you're seeing hud secretary, ben carson. many of them in place perhaps now waiting for the president and vice president and we were told earlier that a fema administer would be there today. the number of cases in new york has jumped by nearly 25%. this as the president enters the room along with the vice president. let's listen in. >> thank you very much. a lot of things going on. we're going to be going over to the hill and we're having a lot of meetings and -- from the financial, this is a medical situation, not a financial situation. financial, though, is moving along very nicely. i want to thank you for being here and update you on the progress we've made after a week of extraordinary mobilization in our war against the virus. governors, mayors, the businesses, charities and citizens are working with urgency and speed toward one common goal which is saving american lives. we're in communication with foreign countries. it's now at 148 foreign countries. can you believe that? you talk about a spread, you talk about a viole

do you know where the current hud secretary, ben carson, is aware of this? have you been able to share it with him? are you thinking about? >> i haven't shared it with secretary carson, but at hud what you have is many, many dedicated career professionals. they know how we can address both this crisis situation and also some of the things that we could be doing, creative things we could be doing to make sure that people can have a safe, decent, affordable place to live. and so i put my faith and my trust in those career professionals and i hope, right now, especially, that secretary carson and president trump are listening to them. >> secretary castro, thank for joining me. we always appreciate the conversation with you. julian castro is a former hud secretary in the obama administration, former presidential candidate, former mayor of san antonio. thank you, sir. stay healthy. up next, we're going to answer your questions, what you need to know about the relief check that you should be receiving. you're watching msnbc. you should be receiving. you're watchin

if you live in federal housing, hud has put a freeze on evictions right now. as far as banks or private companies, the president said the other day, i think landlords are going to be taking it easy. he's saying they're going to take it easy but there's no federal regulation put in place. we recommend that every person go to their own state's website, type in your state and you can see what your unemployment benefits are or you can go to benefi benefits.gov and it lays out benefits afforded to people in different categories, but it depends on your city and state. you cannot assume we're all in this crisis and i'm covered. >> this is a big story, workers at instagram, whole foods, where do these pushes stand right now? >> well, we're seeing it happen. it was widely reported yesterday that amazon fired a guy named christopher smalls from their staten island warehouse. he was the person who is organizing strikes. the organizers have said there have been 50 amazon strikes across the country. the company said it's been more like 15. while he was fired, the company s

you can go to the hud website. for most of us who have private landlords, the best you can really do is reach out to your landlord privately, see if there's some sort of relief program, see if you can get put on a payment plan. because there's nothing official that's happened across the country, at least not yet. >> another question, steph, that we're getting a lot is who can and who cannot file for unemployment this is a big one. here is lindsey from instagram let's take a listen. >> i wasn't collecting unemployment before coronavirus 19 but was unemployed. am i now eligible fo unemployment under new coronavirus 19 eligibility rules? >> so can lindsey collect, stephanie? >> most likely the answer is no. so the expanded unemployment is really to include anyone who's lost a part or all of their job due to corona. if you weren't working before, it will be tough to seek unemployment normally you have to apply within the first week or so from losing your job. now, they've waived that because there's this huge influx of

police continuingng to conduct s street swsweeps of f homeless folks wen the street, despite cdc and the hud guidance advising the city that is not what thehey shouldle doing, that that is a risk to further spreading coronavirus and covid-19. heard fromas you bernard, in ththe shelters, thte are inadequate cleanings happening,g, lack of basic sanitation suppliess, a lack of ability to social distanance of and as you m mentioned just this weekend, the may announced they're going to start finding people for not complying with social distancing r rules when people who do not have a home, who arare on the street, do nont have a way to socially distance. amy: so talk about what your demands are now a and now many people are we talking about new york city? >> we know there are over r 17,0 adult shelters, single adults, many of whomom are in, get settings, dorm like shelter spaces, and about 3500 -- a little mor than 3500 folks on the street and an estimate. so our demands, what we are prioritizing at this point t is thatat the city should be using vacant hotels to ensure safety fofor peoplele on t

