American ships. Iran successfully launched First American military satellite. That is was a success as nearlyhundred drug rules are trials are happening around the world to fight covid19. The president said nearly 300 active drug and vaccine trials are underway right now. Also, this is happening as well. The president is moving to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend for 60 days immigration to the u. S. For people seeking permanent residency. Also breaking news, the pause will also apply to green card awardees who are currently overseas. Welcome to the show right now as we await the president. He is about to speak at any moment. Lets bring in ohio representative, steve chabot. Good to have you on. The your reaction to the temporary order seeking a pause not just for those seeking permanent residency but also green card applicants . The president says he wants to protect health and jobs as 22 americans million americans are out of work. Your reaction to this. This current environment it is more important than ever we regulate who is coming into the country. Under the federal law the president has Broad Authority to regulate immigration enforcement. So i think he is doing the right thing, especially with these emergency circumstances. You know right now the government can tell american citizens theyre not allowed to go to the mall. So we certainly ought to be able to tell people that are coming into the country potentially illegally they need to follow our laws. So i think the president s exactly right. Elizabeth you know democrats and media critics are saying this is an attempt to divert attention from the president s failure to stop the spread. Your take on that . 75 countries around the world, 75 countries also restricted their borders. Were looking in europe, china, canada, mexico, iran. New zealand is getting applauded the way it handled its outbreak. New zealand did block its borders as well and stopped people coming in. Your take on the criticism against the president right now . The president is doing exactly the right thing. We have a right as a sovereign nation to defend our borders and determine who comes into the country. Weve been trying to enforce the laws for years with mixed results. This president is serious about it. I take my hat off to him. This is the right thing to do. We have a sovereign nation. We ought to be able to determine who comes here and who doesnt. Elizabeth all right. The president is saying 20 states are moving to reopen soon. They now include, tennessee, texas, south carolina, colorado and georgia, New Hampshire as well. Media critics say that could cause more infects. The governor of illinois, quote, people may die because the president is tweeting out liberate several states. Politicians and media are getting pushback. Theyre earning paychecks as they criticize protests in 31 states, 22 million out of work. Thousands of Small Businesses deemed nonessential. They may not make it. Your reaction to this controversy . As a nation were trying to find the right balance to reopen the economy. The president is getting some criticism. He is trying to do it in the safest manner possible. He has issued guidelines. I happen to be on the task force about reopening the country. There are 32 i believe members of congress. So one out of every 12 of so or are us working with the business community, the Health Care Professionals and we are listening to the experts, medical experts how to do this and do it correctly. We also got to get the economy open ultimately and we got to do it right and he is delegating as he would under the constitution to the local communities and the states that make the determination as when they actually open. So it is guidelines from the president and the task force and the federal level, which will be uply meanted implemented ultimately by the local folks. Elizabeth attorney general william barr is suggesting that the Justice Department will join citizens in lawsuits against states. Ag barr says there is unprecedented pressure by states on constitutional Civil Liberties and their rights. Were talking about the first, fourth, fifth amendment at stake here. You know, protests are growing in about 31 states. Were tracking them. The media is slamming these protesters for not doing things like social distancing. Your reaction to that criticism . Well i think the attorney general has not only the right but the obligation to protect the Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties of the American People. He has not indicated that he is going to take action but he is saying that if, if circumstances arose, well then he would make that determination but, it is, i think the attorney general is on spot on on this. Elizabeth we have news coming in that hawaii officials in hawaii, arrested two individuals for violating quarantine. Stunning new development there. This is also what is happening as well. Really sure prizing new test results con furthermore that two people were infected in Santa Clara County on february 6th. That is much earlier than initially believed. That means more people may have been infected and have antibodies. That is a remarkable finding. Also a new study done by usc and l. A. County Public Health find 55 times more cases realized. Hundred of thousands likely affected now with antibodies that means plasma treatment, that maybe means get back to work sooner. It does, liz. There may well have been more infections at an earlier stage. That is what that california new information gives us, and what we ought to be doing is using that information. We have to know who has the antibodies and who do not through testing. That is why in the latest legislation, that the senate took up yesterday and house will be taking up tomorrow, there is 25 billion over and above what weve already put aside for testing f we can find out who has the antibodies and use that protect more of us