing more than any other nation in the world many critics contend that the u. S. Got off to a very slow start in terms of testing protocols as well as reports that the initial testing kits was simply not effective however president saying that the testing protocol now firmly set large numbers of people are being tested every single day he also mentioned the issue of medical equipment such as ventilators saying that the program of manufacture of ventilators within the United States is going a pace and he says by june there will be 110000. 00 ventilators in stock at present there are less than 10000 ventilators being held by the federal government but President Trump also referred to the fact that some areas are handing back ventilators back to Central Government california in particular Washington State theyve moved a number of ventilators that they no longer need back to federal government for dispersal in areas that are more hard hit such of course as new york state new jersey illinois all these areas that are now currently hodsons and mike the president still speaking now so im not sure whether he has mentioned it again but he certainly has been accusing the w. H. O. Of contributing to just how bad the pandemic has turned out to be what else did he say whats his main accusation and why do you think hes making these accusations now. Well in the last few minutes he has actually just reiterated his criticism of the World Health Organization he did so in a series of tweets earlier on in the day saying basically that the World Health Organization has badly handled this crisis but what particularly appears to irk the president is the fact that the w. H. O. Pushed back at his decision at the end of january to impose travel restrictions on passengers from china unfair be the shortly afterwards the w. H. O. Said that bad on air travel was not necessary at that particular point but the seems to have said to President Trump or in his briefing now as well he reiterated his accusation that the w. H. O. Is as he put it china centric he also said that the u. S. Will be reviewing its contribution financial contribution to the number you know its something that is administration is looking into why the timing comes out now not that clear. And i suppose speaking of timing and timing is of the issue when youre looking at a memo that speed the release thats being leaked that showed that actually one of trumps trumps top aides did alert the white house back in january about the potential fallout of the coronavirus. Indeed yes and that was the white house economic adviser Peter Navarro who at the end of january sent a memo to the National Security council which was then circulated through the white house warning of the impact that the pandemic was going to have saying that that stage that up to half a 1000000 americans could lose their lives the Economic Cost would be 6. 00 trillion dollars also recommending incidentally and a travel ban on travelers from china which President Trump did institute indicating that he did see this memo and then a month later navarro issued another memo to the National Security council and also copied one directly to the president in which he up to this statistic saying that as many as 2000000 americans could die this is now on the 29th and within that me most well outlined very specific because he said how many ventilators were going to be needed he said up to a 1000000000 mosques are going to be needed so certainly these issues were brought to the president s attention at a time when he was continuing to say that the virus could be contained that it was nothing worse than the flu on one occasion which he said certainly hes backtracked from all these accusations these allegations at the moment but the point remains that he had a full knowledge of the potential impact of this pandemic from one of his closest economic advisers days if not weeks before he started taking the pandemic seriously i can i would delete this from washington d. C. My kids thank you for that lets actually did back in to that News Conference im just still going on with donald trump hes now taking questions lets listen in but we want to open it up but we want to get it open soon this way i think maybe were getting to the very top of the curve i spoke with Governor Cuomo in peace seems to think that hes getting close and i think a lot of people think that a lot of places are getting close we want to start heading that getting the. Downside and i think were going to be to this is going to be a very difficult week however this week will be a very difficult week because thats the most difficult week when youre at that position and well see what happens so its either health care or. Welfare for the lot has done a lot and its going to do a lot we want to i really think that with the stimulus we can be maybe even beyond were going to do perhaps infrastructure which you wouldve gotten approved before and now people are looking to do it and the beauty is were paying 0 interest or very close to 0 interest in some cases were paying actually 0 and no interest charge and and the dollars very strong and people are investing in the dollar they want you know the fact that we have the strong currency we have the currency we are currency is is everything and other companies other countries want to be in our currency so where were getting all of the investment wanting to come into the dollar the dollar is the strength the dollars the whole ballgame we have a strong dollar other currencies are going down way way down in some cases you look at. Other countries i wont mention them but other countries are going down 22 percent 25 percent 28 percent and its very hard for them that makes it much more difficult with us our currency is relatively now stronger than. It ever was or it was over the last few years relative to other countries its always relative to other countries but our currency is very strong so therefore people want to invest. If we do a bond issue to do infrastructure everybody wants a piece of that issue even at 0 interest yep list. You see these memos that quarterly Peter Navarro back in january when did you see them and how does it you know sort of square with what youve often said and nobody could have predicted this it sounds like he was pretty i didnt see him but i heard he wrote some memos talking about pandemic. I didnt see many look for me there but that was about the same time as i felt that we should do it with that was about the same time that i closed it down i asked him about it just a little while ago because i read something about a memo i said it used to a memo i didnt look for i didnt see it i didnt ask him to show it to me he said yes i talked about the possibility of a pandemic nobody said its going to happen but you know there is a possibility there always has been a possibility but people wouldnt talk about it but it was right about the time that i closed it then and interestingly the World Health Organization was not in favor of us closing it and if we didnt close it down we would have lost hundreds of thousands more lives. So did. You say that at the time there was no Peter Navarro did circulate those memories you were still downplaying the wrath of the virus of the u. S. You were saying things like i think its a problem thats going to go away with you feel ready to go it will go what he said within a couple of days down to 0. Cases really didnt build up for a while but you have to understand i mean cheerleader for this country i dont want to create havoc in shock and Everything Else but ultimately when i was saying that im also closing it down i obviously was concerned about it because i closed down our country to china which was heavily infected i then closed it down to europe thats a big move closing it down from china and then closing it down from europe and then ultimately closing it down to the u. K. So and i was right about that time but im not going to go out and start screaming that this could happen this could happen so again as president i think a president has to be a cheerleader for their country but at the same time im cheerleading im