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Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc News White House correspondent kristen welker, former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson, president ialu historian doris kearns goodwin, and david welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Unlike with somexd crises this country has faced, prl harbor, the kennedy assassination, 9 11, its doubtful americans will remember where they were when they first heard the news about the coronavirus, but this crisis has also done what those couldnt do, empty the american landscape. New york state is essentially i] largest city. The same with illinoisewand chicago. This is the scene at the iconic santa monica pier outside of th] nations second largest city, los angeles. Other statesok are doing the sa. Is it enough . Are americans willing tow3 endu a full national shutdownni to sp the spread of the virus while we wait for muchi] needed corona6 j tests . While we wait forjf front line medical workers to get their protective equipment they need to treat the population, while we wait for hospital beds and ventilators to become available to treat the infected and while we wait to see if the government is up to this challenge. Thereq have beenqe sjut than 24 cases of covid19. Last nisunday, only 60 had died. Heres thefaqe yesterdays new york post. Were facing a category5 storm. The question is, are we prepared to temporarily sacrifice enough of thexd freedoms we as america take for granted to knock this menace down to at least a category3 . Thisnr is the most drastic california, connecticut, new we need to bend the curve in the state of california. Ultimately, you cant have a livelihood if you dont have your life. 46 states have closed all schools. The other four shut down at least some. So far, President Trump says a National Lockdown is not needed. I dont think well ever find that necessary. As the nation mobilizes to shut down, Many Americans are still struggling to take Public Health warnings seriously. If i get corona, i get corona. At the end of the day, im not going to let it start me from partying. Most of the people who are dying are older. Im fine, then. That as new cdc data shows 48 of icu patients through midmarch were under 65 and 20 of fatalities were from that younger age group, though this is still early data. And frontline medical providers are warning of equipment shortages, begging the federal government for help. Our number one priority is getting the n95 masks. We need those ventilators. This could happen in america where we can see something coming and we cant get the resources here to avert it is ridiculous. It should not happen. The federal failures over testing have blinded americans to the scale of the outbreak. On friday, the president seemed talk from dr. Uci. Were not there yet because otherwise people would never be calling up saying they cant get a test. To visibly coax the environment to weigh in. Mr. Vice president . I just cant emphasize enough about the incredible progress we have made on testing. For months, President Trump repeatedly dismissed the threat of a broad u. S. Outbreak. I thing its going to work out fine. Were going substantially down, not up. One day its like a miracle, it will disappear. Even as he was getting Intelligence Briefings in january and february about the global dangers poised by the virus. Even now, mixed messages are adding to the confusion. On friday, the president touted the treatment of a malaria drug for the coronavirus. I think we should give it a try. Even after fauci urged caution. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial. And mr. Trump lashed out at reporters. What do you say to americans who are watching you right now who are scared . I say that youre a terrible reporter. Thats what i say. As the economy stalls, Goldman Sachs predicted unemployment claims will spike to more than 2 million this week, and lawmakers are negotiating plans for a trillion dollar Economic Relief package which would include Small Business loans, corporate bailouts and direct payments to millions of americans. And joining me now is the chair of the National Governors association, governor larry hogan of maryland, and the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. Gentlemen, welcome back to meet the press. Mr. Mayor, i want to start with whats going on in new york city. It does appear to be right now ground zero for what the country is facing. You noted on friday the grim reminder that new york city now has a third of all cases in this country. What can you tell us this morning . Is there any ebbing of this yet . Chuck, the truth is, and new yorkers and all americans deserve the truth, its only getting worse. April and may are going to be a lot worse. Right now, we are a third of the cases in the country. Thats going to get worse. Were about two thirds or more of the cases in new york state. Thats going to get worse. But chuck, the president of the United States is from new york city, and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown. And i dont get it. I dont get it. Right now, i have asked repeatedly for the military to be mobilized, for the defense production act to be used to its fullest to get things like ventilators so people who can live who would die otherwise, chuck, i cant be blunt enough. If the president doesnt act, people will die who could have lived otherwise. What is it that you want folks who are members of families, and we cant get action from the president of the United States. What is it that you want the military to do immediately . What would there be a specific thing you would want the military to do immediately . Chuck, the military has extraordinary medical capacity of its