Our country. But the Christian Faith is treated much differently than it was and i think its treated unfairly. Mr. President , the paycheck protection program, 15 million jobs lost, it has run out much money. Speaker pelosi is blocking that funding. Do you know why . President trump if she thinks its politics, i dont think its good politics. Nancy pelosi is blocking it. Schumer is blocking it. I dont think its good politics. But i dont think it. Its the same power all of these Small Businesses added together as the big companies. About 5050. And its so important. They would be scattered if we werent able to do what we are doing. We are giving Small Businesses who wont make it, they cant because they are cleesd. So when we reopen they can get back into business. I think it basically passed unanimously twice, the first section which is 350 billion. Nancy pelosi is blocking it. She sits in her house in San Francisco overlooking the ocean, and she doesnt want to come back. She has got to get back and get this thing approved. Very important. If i may, you praised the American People the past few weeks. What goes through your minds when you see a photograph of crowded beaches in florida. Is there a concern . As i described, we go metro by metro, county by county. I would have to link that with a specific county and look at their case rates. I believe the governor and Public Health system florida has, they have some of the best county Health Officials i have ever had to deal with. I had to work with them under hivaids. If the county Health Directors believe thats appropriate for their county, im not going to second judge their approach. I cant see into he single county. I just know if there are no cases. I think their county Health Official would know. President trump many of the counties, as you know, are free of this horrible enemy. We are offing up. You will be seeing a lot of this country start to open up fairly quickly. You mentioned the importance of social distancing. Steven morrison is organizing a protest in wisconsin. Are they protesting your very own guidelines . President trump we have a flexibility. I dont know what steven said. Buff hes a good economist. He said we need to be the rosa parks of government injustices. President trump there is a lot of the injustice. When you look at virginia where they want to take your guns away and violate your Second Amendment. Im getting along nicely with the governor of michigan. She says dont buy paint or roses. She has all these crazy things. I believe somebody sitting in their boat in a lake should be okay. They shouldnt arrest people of. Some of them are being unreasonable. I believe that. But i think virginia is a great case. They are trying to take your guns away in virginia. If people in virginia arent careful, thats whats going to happen to them. I can see where hes coming from. I think its a strong statement. Hopefully this will be over very soon for all of us. But some have gotten carried away. Protesters are protesting your social distancing guidelines. President trump i dont know. There are a lot of protests out there. And i believe some of the governors have gotten carried away. A lot of people dont have to be told to do what they are doing. We have a few states where frankly i spoke to the governors and i could have gotten them to do what i wanted to do what would have been perhaps politically correct. But they have been doing incredibly. As one of them said, everyone is doing exactly the same. Where they have agreed to do certain things. We have great states out there. For the most part that is a strong statement. But i understand where its coming from. One of the really important places that people have to start looking at is whats going on in virginia. Thats a mess. With a governor thats under siege anyway. With a beautiful head of white hair. Go ahead. I will tell you if i like his hair after he asks the question. Object that point, though, the tweeting about virginia linking the Second Amendment to some of these issues about lifting some of the restrictions in the states, concern for the governors and civil unrest President Trump i think thats an easy one. Thats not politics. We are entitled to a Second Amendment and that state is trying the democrats in that state the republicans are fighting it. They are trying to take that Second Amendment right away. To me thats liberty. When i say libber eight virginia. I would when i say liberate virginia, where does it all stop . Is this the right time to bring in a Second Amendment issue . President trump i think when they talk about taking your guns aigun guns away. At the beginning of this pandemic you had more guns sold than any time in history. Then you have them working to take your Second Amendment away. I do think its appropriate to bring it up. The last week will have been a slew of events from russia, china and iran pushing back on u. S. Policy and toying with u. S. Military forces. President trump i dont see it. We had a very Good Relationship with russia. We worked on the oil deal together. I was by telephone, the king of saudi arabia and the president much russia, vladimir putin. We worked out a deal on oil. It was an important teal to them and to us on saudi arabia. The wall street journal covered that very well. I worked with putin and the king on that. And president putin was a total gentleman and it was important to get that done. And the king was great. And we actually had to bring in mexico. Mexico was a lone holdout. And they showed great flexibility. I think we are doing fine. Sure, north korea, short range missiles. I have been doing it a long time. I received a nice note from him recently. Look, if i wasnt elected you would be at war with north korea. Ill tell you for people who dont understand the world and they dont understand how life works. If i wasnt elected maybe right now the war would be over, hopefully with a victory. When i first came in, we didnt have ammunition. Not a good way to