The Louisiana Republican senator john kennedy. First, chief White House Correspondent john roberts who leads our coverage there on the north lawn. John. Youre looking ahead to that meeting that supposed to happen at 4 00 this afternoon. President trump and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo have been going around and around on testing for the last few weeks. Cuomo insisting that the federal government has to step up when it comes to testing. President trump saying, hey, the federal government is not in the business of standing on street corners testing people. But over the last 48 hours, signs of greater cooperation after cuomo acknowledged that the president is correct that testing is the purview of the states, the president now stepping up to increase the supply of testing swabs and a specimen test tubes so that those can be sent out to the states. Before heading for washington this afternoon, cuomo indicated that testing will be a big part of this conversation after his meeting with the president because there does need to be a federal state partnership. Listen here to cuomo. Get the instinct to distance yourself from it, right . But it is a situation where you need everybody to Work Together and you need to understand quickly who is in a better position to do what. From my point of view, i think the federal government has to take that National Manufacturer supply chain issue. The meeting is close to the media but we do expect that the president will talk about it at the upcoming Coronavirus Briefing later this afternoon. We will also, likely, at that meeting here about the president s vowed to sign an executive order restricting all immigration to the united stat United States. The president says hes doing and in an attempt to preserve american jobs as the nation begins the process of getting back to work and also to prevent new Coronavirus Infection from entering the United States from overseas. The new measure is intended to be temporary, but its unclear exactly what temporary means. Heres the National Security advisor. We will have to wait and see, but no one likes it. The president month the travel restrictions in place, he didnt want to put the immigration restrictions in place, but we have to because of the terrible virus being unleashed from foreign shores and the responsibility of the United States. Not surprisingly, democrats are hammering the president over his about to restrict immigration. Mayor bill de blasio of new york city saying that the president is merely deflecting from the juco important issues of testing and getting more money out to the states. Listen here. What i saw was bluntly, and very sadly, just a brazen political move by the president to introduce the question of immigration in the middle of this, when he hasnt done those two things i just mentioned. He hasnt gotten a stamped sting, hes not getting a stimulus funding, hes not doing his job. The white house is optimistic they could get new paycheck protection money as early as this evening, may be put until tomorrow. So, it looks bill, as though thursday would be the earliest day that that fund could be replenished. Bill john, thank you so much, john roberts, headlines from the white house when we get in here. Thank you, sir, want to bring a john kennedy now, republican senator from louisiana, thank you for your time. Just to go through the details here, 310 billion for the paycheck program, 7 billion for hospitals, 25 billion for testing. Does that sound about right to you, for the moment . Thats about 450000000000 500 billion, bill. Money for the ppp, Small Business program, hospitals, and testing. The last bill we passed had money for Small Businesses, hospitals, and testing. The problem is, last thursday, we ran out of money for our ppp program, the program for Small Businesses. There was and still is money left for hospitals on testing. Senators schumer and speaker pelosi, instead of allowing us to refill the program last week, for the Small Businesses, said we had to wait, and do it this week, to add more money for hospitals and testing, when we havent run out yet. That makes no sense to me. I dont know how many thousands of businesses we have lost as a result of this weeks delay. And it does make me angry, as you can tell, i think it was wildly irresponsible, i have tried to see it from their point of view, but frankly, i cant, because i cant get my head that far up my rear end. Weve got to stop the partisan political pageantry and start thinking about working together. Bill well, you just her john roberts a be passed until maybe thursday of this week, we will see if that day holds. In the meantime, as you point out, the burden is extraordinary. Larry kudlows going to talk about that coming up in about 3. In louisiana, the governor says you are on track to reopen, not yet, the governor says, may be the 1st of may. What sort of consideration do you give theyre in louisiana, when you consider how hard or lens parish has been hit, and really in the early days of this pandemic, sir. All areas are the same, about more than half of our cases are in the new orleans metropolitan area, but our numbers are headed in the right direction, in terms of health. Theyre not heading the right direction in terms of the economy. I dont know how long the american economy, and the wheezy hannah economy can stay shut down until they collapse bill okay, all right, hang on, thats a doctor who is coming up in the next segment, Craig Spencer, hes in new york. But