In emba is is around the world. We had three fatalities so far. Reporter there were calls on the World Health Organization for limb change there i wonder what your thoughts are on that . Senator martha mcsally, for example, called for dr. Tedros to resign. Look, this not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back to see how the World Health Organization performed. Meantime what our task is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers, make sure our resources dont go to places that wont deliver on behalf of the American People and the world and President Trump and i are determined to do that. Okay. Follow up . Reporter quick follow up he is a busy man. Reporter china has responsibility to get correct figures. How would you broadly characterize cooperation with china right now. Lots of places weve been cooperating, right . Theyre providing us assistance where we need it. There are places on the ground where we do have access to the data we need. Were deeply appreciative of that. They have said they want to cooperate. Were completely prepared to cooperate with them. That cooperation means sharing data, being transparent, being up front, allowing information to flow freely. That is our expectation, not just of china though, of every country in this place today. We collectively we have to work our way through this to do this you have to have really good data. Okay. Great, thank you, mr. President. Thank you all. Thanks. Okay. Thank you very much. Just a few days weve delivered nearly 11 million n95 masks to hot spots around the country as you know, including 6. 6 million to new york and new jersey. 1. 8 million to chicago. 1. 7 million to detroit and 837,000 to new orleans. I spoke to the governor of louisiana a little while ago and theyre doing really pretty well. Much better than they thought. They will be using few are beds. As you know we built a hospital. Were about set to complete another hospital in, there is even a possibility they wont need it. That is what we discussed. To date weve shipped out more than 8,000 ventilators and we have 10,000, almost 10,000 sitting there ready to go should we need them. And in additional 2200 newly manufactured ventilators come online on monday. Well be sending them to various locations just in case they need them. My administration is working with phillips to double their production of ventilators by may, and ultimately quadruple production by later this year, highquality ventilators. Were eliminating bureaucratic barriers to pave the way for phillips Major Investments in American Manufacturing sites and sales. This will help to insure that our country can permanently produce enough ventilators in the future we can do them by ourselves. Well have a big stockpile when were finished. We expect to be sending quite a few to other countries to help them after were finished and even now were, a couple of countries are really, really in dire need. And it looks like our projections were right on ventilators, and some states were thinking would need thousands of more than they thought will, are now already taken care of, which were very happy about. In addition, beginning in may well be receiving almost 300 million new facemasks. Were going to have masks of about 300 million. They will be starting to be delivered in may and during the month of june. So were ordering a big stockpile. Were thinking about doing an extra 200 million should we need them or for the stockpile. So well be in a position to have something incredible that will be a total of 500 million masks. Today 750,000 new protective grounds landed in dallas texas, as a result of a Partnership Led by the federal government, dupont and fedex that has been a great partnership. Thats worked very well. We have 600, 750,000 new protective gowns. These are high level, high quality. As american industry tens up to help and american scientists. 10 drugs are in Clinical Trials. My administration is taking unprecedented actions to make new therapies and treatments available without delay. The doctors, the lab technicians, the companies, i spoke to them yesterday, i spoke to them again today, theyre coming up with things i think, i hope in very near future will be very special, very important. Our National Stockpile is now equipped with nearly 30 million hydroxychlorquine pills. So were up to about 30 million. Were distributing them by the millions. You read about state representative karen whitset i appreciate her going public. She was i think, very, very much helped by this pill. She saw what i was saying on television. She thought she was in very bad shape, wont go further than that you see her story. You know her story. She is a highly respected state rep from michigan. She did a, i think she did a great service, what shes done. She is in terrific shape. She looks fantastic and she was very generous with her statements. In addition the significant significant asignificant throw mice sin and add sync. They zinc. That is where theyre having best results. You add the zinc and arthrmycin. You have a lot of good stories. We have almost 30 million doses. Weve got a lot. I want to thank Prime Minister modi of india for allowing us to have what we requested for the problem arose. He was terrific. Well remember it. Later today the cdc will release further guidance to help insure Critical Infrastructure workers can perform their jobs safely after potential exposure to the virus so theyre working on that. The question was asked a little while ago about the World Health Organization and, as you know they made a statement on june, on january 14th, i guess it was, that there was no humantohuman transmission. Well there was. They probably made that statement in the second or third week in december in addition but they made it very powerfully on january 14th and they criticized me very strongly when i said that were going to shut down flights coming in from china, especially from certain parts of china but from