Foundation. Colonel, great to see you. The president is on a Conference Call to get this oil deal done. Your reaction to that story as we await for the presser . I think one of the Untold Stories about the whole Covid Response has been the u. S. As a global leader. Were so focused on the domestic story. Were so focused what china is doing around the world that china is absent and were not. This is one of the instance United States holding back, Holding WorldHealth Organization accountable. Tremendous work weve done with other countries own development and cdc and everybody else. U. S. Is still the global leader. Im glad we have Something Like this to remind people of that. Elizabeth i want to move to jobless claims. This is a story of reopening. The American People want to know the plan Going Forward from reopening economy. Were different from europe. Entire nations shut down. They can make the call to reopen. We operate on a 50 state model. Here is the problem, 6. 6 million jobs lost today. Texas, a bellwether, 650,000 texans filed for jobless claims. That is more than the entire year of 2019. What is the best plan for reopening . Should it be walltowall nationwide testing . I think it will be a number of things. One well go through the curves at different periods. Were not like any other european country. They go through the curve once. I think well be able to open regionally. As we have less hot spots, people are bringing less parts of the country to others regional i think will work. I think industries, were learning a lot of lessons from Companies Like fedex, or the Companies Working through the pandemic, how are they able to stay in business and keep people from being infected . Well find different ways to do business. How do we get different people in a stadium. As we figure those things out that will open up additional activities. It will not be a light switch. I think it will be sooner than people expected. I think well use combination of techniques. The big variable is what you just mentioned. You mentioned testing but also antivirals to treat it, other methods, prophylaxis and other mitigation. Elizabeth americans want details. They just want details. The best way forward is to do, you know, just basically show the American People, heres the status of this vaccine. It will come online and how many weeks . Here is the status of that antibody test, it is ready to go when . They want to see a screen a full shot screen, whats the status of all these things because the American People, watch the market reaction. Unless they have confidence to go out and to work they wont do it. Unless they feel they want to feel safe. They want to feel safe Going Forward. Wouldnt that be the best approach . Here it is, america. Here is where were at right now. Full transparency with testing, with drugs, with vaccines . I think it is reasonable to expect to see that at the end of the month. I think at the end of the month well have a much better grasp where the disease is headed. Well have a much better grasp what our arsenal will look like and we have feedback from the private sector. I think were couple weeks away from that kind of data but i could see that happening by the end of this month. Elizabeth your take on this we went initially Imperial College of london said 2. 2 million u. S. Fatalities. Then it came down to 240,000. Then it came down to 85,000. Now it is at 60,000. Your take on these models. We understand it is difficult to projecting and these models are used to use major shutdowns across the corntry and drive Major Economic decisions in the country. Your reaction to the data . The models were kind of all we had but essentially we have now a world class tester. Were working on real time data. I think debate on the models, whatever they said in the past we are where we are. Reality were dealing with real daytoday knowledge of the disease. I think importance of the models will really fade in importance. I think again, if we keep going the direction were going, at the end of this month i think well have an idea about how to go forward. The other thing is, we have to think about this differently. This is not a depression, or recession, this is suppression. Nobody ever done this history. Voluntarily turned off the economy and turn on the light switch go back on again. We have to think afresh. We have to think how we get the most number of people safely back to work as quirky as possible. Elizabeth more than nine out of 10 americans under some form of stay at home or shelter in place orders. Lets move on to this story. We know that we now have 70 countries working on drugs and vaccines around the world. There is a growing global backlash against china. China has ignited a humanitarian crisis around the world. Were talking social media, colonel, lighting up, social media attacks against china and india and bangladesh and afghanistan from europe to the uk. The world simply cannot get hit again by another pandemic due to chinas recklessness and coverups. The uk believes chinas outbreak is 40 times bigger. How do you get china to be made accountable here . Well first of all i think people forget this is just the nail in the coffin. China was in