Maybe better than okay. I think even more so than i do. I think Fourth Quarter will be great. And i think next years going to be a tremendous year for this country. Jennifer. [indistinct] we have to be responsible. They have a team of people. They will bring in additional people. And again, i want to assure the American Public and the american taxpayers, we will be sure. There will be liability. [indistinct] President Trump i think mitch is looking at it as i do to an extent as the infrastructure he likes infrastructure. We all do. We have to rebuild our country. 8 trillion has been spent. I wasnt in favor of it. I can tell you that in the middle east, 8 trillion. Think of it. He wanted to fix a pothole in a roadway or highway in this country and you didnt do it, because they didnt have the money because so much money was spent in the middle east. That is as you know a whole different story now. Were going to do infrastructure. A lot of people a lot of the republicans would like to keep that as a separate bill. We will see how that works out, jennifer. [indistinct] President Trump i think like other things, we are going to hopefully, we are going to come up with a vaccine. Tremendous progress has been made, Johnson Johnson and oxford. Lots of good things. You can hearing the same things as i do. Tremendous progress has been made on the vaccine. You have to test it. That takes a period of time. A lot of movement in a lot of progress has been made on the vaccine. But i think what happens is, its going to go away. This is going to go away and whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall will be able to handle it. We will be able to put out spurts. We are very prepared to handle it. Weve learned a lot about the invisible enemy. Its a bad, but weve learned a lot. Its in 184 countries as you hear me say often. Its inconceivable. It should have been stopped at the source which was china. It shouldve been stopped pretty much at the source, but it wasnt. And now we have 184 countries going through. But i think that a lot of good things are going to happen. And i really believe that fourthquarter is going to be may be tremendous. In the next year i think as a chance to really be getting close to recordsetting. We hope so. We hope we can be back where we were. We have the strongest economy of any in the world and i hope we will be back there again. Youve spoken about your friend who passed away. I wonder if you spoken to the families of anyone else who has lost loved ones of covid19 or any stories that affected you. President trump i have many people i know many stories. Ive spoken with three or four families unrelated to me. I lost a very good friend. Also lost three other friends, two of whom i didnt know as well but they were friends and people i did business with. And its a bad death. Its a bad thing. A group sent to some people. We found out that young people do extraordinarily well. Thats why i think we can start thinking about schools. Of course, we are ending the school season. It would be probably you would be back for too long. I noticed Purdue University is a great school at a great state wants to open and have students come in. I think thats correct some colleges i think i saw harvard wants to have students come back in the fall. I would hope that they have students. I think the whole concept of computer learning is wonderful. It is not a tele learning. Its not the same thing as being in a classroom and a Great College or a college of any kind. College university, you cant replace that. And people do very well. They do very well. So im going to see you tomorrow. We will have other things to talk about. You have a lot of interesting things. I dont think we should have a News Conference today, because this is a News Conference. In addition, its a celebration of these people that have done such an incredible job. I think we found a couple of stars in his room. This guy right here is the biggest star in the room. [applause] we will all agree. I vote for you, okay . Great job youve done. And i really appreciate you being here. You could have done better. [indistinct] President Trump be careful, that could happen. That could happen. Be careful. Maybe we could do Something Like that. Youre very good. He has stolen the show, right . Do we agree . Come on with me if you want to do a quick loan. We need time. We are opening up the country. We need a little time. I dont want to spend 2. 5 hours at an eye doctor. Okay. We will think about that. I want to thank everybody and in particular, i want to thank you very much. And steve, i can call steve at any time. I can call him at 2 00 in the morning or 6 00 in the morning. I say, do i wake you . The answer is always no. We are proud of them. Everybody is. We have to be proud of our government and we have to be proud of our country. These are really terrific people. We are going through a period of time the likes of which weve never seen in this country certainly even if we go back into 1917, that was the worst of all time, but it was also not as bad here. It was very bad. It was very rough, but it wasnt quite like what we are going through right now. Its because of the amazing when you look at how contagious this is, people literally just being in the same area with other people, it catches. Im very proud of this country. I have to say. Im very proud to be a president , and im very proud of this country. Thank you very much, everybody. [applause] neil youve been listening to President Trump at the Small Business forum where he was saying that progress is being made. There are bumps in the personal paycheck protection program. They will be ironed out. The secretary is going to lead an effort to weed out anyone that might be misrepresenting themselves in a quest for all the extra money. If you combine the packages, better than 700 billion. A little bit of news when he talked about what might be coming next down the stimulus spike. Hes eager to look at