As COVID-19 is spreading across the U.S., President Trump and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continue to contradict one another when it comes to measures they say must to be taken.
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00:00To close the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and all of with all of the great work they're doing
00:06I mean, they've gone largely to computer. You look at the floor. It's incredible what they can do, but it's fully open
00:12But we don't want to be doing that. We're not going to
00:16accept a premise that
00:20Human life is
00:23disposable and
00:25We're not going to put a dollar figure on human life
00:28Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up
00:33to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the
00:39invisible enemy
00:40You're going for a while, but we win
00:43President said it's a war it is a war
00:46Well, then act like it's a war
00:49There's tremendous hope as we look forward and we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel the increase in the number
00:55of cases
00:57continues
00:59Unabated as a matter of fact the rate of increase has gone up
01:07and more than
01:094,000 ventilators to
01:12the areas of greatest need have already been sent and we have
01:174,000 being delivered to New York. What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000?
01:24You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators
01:31Private companies are heeding our call to produce medical equipment and supplies
01:36because they know that we will not hesitate to invoke the DPA in order to
01:41Get them to do what they have to do
01:44Nobody's going to build 40,000 ventilators unless they know someone is buying
01:4940,000 ventilators and that's what the federal government can give them with the DPA. I'd buy 40,000 ventilators
01:56I want to thank the American people for the incredible sacrifices that they're making on behalf of our nation
02:03And I want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on social distancing flatten the curve flatten the curve
02:10We haven't flattened the curve and the curve is actually
02:16Increasing. I said earlier today that I hope we can do this by Easter. I
02:21think that would be a great thing for our country and
02:24We're all working very hard to make that a reality. We have a spike in the increase
02:32When you spike the increase in cases it accelerates the apex
02:39To a point where it could be as close as 14 to 21 days
02:45You