First and i, like every night, we want to start with facts that will help you and your family stay safe and secure without the fear, hysteria, and panic that others are peddling. Clearly, the u. S. Response to this pandemic is unlike anything we have ever witnessed or ever seen. Today, the president invoked what is known as the defense production act. This is a move that will massively ramp up the production and the distribution of very important medical supplies. Ventilators, respirators. This will include 500 million new and 95 masks. The president also dispatched earlier today two Navy Hospital ships. One to the east coast, one to the west coast. The pentagon is now preparing mobile medical units to be deployed all over the country as they are needed, if they are needed. Meanwhile, americas brilliant medical researchers, scientists, doctors, health care workers, they have been working around the clock as usual. Not just on a vaccine, but also treatments that will mitigate or even prevent the contraction of the virus, or the effects of the virus if you do get it. Hours ago, the president gave us a little preview of what we can expect tomorrow. This is getting interesting. Take a look. Tomorrow we are having what i think will be a very interesting news conference. And i think you know what thats all about. So well see. The fda, theyve been working very, very hard and i appreciate what theyre doing, and i think we have some very interesting things that will be brought up tomorrow at the news conference. It will be set up around 11 00 or so. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Sean some pretty exciting news, medical 18 is here tonight. We are going to examine what the possibilities are here. There are now multiple antiviral medications being studied. Many being tested. One was previously used against ebola. One antimalarial medication developed decades ago showing a lot of promise. It has been used in the course of this particular coronavirus outbreak, and of course we do expect in the short term that the confirmed cases will dramatically increase. We are going to prepare you for that. But again, if we all follow the rules laid out by the president s task force, theyre not that difficult, were going to be helping every american, especially the most vulnerable. The elderly, with underlying medical conditions, compromised immune systems. In the meantime, we look forward to the coming announcement from the president and the fda tomorrow. Without a doubt come over the greatest country on earth. Got to remember that. We will get through this. Weve been through tough times and we always prevail. As the president we did tonight, strong, united, we will prevail. He posted this message to the American People. Lets take a look. I want to thank all americans for pulling together, doing what they have to do, its been incredible, inspirational, all over the world they are watching. Of course, youve heard it a thousand times. Wash your hands, good hygiene, all of that. But social distancing, keep away. Its going to have no place to go. I just want to thank you. As president , i want to thank you for the incredible job youre all doing. The spirit of our country like never before, we really have pulled together as a unit, weve pulled together as a country. We will prevail together. We love the usa. Sean this is an all hands on deck moment and were seeing the greatness of the American People on display every day. At every level. Once we beat back the virus, china must be held accountable. There hostile government cares more about optics than the lives of not only their own citizens, but the world community. This massive coverup and the critical early stages of this disease, frankly unforgivable. It is an indisputable fact that china lied. People all over the world are suffering and dying as a result of these lies. Axios really put together what is a comprehensive timeline that you need to see. We will start on december the tenth, 2019. Last year, that is 1 of 1 of the first known coronavirus patients becomes ill. Then on the 27th, wuhan Health Officials determined a new type of coronavirus was spreading. Three days later on social media, top director at the wuhan Central Hospital tried to warn the public about this dangerous new disease and how it was spreading from person to person. She was subsequently reprimanded and censored. Then on january 1st, 8 other doctors who posted information about the disease online were called in for questioning, also censored. January 7th, the president of china became directly involved in the response. January 11th, the Wuhan Health Commission insisted there were no new cases, which we now know is a blatant lie. January 14th, World Health Organization at this late date to eating chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the virus. Really . Three days later china hosted its annual Lunar New Year banquet. Guess where . In the city of wuhan, where tens of thousands of people got together for a potluck supper. It wasnt until january 20 that china admitted the disease can. The first person we know had corona in america arrived on january 21st, 10 days later, the president s travel ban, the single best decision made to date by any country. He gave us time, saved countless thousands of americans from contracting the virus, and likely many deaths. By the way, at that point it was too late. Covid19 had already spread to south korea. A day later, the first case confirmed here. Thats the 21st. Im just talking about. Probably already multiple cases in italy, which we now have discovered had direct flights from wuhan, that province, and a large chinese population working in their textile industry. For weeks, china could have sounded the alarm. Instead, they lied, they tried to cover it up, and they had Massive Public celebrations at the epicenter of this disease. Now chinas government, there spreading basis conspiracy theories blaming the u. S. Military for the spread of the disease. There are even proliferating and insane talking point using the word china or