. >> this is the west side howie alock the huds b b b b river there's a lot to see there were a lot of people who wanted to come in here those compression shocks we see make it look like people are even closer. it looks like though people should be giving each other more space. >> yeah. contessa brewer, thank you an amazing sight to see pulling into new york harbor this morning. up next, yum brand ceo taking a big pay cut to help employees amid the coronavirus pandemic. the details and the rest of your daily good news rundown when we come back. >>> welcome back, a look at our daily good news breakdown. underarmor working with the university of maryland medical system to make face shields, masks and gowns. they will produce upwards of 500,000 masks and thousands of hospital gowns to donate to local baltimore hospital's system >>> richard branson's virgin rocket company plans to mass produce face masks the ceo contributes to the company's foundations global employee medical relief fund >>> facebook pledging $100,000 in financing and ads to help those reeling from the coronavirus pandemic

huds new regulation will stop the collection of data. it will also attack protections for tenants, workers, and the environment. huds proposal specifically identifies rent control as a potential obstacle to fair housing choice. the proposal also tries to use this rule to discourage important labor and wage standards to govern housing rules. i urge my colleagues to join me in opposing huds new proposal. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor walton. supervisor yee? >> president yee: colleagues, as we discussed earlier, i'm going to be introducing an imperative item for the board to ratify, the health officers declaration of local health emergency regarding the novel coronavirus disease, and this is going to be also cosponsored by supervisor peskin. as we are all aware, the city and county of san francisco is working tirelessly to address the growing impacts of covid-19, and there -- this is given to extend the notification beyond seven days, into the foreseeable future. i believe th i -- the rest -- before i submit everything,

about paying rent, no mortgages through -- i know that org just through --i know that mortgages through hud will be taken care of. pres. trump: i think landlords will take it easy, people that are owed money will take it easy. a lot of concessions are being made that would not have been thought of three weeks ago. a lot a very positive things are happening. reporter: yesterday, why did you publicly threaten quarantine on new york, new jersey, -- pres. trump: i did not do that at all. read the statement. i said, we are going to look into possible quarantine. as a possibility because a lot of our professionals wanted quarantine. who are you with? bloomberg, right? i can't imagine that. professionals, very good professionals love the idea of doing that. that is sort of the ultimate in distancing. they did not want new yorkers where they were having a problem necessarily going down to florida where they had less of a problem. the concept of quarantine was thrown out to me. they would love to do it. i thought it was too much. so, it is very hard to enforce. reporter: by speaking about it publicl

i know mortgages through hud is taken care of. what should people be doing for the first of the month? >> they will be getting the money. i will tell you, i think landlord wills take it easy. -- landlords will take it easy. we may put out a statement on that. i think a lot of people owed money will take it easy. a lot of concessions are made, just like the insurance companies, a lot of concessions are being made that wouldn't have been even thought of three weeks ago, not even thought of. a lot of really positive things are happening. please, behind you? >> thank you, mr. president. yesterday why did you publicly threaten quarantine on new york, new jersey -- >> i didn't do that at all. read the statement. read the statement. read what i said. i said we 'going to look into possibly quarantine. i didn't say we're going to quarantine. i looked at it as a possibility because a lot of our professionals suggested quarantine. i said we're going to look at it. we then looked at it. you see? who are you with? bloomberg; right? i can't ima

for people worried about paying rent, i know mortgages through hud is taken care of, but i'm worried about rent. what should people do through the first of the month? >> well, they're going to be getting the money. i think landlords will be taking it easy. we may put out a statement on that. i think a lot of people that are owed money are going to take it easy. they don't sort of have a choice. but a lot of concessions are being made, just like the insurance companies, concessions that wouldn't have been thought of three weeks ago, not even thought of. so, a lot of positive things are happening. please, behind you. >> thank you, mr. president. yesterday, why did you publicly threaten quarantine on new york, new jersey, parts of -- >> i didn't do that at all. read the statement. read the statement. read what i said. i said we're going to look into possibly quarantine. i didn't say we're going to quarantine. i looked at it as a possibility, because a lot of our professionals suggested quarantine. i said we're going to look at it. we then looked at it, you see? who are you with, bloombe