well be automobile to make sure there are fewer people who are infected with the virus, and especially those that are particularly vulnerable, you know, that those that have preexisting conditions of some sort. They have heart disease. They have lung conditions, they have diabetes, theyre particularly vulnerable and we need to protect that population. So that news were finding out, we ought to use it. Elizabeth you know the next stage, i think there is billion in testing to significantly expand testing. The president is saying 5000 labs have ramped up ready to go across the country. The fda approves the first at home less from labcorp. The president will use dpa to ramp up testing. He is getting pushback being slow to do testing. New york Governor Cuomo is saying the blame game is full on. He gets it that the media is attacking the president. Even Governor Cuomo seems to be coming to the president s defense here. Yeah, there has been so much fingerpointing and politicizing of this. I think the president is right to want to have more testing. He wants to reopen the government. We in congress basically is putting aside additional dollars to make sure that appropriate testing is being done. So i think youve to the a pretty good working relationship. But as weve seen some people are going to politicize this thing. They will take shots at the president. But i think when you look what he has done he is trying to reach the right balance, to keep the public safe, keep the Public Healthy, but at the same time, get this economy open but get people back to work. Elizabeth yeah, prior pandemics and epidemics states oversaw their testing. States ran their own stockpiles before the Clinton Administration launched the National Stockpile in 1999. Your take, Missouri Joining mississippi suing china. Major backlash against eu and suing china. Countries are not believing china anymore. Youre seeing it happen in social media in the middle east, asia, global petitions against china. Your take on that . I commend those states and their attorneys general for suing china. We dont know, you know, where it is ultimately going to end up. Whether they will be successful or not. China will try to use the defense, what is called sovereign immunity, where a nation basically is able to prevent itself from being sued under many circumstances but there are ways around this and china has been a bad actor here. We know that the started there. Whether it started in the wet market. I actually introduced legislation in a bipartisan manner to prevent those wet markets from continuing to go on around the globe, endangering us here. Whether it was a wet market that started this or whether it was a laboratory, it was in china and china has been a bad actor. They havent been, they ought to be held accountable. Elizabeth all right. We have to leave it there. Steve chabot. Congressman, thanks for joining us. Heres the president. A lot of tremendous things are happening. The number of new positive cases continue to decline nationwide. Recent hot spots appear to be stablizing. The hot spots are in some cases very interesting whats going on and theyre going down, theyre going in the right direction. Cases in the boston area are now declining. The chicago curve appears to have flattened which is terrific and detroit has passed its peak. These trend demonstrate our aggressive strategy to battle the virus is working and more states will soon be in a position to gradually and safely reopen that is very exciting t was very exciting even today, watching and seeing whats happening and people are getting ready and theyre all excited. I do want to mention a man who has done a very good job for us, dr. Robert redfield was totally misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus. Totally misquoted. I spoke to him. He said it was ridiculous. He was talking about the flu and corona coming together at the same time and corona could be some little flareups well take care of. Well knock it out and knock it out fast. That is what he was referring to, coming together at the same time. I think rather than waiting i would ask dr. Redfield to come up, say a couple of words just to straighten it out, he didnt say it was a big, explosion. The headline in the Washington Post was totally inaccurate. The statement was not bad in the post but the headline was ridiculous, which as i say that is fake news and cnn is fake news like crazy. They had just totally the wrong story. Which they knew. They were asked to change it and they wouldnt do that. And, it was false. So i will ask dr. Redfield to, who is a real professional to come up an explain, please. Thank you, doctor. Thank you, mr. President. Really do think it is important to clarify this as we build the confidence of the American People. When i commented yesterday that there was a possibility of the fall, winter next fall and winter could be more difficult, more complicated, when we had two respiratory illnesses circulated at the same time, influenza, and the coronavirus 19, buff i think it is really important to emphasize what i didnt say. I didnt say it would be worse. I said it was going to be more, more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu and coronavirus circulating at the same time. I want to emphasize that we continue to build the nations Public Health infrastructure to insure that we have the capacity to stay in the containment mode. Those who heard me talk before i have told you that in january and february, up to february 27, 28 this nation had 14 cases. We were in the containment mode. Unfortunately the virus overwhelmed we got in extreme mitt failing. Were building that Public Health capacity now to make sure we stay in the containment mode for upcoming fall and winter seasons so we will not need to resort to the kind of mitigation we had to this spring. I have confidence that our Public Health response of really case recognition, we