infrastructure down the road even though there are reports and a ton of majority, Mitch Mcconnell does not share that enthusiasm. He thinks Mitch Mcconnell and a separate package with. We will be talking to the Senate Majority leader a little later in this broadcast on a busy day where the total cases in this country now have topped 1 million. That represents about onethird of the 3 million coronavirus cases around the world. We will be keeping track of the latest numbers here and what they portend. Also on a day the president was indicating that testing is going to ramp up dramatically. He hopes to have 5 million coronavirus tests going on daily in the nottoodistant future. We will see exactly how that pans out and how they can obviously change the landscape. A lot of governors that they really cant continue or think about reopening their states unless we have for testing. There would certainly be a step in that direction. The president holding that out there on the day we are looking at more states opening and busy states at that. Welcome everybody, i am neil cavuto and this is your world. More next week, and it could be well, a lot more to come. Right now weve got the latest from jonathan in atlanta. Multiple states will be opening in just the next few days. Heres a sampling. Stay at home orders expire in alabama and texas on thursday. Starting thursday, alabama will allow Retail Stores to reopen with occupancy limited to 50 starting friday, texas will allow stores to reopen at 25 occupancy. Also friday, ohio will allow outpatient medical procedures including dental visits to resume may 4th. Resume following by businesses on may 12th. Friday, wisconsin will open 34 state parks and on may 5th, Washington State will allow some Outdoor Recreation including hunting, fishing, golf, and day use of state parks. As economies open up, experts are urging people to practice social distancing. So the nation doesnt lose the gains its already achieved against this virus. If we are unsuccessful or prematurely try to open up, and we have additional outbreaks that are out of control, it could be much more than that. It could be a rebound. Speak to different parts of his state will reopen at different times and different speeds. Laces with higher case counts such as miami will have a very different plan and locations with lower numbers such as jacksonville and the tampa bay area. This is afternoon, governor gavin newsom of california announced that students in that state they return to brick and mortar classrooms early. They may start the school year in july to make up for lost time. The governor says there will likely be staggered schedules so that you wont have all of the kids in the same building at the same time. Neil thank you my friend very, very much. The president of Purdue University is among those say we are going to try next fall to have a regular start of the College Season with people physically in the classes and not doing it virtually. That is the hope at least of Purdue University. In the meantime, we have been telling you of how states have been working around these provisions where they are going to ease up on sheltering at home orders in effect. Alabama you might recall has pushed its order to around may 15th. That does not mean that some parts of that state cant reopen on a staggered basis. Alabama governor with us right now. Governor, first of all, how is your stay holding up right now . What are your plans . Speak to the states feels a whole lot better now that weve announced were going to begin art reopening in our great states beginning at 5 00 p. M. April 30th. Neil and hello that girl, governor . Well, we are allowing all Retail Stores to be opened at 50 occupancy and social distancing. We are opening up our beaches to gatherings of less than ten, social distancing as well. We are allowing elective surgeries and procedures, medical procedures to again occur. So we are taking maybe baby steps. We are doing it slowly and methodical. We are letting their data drive our decisions. Neil governor, are you among some of your colleagues are saying they need more help from the federal government, particularly the deal with all the costs associated to the tax revenue lost because of the coronavirus and people staying at home and that sort of thing. Do you want more help from the federal government . Right now we are doing fine but we are probably going to suffer a billion dollars in lost revenue. Alabama is a state whose constitution for a from going into bankruptcy. We have to pay our way as we go. We can use a more testing equipment and supplies for testing, but other than that, we are doing pretty good. Neil governor, the president outlined a plan to get up to 5 million coronavirus tests going per day. I dont know how soon that would be, but that would probably be welcome news to you. It certainly would be helpf helpful. We are making it fine now as far as we know and we continue to keep this study that ship as she goes. Neil all right, governor. I want to thank you very much. The beautiful state of alabama opening up earlier than a lot of people have thought. A great deal of attention to the strategy some states are taking, doing it in stages or in one fell swoop. We will keep an eye on the state and many other states. The battle back and forth of face mask and out flights, do you need them . How do you monitor flights . The former cdc director joins us right now. The one thing that has come up with this push to eventually get people flying again is whether they should all be wearing masks, and b, should other precautions be taken . The reason why i mention, we are getting inconsistent measures. Requiring mass of all his passengers, southwest not. I know that union is saying they would like the government to demand that. Where do you stand on that mask debate . Let me put up bigger picture. We have one blunt instrument, everyone stays home. That makes the virus go down to lower spreads. Its terrible for the