i know mortgages through hud is taken care of. what should people be doing for the first of the month? >> they will be getting the money. i will tell you, i think landlord wills take it easy. -- landlords will take it easy. we may put out a statement on that. i think a lot of people owed money will take it easy. a lot of concessions are made, just like the insurance companies, a lot of concessions are being made that wouldn't have been even thought of three weeks ago, not even thought of. a lot of really positive things are happening. please, behind you? >> thank you, mr. president. yesterday why did you publicly threaten quarantine on new york, new jersey -- >> i didn't do that at all. read the statement. read the statement. read what i said. i said we 'going to look into possibly quarantine. i didn't say we're going to quarantine. i looked at it as a possibility because a lot of our professionals suggested quarantine. i said we're going to look at it. we then looked at it. you see? who are you with? bloomberg; right? i can't ima

we just got another slug of hud money for vouchers for low-income renters. renters are more complicated. we won't have as crisp an answer for you on that tomorrow. we will on the mortgage side. that's a big piece of this. renting,s, if they are are renting from somebody will have a mortgage. it is either direct mortgage relief. i own a house and have a more just -- mortgage, i need relief. more on that tomorrow. thank you. come on down to the front. >> thank you for the opportunity, governor. weekend,t to say last i have a son named charlie. i was going to remember your name. >> thank you. last week when i asked you about whether you think the board of education members terms should be extended in the cases were you delayed the election. i'm waiting to hear back. i want to hear about another question in the same vein. recommendations to delay the county committee elections by an entire year. was silly, given the changes you made to relax the petition requirements. now, democrats have taken advantage of this epidemic and are canceling the elections entirely.

i used to be in the federal government as you know, i was hud secretary and i've done floods, hurricanes, all sorts of disasters. yeah, maybe send out too much equipment. so what? the real crime and the heart burn is if you have too little. so and i'm not even taking an aggressive model. i have a reasonable numeric model based on our numbers and again, you have a whole world of data going back to china and we're just asking for what we need for our reasonable model. i'm not -- because many of these i'm paying with state money and these ventilators, they're about $25,000 each, chris. so i'm not eager to buy more ventilators than i have to. >> right. >> you had been a critic of the relief bill that has now been passed and signed because of precisely the issue you're articulating here whether there was sufficient money for the state. obviously, all these states are scrambling and paying out-of-pocket for these things as they should, these emergency funding. less money will be coming in in taxes. every state will be wall up to the deficit. do you think what came out of washington today is su

another slug of hud money for vouchers for low income renters. renters are more complicated and we won't have a grasp of an answer on that. but we will on the mortgage side is a big piece of this because most folks they're renting, renting from someone who has mortgage. i don't has to have mortgage, and in relief arm renting from somebody who has mortgage. barnett tomorrow. reporter: last week i asked you whether the board of education members term should be extended in the case where you delay the election and still waiting to hear back. i've been told to circle back. then another question the same main, mj dse, made recommendations to the party chairs to delay accounting committee elections by an entire year. it's hard of logic behind that was silly given your changes you make to relax the petition requirements. now the democrats have taken advantage of this epidemic and are canceling the elections entirely. they're telling voters they won't get to vote for this office until 2022. we take a stand against this is in french might jasmine credit.