wuhan virus to describe the wuhan virus is racist. And of course many social justice warriors in the media mob, not particularly concerned that much about health. No, they want political correctness, even at a time like this. Unwittingly echoing what is a chinese propaganda talking point. Take a look. China and others have criticized you for using the phrase chinese virus. How do you go about that . Are you going to continue to use that phrase . It creates a stick man. Why do you keep calling this the chinese virus . There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country beard why do you keep using this . Because it comes from china. You do have people in the Asian American community whose lives are at risks and for the president to call it a chinese virus, foreign virus, that is just not its so dangerous and not a good thing to do. This is a virus that came fromhe territory of china, but came from bats. This is a bat virus, not a china virus. It doesnt speak chinese. Sean today, the president had a clear message for those who seem more worried about identity politics than actual truth. Take a look. Why do you keep using this . Because it comes from china. It sounds racist. It is not racist, not at all. It comes from china, thats why. It comes from china. Its accurate. Please, john. I have great love for all of the people from our country, but as you know, china tried to say at one point, maybe theyve stopped now, it was caused by american soldiers. That cant happen, its not going to happen, not as long as im president. It comes from china. Sean times of uncertainty, facts do matter. This virus did start in china, the wuhan province, and its not the first disease to be named after a location. For example, ebola. Thats named after a river in africa. And theres the spanish flu, and then the middle eastern respiratory system known as and we can go on and on. At the facts are clear. The Chinese Government tried to cover it up. They kicked out also called americans i dont really trust fake news. The wall street post, wall street journal, i do want them there. Now because of chinas actions thousands around the world are dead, millions others are suffering, and china must be held accountable. Here with a lot more on this, secretary of state mike pompeo. Mr. Secretary, great to see. Thank you for being with us. You actually brought in chinese representatives to your office on this very topic of blaming the u. S. Military and other issues. Can you bring us inside that conversation . Thank you for having me on tonight. We did in fact call the Chinese Ambassador and i spoke to my counterpart in china a couple days back. This disinformation campaign, which began when we began to call out this risk that was created not only for the Chinese People but now people all across the world, where the Chinese Government knew about this risk, had identified it, they were the first to know and they wasted valuable days at the front and, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to leave we want to go to places like italy, that is now suffering so badly. They tried to suppress this information. We talked about the means by which they did it. Instead of trying to do the work to suppress the virus, which is what the world demanded, the Chinese Communist party didnt get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that. Sean mr. Secretary, do you believe now that the information, which could be valuable to the rest of the world we can get information that would be helpful at this point. You believe that information is accurate that they are sending over now . This is one of the most important questions. We have had an incredibly difficult time getting professional medical people in. You will recall early on, we offered to have americas finest experts to travel there and assist them, since the World Health Organization. We werent permitted in. These are the kinds of things that the Chinese Communist party has done that up with the world in the worlds people at risk. They havent been sufficiently transparent and the risk you find if we dont get this right, if we dont get to the bottom of this, is this could be something that is repeatable. Maybe not in this form, maybe not on this way, but transparency matters. That is why when we see them forcing journalists out, when we see people talking about this, people no longer having access to the internet, no longer able to speak openly and freely, those risks, those questions. As americas most senior diplomat, we have an obligation to make sure we try and get this information from the Chinese Communist party so we can help our medical professionals here in the United States get this right and save lives for americans and people all across the world. Sean mr. Secretary, weve known each other for many years. If my memory serves me well i think you graduated one in your class at harvard. Im not sure, im pretty sure you were right up there. If the chinese said to you early on and said, hey, we have a problem. How quickly would you have acted to mobilize americas best, greatest medical researchers, scientists, dr. Faucis of the world, to immediately assist them in whatever problems they were have . I didnt quite graduated first in my class. I was a good enough student. Sean one or two, i know its up there. [laughs] we wouldve responded immediately. All of the experts, from the government of the private sector wanted access to all of the information about the structure of this virus, all of the information that wouldve permitted us not only to start on mitigation and cures and vaccines, but also it allowed us to identify the way that the virus spreads and to begin to take the action that couldve kept this virus in a place where unfortunately we have not been able to keep it so far. Sean let me ask you, i read comments you made about the irradiance. You know im not a big fan of iran, or russia, or china. But putting that aside, it would be helpful if we could help them. Want to ask you about that and i keep hearing about these americans on a mission trip that are