[indiscernible] pres. Trump thank you very much. I just had a great conversation with the leading faith leaders of our country. It went extremely well. I learned a lot. We are working on things that are very interesting and very positive. I thank them for being on the call. Yesterday we unveiled detailed guidelines for governors to initiate us a safe, gradual reopening of america. The guidelines provide governors with the factdriven and sciencebased metrics they need to make decisions that are right for their own particular state. To view the guidelines you can go to the website atwhitehou se. Gov openingamerica. The treasury sent out Economic Relief payments to more than 80 haveon americans who direct deposit information on file with the irs. An incredible success it has been. If you have not received your v, getplease visit irs. Go my payment. That way the irs can get you your payment within days. They have done a fantastic job. You will not have to wait for a check in the mail. I have good news. We sent out 80 million deposits. Less than 1 had even little problems. A couple had minor glitches, but substantially less than 1 . Out of 80 million deposits, less than 1 , and that gets corrected immediately. You will get that quickly, easily. Today i am announcing secretary perdue, happens to be right next to me, handsome man, and the department of agriculture, will billionmenting a 19 Relief Program for our great farmers and ranchers as they cope with the fallout of the global pandemic. Very honored to be doing that. Our farmers, ranchers. These are great people, Great Americans. Never complain, they just do what they have to do. The program will include direct payments to farmers as well as mass purchases of dairy, ema meat and Agricultural Produce to get it to the people in need. Will receive another 14 million in july to continue helping this will help our farmers and ranchers. It is money well deserved. Not only were they targeted at one point by china, that was over a period of time, and they never complained, but that worked out well. 12 billion they got and 16 billion they got. Now it is 19 billion. I will ask secretary perdue exactly how we are going to handle it. Thank you. Mr. President , you may remember earlier this year you tweeted a message to our farmers and ranches ranchers that no matter the circumstances, you pledged to stand by them. None of us could have anticipated this pandemic, but todays announcement is proof you have our farmers backs and will continue to do what it takes to support them and they are grateful. We heard a lot recently about our Food Supply Chain. American now knows more than ever the wholesome food our families depend upon starts with americas farmers and ranchers. Americas agriculture has been hardhit, like most of america with the coronavirus. President trump is standing with farmers to make sure we get through this national emergency. Thanks to your direction and a isership, the usd announcing the coronavirus Food Assistance program, this new, 19 billion program will have immediate actions to assist farmers, ranchers and consumers in response to the covid19 national emergency. The program is divided into two parts. One is a direct payment. 16 billion in direct payments to farmers, ranchers and producers who experienced unprecedented losses during this pandemic. Since we wanted to get the payments out to producers as soon as possible, we decided to use the funds in the ccc, currently 6. 5 million combined with the 19. 5 of covid money rather than wait for replenishment of ccc funds in july. It is becoming apparent we will need the additional ccc funds as we continue to track economic losses. Secondly, and this is important, the usda will be purchasing 3 billion in fresh produce, dairy and Meat Products to be distributed to americans in need through Food Bank Networks as well as other community and faithbased organizations, having to dump milk or other items in market is not only financially distressing, but heartbreaking to those who produce that. We provide Financial Relief to farmers and ranchers, and the purchase and distribution of agricultural abundance in this country to help our fellow americans in need. Theecent weeks we have seen patriotism of our Food Supply Chain workers that have shown day in and day out, doing work to serve the needs of fellow americans. Our farmers have been in the fields doing what they do every spring to feed the American People, even with the pandemic, as we speak. I want to thank you, mr. President , for your unwavering support. They want to thank you, from americas farmers and ranchers. Do everything in our power to implement this program as quickly and efficiently as possible to help our farmers, ranchers, producers and consumers in this time of need. Thank you for having me here today. Americas you, god bless and american agriculture. Pres. Trump thank you, sir. Of agriculture was the governor of georgia for eight years. The only reason he is not still there is that he was [indiscernible] and i said, lets get him for agriculture. Good job. We really appreciate it. Even as we prepare to rebuild our economy, america continues to wage an allout medical ward to defeat the invisible enemy. To date we have conducted more than 3. 78 million coronavirus tests, the most of any country, not even close. In the hardest hit areas, new york and louisiana, we tested more people per capita than south korea, singapore and every other country. The u. S. Has the most robust, advanced and accurate testing system in the world. As of yesterday we distributed ids. 660,000 abbott test, now incredible pointofcare diagnostic test and it has been fantastic. It is the hot one. Problem with this business, it is a hot one until two days from now. We do have a saliva test that just came out and it can be self administered and is said to be fantastic. I want to thank abbott laboratories, they have been incredible. I want to thank roche, they have likewise been incredible. We have seen a dramatic increase in tests conducted by hospitals and academic institutions, which have now performed nearly 600,000 tests. Ofre is a tremendous amount unused capacity in the states available for governors to tap. Unused tremendous capability within those laboratories and i hope the governors will be able to use them. The governors are responsible for the testing and i hope they can use this tremendous amount of available capacity we have. It is up to one million additional tests per week. When you think of that, in the nest in the next few weeks we will send out 5. 