Mr. President. I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do the Contact Tracing. When you have a big outbreak it is tough to do anything but mitigation. We have an opportunity now that we have the availability of testing, to do that. So youre going to be hearing more about how we can inform where were going particularly because we have the ability to test. The second thing is, i want to reiterate what dr. Birx said about new york. It is a very serious situation. They have suffered terribly through no fault of their own but what were seeing now is that understandably, people want to get out of new york. Theyre going to florida. Theyre going to long island. Theyre going to different places. The idea, if you look at the statistics, it is disturbing about one per thousand of these individuals are infected. That is eight to 10 times more than in other areas. Which means when they go to other place, for their own safety, they have got to be careful, monitor themselves, if they get sick, bring it to the attention of a physician, get tested. Also the idea of about selfisolating for two weeks will be very important because we dont want that to be another seeding point for the rest of the country, wherever they go. Thirdly, just one, comment about, about drugs and testing of drugs. You know, you heard yesterday about drugs being out there, that physicians on an off label where you can prescribe it, to give people hope of something that hasnt been definitely proven to work but that might have some hope. I dont want anybody to forget that simultaneously with our doing that, were also doing randomized Clinical Trials on a number of candidates. You heard about candidates but there are others in the pipeline where we will be able to design the study and over a period of time, particularly since we have so many infections well be able to determine definitely, are these safe and are they effective . Were talking about remdesivir, other drugs, immune cera, convalescent sera, monoclonal antibodies, they are cueing up to go into Clinical Trials. I will stop there. Good job. Larry, how about a quick few minutes how were doing on the hill . Thank you, sir. Were gaining great progress on this phase three legislation, negotiations continue. Weve had continued reports. Ive been up there with secretary mnuchin. Secretary mnuchin continues today with chief of staff mark meadows checking in with the president. Theyre getting closer and closer. They expect a vote as soon as possible. I just want to walk through a couple of key points. This legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stablize financial markets, to get us through a difficult period, a difficult an challenging period in the economy, facing us right now, but also to position us for what i think can be an economic rebound later this year. We started the year very strong. Then we got hit by the coronavirus in ways that probably nobody imagined possible. Were dealing with that as best we can. This package will be the single largest, main street Assistance Program in the history of the United States. The single largest main street Assistance Program in the history of the United States. Phase two delivered the sick leave for individuals, hourly workers, families and so forth. Phase three, a significant package for Small Businesses. Loan guaranties will be included. Well take out expenses and lost revenues. As the president said eligibility requires worker retention. We will maintain the people eligible will maintain their payrolls during this crisis period, and, on top of that, we will have direct deposit checks of roughly 3,000 for a family of four and that will bridge to enhanced, plussed up Unemployment Insurance benefits that will essentially take those up to full wages. This is one, two, three, four. You know a strong workforce requires strong business. You cant have a job without a business to work for and the hope here is that the Companies Operating very well at the beginning of the year when the economy was in good shape, we will help them and their employees get through this tough period, so they will come out the other side. Lets say late they are spring or summer. Well continue their operations. That is the key point. Now, dont forget, there is income tax deferrals for individuals and corporations, without interest and penalties. There is student Loan Interest and principle and deferrals without any penalties. Finally, i want to mention the Treasury Exchange stabilization refund. That will be reflynn replenished. That is important because it opens the door for Federal Reserve firepower to deal with a broadbased way throughout the economy for distressed industries, for Small Businesses, for financial turbulence. You have already seen the fed take action. They intend to take more action. In order to begin this we have to replenish the treasurys emergency fund. That is very, very important. Not everybody understands that. That fund will be overseen by an Oversight Board and inspector general. It will be completely transparent. So the total package here comes to roughly 6 trillion. 2 trillion of direct assistance, roughly 4 trillion in Federal Reserve lending power. Again, will be largest main street financial package in the history of the United States. Liquidity and cashing for families, Small Business individuals, unemployed, to keep this thing going. Were headed for a rough period but only going to be weeks and months, not going to be years, thats for sure and hopefully pave the bay for continued economic recovery after this crisis departs. