Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes. They would wait until november third if it were up to them. Dont play politics. Be safe, move quickly. Elsewhere within the white house today one of the president s top advisors also suggested that china should pay up for its handling of covid19. Listen. I strongly believe, and i think the American People strongly believe that china inflicted trillions of dollars of damage on this country and there should be some form of compensatory damages. It frosts me that disneyland in shanghai is opening this morning while my own disneyland in my homeland in, in orange county, in anaheim where disneyland was born is still shot because of the Chinese Communist party. Reporter connell and melissa, also of note today the white house is now saying Staff Members when they are on the premise of the white house should be Wearing Masks if they are not alone inside of their office. This of course is reaction to one of the president s valets testing positive for covid19 last week along with the Vice President s press secretary. Back to you. Melissa all right. Blake, thank you. Here is Dan Henninger from the wall street journal. He is also a fox news contributor. And, dan, let me ask you, so the president is about to talk about testing here. They will focus 11 billion from the cares act on testing. Do they need more money for that, or does it need to be more targeted . I ask because im in new york which is obviously the epicenter in this thing. It is easy to get a test here. Go out to any urgent care center. Theyre not turning anybody away. I had two antibody tests and two regular tests. Are we concentrating them in the right spaces . Should we reserve them for Nursing Homes . What are your thoughts . I think there will be enough money available for testing for sure as the state economies reopen across the country. I this one of the big issues there is going to be testing people who are going back to work, going back to their offices. Theyre going to want to know whether, how many people in those buildings are testing positive for coronavirus and a lot of that, i would guess is going to be supported by the private sector itself. It is mainly a matter of making sure that the tests are available, that they are reliable. And the fda, i think is moving as quickly as it can to insure those two things. That they will be widely available and most importantly they will be reliable but again i think the private sector is probably going to pick up the cost of a lot of that testing. Melissa yeah, you jumped right ahead to my thinking because it was, the urgent cares in new york city wanted to have the tests to get people in so they could, you know, charge for them. So they went out and made deals with Different Companies to get tests. It strikes me that employers will have to do the same thing. Youre not going to sit around to wait for the government to tell your employees where they can go test. Dont Big Companies need to secure testing for employees and what does that have to do with the governments budget . They may want some sort of tax credit or something for that testing but you think this probably falls under a legitimate cost of business to pay for the testing of your employees. We shouldnt rely on the federal government doing all of that. They may have to, pick up some testing costs for people who do not have employers like that. This is the story of this lockdown. People who work for large corporations, who still have their jobs, who are working for, from home, they have a steady salary stream. Theyre getting support, work place support from their employers, but individuals working in Small Businesses, restaurants, shops, and the like, they do not have that kind of financial support. Theyre sitting at home by themselves and they are the ones who probably best able to, they are the ones who should be targeted with any federal money that is going towards Something Like testing. Melissa the flipside, if the government will spend money it makes more sense, i guess, tell me if im wrong, to spend money now on trying to help things reopen as opposed to trying to design programs keeping various industries afloat . It didnt necessarily work that well. A lot of unintended programs out there havent been perfect. Probably the best solution to help the economy is help everyone get back to work as quickly as possible what are your thoughts . Yeah, i agree with that. You know, we are not talking about having a swooshshaped recovery, a deep decline, then a very slow, painful recovery. I read a couple weeks ago the white house was working on a schedule of deregulatory moves they could make at the federal level to try to back out of the way of companies and businesses recovering and i honestly think a deregulatory holiday, at every level of government, federal, state, local, whether Small Businesses like restaurants and large companies, like aviation industry, oil industry, just step away from the Regulatory Burden for the moment so they can concentrate on nothing but getting their businesses restarted would be a terrific idea. Short of that, allowing the private sector to get back to business as quickly as possible because they will adjust is probably the best thing we can do and by and large looks like that is gradually beginning to take shape across the states. Melissa dan, thank you so much. Brilliant as always. Connell . Connell as we await for president out in the rose garden any minute