own thats been honed in fighting wars. They can handle any situation. All military personnel who are medically trained should be sent to places where this crisis is deep like new york. Right now. The military is the best Logistical Organization in the nation. If there are ventilators being produced anywhere in the country, we need to get them to new york, not weeks from now or month from now, in the next ten days, and the only force in america who can do that is the military. Why are they at their bases . Why are they not allowed to serve. I guarantee theyre ready to serve, but the president has to give the order. The shelter in place order for new york city, how do you plan on enforcing this next week . Chuck, people really do get it. I have been around the last few days, theyre getting the message more and more. Also, we will use the nypd and other agencies to go out and remind people. Educate them, break up groups of people if theyre congregating. It will take a while for people to truly get it, but right now, i tell you one thing. Everyday new yorkers, Everyday Americans are much farther ahead of the conserve in terms of understanding the crisis than kw anything were seeing from the white house. Thats troubling to think the people who have the power are not using it when everyday people get it right now, shelter in place is necessary. Governor hogan, i want to talk to you. You and i believe Governor Cuomo of new york jointly wrote a letter to the president , i think number one you wanted to get fema in the lead role. Theyre now in the lead role. Let me ask you on this issue of procurement. We already know Governor Cuomo admitted he had to get price gouged to by some n95 masks. Who should be the lead agency here . Should fema be the one both purchasing and doling this out . Or should the states be competing against each other . Well, look, so this is a problem that everybody has been talking about for a week, but i dont think just talking about what was done wrong yesterday or last week or last year is really that helpful in the discussion. Governor cuomo is the vice chairman of the National Governors association, im the chairman. I can tell you we have been talking with and meeting with all of the governors, with the Vice President , occasionally with the president , all of the senior team, almost every single day. Talking about the need, and i believe we pushed for action, and we are getting some progress. Now, its not nearly enough. Its not fast enough. Were way behind the curve. But lets talk about, you know, were trying to figure out what we can do to move forward. They are making progress. Its not fast enough. But on all of those things. On respirators, on ppes, on the masks, on the test tzs. Were ramping up. New york has about half of the aid of the rest of the country. Theyre focusing on the three states that are the worst right now. And new york is one of them. Theyre trying to push things out to all the states, but its not enough and failures were made and things that should have happened sooner. I want to focus on where we go from here because our job is to save the citizens. We had another death here in maryland last night. We just hit over 500 in the washington region. And instead of just talking about what didnt get done, i want to get things done. I understand that. Thats why i want to ask you. Do you feel as if there is a point person in the federal government that is handling this, the n95 mask issue, or do you feel as if you still have to find different ways to acquire masks . I think its a little bit of both, chuck. So fema, we pushed to get fema in charge. I think they are listening to the governors. All 55 governors have stepped up and weighed in. We listed priorities about what had to get done, what they need to focus on. Theyre responding to almost all fema has to take the lead, but we cant wait. Were taking individual actions as well. Its not a perfect situation, but were trying to ramp up and order things on the open market, get some things produced here. Its going to take the federal, state, and local governments all stepping up and doing whatever it takes regardless of who is supposed to do what. We have all got to jump in and do whatever we can. Thats just where we are. I want to talk about a regional issue. Im going to show some pictures to our audience. You cant do this, but this was at the tidal basin yesterday in washington, d. C. Not a lot of social distancing was being practiced there. You have been concerned, i know, that virginia hasnt issued the same level of restrictions that maryland and d. C. Have had. The inability to operate as a region here, is that a problem for you . Are you hoping the governor of virginia in particular and the mayor of d. C. , that all three of you are on the same page here . Well, so in addition to meeting with all of the governors, we have been meeting as a region with the governor of virginia, with the mayor of d. C. We talked on friday. Were going to be talking again, i believe, tomorrow. Were all taking actions and trying to work together, but yeah, the social distancing is not being enforced and its a little crazy to see the kind of crowds at the cherry blossoms. People have to listen. There are people that are out there, and you are endangering not only yourselves but your fellow citizens by not listening to these warnings. We have been getting pretty tough out here in maryland on folks, limiting people to groups of ten. We were chastising all these spring breakers who came back from partying in florida and told them they need to selfquarantine for 14 days otherwise theyre risking the lives of their parents and grandparents and friends. People of all ages. 40 of our cases are under 40 years old. We had a 10monthold, a 5yearold