deep trouble before this even started. Cheating, predatory behavior. China seen this coming. Here is i think the key thing. I think well all stop doing business with china but this is advantage usa. As soon as we get this country back to work well be in the strongest position of anybody. This president will have more leverage on china than anybody has in the last 30 years. This guy is not afraid to use it. I think elizabeth go ahead. Yeah. Use the leverage. Let the president follow through on the strategy that we already have in place. Elizabeth okay. So here is what is going on. Japan is now saying to its companies that had operations in china, come home to japan. Well pay you billions. Two billion dollars set up to get companies out, Japanese Companies out of japan to come back home. We know that there is a, basically the production act, the Defense Product act, domestic product act to get companies to ramp up medical supplies and production of that. Could that be used as a first step to get even more medical supply production happening inside of the United States . Because china has basically been pushing on a medical belt and Road Initiative to become a medical superpower now . Your reaction to that . I think we need, i think our approach we need a plan that is good for america, good for japan whatever theyre doing. There are three pieces. Why cant people do business here . Scour everything at local, state, federal level, every piece of red tape to prevent everybody innovating and hire people here. Get rid of that. To get people doing business in the United States. The second one, there are other partners around the world that want to do business in the United States. We dont spend enough time going out to find the good partnerships. That is two. The third thing is transparency this has been the key of the whole thing if we learned everything. Let the world know, what the chinese are really doing and then people will risk informed decisions and do business in other places. That is a threepart strategy for the u. S. That will put china place. Elizabeth james carafano. Thank you so much. Good to see you. Thank you for your insights. Come back soon. Thank you. Elizabeth great to see you, sir. More on the plan to reopen the economy with senator tim scott of south carolina. That stover next. Stay with us life isnt a straight line. And sometimes, you can find yourself heading in a new direction. 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Great to be on the telephone with you. Elizabeth oh, it is great to have you on too. This growing global backlash against china. Now the World Health Organization leader basically said this to the United States, the administration, stop the politicizing, thats a quote, stop turning this into a political game because youre going to just create more body bags. The pushback against that, senator is, it is you w. H. O. Helped china create the body bags in the first place by helping w. H. O. Cover up the outbreak. Your reaction to that fight . No doubt our Justice Department has got it right, why were looking at fcc making it harder for telecoms of china to do business in america. Think about this. The w. H. O. Worked in a collaborative fashion with the chinese to, at the very least, deceive the world as it relates to the severity of this pandemic. Frankly they revealed very little to us that we needed to know early on that could have stemmed the tide, saved thousands of lives. But now, were at 1. 5 million cases across this globe, in part because of the ineptitude of the w. H. O. Working handinglove with the chinese. Elizabeth so what we have discovered in our reporting is that the outbreak in china may have happened earlier, may have happened in the summer of last year or october. It started to sweep through wuhan in november. We know that patient zero supposedly was found in november. The World Health Organization blocked countries like taiwan. Taiwan was warning that china was infecting the world. W. H. O. Pushed back on taiwan. China started to arrest and censor whistleblower doctors. It started to hoard, hoard medical supplies, 2. 4 billion items in ventilators and masks. It tried to corner the market on remdesivir. Tried to get a patent on remdesivir before it let the world know about the outbreak. And sir, when you see people in afghanistan and in india and in bangladesh on social media now criticizing china, china has a big credibility problem on the world stage. What else can be done . Should you push back against china at the World Trade Organization and at the u. N. As well . What do you think . I think the first thing we have to do is take a look at our funding of the w. H. O. It is important for us to get them called on the car pest and have them become more transparent. I do think that fccs approach looking for ways to basically ban, strip out of our country chinese telecoms, send a powerful strong, signal that we mean business. President trumps leadership has been fantastic on this issue. He was leaning in when the rest of folks were leaning out on this chinese situation. Im thankful for his leadership. Those are 2 00 specific things we could do to bring them to the table and solve the