Five, when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.

And I just see you right now.

It's about 100 and 49 cases.

Pretty much shut it down.

Coming in from China, it will go away.

Just a car.

I am officially declaring a national emergency.

We have a problem that a month ago nobody ever thought about.

A lot of people think that goes away in April, but they think August could be July to be longer than that.

And I haven't touched my face and weeks weeks.

We're working very strongly with China on the Corona virus.

That's, uh, a new thing that a lot of people are talking about.

Hopefully it won't be a CZ bad as some people think it could be.

But we're working very closely with them and with a lot of other people, a lot of other countries, and we think we have a very well under control way have very little problem in this country at this moment.

Five.

How concerned you?

Well, we pretty much shut it down.

Coming in from China.

We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing.

Getting along with China, getting along with Russia getting off.

You offered the Chinese president help with the growing.

You know, we were offering him tremendous help.

We have the best in the world for that.

We've done a tremendous job in many other instances.

Also in that even recently, Uh, no, no, we've offered Jenna help, but we can't have thousands of people coming in who may have this problem, the Corona virus.

So we're going to see what happens.

But we did shed it down.

Yes, the virus that we're talking about having to do.

You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat as the heat comes in, Typically that will go away it April, we're in great shape.

There were We have 12 cases.

11 cases at 61% of the voters approve of Trump's handling of the Corona virus.

And, you know, we did a very early move on that we did was criticized by a lot of people at the beginning because we were the first.

We've never done it before we closed our borders to certain areas.

It's never happened before.

I got to ask you about something that's on the lot, people's mind, and that is the Corona virus.

How confident are you that China is being 100% honest with us when it comes to this scary virus?

Well, I'm confident that they're trying very hard.

I mean, I know President Xi.

I get along with him very well.

We just made a great trade deal, which is gonna be a lot of business for Arizona and every other place.

But they are trying very, very hard.

And I think the numbers are gonna get progressively better as we go along there working that they they built a hospital in seven days.

Now they're building another one.

I think it's gonna work out fine.

I think when we get into April in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on, or that and that type of a virus.

So let's see what happens.

But I think it's gonna work out fine, very much closed doors in certain areas about certain areas through certain areas, and we'll see what happens.

But way have the greatest doctors in the world.

We haven't very much under control.

We accepted a few people.

A small number of people very well could find and they should be getting better fairly soon.

Very interestingly, we've had no death.

The flu in our country kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year.

That was shocking to me.

And so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people and they're recovering, one is, uh, one is pretty sick.

But, uh, hopefully we'll recover and again when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.

Uh, that's a pretty good job with that.

We have a situation with the virus.

We've done a great job with the press, won't give us credit for way have in a world that has some big problems.

You look at China and you look a industry between the two countries.

And I did something that had never been done before because it had never been done before I closed our borders to certain areas of the world.

I won't be specific, cause it's not nice, you know, specific.

But you understand where I close the borders to certain areas, there are very early.

We never close the border before.

We've never done that and flights coming in and people coming in because they had a very early problem and I closed them.

I took a lot of heat from the Democrats, said what she doing?

Because anything do they do the some countries they're doing?

Well, some countries, they're not doing well, you can see that for yourself on a lot of things are happening were very well organized.

We have great talent, great doctors.

Great, great.

Everyone, uh, this tremendous spirit.

Now the Democrats are politicizing the Corona virus.

You know, they're politicizing it.

We will do everything in our power to keep the infection and those carrying the infection from entering our country.

We have no choice, whether it's the virus that we're talking about or many other public health threats.

The Democrat policy of open borders is a direct threat to the health and well being of all Americans.

Now you see it with the Corona virus.

You see it on Monday, I'll be meeting with the largest pharmaceutical companies and the world.

Actually, they'll be coming to the White House and we're talking about a vaccine and developing very quickly.

And they've already started working on it, developing very rapidly a vaccine for the virus to combat the virus and having a very good initial feedback.

And I'd like to just ask and, uh, caution that the media we would respectfully ask the media and politicians and everybody else involved, not do anything to incite a panic because there's no reason to panic at all.

This is something that is being handled professionally.

Our country's doing very well.

Are professionals are doing really an incredible job?

We're also working with other countries to help them extremely.

We're prepared for anything that we could always do that later date we needed.

I don't think we need that at this day, you know.

Interestingly, we would discuss again a question I get asked a lot by people.

One average you moves from 26,000 to 70,000 or so.

Even some cases more from the flu way have deaths of that year.

Worldwide, it's hundreds of thousands of deaths from the common flu.

And they asked, you know what's the difference And how does this different?