now lets get to Lauren Simonetti to get a recap of the up and down day we had on wall street. Lauren. Lauren really choppy session, connell. Wall street is skiddish reopening main street potentially causing infections. As you can see the dow down 109 points. S p up higher, barely. Look at nasdaq, longest winning streak this year, up six days in a row, up another 71 points. It is within 7 of its alltime highs. Big cap tech titans continue to lead the market. Look at netflix, netflix stock closing at a record high, 440 a share. Health care was another big winner today. The fda granted emergency authorization to two types of coronavirus tests, and antigen tests. That stock hit an alltime high. To abbotts antibody blood test. Be a bod says it can ship 60 million in june. Look at economy reopening, casinos, hotels, looking at the dow specifically, materials, financials, Energy Stocks sold off the most and you can see that there. Boeing down 3 , caterpillar, jpmorgan, all losing today. Connell, melissa, back to you guys. Connell lauren, thank you, Lauren Simonetti. Melissa . Melissa preparing for a possible floor vote within days House Democrats are moving forward on a more than one trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package. Hillary vaughn is in washington with the details. Hillary . Reporter republicans in the house are framing this cares act 2. 0 as a bill going nowhere because House Democrats have been keeping republicans in the dark. The white house says theyre in no rush to approve an additional round of funding when billions of dollars from the original cares act is still being spent. The treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin also says that he is not involved in negotiations with democrats. Theyre just basically having a conversation about it. We now have over 3 trillion. Were putting into the economy, a lot of that money is just beginning to get into the economy. Were working with the Federal Reserve on close to another 3 trillion of facility liquidities. These are all beginning to have a very positive impact. The president said, wants to make sure, before we rush back to do the next bill and spend more taxes taxpayer money we want to be thoughtful and considering everything on the table. Reporter the price tag could be as high as two trillion dollars but the details are still being work the out. Lear is where they want the money to go. Another round ever direct payments similar to 1200 a lot of people received in their bank accounts. More money for expanded nutritional benefits and Food Assistance for americans. Billions of dollars for u. S. Postal service. Expanded unemployment benefits. Most of the money, nearly one trillion dollars could go to state and local governments. That is an idea the president pushed back on because he doesnt want to bail out state and cities that mismanaged the budgets leading up to the crisis. Two republican priorities that House Speaker nancy pelosi said absolutely will not be in her version of a cares act 2. 0 is Liability Insurance for businesses and also a payroll tax cut the president floated as an idea he might want to see in the recovery package to come. Melissa . Melissa thank you. Hillary vaughn. Connell. Connell getting back to business. We keep talking about it. Now at least 39 states have taken some steps to reopen their economies. Today the governor of new york andrew cuomo said some regions across this state can safely start to reopen this friday. So well have the latest on that. It comes after new york saw its lowest oneday virus death toll back in march. Coming up the very latest on the pandemic from a number of different angles, including a look at industries fighting back. Any minute now well take you to the rose garden once the president comes out. Looks like Jared Kushner just sat down in the front row. President trump will give us an update on covid19 testing. Once that event start well take you back there. Well be right back. I was born in 37. It was a very struggling period of time. Up and down. Depression to exuberance. And you could name many, many cycles like that over the years. My generation, having come through so many wars and so many things. Melissa we are awaiting remarks from President Trump. The president is expected to announce new developments in testing. I think we see him there. Lets listen in. This afternoon i will also announce new steps were taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle a virus my administration marshalled every resource at our nations disposal, public, private, military, economic, scientific and industrial, all at your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing rampup since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was development of our coronavirus testing capabilities had. In the span of just a few short months we developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually reopen america and were opening and were starting and there is enthusiasm like i havent seen in a long time. Every american should be proud of the amazing array of talent, skill, enterprise our nation has brought to this challenge. In three months the fda has authorized more than 92 different tests and over nine million have been performed here in the United States. Three weeks ago we were conducted roughly 150,000 tests per day. Now were doing approximately 300,000 tests per day, a 100 increase and it will go up substantially from that number. This week the United States