talked about, isolation, contact tracing, combined with our plans for increased surveillance, particularly, for the most vulnerable will be an effective Public Health strategy so our nation will be able to maintain itself in the containment mode. Again, that will be supported by the American Public continued cooperation obviously in the areas of personal hygiene and the types of social distancing strategies that may be appropriate. The key, to my comments and the reason that i really wanted to stress them, was to appeal to the American Public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence. One of the greatest tools we have as we go through the fall winter season that into get the American Public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimize the impact of flu to be the corespiratory disease we confront. Thank you very much. Reporter talk to dr. Redfield . He was misquoted. Totally misquoted. He said they could come together. They didnt talk about that. And his whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot, so that next fall, we dont have such a big season of flu. And we possibly wont. But as you said, it is possible, if the corona even comes back and he doesnt know it is going to. Neither do i. We spoke at great length. I think the doctor will speak, if you like to continue but we may have some embers. Well going to put them out of corona but we may have a big flu season. That is different. Flu is very different from corona. Reporter follow up. Dr. Redfield, did the interview with them, you said the possibility of the assault of the virus on our nation will be much, even be more difficult than the one we just went through. When i said this to others they kind of put their head, they dont understand what i mean. Were going to have a flu epidemic and coronavirus epidemic at the same time. Is that what you said to the Washington Post . Yeah. That is what i was trying to say to you just a minute ago, that issue i was talking about about being more difficult is that were going to have two viruses circulating at the same time. This spring that we just went through, february, we had benefit of having the flu season ended, so we could use all our flu Surveillance Systems to say, whoops, this is coronavirus. We need to focus. Next fall and winter, were going to have two viruses circulating and were going to have to distinguish between which is flu and which is the coronavirus. So the comment that i made, it is more difficult. Doesnt mean it will be more impossible. Doesnt mean it is going to be more, as some people have said worse, it just means more difficult because we have to distinguish between the two. What i was wanting to to do, what i want to do again here, appeal to the American Public to recognize they can really help like they did with mitigation which they really helped, i need them to help now to best prepare us by getting the flu vaccine and taking flu out of the picture. May not even have corona coming back. Reporter but, but im sorry, that quote is accurate, right, sir . That is the quote from the Washington Post, you were accurately quoted, correct . Im accurately quoted in the Washington Post, as difficult. But the headline was read the headline. Reporter headline says cdc director warns second wave of coronavirus likely being more devastating. That is not what he said. Headline i actually think it is actually going to be, i think the American Public it going to heed the requests, to relook at their vaccine hesitancy, vaccine with confidence of flu. Im confident that the Public Health infrastructure were putting together now, across this country, so that we can early case diagnose, isolate and contact trace, as i say, block and tackle, block and tackle. That system is going to be there and were going to be able to contain this virus. Reporter why did you repeat the article as being accurate. You werent called. We talked about this yesterday, when youd is me this question and someone i think used the word did devastating. I want to really recognize again to the American Public, when we first interacted with this virus for the first time in february and march, time frame, we didnt have an understanding of a transmissibility, all of its symptoms. We do now and i think, what were building together in, when we talk about the Public Health infrastructure, it is very much working on surveillance piece but i think we also know the strength of the American People and their ability to immediately understand how to protect themselves by not touching their face, making sure that theyre washing their hands but the other piece i wanted to talk about and we mentioned yesterday also, that we have the summer, while we have flu surveillance that we can utilize and syndromic management we can utilize, we have all of that time to prepare clearly the testing algorithm you would need in a flu, potentially if covid came back, potentially. And so we are preparing for that potential right now and i think we spoke to you all about that and talked about how were not only preparing for today and tomorrow but were preparing for six months from now, three months from now and making sure that all of these pieces are in place. I think what dr. Redfield clearly was asking for, just like we asked for every american to follow the guidelines, he is saying please add to that guide lines getting the flu shot. And maybe youre protected. He said good chance covid will not come back . If it comes back, it is very small confined area we put out . Well the great thing is, well be able to find it earlier this time. And i think that is what were talking about. Well find those cases earlier. So what dr. Redfield said, we would be able to stay in containment phase. What were also hoping and we talked about this about four or five weeks ago, that were hoping that the flu infections also go down because people are much more aware of respiratory illnesses and