5 million testing swabs to the states. They can be done easily by the governors themselves. Is kotten, not a big deal big deal. T a yesterday the fda announced a new collaboration with united ntigen andndation, qua with a new, polyester, qtip type swab for coronavirus testing. This will help our testing capability grow dramatically. We are helping people, even with swabs. We have ventilators. We are now the king of ventilators. We have hundreds of thousands under construction. We do not need them ourselves. We have a great stockpile we will immediately send to states in need. But we have handled that situation incredibly well. I hope people understand it. I wish the media would get the word out. What we have done in ventilators is amazing. They are big, expensive and complex. I spoke to the president of mexico today, great gentlemen. Gentleman. I told him we would be helping mexico with ventilators and other countries, too. Highlevel,t of highquality ventilators. They are here and being manufactured as we speak. Following the announcement of our reopening guidelines, there have been partisan voices in the media who have spread false and misleading information about our Testing Capacity, demonstrating a complete failure to understand the norm us scope of the testing capabilities we have brought online. We started from ground zero. Outdatedd from being and obsolete as a country, from the past. I will say this, if they did not understand it it is unfortunately, i hate to say this, because we have been getting along well, but it would be false reporting. It will be up to the states to use that capability. They have local points where they can go, governors can call the mayors and mayors can call representatives and everything is perfect. That is the way it always should work. It will help new york and all the other states get even better on their testing. We have to do even better. Some people think there are amounts, areast where you have almost very few people and almost no people are infected. Those areas will be looked upon differently by different governors. You will have a lot of news coming out about that over the next few days. Come onlinees will and start the early stages of the puzzle we are putting together. It will be together sooner than later. A lot of incredible things are happening. At some point in the nottoodistant future we will have our country back and with what we are doing on stimulus and helping people keep businesses together and lives, it will be better than ever before. I hope so. The current conversation is reminiscent of what happened on ventilators. Made farests were beyond what was objectively needed. From certainng states that they needed far more ventilators. In one case they wanted 40,000 ventilators. Plenty, out they had 7000 or 8000. We supplied them with a lot. That was the right number. If they need more we are ready to give more, but the surge seems to be over. A lot of governors are doing a great job. We are working together. The research and Development Done at the federal level has been absolutely incredible. Be accepting of these figures when they get to see the end result. They are already seeing it. That includes not only ventilators, but beds. We built far more than they even needed. We wanted to err on the side of caution. They wanted a certain amount. In louisiana i talked with the governor. Think you will need the final hospital . They did not need it. I appreciate it from the governor. Hospital. Uilding a in new york we did a spectacular job at the javits center. Wen sending the ship up, brought it into covid, but they did not need it. Did not get much use, but it was ready. It was not supposed to be used for that purpose. We changed it into that purpose. Ready it was there, ready, but they did not need the beds we produce. We produced almost 2900 beds. I would rather tell you we were over prepared than underprepared. That was a good faith effort by new york. It is nice we did not need it. It was ready to go. Still they are should something happen. I think they have it under good control. As you will hear from our experts today, we have built sufficient Testing Capacity nationwide for states to begin reopenings. You will hear a lot about reopenings reopenings in the coming days and months. Youll see some very dramatic steps taken and very safely, putting safety first. We may be opening, but we are putting safety first. When you look at the numbers, the possible number of deaths, it couldpeople have well been that. I am looking at numbers where it could have been higher than that. Dying, if youople figure with those 500,000, maybe 600,000 in the civil war. Million people, at a minimum if we did nothing. In half, you are talking about a million dying. But we did a lot of work. People of this country were incredible. I think we are heading to the other category. Successful, between 100,000 to 220,000. I hope we will be substantially below the 100,000 number. 