will pass 10 million tests conducted, nearly double the number of any other country. Were testing more people per capita than south korea, united kingdom, france, sweden, finland and many other countries and in some cases combined. On friday the fda authorized coronavirus antiagain tests, alternative Testing Technology that can be much more readily manufactured. Quidel which makes this newly authorized this new point of care test estimates it will be able to manufacture 150,000 tests per day immediately, increasing to 300,000 tests per day within just a few weeks. To further expand our nations testing capabilities this afternoon i am announcing that my administration we got this all approved, its all done is sending one billion dollars to americas states, territories and tribes. It has all been approved. We gotten it done, completed, the money is going out. This major investment will insure that america continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by far. I said from the beginning that the federal government would back up the states and help them build their testing capabilities and capacities and that is exactly what happened. This partnership has truly flourished. We have really had a very Good Relationship with the states and the governors and other representatives within the states. A relationship like i think i can honestly say has not been seen in this country for many, many years. The governors and us are working together very closely, not only on testing but on ventilators where we have a capacity thats at this point virtually unlimited and were sending ventilators as you probably heard from other countries, we are sending many, many thousands of ventilators to other countries because theyre in tremendous need. I think bidding up a lot of goodwill but much more importantly than that were saving a lot of lives. Most states are now doing a great job. My administration located 5000 machines in 700 labs across all 50 states and governors have learned how to maximize these testing resources. The federal government is also supporting states with vital supplies, quick approvals of new tests and oneonone coaching from the team here at the white house on how to increase capacity and increase it very quickly. In recent weeks we held multiple Conference Calls with every state as well as with d. C. And puerto rico. We jointly developed testing projections and goals for each state for the month of may, all together totaling 12. 9 million tests. Think of that, 12. 9 million tests. Today im announcing that my administration will provide the collection supplies to help states meet their targets and meet them rapidly. During the month of may fema and hhs will be delivering 12. 9 million swabs to states nationwide. We already have them. The delivery will be very quick. Were prepared to provide millions of additional swabs if any state is on a pace to surpass its goal and their folks are very high. We set them very high. We told them to set them very high. My administration will provide approximately nine million transport media which are used to transfer swabs to the lab processing, a complicated process but we made it simple. As a result of these actions every single state will be able to test more people per capita in may alone than south korea tested in 4 00 months since the outbreak began. This major commitment is made possible because of massive mobilization of industry, Puritan Medical Products u. S. Cotton and abbott labs and thermofisher. Some of these incredible companies produced, produced rapidly for us and their products are here with us this afternoon. These are all productsly rally just developed. If you can imagine that. These are the best machines and best equipment anywhere in the world and other countries are calling us and were trying to work as much as we cannot only on ventilators but also with testing. My administration also continues our tireless effort to expand testing in the most underserved communities. Through our partnership with the private sector, leading pharmacies and retailers are now operating over 240 testing sites across the country. That is in addition to all of the other sites that we have working. 70 of these sites are located in communities with unique vulnerabilities. There will be more than 300 sites by the end of this week and retailers are making plans to open up hundreds and hundreds more locations within the next 30 days. These additional sites are helping us to insure access to testing in every community. My administration is fighting relentlessly to protect all citizens of every color and creed from this terrible virus, the invisible enemy. In addition to vast amounts of testing supplies my administration has partnered with the private sector to coordinate the delivery of more than 90 million n95 masks and these are of the highest quality. Many are made right here in the United States, a capacity we didnt have at all at the beginning. 126 million surgical masks, likewise many are made here. Nine million face shields, 21 million surgical gowns, 993 million gloves and thousand 690 ventilators. Were building thousands of ventilators in numerous plants across our country. It is incredible actually. This Global Pandemic has inflicted great pain and hardship on our people. It hud never been allowed to happen. It should have been stopped at source. We mourn for every life the virus has claimed and we share the grief of all of you who lost a loved one, and that goe