locked down in peru and i believe your office has been active in trying to get them home safely. Let me take the second one first. The state department is doing everything we can to protect american citizens all across the world. We know students that are in peru. Some other travelers that are there as well. Other countries too that have shut down their airports, we are working to try to solve problems for each of those american citizens, and weve just learned about them over the last couple of days, but know that President Trump has made clear that we are going to do everything we can to get every American Home safely. As for iran, the same true for north korea, these are countries that we have deep differences with. We are working diligently to create better conditions for their people and part of that is making sure were available to provide humanitarian assistance when we can. Weve offered t to the north koreans as well as to the iranian people. Humanitarian assistance, and weve offered to facilitate humanitarian assistance coming into those countries from u. N. Organizations and other countries as well. We will keep doing that, its the right thing to do in a time of crisis. Sean mr. Secretary, mike pompeo, thank you for being with us. Important issues. We appreciate the time. We did rebuild europe, we be back the forces of fascism, and ill tease them , imperial japan, communism, yol islamism, we lead the world and we help advance the human condition peer that is who we are and what we do. Now here to explain how the navy is dispatching hospital ships, our own trace gallagher. The schiphol had to new york harbor. The uss mercy off the coast of san diego will be used to help folks on the west coast peer President Trump says both ships will be ready by next week. These are the largest hospital ships in the world. Each one has 1,000 hospital beds but they wont be used to treat coronavirus patients, at least not in the beginning. Instead they will be used to help trauma patients were normal hospitals fill up. Andrew cuomo says hospitals being at capacity is inevitable. He points out that new york has 53,000 hospital beds and 53,000 icu beds but in 45 days in a worstcase scenario there could be 110,000 people hospitalized with 370,000 needing icu. We should note 37, rather. We should note, at records island, we are learning that both an inmate and a corrections officer have tested positive for coronavirus. This facility holds thousands of inmates and finally we should know, westchester county, the man that is called patient zero, the 50yearold lawyer linked to the spread of the virus which led to that containment zone is now out of his medically induced, and he said to be recovering. Sean youve been great anchoring as well, i watched you the other night as well. Joining us now, bill hemmer with the latest coronavirus facts, figures. Again, we want truth, information, facts without fear. What do you got . Good evening to you. A lot of numbers have been showing you this global math, 9 04 east coast time. This is where we are based on agajohns hopkins man. This is an impressive number here. 83,000 were covered so far. We want that number to go much higher. A moment ago you mentioned italy. There was a stunning headline that came out of italy today. At the moment theyre dealing with about 36,000 cases. Theyve had nearly 3,000 people die so far in the headline from italy today, they have the highest death rate in a single day to date. More than 470 italians lost their lives there today. On this map over here, i want to show you where we are tonight in the United States. As in about five hours ago, this is our number of cases. A 7,374. Just watch that number. I will take you back and show you where we were two weeks ago, at 129. Again, tonight, more than 7,000. New york state has the most. 2480 cases. Washington state, about 1,000. California, 718 after that. Again, two weeks ago, new york was at six. Tonight we are at more than 2400. You hear the medical officials tell you that you want to be like south korea. The south korean model and now, unfortunately, like the italian model. I will show you why that is here on this graph behind me. This yellow line is italy. Its going not due north but pretty close to it. The blue line is south korea. You see how that levels off here . We are the green line down here just coming off the baseline and trending toward the marker in south korea. Again, you want to be near that blue line and that is the reason why you see this all hands on deck across the country. Back to you. We will see where it is tomorrow. Sean bill hemmer, we do expect a dramatic increase as the testing continues. Hopefully in the weeks we will see leveling off in a dramatic decrease, as we have seen in other countries. Bill, thank you. As the president calls for a unified response to this ongoing pandemic, its business as usual, sadly, for many in the media mob. But predictable. Actually one conspiracy tv, ms dnc, state run television for democratic socialists. A legal analyst suggesting that President Trump was guilty of negligent homicide because of his Coronavirus Response. Oh, you mean the first case in america, january 21st . He called for the band january 31st, 10 days later. He was called a xena pub and fearmongering by quid pro quo dr. Joe. This is beyond a disgrace. Msnbc news, are you proud of yourself . Joy reeves, pretty despicable comments on her show. Not by her, by a guest, suggesting that children of Trump Supporters are a threat to your children. And fox news kills people, for decades, for a long time. Fake news cnn actually blaming the president for nationwide toilet paper hoarding. Reuters article reporting a fake story that the president sought a monopoly on coronavirus vaccine. Others blaming fox news for the coronavirus. One commentator, oh, joe lockhart, former president ial press secretary tweeting, when this is all over we will properly examine what was done right and what was done wrong. I hope we can have an Honest National conversation about the toxic effects of fox