who have gotten this disease. People are kidding themselves if they think they should enjoy being out there, business as normal. We have get people off the streets and out of crowds. Mayor de blasio, there are a lot of people who are going to wonder what does progress look like. Because its an invisible enemy and every day the numbers right now are getting worse, not better, how can just people who are sitting at home anxious to know when do they get to go back to work, what does progress look like to you . Chuck, first of all, i respect Governor Hogan for sure, but i disagree with something he said. Its not blaming people for what happened in the past. Its about right this minute. The American Government is nat at full bore. The defense act has been activated. We have gotten no indication of any factory on 24 7 shifts, no shipments, and u. S. Military is at its bases and not the front lines. Respectfully, governor, we cannot be gentle about this point right this minute. From this minute forward, our government, our federal government needs to be in this fight instead of on the sidelines. Im not worried about blame. Im worried about saving lives right this minute and i dont see the federal government at this moment. To the point at hand, april is going to be worse than march and i fear may will be worse than april. So bluntly, its going to get a lot worse before it gets better. What would be progress . Real consistent social distancing being enforced, People Living with it, and hospitals that can function. People seeing that their Health Care System is actually holding because we have the supplies and personnel. I think thats going to be a national reality. Personnel. Medical personnel is taking from one part of the country to another as the crisis deepens. The supplies have to go with the need is greatest. If people see the system holding, that will be progress. If it starts to collapse, think of that in the United States of america. Governor hogan, what would you give as a prescription of what does progress look like as we sit at home and wait . Look, nobody knows where the end of this is or when the spikes are going to happen, but progress is going to be if we can somehow bend this curve downward and start to stop that spike thats going so we dont overload the Health Care System and if people are just going to look, its very disconcerting. Peoples lives are disrupted. Its scary and i understand people out there are concerned about when is it going to look better. Just know that people all over the place are working as hard as they possibly can to fight this hidden enemy and its going to take all of us, not only the local government, the cities like the mayor and state governments, the federal government, but it takes every one of our citizens is a part of this and we cant stop it without them cooperating. Its going to be a while. We dont know how long or how bad its going to be, but its going to continue until we can get it stopped. Were going to keep fighting it 24 hours a day. Its not true that people everywhere are fighting with all theyve got because our military is being sidelined and the white house is in denial. Its just not true, governor. Its just not true. We have military all over our state doing all kinds of great things. You have National Guard. You dont have the american same thing with hospitals and building new hospital beds. Your governor of new york is doing the same thing. So maybe you ought to try to talk with him. I have talked to him. It is not not everyone is doing everything they can do, governor. Lets be honest about it. Im going to be speaking with the fema administrator in a few minutes. Governor hogan, mayor de blasio. I know youre fighting the same fight here at the end of the day, lets get rid of the virus and hope we can get back, back on track here. Thank you both. I know its trying times for both of you. Thank you for your service. The Coronavirus Crisis has sickened the american economy, with businesses shuttering, unemployment spiking, and the dow losing all the ground gains under President Trump. Senate negotiators are back to work trying to agree on a rescue package expected to be well in excess of a trillion dollars. It could be close to 2 trillion. Among the negotiators in the room, republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania. He joins me now. Welcome back to meet the press. I know theres going to be a meeting between the four leaders in congress in about the next couple hours. That tells me that maybe were landing the plane here on phase three. What is the latest . And how quickly do you expect a deal . Chuck, i think youre right. I think were on short final, and well have this plane landed. It starts today with a very, very important procedural vote this afternoon which will really tell us if were going to be able to go forward. I think we will. And i would like to share with you a quick summary of whats in the bill. And i think youll see why it would be very hard, i think, to categories, first, focus on take the guy who wakes up tomorrow morning and hes got a family to take care of, and theres pennsylvanias closed down all businesses. So that describes, of course, millions of people across the country. So focusing on individuals and families. We have already created a new paid family leave program. A paid medical leave program. Were going to bump up Unemployment Benefits significantly. Were expanding eligibility for unemployment and sending direct checks to all middle and lowincome workers, substantial amounts of money. Thats focused directly on getting people through this period. The next category is the resources were sending directly to health care providers. Hospitals, expanding our ability to research, develop, bring to market the