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Ive been hearing that voice for some years, 30 years or more, maybe. It is a great voice and it is a great man. Larry kudlow, thank you very much. Thanks. I want to say that package, we went over parts of it but pretty big parts, it really sets us up to i think even supersede where we were a month ago. I think we can get up there quickly. I think it allows us to supersede. It allows us to help these Great Companies that need help like boeing which is, you know, had a problem and then on top of that problem it had the virus come in. But well be helping boeing. Well be helping airlines. Well be helping the cruise lines. Well doing a lot of things. The money will come back to us and come back to us in a very strong form. Before we take some questions i would like to ask our great Vice President to say a few words, if you wouldnt mind, please. Thank you, mr. President. The White House Coronavirus task force met again today and on behalf of the president of the United States everyone on our team, our state leaders, let me say thank you, america. People across this country, businesses large and small are responding to the threat of the coronavirus in ways that are deeply inspiring. The people are acting on the president s 15 days to slow the spread. It is making a material difference. Our experts standing beside us told us that if every american, regardless of whether youre in an area that is impacted by an outbreak of the coronavirus or not, if every american would embrace these guidelines, that we could significantly reduce the number of americans that would contract the coronavirus and protect the most vulnerable. And as the president reflected earlier tens of millions of americans are doing just that and were grateful. The focus of our task force is to slow the spread, promote mitigation strategies. Beyond that though, the president has us focused. On testing and on supplies, making sure that those that are enduring the symptoms of the coronavirus and those who are ministering to them are Extraordinary Health care workers have the support that they need. In the category of supplies you just heard dr. Birx indicate that we have made great progress. We have done more tests in the last eight days than were done in the previous eight weeks and its because of the Public Private partnership the president forged in commercial labs. Remind your family and friends if you dont have symptoms, dont get a test. We want to make sure that people who have symptoms, have a concern, have the ability to be tested and have those tests processed. Were continuing to urge all county hospitals, all labs around the country to report to the cdc all the results of the tests as it will give these experts around us the ability to continue to advise the president on best practices. As i mentioned we all content to follow the outbreak around the country and the test results but as several have mentioned, were particularly focused on new york. The reality is the new York Metro Area was 60 of the new cases in the country and specifically as a layperson i can tell you that the infection rates are roughly one in 1000 in the new york city metropolitan area where they are. 2 per thousand or. 1 per thousand in places like Washington State. It is the reason why today the White House Coronavirus task force is calling on any american, first and foremost, if youre in the new york city metropolitan area or elsewhere, to take the guidelines that we issued and avoid nonessential travel. But for anyone in the new york metropolitan area who has traveled our task force is encouraging you to monitor your temperature, be sensitive to symptoms and we are asking anyone who has traveled out of the new york city metropolitan area to anywhere else in the country to selfisolate for 14 days. We have to deal with the new york city metropolitan area as a highrisk area and for that reason, were taking these steps and asking for the cooperation of the American People. Because of the spread in new york city we will continue to surge resources. The president has described this, fema is coordinating with new york state for the arrival of the uss comfort in just a matter of a few short weeks. Over the next 24 hours more than four thousand additional ventilators will be delivered to new york state as well. New york state has prioritized three alternative medical facilities and at the president s direction, the army corps of engineers is working on plans to build those facilities out. You heard the president speak about the javits center, the addition of 1000 beds and it will continue. I want the people of new york city and the Greater New York city area to know that were with you, were going to continue to provide resources to support your state and local officials as they confront the spread of the coronavirus in that great city. On the subject of supplies we had Team Meetings today at fema which is working on identifying the critical personal protective equipment and ventilators. At this point fema informs us today they are distributing 7. 