fight a war. President trump left us no open anything. And he left us virtually no medical and ventilators. The cupboard was dry. I think right now, you would be at war essentially in some form, it would be raining with north korea if i werent president. We are doing fine with north korea. Just fine. In the meantime they said trump is giving up. I said what is he giving up . I dont know. They said he met. I have a Good Relationship with kim jongun. Thats not a bad thing to have a Good Relationship. Obama wanted a Good Relationship but he wouldnt meet with obama. We meet at the line. I stepped over the line. He said good. Its just good. But when they say the stupid people i call them stupid people, or the haters. They say trump has given up so much. It increases sanctions. China has been good on the border. Right now the border is stone cold closed between china and north korea. We just made a trade deal with china. They will have to buy 250 billion a year from the farmers. The relationship was good when we were signing that. Then you hear about this. Its a big difference. The question was asked would you be angry at china . Well the answer may be a resounding yes. But it depends, was it a mistake that got out of control or was it done deliberately. Its a big difference between those two. In either event they should have let us go in. We asked to go in early. They didnt want us in. I think they knew it was something bad and they were embarrassed. I think we are doing well. You said russia, china, north korea iran. President trump when i came in iran was a terror. We had 82 points of fighting. 18 points of major confliction. The first week i said tell me about iran. Sir, we have 1 state points of confliction. Yemen, syria, iraq, they were going into iraq all over the place. They are a much different nation right now. I stopped that horrible deal and they want to talk except that kerry violated the logan act. He made the deem. I would have made a deal except that john kerry who made the deal originally which is a stupid deal. Gave them 1. 8 billion in cash. Thats more than this room 10 times with 10 to with 100 bills. I say he violated the logan act. But he doesnt want to be embarrassed. He said lets wait until after the election. Maybe sleevey joe biden will sleevey joe biden will win. China paid the United States hundreds of millions in tariffs. But hundreds we gave tens of billions of dollars in tariffs. For those of you who say china devalued their currency. They alsod ad money into their system. So they paid for that. I think you have numerous countries waiting to see if sleepy joe wins. If he wins they will own our country. Go back two months, china was supposed to catch us, you know better than anybody. For years i heard by 2019 china will catch us. There was only one problem. Trump got elected in 2016. Before the problem with the playing, china was having the worst year they have had in 67 years. Now they are getting hurt. Everybody is getting hurt. I dont want them to get hurt. Its a horrible thing thats happened. We had the greatest economy in the world by far. China isnt even close and we are going to keep it that way. But iran is a much different country than it was. When i first came in iran was going to take over the middle east. Right now they just want to survive. I offered to help them. If they need ventilators which they do, i will send them ventilators. We have thousands of excess ventilators. We have a stockpile of ventilators and we are starting to send them so hospitals can fill up their stockpile. New york had a chance to get 16,000 ventilators and they comoas no and they chose not. Iran was a terror when i came into office. Right now, they dont want to mess around with us. They dont want to mess around. North korea, they havent given anything. And with iran, i mean thats a different country right now. And they want to make a deal . They are being shamed because the guy who gave them the sweetheart should have never met with them. In my opinion, he said wait, maybe trump will lose and maybe you can negotiate with a patsy, a weak guy. Twin and russia. Nobody has been tougher on putin than me. Look at the sanctions. Look what i did with their pipeline going into europe. Nobody even knew about it. I exposed it. Now everybody talks about it. At the same time i have a Good Relationship with putin. I was able to make a deal with russia and saudi arabia and opec plus. They call it opec plus that will save us texas, north dakota, energy states, it will save us hundreds of thousands of jobs. Your paper wrote an incredible editorial that trump made a great deal for our country. Thank you all very much. Well see you tomorrow. Thank you very much. Jon a sometimes combative President Trump briefing the reporters and the nation on the status of the coronavirus. Vice president pence who heads that task force was not there today. Hes giving it commencement address at the air force academy. Please stay tuned to this fox station for more. Im jon scott in new york. President trump speaking moments ago at the White House Coronavirus briefing. Im jon scott and this is a special twohour edition of the fox report. These are the latest numbers on the coronavirus. 3. 6 million americans have been tested. 676,000 confirmed cases. President trump touting positive trends as some states plan to slowly open their economies. Reporter the president appeared optimistic we could recover from the coronavirus outbreak sooner rather than later. He said people should not be complaining including americas governors. Here is what the president had to say moments ago. President trump we continue to see a number of positive signs that the virus passed its peak. Its been devastating all over the world. 