china generally. We were criticized very badly. So last year and for many years hundreds of millions of dollars has been paid to the World Health Organization, hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and last year was 452 million. And china paid 42 million. Before that it was 500 million and china paid less than 40 million. And before that it was similar numbers, in the 400s, 300s and sometimes even in the 500s of millions of dollars and china would do, proportionally, just a small fraction of that number and i think they have to get their priorities right and their priorities are that everybody has to be treated properly, every country. And it doesnt seem that way, does it . Doesnt seem that way. So were going to do, study investigation and were going to make a determination as to what were doing. Meantime were holding back. Were, we want to say very unfair. So the United States, 452 million expired to the World Health Organization. That is not good. Not good. Not fair at all. Other countries gave substantially less than the United States. And the world, w. H. O. , world health got it wrong. I mean they got it very wrong. Many ways they were wrong. They also minimized the threat very strongly, and not good. I want to take this opportunity to express the thanks of an extremely grateful nation to the americans who go to work every day, especially in these Critical Industries in the midst of the pandemic to care for and protect and feed American People including medical personnel, law enforcement, firstresponders, food suppliers, sanitation workers and somebody mentioned today, would you please specifically call out cashiers and clerks at Grocery Stores who are in danger during the pandemic, during the epidemic. Theyre in danger. Theyre really in great danger, and they have been incredible. I want to call them out. Cashiers and clerk. We grew up with cashiers and clerks in Grocery Stores and they have been great and they have really been true american heroes. I want to call them out and theyre working very hard in conditions that are not ideal. Soon they will be very ideal again. As we mourn the terrible loss of life from this, this grave pandemic, were seeing signs that our aggressive strategy to slow the spread is working. The number of new cases is stablizing. The number of beds necessary in some locations, i was watching this morning new york, i was watching louisiana, you see what is going on. The numbers are changing and theyre changing rapidly. Soon well be over that curve. Well be over the top. Well be headed in the right direction, i feel strongly about that. Some terrible days ahead but were going to have some wonderful days ahead. And were going to get this behind us, this terrible thing behind us. Some people never be able to forget if they had a loved one, if they had a great friend or a friend, but, were going to get it behind us. This is a tribute to the discipline and devotion of the American People, what weve accomplished. If every american continues to strictly adhere to social distancing guidelines we can defeat the invisible enemy and save countless lives and do it much more quickly. Were hopefully heading toward a final stretch, the light at the end of the tunnel as i was saying as we continue to wage all out medical war to defeat the virus were also fighting an economic war to insure we can quickly turn to full financial strength. We have to get our country back. We have to get going. Everybody wants to get going. Yesterday i asked congress to provide an additional 250 billion to expand the incredibly successful paycheck protection program. You have seen what is going on there. It is incredible, actually, which is allowing our Small Businesses to keep employees on the payroll and get ready for the opening, like a second opening, to protect millions of americans jobs, im asking congress to pass additional funding for this program this week as soon as possible. I think we have pretty good understanding with the democrats. Hopefully it will be bipartisan. We do not have time for the partisan games. We dont want that the obstruction, or totally unrelated agendas. We want to do this for Small Businesses and workers and we can do a phase four. A phase four will be later. This will be expansion what weve already done, because it is so successful. 350 billion will be expanded by hopefully 250. If you look at kind of loans, thousands, tens of thousands of loans to Small Businesses. It is, a great thing to see. Turn out to be more successful and more productive than anybody would have thought but democrats and republicans are coming together to get that job done. Thats a very important job. In recent days and days ahead well restore Americas Health and economic might but also dimensions much our National Strength will be brought together, i think, stronger than i think we have a chance to be stronger than ever before. We learned a lot. And we have tremendous stimulus now, tremendous stimulus. And were going for more. Heavy fully well do an infrastructure bill so we can rebuild our roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, all the things we should do for our country. Well rebuild our country, not other countries where they dont even appreciate it. As our citizens persevere through this present challenge, were renewing american unity and were replenishing american will and we are witnessing new american valor each and every day. We see it every day. The daring and determination of our people in this crisis no matter how hard it gets, no matter what obstacles we must overcome, americans will keep on fighting the victory and we will secure the glorious future that our citizens so richly deserve, especially after going through this nightmare, this evil beast. So were getting very close and hopefully it will, hopefully it is on the other side and it will end soon and i think it will, and i just think that the people of this country are fantastic. So well take a few