President Press conference

Touches on several issues

Possibility but there are some very good ways of getting the money out and getting it outet >>> talked about having money to live when they were doing really well just four weeks ago.

We're going big and that's the way it's going to be.

Any other questions.

>> the airlines and hotels, restaurants, any type of emergency assistance discussed on that call, restaurants have to close even if doing delivery.

>> two comments on the restaurants and the president understands this, this was emphasized this morning, first of all, we want to make sure the states allow the drive-through portion of these fast foods to stay open particularly in a time period we're telling people don't go to restaurants, these companies feed a big part of america and i expect they're going to feed a bigger part of america.

The second thing they asked me to emphasize i wasn't going to do it now.

But as long as you asked, many of these companies have apps.

You can order ahead of time, that way when you get there, they'll have it packed, they can give it to you with social distancing and it will be very fast.

So we expect that they'll be able to feed a large part of the population and in regards to support i will say a lot of these businesses are small businesses.

Companies, franchisees, 500 or less, we have a specific program we'll be unveiling that helps all businesses, small and medium-size businesses of 500 or less.

>> your question regarding marriott corporation, they're furloughing thousands of workers because of coronavirus.

Will those legislation help those individuals?

>> i hope so.

That's one of the reasons we got to act very quickly because we understand, whether it's the airlines, hotels, for good reasons to protect the united states on medical issues.

These businesses are shut down and the president wants to make sure, we want the use all the tools, and the powers that we don't have we're going to congress and i will say there's lot of bipartisan support for these issues.

So i'm going to apologize because i have to go and deal with other things.

If that's okay, mr. president i do want to comment on this, okay, we absolutely believe in keeping the markets open.

Okay, americans need to know they have access to their money.

After 9/11 the only reason why the markets were closed because the technology was disrupted.

I have been on the phone with major banks, the new york stock exchange, everybody wants to keep it open.

We may get to a point where we shorten the hours, but americans should know that we're going to do everything to make sure that they have access to their money at the banks, to their money in their 401ks and i want to be very clear we tend to keep the banks open.

>> the banks are record-setting strong.

A much different event than what we had not so long ago.

>> mr. president -- you mentioned the army corps of engineers, a conversation with governor cuomo.

Are you prepared to mobilize.

>> yes, we're starting the process and it's a process, we hope it's not going to be necessary but it could be necessary.

The state is working on it very hard themselves but we'll probably supplement what they're doing.

>> given many of the precursors many of our pharmaceuticals from china and there have been supply disruptions, to do you expect that we could run into a shortage of prescription drugs?

>> no, every incentive to make sure things work out.

John wants to make sure things work really well.

They have every incentive to do so.

>> mr. president, the governor of ohio called off the primary election.

Do you agree with that decision?

If this pandemic continues, elections will happen including of course the big one in the fall.

>> the governor of ohio is doing a great job, he called it off and we'll see what happens and the court case hasn't been determined yet.

If he called it i can understand it, he's definitely someone who knows what they're doing.

We'll be seeing very soon, you know, they're going by the rule of 10 than by the rule of 50, that's pretty tough.

I just think an election is very special thing.

He chose a different date some date in june, that would be a decision that would be made by him.

He felt it was necessary, the courts are somebody's challenging it.

The courts will ultimately decide.

>> what are you doing to ensure further elections if we're still in this election, one month from now, two months from now -- >> what i'm doing jon, is very simple.

We're getting rid of this virus.

It's a simple solution, we want