i was the hud secretary during the clinton administration. i worked on many disasters with fema. we had the ability to frankly practice what we did, and i think they came up with a good system. i think there will be a retrospective on who did what when, who should have done what when. right now today, i need the finally's purchasing power to get ventilators, ppe, get the equipment here, help us with the military effort to build the temporary hospitals because we are where we are now. i'm looking at 14 days, 21 days. there's no alternative for a different approach. you know, we made the bed, now we're lying in it. >> the president wants to take one different approach, he wants to start categorizing counties and regions in terms of risk, hot zones, hot spots. do you think that's a good idea? >> yeah, i don't know what you do with it. you can look at a map. i look at a map every day of my state, i look at the clusters. i had one of the hottest clusters in the country in westchester, that's where i focused my resources. knowing where cases are makes sense, right? you're fighting a wa

are waiters, that have children and are working and not they've their tips, also been eligible for hud. they've been eligible for food stamps. i don't regret anybody getting money. to held the bill up over money the kennedy center, that there should not have been anything in that bill except do with the coronavirus. host: did you know that the federal entity. who said yesterday, that it employees.re federal they can't pay the employees now, there are no production. caller: it's the kennedy center employees not getting unemployment? host: you think they should -- of income the loss from no production? facility,the etcetera? caller: well, bloomberg just over $700 million to be president. them.dn't he donate it to they could have kept it up for a year. bill. nonsense in that host: working after the coronavirus, they write this. solution democratic which republicans agreed to as price tag of the bill is to give all laid off workers a $600 benefit increase on top of their normal unemployment compensation for up to four months. leasts will now make at $15 an hour assuming 40 hour as $35 annd

which is the primary regulator for fannie mae and freddie mac, and also secretary carson who oversees hud and fha prior to the bill being passed they both put out guidance allowing for forbearance and putting a temporary hold on mortgage foreclosures, evictions. so what this bill does is basically just write into law what those two people had already announced. and again, i want to commend them they didn't wait for congress to act. they came out last week and they already made these protections for american homeowners. we understand that, again, during this short period of time, homeowners need relief and that's what those two individuals had already provided >> mr. secretary, i know you have to go i want to thank you. this is a real good bill and it's a great start and i wish you the best of luck. and so does the country. thank you for joining us >> thanks, jim appreciate it. >> absolutely. >> david >> what did you think, jim did you hear what you wanted >> i feel like the small and medium sized businesses are protected. i like the business interruption i think they got through it, and t

with regard to your other half as hud director, one of the thing that is a great concern in the city of new york is the homeless population. in los angeles and california, san francisco as well, there has been someone who has died of it in new york city, the first person to die from covid-19 -- how do you keep it from spreading through the homeless population in the environment they are living in? >> that's something i have been concerned about for a long time. if you go back and look at some of my interviews from six months ago or nine months ago, i talk about what would happen if we had an epidemic if we don't do something about this homelessness problem? to their credit, many of the governors have stepped up and we sent information on what to do and how to prepare in case somebody does contract the disease. you have to work that out with your state health agencies before it happens. it's not a crisis of the time that it happens and that has been done by many states and i give them great credit for that. we also have provided a lot of information on hud.gov . there's plenty of info

but i passed bills when i was hud secretary. i know how hard it is. but i also know how high the stakes are here. you look at the loss in the revenue, what you guys have been talking about to me. how do you do a state budget with that dramatic loss in revenue? and rob ma heijeeka is saying t the federal government is going to offer a stimulus package that offers additional funding to state governments. okay, here's the package. it gives us $3.8 billion. the hole is as big as, as high as $15 billion. how do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? you don't. >> thank you, governor. how do you respond to the mentality out there, the philosophy that the cure is worse than the disease and the suggestion by the president that he might want to open up the country by easter? >> look, i believe -- it's part language, right? nobody will say it is sustainable to keep the economy closed. it is not sustainable. we all get that. china got it. south korea got it. et cetera. that's point one. point two, everyone agrees, i believe, in this state, we do everythi

but i passed bills when i was hud secretary. i know how hard it is. but i also know how high the stakes are here. you look at the loss in the revenue, what you guys have been talking about to me, how do you do a state budget with that dramatic loss in revenue? and rob mujica has been saying the federal government is going to pass a stimulus package that delivers additional funding to state governments. okay. here's the package. it gives us $3.8 billion. the hole is as high as $15 billion. how do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? you don't. >> governor, how do you respond to the mentality out there that say the cure is worse than the disease, and the suggestion by the president that he might want to open up the country by easter? >> look, i believe -- i think it's part language, right? nobody will say it is sustainable to keep the economy closed. it is not sustainable. we all get that. china got it, south korea got it, et cetera. that's point one. point two, everyone agrees, i believe in this state, we do everything we can to save a life.