the louisiana senator, if we can reestablish the line, will go ahead and complete the thought here. Because, what was happening here is that youve got governors in south carolina, georgia, and also in tennessee, they believe certain aspects of the Business Community in those three states can move forward and reopen now. So i believe weve got the senator back, just go in and complete the thought, i know exclusively in louisiana, thats where you are, but how much delicacy is given to these decisions that governors are having to make in 50 different states, senator . Well, its hard for them. Its a choice between cancer and heart attack. You want to protect lives, but youve got to protect livelihoods. I think we ought to follow the trump file g guidelines, they make sense to me. You obviously dont open a hot spot. You continue to socially distance. You encourage your elderly and those with preexisting conditions to stay in, you use technology to predict hot spots. You wear masks. Every industry is not going to be the same. This much i do know, the most important things in life arent things, bill. Life is important, but you can die from poverty too. And i dont know how long this economy can stay shut down without collapsing, but i dont want to find out. And some of my friends say well, we need to keep it shut down until there are no more coronavirus cases. And i dont see how that is realistic, or possible. I mean, we will have burned down the village to save it, we will all be living in a desert. So i think we can do both, save lives and save livelihoods. Bill senator, thank you for your time, and thanks for hanging in there. Touch and go on the Technology Side of it, as you well know. John kennedy, thank you in louisiana, we will talk again soon. Thank you sir. In the meantime, fox news alert, National Security advisor today saying the u. S. Is watching these reports about north korean dictator kim jong un on in very closely, its hard to verify any information that comes out of pyongyang. A south korean news site reports that kim is recovering after he reportedly had a heart surgery. Greg talcott has been to north korea several time, pride of london, the latest on this. What are we piecing together on this at the moment, greg . Bell, thats exactly what weve been looking at for the past many hours now after the story broke overnight, and they are still many questions regarding the health of the north Korean Leader kim jong un and not a lot of answers. So, after appearing at a meeting of the polling bureau about a week ago, saturday, the south korean website claims he then went into heart surgery at the family hospital of the kims, thats the north of pyongyang, and is recovering in a nearby villa. Since then, he has been missing in action, that adds to the possibility here, including the celebration of the birthday of his grandfather, north koreas founder. And that time it was thought maybe he had cobit, but now, new reports say he is in grave danger since the operation. Heres what National Security advisor Robert Obrien had to say earlier today. So were watching a reports closely. We will have to see, as everyone here knows, the north koreans are parsimonious with the information that they put out about many things, especially when it comes to leaders, so we will keep a close eye on it. Bill, obviously the health of this young leader is crucial interest on top of a mountain of nuclear weapons, and in difficult talks with the trump administration, interestingly enough, south korean government officials are trying to tamp this down, theyre only saying hes outside of pyongyang, but we talked to key contact for fox news in the region, north korean news editor chad, he said we have to stay concerned about this, we will be watching, we will be waiting, back to you. Bill thank you, greg, greg talcott recording from london. Again, piecing it together as we go. Thank you, greg. In a moment, more on the pandemics impact on the economy. This is a major hit. What it can mean for our relationship with beijing. I will talk to the white house chic Economic Advisor larry kudlow on that, coming out. Also the fda approves the coronavirus at home, how that might stop the spread, coming out. Veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. 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Phil Keating Reports live from south florida where Antibody Testing is always happening. Phil, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, bill, Antibody Testing really reveals the biological history of yourself. It shows whether you had covid19 in the past or you didnt. Majority of those who shows they did have it, they never even knew they did. Our firefighters and paramedics, first responders, those are the people on the front lines, and its imperative that we know if they are safe, not contagious, and if they had koba 19 at some point. So in florida, the entire Fire Department is submitting antibody finger prick test would help show the bigger story. The front line of whats going on in this pandemic, although first responders, nurses and stuff, people want to know, some people are a symptomatically its in the back of your mind, you want to do the job, you want to be healthy, you want to not spread this disease. Our own dr. Marc siegel frame bit, these Antibody Tests are like a get back to work hard. University of miami is also doing these finger prick tests, all for antibodies. 