Demand but partially also because of too much supply but you know the president is determined we want to maintain our Energy Independence and the president has asked me to look at all of our options and what were doing that obviously its a pretty extraordinary situation where you saw the front month of oil futures trade negative. On the issue on the 4th stimulus bill and agency in the whole government any thoughts on why there are odd that money should be proportionate to half the rate of infection in states and a growing dangerous thing but way too early to consider that whatever we do will do on a bipartisan basis the president has listened to the governors ive had the opportunity on multiple Video Conference calls with the president the Vice President reaching out to a lot of people theres a lot of states that have been impacted but way too early to figure out that level of design you. Know Large Company applies for one of these loans. Nane manipulator works the system works the whole thing is one of the consequences to a Large Company trying to get anything but what can you do well you used the word manipulate them to give people the benefit of the doubt it again were going to put up very clear guidance. So that people understand what the certification is what it means if youre a big company it 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 and again to the extent these companies didnt understand this and they repay the loans that will be ok and if not theyll be potentially other consequences can you talk about what the consequences of it and you can look at the certifications there are quite significant. Given how many jobs have been saved through all the money thats going to be so far what i can tell you the p. P. P. So far is over 30000000 jobs and again that doesnt account for all their money that weve sent out and again were very pleased the direct deposits have gone out weve started sending out the checks and again that doesnt account for all their money that weve sent out and again were very pleased the direct deposits have gone out weve started sending out the checks to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad we must 1st take care of the American Worker take care of the American Worker this pause will be in effect for 60 days after which the need for an extension or modification will be evaluated by myself and a group of people based on Economic Conditions at the time. This order d was in their livelihoods therefore in order to protect American Workers i will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States you heard about that last night by posing immigration will help put unemployed americans 1st in line for jobs as america reopens so important it would be wrong and unjust for americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad we must 1st take care of the American Worker take care of the American Worker this pause will be in effect for 60 days 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 this order will only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency in other words those receiving green cards big factor will not apply to those entering on a temporary basis as we move forward d well examine what additional immigration related measures should be put in place to protect u. S. Workers we want to protect our u. S. Workers and i think as we move forward we will become more and more protective of them. This was a new immigration will also help to conserve vital medical resources for american citizens a short break from new immigration depending on the time were talking about will protect the solvency of our Health Care System and provide relief to jobless americans. Today Vice President pence visited the hard working men and women of General Electric health care in Madison Wisconsin working 3 shifts a day to quadruple their production of ventilators were way ahead of schedule on ventilators as you know thats why its never brought up by the media and i like to bring things up when were doing so well g. E. Is also working with ford to make 50000 ventilators in the next 100 days more than our entire country typically produces in a very long period of time doing that in a matter of a few weeks and a few days earlier today at 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 and in new york state will be continuing to control the testing of their citizens and well also manage a state and local laboratories have a lot of great laboratories there more than anybody would ever have known frankly the federal government will work along with the state on the National Manufacturers and distributors together will all Work Together to help them secure additional tests and we hope that this model will work with the other states as well i think it will for the most part new york has a lot of very exceptional laboratories but most of the states to see so the chart yesterday most of the states im proud of the relationship might ministration is forged with new york and i can say very. Honestly with new york state and new york city theyve been terrific to work with 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 weve sent over d 5000000 mask in 5000000000 masks and now that number as of about 2 days from now will be more than doubled. Thousands of ventilators fax so many ventilators that the governors going to be sending up some 2 to massachusetts and a couple of other locations we have a great deal of ventilators switch people thought would be impossible about a month ago thousands of hospital beds and the us as comfort was sent as you know to new york and it was originally for more of a normal medical purpose and we changed it over so that it could take care of people that had the unfortunate circumstance of going through the problem that we that we know so well unfortunately that we know so well 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 think of that other countries are desperate for ventilators they have many deaths because they dont have a ventilator divest. Andrew if we could 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 Javits Center has been a great help to them but well be bringing in the ship back and at the earliest time and well get it ready for its next mission which will im sure be a very important one also but it was. It was an honor. They reconverted it after it got there into the handling an event that they were not expecting to be handling the f. D. A. Has now authorize more than 50 diagnostic tests including as of late last night the 1st taste test that a patient can take home it can take it at home and. Its highly accurate lab corps intends to make the Home Collection kits available to consumers in most states with a doctors order in the coming weeks we also have 4 different antibody tests already authorized tests will help identify individuals who can donate convalescent plasma thus providing potentially lifesaving antibodies to american patients dr haan will be providing you with an update on these developments in a few moments hes done a great job at the f. D. A. We continue to gain ground in the war against the unseen enemy and. I see light at the end of the tunnel i regularly see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel and were starting the process was studying a very very powerful important process you see that people are getting very anxious they want to get going they want to get back to their jobs they want to make money they want to take care of their families so the light is getting brighter and brighter every day and with that if i could ill ask dr burks to come up and then dr hahn thank you very much. Thank you mr president so im looking at all of the information across the United States we do see and prove men across all the large metro as i know you know that weve been talking about the new York Metro Area new york city rhode island connecticut long island and really we do start to see improvement there and we see improvement even now in rhode island and connecticut the Detroit Metro is doing quite well with significant declines now new orleans is nearly backed to their baseline of where they started for new infections. We