i was in the federal government hud. i worked on dozens of disasters. you deal with the disaster in front of you at that time and then you move on to the next disaster. i think that rolling deployment could work here, and on behalf of new york, i said we will be 100% helpful. we need help from the entire country right now. we need resources from the entire country right now. and because our apex is first and our numbers are highest, but the apex high point will be sequential across the country. so so i said to the white house, send us the equipment that we need, send us the personnel. as soon as we get past our critical moment, we will redeploy that equipment and personnel to the next hot spot, and i will personally guarantee it and personally manage it. so if you send us 15,000 ventilators and then after our curve los angeles needs 15,000 ventilators, we can take the equipment from here, we can take the personnel from here, we can take the lessons from here. we go first. we're going to learn things that nobody else has learned because we're going to be

i was in the federal government at hud. i worked on dozens of disasters. you deal with a disaster in front of you at that time, and then you move on to the next disaster. and i think that rolling deployment could work here. and on behalf of new york, i said we will be 100% helpful. we need help from the entire country right now. we need resources from the entire country right now. and because our apex is first, and our numbers are highest, but the apex high point will be sequential across the country. so i said to the white house, send us the equipment that we need. send us the personnel. as soon as we get past our critical moment, we will redeploy that equipment and personnel to the next hot spot. and i will personally guarantee it and personally manage it. so if you send us 15,000 ventilators, and then after our curve, los angeles needs 15,000 ventilators, we can take the equipment from here, we can take the personnel from here, we can take the lessons from here. you know, we go first. we're going to learn things that nobody else has learned, because we'

who is. .hose $4 million are needed once this bill is signed by the president, we need to work with hud and make sure those dollars get to as quickly as possible so they can put them to who are homeless see from this disease. rouge,let's go to baton louisiana. mickey, you are a renter. caller: yes, ma'am. host: go ahead. the situation we are presidentugh, for the doing what we need to be situation.ck to my i am a renter. , two bedrooms.se struggle to pay the rest of the bills and eat at the same time. they are going to put $1 billion for americans to survive. every american, $1 billion. spend -- taketo care of their business. anybody who needs to work got to work. host: ok, mickey. muffled.st a little i cannot hear some of the details of what you're saying, but what i got from that is you are struggling despite working. you're struggling to pay the rent because rent is too high and your income is too low. you are not alone. there are millions of families who are in a similar situation nationally. before coronavirus came to our country, we had a significant housing crisis that we were fa

i was at the federal government at hud. i worked on dozens of disasters. you deal with a disaster in fronts of you at that time and then you move on to the next disaster. and i think that rolling deployment could work here and on behalf of new york i said we'll be 100% helpful. we need help from the entire country right now. we need resources from the entire country right now. and because our apex is first and our numbers are highest. but the apex high point will be sequential across the country. i said to the white house, send us the equipment that we need, send us the personnel. as soon as we get past our critical moment, we will redeploy that equipment and personnel to the next hot spot. and i will personally guarantee it and personally manage it. so if you send us 15,000 ventilators, and then after our curve, los angeles needs 15,000 ventilators, we can take the equipment from here, we can take the personnel from here, we can take the lessons from here. we go first. we are going to learn things that nobody else has learned because we will be the first