6 million n95 respirator masks, more than 14 million surgical masks and fema has already shipped 73 pallets of personal protective equipment to new york, 36 pallets of personal protective equipment to the state of washington. Well be meeting again tonight. As you know the president stood fema as a National Response center up and they are in the lead for the approach to the coronavirus which is locally executed, statemanaged and federally supported. Well continue to surge those resources and make sure theyre available. One last word if i may, the president reflected on the response of businesses around the country have brought to this moment. It truly is extraordinary. The president did initiate the defense production act last week. But as the president reflected many times well use the defense production act if we need it to mandate production of critical supplies but so far no one has said no. And in fact we see industries stepping up. President mentioned ford motor company, 3m, ge health, to expand medical supplies. Mcdonalds is offering curbside delivery of truckers unable to use the drivethrough to pick up a big mack. I spoke today, the president spoke last week with tim cook of apple, and at this moment in time apple went to their storehouses an is donating nine million n95 masks to Health Care Facilities at, all across the country and to the national stockpile. There is a level of generosity i know is inspiring to the president and it is truly inspiring to all of us who are working on the White House Coronavirus task force. The president s made it clear that hopes in weeks not months to be able to open up the country but let me make one last encouragement to every american. We will get to that day quicker if every american will put into practice the president s coronavirus guidelines for our nation. 15 days to slow the spread. If every american will do this, i have no doubt that we will slow the spread, we will protect our most vulnerable and heal our land. Thank you very much. Reporter mr. President , you rerated you hope to have the country opened by easter. You would like to see churches packed on that day. My question to the two doctors on stage with you, have either of them told you that is realistic timeline . I think were looking at a timeline, were discussing it. We had a very good meeting today. If you add the all up that is probably nine days, plus another 2 1 2 weeks. A period of time longer than the original two weeks. So were going to look at it. Well only do it if it is good. Maybe we do sections of the country, do large sections of country but were very much in touch with tony and with debra. Reporter who suggested i thought it was a beautiful time, it would be a beautiful timeline. That reporter based on data. It was based on a certain level of weeks from the time we started and it happened to arrive actually, we were thinking in terms of sooner. I would love to see it come even sooner, i think it would be a beautiful timeline. John . Reporter mr. President , you have seen in the last day or so, seen the number of known coronavirus cases in the country double in just two days, another 95 people have died in the last 24 hours. New yorks governor is saying this is spreading like a bullet train across the country, and governor of louisiana is saying that his state may not be able to handle the cases that theyre facing by early april. So what are you seeing in all of this that leads you to think that we can reopen by were working with all of them. We can be talking about large sections of our country because there are sections of our country that you didnt talk about that are doing unbelievably well. They have very little incidents or problems. Very small numbers. It is very possible they wont be ever subject to whats happening in new york. New york is definitely a hot spot. There is know question about it. You know what were doing in new york to try to help. I think were doing an incredible job. Well have the hospitals up quickly, the medical centers also quickly. But well just have to see. We have to follow it. We have to see to look at the curve. Well see when it starts coming down. And well do the best job that can be done. John, please. Reporter question for you mr. President , dr. Fauci, looking at this idea of an eastertime, i know that is probably flexible, what are the metrics by which you will make the decision as to whether you can say yes, we can open up this area of the country or no we cant open up that area . Will you look at disease numbers or possible isolation . Well look at a lot of things. Well look again at very large portions of our country. And i will be guided very much by dr. Fauci and by deborah and some of the other professionals that work with both of you and were going to see what will be, that would certainly be i think that is a goal that perhaps can happen or at least for a very large portion of our country. Reporter dr. Fauci, since the president said, you and dr. Birx and others will be guiding him making the decision, where are you now in this timeline 19 days from now . That is really very flexible. We just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about, you know, you can look at a date but you got to be very flexible. On literally, day by day, week by week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do. John you asked for what kind of metrics, what kind of data, when you look at the country, obviously no one is going to want to tone down things when you see whats going on in a place like new york city. I mean that is just, Good Public Health practice and common sense but the country is a big country and there are areas of the country, i refer to this in my opening remarks, that we really need to know more about what the penetrants is there. If we do the testing were doing, testing will be associated by identification, association, Contact Tracing and you find other areas that are different from the other areas of the country you might not essentially see it as one force for the entire country, but look at flexibility in different areas. People might get the misinterpretation, you will lift eve