60,000,w we are around maybe 65,000. One is too many. It is a horrible thing that happened to our country, to 184 countries. It was a horrible thing and there was no reason for it and it should never happen again. In a few minutes you will be hearing from dr. Redfield, dr. And an admiral. Newfda authorized two Antibody Tests to determine if someone has been previously infected with the virus, bringing the total to four authorized Antibody Tests already. This will help us assess the number of cases that have been a mptomatic. Cally asy we can get americans back to work by showing us who might have developed immunity. This will be made possible by americas scientific brilliance. There is nobody like us. I wish i could tell you what powerful country say to me, the leaders. They say it quietly and off the record, but they have Great Respect for what we can do. Four or five weeks ago we were at a level nobody had obtained. The best job numbers, the best economy. Wasy company virtually doing Better Business than before. The stock market was at an alltime high. One day they said you got to close it up. We did the right thing. We saved may be millions of lives, but we are paying a price. That price is unimportant compared to the number of lives we are talking about. The nih and others are conducting trials. It is so exciting to me because if something happens, you will get better. Reasonably quickly. Horrible dealch a as some people have to go through. Launchingced they are a publicpray for Publicprivate Partnership with pharmaceutical companies. And the european medicine agency. We are working with a lot of different countries. The partnership will marshall and coordinate vast resources, knowledge, assets and authorities of more than a dozen organizations and agencies to accelerate development of the most promising therapies and vaccines and is coming along really well. Johnson and johnson is really well advanced. Success,having great but we have to test them and it takes a long period of time, probably over a year, but therapies are coming along well. When we get that, that will be a big day. We are equipping medical warriors on the front lines. We have the project air bridge. It has been incredible. The National Strategic stockpile, and every other channel the federal government has deployed. Masks, 524n n95 million gloves, more than 10 million gallons. 500 Million Masks coming in soon between manufacturing and orders. 500 Million Masks. The last few months have been among the most challenging times in the history of our nation. Toughnvisible enemy is and smart and vicious, but every day we are getting closer to the future we have been waiting for. I talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. We are getting very close to seeing that light shine brightly at the end of that tunnel. It is happening and i want to thank everyone in the room. I want to thank some of the media. We have had some fair coverage and i appreciate it. I will introduce our great Vice President , mike pence. He will take over. I will leave and come back. We will take questions over our tremendous testing capabilities. Again, i will be right back. Thank you. V. P. Pence thank you, mr. President. Good afternoon, all. The president just reflected it remains a challenging time in the life of our nation, but because of the extraordinary efforts of the American People, because of a strong partnership, the federal government has forged with states across the country, we are making progress. Despite the tragic loss of more than 36,000 americans. According to our best data reporting this morning, we continue to see new cases low and steady on the west coast and cases and hospitalizations declining in the greater new orleans, area, new detroit and elsewhere. This is a tribute first and foremost for health care doctors, nurses, all those working the front lines, but also a great tribute to the American People who put into practice social distancing, the guidance of state and local officials. Ishope every american encouraged by the steady progress we are making. We are continuing to bring at the president s direction, the full resources of the federal government. Aday the president approved disaster declaration for american samoa, so now all 50 states and territories are under disaster declarations for the first time in american history. At this present moment, 33,000 National Guardsmen are on duty. 5500 active military personnel deployed to nine states, including 716 medical professionals, doctors and nurses who deployed out to 14 different hospitals. Among those, 10 in new york city and military personnel were also serving today in hospitals in connecticut, texas, louisiana and new jersey. Yesterday as the president reflected, we unveiled the guidelines for opening up america again. There were two parts at the beginning of the guidelines. First, criteria we hope will guide governors in their decisions about reopening their states on either a statewide level or county level. Believeoutlined what we will be the most important state responsibilities to have in place before moving into a reopening plan. For phase one the president s guidelines advise states with a downward trajectory and cases time, 14 day period of and ensure they have proper capacity in their health care facilities, could move to phase one, with easing of some social distancing criteria in place. For states that meet the criteria, we outlined responsibilities, protecting workers and critical industries, particularly the most vulnerable, those who live and work in senior care facilities. We also encourage states to have symptomaticesting individuals and ensuring testing to our most vulnerable populations. As the president made clear, governors will decide the time and manner their states reopen. We will look to support them in that effort. As we showed the American People yesterday, the president s direction, our administration will work with governors across the country to make sure they have the equipment, supplies and testing resources to reopen safely and responsibly. On the subject of supplies, we issued a letter summarizing all the medical equipment and supplies distributed to the states from fema between the first of this month and april 14 through project air bridge and the commercial supply network. We will be speaking with our nations governors monday and detailing that information. The president , as reflected, fema coordinated delivery of millions of pieces of medical equipment including respirators, 63 million medical masks, more than 10,000 ventilators and more than 8600 federal medical station beds. On the subject of testing resources, we will take time to speak about our administrations approach and partnership with states to continue to expand testing across the