I guess there are things that are similar and things that are different.

Every one of them is different.

You look at a percentage to have a very, very small percentage in a big percentage of what we have is when we brought in the 40 or so people from the ship, we brought them in.

We immediately quarantined.

But you're adding that to the numbers that we had, which were very small.

And I haven't touched my face and winks way have a report today the global death rate of 3.4% and a report that the Olympics could be delayed.

Your reaction to that?

Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number now.

This is just my hunch.

And but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it's very mild, Mr President, at the outset of the Corona virus, your administration's response seemed to some as being confusing or minimizing what plans are being considered on a federal level for the possibility of a long term disruption from the novel Corona virus.

Well, actually, we're giving, I think, really given tremendous marks.

You look at Gallup Poll, you look at other polls for the way we've handled it, and one of the things I did is that closed down the borders to China and other areas that are very badly affected and really having a lot of troubles.

Countries and areas of countries that have had a lot of problems and I closed them down very early against the advice of almost everybody.

And we've been given rave reviews, and that's why we have only right now it's a lot of people, but it's still 11 people versus tremendous numbers of thousands of people that have died all over the world.

We have 11.

We have 149 cases.

As of this moment, this morning was 129.

Anybody right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a task, it's a test week.

They're there.

They have the test and the test so beautiful.

Anybody that needs a test gets a test.

If there's a doctor that wants to test, if there's somebody coming off a ship like a big monster ship that's out there right now, which again?

That's a big decision.

I want to bring all those people on.

People would like me to do that.

I don't like the idea of doing, but anybody that needs a test can have a test.

This was something that we were thrown into, and we're gonna handle it.

And we have been handling it very well.

The big decision was early, when we shut down our borders were the first ones ever to do that.

We've never done that in our country before.

I would have a situation that would be a lot more dire.

It will go away.

Just stay calm.

Way we want to protect your shipping industry.

A cruise industry cruise ships way.

Want to protect our airline industry?

Very important.

But everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful but become it's really working out.

The numbers from a week ago were great from two years ago, but now we're hitting a patch and we're gonna have to do something with respect.

Getting this, getting rid of this viruses quickly.

After consulting with our top government health professionals, I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well being of all Americans to keep new cases from entering our shores.

We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.

The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.

We wanna lose as few people as possible.

So important.

And what is the number as of this morning?

Is it 32?

You could tell me, Is that 32 deaths safe around?

I mean, think about the United States because of what I did and what the administration did with China.

We have 32 deaths at this point.

Other countries at a smaller countries have many, many deaths.

30 Choose a lot 30 two's too many.

But when you look at the kind of numbers that you're seeing coming out of other company countries, it's pretty amazing when you think of it to unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today I am officially declaring a national emergency.

Two very big words, but you haven't even if you don't have symptoms.

Are you being selfish by not getting tested and potentially?

I didn't say I wasn't going to be tested are you going to be?

Most likely.

Mostly not for that reason, but because I think I will do it anyway.

Uh, you want a Fairly soon.

We're working on that.

We're working out a schedule.

The test.

And I decided I should.

Based on the press conference yesterday, people were asking, Did I take the test?

I don't know.

Whatever it takes a day or two days with cancer, because it almost becomes a habit.

And you get out of that habit.

And frankly, I was a non hand shaker.

For the most part.

I never believed that shaking hands once you become a politician and I noticed it too.

Political people walk up to me.

They want to shake my hand and said, Well, uh, you know, just take it nice and easy, okay?

Just relax.

People come up to me.

They shake hands, they put their hand out.

It's sort of a natural reflex, and we're all getting out of it.

All of us have that problem.

You don't have to buy so much.

Take it easy.

Just relax.

People are going in and they're buying more.

They I remember.

I guess during the conversation, Doug of Wal Mart said that they're buying more than they buy a Christmas.

Relax, we're doing great.

It'll will pass on a scale of 1 to 10.

How would you rate the response to this crisis I dreaded attend?

I think we've done a great job, and it started with the fact that we kept Avery highly infected country despite all of the even the professionals saying now it's too early to do that.

We were very, very early with respect to China, and we would have a whole different situation in this country.

If we didn't do that, I would rate it a very, very I would rate ourselves and the professionals.

I think the professionals have done a fantastic job.

It seems to me that if we do a really good job will not only hold the death down to a level that is much lower than the other way had we not done a good job.

But people are talking about July August something like that, so it could be right in that period of time where I say washing it washes through other people don't like that term but would washes through.

Is this the new normal until I did something, we'll see what happens.

But they think August could be July.

Could be longer than that.

I just say this.