184 countries. Hopefully the downward side of whats going on. I think you will see some incredible hard facts and evidence that what we did was right. Reporter the president had some tough words for members of the media as well as democrats on capitol hill as negotiations go on over what should be done to replenish Small Business loans to keep employees on payroll. They are expecting to hear more from House Speaker nancy pelosi on the sunday shows tomorrow. President trump lawmakers must stop blocking these funds and replenish the program without delay. The democrats have to come on board. I used to read that these were democrat programs, not republican. It seems to have switched around a lot. Reporter the president said he doesnt believe the data from china and rawb when it comes to their china and iran when it comes to their mortality rates. They are looking into where the virus originated. The president not spending a lot of time in tonight briefing talking about this. But he said they will make sure the world holds china accountable. Jon protests across the nation wrapping up for the day. Demonstrators in texas, maryland and ohio calling on lawmakers to reopen their states. They said they are ready to get back to work. Rich edson is live from annapolis, maryland. Reporter demonstrators, most of them in their cars circled the maryland statehouse honking their horns. They say they understand that the coronavirus is a Public Health concern, though they say the economic, social and education disruption is guaranteed to cause of even greater harm as oh testers say its time to reopen maryland. We are protesting this i ran cal move. I couldnt even go to the tore without a mask on, and you cant even buy masks anymore. I want the constitution honored once again. There are no exceptions. Weve took good care of the threat when it happened. Now we need to worry about our Constitutional Rights and be also worry about the economy. Reporter the Maryland Governor is also a republican. He says he appreciates their rights to protest. He noticed a lot of the protesters are supporters of President Trump. The governor says we are in line with what the president and white house guidelines are. We are not going to open up the state immediately. There are protests around the country, austin, texas. Other places like brookfield, wisconsin, carson city, nevada. Here in maryland the governor is keeping schools closed until may 15. The staff is looking at a plan to gradually reopen the economy. He hopes to share details about that next week. New york governor an drew cuomo says his state will require more coronavirus testing before businesses and other public spaces could begin to reopen. Aishah hasnie is live in new york city with more on that. Reporter the governor says new york is not at a point to reopen anything. But when the time comes his strategy hangs on mass scale testing. New york seems to be past the plateau. What next is testing. Cuomo calling for federal help with the supply chain. He says the top labs in the state have the machines but not enough of the right chemicals to make the test kits. The reopening will happen in phases and in coordination with the other states. Here is Connecticut Governor ned lamont. Well work on our own timetable. But it doesnt make any sense for me to open up restaurants if andrew cuomo keeps them closed. We then just have hundreds of people driving back and forth across the border. There are some things well try and do together. Reporter 17,000 new yorkers have died from covid19. New jersey follows new york with 3,800 deaths. Michigan is the third. He basically echoed the call for the federal government to help the state, basically provide supplies so they are not fighting each other for the supplies so desperately needed to fight the pandemic. Jon contamination at the cdc reportedly at the center of the rollout of coronavirus testing. The violation is a violation of sound manufacturing factors at the cdc in atlanta. Reporter the Washington Post reporting that the cdc broke its own protocols in the laboratory and those errors were responsible for weeks long delay in rolling out the tests. Here is dr. Fauci. No doubt that early on we had a problem. I had publicly said we had a problem early on. There was a problem that had to be corrected. And it was corrected. It was a problem that was a technical problem from within that was corrected. And it was an issue of embracing the way we have now and should have the private sector. Reporter there has been a stanford study which raises a number of questions about what we know about this virus. It tested 3,000 people and it suggested the mortality rate could be lower than previously thought. And 85 times more people have had the virus than known. It suggested they could have had the virus and recovered from the virus without knowing they had it. There are three different vaccines now that are in human trials. The president just a short time ago, there are a number of partnerships at least a dozen between public and private to make a vaccine virginia available as quickly as possible. Jon french authorities are blocking a cruise ship with french passengers on board from dock in marseille even though there are no coronavirus cases on board. Amy kellogg has more on this. Here in italy the coronavirus czar pointed out five times as many people in the lombardi region have died of coronavirus as civilians died in world war ii in world war ii including during the bombardment. So the curve here continues to flatten but doesnt quite go down as much as people would have hoped after 6 weeks of lockdown. The beaches are starting to try to get ready for the summer season, waiting for got itans on how they will function. This Restaurant Owner is rearranging his tables from 100 down to 45, taking into account distancing. A professional cyclist has found a way to make himself useful during the shutdown. Hes delivering medicine from pharmacies. They recognize him and are happy hes helping limit the movement of people around town. Spains death toll is around 20,000. The curve is flattening. But its under lock down. Realizing a lot of kids are getting stir crazy and spending the special day in isolation. The ch