also closing down a very highly infected place specifically the location as you know in china that had the problems and were closing it down but we closed down to all of china then we closed down to all of europe. Those were big moves and it was right about that through history to think this is just a good father isnt present to just this president of this today say he learned about that its today just a bit about it maybe a day tutors feeling. On your staff for our own selfish it all to often them earlier it was a recommendation it was a feeling that he had i think he told certain people in the staff but it didnt matter i didnt see it but i did close it down i dont remember it even being discussed we had a meeting where there were a lot of people most people felt they should not close it down that we shouldnt close down to china but i felt we had to do it and that was almost the exact same time as the memo if you had read them at the time that it was the stance and the ceiling of the change because i did i basically did with the memo said and the memo was you know the memo was pretty good memo from the standpoint that he took a guess i didnt see it yet us weekly warning that the u. S. Believes trillions of dollars and millions of lives. Are in the unions of us but you you lose plenty of money but i couldnt have done it any better because it was about the same time and i closed it down to china. Maintain confidence in him personally and he wrote a memo and he was right and i havent seen the memo ill see it later on after this but it didnt matter whether i sort or not because i i acted on my own i guess i had the same instincts as peter peters a smart guy is a good guy and hes done a wonderful job but he wrote a memo and i guess he talked to various people about it but ultimately i did what the memo more or less what the memo said just about the time the memo came out a close it down i took a lot of heat the world you know Health Organization was very much against it in a like it fairly put out statements about it. In all fairness to joe biden he called me zena phobic like i dont like china like china like the Chinese People are phenomenal people. So i was called zena phobic i was called racist how could i do a thing like this now since that joe said that he was wrong and he said that i was right but i closed it down and i was called names by some of the morning show hosts who dont have a clue what theyre talking about the not smart people and i was called all sorts of names when i closed down to china now they try and hide that you know the tape of them saying terrible things but that was a great decision if i didnt do it if i didnt do that we would have had hundreds of thousands more people dying yeah lets. Talk a lot of the beautiful poems honoring dr crossett customer so if i could ask you a question no he respects it you h. O. And i think thats thats good and hes worked with them for a long time but they did give us some pretty bad play calling. But i think given a lot of countries in the world back are a crime where nothing thats been central to your guys downfall and so i dont know i can only say that with regard to us theyre taking a lot of heat because they didnt want the borders closed they called it wrong they called they really called i would say every aspect of it wrong. Until probably the priests im not believe that look we fund it take a look at me go through step by step they said theres no big deal theres no big problem theres no nothing and then ultimately when i closed it down they actually said that i made a mistake in closing it down in a way it turned out to be right but at the time they you know they did that so were just going to take a look at it you know we funded and and they seem to be you know i said recently a social media said they seem to be very china centric. Thats a nice way of saying it but they seem to be very china centric and theyve received it oh youre always on the side of china and we fund it so i want to look into it yes please i think i could follow up on that though is the times of responding to the w. H. O. Im drawing up again to make a little bit of you know i mean im not saying im going to do it but well look at it its what we give a commitment noid and i said were going to look at it were going to investigate it were going to look at it but we will look at ending funding. To whos you know what they called it wrong and if you look back over the years even their very much everything seems to be very biased toward china its not right its a follow up to talk about africanamericans and how they can disproportionately affected by the coronavirus to be even pushing do you plan on requiring the c. D. C. Any federal agencies or state and public. Places doing tests and private companies doing festool collecting data now on the race of the people being tested and the race of the people being treated unfairly just seeing tremendous were seeing tremendous evidence that africanamericans are affected at a far greater percentage number. Then other citizens of our country because were dealing with our country now were looking at it from a worldwide standpoint tony is looking at a very strongly but these numbers have started to come out and theyre theyre very strong and theyre pretty obvious i mean you know were just that i dont really sentiment you like to talk about that for 2nd place but one of the things that were going to be doing with our medicare data is to do that analysis were going to look back at the last month or so and look at you know related type illnesses Going Forward we now have a code for krone virus that we can actually stratify by demographic information so we can look at race as a factor if we can also look at what the Underlying Health issues are as well as that will be providing that data very shortly but we will be announced as a working on that. Earlier this is something thats come up over the last i had heard this and then over the last few days this is come up more and more and i dont mean by a little bit i mean many times its a real thing now we want to find cures we want to find there a putin x. We want to find vaccines because that will solve every bodys problem but why is it that the African American community is so low much in or numerous times more than everybody else and we want to find a reason to it and. Dr for sima both of them and others are working on this and theyre going to have very good i would say over the next in less than a week i think were going to have very good statistics a couple of things specifically aimed at those communities that are being hard hit those black communities where were helping out a lot but whats happening is were trying to find out why is it that its 3 and 4 times maybe thats not going to be the final number but why is it 3 or 4 times more so for the black community as opposed d to other people it doesnt make sense and i dont like it and were going to have statistics over the next probably 2 to 3 days mr president everything that you have to do the things you would like to ask personally have myself and a colleague who can be here do this in front in saying thank you i mean with with Hearst Newspapers on the principle that i think you know. Some things are only providing Paycheck Protection Program loans to clients with him they have existing banking deletion chips and you spoke to banking studios today i wonder if youll youll ask them these lenders to accept conversations from all Small Businesses not just the business is with him they have the system and theyll be doing it but were also working with Small Community banks so they will be doing that its a question ive already spoken about every day many cases they have long term relationships with thousands of companies i was amazed to see how many you know you saw the number of applications its hundreds of thousands its a lot of work but i did ask that question and they are working on the thank you in my eyes my 2nd question from a colleague is congressman Gerry Connelly a democrat from Northern Virginia told the local d. C. C. B. S. Station that he personally requested think cares act stimulus bi