who is. .hose $4 million are needed once this bill is signed by the president, we need to work with hud and make sure those dollars get to as quickly as possible so they can put them to who are homeless see from this disease. rouge,let's go to baton louisiana. mickey, you are a renter. caller: yes, ma'am. host: go ahead. the situation we are presidentugh, for the doing what we need to be situation.ck to my i am a renter. , two bedrooms.se struggle to pay the rest of the bills and eat at the same time. they are going to put $1 billion for americans to survive. every american, $1 billion. spend -- taketo care of their business. anybody who needs to work got to work. host: ok, mickey. muffled.st a little i cannot hear some of the details of what you're saying, but what i got from that is you are struggling despite working. you're struggling to pay the rent because rent is too high and your income is too low. you are not alone. there are millions of families who are in a similar situation nationally. before coronavirus came to our country, we had a significant housing crisis that we were fa

then you want to make sure that the treasury, the small business administration, hud, all these others have direct guaranties of loans for solvent companies that are having a liquidity problem. you know, this is a very specific, targeted and in times of crisis discount freely. make sure the solvent companies don't go under but don't use this as excuse for bailout, number one, give the day roll tax cut and everyone goes to work as fast as they can. that will bring the economy right back. elizabeth: targeted stimulus. hundreds of billions of dollars of drugs, for vaccines, drug supplies, new monies for hospitals and medical facilities. $110 billion for that. number of money to increase hospital beds and respirators. we saw republican senators susan collins of maine lit up in anger. susan collins, for second time in 24 hours this rescue plan has been stalled by senate democrats in favor of nancy pelosi's plan. >> i cannot believe the answer to this crisis as we move to address the economic consequences that are so severe for the people of this country, that the answer from our friend on t

hud has suspended foreclosures and evictions for two months, for single family homes, with loans through the federal housing administration, but that only applies to about 8 million units. so what is your message to everyone else who will likely be struggling to pay their rent and pay their mortgage in the coming weeks and months? >> part of what is being negotiated in congress right now are measures to be able to help take care of some of our most vulnerable citizens. a lot of people who live, for instance, in public housing or assisted housing, you know, they are not covered by our fha guarantees. and as a result of that, you know, we've been in contact with the phas, with the various landlords, to ask them to extend forbearance and to use a variety of different things, including some of their reserve funds to tide them over, recognizing that, you know, if they evict people, then you've got to start all over again, plus you're exacerbating the situation nationwide. i have not found many people who don't understand that. i don't think that's a particular issue, but we've also been in co

how is everything going to affect guidelines around food stamps, people on hud? specifically, what you looking at? are you receiving food stamps at the moment? caller: i get $16 a month. host: what do you think you are iing to new -- need? caller: don't know. sometimes i don't get to buy food because i have to pay the bills. sounds like you are going to qualify for these checks that are being sent to americans. could be the first in what could be a couple of direct payments to americans. with that help you? caller: absolutely. thanks for the call. katie is next. good morning. caller: good morning. yeah, hello. i'm a waitress in annapolis, maryland. or i was until last monday. i make my living being a waitress. it's how i pay my rent and all of my bills. i was supposed to work monday night and just a call, you know, that i shouldn't come in and that basically my job is over until question mark. host: so, what are you going to do? that is the question, i have been worried sick. let me say quickly i love you, c-span. i love you so much, you are always a ray of sunsh

i think i didn't realize that the president or hud had this authority. is this because of emergency powers that they can take this very stark action? >> it seems that way, but the bigger challenge will be this isn't a forgiveness obligation, so for a homeowner who can't make the payments they will still have that obligation and there's also some questions about the rest of the mortgage population whether those are the freddie mac orphan it may mortgages. jillian: let's take a look at the numbers right now in talking about mortgage rates the week of march 19, it was 3.65%, week of march 12 it was 3.36% and then going beyond that march 5 was 3.29%, why are we seeing this increase and what do you make of it? is it a good time to refinance? >> yeah, not to get into the weeds of mortgage finance, but it's all tied to us going on in the treasury market and the concern on investors in these types of mortgages that credit risk is going up, so we did when the fed first acted and cut by a half a percentage point we saw interest rates come down but then we started