700 people tested last week, 700 this week. Ultimately aiming for 10,000. Its all about Data Collection to better help Community Leaders make decisions on when and how soon we all get back to normal. The Antibody Testing is really useful for understanding whats happening within a given geography, like a county, with regard to koba 19. It allows us to approximate the prevalence of local infection. The initial results from the um study show between 4 8 of all those tested actually had covid19 in the past, that matches up with l. A. County, which all show showed 4 tested that they had had it. And of all the people that do test positive, according to um, the university of miami, 60 reported they never, ever even had a symptom, bill. Bill well, phil keating thanks, thank you, phil. The fda meanwhile approving the first athome test kit for covid19. Dr. Craig spencer, director of global health, new york presbyterian university, doctor, good to have you back on the program here, thank you for your time. How does the athome test work, doctor . So, its important to mention that there is this fda approved, there is also dozens of other tests that are on the market that are nonfda approved. These Antibody Tests are not required to have fda approval. The specific one youre referring to is a nasal swab that you mix with a little saline and then you send back to a place like lab core, one of these big National Testing centers. You will get a result back later to determine whether or not you have antibodies, theoretically, whether or not you are immune. This is important, and its helpful, but we need to be careful to not rely on this too much, because we dont exactly know the thresholds, we dont exactly know if someone attests positive is actually immune. Bill so, if it is successful, and if it does work, doctor, how would that change the game for us . Theres a lot of unknowns that still need to be answered, we need to know how good these texts are because no test is 100 specific or sensitive. Meaning that just because you test negative doesnt mean youre necessary language of, and because you test positive doesnt always mean that you are positive. These are really, potentially small numbers, but they can be huge, for example, if you think about an Antibody Test like a pregnancy test, theres a certain threshold you have to reach before you turn positive. A pregnancy test, you could be for weeks pregnant, or 40 weeks pregnant, and he will have the exact same result. We dont know how many antibodies you actually need to be immune, whether at that fourweek level or that 40 week level, and these tests are not going to tell you that. We still dont know how much antibodies you need in your blood to provide that protection, and like i mentioned before, some of these tests will come back with a potentially small but significant number of false positives, meaning people who actually dont have anybodys main test positive, and they may think that they have protection when they dont. It will be a small amount, even with the best test, it could be a big amount for some of the worst tests that are out there, but if you think about 3 4 of the u. S. Having hadnt been exposed to this, its a margin of error meaning that the percentage of people that have a false positive test, meaning that they actually havent been exposed but the test says they have antibodies, if thats 2 , 3 , 4 , that means many people could think they have anybodys and actually do, this could be dangerous if were giving this and people are using this as a kind of get out of the house and go back to normal functioning. Bill got you, doctor, one last question. You mentioned a nasal swab, i wonder if thats more accurate than a blood test, blood cells more accurate. If it is possible to do this at home, youre giving me hope, youre giving a lot of people hope, how can you get a test, doctor . Its really tough. Right now, what we need, is we need a lot more testing, not just the Antibody Testing, it is the nasal swabs that were doing in clinics and urgent care is. We know that this is going to be the way to safely reopen back the economy, not just in new york, but all over the country. I see the Health Impact of this disease come i also see and understand the Economic Impact its having, its touched every Single Person in my family, we want open america is much as possible. The white house has a plan, we need a decreasing case for weeks, we need increase in testing, we need way more testing way more frequently. For basically everyone is going to be exposed over the next couple of months. Bill we may get some of that word from the white house a sour. Thank you so much, Craig Spencer back in new york, thank you for coming back with us. In a moment here, the price of oil dropping into the red for the first time in history. Wow. Did you see this. What does it mean for the economy . We will check on that. 1 for a gallon of gasoline . Also in a moment, the mayor of las vegas saying its time to get back to business. I will talk to her. We will hear her out in a moment, next. No guarantee went to open safely is coming. I am just a saying lets go forward, do it now. During trying times. Today, being on your side means staying home. Nationwide office of customer advocacy. But we can still support you and the heroes who are with you. Were giving refunds on Auto Insurance premiums, assisting customers with financial hardships, and our foundation is contributing millions of dollars to charities helping with covid19 relief. Keeping our promise to be on your side. 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