also are seeing improvements in chicago and boston and that spin a great concern for us over the last several weeks that they have here now to be flattening. Both also philadelphia. And houston atlanta nashville baltimore indianapolis and st louis also appear to be flattening the d. C. Metro area we dont see a decline yet so i hopefully all of us still social distancing and doing everything that you can i wanted to remind everybody of 2 points when we brought up and the president put out the guidelines for opening up america again it was very clear to use and to really Work Together to mitigate against any resurgence and i also critically to protect the vulnerable and what were seeing across Rural America and in some of the they were just listening there to deborah breaks and that is the Coronavirus Briefing held by President Trump we had from heard from him we also heard from steve chin the secretary of the treasury lets speak to al jazeera as kimberly how can he joins us now from the white house kimberly a lot there maybe if we can start with the secretary of the treasury and what he said he was speaking extensively about this new package that has been approved by the senate tell us a little bit more about what he what he said there. Yeah this is significant this is the Paycheck Protection Program essentially it was a very Successful Program so much so when it was 1st approved the money ran out and so the white house had to go back to congress and ask for more money and thats what hes celebrating there is the fact that the white house got it through the 1st chamber the u. S. Senate now we know it still has to go through the house of representatives before the president signs it into law but the deal has already been agreed across all the parties so its essentially ad done deal there may be some minor tweaks but what is significant about this is this provides hundreds of billions of dollars for Small Businesses to keep their employees on the payroll because already tens of millions of americans have lost their jobs this is preventing and theres no way to fact check this number but steve minissha the treasury secretary saying that at least 30000000 jobs have been saved as a result of this problem so you know well have to take the treasury secretarys word for it but this is why they felt it was so important because we have in the neighborhood of 40000000 americans who lost their job add 30000000 to that and its really getting into the astronomical in terms of the numbers of americans that are finding themselves without a paycheck so this alleviates that it also puts in place funding for a National Testing program something that would be the 1st step and you heard the president talking about that a little bit when he was talking about his meeting with the Governor Andrew Cuomo the fact that there has been this confusion among governors criticism that they havent been able to find what they need to do testing this is something the president pushed on the states without a whole lot of explanation or even supplies so that was the focus of a meeting with the Governor Andrew Cuomo and this is also something that that funding is going to provide for in that agreement thats taken place on capitol hill the other big thing in there that was a win for democrats was the fact they were pushing for money for hospital workers those front line workers. To get the protective equipment that they need 75000000000. 00 will be in there one other thing i should point out that now when theyve got this through congress theyre already talking about the next phase of congress because again its about saving jobs for this administration theyre talking about face for which would be an Infrastructure Program in order to create more jobs and repair some of the crumbling infrastructure important to note though that is a Campaign Promise that donald trump made in 2016 still hasnt been able to deliver maybe trying to sneak that one in in advance of the november election. What else do you think is likely to come out of the questions that i guess will be coming up quite soon in light of the more general approach that the u. S. Is having to the coronavirus and the increasing number all of the some contagion. One thing i think that is going to be a real focus of questions as the president does return to the podium is going to be that executive order that hes put in place this pas on immigration for about 60 days now usually this is a real flashpoint between liberals and conservatives in the United States and whats notable is right now were not seeing as much pushback from democrats in particular but more liberal americans that typically dont like donald trump theyre not saying a whole lot about this it was a bit of a shock to Many Americans but the polls seem to show that 2 thirds of americans support this pas on immigration right now given the fact that there are so Many Americans out of work you heard the president there talking a little bit more about that saying that it will be 60 days that this possible take place and then it will be evaluated again based on Economic Conditions in response to the coronavirus epidemic here in the United States so the president defending i can tell you though there are Many Democrats that dont like this to see this is as sort of a hysterical or xenophobic response even an attempt to advance an agenda and using the current virus crisis to do that but again this is the president the 1st details weve really got since he announced this program almost 24 hours ago on twitter ok kimberly were going to leave it there are for now see what else comes out of the News Conference were still keeping an eye on it for the moment kimberly how kind of the white house thank you. And just staying with us for another term President Trump was also pledged to bail out the u. S. Or oil industry after the u. S. Futures market plunged into negative territory for the 1st time ever on monday. Volatility over the price of oil so u. S. Stocks open and close in the red for a 2nd straight day that jones index closed more than 2. 5 percent down on tuesday. The crush of oil prices will have a. Overstating impact on many of the latin american economies that the penned heavily on fossil fuel exports it will contribute to a new un forecast for the region the worst recession in all of its history the c. N. N. Reports now from santiago in chile. Venezuela has the Worlds Largest oil reserves but youd never know it by looking at the endless patrol queues in the capital caracas. Any of them but weve been to q. C. s 11 last night and still there are more than 100 cars ahead. Oil industry was already in shambles unprecedented low production u. S. Economic sanctions and low prices made it hard to import chemicals needed to produce petrol now the little money that was coming in from oil exports is gone with the collapse of the market. Venezuela isnt alone neighboring colombia and ecuador which is already deep in debt depend heavily on oil exports as does mexico with the number of infections from cold with 19 is rising sharply admitting that the crash in oil prices will hit mexico very hard president and that is. Trying to comfort his compatriots. I want to go on t. V. And give you all the security that we mexicans will be able to feed this crisis. On the 42 the world country and of the mexican people. The crown jewel of Argentinas Oil Industry the vaca muerta the shale gas formation is now practically parallel its kind in the country needed most to offset a steep recession and debt commitments here in chile the problem is the plummeting price of its main export copper but along with the caribbean islands this is one of the seal latin american countries the practice of practically no fossil fuel which means that the drop in the price of oil is actually a bit of good. But not for long the u. N. Economic council celeb in america and the caribbean has just downgraded the forecast for the region even further everybodys going to be in the what we want to say is that this crisis will create the west for session in the region since 9141930 this is the magnitude of it the forecast the could be even