our great head of hud who is with us today will say a few words in a moment. the department of education will not enforce standardized testing which is another big deal. requirements for students for the current school year. we are waiving that. i would imagine it's probably the first time ever that that has been waived. it's only fair that the students and parents. it is also waiving interest and other things that we are discussing right now on federally held student loans and directed that borrowers be allowed to suspend their student loan payments without penalty for at least 60 days. we will talk about student loans. students are under a great burden right now. we will be talking about that further. during the 60 day time, we are waiving various elements on student loans. big subject. i signed an executive order invoking the defense production act, as you all know, giving us new authorities to help states, cities, and hospitals keep are needed supplies. there's been a clear call to action to the private sector and the call is made right here. it has been a

judge jeanine: doctor, i want to move on to your position is the head of hud. i want to let my viewers know what the federal government is doing with the moratorium on foreclosures can you explain that to my viewers? >> what is the most important thing that people have financially for their home? while they are being terrified and trying to keep themselves and their family safe, the last thing we want them to worry about is whether they're going to lose their house. because of payments that a been lagging. so the president authorized us to go ahead and place a 60 day moratorium on foreclosures and evictions that were in progress as well as those that may occur over the next 60 days. judge jeanine: will there be a reinvestment doctor? i only have a few seconds left but people have trouble paying their mortgage where there is no foreclosure, what is the federal government offering? >> we asked before engine forbearance for the services we want them to look at the whole cascade of options that they have before they would even think about eviction or foreclosure. j

our great head of hud, ben carson, is going to say a few words. the department of education will not enforce standardized testing. aich is another big deal, requirement for students in elementary through high school for the current school year. not fair to do that. so, we are waiving that. i imagine it will be the first time ever. i think it is only fair to the students and the parents of the students. it is also waiving interest and other things we are discussing right now on federal held student loans and directed borrowers to be able to suspend their payments without penalty for at least 60 days. we will be talking about student loans. to help the students. they are under a great burden right now. we will be talking about that further. during the 60 day. we are waiving important , elements on student loans. a big subject. i signed an executive order invoking the defense production act, as you all know, giving us powerful new authorities to help states, cities, and hospitals procure needed supplies. there has been a clear call to action to the p

for the next 60 days and our great head of hud who is with us today, ben carson, will say a few words in a moment. the department of education will not enforce standardized testing which is another big deal, requirements for students in elementary through high school for the current school year. not fair to do that. so we are waiving that. i would imagine it's probably the first time ever that's been waived, but i think it's only fair to the students and to the parents of the students. it is also waiving interest and other things that we are discussing right now on federally held student loans and directed that borrowers be allowed to suspend student loan payments without penalty for at least 60 days and we will be talking about student loans, help students under great burden right now. we will be talking about that further but we are -- we are waiving during the 60-day period various elements, very important elements on student loans. big subject. i signed an executive order invoking the defense production act as you all know giving us powerful new authorities to help states, cities

hud, and head of carson, is going to say a few words. the department of an -- education will not enforce standardized testing. . requirement for students not fair to do that. so, we are waving matter. -- that. theink it is only fair to students and the parents of the students. ving interest and other things we are discussing right now on federal held student loans and directed borrowers to be able to suspend their payments without penalty for at least 60 days. we will be talking about student loans. they are under a great burden right now. we will be talking about that further. waiving important elements on stupid -- student loans. i signed an executive order invoking the defense production act, giving us powerful new authorities to help states, cities, and hospitals procure needed supplies. there has been a clear call to action to the private sector. it has been amazing what has happened with the private sector. sixth gear, i think. helping to produce and supply ,uch-needed masks swabs sanitizers, ventilators, and everything else. examp