questions and then, Vice President will take over, please, go ahead. Please . Reporter thank you so much, mr. President. Abc is reporting that your Intelligence Community was warn about the virus as early as november and produced a detail report about the outbreak in china. When did you first learn about the intelligence . Could you have acted on it then . I learned when i started, when i learned about the gravity sometime just prior to closing the country to china and when we closed up the flights coming in from china various other elements. And then as you know we closed up to europe. So i dont know exactly but i would like to see the information, yeah, please. Reporter mr. President , a lot of americans want to see businesses reopen. So do i, more than anybody. Reporter what specifically has to happen for you to feel it is safe to reopen the country and what is your plan to do that . I think we can say we have to be on that downside of that slope and heading to a very strong direction, that this thing is gone. We can do it in faces. Can go to some areas which you know, some areas are much less affected than others but it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country, or certainly most of our country and i think well do that soon. You look at whats happening i would say were ahead of schedule. You hate to say it too loudly, because all of sudden things dont happen but i think we will be sooner rather than later. But well be sitting down with the professionals. Well be sitting down with many different people making a determination and those meetings will start taking place fairly soon. Reporter you wouldnt do that until the Health Experts tell you it is safe to do it . I would rely very heavily on them, yeah. Reporter do you think there is system for monitoring and testing that youre looking at . Were putting in very heavy testing systems. We have the best testing systems. And again, dont forget when we look at cases im looking at some, i will not insult anybody, i will not insult any country, but im looking at countries that are showing less cases than us. Thats testing. Were testing more than anybody. You saw exponentially more than anybody by far and our testing has become, i think it will end up being a big strength. In fact the other countries, other countries that the media talked about are now calling what are we doing and how are he doing it so quickly and where are we getting tests because the tests are really good now. They are proven to be very accurate. Yes, please. Reporter thank you, the trump. Two quick questions. One on infrastructure. Mem bergs of our administration, members of congress pointed out federal employee, head of Tennessee Valley authority, and he made 8 million last year. Ridiculous. I agree. Its ridiculous. I think it is highest paid government long before i got here, you said Tennessee Valley authority, right . Has to be the highest paid man in any government. Makes approximately 8 or 9 million. I dont know the gentleman but he has a heck of a job. He gets paid a lot of money. Been there for a long while, hasnt he . Reporter this one is new. Came in april. Thats separate. Im talking about the, we just have some new people going on the board i know. But as you know, thats a quasipublic agency and whoever the head of the agency is, that person makes a lot of money. Reporter asking my second question which is amazing thing. When we want them to do something theyre not there for us. That is not good. Thats not good. Been there for a long time. That has been a story for a long time. Reporter i assume you would support reducing that salary as part of the infrastructure bill . Reducing it by a lot. Reporter my other question must be the greatest job in the history of government almost. Certainly if youre into money. Tennessee valley authority. Thats right, go ahead. Been waiting for somebody to ask me about that. It has been bothering me for a long time too, go ahead. Reporter one of the biggest rating hits of coronavirus besides from show on netflix called, tiger king. The man is former zoo owner serving a 22 year prison sentence. Asking you for a pardon saying he was unfairly convicted. Your son jokingly yesterday he would advocate for it. I was wondering if you had seen the show and any thoughts of pardoning which son . Must be don . I had a feeling it was don . Is that what he said. I know nothing about it, 22 years for what . What did he do . Reporter allegedly hired someone to murder a on a mall rights activist. He said he didnt do it. Do you think he didnt do it . Are you on his side . Are you recommending a pardon as reporter not allowed to do that would you be criticized by these would you recommend a pardon north north. Reporter not making a recommendation. That is joe exotic. Reporter coronavirus if i can, mr. President. Last week your top experts were saying we should expect 100,000, 240,000 deaths in this country. Youre talking but how looks likes things are plateauing. Are these numbers being revised down ward . I know you dont want people to stop social distancing that sort of thing what can you tell us about the numbers my impression, jim, those were the numbers were set, set as expectation from quite a while ago. I think were doing much better than those numbers. If either of you would like to talk about that, that is a fair question. You want to come up, deborah . [inaudible]. Yeah, so, i think all of you, many of you have done the analysis of the same models that we utilized. If you do the the models of the models you end up with that range. At the same time we carefully looked at italy and spain and we are doing much better in many cases than several other countries and were trying to understand that. We believe that our Health Care Delivery system in the United States is quite extraordinary. I know many are watching the act now model and the ihme now dell and they have consistently, number, mortality from almost over 90,000, 86,000 down to 81,000