economy. We want to get back into the open. We have to do it carefully because the virus is still there. It will explode again if we are not careful and send this back in. We have to use every other instrument we have as well as we can. That means face mask when we are in enclosed spaces. You could be spreading it and not knowing it. That is something weve learned over the last couple of months. Thats why when other people wear a mask, they are protecting you. It also means competing to ramp up testing, isolation, quarantine so that we can box them in a not have them explode from cases and outbreaks and epidemics. Thats the only way we are going to be able to move forward. Through all that, we have to protect the vulnerable. If you are older and have Heart Disease or Kidney Disease or lung disease, you really need to stay away from other people and you can get this infection and it could kill you. Neil how worried abou are yu about a spike in cases . They see that its inevitable. You want to balance that. What are you looking for one state after another, slowly unwind the stayathome provisions . There are lots of reasonable things to do like open outdoor spaces. What we are worried about is that the virus is still circulating. It does take a little bit for it to explode again. We dont know how its going to behave in warmer weather. We hope the weather will be our friend and we will see less of slow spread. We are not certain of that. We know this virus can be deadly. Anyone who underestimates this virus may be making a fatal error. York city alone, weve seen more than 20,000 excess deaths in less than two months. Thats worse than any two months of the 19181919 influence dependent. It can happen anywhere. It doesnt quickly physically distance when it began spreadi spreading. Neil how a lot of details from that spanish flu epidemic to your point, dr. A. The st. Louis example versus philadelphia is famous. A major city at the time. Where they did take precautions. I dont know the equivalent of all the kind of things we argue for today. Very, very conservative in its approach. Philadelphia cases spiked dramatically. St. Louis, not so much. Is there a lesson to be learned for our country statebystate as we try to get back to business . There is. There is a false conflict between economy and public health. The best thing we can do for our economy is to control the virus. The best thing we can do for the virus is to reopen carefully, gradually, protecting the most vulnerable so people over 60 or have Underlying Health conditions, you want to stay back for logic. It may take three, four, five, six weeks until we see that resurgence of cases if it occu occurs. We want to be safe rather than sorry not because lives are at stake, but also a huge hit to our economy. Neil doctor, i want to thank you very, very much for all your hard work in helping americans get through that. Thank you sir. The former secretary under george bush joins me right now. Always good to have you. The president outlined something that seemed very, very dramatic where he talked about doing upwards of 5 million covid19 tests a day. How doable is that to you . How much of a difference to think thats going to make . I imagine its a substantial difference. Help me out with him. The numbers are hard for me to reconcile, candidly. I dont know what 5 million would mean other than the fact that it would be a big boost for where we are now. There are a lot of states that are feeling the need for substantially more tests. If we have that kind of production, i think he could be nothing but good. Neil all right. Where do you think that we are in this . As you look at this and the former health and Human Services secretary, 50 governors in 50 different points of view of what is the ideal time for them to unwind restrictions, both have restrictions in effect. It is a statebystate event. Is there anywhere you have about how this all coordinates in the weeks and months ahead . Yes. I think theres lots of reasons to be worried. The truth is, theres a lot we dont know. I think the best analogy might be, we are stepping out on a freshly frozen lake. And we dont really know how thick the ice is. The only way you can do that is to take a few careful steps and stop, pause, and listening for cracking sounds. If you dont hear anymore, you can begin to move forward. That is happening all over the country. We are going to learn a lot over the next couple of weeks or three or four weeks. I think what dr. Friedman said about the potential for this beginning to spike again is very clearly they are. Thats what happened in the pandemic of 1918. We have lots to be concerned about but we clearly need to move forward. Its a risk we are likely going to need to manage for a time. It is not one we are going to solve immediately. Neil thank you very much. We are also following other developments as airlines begin to comment and announce their policy on the mask issue. As to whether we start Screening International flyers or allowing them back into this country especially coming from points of europe and asia where the cases were particularly pronounced. A lot of debates on that, but the president said he was considering a lot of options but didnt detail the one that he is considering. Were also going to be hearing from a Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell. His views on whats next on the stimulus frowns, but he likes to see and what he doesnt like to see in explaining the socalled bankruptcy option for states after this. Dont do it. Dont you dare. I dont think so [ sighs ] its okay, big fella. Were gonna get through this together. [ baseball bat cracks ] nice rip, robbie. Raaah when you bundle home and Auto Insurance through progressive, you get more than just a big discount. Im gonna need you to leave. You get relentless protection. [ baseball bat cracks ] however, there is one thing you can be certain of. 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