a great head of hud lives with us today ben carson is going to say viewers in a moment the department of education will not enforce standardized testing which is another big deal requirements for students in elementary through high school for the current school year not fair to do that so we will waiving that i mean for i would imagine it's probably the 1st time ever that's been waived but i think it's only fair to the students and to the parents of this that it is also waiving interest and other things that we're discussing right now on federally held student loans and directed that borrowers be allowed to suspend their student loan payments without penalty for at least 60 days and we'll be talking about student loans that the students there are under a great burden right now so we will be talking about that further but we're we're waiving during this 60 day period various elements and very important elements on student loans big subject i signed an executive order invoking the defense production act as you all know giving us powerful new authorities to help states cities and hospita

anthony fauci, who has been a part of so many briefings, hud secretary and so forth. i'm going to take my seat as to now about he in the way. >>> we have to pause for the nbc network to join our coverage. please stand by. >> announcer: this is an nbc news special report. here's alex witt. >>> hello, everyone. welcome as we await the start of is the coronavirus task force briefing there in the white house briefing room. we are expected to get under way at any time now, we've gotten that two-minute warning. it appears right on time as you're seeing the president come through the door followed by the vice president. let's take a listen to president trump. >> thank you very much. a lot of things going on, and we're going to be going over to the hill and there's a lot of meetings, and from the financial, this is a medical situation, not a financial situation. financial, though, is moving along very nicely. i want to thank you for being here and update you on the progress we have made after a week of extraordinary mobilization in our war against the virus. governors, mayors

you're seeing hud secretary, ben carson. many of them in place perhaps now waiting for the president and vice president and we were told earlier that a fema administer would be there today. the number of cases in new york has jumped by nearly 25%. this as the president enters the room along with the vice president. let's listen in. >>

fauci, the surgeon general, the cabinet, homeland security secretary or hud secretary. and as you were teeing us up, you brought up something interesting, a week ago we were caught off guard in the press corps as members of have taken our temperatures and we've seen that expand greatly at the white house, outside the gates before you get your i.d. check and metal detectors, they're checking your temperature when you walk into the white house complex and before the briefings are going to be begin a few feet behind, they take our temperature again and making sure no one is having a fever or showing symptoms and brought up the member of the vice-president's staff who tested positive for the coronavirus and we heard from the vice-president's steve -- chief of staff and they did not have any close contact with the vice-president or president. and what will that mean for the white house staff as well as the president and vice-president, chris in. kristin: one of the other big questions i mentioned mark, the defense product act. there's been confusion, it's been invoked, but h

i am a big believer, and hud did exactly this, disaster recovery with fema. the federal government does this very well. i was there for the clinton administration, and we did do this very well. that's where the resources are. that's where you have the military, the workforce, the supplies. you have the purchasing power. fema doing it, if the federal government really empowers them, that is a game changer. but then they have to do it, and we've seen it done well. and we've seen it done poorly. but i can't tell a company you must manufacture ventilators. if i could, i would have. >> but fema can, right? >> i can't do that as a governor. >> but the president's power -- with the power of the presidency can order a company to do this? >> yes. and they should. they should. yesterday. >> all right. well, i will leave you and leave the end of the interview with that. governor cuomo, thanks for your blunt talk with us. you're right. that's all people want right now. straightforward truth no matter how bad it is. thank you, sir. good luck. >>> let's go across state lin

hud morgan coming back to you, you mentioned the letter v which is important at this time and it's encouraging to hear it. do you feel like markets will be able to bounce meaningfully just because of things like central bank and fiscal stimulus or do we still need to wait until the fundamental numbers relating to the virus have bottomed? >> i think both and they may happen along the same timeline think about what the fed has done 150 basis point cut. 700 billion in announced qe. restarted the commercial paper facility restarted the primary dealer credit facility. we've announced an 8.3 billion fiscal package a 1.3 billion fiscal package then i heard about another phase three. l 50 billion in state of emergency funds. 50 billion in liquidity in extending the deadline to pay taxes. australia, hong kong, china, south korea, the u.k., germany, france, italy, japan and canada all announced stimulus imf, 50 billion. world bank, 20 billion how can it not v >> wow when you put it that way, that's a lot of stimulus. we'll leave the conversation there. thank you. herb, stephanie. good to see you both >>