problems from the onset and move us forward. Elizabeth you know, heres the other story too. I wanted to drill down, it is, it is interesting how now the world is waking up to a humanitarian crisis that has been created by what happened and whats continues to happen in china. The world cannot withstand another pandemic out of china. We have been decades at this with what is going on inside of china with its unsafe and gruesome wet markets now reports coming in reopening up. Here is facebook users in afghanistan sharing posts, calling for china to quote, be isolated completely until the chinese change their lifestyle and quote eat things which are quote, normal. People in afghanistan, bangladesh, asia, europe, pushing back against china for the poor quality products like poor covid19 testing. Your reaction to that story . We long suspected that that it is very difficult to trust any information coming out of china. The fact we had more tests in our country, than anybody else in the world country by country suggest were transparent. When youre talking about someone who wants to be a global leader, they need to have the same standard of transparency as we do. They should have the same level of inintegrity as we do. When you hear countries across this world not always friends of ours, chiming in and talking about how bad china is, it only reinforces the fact pattern that we saw early on. And one of the reasons why we have so many questions about why they wouldnt let our doctors in to help, why they kicked out our press, these are telling signs that china knew up front what they were hiding, number one. Number two, they wanted to have all the cures all the information, supplies, information, equipment in their backyard and it slowed down actually the recovery here in america because we couldnt get our hands on some of the ppe that we had companies producing in china. This is all coming full circle. It is one of the reasons why i am thankful that President Trump is leaning in. Our doj, fcc, and other agencies are calling them to the carpet because this is something that could have at least been mitigated more if not even slowed down to the point where it may not have had the loss of thousands, tens of thousands of lives here in our country and frankly around the world. Elizabeth yeah. Thats right, senator. I mean one study said 95 of this outbreak could have been stopped if china just stepped up to the plate. They pit a potempkin village of deceptions and lies and bullying the world and bullying w. H. O. To tow the line. Happy easter to you. Elizabeth happy easter and passover. President s to use the Defense Production act to get mull medical supplies here in the United States. Is this the first step to bring back u. S. Manufacturing of medical supplies . That story next. That story next. Stay with motor . Nope. Not motor . Its pronounced motaur. 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It was depleted due to the h1n1 epidemic here in this country and wasnt rebuilt and wasnt maintained. Stockpiles in california and new york state were no maintained either. That is not just us saying that, but like Media Outlets like the new york times. How about stopping the fingerpointing and blame game, and president is working on the fly to rebuild things as he said were broken . The pandemic is a wakeup call for our nation. We have to be prepared for the next Health Crisis this could be our opportunity to look at the weak points to make it stronger. Now more than ever we need to come together as a nation, stop politicizing tragedy to score more points. The pandemic has, has reminded us to reliant on china for. Elizabeth got it. The kristin tate. Here is the president. Thank you for watching. President trump. The secretary of treasury, Steve Mnuchin and secretary of transportation elaine chao all on proposals regarding the airlines and the Airline Business and were working very closely with a lot of different people. Well be probably putting out a proposal and giving them some of the details, some of the very powerful details over the weekend and it is moving quickly. The Airline Industry has been hit very hard as everybody knows. Well be in a position to do a lot to help them so they keep their employees and they save their businesses. That will be taking place i think, you can say over the weekend. We may even have discussions with some of the airlines or all of the airlines over the weekend. I think it is going to be a very acceptable package. It is a very big package and a very acceptable package. It will be good for our country, food for the airlines, good for a lot of people. Likewise i just spoke with the president of russia Vladmir Putin and the king of saudi arabia, king saloman and we had a big talk as to Oil Production and opec and making it so that our industry does well and the Oil Industries does better than it is doing right now. The numbers are so low that there will be lay offs all over the world. There will be certainly layoffs in this country. We dont want that to happen. We built a great, great Energy Business in the United States. So we have tens of thousands of jobs. We had a very good talk. Well see what happens. As you op